Sandro Eich

There's lots of brilliant research internships & artist residencies here from @sgsah.bsky.social (nb only for current PhD researchers in Arts & Hums in Scotland, due to our funding source), but I'll highlight some of the publishing & literary ones, nb deadline 31 Oct ... 1/ bsky.app/profile/sgsa...

When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900 The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

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a man in a knight 's helmet is standing on top of a stone wall . ALT: a man in a knight 's helmet is standing on top of a stone wall .

Watching different scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail for teaching prep - I think my life is peaking 😍

As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@smittermeier.bsky.social

Torte der Wahrheit zu Grenzkontrollen

Der CDU-Politiker Lübcke wurde von einem AfD-Wahlkämper erschossen. SPD-Politiker Ecke wurde krankenhausreif geschlagen, mutmaßlich von AfD-Fans. Alice Weidel & ihre Faschisten werden da friedlichen, demokratischen Protest bei einem Interview aushalten. Lasst die Täter nicht Opfer spielen.

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My favourite quote from this (which rings true so loudly) is: "Liberal learning occurs in dialogue with those who object to us, who offer a different perspective or experience — who read the same book as us in a completely different light."

Excellent representation of @standrewsenglish.bsky.social in this book with essays by my supervisor James Purdon and @dranindyar.bsky.social 😍 Go give it some love!

UP TO 7 PhD POSITIONS (282483) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: UP TO 7 PhD POSITIONS (282483), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Do you want to work with us? 7 PhD positions, full time, for 3 years, at the faculty of humanities at NTNU (Trondheim): www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline for applications is 15 October, applicants must align the application with one of the relevant research groups (see the call for details).

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Open Letter re Chancellorship Open Letter re the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge The next Chancellor will, we are told, ‘play a vital part in Cambridge’s public-facing activities, fundraising, and in providing advi...

Requesting signatures and circulation assistance for this letter, please.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

📢Our new website is finally live!

Visit us at www.bacls.org to:
* sign up for membership
* apply for the 2025 BACLS Prizes
* nominate yourself to become part of the BACLS Executive Committee

and much more!

Photograph of the BACLS WHN25 conference programme showing panel G2: PANEL G2. Speculative Fiction, Speculative Politics: Chair: Bob Eaglestone • Sandro Eich, "Her duty to her country was done. Now she could do duty to her conscience': whistleblowing and neoliberalism in Matthew Richardson's spy fiction novel The Scarlet Papers (2023) • Nick Hubble, "The Situation is Nominal': Ken MacLeod's Critique of the Scottish Programme' • Anneke Schewe & Melissa Schuh, ""This was how they altered the tracks of history": subversive dark academia in R.F. Kuang's Babel' • Sam McReavy, '"Retro-Utopian Second Wave Feminism Revisited: the Right to the City and Utopian Spatial Imaginaries in Sarah Hall's The Carhullan Army."›

We’re in great company in our panel on ‘Speculative Fiction, Speculative Politics’ with papers by @sandropology.bsky.social on spy fiction and @thehubble101.bsky.social on Ken MacLeod.
@bacls.bsky.social #WHN25

Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.

We have a new review on the BSLS website, Sandro Eich has reviewed Paul Hamann-Rose's Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/05/hama...)

OfS does not know cost of Sussex free speech inquiry - Research Professional News Regulator has not tracked internal cost of inquiry and refuses to reveal external costs

OfS does not know cost of Sussex inquiry.

After I sent an FOI request, the Office for Students refused to divulge the known costs it incurred during its probe into free speech at the Uni of Sussex, & said it doesn't know how much it spent in total.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising an open ended lectureship in Early Modern English Literature at Glasgow. Details here, and please share:

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Editorship of <em>C21 Literature</em> C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings is the journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publica...

📢Exciting opportunity: @c21literature.bsky.social is seeking a new editor for a three-year term, to start on 19th May 2025

C21, the journal of BACLS, is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication & circulation of 21C writings.

More details on the role: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/

The state is now disappearing people, in this case another graduate student, because of their political beliefs. This is fascism. We have arrived. Where is Rumeysa Ozturk?

I got my first payment today and it properly paid off!! 😍 How is this not communicated to PGRs on day 1 when they arrive at their university!?!!

YouTube video by Dundee UCU We Are The 632: University of Dundee staff speak out

632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee.

Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee.

Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632

youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI

Tenure didn’t protect anyone at Columbia. Let this be a lesson in the need for labor solidarity across all ranks in higher ed.

»Es ist keineswegs ausgeschlossen, dass die Zeit der Demokratien zu Ende gehen wird« — transcript.Blog Steffen GanghofDer weltweite Anstieg rechtspopulistischer Bewegungen verursacht eine globale Demokratiekrise. Besonders besorgniserregend ist, dass Staatsoberhäupter aktiv daran arbeiten, demokratisch...

Regierungssysteme in der globalen Demokratiekrise. @transcript-verlag.bsky.social verlost 5 Ex. meines Buches. Der Blog argumentiert, dass nicht alle demokratischen Regierungssysteme gleich anfällig für die Autokratisierung sind. Teilnahme durch Teilen! blog.transcript-verlag.de/globale-demo...

We started our Ph.D.s during COVID-19. Now, we’re graduating into political chaos “It is difficult to absorb all the uncertainty and still hold on to hope,” this Ph.D. student writes

“I have been watching my friends lose their postgraduation jobs and seeing layoff announcements at places where I thought I might work. The opportunities we worked so hard to pursue are evaporating in front of us. Some are considering leaving the country after graduation.”

I would instead maybe try and mute American football related words. This will hide these posts for you without missing out on relevant posts from the same accounts.

Issue Two Featuring Venus, cowboys, nuns and saints, and snogging

Want some new poetry for your friday morning? Check out our second issue of the Seaford Review! We are very thankful to all the poets who trusted us wirh their work 💖 www.seafordreview.com/p/issue-two

Our wonderful colleague Usha explains how the current financial crisis and proposed 632 FTE job cuts is affecting her right now. Many colleagues feel the same way.

The "recovery plan" needs to be scrapped. It's had a devastating effect on staff and students.

#WeAreThe632

#SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE

An infographic advertising a talk by Dominique Walker from the Scottish Universities Press at the Open University's Open Research Week 2025. Taking place at 10:00 - 10:45am on 27th March 2025. The bottom right hand corner has a photograph of Dominique.

🎤 Join SUP's @dominiquewalker.bsky.social, @paulmclarke.bsky.social and Dr Richard Marsden to learn more about #OpenAccess book publishing!

📅 When: 27 March 10:00 - 10:45am (GMT)
📍 Where: Online

Register: research.open.ac.uk/events/open-...

@openuniversity.bsky.social #OUOpenResearchWeek2025