Chloe Wilcox

i must say, the whole “frankenstein is actually the dr”/“no he was actually an undergrad” thing is very relatable to me as an undergraduate who spends all my time cosplaying as an academic and then having to tell people i’m actually 20 and degree-less

growth mindset or whatever, but i don't think i will ever be smart enough to keep the meanings of "epigraph" and "epigram" the right way round in my head

it’s only november and i’ve already started curating my “post-finals tbr” shelf on goodreads

what is it about being a Flatmate that makes you incapable of reading the big "NO FOOD" sign on the recycling bin

This epistolary novel could have been an email

(i do however wish i didn't have to change them so often... but alas i live in england and love skating through rain and dirt and damp leaves)

changing the bearings in my roller skates makes me feel like a cool lesbian mechanic

it’s like the universe has a timer that goes off every 5 hours to tell me i’ve run out of something essential and need to spend another £8

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I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already

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Huge congratulations to the winner, Łukasz Mokrzycki, and runner-up, Andrin Albrecht, of the Cambridge University Press Best Paper Prize, which was open to those who presented at the BARS PGR/ECR Conference in September. 🥳

More on the BARS Blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6212

a strange thing about being at oxford is that sometimes ur on bbc sounds, listening to a random history podcast from a decade ago whilst trying to fall asleep, and then all of a sudden you hear the voice of someone you know because they're an expert interviewee

They've added these in my part of Oxford as well and it feels sooooo much safer as a pedestrian-- I have almost been hit by plenty of cars on these corners in the past (and have been hit by a bike whilst trying to move out the way of a car turning way too fast into my path)

it's chloe.wilcox@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk :)

do u wanna email me instead?

@susansontag.bsky.social i can see you’ve DMed me, but i can’t message u back bc i don’t want to do the age verification lol </3

i can’t even articulate how much i despise when the music pauses in a film trailer to emphasise a mediocre punchline

this is the before (from 24th oct)

most painful thing is the state of my new bearings lmao

shoutout to my flatmate for giving me some much-needed electrolytes 26km in… when i say “spontaneous” i mean: i got to 10km of what was gonna be a chill little evening skate and decided i might as well just do another 32km to see if i could

a strava map showing a very thick orange line in a wonky circle round a small section of oxford.

strava post titled “spontaneous marathon round and round the ROQ” and subtitled “first 35km were lots of fun…” i skated 42.6km at an average speed of 8.9km/h.

just roller skated a marathon round and round the radcliffe observatory quarter. please clap it was surprisingly quite hard

Whelmed GIF Alt: 10 things i hate about you: “can you ever just be whelmed?” “i think you can in europe”

you need to go to europe

Whelmed GIF Alt: 10 things i hate about you: “can you ever just be whelmed?” “i think you can in europe”

you need to go to europe

got too hubristic here and ended up only managing to get 3 hours of sleep

BARS News: Submit your proposals for Spring 2026 BARS Digital Events!

We are looking for 90-minute roundtables of four or five speakers, at least one of whom should be an ECR of PhD student.

250-word abstracts due 7th January 2026.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6207

one thing i’ve learnt about oxford from skating in the middle of the night is that we really have some awesome public transport. i certainly wouldn’t be worried about getting hit by a bus at 2am at home in rural north yorkshire!

proud to announce that i have just won time management. finished my essay before midnight and then roller skated for precisely 1 hour without paying attention to the time.

(this post is in fact roller skating propaganda)

hearing people talk about how they go running bc "it's horrible whilst you're doing it but satisfying afterwards" is so bewildering to me... like you do know there are infinitely other forms of exercise that are both fun in the moment and satisfying afterward?

my one-foot spins are finallyyyy spinning!!

few things are more satisfying than being the last person to leave your part of the library late at night and getting to turn off the lights