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#envhum folks! The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards! Deadline: 31 March 2025 More information ⤵ environmentalhumanities.org

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Parenthood fundamentally falls apart as a show because siblings Peter Krause and Lauren Graham have insane sexual chemistry

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Now it's available for pre-order, I can announce Phantoms of Kernow: Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall will be released by the British Library Tales of the Weird series in June! The sequel to Cornish Horrors will include a whole new set of terrifying Cornish tales.

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New website joanpassey.co.uk Please share yours below? I love seeing academic/writer websites!

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I seem to have started a Starter Pack to my surprise - please join if you wish - let me know:

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Ooh... the Royal Observatory in Greenwich have made a guide to some of the celestial highlights visible in the UK this winter, with some live observing (recorded a couple of days ago). Take a look & enjoy the sky! www.youtube.com/watc... More about Royal Museums Greenwich: https://www.rmg.co.uk

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Literary groups, publishers, and and professional writers' orgs issue joint statement condemning Donald Trump's recent anti-trans executive order www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Download your FAFSA, Financial Aid, Student Loan payment history, PSLF Information, and other important Department of Ed documents today ahead of the shutdown! www.reddit.com/r/Professors...

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Facebook has started advertising a perfume called Jouissance at me - I was weirdly thrilled when I misread the tag line as ‘literary criticism, captured in scent’. Mmmm, the sweet sweet smell of The Anxiety of Influence

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Even if you don’t know and love someone who is trans, you better stand up against this. The end of gender affirming care for trans folks is also the beginning of the end of medical abortion, HRT, and gender affirming care for cis kids. We all rise or fall together. Stand up.

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2025 upcoming/recent releases spreadsheet of dark post-punk, goth rock, darkwave, ethereal wave, coldwave, and deathrock 🖤🦇💀

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DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS: they are using #DEI the way #Nazis used ‘un-German.’ When the right says DEI what they mean is ‘the other’ and that’s how they target immigrants, women, people of color, Jews, #LGBTQ, ♿️, and anyone who supports or protects the vulnerable and marginalized. WE ARE AT WAR already

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Feeling flashy with your writing? Then Dr Charlotte Baker's look at flash fiction this February could be just the thing for you - a short course for the short form! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fl...

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If you’ve ever wanted to hear me queen out about Wuthering Heights, a novel I adore, this new edition with a convo between @noreenmasud.bsky.social and I will be out in July. OR you can subscribe now and receive all these books throughout the year. What a gift!

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“The US was considered a world leader in public health. With one repressive stroke that reputation risks being shattered & broken. If anything is forbidden now, it is that medical & science journals, whose duty is to stand for integrity and equity, should bow to political or ideological censorship.”

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Buffy's back and the new fantastic four movie is a retro period piece? It's a good day to be me

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Hardly a better time for the inaugural National Humanities Lecture,School of Advanced Study, University of London. @davidolusoga.bsky.social underlined the importance of archives & records in public history. Nice mention of Raph Samuel who did a lot for public history w/ History Workshop

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fantastic and important lecture #skystorians #publichistories #importanceofthehumanities youtu.be/hbdDwDCZ2s0

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Giggling and kicking my feet at Great British Menu dishes based on Humphrey Davy and my beloved Cornish botanist Elizabeth Warren!!!

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HahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahHahah deep breath Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahah

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i can't breathe. i am openly weeping. is this real

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We’re gonna keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club 💕🐴

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CFP Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event May 14 2025. Please see the poster for further information, and please spread the word! @ihr.bsky.social

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Where can you get Tudor Gothic, Women's apocalyptic writing, monster-f**king, deadly dance, folklore and landscape, doppelgangers, horror theatre, grave-diggers, horror-making on a budget, Poe and Mesmerism, Gothic tourism and more all in one place? romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...

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History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025. Our 4th online session on the 4 March will focus on Podcasting for Historians with @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, @deannalyncook.bsky.social, @rozierhistorian.bsky.social, Samuel Hume and Izzy Conn. www.history.ac.uk/events/podca...

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I put together this starter pack for Ghost Story, Horror and Gothic Creatives. Lots of gaps and omissions, I'm sure! But it's a start(er)! Do follow and share :) go.bsky.app/47FnWrm

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Academics studying LGBTQ+ history, gender studies, and social movements would find immense value in these translated texts. Primary source material sheds light on the early #GermanGayMovement Magnus Hirschfeld #MagnusHirschfeld #Transgender & #lgbtqStudies www.amazon.com/author/lomba...

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Am sure this piece is well intentioned. But if you seek to analyse the pushback against (eg) trans people without acknowledging the vast sums the political right spends demonising them you will draw many false conclusions. 🧵 on.ft.com/4ha0Cyt

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Are there any good online creative writing courses? How did you start creative writing? I'm not in the position right now to be able to do a full qualification but any recommended resources are so welcome! Books? MOOCs?

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A chef on the Great British Menu making an apple themed dessert to commemorate Alan Turing is repugnant and I'm not sure how this has aired

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This absolute beast is coastal gothic, wellness gothic, celebrity cultures gothic, and I think it may have been made just for me.

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On Sunday, the wonderful @folklorepod.bsky.social will be featuring an episode where we talk all things Bunika - vampires, mythology, Slovakia and beyond! 🇸🇰 Please follow the channel and keep an eye out for when it is available 🖤🦇🖤

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If you are in Bristol and want to hear me talk about sex you are in luck. I will be giving a talk called "What Every Medievalist Should Know About Medieval Sex and the Law" at the CMS Research Series on 27 February from 16:00-17:45. Arts Complex Research Room 6. Yay!

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This week my employer of 17 years English Heritage announced 200 jobs lost, and my Alma mater Cardiff Uni announced 400 jobs lost. The planning system that protects our heritage and provides thousands of archaeology jobs is at risk, and Higher Education is in free fall more generally #ThisIsFine

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Happy publication day to @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social and THE LAMB. This book made me feel hungry and sick at the same time - and we talk all about it (ALL about it!!) on next week’s episode.

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Student Research Festival 2025! An amazing showcase of our fabulous student work! @bristoluni.bsky.social #StudentResearch #academia #university #highereducation

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What I will say is that if you’re concerned by this news as a member, as a fan of any of EH’s properties, or simply as someone who likes to walk around ruins, country houses and prehistoric sites, please write to English Heritage to say so. Your voice matters the most.

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the absolute moral clarity and bravery of this letter is something to behold

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Lovely people of bluesky, what are your podcast recommendations? I enjoy things about queer history, comics, horror, and cinema on the whole but am open to trying some new things. Tell me what's making your ears happy!

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Teaching Dracula today! Asking students to think of the 'anatomy of the vampire' then link those recognisable motifs to possible social/cultural fears and anxieties!

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I didn't have my peanut butter this morning and now I am raging with hunger before 10am

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I have had to stop the steady trickle of little treats as they were bankrupting me and I can confirm that life is less worth living

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