Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026How about no-strings funding devolved to UoA-level budget holders (ie below senior management), empowered to allocate funding according to transparent, fair and accountable local processes? 000
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The problem with this framing is that QR-funding doesn't help HEIs to build research capacity where capacity needs to be built, but instead concentrates funding with the already well-resourced. We need to unlink funding from past performance. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ukris-p...timeshighereducation.comUKRI’s plans to cut QR funding risk ‘weakening regional capacity’Proposed loss of certain quality-related streams could undermine specialist institutions’ ability to build research capacity 101
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Really happy to see the @baftss.bsky.social conference call and that the off-campus model is set to continue at least for this next iteration. Booked the accommodation and am very much looking forward to attending. 011
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 08/09/2026That's brilliant news. I'm so glad you're able to bring your poetry into the project. It'll make for a fantastic portfolio of work, and such a rich creative-critical exploration. Can't wait to see it. 110
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If you're a MeCCSA member ask yourself: how will Leicester benefit from hosting? And how will MeCCSA? And how will researchers, instructors and students in the field benefit? And those no longer in it, or never to join it? What's the trade off that makes this worth it? 000
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I don't mean to snipe from the sidelines or to give impression I can't let go of the BAFTSS chair, but seeing posts from MeCCSA at Leicester, which obliterated an excellent film department, after BAFTSS went off campus in response to threats to staff in media at Bournemouth is upsetting. 110
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Extra Sonic Practice is hosting: Listening as a Porous Practice Against Coloniality - Friday 17th July 2026 with sound artists Amy Sharrocks and Jamie Perera. Online and free to attend. See details below. www.outsavvy.com/event/37808/...outsavvy.comListening as a Porous Practice Against Coloniality Tickets - - OutSavvyThe Extra Sonic Practice Research Group is pleased to host Listening as a Porous Practice Against Coloniality, an online live conversation bringing together artists and researchers Amy Sharrocks and J... 020
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This problem of how you communicate to THE (not YOUR) cast and crew is not the problem. It is the process. To bypass the difficulty in articulating that vision and the dialogue required to tease out rich details is to dominate, to impose your vision and disempower your collaborators. Piss off. 010
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Shame on Scorsese. Never liked him or his films, but this underscores the narcissism that underpins his persona as the ne plus ultra of American film auteurs. AI is useful to him because it permits greater fidelity in realizing his vision, further reducing the agency of his collaborators. Piss off. 231
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Hard to think of someone CLOSER to all forms of financial, political, cultural power. 000
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Top prizes from Moscow, Berlin, Cannes, the Academy from the 60s to the 2020s, a programming role on state TV in the 90s, state recognition under every government throughout his career, access to restricted archives (e.g. Szálasi execution footage used in Apa, 1966), funding for any and all efforts. 110
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Extraordinary shamlessness from Szabó: the lesson of my films is to steer well clear of power, but also, I've never had to worry about where financing for my films comes from. The latter is true, because he never did as he preaches. hvg.hu/360/20260605...hvg.huSzabó István: Jó messzire kell kerülni a hatalomtól, erről szólnak a filmjeimSzabó István ötmilliárd forintos magyar támogatásból, összesen tízmilliárd forintból rendez filmet Ralph Fiennesszal és Viggo Mortensennel a főszerepben, de állítja: ő azt sem tudja, mennyi volt a köl... 211
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Love it when someone who loves to make things mandatory for staff cancels a presentation they're due to give on the morning it is supposed to happen. 000
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Just the other day I vaguely thought to myself: haven't seen the splash yet that will surely follow when Clint Eastwood dies, so he must still be alive. 010
Reposted by Gábor GergelyRaisingFilms @raisingfilms.bsky.social · 18/05/2026#RaisingFilms has teamed up with King’s College London to conduct an impact and evaluation study of our work over the past eleven years. If you’ve engaged with Raising Films over the last decade, we’d love to hear from you! Survey closes 12th June 2026 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/kings/rais... 003
Reposted by Gábor GergelyNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity 151072297
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Hilarious that the minister in charge of Reform voter-baiting (the Home Secretary), who has massive responsibility for haemorrhaging voters to the Greens, is joining calls for Starmer to quit for losing voters. Hard to think of a more cynical move. 030
Reposted by Gábor GergelyČarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026We are also looking for a postdoc to conduct a study on socialist Bulgaria for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55196stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de 01212
Reposted by Gábor GergelyČarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de 12122
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 08/05/2026When you're mad at your father because he's emotionally distant and a lousy grandfather and you catch yourself with fat all over your face standing over the food waste bin snaffling as you scrape the last of the fat and gristle off a gnarly bone with your teeth and you realize you are him. Just me? 000
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The BAFTSS EC is delighted to announce the 2026 Outstanding Achievement Award recipient: the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive. For more details please see the BAFTSS website: www.baftss.org/outstanding2... 011
Reposted by Gábor GergelyMarie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Hey, so I'm out of practice with 'announcements' but: I wrote a book and it's coming out in November. It's called The Sonic Surrogate and it's about sound reproduction, reproductive crisis and the proliferation of music technologies that promise to take care of us www.ucpress.edu/books/the-so...ucpress.eduThe Sonic Surrogate by Marie Thompson - PaperScholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change. 3206
Reposted by Gábor GergelyMarie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 20/03/2026The closing date for our (fees-only) PhD studentship is fast approaching... 023
Reposted by Gábor GergelyBAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social · 20/02/2026We are pleased to announce that the conference website, including the schedule is now live: www.baftss.org/conference-2... Places are limited - register early to avoid disappointment. Deadline: 8th March 2026. Queries can be directed to baftss2026@gmail.combaftss.orgBAFTSS Conference 2026Welcome to the Homepage of the 2026 edition of the annual conference of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. This year's conference takes place at the Highcliff Marriott... 178
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 20/02/2026The 2026 @baftss.bsky.social Conference website is live. Read the full programme, register, find out about the publishers in attendance, the keynote, the conference dinner, the venue and the conference team. You can contact them via the form at the bottom of the page. www.baftss.org/conference-2...baftss.orgBAFTSS Conference 2026Welcome to the Homepage of the 2026 edition of the annual conference of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. This year's conference takes place at the Highcliff Marriott... 071
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Also, not all free labour is unethical or unethically sought. Depends on who's asking. A for-profit publisher? Piss off. An elite institution? Do one. Or a casualized researcher? A former PhD student? A friend in need? Should I say no in shit short fiction prose? (I'm very angry.) 010
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 19/02/2026(I'm making the assumption that an assistant professor in the US is an adjunct teacher.) 100
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Been a while but I'm still bewildered by that elaborate SF novella call out on the 'other' Jiscmail. Talk about punching down: long-embedded in academic structures, the reply aller attacks the ECR for a dysfunction of HE: its culture of service/free labour. Who made the bed? Who shat in it? The ECR? 330
Reposted by Gábor GergelyBAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social · 04/02/2026BAFTSS is making available 7 Conference Bursaries of up to £200 each to support attendance at the Association's annual conference for those members who are postgraduate researchers (including MA and PhD students). Complete the form: www.baftss.org/conference-b... Deadline: 20th March 2026.baftss.orgConference Bursary Fund (PGR)Constitution | Code of Conduct | Contact Us | Join BAFTSS / Sign In © British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) 2025. Website maintained by Christina Wilkins . 053
Reposted by Gábor GergelyEwen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Finally worked out a way to get over from Ireland for AWP (thanks in no small part to good friends) so if any mags or presses are interested in me reading please hit me up. Here's a picture of me with my arms out (Plz RT???) 043
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 12/01/2026In a sector under attack - from govt refusal to fund HE; KPI- and cuts-obsessed VCs; plagiarism engines; culture warriors - mutual support, sharing of experience and collaboration are more important than ever. Please consider participating in this important @baftss.bsky.social scheme in either role. 033
Reposted by Gábor GergelyBAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social · 12/01/2026BAFTSS continues to run its Early Career Mentoring Scheme, which has been invaluable to helping ECRs in this increasingly precarious sector. This is a call for new mentors and mentees to take part in the scheme! For more info: www.baftss.org/early-career... #baftss #earlycareermentoringschemebaftss.org 054
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I've been thinking about multilingual scholars' practice. I use English only, to inhabit an outside-in/inside-out perspective and to force me to consider word usage carefully. When someone translates their work/publishes bilingually, I wonder how attentive they are to consistency of terminology. 000
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Watching Frankenstein and it's hilarious how Del Toro fetishizes traditional effects and genres and their stylistic markers and professes to hate AI, but the whole film looks like an AI cheese dream. (To be fair to him, perhaps all this tells us is that AI was trained primarily on Del Toro's films?) 120
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 04/12/2025The Lincoln uni ones have bird flu. So they may be nice, but not exactly harmless. 100
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 03/12/2025I think what QT's top 10 of 21st-century cinema shows is not how far he has fallen but how narrowminded, extractive and domineering his engagement with 'world cinema' always had been. Or that the list was written by AI. 010
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Gearing up for my lecture on the noses of film villains. Funny to think that students used to bristle at the parallel I draw btw you know who and the Phantom of the Opera and the argument that the wizard school books/films reproduce racist eugenic discourses of blood, lineage, sex and race. 000
Reposted by Gábor GergelyBantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social · 14/11/2025This Black Friday - Every Course Must Go! ✅ 100% reduction of some subjects! ✅ Modules slashed! Study them before it’s too late! 1228
Reposted by Gábor Gergelymartha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025any faculty encouraging this are being enormously irresponsible 0359
Reposted by Gábor GergelyJúlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025How does Hollywood separate the art from the “cancelled” artist after #MeToo and how does it use Eastern Europe for the operation? To find out, read our article co-authored with Anna Mártonfi, in Celebrity Studies. (Link gives free access to the first 50 viewers) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JKJ8U...tandfonline.com‘Artistic genius’: celebrity auteur-directors after #MeToo between Hollywood and Central Eastern EuropeAn important ramification of the #MeToo movement has been its (re-)invigoration of debates about the cultural positions of arthouse cinema’s ‘problematic’ directors. While a somewhat peripheralised... 133
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 03/11/2025And it’ll get 4* in the REF because it’s long, collaborative, coauthored, interdisciplinary, methodologically innovative and published in Nature. 😂 000
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Nature is a journal 'publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions.' They haven't a scooby about media studies though. 100
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 03/11/2025This article in Nature is wild. It makes a claim to analysing bias in online representation objectively in a way that would be funny if it weren't symptomatic of where we stand with humanities research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comAge and gender distortion in online media and large language models - NatureStereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ... 100
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Thank you @havasjulia.bsky.social for collaboration and hosting, and thank you @school-of-act.bsky.social for the warm welcome. 020