Dr Rhonda Mayne
@drrmayne.bsky.social
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PhD in Philosophy (English literature), specialising in Virginia Woolf & radical aesthetics. Explore my work @ https://sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne/current-projects
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earlymodlancs.bsky.social
"Academic mental health is now a serious problem"

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politicalquarterly.bsky.social
There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
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litsalon.bsky.social
A 5 x Zoom study of WHAT MAISIE KNEW. In Maisie’s world, love is conditional, truth is fragmented, and care is a performance. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/what... #HenryJames #WhatMaisieKnew #LiteraryFiction #Modernism #BookClub
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vwoolfturkiye.bsky.social
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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ghostpanther.bsky.social
It’s almost disorienting to see something this nakedly wonderful put in place by a non Scandinavian Western government in 2025.

Way to go Ireland.
mikeachim.bsky.social
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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vwoolfturkiye.bsky.social
Richard Kennedy, Map of the Hogarth Press

London: Heinemann, 1972.

Private Collection.

#virginiawoolf #hogarthpress
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vwoolfturkiye.bsky.social
We’re picking up right where we left off as the 2025 Fall Term Woolf Seminar Series gets underway!
All seminars will be held online and conducted in English.
Registration details will be shared ahead of each talk. Stay tuned! #virginiawoolf #woolfseminars
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'Much of the exhibition focusses on ostraca – pieces of stone or pottery – that were picked up by a worker and written or doodled on like ancient reused envelopes.' At the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge from 3 October.
Cats, coffins and sick notes: discovering Egypt’s forgotten workers in broken pottery
Cambridge exhibition showcases the lives of skilled workers who built some of the most famous sites in ancient Egypt
www.theguardian.com
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mirthworm.bsky.social
Glad to see she’s working again.
Thriftbooks email preview reading: “Pre-Order the Latest From Virginia Woolf”
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lawrentian.bsky.social
2 years ago I worked on a project to restore a 1920s WHS railway station bookstall. It was in pieces & in a bad state. A colleague & I found old photos of it in the WHS archive at @themerl.bsky.social which helped the restoration work. Look at it now👇 Full story www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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lawrentian.bsky.social
It seems to me more & more clear that the only honest people are artists, & that these social reformers & philanthropists harbour so many discreditable desires under the disguise of loving their kind, that in the end there's more to find fault with in them than in us.
Virginia Woolf, D1, p. 293.
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tumblrr.bsky.social
from the diary of lady ottoline morrell, 1926, with virginia woolf and ts eliot
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#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

Submit free via Submittable 👇
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New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...
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emilarchambault.bsky.social
Is it morally the wrong thing to do? Yes.
Is it bad for the country and the economy? Also yes.
Will it harm UK students? Also yes.
Is it also a bad move politically that will disproportionately harm Labour's own constituencies? Also yes.

There is absolutely no reason to do this. Pure destruction.
katherineschof8.bsky.social
I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.

This tax will kill us.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Student visas crackdown and new levies to cause ‘£1.8bn loss’ to UK economy
The Government has proposed a 6 per cent tax on international student tuition fees and a reduction in graduate visas
www.standard.co.uk
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moderniststudies.bsky.social
Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
"Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students" - imagining a lot of staff there pretty upset about, but also it says much about OpenAI's education strategy that it's targeted Oxford as its first institutional capture in the UK www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff
OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5 model will be provided across the University and Oxford Colleges through ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities that includes enterprise-level security and
www.ox.ac.uk