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.
My personal hall of shame includes the LA poster which crosses out ‘victim’ in the phrase ‘you are a victim’ and replaces it with ‘strong’. So inspirational! Sounds like a song by Mariah Carey.
"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."
The Song of the Honey Bee For the Marriage of His Royal Highness Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson 23 July 1986 When all the birds of Roxburghshire Danced on the lawns, and all The Salmon of the Tweed cavorted Over the Garden Wall Gold as the Honey Bee A helicopter snatched you up. The pilot, it was me. The props, like a roulette wheel, Stopped at felicity Soft as the Thistle's Crown
Forty years since Ted Hughes wrote his single most excruciating Laureate poem, for the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson
It's a shame. It didn't start out that way 😔
Interesting article about pubs from the Institute of Alcohol Studies - www.ias.org.uk/2026/02/10/i... featuring @campaignforpubs.bsky.social and @theswanyork.bsky.social
Another great instalment of #EnglishCreates from @univeng.bsky.social in the National Year of Reading. @ies-sas.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @anthonycockrell.bsky.social @barbarableiman.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @engmediacentre.bsky.social
#TrayvonMartin *Should* have turned 31 today.
Super interesting, thanks!!
Haven't read 'Aubade' in a few years and just did so on the link below. Astonishing how many of its phrases have entered my own way of thinking and expressing myself. And if there's a more perfect, devastating, beautiful ending to a poem, I need to know.
More on the critical and feminist meaning of the term in our book Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature! @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-feminiz...
the ‘feminisation’ of work doesn’t mean that work is being ruined by emotional women/ male unemployment doesn’t matter! By @charlottejohanne.bsky.social @idaaaskovdolmer.bsky.social and I: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
I will be marking the occasion by purchasing some antique coins and hiding from my spouse
How a book that began as a scourge of the establishment became, in the government's words, "an important part of our nation's history".
It's the 65th anniversary of Penguin winning the Lady Chatterley trial (they had 200,000 copies ready to go). I wrote about it a few years ago:
I am incredibly honoured to be awarded the 2025 Martin Schüwer Publication Prize for Excellence in Comics Studies for my article ‘Drawing in Circles: Feminized Labour in Autobiographical Comics and Cartoons on Instagram’ (supported by the Carlsberg Foundation and published in Studies in Comics)
Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature
A book about literary depictions of the types of work conventionally associated with women, and the role of gendered labour in the literary world.
And how literary texts themselves (formally, thematically), and the material conditions of their circulation, are implicated in these questions.
ultimately the case studies show how thinking about the conventional gendering of work can make the conditions of contemporary labour (insecurity, predatory, care crisis) understandable in a new way.
The contributions tackle the subject from so many interesting directions - there are protest comics, early modern noblewomen’s libraries; there’s Buchi Emecheta, Adrienne Rich, Virginia Woolf; gossip and scraps.
Edited by me and @charlottejohanne.bsky.social and available from @edinburghup.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS via the link 🎉
Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature
A book about literary depictions of the types of work conventionally associated with women, and the role of gendered labour in the literary world.
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
extremely obsessed with the concept of this book
Very exciting to wake up and see the @nytimes.com article on Tom Comitta and his new book, PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED & UNWANTED NOVELS! nyti.ms/3ZKS622 @tomcomitta.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Looking forward to hosting 'History & Future of Reading Inside & Beyond the University' Symp. w/TinaLupton. Speakers: LeahPrice JackChen StefanCollini SophieCorser, @bobeaglestone.bsky.social MattRubery JaniceRadway @mattseybold.bsky.social HelenSmall PeterSimonsen LindsayThomas @cnewf.bsky.social
1. poetry time
2. close reading
Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
At the conference, Danish novelist Theis Ørntoft just said (paraphrasing) that literature always has a shamanistic component that can’t be reduced to politics (agreed).
was in the supermarket immediately after posting this tweet (or whatever it is) for the first time and realised I had to swap ‘answering’ and ‘asking’, and i do feel it has made this statement at least 10% more interesting.
