Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown

Many thanks 😊

What a great opportunity 👇

Might Marlowe's Ovid be of interest?

The full Call For Papers can be accessed at the following link: https://shorturl.at/RiviU

Call For Papers: Teaching With Ovid.

Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026.
Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU

Deadline 16 Jan.

Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonnes of textile waste a year

#FastFashion and #microplastics. They go together like indoor #AirPollution and lung disease.

A few profit and the rest of us pay, particularly the most vulnerable
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Sex and Style A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

I've lost track of how many people over the past years I've told to watch for Elizabeth Scott-Baumann's next book coming out, and now it's here. Proper good ideas: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The Green Party for the last few days have gained 1000 new members every single day.

We've just reached 87,000 members!!!!

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tomorrow's teach out: meet the Modern Languages Team at 1.15 in SBB for their modern languages showcase.
Note the change in picket times!

Teaching Term Week 1

- My Year 3 ug module #PremodernGothic starts today with Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" (1764)

Teaching Term Week 1

- the @lancasterucu.bsky.social ballot to determine strike action against redundancies closes on Friday

🗳☑️

Just finished series 1 episode 2 : loving it so far but it's so on it

a group of people are sitting around a table in a kitchenette area Alt: a group of people are sitting around a table in a kitchenette area

Not sure if starting to watch "Severance" is a good idea right now 🤔

Fills my heart to listen to @mothinali.bsky.social at @greenparty.org.uk conference this morning - speaking clear, genuine truth to power. And I feel seen. That can’t be underestimated.
Authentic, working class voices at the heart of Green politics. Thank you Mothin. It means so much 💚 #GPC25

Mothin at a lecturn commanding a packed house at Green conference

Beautiful, passionate world from our co deputy leader @mothinali.bsky.social thank you sir, you make me proud to be Green.

If you want to see why the telegraph is failing so horribly, take a look at this headline, then listen to the speech. Just another example of really poor journalism.
When they're can't attack your arguments, they resort to distortion to the point of lying!

"The system that has caused such destruction of nature is the same system that rips us apart from each other." - @rachelmillward.bsky.social

One-third of UK children grow up in poverty with higher risk of dying young Children in the most deprived areas of the UK face higher death rates as childhood poverty continues to rise, according to research.

One-third of UK children grow up in poverty, higher risk of dying young.

In some areas 62% of children live in poverty.

Children’s education, health, future employment prospects destroyed.

Caused by govts - austerity, low wages, spending cuts, fiscal rules.

Poverty is a political choice.

AI: the ultimate human ingenuity in service of producing an abundance of mediocrity.

Stop using the epithet "elite" to describe Russell Group universities

They're a self-selected bunch of UKHEIs

Moving moment at #GPC25 as Green Party Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social shares garlands symbolising love & unity with his fellow Deputy Leader @rachelmillward.bsky.social, party CEO Harriet Lamb & @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

YouTube video by Novara Media 'Helping Fascist Farage Into Power is My Red Line' | Zack Polanski Interview

Final day of conference - and the energy has been amazing.

Our country is a mess. The world is in turmoil. We've got lots to do.

And we're ready.

youtu.be/tffONP7XErg?...

#foundpainting No.297

During the course of this year, I am available to give invited talks at Departmental seminars, symposia and the like. My research is now developed enough to shed new light on the role of walking in theatre history, but still pliant enough to benefit from the input of scholarly conversation.

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Congratulations to @renaissancerach.bsky.social

Great to see 'Elizabethan Occult Poetics' out in the world !!!

I missed this !!

Freelance Work Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

🟩 Green Party Conference 🟩

🗳️ ✨ Reforming Trans Healthcare (a Trans positive motion) ✨

✅ Unanimously passed by @greenparty.org.uk members

✅ Every speaker in support

✅ Every vote in favour

The Green Party once again showing what true solidarity looks like

#GPC25
#TransRights

Our struggles are connected: from divestment to staff cuts — UCU Edinburgh ‘We stand with you because your fight for fair work is a fight for the soul of this University. We ask you to stand with us because our fight for ethical investment is a fight for its consci...

In the proud tradition of staff-student solidarity at Edinburgh, a moving call from EUJPS at our 8 Sept. strike rally to stand together against unaccountable and unethical management of University finance
#UCU #WeAreTheUniversity #DivestNow

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/ckdj6l6...

I took a picture of these fungi and was not sure why - obviously it was for #UKFungusDay!