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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Very excited to have a chapter in this wonderful new collection on Ray Bradbury where I get to talk about one of my (and Bradbury's) favourite things in the whole world: Halloween!! Huge thanks to @kevinwetmore.bsky.social for asking me to contribute 🎃 www.peterlang.com/document/149...

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

school administrators implementing canvas for every use case

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween 🎃 Our new interdisciplinary series, Manchester Studies in the Supernatural, launches today. If you work on ghosts 👻, witches 🧙‍♀️, demons 😈, or other spooky beings, please do reach out. @devilprof.bsky.social @mikkibrock.bsky.social @vetur.bsky.social ‪‪@manchesterup.bsky.social‬

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Ha! This is such a William Castle strategy.

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Harley Ramsey @harleyramseywriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

40 years ago today Concerts and their atmosphere that are simply unforgettable. Bad Brains, Wabash Hall, October 11, 1985, San Diego, California #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Nice to finally see a bit of good news.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Literally the only thing all the people of Ireland can agree on.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Something about a camel and the eye of a needle ...

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Except that PhDs can actually think, as opposed to simply producing responses based on data patterns. Tech bros are a fucking plague on humanity.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If there's one thing I learned from reading Please Kill Me, it's that almost no one knew how to play an instrument or sing when they started their band.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If I had any musical talent, it would definitely be the name of my riot grrrl band.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

PhD-level experts? Literally every student essay I've marked (and failed) that's been produced by AI reads like one of the following: A) A spoiler-free IMDb review B) Advertising copy C) A vague non-apology by a celebrity on the verge of cancellation

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Also the phrase "initial brassiere" is just hilarious. "Hello, I would like to purchase an initial brassiere" 😂

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

You mean the profound mortification of going to M&S with your mum to get fitted for a bra and hoping to god no one from school sees you. Why must TERFs cling to such saccharine, idealised notions of essentialist femininity?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

*Academics in early August

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Jesus and the Devil, caught at a Coldplay gig

A medieval artwork, in colour, which depicts a scaly, brown devil (who has chicken feet, a tail and visible vertebrae) carrying Jesus away into the hills. Jesus is a pale-skinned man with brown hair and beard, wearing an orangey robe. He has a strangely stiffened posture, as if paralysed.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

If this wasn't like 2 months' rent...

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

This might be Andrea's Christmas present this year.

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Ginevra Bianchini @bianchiniginevra.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Tomorrow at the @tlrhub.bsky.social! Looking forward to this 🤓📚

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

UPenn site has been updated, so you can now find our CFP for the Horror Studies special issue on women and horror here: cfplist.com/CFP/44405 @intellectbooks.bsky.social @melanieamarotta.bsky.social

cfplist.com

The CFP List

An academic call for papers database.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

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Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic

Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Academic-style essays (so like theory, citations, bibliography), but contributors don't need to be academics.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I am so excited to be working on this special issue of Horror Studies with @melanieamarotta.bsky.social Send more cops, or, you know, abstracts.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

@melanieamarotta.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies on post-2010 horror texts by women. Abstracts due August 1st call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

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a woman wearing a black hat with a white flower on it

ALT: a woman wearing a black hat with a white flower on it

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Dr. Melanie A Marotta @melanieamarotta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Our call for papers is out! @middleagewitch.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies: Women and Horror @intellectbooks.bsky.social Abstract submission date: August 1, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu

cfp | call for papers

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This is also my bedtime reading at the moment. I hear all of his sections in Gordon Cole's voice.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Hail, Satan! Very excited to see that my edited collection on Satanism and feminism in popular culture is now up on the AUP website. I worked with some amazing people on this collection, and I can't wait to see their work out in the world. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture

Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture: Not Today Satan constitutes a timely and necessary intervention in the academic study of Satanism. At the same time, the book also constitutes a vital additio...

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

My little toddler brain was like, wow, this America place is so amazing. All these people who look and sound different living together and doing math. What a world!

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Ironically, as a child, Sesame Street was probably my introduction to US media, so my initial vision of the US was one of community solidarity and racial equality.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It's hard enough to see a beloved pet fall ill without having to worry about incurring debt to save them.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If you want to hang with some fantastic American Studies scholars (and generally awesome people), we will be accepting abstracts for the IAAS annual conference (April 24-26) until tomorrow evening. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu

cfp | call for papers

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Very excited to be heading up to Dublin to witness the resurrection of the Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies (and give a keynote). @irishgothichorror.bsky.social

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Great job launching the book! You spoke/read so well.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Huge congratulations to BA English graduate Kel Menton, who launched their debut novel A Fix of Light last night in Dubray Cork. I know that everyone here in the English Department is so proud of their achievement.

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Horror Queers @horrorqueers.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

FYI (And yes, this counts as activism - so stop doomscrolling and get it done)

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