Dr Andrew McInnes
@drbeard79.bsky.social
Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
Project MUSE - Studies in the Novel-Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2025
muse.jhu.edu
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
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Me trying to grade today
Mood!
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Me trying to grade today
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)
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So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
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🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelley’s Palimpsestic Pines
This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelley’s works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleys’ continental travels and ...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
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Life’s but a walking shadow, Charlie Brown. A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by a blockhead, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Life’s but a walking shadow, Charlie Brown. A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by a blockhead, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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About suffering he was never wrong, Charles Schulz: how well he understood its human position
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
About suffering he was never wrong, Charles Schulz: how well he understood its human position
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Just you and I, defying gravity, Charlie Brown.
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Just you and I, defying gravity, Charlie Brown.
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
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Now I want a t shirt that says "Modernism isn't real, it can't hurt you."
Modernism isn't real, it's just Romanticism again.
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Now I want a t shirt that says "Modernism isn't real, it can't hurt you."
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New Publication Alert
Palmer, Russell, et al. "A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-14.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Palmer, Russell, et al. "A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-14.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722
Published in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
New Publication Alert
Palmer, Russell, et al. "A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-14.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Palmer, Russell, et al. "A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-14.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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Ever since I started teaching Gertrude Stein, 2, 3 years ago, my life has significantly improved in the areas of experiencing brilliance and hilarity. Highly recommend.
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Ever since I started teaching Gertrude Stein, 2, 3 years ago, my life has significantly improved in the areas of experiencing brilliance and hilarity. Highly recommend.
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yo nerds
take a online class with me
read books ’n’ stuff
take a online class with me
read books ’n’ stuff
Course | Reading Johnson and Boswell with Jack Lynch | Virtual — The Rosenbach Museum & Library
Over the course of four biweekly meetings we’ll read some of Johnson’s most important works—essays, poems, fiction, travel narratives, biography—and selections from Boswell’s Life . The focus will al...
www.rosenbach.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
yo nerds
take a online class with me
read books ’n’ stuff
take a online class with me
read books ’n’ stuff
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👩🌾 Grab your tools
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
👩🌾 Grab your tools
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Positive 🦇 story!
#lovebats #Britishbats #Britishwildlife #bats
www.warwickshireworld.com/community/lo...
#lovebats #Britishbats #Britishwildlife #bats
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Local bat numbers soar thanks to Graven Hill’s conservation success
Graven Hill’s pioneering bat mitigation and conservation initiative is celebrating a huge boost this year, with its local bat roosting population almost doubling in size in just 12 months across the d...
www.warwickshireworld.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Positive 🦇 story!
#lovebats #Britishbats #Britishwildlife #bats
www.warwickshireworld.com/community/lo...
#lovebats #Britishbats #Britishwildlife #bats
www.warwickshireworld.com/community/lo...
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BAVS2026 has a shiny new website! www.ljmu.ac.uk/bavs2026! To celebrate, we are extending our CFP to December 12th. Do come and join us
British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) conference
The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History, with the Centre for Port and Maritime History, are delighted to welcome BAVS delegates to Liverpool in 2026.
www.ljmu.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
BAVS2026 has a shiny new website! www.ljmu.ac.uk/bavs2026! To celebrate, we are extending our CFP to December 12th. Do come and join us
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why is this still trending, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
why is this still trending, Charlie Brown
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You're a virgin who can't drive, Charlie Brown.
Bullshit, I bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose, Charlie Brown
We all float down here, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
You're a virgin who can't drive, Charlie Brown.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity, Charlie Brown
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In the midst of life we are in death, Charlie Brown.
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
In the midst of life we are in death, Charlie Brown.