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move slow and repair things
My paper on 🌱🦧 ANIMAL MEDICINE 🐜🍄, written with Cristian Saborido (office mate and tip-top philosopher of biology and medicine), is finally out in Philosophy of Science.
We offer a cool new framework for understanding medicine in different species, including our own. And it's ✨ OPEN ACCESS ✨
Nineteenth-centuryists (#C19th) - I'm looking for novels in the first half of the century where the rural English poor are racialized as "savage", "dark" etc. I know English rural examples from journalism/non-fiction, and fiction about the urban and "Celtic" poor, but fictional examples useful!
In the 1930s, Harry Chandler's LA Times ran regular columns on eugenics. The Human Betterment Foundation (backed by Chandler) included PSAs like this one. By showing a clipped vine from infecting a tree, it endorsed forced vasectomies to stop impure bloodlines from undesirables.
Argentinian pulp covers, circa maybe the 1960s. I love how incredibly lurid and dark they are.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
We're thrilled to see two Europa novels included in this feature. TANGERINN is out now and FLOODLINES is out tomorrow!
www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
Stop telling me what Wuthering Heights is really about. You haven’t got a clue.
Colour plate depicting two snails in a garden setting, separated by some distance, firing love darts at each other which fly through the air.
Happy #ValentinesDay! 🐌❤️🐌
Delightful, if fanciful, depiction of garden snails exchanging love darts. By English artist Frederick Polydore Nodder and published in the Naturalist’s Miscellany in 1790. [The darts don’t propel through the air as the image depicts but are fired on contact.] #histsci 🌈🗃️
"I'm a Jazz musician, I know what I am and this is what I do - I do conduction. And it doesn't matter whether the music you think I'm playing or professing is jazz or not; it's kinda not my problem."
Happy Birthday Butch Morris
born February 10, 1947
By one of Fernando Pessoa's alter egos.
Now with an official Teaching and Learning Guide! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
angouleme pears, painted by bertha heiges, 1901
angouleme pears, painted by bertha heiges, 1901
“The Last of Us is a show of force, literally and figuratively.”
Read our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece by Michael Autrey on The Last of Us and adaptations, force and power, questions of genre, and who gets to be hailed—and who excluded—within the word 'us'.
asapjournal.com/review/the-l...
This bear is called Bamse. I don’t remember him, but apparently a beloved character who becomes the world's strongest bear by eating a type of honey called dunderhonung. “He is also the kindest bear in the world (according to the comic), and is often seen helping those in need.”
Anthony Trollope’s THE WAY WE LIVE NOW.
Frances finishes it, I begin! Our next @onebrightbook.bsky.social episode.
Arpan K Banerjee reviews Oliver Basciano’s Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern World, exploring the modern history of leprosy through archives, literature, and personal narratives.
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/25/b...
RIP Walt Whitman you would have loved a scandal involving sexually explicit poetry and a grass metaphor
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk 24 hours to go to my Photo Oxford talk at the Weston Library or online, exploring the life of Constance Talbot. Join me to hear about her witnessing the birth of #photography and her lifelong love of art. Wednesday 1-2pm Weston Library, Oxford:
photooxford.org/events/const...
RIP to David Bellos whose book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything massively contributed to me wanting to become a literary translator. When I was writing my own book about translation, I kept in mind how funny and accessible his book was.
*FRANKENSTEIN SPOILERS *
As someone who teaches frankenstein every year, I had SO many thoughts about this film. I am a fan of GTD’s movies. Loved the nested doll structure and how freaky Elizabeth was. Loved the costumes, acting, and music
Was very ? about the time period shift by 50 years+
'Faith, though often unfashionable in the arts, emerges in Aboulela’s work not as an oppressor, but as a source of solace – a well of deep knowing.'
In #PENTransmissions, Sabrina Mahfouz’s encomium for #PENPinterPrize 2025 winner Leila Aboulela.
pentransmissions.com/2025/10/24/b...
Another scholar deported. Such a proud and strong civilisation.
thewire.in/rights/globa...
Something for all you Big Rebels to get behind!
A callout to UK indie booksellers to amplify Day of the Imprisoned Writer / 15th November.
At English PEN’s #PENPinterPrize event on Friday, Leila Aboulela, winner of the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize, announced writer, journalist and human rights activist Stella Gaitano as this year’s Writer of Courage.
Congratulations to both writers!
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
‘Five musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic are thought to have taken their instruments to the camps or ghettos, where they played music before they were liquidated. Then there was silence.’
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
excellent essay: The Origin of the Research University open.substack.com/pub/asterisk...
How much does an unwell octopus cost?
Sick squid.