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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 5d

Not a bad place for my first keynote in Spain! ☀️ 🌊

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Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · 12d

Did you see your friend's book at the store? Email them a pic! See them cited? Email them (esp. as aggregators fail to catch many citations)! Did a scholar mention their work! Email them! Did a student use their work in a paper? Email! Did a professor teach their work? Email! Email! All the time!!!

Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · 12d

Friends tell other friends when they see their work out in the world. Just got an email about my book and it made my day.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 12d

Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12d

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net

A post from Feeding the

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British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you to all who joined. Stay tuned for more “America Now!” sessions coming up!

Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 12d

Season 2 of “America Now!” launches at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. We talked about the long history of Americans aboard, from Jefferson to Emily in Paris.

Co-hosted by the Eccles Institute and @officialbaas.bsky.social! Come join us for the next one.

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 12d

Season 2 of “America Now!” launches at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. We talked about the long history of Americans aboard, from Jefferson to Emily in Paris.

Co-hosted by the Eccles Institute and @officialbaas.bsky.social! Come join us for the next one.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 14d

"you are the ones with the most to lose. My colleagues & I may have to leave this cherished institution & that would be a great loss for us. But we have already lived lives of consequence and can find other pursuits. You, however, would lose the education you deserve." 🔥
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Anonymous Texas A&M professor calls on students to be ‘agent of change’

Editor's note: The following is an open letter to the Texas A&M student body written by a tenured professor at A&M and provided to The Battalion. The pr

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16d

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 20d

UK meritocracy and social mobility update from The Guardian

Bar chart with blue bars:

Privately educated people dominate the UK's most influential roles
Professions with the highest independent school attendance
Armed forces* 63%
Senior judges 62%
Cricketers, men 59%
Young power list** 54%
Diplomats 53%
House of Lords 52%
Shadow cabinet 52%
Cricketers, women 50%
Columnists 50%
FTSE 100 chairs 47%
Political commentators 47%
Permanent secretaries 47%
Whole UK population 7%

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 25d

The Holocaust denier who has spent the last four years waging social violence against trans people and set up a BILLION POUND fund to wage lawfare against innocent people is now quoting Mein Kampf. But sure, tell me I need to widen my tent for people who disagree with me.

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J.K. Rowling❤ @jk_rowling · 11h
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If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe... x.com/i/web/status/1...
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X''D'Y @tzippylavi 10h Do you include Hitler in that?
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@jk_rowling · 10h
Many who scream 'fascist' at opponents
fully endorse his methods.
"The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence."
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf.
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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you!

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Sep 8

BREAKING: At least 32 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 19 people in Gaza City alone, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/cc3zz6

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Sep 4

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

www.irishtimes.com

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · Aug 31

Oh hey I’m in this collection! Thanks to Loic and Chris for being fantastic editors!

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · Aug 31

My new book - co-edited with Loïc Bourdeau - is now out with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Use code NEW30 if buying on the EUP site. Please ask your libraries to order this in, we’d really appreciate it!

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · Aug 28

111/NHS direct is a joke. Having to misgender yourself to the people there for no reason is outright humiliating. It's designed to put trans people off reaching out for healthcare support.

There were years of surveys that worked on finding respectful ways to gather this information, disregarded.

NHS

111 online

What was your sex at birth?

Female

Male

This online triage depends on knowing your registered sex at birth, not your gender identity.

If you are doing this for someone else, tell us their sex at birth if you know.

We need to know this information so we can ask relevant clinical questions.

If you feel uncomfortable giving this information, or do not see an option that represents you correctly, you can call 111 to talk to a nurse.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · Aug 27

NEW: After numerous tragedies, OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations, escalating to human readers, and contacting law enforcement where necessary

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OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Aug 22

New from @edinburghup.bsky.social The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel, edited by Loïc Bourdeau and @cilloyd.bsky.social, “provides a compassionate, capacious and complex analysis of the over-discussed but under-analysed concept of the millennial and its relationship to long-form fiction”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 18

What the actual fucking fuck. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

One of the most notable tools is the AI grader agent, which Grammarly says can provide feedback based on uploaded course details and “publicly available” information about the instructor. The bot can give tailored writing recommendations and estimate what grade the paper will receive in its current state, helping students make improvements prior to submission.

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · Aug 9

For the last time: ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is an aggregate, made to spit nonense information back to you. This is why it cannot be used in an academic context.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · Aug 9

New update on author withdrawals from the Polari Prize in protest of the inclusion of a proud transphobe

From the First Book longlist: Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire

From the main award longlist: Rhian Elizabeth

the Polari Prize First Book longlist, with Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu and Ciara Maguire crossed out as they've withdrawn

The Polari Prize Longlist with Rhian Elizabeth crossed out as she's withdrawn

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fuck this

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Aug 7

I have literally never used ChatGPT to do anything. Gonna start a chastity club.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Aug 6

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · Aug 4

I am not a lawyer, so please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell the new legislation in place to protect 'free speech' prohibits any university from censuring any professor from dedicating class time to promulgating misogyny, racism, transphobia, homophobia, antisemitism,

The duty to secure freedom of speech includes (as relating to academic staff) securing academic freedom. The Act defines academic freedom, in relation to academic staff at a registered higher education provider (or constituent institution), as their freedom within the law:
to question and test received wisdom, and
to put forward new ideas and controversial or unpopular opinions

without placing themselves at risk of being adversely affected in any of the following ways:

loss of their jobs or privileges at the provider;
the likelihood of their securing promotion or different jobs at the provider being reduced.

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