Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialMichael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social · 29/05/2025As it's Chesterton's birthday I'd be remiss not to re-up this blog post. One thing I've tried to convey in all my work on Father Brown is how sophisticated, searching, and strange it is: the reverse of cosy. The same applies with the demonic bestiary he assembles here to convulse an Oxford college. 021
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Is there anything better to read, when you’re poorly, than p g Wodehouse? 030
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Crikey tana French is such a good writer, isn’t she? 000
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialEmily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated. 3129102
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialRia Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Would appreciate a signal boost (and please consider yourselves!) 14th May deadline @profsimonjjames.bsky.social @markbould.bsky.social @drspider666.bsky.social @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social @emmas.bsky.social @noreenmasud.bsky.social @earlymodlancs.bsky.social @the-polyphony.bsky.social 0106
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialAidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 08/05/2025The call for MSCA postdoc fellowships is out and the deadline is 10th September. More generally, people should apply! More specifically, if you'd like to come work in York with me I'm happy to support applications from awesome people 🙂marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.euPostdoctoral FellowshipsThe information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them. 088
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialProf Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 07/05/2025New Research! @creativepec.bsky.social state of the nation on "Arts, Culture and Heritage: Recent Trends in UK Workforce and Engagement in England" pec.ac.uk/state_of_the... (will do a summary 🧵 later this week)pec.ac.ukArts, Culture and Heritage: Recent Trends in UK Workforce and Engagement in England - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence CentreA State of the Nations research report into arts and culture engagement in England and the arts and culture workforce. 0116
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialRos Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Or to put it another way, overseas students now subsidise the cost of teaching each UK undergraduate by an average of £2,500 each. Take them away and you've got an absolutely existential crisis for universities. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...prospectmagazine.co.ukHow universities were sent over the edgeUK higher education institutions did as the government asked and took on more students. Now many face collapse 27485259
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialProf Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 05/05/2025The Bee includes this thebeemagazine.com/publishings-... by me! Asking what’s changed since the landmark publication of @kitdewaal.com’s Common People & highlighting some new @creativepec.bsky.social research toothebeemagazine.comPublishing’s Class ProblemWhen you’re a child, your social class doesn’t determine how good you are at reading and writing. Yet half of our published writers are from middle-class backgrounds, and only 10 per cent are working ... 02210
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Killing off the university sector once and for all for a politcal battleground which Labour will never win… instead of reclassifying the immigration statistics as we always should have to reflect the fact the vast majority of foreign students leave the UK. Stupid. Unserious. Utterly self-defeating. 20517193
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialProf Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 30/04/2025All welcome! I’ll be presenting some amazing new data with a focus on local authority level insights! 022
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/04/2025I've long said that my ideal birth plan is to turn up to to hospital with "one of every drug then open me up like a pinata" written in permanent marker across my face 1321
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 26/04/2025media.tenor.comthree women are sitting in a car with one saying get in loser we 're going shoppingALT: three women are sitting in a car with one saying get in loser we 're going shopping 000
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 25/04/2025opening sentence of a piece in student newspaper where I work: 'Have you heard of the band Prefab Sprout? If you haven’t, you probably weren’t raised by cool parents who grew up in the 80s' 020
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 25/04/2025box is set - I'm looking forward to this - thank you for the recommendation 120
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialDavid Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Wow! @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social is screening this Turn of the Screw prequel, the only film to star Marlon Brando and Thora Hird + Stephanie Beacham. Alas, it’s “directed” by Michael Winner “with its over-insistent use of the zoom” and “its unerring eye for the wrong camera set-up.” Unmissable. 2113
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Victorianist here, mate. Lots of words = lots of happy 020
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I am thrilled for you and jealous on my own part! 100
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Really enjoyed this- you did the novel justice! 120
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Yes . It’s great stand up, but it’s notion of ‘creativity’ no longer holds up as well 000
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialSimon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 03/04/20252 new posts in English Literature in our School of Critical Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social: * Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... *Lecturer in Postcolonial or Indigenous Literature www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... #AcademicSky 03028
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Very pleased to discover, 35 years after the event, that there is a second Frasier Chorus album 000
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 20/03/2025My honour and pleasure to lead on this important review of children’s creativity. Please read and share!! 011
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialClare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 12/03/2025My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word! 18873
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Also lols caused by Celia on mine today as well!! 110
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Speed reading Marie corelli in Starbucks 010
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 09/03/2025New creativity report - much work has gone into this! 001
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...compneurosci.comNeuro4Pros summer schoolNeUroscience Computational LEAdership Retreat (NUCLEAR): happiness and success 713674
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialUK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 31/01/2025MY WIFE WENT TO INDIA AFTER READING A CLASSIC NOVEL ABOUT IT FORSTER? NO - SHE WENT OF HER OWN ACCORD!!!!!!!! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ 126310
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Amanda Craig, a vicious circle? 000
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 31/01/2025are we all listening to the new Gemma Hayes album? It's a banger 010
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 20/01/2025@ecourtem.bsky.social finally caught up with your podcast episode and I absolutely loved it!! Durham comparison was brilliant, and the episode title… chefs kiss!! 120
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I've just started Dark. WOW. 130
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialKate Macdonald 📚 🧶 @kateem.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Have spent an hour checking and scheduling the massive price drop for the Grand Closing Sale of Handheld Press online. Starts tomorrow, folks. Get in line. 💙📚 www.handheldpress.co.ukhandheldpress.co.ukHomepage - Handheld PressHandheld Press sells wonderful stories from the past and the present. Our books are beautiful, designed and laid out with care. 11114
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialHugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 10/01/2025First obituary of Eleanor Maguire Fitting that it comes from a neuroscience community publication. Very grateful to Calli McMurray for writing this lovely piece on who Eleanor was and what she achieved in her dazzling career: 29628
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Finding Elden Ring quite stressful. When I was Spiderman, everyone wants to high-five me. Here, EVERYONE wants to kill me. 110
Reposted by @profsimonjjames.bsky.socialJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Good cheap price currently on the hardback of Be Funny Or Die, if you're an Amazon person... amzn.eu/d/fWrmUv9amzn.euBe Funny or Die: How Comedy Works and Why It MattersBuy Be Funny or Die: How Comedy Works and Why It Matters 1 by Joel Morris (ISBN: 9781800183100) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 263
profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Ugh. This is my favourite film of this book 000