Stephanie Palmer

Data watchdog assessing University of Derby redundancy notice letters The university apologises for sending letters that identified staff at risk of redundancy.

"The university expects excellence from us, but they are not demonstrating it themselves." Feel the same for various reasons every day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Illustration for “The Shadows on the Wall.” Showing a man standing in profile.

Illustration for “The Shadows on the Wall.”

The front cover to Mary E. Wilkins’s The Wind in the Rose-Bush (1903). The cover is light green with a winding rose bush pattern at the top under the title.

For day 18 of #31days31books we have Mary E. Wilkins’s The Wind in the Rose-Bush (1903). The book is extra special because it includes illustrations for the supernatural stories.

An excellent essay collection on transnational approaches to regionalism just published open access with Radboud University Press. Not one but two essays on Freeman! It was a pleasure to work with these editors. books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru...

Oh, 81%, eh? And I wonder what percentage it would be refusing care from medical workers who hadn't been born here.

Roundtable first page

Great roundtable on ghost stories by Wharton, Freeman, and Stowe in the latest _Edith Wharton Review_.

Routledge / Taylor and Francis and yes, it was back in 2019.

At least you were asked. My work was just given without my permission by the publisher.

Thought so but situation is that non RG are chasing skills and employability rhetoric.

Don't blame the crisis on poor marketing decisions by non RG unis though.

A-level English : Language, Language & Literature and Language : our results 2025 analysis.

@tesmagazine.bsky.social

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Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy “@Hersheys just pledged to eliminate synthetic dyes from its candy by the end of 2027. I call on all other companies to follow their lead and help Make America Healthy Again.” Bloomberg Hershey to Remove Synthetic Dyes From its Snacks by End of 2027 June 30, 2025 | Kristina Peterson

Tens of thousands of Americans will have died (literally) from Medicaid cuts by the time Hersheys removes nontoxic synthetic dyes from their high-calorie, low-nutrition candies

Please don’t lump me in with the IDF, that seems kinda antisemitic

These huge cars are vastly more dangerous, kill far more children, as they're higher at the front. They should have their own much lower speed limit in towns; and higher tax. Parking should be charged as for vans, they're larger than normal spaces. It's bizarre that they're treated as cars.

Absolutely thrilled to see this excellent piece by our MA graduate and now PhD student, Nada Saadaoui, on walking as a form of resistance for Jane Austen and her heroines, published in ‘The Conversation’ today: theconversation.com/for-jane-aus...

So glad you care about hanging indents and page numbers too. I thought I was the only one.

Because gen AI doesn't include them, nor do spark notes type websites which feature significant quotes.

Foxgloves are blooming in Nottingham

"I do not need to be Bandanese to understand what Gunung Api means to the islanders, just as I do not need to be Greek to be moved by the Iliad." - Amitav Ghosh. I'm moved by his rejection of ecofascist arguments for protecting only one's own nation's nature.

In case you're tired of being asked, when do you break up?

Reminder that today is the last day to object to Facebook using your data to feed their AI. You need to go into the privacy center until you get to 'Right to Object' where they deliberately make it hard to enter your email address. However now had an email confirming they won't use any of my data.

Our future may depend on the humanities For Peter Sutoris, the humanities hold the key to understanding and responding to the many civilisational crises we face

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Woodpile

Five or six wrens flitting in and out of my woodpile.

Thanks to Valerie Kinsey for noticing our book's ecocriticism: 'Freeman in these critics’ hands moves beyond denaturalizing social worlds toward rendering ways of being in and of nature.’ muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522?...

I'm giving a talk in a few months to some children's publishing and bookselling bods. If you could say one thing to a capitive audience of publishers and booksellers, what would YOU say? #KidLitUK (Dm me if it's something you'd rather not say out loud...)

Disco & Dissociation | Aimz Rushton | Substack Words by Aimz. A space to get messy and creative. Click to read Disco & Dissociation, by Aimz Rushton, a Substack publication. Launched 3 days ago.

Can recommend Aimz Rushton's substack. She always has her finger on the heartbeat. aimzrushton.substack.com?r=185r72&utm...

Talking BAAS and SSAWW with Emma in Hertfordshire. She actually approves this Chardonnay.

Nearing Hatfield for #BAAS2025.

Gotham vista

Easter walk at Gotham

Women's appearance and behaviour is about to get even more highly policed in the UK, with a few people doubtless being emboldened to "take action". This whole billionaire-funded enterprise dials back gender equity by decades.