Laura Ludtke

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UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

“Downsizing higher education in the name of corporate efficiency squanders the collective expertise and experience in which immense public resources have been invested. This manufactured crisis, however, is far from inevitable.”

Read more:

moneyontheleft.org/2025/01/16/u...

Oh, wow!

You are on 🔥

No bad thing, in my humble opinion.

Sending lots of brilliant vibes your way.

Sharing is caring.

‘Hiccoughs’ and ‘Angelica’: Two newly discovered poems by Virginia Woolf Two poems by Virginia Woolf have resurfaced. I found them tucked in the back of a folder of letters to her niece Angelica Bell in the Harry Ransom Center

This reads like something out of an AS Byatt novel. www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/p...

Manifesting tackling enemies.

It looks glorious.

I’ve only had to use it once, and it was a right pain. But you can persevere!

It’s also Vancouver style, which is common in STEM and not the humanities for self-evident reasons.

Photo of a long-haired black cat splayed out in an arc across a grey sofa with a teal cushion in the corner. His yellow eyes look a bit wild.

He also like to nap.

Photo of a long-haired black cat poking his head out behind a wooden crate full of sandpaper and a black electric drill box. He is not helping.

Meet Oberon. He is helping.

I love that for us.

10/10 would read

I have working eyeballs and a fondness for stick insects and I cannot find it!

Juliet Stevenson’s narration makes this even more of a delight!

Splendid!

More thermals is never a bad idea!

What The MLA Is... The organization has chosen an interpretation of fiduciary responsibility beyond the wildest hopes of Chicago School economists.

“I regard the report the MLA Executive Council published on Dec 16 to explain their suppression of the BDS resolution…as a betrayal of the professional class whom the MLA claims to serve and represent.” A must-read by @mattseybold.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

I don't know who needs to know this, but @archive.org has thousands of knitting & crafting books you can "check out" & sometimes download. E.g., as a machine knitter (amongst other things), I have found an amazing trove of very helpful out-of-print books. 🙏 Check it out! 🧶

Day 21 without internet at home and it turns out I am not great at rationing my mobile data. Not when things are happening in the world, there are cat and house updates to send, teaching to prepare, scholarly admin to dispatch, and writing/research, etc.

Look, I’ve no doubt Trump wants to play hardball with Canada in trade negotiations and that we’re in for hurt. But the annexation talk is a negotiating tactic, same as him insisting that we have nothing the US needs. It is meant to rattle Canadian leadership, which is in flux right now.

Modernism and Data Special Issue: Call for Papers 27 September 2024 “A New World of Information”: Modernism and Data Modernism has a problem with data. Within adjacent fields—Victorian, Post45, and Black studies—there has been a proliferation of a…

We're pleased to announce a deadline extension for the 'Modernism and Data' Special Issue! The new deadline is January 20th. See below for the CFP:

modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/m...

This is … vivid. Sending you sound sleeping vibes for this evening.

That is good news.

Landscapes of Public Health - The Museum of English Rural Life Learn how public health impacts the design of public spaces, as explored in the 2024 symposium of FOLAR, held at The MERL.

how does public health influence the creation of public landscapes?

our latest blogpost recaps on the ideas and collections explored during the 2024 Friends of the Landscape Archive at Reading (FOLAR) conference, held here in November

merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/01...

This also means I can’t really show you any photos of the new place and the gorgeous new (to us) cat Oberon. But patience is a virtue that will be rewarded. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Thinking of your sweet ginger boy.