👇 excellent article that we were very pleased to published ♻️

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

Universities pay copyright fees. Libraries pay copyright fees. Theaters pay to perform copyrighted work. Artists and authors pay licence fees to quote others in their own work, usually out of pocket.

Call for Editors: Critical Insights in American Studies Series at Edinburgh University Press - British Association for American Studies Co-Editor of the Critical Insights in American Studies Series at Edinburgh University Press                                                                                          […]

Call for Editors!

The 'Critical Insights in American Studies' series from Edinburgh University Press is seeking a new co-editor.

Apply before 18:00, 13th March.

@edinburghup.bsky.social @emilysharp.bsky.social

Weekend Edition Sunday Hear the Weekend Edition Sunday program for Mar 01, 2026

Find me, nestled in amongst the absolute bonkers news, on @npr.org in a lovely conversation with Andrew Limbong about my book - Limbong goes on a little visit to Lucille Clifton's house...

over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people.

ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.

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Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity / Isabelle Torrance (ed) www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... #openaccess @clic-erc.bsky.social @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @daireach.bsky.social @pomuirch.bsky.social
@ciaranruaoneill.bsky.social @kironward.bsky.social

Job losses at research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.

Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

"Unstable, in Chaos": Reading Ali Smith’s <em>How to Be Both</em> and Percival Everett’s <em>Telephone</em> in the Age of Cruel Optimism Many of the formal innovations of contemporary fiction arise from a collective sense of ceaseless crisis—a recognition that traditional modes of storytelling, forged in earlier cultural climates, may ...

📞 Gerald David Naughton & Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton's '"Unstable, in Chaos": Reading Ali Smith’s How to Be Both and Percival Everett’s Telephone in the Age of Cruel Optimism' is one of the articles in our latest issue
c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Really happy to share this roundtable - thanks to all those who were involved and to @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social for putting it together!

Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction This article traces the inception, reception, and study of climate change fiction to show how profoundly awareness of anthropogenic climate crisis, and of the severity and scale of the collective huma...

🗣️ Hanne Bolze's 'Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction' is one of the six (and counting) articles in 'The Century at 25'—a brilliant assessment of the emergence CliFi as a genre.

c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

dang, i was so sure ;p

ah yes, the west country

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In some ways I'm philosophical about The End these days. It is what it is. But for the final wave to hit because of the crisis when we worked the hardest we possibly could, we nearly broke ourselves, and did exactly what the govt told us to do? It seems.. painful.

Hey so Grammarly is now basically Search Party / Ring cameras for education, enabling large-scale surveillance of both users (students) and educators alike

thank you!!

would love to hear your thoughts and opinions on both at some time tho 👀

lmao, well reasonable people can and do differ 💃🏽

ooo awesome

thank you Matt!! <3

looking forward to seeing what you've got in the works !

spoiler alert: i really cannot stand one of these two novels (thank you to everyone who's had to bear with me since i read it)

I have an article in the new special issue of @c21literature.bsky.social, 'The Century at 25'—working through some research that didn't make it into the book while processing Lucy Ellmann's _Ducks, Newburyport_ and Olga Tokarczuk's _Flights_

Thanks Martin 👨🏽‍💻❤️! The Ryan Ruby piece is great, I wish I'd been able to include a reference to it.

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings | Issue: Issue: 3(12) The Century at 25 (2026)

Part one of 'The Century @25' SI of @c21literature.bsky.social ed by @alicebennett.bsky.social @melissaschuh.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and I, is out now (part two coming soon): please check it out! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...

It’s so exciting that this @c21literature.bsky.social special issue on ‘The Century at 25’ is finally out! Such a labour of love, and I’m so grateful we got to work on it together for over two years @alicebennett.bsky.social @keeblearin.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social 🎊

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings | Issue: Issue: 3(12) The Century at 25 (2026)

Excited to announce that our new issue has opened! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...

'The Century at 25' was guested edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh, and Denise Wong

This was not quite the last collection I catalogued before my retirement from Wellcome: wellcomecollection.org/works/hrsyzq94 He began his research in the 1970s.