Cover of my book 'Conceiving Histories', featuring one of Anna's illustrations of a naked lady riding a fish in front of a moon. Black and white with pink and white text.
Thrilled that Anna Burel's illustrations in my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories' are shortlisted for the @vamuseum.bsky.social Illustration Awards 2026 in the Adult Factual category.
Adults like pictures too!
I dropped out of high school, gained a huge amount of often difficult life experience, then went to community college, and now I'm a professor in a prestigious university. There HAS TO BE A PLACE for non-traditional students. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
A long time ago I wrote about Ian McEwan's problematic intellectual dalliance with Brockman and Edge. Useful essay below on some of the power behind the 'just asking questions', 'biology is destiny', 'anti theory' positions that the British and US press have so cheerfully mainstreamed.
I went down a rabbit hole of emails from one of my old tutors to Epstein. It astonished me that in 2012 he wouldn't have googled the billionaire trying to schmooze him and chat about Nabokov. Or else he did google and didn't care.
Such incredible capacity to read the room.
Also, cheers UCL.
I see we're next on the list.
I'm really sorry things are so painful and difficult at the moment.
Such a pleasure to work with you, Farah!
We're looking for a new editor for @histhum.bsky.social's para-site histhum.com (founding editor @desfitzgerald.bsky.social; subsequent editors @sarahvmarks.bsky.social @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social), who will also be the journal's social media editor
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Come and work with us on project EPIC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social. We are looking for a #Philosophy postdoc with an interest in the area at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and mental health. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #philsky #jobs #epistemicinjustice
I was thinking that research baskets would be more wholesome, but then 'AHRC Basket (case)' seemed to write itself.
I'd say writers like Alex Harris and Lara Feigel write trade books that include literary analysis of materials that are sometimes still in copyright.
Go outside, rest your hand on the ground, keep very still, and you will feel a gentle thrum.
It's the entire generation of British post-1945 national leadership spinning in their graves.
Two fully funded studentships at Manchester to support research in queer and trans healthcare and creativity www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Exhausting levels of destructiveness in all parts of the sector.
Love this!
Niche UK academia question: does anyone have experience of producing accurate figures of how grants from charities contribute to university finances across a research cycle. The usual 'cost recovery' model produces anomalies. There must be other and more holistic ways of accounting for their value.
If you work in a university, please join us in signing this open letter calling on the UK government to drop the charges against Palestine Action: click through to the link at the bottom of the @versobooks.bsky.social page www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Oo - is it open?
I embarrassed myself with a non-ironic use of 'hanky-panky' only the other day.
I think it's probably not the same person, but this is amazing nevertheless! But, has nobody told these funders about surrealism, dada, uncreative writing, etc?
I think he was actually thinking about self help books that have no scientific merit, of which there are more than several, I'd wager.
Interesting how bibliotherapy discourse is fairly thoroughly stripped of the idea of education that underpinned the 'improving' twentieth-century work of the WEA, community colleges, the OU, Birkbeck, Ruskin College, etc. The aura of the medical and the NHS as the welfare state's last stand.
This is great! Did I ever tell you about an experimental psychologist once suggesting to me that you could test bibliotherapy by getting people to read books with no active ingredients? My modernist mind was pleasingly boggled.
What happens when reading books gets positioned as a health intervention? And what does this case tell us about the wider landscape of austerity therapeutics? I'm glad to have contributed to a new paper addressing these questions, led by Hayley Redman. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
good to see, more of this from everyone please
