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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is an interesting and I think good take

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 13/09/2026

I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They seem to think everyone’s used Chat GPT or similar but I’ve never used it, and I think a lot of other people feel the same.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 02/09/2026

Issue 48.16 is now online, featuring: James Meek on social housing Nick Richardson on fairies Chal Ravens on slacker pop Colin Burrow on Helen Vendler Emily Witt on Rachel Cusk Lucy Wooding on Thomas Arundel and Thomas Jones on Leonardo Sciascia. Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My two cents on "less" vs "fewer" in the Telegraph. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Do your children like Greek myth? They could do worse than try my 10+ novel, THE ARROW OF APOLLO, published by Wilton Square books.

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Nobody's written about the Odyssey yet, so I did philipwomack.substack.com/p/christophe...

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Christopher Nolan's Odyssey

A review, as if you needed another

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

And a wonderful book from Clare Pollard too

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

My video with Frederick Atkinson about Shakespeare and the Great Vowel Shift will be up on YouTube this weekend.

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Apr 2, 1502: Arthur, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King Henry VII, dies aged 15 at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire. #OTD

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Want to learn more about our new Human Authored scheme? We've put together a lunchtime learning session to answer all your questions. Book now via the link buff.ly/0eHflqh #HumanAuthored

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Have you joined our Human Authored scheme yet? We've been delighted with the response so far, so thank you all for your efforts. We're processing everyone as fast as we can. Sarah Hall, author of Helm, is absolutely right; we must protect the integrity and cultural value of creators.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

PSA: if like us you are on the lookout for children's books, then @philipwomack.bsky.social's reviews for the Literary Review are available here, for free. We've had a lot of joy following his tips

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Literary Review - For People Who Devour Books

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I enjoyed my visit to Goffs School, Cheshunt, last week for World Book Day. This is the National Year of Reading and it's so important to get children into reading from as early an age as possible.

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

As we children's authors approach peak School Visit Season (World Book Day tomorrow), let us remember Alison Uttley, who once, at an event, charged through a mob of children, wielding her duck-handled umbrella, until she was asked to leave.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I made a series of videos with Frederick Atkinson about William Shakespear: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAVj...

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Shakespeare's Identity (Part 1)

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Oxfraud @oxfraud.com · 26/07/2025

422 years ago, Hamlet was entered in the Stationers Register by printer James Roberts.

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social's final column for the Telegraph - I will miss them! - but what a stonker, I agree with every word. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/victori...

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One final valedictory TV column, with some blunt advice for parents

This week, Victoria is not watching anything

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Literary Review @litreview.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Out now! Literary Review's December 2025 / January 2026 issue, featuring Peter Marshall on Holbein Sophie Oliver on Margaret Atwood Joanna Kavenna on Camus's notebooks @edwardshawcross.bsky.social on Mexico @dorianlynskey.bsky.social on George Orwell and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk

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Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

At its heart, it feels like a symptom of an industry that has insisted on the idea of personal material as intellectual property; that a book is only its blurb, that it can only do one thing, that it can be reduced to KPIs, that there's no value in prose style, no value in the very act of writing.

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Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This concept that an idea is all that matters – that writing is secondary, is an afterthought, is best outsourced to a machine – I can't get my head around it.

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Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

What do we think writing IS? What is an author? Why bother, if you don't want to write, if you are not challenged and exhausted and exhilarated and electrocuted in the doing of it?

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Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Classics Teachers! If you'd like to book a creative writing workshop for your students, aged 8-13, based on Greek myth, and combine it with an author visit, then do get in touch! My book, #thearrowofapollo is newly republished by Wilton Square Books, and is a great introduction to myth.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I loved doing this interview for Mathew

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/10/2025

‘Only in a very few cases has the journey back to sound that Kennedy writes about in relation to Hermann’s cello been possible. Most of these stories end in silence and rupture.’ Thomas Laqueur on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello’ and the instruments stolen by the Nazis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Thomas Laqueur · A Different Life: Can cellos remember?

Cellists and violinists in particular are haunted by the musicians who played their instruments before them and those...

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I very much enjoyed Chris Laoutaris' account of the making of the First Folio.

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I had a lovely message from someone who'd attended a talk which I gave at a school, in 2018. It's really true: school visits are so important. Authors, of all stripes: keep doing them! You never know what will hit home.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/09/2025

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

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Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The new Pullman has landed. THE ROSE FIELD, here we go...

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