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It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Symbiogenesis – In the between - Xxi This symposium aims to nurture space for academic discourse and creative play with neuroqueer theory and the posthuman.

Neuroqueer Theory and the Posthuman Symposium: Symbiogenesis in the Between, organised by Angelique Joy in Melbourne and online, March 2026. The call is open and I’m definitely considering sending something 🔥 angeliquejoy.com/xxi/

Wow, cool!

Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century Guest editor: Ali Dehdarirad (University of Rome, Sapienza) In 1987 Tom LeClair formulated the concept of the “systems novel,” a generic category that included highly erudite works that “master the …

Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century

Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org

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We're excited and proud to share that network member Rhiannon Hawkins has produced the world's first Mental Health Vulnerability Index RE climate change, which is so important in the context of the climate crisis! Read her work here:

www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

#ClimateChange #MentalHealth

Network co-lead @danielpjones.bsky.social is facilitating a roundtable on the interdisciplinary futures of Tourette Syndrome research!

More info below! 🤩

#TouretteSyndrome #MedicalHumanities #AcademicSky

For all followers: I am an ECR in English and the broader Humanities, and I am out of work. I have applied for numerous teaching jobs both at unis and colleges, admin jobs, museum collection assistant jobs, research jobs, NGO communication jobs.
I have a forthcoming book and research chapters.

Materiality and Museum Extraction Bristol glass, taxidermy pangolin and disrupting colonial silences

Materiality and Museum Extraction
19 November, Watershed

Join historian Zakiya McKenzie and scientist Kirill Vlasov for an insightful evening exploring Bristol’s colonial past and present through the lens of two co-created projects. brigstow-materiality-extraction.eventbrite.co.uk

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can't believe we got to the stage of human history where we've just placidly and collectively decided to stop learning stuff

British.

Poll showing labour and greens neck and neck.

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them. I meant it.

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we will present it elsewhere 🧡 rest well and feel better soon!!

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White System, Black Therapist: Racism, Resistance and Reimagining Speech Language Therapy In this book, Warda Farah brings a fresh perspective to the field of Speech and Language Therapy, challenging traditional approaches and opening crucial conversations about race, culture, and neurodiv...

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White System, Black Therapist: Racism, Resistance and Reimagining Speech Language Therapy In this book, Warda Farah brings a fresh perspective to the field of Speech and Language Therapy, challenging traditional approaches and opening crucial conversations about race, culture, and neurodiv...

I'm so excited about this upcoming volume by @wardasworld.bsky.social and have asked my subject librarian to pre-order it. Farah's book works at the nexus of race, neurodiversity and culture to rethink speech language therapy practices.

www.routledge.com/White-System...

literally the only option at this point

Genuinely got more writing prep done in 20 minutes of pinging ideas back and forth at lunchtime with @azathotenergy.bsky.social than I have in some 2-hour focused seminars.

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Just published: Inclusion and Sharing Best Practice for Academic Events Facilitation ✨

The sharing of best practice is, and always will be, more important than competing for institutional accessibility accreditations!

Read my reflections here: sheffield.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

What a cool postdoc! British horror fiction and the psy disciplines www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

The problems emerge when it becomes a trend to say "neurospicy" (or "AuDHD") as a euphemistic way to avoid saying words like "autistic" or "disabled."

Many people who self-describe as neurospicy and/or AuDHD also use the terms autistic and/or disabled. But many others, very noticeably, do not.

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How do you search for academic jobs in a broken job market? A rant, some advice & a mini-roundup of current vacancies in the arts & humanities

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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Creative Writing (poetry) Part-Time, Permanent (0.5 FTE)Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in Creative Writing in the English Department, to start September 2025. Creative writing is expanding at RHUL. Joining t...

Lecturer in Creative Writing (poetry) at Royal Holloway 💛 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Show your support: buy Queer as Folklore by Sacha Coward, Bloodsongs by Mae Diansangu, Impossible Heat by Ciara Maguire, Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye, Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO US!! So excited for this to be out in the world!

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