As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

Just upping this again as undergraduate dissertation topics are being picked.

Interesting, I don’t know it. But I am now interested because although I vaguely remember reference to bi modernists it’s always peripheral (and isn’t that interesting in itself)

Hmmm. I don’t know, but if it were me I would look at what has been written about H.D. and then possibly think about bi-erasure. Eg No Modernism Without Lesbians? Which I haven’t read yet, disclaimer, it is on my shelf.

Excellent name for a cat!

I had a bit too much wine last night and tried to write a poem about AI. Needless to say not much looks coherent today but I liked:

You wanted to climb this mountain
But then
They told you the mountain had been climbed
And you, you were only allowed to look up at it
From the base.

The modernist magazines book makes for a good cushion, I’ve always thought so

I came in here to say this 😂

Carbonel!! I loved that book.

That’s interesting. He attended Gandhi when he was ill in London so perhaps a sense of indebtedness or personal fondness!

Yes indeed, Thomas Allinson makes a strong appearance. There’s a tenuous connection I intend to draw between Thom > his son Adrian > Adrian’s friend Dorothy Richardson > Richardson’s crank views on brown bread & consumption

I think the tone of the original post intends to refer to mass-produced sliced white though, not homebaked or bakery yeasted bread! The discourse today is amusing as I have a chapter to write about bread for my Modernist Wellness book …!

Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social has organised a wonderful symposium on Modernist Editing at the University of Reading. Do come! There are a few bursaries for PGR and precarious ECRs … research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b... @modernistudies.bsky.social

Also, if you are Reading-adjacent on 23rd September, I'll be talking about the edition at @buxiduan.bsky.social & @lawrentian.bsky.social's symposium on modernist editing alongside @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social, @wvmierlo.bsky.social and many more

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My wonderful colleague Lawrence Jones and I organised a symposium on Modernist Editing at Reading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social!

We’ve got a DREAM lineup of leading scholars in textual scholarship, especially @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social! And we have a few travel bursaries. Details👇

Gonna be a fab day!

Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social has organised a wonderful symposium on Modernist Editing at the University of Reading. Do come! There are a few bursaries for PGR and precarious ECRs … research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b... @modernistudies.bsky.social

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Sign sign sign!

I saw a job posting for a heritage project focused on Romany history. I wasn't sure how visible it would be so wanted to share so that the job gets seen by the people whose history it is focusing on.

Give it a share, perhaps?

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It’s mad, innit. My lower back pain is insane if I stand for a few hours, but I can walk for 2x or 3x that and be fine.

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

'Put simply, we have a really strange system in higher education, where nobody admits how much things actually cost, nobody admits who’s paying for what, research is kept alive on the toil and goodwill of underpaid academics....'

She thrives in work and makes more money than he ever did; he is a natural homemaker and parent and is happier.

I just finished reading The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, which has a very energetic type A woman stuck doing housework and getting angry/her relaxed and dreamy husband working in accounts for a dept store and losing his soul. There’s a dramatic incident and they swap roles (kind of).