Dr Naomi Jacobs
@ladylark.bsky.social
Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking based at @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. @blackarchive.co.uk author. She/her.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
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Dr Naomi Jacobs
@ladylark.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I believe I'm on a Doctor Who related starter pack, so if you're here for that be aware that while I did co-write two Black Archive books about the show (and an academic paper about livestreaming of classic episodes) it's not a topic I post about a lot. I won't be offended if you decide to unfollow!
If you're here off an academic pack, I do share research stuff, but I'm an interdisciplinary magpie so it's all over the place. And you might just get food pictures, or in fact Doctor Who (or other geekiness).
Also, I curate my follows quite tightly so nothing personal if I don't follow back!
Also, I curate my follows quite tightly so nothing personal if I don't follow back!
Look at this beautiful thing which has arrived from @skeuomorphpress.org! I have used this Ursula K. Le Guin essay in my teaching for several years now and I love creative things done with books and craft so it delights me on multiple levels.
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Look at this beautiful thing which has arrived from @skeuomorphpress.org! I have used this Ursula K. Le Guin essay in my teaching for several years now and I love creative things done with books and craft so it delights me on multiple levels.
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World’s biggest Doctor Who fan in 1963 watching second episode of An Unearthly Child.
Well! At least part one was good, eh?
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
World’s biggest Doctor Who fan in 1963 watching second episode of An Unearthly Child.
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My energy, always.
a man in a wig is saying i wish to go home and read a book
Alt: a man in a wig is saying i wish to go home and read a book
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
My energy, always.
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📢 We're hiring a Research Coordinator!
This new full-time position based in either Newcastle or London will support the delivery of Creative PEC’s high-profile research programme and our championing of the UK’s creative industries.
Find out more and apply:
pec.ac.uk/job_entries/...
This new full-time position based in either Newcastle or London will support the delivery of Creative PEC’s high-profile research programme and our championing of the UK’s creative industries.
Find out more and apply:
pec.ac.uk/job_entries/...
We're hiring a Research Coordinator - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Creative PEC is hiring a Research Coordinator based either in Newcastle or London. Closing date: 23/11/2025
pec.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
📢 We're hiring a Research Coordinator!
This new full-time position based in either Newcastle or London will support the delivery of Creative PEC’s high-profile research programme and our championing of the UK’s creative industries.
Find out more and apply:
pec.ac.uk/job_entries/...
This new full-time position based in either Newcastle or London will support the delivery of Creative PEC’s high-profile research programme and our championing of the UK’s creative industries.
Find out more and apply:
pec.ac.uk/job_entries/...
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my secret transgender project… @annehealthcare.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
my secret transgender project… @annehealthcare.bsky.social
I can't wait to read this!
My first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by
@lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026!
It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory.
See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.
@lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026!
It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory.
See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.
November 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I can't wait to read this!
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Eva Cheuk-Yin Li & Ka-Wei Pang close out the New Currents Articles with ""This is a deepfake!": Celebrity scandals, parodic deepfakes, and a critically speculative ethics of care for fandom research in the age of artificial intelligence"! Read it in #TWC46:
buff.ly
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Eva Cheuk-Yin Li & Ka-Wei Pang close out the New Currents Articles with ""This is a deepfake!": Celebrity scandals, parodic deepfakes, and a critically speculative ethics of care for fandom research in the age of artificial intelligence"! Read it in #TWC46:
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Now that our edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Rant About 'Technology'" is (finally!) printed, bound, packed, & with campus mail, on its way to folks, we’re making approximately 60 of the internal poster available separately
If you’d like to claim one see the order form at forms.gle/BKJQWSmcnuq8...
If you’d like to claim one see the order form at forms.gle/BKJQWSmcnuq8...
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Now that our edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Rant About 'Technology'" is (finally!) printed, bound, packed, & with campus mail, on its way to folks, we’re making approximately 60 of the internal poster available separately
If you’d like to claim one see the order form at forms.gle/BKJQWSmcnuq8...
If you’d like to claim one see the order form at forms.gle/BKJQWSmcnuq8...
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People of London! PLEASE SHARE. I lost my necklace last night (10th Nov), and I'm hoping someone has found it. I caught the Northern Line from High Barnet to Leicester Square, then walked to the Prince Charles Cinema, then the same back again. I only noticed it was gone when I got home.
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
People of London! PLEASE SHARE. I lost my necklace last night (10th Nov), and I'm hoping someone has found it. I caught the Northern Line from High Barnet to Leicester Square, then walked to the Prince Charles Cinema, then the same back again. I only noticed it was gone when I got home.
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Our account doesn't and will not promote AI fanworks or fanarts, as we value human made works of art. But if you want to know more the place of AI in fandoms, this editorial is a nice gateway to this subject ! #fanfic #fandom
Opening #TWC46's New Currents on Fans and AI, guest editors @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @ladylark.bsky.social identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom & fan studies arising from AI and suggest what the consequences might be. Read the editorial here:
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November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing.
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
October 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing.
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
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James Watson: terrible man, great Jeff Goldblum performance
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
James Watson: terrible man, great Jeff Goldblum performance
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Opening #TWC46's New Currents on Fans and AI, guest editors @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @ladylark.bsky.social identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom & fan studies arising from AI and suggest what the consequences might be. Read the editorial here:
buff.ly
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Opening #TWC46's New Currents on Fans and AI, guest editors @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @ladylark.bsky.social identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom & fan studies arising from AI and suggest what the consequences might be. Read the editorial here:
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Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
I couldn't make this event but it's great to see pictures of more sheep-making and my lovely colleagues talking to people about our Speculative Woolgathering project!
We enjoyed our time at the Festival of Social Science in Sheffield, where we asked questions about future technologies in industries like agriculture, and encouraged people to share positive messages from loved ones to explore the role that digital communication plays in our relationships.
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I couldn't make this event but it's great to see pictures of more sheep-making and my lovely colleagues talking to people about our Speculative Woolgathering project!
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I'm proud to announce my latest pin design!
These are for everyone with split pronouns who gets tired of people only referring to them one way. My lenticular pin shows different pronouns at different angles!
Please share with anyone who might like one 💖 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4396... #SciArt
These are for everyone with split pronouns who gets tired of people only referring to them one way. My lenticular pin shows different pronouns at different angles!
Please share with anyone who might like one 💖 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4396... #SciArt
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I'm proud to announce my latest pin design!
These are for everyone with split pronouns who gets tired of people only referring to them one way. My lenticular pin shows different pronouns at different angles!
Please share with anyone who might like one 💖 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4396... #SciArt
These are for everyone with split pronouns who gets tired of people only referring to them one way. My lenticular pin shows different pronouns at different angles!
Please share with anyone who might like one 💖 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4396... #SciArt
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If you were at Friday night's screening of Frankenstein at @thedukescinema.bsky.social and you picked up my scarf, could I have it back please? It's dark blue and grey, though there can't have been that many scarves lying around
November 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If you were at Friday night's screening of Frankenstein at @thedukescinema.bsky.social and you picked up my scarf, could I have it back please? It's dark blue and grey, though there can't have been that many scarves lying around
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Anyone want 4 tickets cause I‘m sick af -.-
Do I know anyone who‘d want two tickets to see the Thrilling Adventure Hour Anniversary live show this Sat Nov 1 in London? I‘m going but we‘re short 2 people
www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/the-thr...
www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/the-thr...
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Anyone want 4 tickets cause I‘m sick af -.-
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I interrupt your doomscrolling for a heartwarming update: Notre Dame, which is generally unavailable for private events, is hosting a wedding...for one of the carpenters who helped rebuilt it after the fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7D...
Notre-Dame hosts rare wedding for carpenter who helped rebuild it • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I interrupt your doomscrolling for a heartwarming update: Notre Dame, which is generally unavailable for private events, is hosting a wedding...for one of the carpenters who helped rebuilt it after the fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7D...
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It's International Animation Day. Animation professionals, quote this with something you worked on. Here's an episode of Sarah & Duck I wrote ten years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Sarah & Duck - Series 3: 1. Picture Planes
Animation for preschool children. When Sarah and Duck race paper planes, they chance upon an exciting discovery.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's International Animation Day. Animation professionals, quote this with something you worked on. Here's an episode of Sarah & Duck I wrote ten years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Flashbacks to one of the more spectacular flamewars on a Doctor Who mailing list circa 2000.
October 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Flashbacks to one of the more spectacular flamewars on a Doctor Who mailing list circa 2000.
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'Every essay will focus on a specific story (or series), asking how a fan author uses a fandom’s narratives and tropes to think beyond the themes or interests of the fannish source; or, to put it another way, to ask what is the fanfiction author using the fandom to think about?'
Oh yes, exactly
Oh yes, exactly
October 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
'Every essay will focus on a specific story (or series), asking how a fan author uses a fandom’s narratives and tropes to think beyond the themes or interests of the fannish source; or, to put it another way, to ask what is the fanfiction author using the fandom to think about?'
Oh yes, exactly
Oh yes, exactly
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Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading
If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
rb.gy/8hqqzb
If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
rb.gy/8hqqzb
rb.gy
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading
If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
rb.gy/8hqqzb
If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
rb.gy/8hqqzb