@emmashort.bsky.social
thinking about hotels, gertrude bell, and the environment. not necessarily at the same time. assistant professor of modern & contemporary literature at durham university. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22129-4
i watched it last night and it made me cry. so..yeah.
having recently taught daisy johnson's excellent collection, 'the hotel' (which went down a storm with my second-year students), i am delighted to learn that her love of writing began with shirley hughes' beautiful alfie books. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
paging @phlaimeaux.bsky.social
Pressure building on govt to come clean about Mandelson's role in bringing US spy-tech firm Palantir into the heart of our NHS.
The fingerprints of Mandelson and his lobbying firm are all over these deals.
The rot goes to the heart of this Labour govt
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Take the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.
my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
IGALA list: Deborah Cameron, one of the greatest feminist linguists ever, has passed away. Everybody interested in the relationship of #language and #gender, please go and read her witty and myth-busting blog: https://
debuk.wordpress.com/ .
#linguistics #GenderLinguistics
I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
Look no further than an English or other Arts and Humanities degree
#EnglishCreates excellent careers
A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve.
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body.
This is not new but it is expanding.
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good.
May her memory be a blessing.
7-year-old is extremely delighted with his looshkin, @jamiesmart.bsky.social, lovingly handmade by his auntie eszter (in the background).
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
‼️IMPORTANT‼️ LIVESTREAM from the Gaza flotilla as they near Gaza. This is now the most vulnerable time for these brave folks. We need as many eyes on them as possible. Please watch/stream when you can & spread this far & wide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCAN...
This is great work. But this article in particular should be raising eyebrows and a LOT of questions
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
Last week, a new North East AI Growth Zone was announced, with new data centres at Blyth & Cobalt. But what is at stake for resources & the environment? Prof Karen Lai (@karenpylai.bsky.social) of Durham University explains the issue in a guest blog. www.climateactionnewcastle.com/post/ai-grow...
It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
this is heartbreaking reading the shit we make these people put up with and the square root of fuck all we give them and at no point will the BBC reflect on how their own reporting helped create the unbelievably hostile environment they have to endure
jesus christ.
'"You can’t have hobbyist research that’s unfunded going on in institutions. We can’t afford it.”'
Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.
this is a great piece, in particular the point on students using AI to summarise critical material. as Fitzgerald so astutely observes,
“There’s a joy in comprehension, that moment of understanding something new. AI robs them of that.”
Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
what a wonderful tribute. please share this cfp for a special issue dedicated to our brilliant late colleague, simon j. james.
Brilliant leadership from Lush
Buy their stuff - it’s against genocide.
They have also support many excellent refugee projects I’ve been involved with over the years
And @scotnational.bsky.social for covering tenaciously.
These actions work as they build
www.thenational.scot/news/2543703...
Seriously, with the whole university system on the brink, this is what the OfS and the BBC focus on? A dereliction of duty.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...