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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄

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Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Lecturer & Programme Leader • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 9d

This is one of the events where I’d really love to be able to read minds. What did Richard actually feel? If I were him, I’d be indignant & upset, but also probably so frustrated with the bitching that I’d just think, “you know what? Fuck it. I’m out”—esp. if he thought he would be allowed to live

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 15d

This is kinda spooky, but earlier today I was thinking of doing something like this with Volpone. Now that I think about it though, I already do Faustus, and this could be a very fun (and relatively easy) thing to add to class.

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 16d

a man is sitting on a couch with the words emotional damage written on the screen

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Sep 7

I taught Thomas for the first time last year and it was really hard to leave aside the love…

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Sep 7

My favourite genre of scholarly work is stuff inspired by an academic's childhood. This is GOLD!

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · Sep 7

My new piece on children's TV theme tunes, and how the changes in the music, lyrics, and credit sequences opening and closing shows like Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, and Thomas & Friends reflect huge shifts in the ideas and structures behind their production. 🧵

#skystorians #polisky #socsky

Changing the Tune

The evolution of the theme tunes of popular British children’s television programmes offers a useful prism for looking through at processes of ideological change and globalisation.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Sep 5

Whereas the fantasy is what is tempting me.

It was the last 50 or so pages of Yellowface that ruined it for me. So many contemporary books are let down by their rubbish endings. It’s like authors can’t be bothered to wrap things up. It’s not mysterious—it comes across as lazy!

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’m curious and wary… I want to be excited, but I was really underwhelmed by Yellowface.

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Sep 5

I think you mean 1989 (Taylor’s Version)

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is a great shout! I actually use Andrew’s Unnatural Tragedy for another module. Thanks, Lisa ☺️☺️

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Sep 1

I read this when it first came out and I still think about it, more than 15 years later. My copy has come with me around the world.

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is the first bit of news that’s made me miss living in Stafford!

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Aug 31

Oooh! That’s a great shout!!

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Aug 31

The sources need to be edited.

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Aug 31

Hivemind, I need your wisdom. My third years have an assignment where they create an edition of an early modern source. Previously, I showed them the Pulter project website, but its fanciness intimidates them (it’s well beyond what they need to do). So, I need something else to show them. Any ideas?

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Aug 24

It’s also not consistent: he has also pointed out that some signs say Bassenthwaite Village to distinguish from the lake… 🤣🙈

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Aug 24

I showed this my Cumbrian husband, and he pointed out that because most of the lakes also have towns named the same thing—i.e., when referring to Windermere or Buttermere, do you mean the lake or the village?—locals will add lake for clarity.

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Aug 22

a woman with a wig and choker says sorrows

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Aug 17

What many people on the right fail to grasp is that not everyone is obsessed with money. I’m a lecturer and literary historian because *I* want to be: I’m under no illusions that it’ll make me rich. And… that’s fine? My job supports the book and gin fund, which is really all I need 😉

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 17

but “financially better off” and “doing a job you love” aren’t synonyms. arts careers are underpaid (and that isn’t universities’ fault) but that clearly doesn’t stop people from wanting to be artists.

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Aug 16

Take the break:

a man is sitting in a chair and saying `` do it . ''

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · Aug 15

Considering getting this passage from the NYT article printed on totes for our art history majors. Too much?

Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3 percent.

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Aug 11

Oooft. I felt that like a slap.

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Aug 11

A gentle reminder: if you claim you're "too busy" to do peer review, but are still publishing peer-reviewed material, then you are--quite literally--part of the problem. If everyone else took your attitude, then you couldn't publish, either. This is especially important for senior/employed people!

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · Aug 4

I use Britney’s Work Bitch and/or TayTay’s Look What You Made Me Do.

10/10, would recommend.

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merritt @merrittk.com · Aug 3

"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you

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