S. M. Carroll
@smcarroll.bsky.social
Academic Blue Sky for Siobhan Maria Carroll. Victorian Studies, Romantism, 18C Studies, Science Fiction, Environmental Humanities. Short reviews of things I love and occasional gardening complaints.
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas!
me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong
me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong
December 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas!
me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong
me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong
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also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist
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Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
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Also hiring for another position in our Marketing Department! We're looking for a Marketing Manager to manage campaigns and champion our authors. Join our mission-driven team! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Also hiring for another position in our Marketing Department! We're looking for a Marketing Manager to manage campaigns and champion our authors. Join our mission-driven team! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...
I saw this recently, and it was terrifically weird. More of a Gothic fairytale about plastic surgery than a straightforward mad scientist tale. It seemed very much up Del Toro’s alley.
"My face frightens me. My mask frightens me even more."
Today, 11/23, at 1pm and 7pm EST, the Deadlights Theater presents...
EYES WITHOUT A FACE
Come and join us on Discord for this disturbing modern fairytale about beauty, captivity, and personhood.
www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...
Today, 11/23, at 1pm and 7pm EST, the Deadlights Theater presents...
EYES WITHOUT A FACE
Come and join us on Discord for this disturbing modern fairytale about beauty, captivity, and personhood.
www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I saw this recently, and it was terrifically weird. More of a Gothic fairytale about plastic surgery than a straightforward mad scientist tale. It seemed very much up Del Toro’s alley.
Surveys find students feel “demoralized” when instructors use ChatGPT for grading and lecture preparation.
Food for thought: students don’t want ‘cheap AI’ instruction (anyone with half a brain cell knows this already). But worth telegraphing to a sector being tapped for AI investment: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Surveys find students feel “demoralized” when instructors use ChatGPT for grading and lecture preparation.
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Monty Python: Mystico and Janet - Flats Built By Hipnosis
YouTube video by Bruno Carneiro da Cunha
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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This section of Gerald of Wales' The Conquest of Ireland in which he praises his own family is essentially the Theme from Shaft.
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This section of Gerald of Wales' The Conquest of Ireland in which he praises his own family is essentially the Theme from Shaft.
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If you're doing your holiday shopping and/or thinking about best to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday, 1 month from today, I have some news: Harvard UP's annotated editions of Austen's fiction (my own edition of Mansfield Park included) are now 25% off.
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/hap...
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/hap...
Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen — Harvard University Press
Celebrate with six gorgeous annotated editions of Jane Austen’s classics. “A sumptuous reading experience…richly illustrated with paintings, museum-quality photographs, and colorful Regency prints. A ...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you're doing your holiday shopping and/or thinking about best to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday, 1 month from today, I have some news: Harvard UP's annotated editions of Austen's fiction (my own edition of Mansfield Park included) are now 25% off.
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/hap...
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/hap...
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This headline ticks all the boxes for me.
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This headline ticks all the boxes for me.
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I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
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My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983) | University of Stavanger
Job title: PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, January 4, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
Eric William Ravilious, y’all.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Eric William Ravilious, y’all.
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Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
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In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Dr Seward’s journals are famously ‘Kept in Phonograph’. Join me for a nerdy deep dive in which I, brandishing back-of-an-envelope math, calculate the cost of Seward's phonograph habit, & encounter a creature more uncanny than Dracula himself! 1/14 #Gothic
November 10, 2024 at 8:08 PM
In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Dr Seward’s journals are famously ‘Kept in Phonograph’. Join me for a nerdy deep dive in which I, brandishing back-of-an-envelope math, calculate the cost of Seward's phonograph habit, & encounter a creature more uncanny than Dracula himself! 1/14 #Gothic
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A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
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i think you need a baby sea otter swimming with mom right about now...
October 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
i think you need a baby sea otter swimming with mom right about now...
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They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
October 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
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topical
a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman
ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman
media.tenor.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
topical
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V. excited to have found a child's diary from 1789, covering the period he & his family fled the French Revolution
... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c
... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c
a man sitting in a chair with a hulu logo on the bottom
ALT: a man sitting in a chair with a hulu logo on the bottom
media.tenor.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
V. excited to have found a child's diary from 1789, covering the period he & his family fled the French Revolution
... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c
... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c
Your yearly reminder: Oct 1st means Spooky Season has begun!
October 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Your yearly reminder: Oct 1st means Spooky Season has begun!
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Is there anything more tantalising than the promise of an early 19th-century letter with the postscript "Burn this immediately"?
September 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Is there anything more tantalising than the promise of an early 19th-century letter with the postscript "Burn this immediately"?
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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A rose spotted in Newbury today
September 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A rose spotted in Newbury today