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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 18h

Don't forget to join us next Friday, 16 Oct. for our #RSVPDigiEvent on regional magazines. Our speakers will discuss how periodicals of the periphery provoke vital questions about where cultural + political power is actually produced. Register for this free event here: rs4vp.org/preview-edin...

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Off Centre: A Preview of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (2028) – RSVP

Join us on 16 October for a sneak peak of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (forthcoming for Edinburgh UP, 2028)!

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

WINTER HAUNTS is always well among my best line-ups of the year, and 2026 looks no different, with six fantastic workshoppers and fascinating interviewees joining us on the 14th November! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau... #writing #writers #authors #fiction #horror #Gothic

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WINTER HAUNTS 2026

Ghost story, gothic and supernatural fiction day Saturday 14th November, 10:30am-6:30pm approx Online via Google Meet

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Jaundiced Brains @johnnymains.co.uk · 07/10/2026

If you're a fan of Robert Aickman and want to know more about the relationship he had with his agent, Herbert van Thal, more commonly known as the editor of THE PAN BOOK OF HORROR STORIES, why not buy a ticket to my online talk on the 3rd of December! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...

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Robert Aickman and Herbert Van Thal - An Unsettled Relationship

Johnny Mains leads this talk on the working and personal relationship between two of the biggest names in horror fiction.

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Re-listening to Frankenstein ahead of writing a lecture. It's a good job Walton was only writing to his sister as his neediness is just a bit embarrassing. Walton, secretly thirsting for Frankenstein. Frankenstein, oblivious(?), "NO ONE. ABSOLUTELY NO ONE EVER COULD REPLACE MY PAST LOVES. EVER"

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Cringe Awkward

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Day 13 of 25. We are now halfway through our industrial action to rule out compulsory redundancies at the University of Dundee. Join us on our picket line today for a friendly atmosphere and chat. Bake sale tomorrow too.

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As if nobody told me that Elizabeth Gaskell had been a penguin since 1969 🤣🐧🐧 Feels like the sort of transformation I should know about if teaching about her 🤣

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think the illusory ("ordinary") party-planning of Patricia in #WidowsBay is more horrifying than the occult reality, and the Sea Hag episode. And that last one properly freaked me out.

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Two Dogs Looking at Each Other

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I remember gasping out loud at parts when I first read it. I would love to teach it again and sometimes think I might propose a special author short module on Greene just for the hell of it

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Alice in Wonderland Daydreaming

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is one of my favourite books of all time 💔

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I mean I somehow really enjoyed the film as wellas being incredibly annoyed lol? Yeah, I guessed what was going to happen but I was still like bloody hell King, you bastard 🤣

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you manage to get an abstract to us by Nov 10th we will be happy to consider it, and if it is accepted you can always make a decision on whether you can commit to a chapter then? If you don't have time to get an abstract in I am sure there will be other opportunities :)

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Only an abstract needed by Nov! Full chapters will be later next year :)

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

CFP 📢 *New Approaches to Teaching the Gothic*, co-edited by myself & @factorygothic.bsky.social Critical practice; pedaogical reflections; case studies; times/spaces of crisis; much more. Deadline 10th Nov. More info 👇👇 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/...

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cfp | call for papers

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sorry, stupid link not working call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/...

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely exhausted after one day of teaching but at the end of my #TalesofTerror seminar yesterday a student came up and said "you know when you are really excited for something but then worry it won't be as good as you hoped, but then we did the class and it was REALLY good, thank you" ❤️ 🙏

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

CFP 📢📢📢 *New Approaches to Teaching the Gothic*, co-edited by myself & @factorygothic.bsky.social Critical practice; pedaogical reflections; case studies; particularly in a relation to these times/spaces of crisis. VERY broad cfp. Deadline 10th November More info 👇👇 l1nq.com/7ra7rtb

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 05/10/2026

UCU members at Edinburgh uni are on strike today. Over 400 film and TV professionals, including Alan Cumming, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery, back their call to reinstate three creative programmes. Cuts are hitting universities across the UK: educationitsours.org.uk/map/

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not quite the Sunday I had planned for, but some gardening, some reading, and some work on my Lego Hocus Pocus house, is not a day to be sniffed at.

A photo of a nearly finished Hocus Pocus lego house and the front cover of the paperback of Kate Summerscale's The Haunting of Alma Fielding

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watching The Mist. Every character in this film is fucking insufferable and the decisions they make infuriating. And every actor also auditioning for The Walking Dead, it seems.

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Something In The Mist!

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But also...how does one check the footnotes without feeding your work into AI? I suppose simply for formatting but there is always a few that you need to check in conversation with the body of the essay?

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

went on traitors got recruited had a breakdown bon appetit #celebritytraitors

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Shahan Miah @shahanshahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've just declared myself as a traitor by mistake #CelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Had to do a sort of social media blackout today as hadn't been able to watch #CelebrityTraitors last night 🤣🤣 so glad to have caught up today and on two ep2 🖤 #TheReluctantTraitor #Paranoid #CoffinCulture

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Claudia Winkleman Traitors

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

😲😲😲🤯🤯🤯 amazing!!!

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026

Four universities on strike today. One map to find them all. Nottingham, Dundee, Glasgow Caledonian and Edinburgh are out. And today we launch the UCU strike map: every dispute across the union, in one place. Find a dispute near you. Visit a picket. Share the map.

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Me at the pharmacy trying to play it cool when the woman sticks me with the flu jab

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Ouch

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Lisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 01/10/2026

IT BEGINS. #Booktober 2026 kicks off with Gibbet Hill by Bram Stoker, rediscovered in our amazing @nlireland.bsky.social 2 years ago by Brian Cleary, and republished in this beautiful edition with the proceeds going to the Charlotte Stoker Fund. #spookybooks #31sp #halloweencountdown

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Disability History Association @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

The Disability History association is seeking new board members! We're looking for a new Director of Membership and a graduate student to serve as our Director of Student Affairs. More info at the links. Questions? Email us! dishist.org/call-for-app... and dishist.org/call-for-app... #dishist 🗃️

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Solidarity with colleagues at Nottingham💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh goodness, Dale. I am so very sorry to read this xx

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh great, now the harmonica riff is going to haunt me for days 💔

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#solidarity with everyone at Edinburgh striking today 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 It is shit for students, but that is the fault of Senior Management, not the staff on the ground. What is "morally reprehensible" is the expectation for those staff to keep showing good will in the face of impending cuts.

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My favourite thing is to look out for the "Best Boy Grip" which sounds like a dog with a chew toy :) "Dolly Grip" is second favourite but that isn't always there

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Jaundiced Brains @johnnymains.co.uk · 26/09/2026

I've been an organ donor since 2010 - can't wait to be harvested and help others! You should be one too!

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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Author copies of the new, expanded edition of my last book have just arrived, and they look *gorgeous*!

Front cover of Encyclopaedia of Dragons and Mythical Creatures. With shiny lettering and a beautiful illustration of a dragon-like sea monster.

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