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Just a few days left to submit an entry for Hakluyt Society ECR Essay Prize! Worth doing - 1st prize is £1250 & in the 2024 competition, there were only 10 entries (though they were all high quality) ... for details of how to enter (by 1/3/25) see www.hakluyt.com/category/hak... & Good luck! ⚓🏆⚓🏆⚓🏆

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On the one hand, I absolutely agree that AI poses a real danger to critical thinking and that screens are sapping interpersonal skills. On the other, I'm fascinated by how similar these apocalyptic warnings are to much older complaints about writing, printing and reading.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This offers us a helpful deadline as well, removing ourselves collectively from X. From the 21st of February, we'll be only here, but just as enthusiastic about #EarlyModern things ever, if not more. #SkyStorians

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I had already decided not to fly to two major US-based conference, mainly because of the climate crisis. But with this stripping out of the FAA, I can add that I will not fly to the States if I can't be confident there are skilled people employed to ensure aviation is as safe as it can be.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

An amazing find at York's Bar Convent. (Top tip: the cafe is also excellent!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Lisa Jardine Grants are travel grants from @royalsociety.org to support archival research & career development. Open to PhD students and EC researchers in history of science, and other interdisciplinary studies combining humanities and the natural sciences. Deadline for applications: 11 March 2025

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Deadline tomorrow!

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It's like someone took all the worst parts of the twentieth century, and put them together to make Elon Musk.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

My book has a cover! Forthcoming in September thanks to the team @pennpress.bsky.social www.pennpress.org/978151282744...

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Applications for our inky, thoughtful, fabulous and, importantly, funded, Print Matters Summer School close on Wednesday 12th February! www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Long shot, but is anyone aware of good resources / articles / analysis of the problems of DataHE? I feels as though I have seen this somewhere but don't know where to look again.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

submitted 17 days ago • 1215 comments

Thank goodness for pieces like this. But we need thousands of them, and on every platform. The lack of moral courage among the Republican party is staggering. Does not one of them have a conscience? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Using Google AI to generate taglines for Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

In which the double meaning of 'shed load' is exploited with consummate skill. www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2490434...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Aaaargh! Number day! Thinking of collapsing in a heap and sobbing right now to get it out of the way before Thursday evening...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Join us for a conference on "Textile Ecologies", intersections between textiles and the environment, and the past, present, and future of cloth, February 5-7, free online: full program and link to register: www.leuphana.de/institute/ip... #envhist #textiles #ecologies #envhum #sustainability

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Hello to Bluesky! If you work on early modern law and literature, or any aspect of early modern studies that involves the Inns of Court, follow us, look at our website and come to our online seminars. See mappinginns.wordpress.com

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

I enjoyed (if that's the right word!) this from David Mitchell. Genuinely frightening that there is an appetite for military dictatorship. And it does feel, to me, as though one of the great tricks of Trump, Johnson, et al, is to make people feel politicians are 'all the same'.

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My book "Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface" is 1 Year Old today! Currently on sale for under £21.00 I'm proud of this work and look forward to taking up some of its ideas in my new research project, "Shakespeare's Soil Imaginaries" www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Still time to submit! We've got a cornucopia of superb submissions so far -- and you can be part of it!

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The deadline for proposals for English: Shared Futures 2025 is today! Be in touch with any last-minute questions or worries -- and send on those submissions! It's shaping up to be a really fantastic event, with a host of really exciting papers and panels. www.englishsharedfutures.org/cfp

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The deadline for proposals for English: Shared Futures 2025 is today! Be in touch with any last-minute questions or worries -- and send on those submissions! It's shaping up to be a really fantastic event, with a host of really exciting papers and panels. www.englishsharedfutures.org/cfp

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

KLAXON: book giveaway coordinated by my wonderful colleagues at @cecs-york.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Tomorrow! The deadline is midnight in your timezone, wherever that may be, though healthy working practices and appropriate self-care are warmly encouraged...

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Tomorrow! The deadline is midnight in your timezone, wherever that may be, though healthy working practices and appropriate self-care are warmly encouraged...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Not enough is made of how delightful it is when your child reaches an age when, just occasionally, they find one of your jokes genuinely, overwhelmingly, laughing-for-days funny.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Three days until the deadline for English: Shared Futures 2025! Please join us for (coincidentally) three days exploring current challenges, superb teaching and research, and, above all, celebrating English Studies in its near infinite variety!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Taking some time off from marking to draft an abstract for English Shared Futures 2025. Yippee!!

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

4 days until the deadline for submissions! Be in touch if you have any queries, questions or quibbles... @englishassociation.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

4 days until the deadline for submissions! Be in touch if you have any queries, questions or quibbles... @englishassociation.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments