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Michael H Whitworth
@profmhwhitworth.bsky.social
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Oxford, U.K. Prof of Modern Literature and Culture. Literature & Science, Modernism, Book History, Virginia Woolf, 1920s & 30s poetry. Also found on IG under the same name. All posts in a personal capacity.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4h
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11h
Realizing that part of the reason universities’ uncritical pushing AI into everything bothers me is that it is partly related to how little our institutions care about the humanities. Tech that might work in (some) fields does not need to be force fed to all of us. But who listens to us?
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 12h
The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.
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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 12h
I’m sorry for your loss

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 13h
This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.
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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 13h
The Nobel Prize being awarded to László Krasznahorkai is by far the best bit of news I've heard for an age. The opposite of cosy genre writing. A real thinker. An experimentalist. Every sentence on the edge of something new & unsaid. Original, discomforting, brilliant.
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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 14h
This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
www.lse.ac.uk
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 1d
"Minister rules out international student levy in Wales - BBC News"
Minister rules out international student levy in Wales - BBC News
There are plans for such a tax in England to fund maintenance grants for some students.
bbc.in
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d
'“It’s a strange mixture of feelings,” he said. “Being happy, being stressed, sometimes being overwhelmed. Living in Gaza for 27 years, then getting here and being in London, it’s completely shocking. The very basic things here are luxuries in Gaza.”'
Happy, stressed, overwhelmed: Palestinians evacuated from Gaza start their studies in UK
Abdallah, 27, and Soha, 31, describe adjusting to their new lives after leaving their war-torn home
www.theguardian.com
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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 1d
'Half my mind is still in Gaza': Evacuated teacher begins studies in UK www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Half my mind is still in Gaza': Evacuated teacher begins studies in UK
Sanaa el-Azab is one of 58 people who have been evacuated from Gaza to study at universities in the UK on scholarships.
www.bbc.com
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Reposted by Michael H. Whitworth, Nicole Guenther Discenza

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d
An unexpected archaeological discovery in Oxfordshire County Council’s proposed new HQ could transform our understanding of Oxford’s history. Madeline Odent @oldenoughtosay.com unearths a fascinating site – and floats an intriguing possibility…

oxfordclarion.uk/have-we-foun...
Have we found St Frideswide’s Priory?
An unexpected discovery at Oxfordshire County Council’s proposed new HQ could transform our understanding of Oxford’s history. Madeline Odent explains more… Oxfordshire County Council received some u...
oxfordclarion.uk
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d
This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.
Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut
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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 2d
This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.
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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 2d
A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
www.theguardian.com
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 2d
Everyone who advocates for turning the UK into the UAE assumes they'll be the one with a marina penthouse rather than the guy working on a building site in 50c heat
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Paul Cotterill @bickerrecord.bsky.social · 2d
FWIW, this is the best book on how Handsworth came together as a multicultural community in the 1960s and 1970s in the context of overtly racist government policies. Brilliant sociological study of resilience.
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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you!
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TR Virginia Woolf Topluluğu - Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey @vwoolfturkiye.bsky.social · 2d
We’re excited to kick off the new season of Woolf Seminars with Luca Pinelli’s talk. Registration is now open from the link below 👇

virginiawoolfsocietyturkey.org/etkinlikler/...
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 3d
Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem
Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 3d
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 3d
‘It’s not about skin’ says man who repeatedly refers to skin in speeches about ethnicity

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham
Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit
www.theguardian.com
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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 3d
A long shot: does anyone have an image of Iseult Gonne’s signature?

I acquired a 1930s book signed “Iseult” on the flyleaf and, as it’s an uncommon name, wondered if it had been hers.
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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d
RIP lovely Jilly Cooper, the only subject of a @backlisted.bsky.social episode to write us all thank you letters afterwards. ❤️
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d
Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88
Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88
The author of 18 ‘bonkbuster’ novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fall Jilly Cooper has died at the age of 88, her agent has confirmed. The author, whose 18 novels include Riders and Rivals, “defined culture, writing and conversation since she was first published over fifty years ago,” said her agent Felicity Blunt. “You wouldn’t expect books categorised as bonkbusters to have so emphatically stood the test of time but Jilly wrote with acuity and insight about all things - class, sex, marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility.” Continue reading...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d
Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88
Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88
The author of 18 ‘bonkbuster’ novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fall Jilly Cooper has died at the age of 88, her agent has confirmed. The author, whose 18 novels include Riders and Rivals, “defined culture, writing and conversation since she was first published over fifty years ago,” said her agent Felicity Blunt. “You wouldn’t expect books categorised as bonkbusters to have so emphatically stood the test of time but Jilly wrote with acuity and insight about all things - class, sex, marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d
The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.
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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 4d
A student in my publishing course is interested in researching book pulping and book recycling. Do we know any work or introductory material in this area?

(Work on remainders, print runs, supply chain, raw materials all relevant, too.)
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scott lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 4d
Reading MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle again. It was published 100 years ago next year. Kenneth Buthlay's annotated edition from 1987, published by @asls.org.uk, remains the best guide. The poem itself is as thrilling, ambitious and flawed as ever it was.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d
When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.
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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
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Natalie (prev “NanouTheNomad”) @drnataliestahl.bsky.social · 4d
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
⬇️ this (claiming that Jewish donors and media leaders who support democratic ideals and the Democratic Party are funding terrorism, or are “globalists” with nefarious and selfish goals) is antisemitism, and it is scary as hell
Trump sets sights on liberal megadonor George Soros: ‘A chilling message to other donors’
Billionaire ticks all the boxes on the antisemitic score card as Trump attacks Democratic contributors before midterms
www.theguardian.com
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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 4d
RIP Pat Fish, who died four years ago today
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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 11d
Six years ago, one of Pat’s first performances of this song, which transfixed me when I heard it a few months later at the Lexington. I love how the lyric plays on different senses of not knowing someone. #thejazzbutcher
The Jazz Butcher live by Cathimini
YouTube video by Cathy “Not Only R'n'R” Viale
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