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University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies @cambridgegender.bsky.social · 7h

We are thrilled that Prof Bonnie Honig is joining us this term as Middlebrook/Djerassi Visiting Professor! Her public lecture is 5:30, 28 Oct at St John's Div School on "Hippolytus, in Reverse: Metamorphosis Now, with Deleuze, Canetti, and Arendt". More info: www.gender.cam.ac.uk/news/diane-m...

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 13h

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 17h

📢 Our first seminar of the academic year is nearly here! Declan Kavanagh, University of Kent, will be presenting a paper on: "‘The Fear You Had for Your Eyes’: The Terror of Sight Loss in Gulliver’s Travels (1726)" 🗓️ Tuesday 6 Oct, 5pm 📍 H/G09, Heslington Hall 🔗 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Tiny Gulliver rows a toy boat in a large wooden cistern while an oversized king, a queen and fanned ladies, and stern pikemen watch from a raised platform, a satirical scene emphasizing the comic size contrast and royal bemusement.

The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver. [graphic] / (Plate 2d), Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker, Lewis Walpole Library

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 21h

#ProdigalPrince my new #SlowShakespeare blog, reading 1 Henry IV every day, around 10 lines at a time, starts TOMORROW, 1 October! Here's one of my favourite Hals (and actors): Geoffrey Streatfeild @the-rsc.bsky.social 2007-8, with David Warner as Falstaff.

A photograph of a play in performance. An older man with luxuriant white hair and beard is looking past the camera, holding up both his hands. He's wearing a crumpled white shirt and a reddish-brown leather jerkin, undone and unkempt, over an ample belly, with a jaunty red scarf. Sitting behind him, feet up on a bed, is a younger man with slicked down blond hair, wearing cream trousers tucked into black boots, a messy white shirt and cream jerkin. And quite a lot of eyeliner.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

it's a lovely michaelmas day and you are a horrible goose

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please share!! The Department of English at Arizona State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies position. PhD in literature, rhetoric, media studies, linguistics, or related discipline required at the time of appointment. apply.interfolio.com/194236

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm going to tell you a story and then, at the end, I'm going to ask you if anyone happens to have the niche knowledge I need to help... The story begins, as so many of my stories do, in an ancient church in the middle of a city. But it's not now. And it's not hundreds of years ago. It's the 1960's

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

people in/near bristol and into/violently against tarot/AI: we are hosting a series of events this year on “risk”, tarot and AI as part of my university research fellowship get in touch if you’d like to be involved

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TAROT / RISK / AI
a series of events hosted at the University of Bristol
November 4 2026: discussion event open to anyone interested in Tarot / Al

contact: william.pooley@
bristol.ac.uk

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just gave a lecture on the French and Haitian Revolutions and got to use this amazing 1948 painting by the Haitian artist Dieudonné Cedor depicting the 1791 Vodou gathering in the forest of Bois Caïman, the pivotal ceremony that ignited the revolution.

A priest dressed in bright scarlet robes stands at the center with arms outstretched upward, directing the ritual invocation.

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Loved seeing this c.1654 painting by Jacobus Vrel known as “The Little Nurse”; Vrel has often been confused with Vermeer, and I thought of John Berger’s words when I saw this very human scene: “What was it that he wanted to say in the stillness of his rooms which the light fills like water a tank?”

A painting of a woman sitting in a wooden chair near a fireplace in a sunlit, sparsely furnished room with plates displayed on a high shelf.

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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Three Catz students are supporting the Cambridge Greek Play in key roles on & off stage. We interviewed them as they started rehearsing Euripides’ Ion before a run of performances at Arts Theatre Cambridge 14–17 October. Read more: caths.cam.ac.uk/gree.... Get tickets: www.artstheatre.co.u...

Sophie Ennis, Helen Brookes and Izzy Megilley

Publicity image for Ion at the Cambridge Arts Theatre on 14-17 October 2026

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Little poll, replies appreciated from UK academics who have teaching responsibilities. If you were to go on an academic writing retreat in winter/spring, when would be convenient? Reading week overlaps with half term, so not the best time for most? A long weekend? Could you escape during term?

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks to Jen our fab computer officer @cam-english-fac.bsky.social all my #SlowShakespeare blogs are back here www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... as 'projects' #StarCrossed #StormTossed #DaggerDrawn #KingedUnkinged #2Dudes1Dog #BurningBarge #InkyCloak #MoonMad. #ProdigalPrince begins 1 October!

Joseph Fiennes as Shakespeare wearing a rather grubby shirt with an unnecessarily plunging neckline. He is looking quizzically/sultrily past the inky quill which he is holding in his ink-stained fingers.

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A poster for my October lecture in Toronto!

Poster for “Joseph Brant’s Unwritten History” lecture, featuring a painting of Joseph Brant in regalia, event info, and speaker Dr. Robbie Richardson, University of Glasgow.

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Wigmore Hall @wigmore-hall.org.uk · 23/09/2026

Song at Wigmore Hall 🎶 Join us between January to March for song recitals from world-leading performers, including Huw Montague Rendall, Renée Fleming, Barbara Hannigan, Will Liverman, and so many more 💫

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

thread on the wild discrepancy between 'education' coverage of Jason Arday and of James Orr -- grim, disappointing, but not surprising.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 21/09/2026

It’s just a conference motion and only from the party with the third most seats in Parliament but it passed resoundingly and I do think that matters.

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was a tiny bit sad at not getting to review this but I could not have done better than @bobeaglestone.bsky.social, as I would simply have reached the bit about Austen scholars not knowing Frances Burney and permanently died.

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm very excited to be giving the 2026-27 W.J. Alexander Lecture in English Literature on October 15th at University College, University of Toronto! It will be called "Joseph Brant's Unwritten History: Towards an Indigenous Antiquarianism."

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Joseph Brant’s Unwritten History: Towards an Indigenous Antiquarianism | University College U of T

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My kid asked me what‘s something I teach my students and I said “That if you write what you have to say on paper then—unlike devices—no one has access to it except you and whoever else physically interacts with the paper” and you guys, it made an immediate impression

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Now, how do I kidnap Stefan Collini when he’s on campus on 12 November and get him to declare the value of universities and the importance of accountability in the Principal’s Suite for half an hour or so?

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Big kakapo news

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026

hey idk who needs to hear this but if someone in the UK dies and you're their executor, you have to file their tax return within a year of their death, not by the normal january deadline. they will not tell you this anywhere and the solicitor may tell you the wrong thing and then shrug at you

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Had such a lovely time at the Brighton launch party for Love Letters to Bookshops last night, which includes my short story Bookstore. The anthology is stuffed full of beautiful prose and poetry that will make you feel better about the state of the world www.kemptownbookshop.co.uk/shop-gYcHk/p...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Voluntary redundancy extended, *this* time with the explicit message that the now-possibly-inevitable compulsory redundancies will get smaller payoffs. Plus we’ve got a figure now that the university is trying to save, and lots of fun ways they might try to save it.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NINETY programmes, fucking hell

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Holy shit, went to a talk and signing by Mary & Bryan Talbot about their new Mary Wollstonecraft book, and ended up at the front of the signing queue; Bryan Talbot only went and did a sketch of Mary for me!!! 😮😮😮

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Edinburgh, have you received the data used to determine which courses were 'not viable'? Because Nous has a track record of (a) failing to capture the full sign-up because of varying course codes for the same course in different Schools (b) only measuring fee-capture, not cost-of-delivery.

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

LA folks! "A Semiotic Square for Violent Bear," the short film I made with @derekbjenkins.bsky.social, will be playing at the Festival of (In)appropriation at Los Angeles Filmforum on October 24th! festivalofinappropriation.com/current-fest...

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Current Festival

Premiering at Los Angeles Filmforum (2220 Arts + Archives) on Saturday, October 24 at 1pm! Further screenings to be announced. The 2026 edition of the Festival of (In)appropriation – Festival…

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I just checked and there are a couple of resale tickets available if you want to join us tonight xx

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anybody in the Ely area--I'd be thrilled to see you tonight at the first public discussion of my new book on Medea toppingbooks.co.uk/events/ely/e...

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Edith Hall at St Peter's Church

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My book REWRITING THE MECHANIC comes out in in a month! Please preorder to read the 18th-century prehistory of the tech bro (aka the way that literary speculations crafted the models of technological power that still shape our horizons of possibility) www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/rew...

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Rewriting the Mechanic

Rewriting the Mechanic examines how written descriptions, circulating across genres in eighteenth-century Britain, transformed certain mechanical arts by imagining them as newly innovative, authoritat...

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW: Llais, the health watchdog for Wales, is investigating the decision by NHS Wales’ Joint Commissioning Committee to indefinitely pause access to gender-affirming surgeries. If you have been affected - they have asked you to share this with them: www.llaiswales.org/news-and-rep...

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Update on our work regarding NWJCC’s decision to pause gender-affirming surgery | Llais

Ar ddechrau'r mis hwn, cyhoeddodd Gwasanaeth Rhywedd Cymru - a gomisiynwyd gan Gyd-bwyllgor Comisiynu GIG Cymru (CBCGC) ac a gynhaliwyd gan Fwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Caerdydd a'r Fro (BIPCAF) - y byddai ...

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

did not know! "Haring joined up with 14 high school students to paint a mural in a quiet pocket of South Philadelphia. The artist intentionally passed over better-trafficked areas of the city, instead selecting a wall on a residential building in the historically Black neighborhood of Point Breeze."

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the things that Brighton university management has decided it simply… no longer recognises? it also no longer recognises UCU or Unison? again: how is this legal!!!!

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Quite a few universities have used this tactic recently and I simply can’t understand how it is legal — do our contracts mean fuck all?

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

University HR departments really forget what *H* in their name stands for, don't they? This gaming of the rules may be legally correct it definitely isn't morally. Much love to Wolverhampton colleagues and @plashingvole.bsky.social in particular.

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Hare Lockwood @harelockwood.com · 13/09/2026

Friends fear she may yet have some unexpressed thoughts

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Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In our edition of Thomas Pennant's 1772 tour you can read his rather shocked account of these òrain-luaidh (waulking songs) on Skye "the fury of the song rises; at length it arrives to such a pitch, that without breach of charity you would imagine a troop of female dæmoniacs to have been assembled"

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Hakan Sandal-Wilson @hsw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Simultaneous operations targeting the LGBTI+ movement: Digital blackout, home raids, searches of associations, and workplace raids” #Turkey kaosgl1.org/en/single-ne...

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INFORMATION: Simultaneous operations targeting the LGBTI+ movement

Simultaneous operations targeting the LGBTI+ movement: Digital blackout, home raids, searches of associations, and workplace raids

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why, yes, your email did indeed find me well, unusually well, in fact, because you see I have recently come into possession of a very fine cask of amontillado wine. If you would kindly reserve your place on the outlook calendar to come and view it in my unorthodox cellar arrangement…

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you’re in London right now there’s still time for you to haul yourself over to Forbidden Planet and let me scrawl on your books. I’m selling this right, aren’t I?

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sapphicapuella @sapphicapuella.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Delighted and honoured that my latest #PolariCatullus versions are out in the latest edition of @PoemsforPOI. So bona to vada! #ClassicalReception #QueerClassics

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Can you believe this

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