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Candidate should have expertise in anglophone literature and be able to teach classes ranging from the medieval period to postmodernism. Some fields of especial interest are econometrics, quantum physics, anesthesiology, kinesthesiology, the early works of John Ruskin, and

Couldn’t agree more: those sausages are things of beauty.
(Thank you for this: what a nickname! I'm casually assuming that your neighbour was an outsider & mise en place was not part of his treatment plan…)

Image of an advert on the side of a white transit van. It reads: “THE ARRAN BUTCHER”, “QUALITY MEAT, FISH & HOME-MADE PRODUCE”, and “Award winning family butcher Est. 1964”, with a silhouette of the Isle of Arran.

I’m getting lovely family-run Arran business…
I’m also getting serial killer roaming the hills…

It’s time! I’ve seen too many!

I’m starting a (glacially slow) #puns in #business marketing appreciation thread…
w/ special mentions for #crime #wordplay…

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

The Foxite Whigs and Visual Culture, 1780-1810 This book examines how sociability was strategically employed by the Foxite-Whigs and argues for the existence of two primary forms of sociability

📣 Callum Smith is launching The Foxite Whigs & Visual Culture, 1780-1810: Radical Sociability at @aberuni.bsky.social on 19 November from 17:10. Online (tinyurl.com/yvnukza8) & in person.

#histparl
#skystorians
@bsecs.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social

First Friday Fling. Messages from the other side: supernatural stories. 7th November, 7-9pm. Sir Duncan Rice Library. Drop-in. Over 16s only.

I'm on a mission to try and merge my academic and storytelling lives. Hosting this event at the University of Aberdeen's exhibition is an exciting step on this journey!

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
& Happy Birthday!

Images of the covers from the following studies: Nicolle Jordan’s Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690–1790; Chantel Lavoie’s Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century: Age, Gender, and Work; Dayne C. Riley’s Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751; and, Collin Jennings’s Enlightenment Links: Theories of Mind and Media in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

It looks great. Cannot wait to read about @collinjennings.bsky.social's Enlightenment Links, @josephhone.bsky.social’s (timely!) ‘Pope’s Scrapes and Ghosts’, & more!

#editing
@englishassociation.bsky.social

An embarrassment of riches this #YWESnesday! I also now have Tess Somervell, James Metcalf, & Rayna Rossenova’s mega-review of 2024 #c18th #poetry studies.

Images of the covers for the following studies: Brycchan Carey’s The Unnatural Trade: Slavery Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807; Alison O’Byrne’s The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700-1830; Thomas Gray among the Disciplines, edited by Ruth Abbott and Ephraim Levinson; and a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life, entitled ‘The Manuscript Book in the Long Eighteenth Century’, edited by Alexis Chema and Betty Schellenberg.

A huge range of studies covered by @charlottegoodge.bsky.social & Thomas Leonard-Roy, from @brycchancarey.bsky.social’s The Unnatural Trade to @rhyskamjones.bsky.social's ‘Queering Thomas Gray’s Celticism’. Itching to get reading & #editing!

@englishassociation.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social

Another #YWESnesday & happily I’ve come by another fantastic looking mega-review—this time of 2024 #c18th #prose scholarship...

Image of a person buried under a pile of marking, grant deadlines and meeting requests. Logos of University of Liverpool and Independent Social Research Foundation. Text reads: Creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions. Webinar and guidance for academics with ELC, line managers & HR professionals, EDI & union representatives, funders, publishers & conference organisers. Monday 24th November 2-3pm.

Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social

Fellowship Opportunity for ECRs: The Byron Society Fellow

Focussing on digital promotion activities, with a £2500 annual stipend.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6197

Poirot gets it.

It's surely just a question of time management?
*tries not to make a 'to do' list joke*

Image of text from Ronald Hutton's excellent The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. It reads, "There was a tendency for the men's clubs to process on Whit Monday, and those of the women on the Tuesday."

Anyone else automatically read this as the men & women really thought things through on those holidays?

#LordByron turning detective? In Venice? Yes please.

@essiefox.bsky.social talking all things Dangerous w/ @drtimrideout.bsky.social on 29 October at Nottingham’s The Bookcase 👇

@bars.bsky.social
#romanticism

Should you find yourself in the general Peterborough area, I'm giving a talk in aid of the John Clare Cottage appeal on Sat 15 Nov, 3pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inconvenie...

Who is this Tom?

‘The Evidence of Things Not Seen’: Ethics and the True Crime Industry Recorded 22nd September 2025. Why are we so drawn to true crime? And what are the ethical stakes behind the stories? Join popular literature experts Clare Clarke, Bernice Murphy, writer Una Mannion (

👇Brilliant discussion w/ @evepatt.bsky.social, @clareclarke.bsky.social, @murphgothic.bsky.social, @ailise-bulfin.bsky.social, & Una Mannion on the moral complexities of creating & consuming #truecrime for the 2025 Arts & Humanities Research Festival @tlrhub.bsky.social

#skystorians #academicsky 🗃️

We're super excited to be hosting Prof. Alison Bashford at @globalaffairslu.bsky.social to hear her talk about her fascinating new book on the history of reading the hand. You can imagine why we'd be interested and we are sure you will be too. Please sign up for free tickets at the link below.

"oh I wrote those comments a long time ago when I was in a different place" I'm thirty nine years old do you know what I call a sweater I got in 2021? "my new sweater."

Yes, the writer Mark Harris, known for his biography Mike Nichols: A Life, passed away in 2017. Mark Harris died in 2017 at the age of 84 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was a writer whose work included novels and biographies. He wrote the biography Mike Nichols: A Life, which was published after his death.

Well, THIS sucks. I have tickets for One Battle After Another for tomorrow and now I don't know if I should go!

Snickers bar and a metal whistle

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Thanks so much! That's really lovely of you.

Thank you @srwride.bsky.social, and thank you for your amazing editing! 😊

Today @helcdall.bsky.social's mega-review of 2024 #c18th #drama scholarship for @englishassociation.bsky.social journal #YWES landed on my digital doormat. So looking forward to diving in!

#YWESnesday
#editing #academicsky