Andrew Mangham
@andrewmangham.bsky.social
Professor, teacher, and author of the odd book about literature and the biological sciences. Latest: ‘We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us’.
The world is heading towards WW3 and this pillock is wanging on about free speech.
September 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The world is heading towards WW3 and this pillock is wanging on about free speech.
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That's okay, we're also for teaching, research, innovation, urban regeneration, outreach, community activism, writing, media, social mobility, counselling, mental health care and international investment, I'm sure this will be fine too. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Ministers’ asylum plan ‘will turn universities into border force’ - Research Professional News
UCU leader blasts Home Office’s planned crackdown on students using universities as asylum “back door”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
That's okay, we're also for teaching, research, innovation, urban regeneration, outreach, community activism, writing, media, social mobility, counselling, mental health care and international investment, I'm sure this will be fine too. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
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UNI DISCOURSE: Profs in elite colleges lead young people into cultural Marxism
UNI REALITY: Profs in normal colleges are frazzled by endless paperwork
UNI REALITY: Profs in normal colleges are frazzled by endless paperwork
July 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
UNI DISCOURSE: Profs in elite colleges lead young people into cultural Marxism
UNI REALITY: Profs in normal colleges are frazzled by endless paperwork
UNI REALITY: Profs in normal colleges are frazzled by endless paperwork
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Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
July 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
Fab day at the ‘Violence, Health and Health Humanities’ event at the University of Reading today. Congrats to #sophiefranklin.bsky.social, who organised the event as part of her work supported by the DOROTHY MSCA COFUND Fellowship programme.
June 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Fab day at the ‘Violence, Health and Health Humanities’ event at the University of Reading today. Congrats to #sophiefranklin.bsky.social, who organised the event as part of her work supported by the DOROTHY MSCA COFUND Fellowship programme.
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Ursula von der Leyen, "The diary of Anne Frank."
"A painful reminder to Europe to be vigilant and unyielding towards all those who see hatred and want to divide our society"
"Europe knows this path all too well. And never, never again must we embark on this path"
"A painful reminder to Europe to be vigilant and unyielding towards all those who see hatred and want to divide our society"
"Europe knows this path all too well. And never, never again must we embark on this path"
May 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Ursula von der Leyen, "The diary of Anne Frank."
"A painful reminder to Europe to be vigilant and unyielding towards all those who see hatred and want to divide our society"
"Europe knows this path all too well. And never, never again must we embark on this path"
"A painful reminder to Europe to be vigilant and unyielding towards all those who see hatred and want to divide our society"
"Europe knows this path all too well. And never, never again must we embark on this path"
Took my ‘Literature and Healing’ students to the Royal Berkshire Hospital Medical Museum today. This place is a hidden gem in the heart of Reading!
May 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Took my ‘Literature and Healing’ students to the Royal Berkshire Hospital Medical Museum today. This place is a hidden gem in the heart of Reading!
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Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism.
Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism.
The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.
Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism.
The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.
April 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism.
Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism.
The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.
Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism.
The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.
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Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
Some bluebells.
April 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Some bluebells.
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CFP: Essays in Honor of Brian Maidment (Proposals due May 15; Essays due Nov. 1). Guest editors Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge invite proposals for a special issue of VPR. For full details, visit rs4vp.org/cfp-vpr-spec... @rs4vp.bsky.social
CFP: Special VPR Issue (Winter 2026) – RSVP
Call for proposals for a special issue of VPR honoring the late Brian Maidment! Proposals due May 15, 2025 and will be published Winter 2026.
rs4vp.org
April 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
CFP: Essays in Honor of Brian Maidment (Proposals due May 15; Essays due Nov. 1). Guest editors Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge invite proposals for a special issue of VPR. For full details, visit rs4vp.org/cfp-vpr-spec... @rs4vp.bsky.social
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British Steel's turnover (2023) £1.26 billion - Votes at risk! Red Wall! Urgent legislation!
UK universities' combined turnover (2023/4) £57.2bn - Central to innovation and the industrial strategy. Educating a dumbed down nation. Silence.
Yes, let's save steel, but for heavens sake help unis too!
UK universities' combined turnover (2023/4) £57.2bn - Central to innovation and the industrial strategy. Educating a dumbed down nation. Silence.
Yes, let's save steel, but for heavens sake help unis too!
April 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
British Steel's turnover (2023) £1.26 billion - Votes at risk! Red Wall! Urgent legislation!
UK universities' combined turnover (2023/4) £57.2bn - Central to innovation and the industrial strategy. Educating a dumbed down nation. Silence.
Yes, let's save steel, but for heavens sake help unis too!
UK universities' combined turnover (2023/4) £57.2bn - Central to innovation and the industrial strategy. Educating a dumbed down nation. Silence.
Yes, let's save steel, but for heavens sake help unis too!
Just came across this conundrum in @herring1967.bsky.social’s Emergency Questions. I suspect most people would eradicate the novels of Wilkie Collins. But not me. And I love mini eggs.
April 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Just came across this conundrum in @herring1967.bsky.social’s Emergency Questions. I suspect most people would eradicate the novels of Wilkie Collins. But not me. And I love mini eggs.
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A @readingmuseum.bsky.social
#exhibition co-curated by @andrewmangham.bsky.social and Emma Aston that reimagined monsters of ancient tales with new art and analysis proved to be a hit with younger museum-goers – an often hard-to-reach audience! 👹
🔗 rdg.ac/45H9gzF
#exhibition co-curated by @andrewmangham.bsky.social and Emma Aston that reimagined monsters of ancient tales with new art and analysis proved to be a hit with younger museum-goers – an often hard-to-reach audience! 👹
🔗 rdg.ac/45H9gzF
March 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A @readingmuseum.bsky.social
#exhibition co-curated by @andrewmangham.bsky.social and Emma Aston that reimagined monsters of ancient tales with new art and analysis proved to be a hit with younger museum-goers – an often hard-to-reach audience! 👹
🔗 rdg.ac/45H9gzF
#exhibition co-curated by @andrewmangham.bsky.social and Emma Aston that reimagined monsters of ancient tales with new art and analysis proved to be a hit with younger museum-goers – an often hard-to-reach audience! 👹
🔗 rdg.ac/45H9gzF
It’s the fact that Starmer got on well with him that worries me.
February 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It’s the fact that Starmer got on well with him that worries me.
Wow. Bowled over by this review. Thanks to @mlclark.bsky.social and @strangehorizons.bsky.social
It's Friday! You know what that means: it's review day at @strangehorizons.bsky.social.
And this week we have a special one to round things out: @mlclark.bsky.social on @andrewmangham.bsky.social's We Are All Monsters. Criticism on criticism, gang - this is what the special's all about.
And this week we have a special one to round things out: @mlclark.bsky.social on @andrewmangham.bsky.social's We Are All Monsters. Criticism on criticism, gang - this is what the special's all about.
We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us by Andrew Mangham
The benefit of reading a volume such as this—for scholars and SFF writers or readers alike—lies in its thought-provoking presentation of humanity’s quest for self-understanding, and in its dispelli…
strangehorizons.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Wow. Bowled over by this review. Thanks to @mlclark.bsky.social and @strangehorizons.bsky.social
Truly sorry to hear about the passing of Professor Brian Maidment. He taught me as an undergrad and inspired me with a love of Victorian literature. He was generous, kind, and a pleasure to be around. Thanks for everything Brian.
January 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Truly sorry to hear about the passing of Professor Brian Maidment. He taught me as an undergrad and inspired me with a love of Victorian literature. He was generous, kind, and a pleasure to be around. Thanks for everything Brian.
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The University of Reading's Centre for Health Humanities is hosting an *online* seminar series this spring – with talks on public engagement, disability studies, public health law, shared reading & representations of CSA, multispecies encounters, and more! Join us by emailing chh@reading.ac.uk.
January 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The University of Reading's Centre for Health Humanities is hosting an *online* seminar series this spring – with talks on public engagement, disability studies, public health law, shared reading & representations of CSA, multispecies encounters, and more! Join us by emailing chh@reading.ac.uk.
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Mary Shelley's novel suggests not only that magic and alchemy preceded science but also that science can infuse and revive their prescientific ambitions.
Victor Frankenstein’s Technoscientific Dream of Reason
How is it that this premodern mystical alchemist appears so contemporary today?
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December 29, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Mary Shelley's novel suggests not only that magic and alchemy preceded science but also that science can infuse and revive their prescientific ambitions.
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This week's universities in the Bad or Very Bad News column:
*Coventry
*Dundee
*Keele
*Nottingham
*St Andrews
This will start up again in Jan, as the Cavalcade of Waste fires up again! 🙄☹️
*Coventry
*Dundee
*Keele
*Nottingham
*St Andrews
This will start up again in Jan, as the Cavalcade of Waste fires up again! 🙄☹️
December 22, 2024 at 9:45 AM
This week's universities in the Bad or Very Bad News column:
*Coventry
*Dundee
*Keele
*Nottingham
*St Andrews
This will start up again in Jan, as the Cavalcade of Waste fires up again! 🙄☹️
*Coventry
*Dundee
*Keele
*Nottingham
*St Andrews
This will start up again in Jan, as the Cavalcade of Waste fires up again! 🙄☹️
Thanks Amazon.
December 16, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Thanks Amazon.
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Read this moving and urgently necessary account
Important lessons from old books: "Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths can never be inevitable again." theconversation.com/infectious-d...
Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
theconversation.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Read this moving and urgently necessary account
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#otd 1897 Ellen Nussey, great friend of Charlotte Bronte, died aged 80. It's thanks to Ellen's preservation of hundreds of Charlotte’s letters, and to her assisting Elizabeth Gaskell in her biography of Charlotte Bronte, that we know so much about the Bronte family.
November 26, 2024 at 5:12 PM
#otd 1897 Ellen Nussey, great friend of Charlotte Bronte, died aged 80. It's thanks to Ellen's preservation of hundreds of Charlotte’s letters, and to her assisting Elizabeth Gaskell in her biography of Charlotte Bronte, that we know so much about the Bronte family.