Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Exciting topic for this year's BSLS Winter Symposium organised by Marijke Valk! 010
Reposted by Adele GuytonAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyRapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and WalesSaliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis 141280617
Reposted by Adele GuytonAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026In 79 AD, Mt. Vesuvius buried the Roman town of Herculaneum under ash. In a villa, a library of papyrus scrolls was buried. For 2,000 years they’ve been unreadable. Researchers with the Vesuvius Challenge have read an entire scroll without opening it. buff.ly/WSjPmXf #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyAn entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first timePHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened. 29923
Reposted by Adele GuytonAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026"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...nytimes.comOpinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask 510240
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I have a friend who says surrealism is realism but in Belgium. Can't wait for my passport full of smurfs to come through (application is in, after seven years in this pleasantly absurd land) :D 040
Reposted by Adele GuytonChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 07/07/2026One thing that's tricky to appreciate about Belgians is that they have a real love of the absurd, which you would, if you lived in Belgium. 28717
Reposted by Adele GuytonAlison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I find these stories and this now well refinded research so intriguing when coupled with the rapidly aging demographics in areas populated by resolute monolingual, anti-interculturalists They point to the accuracy that is the death wish of rampant anti-migrationism 0175
Reposted by Adele Guytonsean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Who cares about D&D novels anyway? Some thoughts on why scholars of fantasy probably should, and a bunch more people, too. This is the first essay in my forthcoming Dungeons & Dragons reading series.seanguynes.comWho Cares about Dungeons & Dragons Novels Anyway?A manifesto or sorts for why scholars of literary, cultural, and genre history should care about D&D novels. 159631
Reposted by Adele GuytonDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Symbolbild deutsche Wissenschaftsförderung. 437283
Reposted by Adele GuytonHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/05/2026This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf... 7054511637
Reposted by Adele GuytonDr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026My book comes out next month and I'd love to talk to your research group/seminar series/PGRs about it! Potential talk topics: Why do we think natural history museums are for kids? How public are our public museums? Truth and fiction in the museum Looting: empire in the museum... 33415
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Hello all, could somebody with a NYT subscription please send me a gift link for this article? I'm writing a related thing... Thank you 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/w...nytimes.comChina’s Aiming for the Moon, and NASA Is Looking Over Its Shoulder 001
Reposted by Adele GuytonAlexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 29/03/2026How does a small group of agents shape our sense of what counts as literary? How come there are so many debut novelists but so few careers in writing? Why is the short story so important even if it doesn’t sell nearly as well as the novel? ALL THIS AND MORE IN… press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...press.princeton.eduMiddlemenA revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today 2139
Reposted by Adele GuytonThe British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 18/03/2026The BSLS Want to help keep the BSLS running smoothly? Ahead of the 2026 annual conference, we are seeking expressions of interest and nominations for two positions on the executive committee: Treasurer and Book Reviews Editor. Interested? More info here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/bsls...bsls.ac.ukBSLS Executive Committee: Call for nominations and expressions of interest – The British Society for Literature and Science 007
Reposted by Adele GuytonMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026These are the questions that we should be asking, with curiosity, mixed-methods, empathy, systematic scrutiny, inclusivity and an awareness of how organisations (for example, universities) and humans (for example, students, academics and professional services staff) actually work.psychologytoday.comAdults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's. 1157
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Absolutely endorse, totally recommend. The genius we all need today. 🤣 120
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Working on book revisions and another footnote sacrificed to the word count: "One of Parkner’s more quetionable assertions is that sea water on Mars is salty (153). This of course enhances the analogy between Mars and Earth, but is hilarious from an empiricist standpoint." 001
Reposted by Adele GuytonMassimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 06/03/2026New Position: Associate or Full Professor in Cultural Studies at Maastricht University. We are looking for a senior colleague who is capable and enthusiastic to take on management roles. Please share widely. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3589...academictransfer.comAssociate or Full Professor in Cultural StudiesWelcome to Maastricht University! At Maastricht University, we value cultural studies as an interdisciplinary field that examines how culture shapes and is shaped by power, media, identities, economie... 024
Reposted by Adele GuytonAndrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Writing is realizing that in 1903, car dealerships springing up all over the Midwest were outfitted with dozens of charging stations because so many cars were electric. The racing news reported Carl Fisher's custom 1000 hp engine car (weighing 2600 lbs) would run on gasoline bc that wasn't a given. 0102
Reposted by Adele GuytonThatAnxiousArtist @whitneyyoh.bsky.social · 18/02/2026www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... #academicskytheatlantic.comStop Meeting Students Where They AreWhat I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again. 093
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026A couple days late because it's been BUSY, but I had such a great time doing the BSLS Winter Symposium with the wonderful @lejhouston.bsky.social on Friday! I can only echo what they say: many thanks to all the speakers, especially Aanchal and Francesca for their excellent plenaries. 021
Reposted by Adele GuytonTim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 04/02/2026A year ago Elon Musk tweeted that he had fed USAID "into the wood chipper." It was an act that killed people. We don't know most of their names, but we know 27. I've listed them below. Much like with Renee Good + Alex Pretti, we should also remember these lives taken by the cruel men who lead us 528998
Reposted by Adele GuytonLarissa Skellyton @larissakelly.bsky.social · 01/02/2026What's important to remember about BRIDGERTON is that all of the characters are actually crew members on the USS Voyager, killing time during a long warp haul with a holo-novel programmed by Neelix (who did several whole hours of research about ancient human society and mating customs) 53510
Reposted by Adele GuytonProfessorJen @professorjen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Ethan Hawke has just been crushing it lately! 001
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 23/01/2026"Alternate Histories of the Body" is next week! I'm highlighting our workshop, "Experiencing Academia Through the Body" by Francesca Young Kaufman (11:15 AM GMT). Join us if you're interested in neuroscience-based tools for managing academic stress. The workshop is free and online. #AcademicSky 1/4eventbrite.comBSLS Winter Symposium: Alternate Histories of the BodyAlternate Histories of the Body is the 2026 British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 133
Reposted by Adele GuytonIain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery. 14390662342
Reposted by Adele GuytonDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Roses are red AI pretends to know best 1638079
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Registration is open for the @thebsls.bsky.social Winter Symposium "Alternate Histories of the Body" on January 30! It's free and online, and we're re-evaluating the human body, the stories we tell about it, and their impact. Come check it out! Full programme here: drive.google.com/file/d/18kep...eventbrite.comBSLS Winter Symposium: Alternate Histories of the BodyAlternate Histories of the Body is the 2026 British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 022
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I just had "microsoft world" as a typo and jfc imagine moving your furniture.* *brought to you from the darkest pits of formatting a table in word 130
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The astronomer Richard Proctor commenting in Other Worlds Than Ours (1870) on notable nineteenth-century scientists' ideas about life on Jupiter. A highlight: Sir Humphry Davy held that Jovians were "numerous convolutions of tubes more analogous to the trunk of the elephant than anything else"! 010
Reposted by Adele GuytonYen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · 13/12/2025My little book will be available for pre-order in January 2026. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. I'll be eternally grateful if you would like to review the book. Happy reading! 😊 www.routledge.com/Irish-Writer... 2249
Reposted by Adele GuytonAndrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Thaler's post (click it for graph showing striking decreases in science spending) immediately under yet another repost of this fantastic letter to London Times. And I'd just like to say: can we PLEASE have a Democratic candidate who knows we need a massive reinvestment in US arts & humanities too? 2229
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025If you've published a book in 2025 related to literature and science--get your publisher or a current @thebsls.bsky.social member to nominate it for the Book Prize! Nominations are open until December 31! #academicsky 042
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 28/11/2025SUCH a brilliant and important essay by Tanvir Ahmed, go read it! 021
Reposted by Adele GuytonLloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Just one more day to get your abstracts and proposals in for the BSLS Winter Symposium ("Alternate Histories of the Body"): www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call... @adeleguyton.bsky.social and I can't wait to get stuck in to the submissions.bsls.ac.ukCall for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium January 30th 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science 052
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Anybody have access to ASAP Journal and able to download a couple of PDFs for me? :) 010
Reposted by Adele GuytonMichael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on Science & the Modern World, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor. Email me by 25 November on michael.whitworth@ell.ox.ac.uk if you’re interested! #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026 12414
Reposted by Adele GuytonDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 14/11/2025When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/ 11611202
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Friends, anyone have access to '"All Smell is Disease": Miasma, Sensory Rhetoric, and the Sanitary-Bacteriologic of Visceral Public Health' (Winderman et al.) in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine and willing to share a PDF? #AcademicSky 001
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025A little less than two weeks to send in your abstracts for "Alternate Histories of the Body"! @lejhouston.bsky.social and I are very excited by what has come in so far. 001
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Any work out there on the experience of time in different modes of transport historically? A passage in a German novel from 1927 acts like everyone knows 15 minutes seems like an eternity in an airplane but passes quickly in a train. Was this a thing? #academicsky 300
Reposted by Adele GuytonLloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Just over two weeks left to get your abstracts and panel proposals in for the @thebsls.bsky.social Winter Symposium: "Alternate Histories of the Body" www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call... @adeleguyton.bsky.social and I are already thrilled by what people have been proposing.bsls.ac.ukCall for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium January 30th 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science 021
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 30/10/2025An axiom on cafés serving specialty coffee: the better the coffee, the jankier the bathroom. 000
Reposted by Adele GuytonDes Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Here's a paper we wrote about how it's actually very bad that a "context of constrained funding has incentivised... providers of adult education, sports, arts and community services to demonstrate ancillary wellbeing benefits." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40447986/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govReading as therapy: medicalising books in an era of mental health austerity - PubMedIn the UK, a range of everyday activities are being re-framed as interventions to promote public mental health. Drivers of this include the rising burden of mental ill-health and constrained funding for community-based arts and educational provision, in the context of austerity. A consequent interes … 3156
Reposted by Adele GuytonLloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 28/10/2025CFP: "Alternate Histories of the Body" (BSLS Winter Symposium, 30 January 2026 - Online) www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call... @adeleguyton.bsky.social and I eagerly welcome papers and panels for this one-day symposium exploring alternate ways to historicize 'the body' and embodied approaches to history.bsls.ac.ukCall for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium January 30th 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science 084
Reposted by Adele GuytonRichard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I've got an article in November's @historytoday.com on the remarkably durable hypothesis that Earth is hollow, from Halley to Symmes to underground feminist utopias to UFOs. You know the drill — to the centre of the Earth (I've probably used that one before). 2307