@jmcoghlan
Senior Lecturer in C19 AmLit at the University of Manchester. Editor: Cambridge Companion to Literature & Food (CUP, 2020). Author: Sensational Internationalism (EUP, 2016). UCU NEC member representing members in the NW. She/her.
Worth forever reiterating that most of the "long" novels of the 19th century were not received as long at the time, but generally as subdivided shorter works, sometimes something we would consider more like a comic book than a terrifying doorstop.
The US has, in slightly over a year, torched what was once one of the best repositories of legal talent (the DOJ) in favor of...uh...total hacks now struggling under an impossible workload made all the more impossible by an administration that is acting without even the faintest color of law.
A quick reminder that we'll be joined by Joe Davidson tomorrow for a special talk hosted by the EACW Radical Formations and Cultural Materialisms research group. We'd love to see you there!
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.
“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.
The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
(Published Jan. 2026)
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I can’t believe how stupid everything is
Congratulations, Andre! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
A stack of paperback books. The book is Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination
#Audiofuturism is here!!!!
fordhampress.com/audiofuturis...
@fordhampress.bsky.social
Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.
No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.
President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday that a demand by the U.S. for an unconditional surrender is a "dream that they should take to their grave." He also apologized for Iran's attacks on regional countries. n.pr/4ueThEP
“They have been given notes on their roles, and the director wants them to sound tough, even when their words reveal that they’re terrified of things like cities and trans people and the Spanish language.”
Really useful, unifying paper and lovely to see the motion to HESC approved unanimously by our HEC. So much more of this, please! #UCU
What if I told you autism doesn’t need a cure tho
“What happens to a young scientist whose primary mentor is an artificial intelligence?”
In Mary Shelley’s novel, Victor Frankenstein had no mentor. In del Toro’s adaptation, a bad mentor. In real life, what will happen as students turn to AI for support?
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
Headline and subhed of Washington Post op-ed arguing that there should be more representation of evangelical Christians on the Supreme Court and other government institutions.
I’m currently writing a book about what’s really wrong with #SCOTUS and how to fix it.
Suffice it to say, this ain’t it:
Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...
It's the middle of the night in Chicago. Reporters and electeds are trying to figure out why a US citizen was detained by CBP, why her phone was inside an ICE detention center tonight, and where she is now.
Also unclear what happened to the other five people she was detained with at O'Hare airport.
In my U.S. Civil Rights Movements class, we spend a lot of time thinking about historical memory. When movements get reduced to a few iconic leaders, the collective labor that made change possible disappears from view. It also obscures an important lesson: collective action is effective & difficult.
We were interviewed as part of the research for the Brexit Couples project, housed at Bristol, report now out: I burst into tears during the interview and apparently that happened fairly often - brexitcouples.ac.uk/publications...
“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
Keeping all fingers and toes for you and the job search.
Can’t wait for Joe P. L. Davidson's upcoming talk at Manchester next week!
‘After the Burning Age: Green utopianism, climate catastrophe, and retooling the apocalypse’
📍 Ellen Wilkinson C1.18, 11 March 4-6 pm
In the meantime, worth revisiting Joe’s blog for the Sociological Review:
You will be so missed, Jo! I hope NEC gets you back someday.
Absolutely BEAMING at this. So proud of all our candidates and those we supported #UCU
A fitting pick for International Women's Day also! #IWD
She just justified my maximalist tendencies 🌺💐🌸🪻🪷 💃🏿 🪡🧵🧶🎨🖌️👩🏾🎨🌺💐🌸🪻🪷
Many thanks to one of my PhD students for making me aware of @peoplesletters.bsky.social
esp Jack Parker's Hooker Mentality
Just made a decent-sized order! 🏳️🌈📚🏳️⚧️
Great thread! Great points!
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.
