The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here:

fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Ich denke das kann man. Habe ich jedenfalls in der Vergangenheit mit Erfolg so getan.

This review is AMAZING. Go read it if you're at all interested in rail infrastructure.

CfP: BSLS Annual Conference 2026
The twenty-first annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Strathclyde, on 9th-11th April 2026 (in person).
Details including CfP here: bsls.ac.uk/conference20...

Did you see the gramophone?

SO COOL. I did not know Lego Ideas was a thing. I like this.

As they say, when you invent the wheel, you invent the parking violation.

But Assyrians had a solution.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...

JOB KLAXON (fully funded PhD in Environmental Humanities in the literary studies department at Ghent University)

Babbel is fantastic!

Yaaay, you're warching the Pitt! How are you finding it so far?

Martian tripods on the VPR! I wonder why... 😁

A moment of silence for all the informative footnotes that simply have to go. Your minutiae will live on in my memory in place of more useful things forever. 😢

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

It's out! 🥳 My 2024 Rosemary VanArsdel Prize-winning essay on the differences between the serialised and book versions of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds has just appeared in the Victorian Periodicals Review. If you're interested in science, genre, and serial novels' audiences, check it out 👇

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

This looks absolutely fabulous. Wish I could be a fly on the wall!

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Could do it with texts from multiple genres (heavily annotated Arden Shakespeares, I'm looking at you), so that part of the puzzle is to figure out what type of writing the annotations are from, what annotations are typical of plays, poetry, etc.

This sounds great, and I think would translate to historicist literary criticism fairly well

@jonmcgregor.bsky.social 's short story "Supplementary Notes To The Testimony of Appellants B & E" would relate well to this exercise in terms of thinking about both citation and narrative from the margins.

This is absolutely beautiful, Millie!