Dr Joan Passey

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Oh my gosh! I can't believe that's who you were hosting! Rachel is so wonderful ❤️

Jesus Christ the world is being eaten alive by this self optimisation bullshit

Account has been hacked (badly) urgh bear with me

That's what being an expert is? Having knowledge of things? Christ, outsourcing your brain will not serve you in the long run, Ian

Totally agree!

'in the same way'. I've spent a long time off the internet and I did not miss the way people will take a very specific claim about a very specific instance and get annoyed that I haven't related it to something with its own distinct context.

But I don't think we have a problem with science not being taken seriously in the way the humanities aren't taken seriously

We need to bully these people, badly

Similarly - being a history influencer doesn't make you a historian. Some historians are history influencers but generating history content isn't the same as producing historical research, like being a science communicator doesn't make you a research scientist

I think one of the reasons why people don't take the study of the humanities seriously is they think being a history buff = being a historian and reading a lot = being a literature scholar because there's still so little public understanding of what methodologies in those fields actually look like

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December!

doi.org/10.1017/9781...

'The paradox of horror': How scary films can soothe your anxiety Jump scares and gore might not seem like the most soothing watching, but scary films can actually be the ideal therapy during anxious times.

For my American horror homies this Thanksgiving: A great article to send a family member on why we love scary movies. www.bbc.com/future/artic... #horrorcommunity #horrormovies #anxiety

Wait how does he think America started

My students said they love my rants on it. Taught The Time Machine. Told them OpenAI wants them to become Eloi.

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it's the healthiest thing we can do for the internet!!!

y'all can get started for free on neocities!! it's like geocities but now!!! neocities.org go get started!!!

It's completely incoherent. I am stunned

It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng

www.theguardian.com/education/20... the total lack of critical thinking in this article and obliviousness to the actual conditions of HE seems to suggest this writer would have benefited from exposure to a liberal arts course

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates A burning platform

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8

Book cover which features a black and white photo of a sinking ship with the sails just above the surface, the ship itself already below the waves.

' ... a foundational contribution to regional gothic studies.'

A brilliant review of 'Cornish Gothic' by @joanpassey.bsky.social in @victstudies.bsky.social!

muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

Discover more about this 'compelling' book here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/cornish...

I am genuinely dumbfounded that anybody, even for a nanosecond, might have thought that LLM simulations of human participants could provide novel insights on the human mind

I am 93% sure I saw you at Bristol temple meads the other day but wasn't sure enough so just did this for a bit 👀

I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...

Did Victorians believe heavy drinking caused spontaneous human combustion?

Dr Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social is going to enlighten us on this rather unusual subject, on Thursday 16th October at Glenside Hospital Museum, and we can't wait!

Tickets here: glensidemuseum.org.uk/introducing-...

I love Amelia B Edwards, not least because 'A Thousand Miles Up the Nile' has so many euphemistic applications

THE AREA IS CALLED ST GEORGE. THE SCHOOL HAS A ST GEORGE MURAL ON IT. WE HAVE MULTIPLE ROADS CALLED SOME VARIATION OF 'DRAGON'. THE LOCAL PUB IS THE GEORGE AND DRAGON.

absolutely gobsmacked to find red and white flags painted on zebra crossings and roundabouts in my little part of bristol, ST GEORGE.

Spotted @jendeavour.bsky.social and @joanpassey.bsky.social’s books in the wild (“the wild” being The Bodies in the Bookshop in Cambridge in this instance)

Ahh yes, my favourite Jane Austen novels - The Schutzstaffel, Postage and Packaging, Member of Parliament, Electronic, Not Applicable and Phosphorous <3

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel