This year's broad theme is ‘Humans and Nature: More resilient towards the future'. Worth a look: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/62...

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · last wk.

Are you an early career researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Join the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium to network with fellow researchers in an in-person symposium in Bonn, Germany. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4yL3Stm

"By shortening the time between asking a question+getting an answer these tools are actually undermining curiosity — + paradoxically threatening our ability to understand the world. Curiosity requires a gap between what you want to know+what you find out." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...

Opinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask

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LRB is my subscription that humbles me the most

Anne Balke Staver@anneavelo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The most letter to the LRB letter to the LRB that I have ever read.

This madness must stop. Please, consider signing this petition: c.org/t68Jb7Z6jm

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly

The Monarch Diaries@monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 3mo ago

They're using Rhino Pipeliner 5000, which freezes as sprayed-on curds almost exactly as it hits the surface. Won't flow out, flatten, and self-level like standard epoxy or paint would. Under standing water, the orange peel texture is a perfect scaffolding for algae, bacteria, and general bio scum

What's happening at the University of Exeter is a disaster for both the region and the country. The way the sector is set up, it is *inevitable* and *unstoppable* that this will continuously happen everywhere. We need to stop, get out a blank sheet of paper and start again.

is this heat stroke or shock ask hundreds of University of Exeter employees this evening

Dr Laura Sangha@lsangha.bsky.social · last mo.

Along with almost all of my colleagues in history, this afternoon I got an email telling me that I am at risk of redundancy. It looks like the University of Exeter sent this email to the vast majority of people in Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. Bit hard to breath right now.

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

A wonderful essay by the brilliant @ria4983.bsky.social

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.” Let’s “go where our mothers couldn’t,” argues @ria4983.bsky.social, in an essay that contemplates Virginia Woolf, Chantal Akerman, and reading “beyond the limits of genre and authority.”

RIP David Hockney

'Fish and Chip Shop' (1954) - a very early Hockney lithograph, made when he was 16 or 17 years old. On display at Salt's Mill, Bradford. A prodigious talent.

New on the podcast 🎧 Anouchka Grose discusses her climate anxiety, activism and introspection in her book, THE REVOLUTION WILL BE INTERNALISED: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

📚📚📚 My book A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell is out in paperback today (4 June 2026)! It re-reads Orwell's concern with politics and justice by seeing it through the magic of the ordinary. 📚📚📚 #georgeorwell #orwell @oneworldbooks.bsky.social oneworld-publications.com/work/a-brigh...

A Bright Cold Day | Oneworld

When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who – between puffs on his cigarette – composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned but ex...

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Please watch! Please sign! Bit.ly/uhhum

Arts & The Environmental Humanities online event. What does it mean to do environmental humanities with or through the arts? Join online today Wed 13 May, 14:15-16:00 Central European time www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum

We have a postdoc medical humanities position available at Exeter on the Wellcome-funded After the End project. Are you interested in endings and aftermaths? If so, please do apply and join our research team. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/79...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exeter | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate vacancy in Exeter. Postdoctoral Research Associate Salary Details The starting salary will be from £34,610 on Gra...

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A "beautifully lucid and deeply searching" book www.bloomsbury.com/au/henry-jam...

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

Just published! What an honor to be included alongside so many superb critics in this volume, which was so expertly conceived & edited by @denisoff.bsky.social. One funny thing abt collections is that sometimes you don’t get to read the other essays til it’s out—I can’t wait to learn from these. 🌿

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment

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Monograph Prize Winner 2025: The BSLS is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 monograph prize is Shannon Lambert’s Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature: Bodies of Knowledge (Bloomsbury). Many congratulations to Shannon and to all the shortlisted scholars.

So in the EarthArt gallery at University of Bristol currently we have an exhibition based on Māori cultural practices and reparations principles for extractive sample-taking by researchers, called Migrating Rocks. It's very cool and if you're around the uni you should have a look in.

Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea University in conjunction with Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, examining the imperial and colonial associations of their natural sciences collections. Please share widely, and get in touch if you want to know more. Closing date 22 May.

History and Heritage Studies: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship (Fully Funded) in History with Museum Wales (RS951) - Swansea University

We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

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‘In James Schuyler’s hands, simile is revealing and outlandish. “A wedding of disjunctions”, he calls it elsewhere, one that acts as a guarantor for a world in which each thing is very much its own thing – not sequestered, but not wholly conjoined.’ Matthew Bevis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Matthew Bevis · Wigging In: On James Schuyler

Schuyler once told an interviewer that he didn’t write the kind of poetry that attracted critics. ‘It’s too easy...

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GIANT CRAB OF JAPAN

Bexhill Museum@bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bexhill Museum 1927. #Bexhill #Sussex #Museum #History #1920s #ThrowbackThursday

Kaneda Kazuo- Cat on Peach Tree

My new (and first) book, The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture is out in May with @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can now pre-order which is pretty cool. Even cooler is that you can get 30% off with this flyer/code. Recommend to your university library if you think it will be of interest. 🍷

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Relatability

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

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I've just published my first videographic essay!! while my written work focuses on questions of infrastructural mediation, this video essay encourages us to look closely at the fish on screen, asking how they distract, enchant, and otherwise entertain 🐟 intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Aquarium Reveries: Early Cinema’s Fish Tank Films

This video essay encourages us to look closely at early cinema’s aquariums. First, seeing the fish and aquatic effects as a “distraction” in the age of the cinema of attractions (Georges Méliès), then...

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On what could have been Frank O'Hara's 100th birthday: a favourite poem, and the admission that for the longest time, I was certain I'd seen photos of him as a very dapper elderly man, and I still kind of resent learning I was mistaken. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...