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Alex Goody

@alex-goody.bsky.social
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Academic, killjoy feminist, dog owner, mum to neurodivergent kids; working in modernist studies, sf and speculative fiction, technology studies, poetry

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'New Labour, New Britain? How the Blair governments reshaped the country' is a bold and balanced re-appraisal of New Labour in power by Prof. @gsoh31.bsky.social (Oxford Brookes). Out now and just £20 in hardback, available from all good bookshops & online. #LabourConference #booksky
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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Happy X-Files day, 33 years ago today since the landmark series premiered! And may I take the opportunity to mention this book celebrating its legacy! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/legacy-of...
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The Legacy of The X-Files
The Legacy of The X-Files examines the content and production of the show, its reception, its use of legend and folklore, its contemporary resonance in politics…
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Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
From today’s Times letters page. #DefendExeterUni
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Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yesterday 142 academic staff at the University of Lincoln were put at risk of redundancy including the entire Politics and International Relations team. This follows cuts since 2024 which have already seen over 500 people leave the university. This is the 'University of No Regrets'.
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Roll up, roll up, sign this pretition for Humanities At Hertfordshire! Signing to support them is supporting the #Humanities - it might be them now, and whilst for many it's also us now, if it isn't already, it'll be you next. Sign!! #Skystorians 🗃
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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
c.org/KGmTvZw7Ry Save Humanities at University of Herts
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Tonight, in Oxford Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox addressed an empty chamber at almost midnight. This happened because Oxford residents, ordinary residents, showed up in their thousands to make clear that Oxford rejects the racist and divisive bile that Robinson and his ilk spread.
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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Restructuring continues to be the proposed solution to the financial crisis of British universities as academics face the risk of redundancy. What does it mean to live under a constant cloud of uncertainty? @gsoh31.bsky.social explores further in our latest Dispatch
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What Does It Feel Like to Live Under the Threat of Redundancy?
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
What's being done to the humanities in Hertfordshire is unconscionable and short-sighted. Please co-sign to stand up for a critical and creative world accessible to all. #UKHE
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Sign please folks c.org/pcXwsDxRM4
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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
#CFP: "TOXIC MODERNISM / MODERNIST INTOXICATION" Adelaide University, JOINT AMSN / MSIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 19-21, 2026 Deadline: July 24, 2026 Info: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/... #modernism #envhum #ecopoetics #ecocriticism #sensorystudies
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cfp | call for papers
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Alex Goody @alex-goody.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Come to Oxford Brookes to do a PhD with myself or one of my fabulous colleagues - really pleased to be able to share this: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
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PhD Studentship : AHRC Landscape Award PhD Studentship in the Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
Image of 'The Empress' by Pamela Coleman Smith - figure with long hair, crown of stars, holding sceptre-like object. Two trees (pines?) made up of dots on right-hand side. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK
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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Can anyone assist Rachele with this awful situation? Seems very poor from UCU.
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Kathryn @fivefteditrix.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Who wants to put together a special issue on Severance so I have a place to pitch a thing in a few months? There's an edited vol. already, but it's not of stunning calibre, so there is room, I think.
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Solidarity with all trans sisters (and brothers) today
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
There are now 92 universities in the UK actively making redundancies. That will be 100 by the end of the academic year. The rout is as stupid as it is wasteful. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
French researcher denied entry to the US because his computer and phone were searched upon arrival and anti-Trump sentiments were discovered in messages he exchanged with colleagues www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
We’re taking strike action at UEA next Wednesday, like many other UCU colleagues across the UK facing similar threats of redundancy. Please give our UCU account a follow & support our strike action next week 🌹💪
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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It’s an obscure policy detail for anyone outside of academia but deeply unsettling for UK arts and humanities scholars at a time their jobs are increasingly under threat: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-ref...
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REF reforms ‘could make it harder for axed staff to get new jobs’
Researchers could struggle to find alternative employment if their previous employers have REF submission rights on their work to date, English scholars warn
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
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REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The Welsh government has announced that it will provide £19 million in extra funding for its universities after several institutions announced wide-ranging cuts #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Cash-strapped Welsh universities given £19 million extra funding
Money from Welsh government to be used primarily for estates maintenance and digital projects
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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social): "I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."
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An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities
The entire arts and heritage sector in the UK will be irreparably damaged
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Peter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is a plum job for someone: Prof and Head of English @sheffielduni.bsky.social Particularly good for someone with knowledge across linguistics and literature, I reckon www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/h...
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Head of School (School of English) at University of Sheffield
An opportunity for an academic position as a Head of School (School of English) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 04/02/2025
Your regular reminder that the revenue of the entire UK fishing industry is half a billion pounds less than the University of Manchester
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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c... @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social
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CfP: The Modernist Long Poem, London, 25 Oct 2025 (cfp d/l 25 Apr 2025)
The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century Saturday 25 October 2025 Northeastern University, London Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922),…
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Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.
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London Modernism Seminar @londonmodernismsem.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social First London Modernism Seminar of 2025 Saturday 1 February Political moods Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh) Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg) Zoom and Room 243 Second Floor, Senate House ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond... ies.sas.ac.uk
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Funded PhD studentship with our lovely colleagues over at Brighton Uni: Supporting trans and non-binary inclusion: wellbeing and dignity in health and social care www.brighton.ac.uk/research/pos...
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Funded PhD project in trans and non-binary inclusion
An opportunity to develop a PhD project around trans and non-binary inclusion within health and social care.
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Ali @aliandras.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Diane Drouin @dianedrouin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#ModWrite @yasnabozhkova.bsky.social and I are very happy to share our CFP for a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies on Mina Loy : "The Contour of an Electric Spirit": revisiting Mina Loy in the 21st Century think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... Abstracts: 15 February Articles: 1 July
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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Applications are now sought for the Glucksman Chair in Contemporary Writing in English. Research and teaching specialism in 20th and 21st-C Writing in English. Emphasis on Irish writers may be favoured University of Limerick www.ul.ie/vacancies
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Join the team in UL
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This is what integrity looks like.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Sobering, and important. Hannah Yelin (Ox Brookes): 'Her latest paper, published in the journal New Formations, found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly – affecting their careers and causing significant physical and mental harms.' 1/3
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Universities failing academics targeted by online abuse – paper
Research found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly
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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
You may wish to share this story, which indicates potential issues with the way the some post-92 universities are dealing with the financial challenges facing the sector. You may also wish to read up on the ramifications of allowing universities to own subsidiary companies. tinyurl.com/8bbh95kf
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Coventry University staff issue strike threat over job cuts
The threat over nearly 100 job cuts as the university says it is adapting to a new financial reality.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Every time you share a "The Conversation" post I want to remind you that they have a multi-million dollar annual budget and pay writers zero dollars, including adjuncts and grad students. We cannot rely on exploited labor to achieve a better public humanities. www.patreon.com/posts/better...
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A Better Conversation | David M. Perry
Get more from David M. Perry on Patreon
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Rachel Murray @rachelmurray.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture has been published! 🥳 Edited by Vera Fibisan and me and featuring essays by Stacy Alaimo, @stevementz.bsky.social, Dominic O'Key, Rick de Vos, and many others. Do consider ordering a copy for your library: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture
The book demonstrate the affordances of literary and artistic forms in exposing the plight of aquatic organisms that are contributing to their destruction.
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Alex Goody @alex-goody.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Last teaching day of 2024 !and I’m looking forward to my students presenting their visions of the future in 2050 (on my Inventing the Future module: a mashup of science and speculative fiction, and Futures Literacy)
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University of Essex @universityofessex.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Art Historian @mattlodder.com has spearheaded the study and teaching of tattoo art. His latest book reveals the untold history of tattooing as a professional art form and explores the archive of the “linchpin” of the 20th-century tattoo industry. www.essex.ac.uk/news/2024/11...
Text reads: "Hidden passions to cultural icons. Dr Matt Lodder’s new book, Tattoos: The Untold History of Modern Art, is the first book in more than 70 years to tell the story of the history of the tattoo industry. It reveals some incredible stories..."Text reads: "The first career burglar tattoo artist. 1719 
The first recorded instance of a self-proclaimed professional tattoo artist, a house burglar arrested in London."Text reads: "'The brute broke loose and attacked the tattooist.' Tattoo artists like Alfred South (seen here tattooing a Viennese tiger tamer) staged bold stunts to grab headlines and promote their trade. The stunt did not end well."
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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We have been warning about this for years. There is so much evidence of what the humanities bring to the economy and society. See @englishassociation.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis
With degrees disappearing and reading rates plummeting, the arts face a critical moment in education and culture
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We are now up to 84 universities making staff redundant. A key part of our society is retreating at a staggering pace that would never be allowed if the decisions were all seen and weighed up together. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It's staggering that any country would let this happen to something it's good at. Honestly think that when we look back at this disaster - which is only in its initial stages - it'll be seen as a national scandal. There should at least be an independent investigation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cash-strapped UEA to shed 170 full-time jobs - BBC News
University of East Anglia announces further cuts as it tries to stem a multi-million pound deficit.
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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I will be giving my last virtual lecture for the year tomorrow, dedicated to everyone fighting for a #FreePalestine. I have found giving virtual lectures hard during these times. So I will be taking a break & expressing rage in other ways. You can register here: events.ok.ubc.ca/event/changi...
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Changing Institutions: Common Sense, Complaint and Other Lessons in Legacy - UBC Okanagan Events Calendar
Join us for an insightful lecture about diversity and equality featuring guest speaker Sara Ahmed.
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
You, boy! Which UK university has declared itself in financial crisis today?
Alistair Sim as Scrooge leans out of a window
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Haven't seen one yet so wanted to make a starter pack for modernist studies organisations (and related platforms) as more migrate to Bluesky. Do help us out by letting us know who to add & do share so we can get connected! go.bsky.app/VAe3Wb1
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 09/11/2024
"Charging a fee – no matter how nominal – feeds into an individualised and commodified perception of a good that ultimately benefits society as a whole". www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Raising fees will not solve the funding crisis at universities | Letters
Letters: Helen Gourlay on why the numbers don’t add up for students or universities. And Yassin El-Moudden says turning students into consumers has warped tertiary education economics
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
As large-scale redundancies loom in Higher Education, some good advice here on Unfair Dismissal and Labour's new proposals. My advice: keep a contemporary diary of any practices that look suspect; email such messages to your personal email account; know your rights. www.griffin.law/university-r...
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University Restructures – Preparing for Potential Mass Redundancies - Griffin Law
This article explores the potential implications of the proposed Employment Rights Bill 2024, and how it may influence redundancy negotiations between universities and their staff. The Times has re...
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