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Jonathan Gibson

@jonathangibson.bsky.social
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Senior lecturer in English literature, The Open University, UK

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OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
📢 This Wednesday: What is the role of the public humanities in the 21st century? Join OpenARC for a free online conference bringing together researchers, teachers and learners to explore some of the key challenges facing Arts & Humanities education and research today. @shaftowheed.bsky.social
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Jonathan Gibson @jonathangibson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
So impressed by how good the BBC Philharmonic are (and have been for a while). Is it down to John Storgards?
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Claxon 📣 for English lit. graduates: here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden led by the fabulous Dr Lotte Fikkers, and co-supervised by yours truly, on literary representations of wardship in early modern English drama. bit.ly/4bEeH7a Apply by 31 May 2026; starting date 1 Jan. 2027
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PhD position within the project Judicial Guardians
PhD position within the project Judicial Guardians
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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We really enjoyed a wonderful day of research talks at the @openarc.bsky.social Spring Festival yesterday. OpenARC is the research centre for Arts and Humanities at The Open University. Thanks to @shaftowheed.bsky.social and the team for making it such a success! #artsresearch #publichumanities
Spring flowers at the foot of a tree, in warm Spring sunshine
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I googled the title to get a look at the paper and got this lol 😂
Google result shows the paper followed by interjected AI Overview which says, "AI Overview



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The short answer is no, AI does not yet possess human-level intelligence, at least not in the sense of "Artificial General Intelligence" (AGI). While AI has reached or surpassed human performance in specific tasks, it still lacks the flexibility, consciousness, and physical embodiment that define human cognition."
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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We are delighted to host Sigrid Nunez at our Letters and Literature conference on the 7th of November. One week to go! Tickets here: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/... @sarahsavitt.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social @littlebrownbooks.bsky.social @viragopress.bsky.social #sigridnunez
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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The first of a series of postcards for our free online conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025, 5-7 November 2025. Full programme: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/... Every day we'll share a postcard sent to us by one of our guest speakers. Watch out for tomorrow’s!
A postcard showing scenes from the town of Chapel Hill
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Jonathan Gibson @jonathangibson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Francis Young, eloquent and convincing 'In defence of unfashionable scholarship' open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...
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In defence of unfashionable scholarship
Sometimes the books that stay on the shelf are the ones that matter
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Jonathan Gibson @jonathangibson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Calling everyone interested in Letters and Literature: the CFP for our free online OU conference, Letters and Literature 1600-2025, is closing soon! Brilliant keynotes: Mel Evans, Jon McGregor, and Emma Clery. Details at digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/
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Letters and Literature 1500-2025 at The Open University
Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...
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Jonathan Gibson @jonathangibson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Beginning to wish there was a ‘Radio 3 Uptight’ stream on BBC Sounds
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Jonathan Gibson @jonathangibson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Very taken with ETA Hoffmann’s stories (reading them in connection with ROH Contes d’Hoffmann): more like randomly weird 21st-century fiction than anything from English Romanticism.
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