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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Proofs of my essay on rough love 🥰

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nobody: Universities: what if we kept trying to expand while having fewer and fewer staff

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Really lovely review of my book by Michael Rizq ❤️

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Bit of my Pleasure book, written today ✨🩷

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My essay ‘Ersatz Because’ has just come out 🥰🥂✨

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Did a podcast on the uni system substack.com/@philipwbloo...

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today’s writing: paper for a Munich conference ❤️✨

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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The psychic precision is important here. We're sitting through a national processing process for one man's castrated shame and anxiety, which will never end: Ossoff understands that and communicates it clearly.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Just finished a remarkable article by @becimay.bsky.social on “The Last Line.” “And the hardest of all is to make them hatch”—a stellar (hatching!) last line of its own.

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Faculty will be ”given a score between zero and three by the university” - unbelievable stupidity and cruelty, solidarity with comrades at Exeter

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ok, so according to the Union’s calculations, 27% of the staff in my English department will be made redundant

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

First review of my book, Modernism’s Whims, and it’s a lovely one ❤️✨🥰

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Ian Webster @websterij.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It might just help change the senior management team's minds

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Exeter has a phenomenal track record of literary studies research AND enrollment. The unbundling of the two will sabotage them both. And that is by design. The fewer research-intensive humanities departments there are, this thinking goes, the easier it will be to censor what they produce.

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caitlinscott.bsky.social @caitlinscott.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

solidarity from UEA where we went through this 3 years ago. the 3 campus unions did a stellar job then, ousting the VC, getting media onside and supporting alternative plans for budget management- a very long and hard fight and many still lost their jobs but it was a turnaround - good luck

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

In case you didn’t know, Exeter uni, where I work, has announced a plan to make 25% of staff in my English department redundant. Left-over staff will do double the teaching while their research time will be shrunk to 1%. Meanwhile admissions for English at Exeter are HIGH, and on the rise this year

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

english lit and culture studies people from the last 10 years, favorite standalone articles, or book intros/chapters, that open new ways of reading / new areas of study / new paradigms and thus usefully show new grads range in the field?

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Wow. Simultaneously being put at risk of redundancy and my new modules being abolished, while also being asked to put forward those same modules for TEF and Accessibility case studies. The sheer nerve.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

“No throne exists that has a right to exist, & no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull & crossbones of that kindred industry, piracy, which differs from royalty only as retail differs from wholesale.” - Mark Twain

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

‘That you cannot get in since the entrance is the obstacle itself is what it means for life to end at emptiness. Despite the space’ (Keston Sutherland)

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

‘That you cannot get in since the entrance is the obstacle itself is what it means for life to end at emptiness. Despite the space’ (Keston Sutherland)

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Just got my copy of TP’s brilliant special issue on influence, with my essays on inimitability and Prynne side by side ❤️

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

new in Parapraxis online! Love's Work the romance boom, psychoanalysis, Emily Henry, and creative labor www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/lov...

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Love’s Work — Parapraxis

The Generic Pleasures of Romance Anna Kornbluh

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Code for my book’s intro 😘😘😘 fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Code for my book’s intro 😘😘😘 fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Writing on loving drafts too much

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Last seminar of the term: truth & exploded gum 🔥🤯✨

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I’m chapter 30 in a forthcoming Oxford handbook of Santayana. My first philosophy gig! It’s mainly about Wallace Stevens ✨💕

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Excited for our panel on modernism’s meanest: Laura Riding Hates You (And You, And You, And You, And You)

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Speaking on the theme ‘Laura Riding Hates You’ at this year’s BAMS, alongside brilliant @kristingrogan.bsky.social & Christian Gelder 🖤✨🎉

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

My Aldington piece in the flesh in the #TLS

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Lecturing on allusion today ✨

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Happy Dydd Gwyl Dewi from my little ghost

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

“One possible criterion with which to evaluate the success of a close reading is how well it understands itself as being part of & beholden to a community, even as it tries to challenge that community's terms of engagement. Or, as Dan & Johanna phrase it, as a product of & an offering to community.”

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Close Reading Is A Conversation (Vandal Live @ Emory U)

Listen now | with Farah Bakaari, Johanna Winant, Dan Sinykin, Kimberly Quioque Andrews, Oren Izenberg, Lisa Lee, Daniel Reynolds, and many more.

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Gave a paper on boobs at a drugs symposium today; this is the view from the floor

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

One of my students brought this heartbreaking poem to class today

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Bit of Woolf that always makes me cry 💔

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Stunning cast in the second of the three-part podcast miniseries on the symposium, Close Reading for the 21C: "Why is close reading best understood as a conversation? What are its evaluative standards? How does it extend the conversation beyond literary studies?" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Close Reading Is A Conversation (Vandal Live at Emory University)

Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S12 E5 · 1h 37m

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

New issue of CQ has landed! “Chaplinish”, edited brilliantly by @becimay.bsky.social

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Reading is an irresistible invocation of all the breasts you’ve wanted more from 💕 🍸 🥛

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