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noreenmasud.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️‍🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈‍⬛ rep: @mfredturner
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one of those books you recommend to a friend so strongly that when she loves it too and wants to talk about it every day, you've now decided to read it again (3rd time)... @noreenmasud.bsky.social

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

always the wide stance

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

Maybe you should talk to some artists, Lisa? They'll tell you about the impact of government funding. Honestly this government are plumbing new depths. To talk about "virtue signaling" in what's a pathetic attempt to signal you're "anti-woke" or some such nonsense is hypocritical and dense.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The data isn't as simple as any of these consultancies like to present it as; and paying them a lot of money doesn't mean they're capable. And yet, all our managers are enthralled with them, despite their track record of failure, and despite HAVING ACTUAL EXPERTS ON PAYROLL.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

'Saqi Books is also launching #BooksellingIsNotACrime Day on Saturday, with booksellers invited to put on events, donate a percentage of their profits to the fundraiser or create displays of Palestinian literature.' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 This Saturday, industry bodies are coming together in support of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop. Events, readings & displays of Palestinian literature. Join & follow events through: #BooksellingIsNotACrime Pls also spread the word about this fundraiser for The Educational Bookshop ⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

read, weep and - especially if you're a parent of students - protest voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is the future for Britain's universities: far more AI, much more 'curated learning' (AKA few or no optional modules), all services centralised, nowhere near as many academics. You know the worst thing about that? It won't even relieve most of the financial pressure.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Imagine how much effort you have to put into looking at the terrible state of the arts in Britain and then deciding that it must be protests and boycotts that are responsible rather than wilful neglect and underfunding.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

turns out you can totally baffle, floor and amaze your criminal cats by simply placing a treat under a sheet of paper

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

honest to god I really am trying to work

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I wish more people took the time to educate themselves on the completely asymmetrical bad faith with which alleged "free speech" organisations attempt to make martyrs out of assholes. Sometimes overtly abusive assholes.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The redundancies that aren't as visible in the numbers but that sure as hell are visible in classrooms & careers of colleagues we've lost this way. These letters @theguardian.com are what they've been trying to publish since Chakrabortty's piece on QMUL in 2023 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Next Wednesday (26/2) @chrisjpearson.bsky.social will be joining us to deliver the CEH Annual Lecture on his new book Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog. The lecture will take place in the Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol at 5-6.30pm. All welcome!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

on the hunt for (other) faceblind writers and artists - if you are one, or know one, let me know!

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Four pages into a prestigious new nature book and the heavy sense of Will This Do is already pervading my reading experience.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Another PDF request! Would anyone have access to Yosef Kaplan, An Alternative Path to Modernity: The Sephardi Diaspora in Western Europe (Brill, 2000)? I'm interested in chapter 7, 'The Jewish Profile of the Spanish-Portuguese Community of London During the Seventeenth Century'. Thank you!

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

the internet suggested I put double-sided tape on countertop to repel cat. length of delay of cat crimes: 0 min. time taken to get double-sided tape off counter: 1 hour 17 min.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments