Dr Jen Baker

Orange Juice always gets me 😭💔

😲😲😲

*clearing.
Sigh. BLEURGJGHLGGZYJFVH

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Prepped windows, primed windows, spent 2 days clearimg garden, did chores. BROKEN.

THIS BODY WAS NOT MEANT FOR MANUAL LABOUR.

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"Yes it's true. This man has no dick" 🤣
#favouritelines

Thanks Jason! 🖤

Great engagement afterwards from the audience in the Q&A. Many thanks to the Viktor Wynd Last Tuesday Society for inviting me :)

Call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes - Gothic Association Call for nominations by March 2nd for The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for a Monograph of Gothic Criticism, 2026 and The Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize for an Edited Collection of Gothic Critici...

A final reminder to @igagoths.bsky.social members that the call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes closes soon! www.globalgoth.org/blog/call-fo... #gothic

biggest solidarity to the Department ot Languages and Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh): heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/04/d...

please sign their petition and send them any support they need, this is part of a UK-wide attack on languages education!

Finals reminder that this is coming up tomorrow! I’ll be taking the audience on a day trip through Dante’s Inferno at 4pm but there are excellent talks, all offered in support of the Magic Breakfast charity, all through the day.

Happening imminently!

📢In partnership with St Andrews University, we're looking for a 'Joseph Bell Writer in Residence at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh' to pursue a writing project drawing on our archives. Stipend of up to £15,000. Closing date 6 March 2026. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

An afternoon detecting some hammy acting at Malvern Theatre 🤣

Still, nice to be out with the family ❤️ and a very yummy meal after 🙂

#EnglishCreates: Futures

Today, Prof Gail Marshall (University of Reading) reflects on a treasured first edition of Middlemarch:

'Books connect us to each other... but they also grow with us, and connect us to different versions of ourselves'

Full post: universityenglish.ac.uk/reading-matt...

An excellent evening with my sister at the improv comedy theatre show "Murder She Didn't Write" at The Swan Theatre, #Worcester
Who knew the Three Counties Pig Show Final featuring Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and Gloucestershire would prove so controversial!

Very much recommend.

thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/manife...

As we are still in the thrall of winter, JOIN ME at the Viktor Wynd museum (online) with The Last Tuesday Society THIS Friday (27th Feb) at 8pm (GMT) where I will be chatting about child ghosts.

A ticket gets you a (time limted) recording if you can't make it on the evening!

url-shortener.me/E818

Meh.

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Probably say this more than is healthy.

And I say "sides" in scare quotes because race and disability are not oppositional, but the shitty coverage has encouraged such a reductive narrative.

All I've seen all day are shockingly bad takes from both "sides" (as if never the twain shall meet?!). I hope it gets reported that Davidson apologised cuz it is mortifying for him that it happened & horrendous for Jordan & Lindo to hear it. The only villains were those broadcasting the BAFTAs.

All I've seen all day. And 99% have been shockingly bad takes from both sides. I hope it does get reported that Davidson apologised cuz it is mortifying for him that it happened beyond his control & horrendous for them to have it shouted at them. The only villains are those broadcasting the BAFTAs.

Doing life-admin by filling in my details on the new luggage tags I bought in Liverpool last weekend 😁

Farewell old blue sofa. You were a bargain buy and gave us 13 years of good service. 🙏

But now your springs are broken and we are getting older, it's time to make way for this forest green velvety, taller number 😍

Now watching

#CabinFever
#HeyHoWe'llGo
#MuppetTreasureIsland
#30thAnniversary

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Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries | King's College London

Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London. Deadline: 16th March 2026 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/137845-...

keyword seach "vagina" but newspaper is finding "G spot" in proximity...

So I was looking for incidences of the word "vagina" in c19th newspapers (for legit scholarly reasons, I promise) and thought bloody hell that's a lot more results than I expected. And turns out that predominantly keyword seach is finding "G spot" in proximity... 😂😳

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Not a problem, I hate prawns, so she can definitely have my share as long as I get some noodles :)

Ahhh amazing 🤣 an establishment I will need to visit soon :)