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Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So delighted to see this feature on my new scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist In today’s National! Thanks to @charlielynch.bsky.social for the interview!

A newspaper article with a photograph of Arthur Conan Doyle

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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Congratulations to @cferguson.bsky.social on her amazing scholarly edition of Conan Doyle’s unforgettably bizarre spiritualist novel.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is infuriating: $2,500/month to throw at the lying machine, but no money to pay professors for supervision or research. University administrators have been utterly captured by CorporateBrainBorg.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

Ask yourself this: how have institutions that for years have said they face budget shortfalls, deficits, shortages that “required” them to deny faculty lines, fire staff, raise tuition, cut research support, etc. suddenly find the money to pay for outrageously expensive contracts for AI services?

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Made in Saddleworth, Oldham and Manchester: Annie Kenney (1879-1953), born in Springhead, started working in cotton mills at age 10 and became a leading suffragette in the Women's Social and Political Union. She was jailed 13 times and repeatedly force-fed. 1/9

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 29/08/2026

Ok, we've had time to reminisce. It's time to look forward. We are thrilled to announce our CFP for #RSVP2027 is now live! We'll consider the theme of 'Structures' at our next annual gathering. The applications portal opens next week on 1 Sept. More details on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Summer holiday, 1813 edition 🌊 That summer, artist William Daniell set off from Land’s End to travel the coast of Great Britain, sketching the landscapes along the way. The result? Voyage Round Great Britain, an eight-volume record of 308 beautifully detailed acquatints of Britain’s coastline

An engraved drawing from inside a cave looking out to sea. The cave is full of cylindrical rock formations (that almost look like tree trunks or logs) and waves are crashing against them. In the background you can see ships out at sea in the distance, with birds flying in the sky.

Engraving of a scenic view of a rugged coastline. Waves are crashing up against the side of the rocks and in the distance you can see land further out at sea. The coast is covered in puffins, both sat on the clifftops and flying.

Engraving illustration of a ruined castle, all that remains is a turret, precariously positioned on the edge of a cliff. Surrounding it is lots of greenery, a beach and the sea. It looks like a lovely summer evening and there are people down at the beach and a couple sat by the ruins with their dog admiring the view.

An engraving illustration of the a view out to the sea. In the foreground, you can see lots of greenery, grass where deer are grazing and large Monterey Cypress trees are growing leading down from the clifftop to the sea. In the background is the sea, you can see for miles and there are lots of little sailing boats in the water.

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This beautiful dictionary of colours found in nature dates back to more than a century before Pantone. 🎨 Werner's Nomenclature of Colour was an indispensable resource for Charles Darwin, helping him describe new species. We love these natural colours - which page do you like best?

A page of an old book titled “Blues” with a chart of different shades, naming each shade with an example of an animal, vegetable and mineral of that colour.

Another page titled “Reds” with a chart various shades with an animal, vegetable and mineral for each.

An old book page titled “Yellows” with a chart citing various shades of yellow with an animal, vegetable and mineral of each colour for reference.

Another page titled “Greens” with a chart of various shades of green with an animal, vegetable and mineral of each shade.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 20/08/2026

Amusement and cheering aside, I also really like the taxonomy they built here for prohibited uses: "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, [and] editing". Like a CREDiT system for bad things you can do with AI.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Seybold: “What companies like OpenAI are looking for from schools is not only a reliable stream of subscription fees to bolster ongoing cash flow problems, but also repositories of aggregatable and monetizable data.”

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If you or anyone you know is less familiar with #Gaskell's #Gothic works and would like a bit of an Introduction, you/they may be interested in a ticket to my talk for Elizabeth Gaskell House Weds 16th September 7-8pm (BST) Do join us! 👻🏚️ elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/eliza...

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Online Talk – Elizabeth Gaskell’s Gothic Fiction: An Introduction » elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There's been a rumbling crisis building at Scottish and British universities for a couple of years now, including huge job losses, course and department closures and even threats to the future of institutions. It's staggering how little political attention it has received.

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Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Every horror-loving pet owner needs to get this outfit!

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Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Beautiful flowers in Jimi Blake's Hunting Brook Gardens in Co. Wicklow, Ireland #gardening #flowers #Ireland

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Who can forget this scene from The Hound of the Baskervilles? I can, and did. With thanks to the amazing @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social for another pulp take on a Victorian classic!

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Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's (almost) alive! It's an honour to be among such good company - mine is a wee chapter on vampire films (and their dearth) in Croatia and Yugoslavia. Can't wait to see the whole book!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Some lovely pics from the #RSVP2026 @rs4vp.org Closing Reception 😍😍 📷 By Pete

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

And that’s a wrap on #RSVP2026 @rs4vp.org 🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾 Photo: Pete Clarke

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#RSVP2026 Really happy to get the chance to see Sarah Bliss’s paper on detective fiction in Pearson’s magazine. Such fantastic and important work bringing in less known detective fiction from the margins.

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Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sharon Schroeder introduces Jennifer Hayward and Michelle Prain-Brice and their joint paper on the Invisible Britons: Irish, Scottish and Welsh identities in the Anglophone Press of Chile, 1840-1906 in one of #RSVP2026's final sessions, on The Anglophone Press from Chile to China

Sharon Schroeder introduces Jennifer Hayward and Michelle Prain-Brice and their joint paper on the Invisible Britons during one of #RSVP2026's final sessions, on The Anglophone Press from Chile to China

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Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Xiangtai Zeng kicks off the #RSVP2026 session on The Anglophone Press from Chile to China with his talk on the uses of Shakespearean literary prestige in the Transnational British Press in 19th c. China

Xiangtai Zeng at the #RSVP2026 talking about the uses of Shakespearean literary prestige in the Transnational British Press in 19th c. China

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Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

See me in action - introducing a comparative lit and translation studies perspective to Victorian periodicals' detective fiction in motion across borders and languages! #RSVP2026

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Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Chuffed by praise and happy to have been part of this lovely Sherlockian panel! #RSVP2026

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 23/07/2026

And we’re off! Registration is open for #RSVP2026! Pick up your badge + program in the Arts Building before panels start at 1 pm. The Colby Conversation will take place at 5 pm in the Davis Theatre, followed by our Welcome Reception in the Dining Hall at 7 pm. Happy conferencing! buff.ly/JbX0MDs

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grossmjj @grossmjj.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Join us for the 6th annual symposium To Be Continued—on Zoom, Sept. 17-18. See the attached flyer for our exciting roster of speakers and panels. Register here for free: ubalt.zoom.us/meeting/regi.... More details are on the TBC website: www.monash.edu/arts/media-f.... @adaptstudies.bsky.social

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

But some things need to be repeated... "... claims that machines can think are nonsense"

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Imagining every newspaper in the 1900s crediting scientific discoveries to coal because Einstein had electricity in his lab. “How researchers used the lightbulb to win the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics”

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Everyone can't and shouldn't work in tech or finance. Everyone can't and won't be a multi-millionaire. A society needs civil servants, social workers and creatives. We need NHS doctors and dentists. We need teachers, people who work in publishing and the law. Where is the encouragement for this?

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

📣 New UWP series! 📣 Studies in Crime Narratives (eds. Kirsten Saxton & Emily G.T. Corrêa) welcomes scholarship on crime & criminality across cultures, periods, genres & theories. For info, email: k.saxton@northeastern.edu; emilygtcorrea@gmail.com; s.lewis@press.wales.ac.uk #womenswriting2026

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Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

'...if you are told enough times that you are stupid, then it is always going to be a battle to resist that judgment... “I ask myself what I am afraid of. I know I have talent. I know I can act. Well, get on with it, Marilyn.”

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 29/05/2026

Why are public libraries worth protecting? So that knowledge itself does not become privatized. That's the *real* danger of pushing everyone to go to sites like Google or to A.I. chatbots for answers.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

“I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence.” ~ Virginia Woolf May Evening (1905) 🎨 Igor Grabar

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 11/05/2026

Need a financial boost for your summer research plans? We can help! There's still time to apply for our second round of Microgrant funding, but applications close *THIS* Friday, May 15. Apply on our website (and NB: awards are up to $300 USD, not £50k 😉) rs4vp.org/awards/micro...

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RSVP Microgrants – RSVP

Microgrants are seed grants designed to support new research projects and/or explore ideas in the field of nineteenth-century British/empire periodical studies. The Microgrants scheme was established ...

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Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

As they say, a weed is merely a plant in the wrong place. But this self-seeded California poppy sprouting from a crack in the wall might just avoid that classification - solely due to its cheery appearance. #gardening #photography #flowers

California poppy growing from a crack in a wall.

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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 09/05/2026

Love it when science backs my hypotheses. LLMs are not intelligent; they are just probability engines. Apophenia rules apply.

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Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

First bloom of my Itoh Peony 'Bartzella', in and out of context. #flowers #gardening #peony #photography

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Looking forward to debating the contradictions of AI at 'Resisting Big Tech Empires' (Sat 25th). What's happening when $$$ is poured into extractive but failing tech? How is AI a diagnostic for the nihilistic turn in geopolitics? What can we do about it? www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resist...

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"Resisting Big Tech Empires: The fight for the future
Saturday 25th, London
Cory Doctorow, multi-award-winning novelist and campaigner
Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change, India
Sofia Scasserra, Our World is Not for Sale, Argentina
James Meadway, Macrodose podcast
Khem Rogaly, Common Wealth
Cecilia Rikap, digital sovereignty researcher, UCL
Dan McQuillan, author of Resisting AI
Nick Srnicek, author of Silicon Empires and Platform Capitalism
Rosa Curling, Foxglove
Nafeez Ahmed, author of Alt Reich
Sophia Goodfriend, journalist on AI and war
Rebel Tech Alliance"

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Anya Taylor-Hellancholy @interdiction.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The tech bros behind AI are the new automobile barons. They're gonna spend a lot of money propagandising to manipulate our future.

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

the car analogy is actually perfect here though. we did build the entire country around cars and it did kill walkable cities and it took 60 years to even start fixing it. so yeah maybe the "just use it responsibly" crowd should sit with that for a second

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

one of the things I treasure most about writing is it is one of the vanishingly few remaining pursuits that involves sitting quietly with your own thoughts—something the entire tech industry has mobilized to ensure we never do again

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/10/2025

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai 🧵

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Critical AI

On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

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Rohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"In the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it also feel this way to you?” Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize Lecture I love this, and this is the core of my resistance to AI-generated "writing." There is no person.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

When we accepted the premise that humanities and arts degrees are just a vessel for teaching generic transferable skills, we lost a battle that means we now can’t fight against AI. Because if students don’t actually have to learn anything why shouldn’t they use the plagiarism machine. Who cares.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/03/2026

‘Some late Victorian anatomists and physiologists believed that all the brain’s thoughts influenced the hand, and early 20th-century phenomenologists liked to say that “the hand is the visible part of the brain.”’ Steven Shapin on a new account of the hand. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Steven Shapin · Heart, Head, Life, Fate: Talk to the hand

The hand is an organ through which we know about the world, and in its expressive mode it helps others know something...

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Heather Bryant @hbcompass.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

We're not just in a subscription economy, we're in a subscription democracy. Some are getting a higher tier of benefits while the rest are locked into the basic plan we were signed up for at birth where the cost only ever rises and they keep removing benefits or turning them into premium add-ons.

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