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Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone know of any journals accepting poems (preferably queer leaning but I’m amenable)? all my usual spots are closed ☹️

Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · 9d

Library day- finishing up the final chapter of the thesis on queer objects in Orlando!

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 9d

It's Monday (again!), and the final #ModWrite of September. Share what you're working on with us using the hashtag.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12d

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.

Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat

In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.

www.independent.co.uk

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 16d

Gen AI has been trained and developed in ways that no university research ethics committee would approve. And yet as academics we supposedly need training in how to use it ‘ethically’…

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 16d

Did some mandatory gen AI training. Unfortunately, I was given an opportunity to provide feedback.

While the training did the job that was intended, I see it as part of the pernicious normalisation of the use of gen AI in higher education. The case studies imply that the best way to e.g. update course materials is to use gen AI. Why not just use your knowledge and experience? Major ethical issues are passed over e.g. gen AI's training on stolen data and its reliance on exploitative labour practices. Gen AI has many negatives and few positives. It is antithetical to the critical thinking that should be central to working and studying at university. It is inherently unsafe, unethical, and irresponsible. We should be discouraging its use.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22d

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · Jul 8

Goodbye #woolf2025 My first Woolf conference. Leaving with a ton of ideas of things to read and consider in my thesis.

Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · Jul 4

Pre #Woolf2025 visit to charleston

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Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · Jun 30

Just in time for the end of pride, a poem of mine in queerlings issue 9 www.queerlings.co.uk/issues

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Apr 25

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot

The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · Apr 21

Finally starting work on a ‘new’ thesis chapter (new in the sense that it was the first chapter I thought of but, two years later, am only just drafting) which means spending the day re-reading Orlando!

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · Apr 21

Happy #ModWrite or, rather, #ModRest this Easter bank holiday! Let us know what you're reading or writing today using the hashtag.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Mar 29

No grift has ever come to a dead stop like "Free Speech On Campus". Months of headlines when Oberlin changed some cafeteria wording. But when students are kidnapped and imprisoned - from universities denied billions on speech grounds - the free speech zealots roll up the medicine tent and skip town.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Mar 29

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Mar 29

This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.

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Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · Mar 27

Wondering if anyone knows where I might find a possible home for an essay on queer loneliness in All of Us Strangers and God’s Own Country, and/or a review of Charlie Porter’s Nova Scotia House (needn’t be ‘academic’)

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Mar 26

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · Mar 21

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility

In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

www.chronicle.com

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Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · Feb 22

Today’s poetry haul from @toppingsbath.bsky.social

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Jan 16

I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget

and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education

Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities

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Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · Jan 8

So excited to find out that my paper ‘“Pausing to watch the boys bathing in the Serpentine”: Sexually Dissident Bathing with Duncan Grant in Jacob’s Room’ has been accepted for the 34th Virginia Woolf conference!!

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · Dec 20

Reader: no, it's fucking not.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Dec 19

Keir Starmer, "AI is going to be transformative for the better in art, culture, industry, government, public services.. Not ten years but five"

"Getting the balance right between the potential of AI and the protection of copyright"

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Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · Nov 25

#modwrite Sat in bed and (very slowly) editing a new thesis chapter on ‘queer moments of being’

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Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · Nov 22

Come see me! Panel 9 – 4-5:30pm

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · Nov 22

📢 New Work in Modernist Studies 14 Registration Open!
🖋 Register by 28th November to join us

Provisional programme below

store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-...

For an accessible version please email info@bams.ac.uk

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Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · Nov 20

The Kelvingrove Review (Glasgow’s student run home for PGR and ECR reviews) are excited to announce our call for cover art!

Call for Artists!
The Kelvingrove Review are excited to announce our call for the cover artist of Issue 20: Transformation. We are also pleased to confirm that this will be a paid opportunity, with the chosen artist receiving £200 for their work. This is an open call to all artists and designers, you do not need to be a professional artist or studying art to be considered. We only ask that your work speaks to the theme of 'transformation' (though it is up to you how you interpret this!), and that the design be two pieces of A4 (front cover and back cover) or, one design that can be split into two.
How to apply:
Please email submissions to kelvingrovereview@glasgow.ac.uk
Submissions should consist of a brief bio, and a description of your proposed work and what its inspiration is. We also ask that you include a short portfolio (3-5 pieces) of previous work so we can get a sense of your style. You are not required to create the cover art until you are selected as the cover artist.
Deadline: 23:59, 6° December 2024.
We can't wait to hear your ideas!
The Kelvingrove Review Committee.

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · Oct 21

For #ModWrite we have a packed autumn issue of The Modernist Review.

We also bid farewell to senior editors @jenniferashby.bsky.social & Serena Wong as this is their last full issue as Reps!

Yours, Jennifer, Serena, Jung Hsin Hsieh, Jingjing Cao, & Ryan O'Shea

The Modernist Review #54

We welcome Autumn with a packed and various issue: two articles, five book reviews, an exhibition review, and an interview! This issue is the last one to be published with senior editors Jennifer A…

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