becimay
@becimay.bsky.social
Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
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Christmas Eve Proofs ❤️
December 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Christmas Eve Proofs ❤️
Christmas Eve Proofs ❤️
December 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Christmas Eve Proofs ❤️
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Ron’s new book, Norwich Sonnets, just went to a reprint. You can buy it from Norfolk’s most interesting local interest publisher here waterlandbooks.co.uk/product/norw...
December 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Ron’s new book, Norwich Sonnets, just went to a reprint. You can buy it from Norfolk’s most interesting local interest publisher here waterlandbooks.co.uk/product/norw...
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Real question, though it may not sound like it.
What examples can you think of where an academic was profiled in the mainstream press (not field journal or para-academic pub) & it seemed to work out well for them?
What examples can you think of where an academic was profiled in the mainstream press (not field journal or para-academic pub) & it seemed to work out well for them?
December 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Real question, though it may not sound like it.
What examples can you think of where an academic was profiled in the mainstream press (not field journal or para-academic pub) & it seemed to work out well for them?
What examples can you think of where an academic was profiled in the mainstream press (not field journal or para-academic pub) & it seemed to work out well for them?
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‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’ 💀
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’ 💀
My intro to a new special issue on Chaplin for CQ, along with a mounting pile of brilliant essay constructions. Here’s the link …
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...
December 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
My intro to a new special issue on Chaplin for CQ, along with a mounting pile of brilliant essay constructions. Here’s the link …
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...
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Publisher of geniuses, #LastBooks, has just introduced a 20% discount on all their books. Type ‘20%2025’ when you get to the cart below …
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The Last Books
The Last Books is a small press edited by Phil Baber. Publishing poetry, poetics, and writing in translation.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Publisher of geniuses, #LastBooks, has just introduced a 20% discount on all their books. Type ‘20%2025’ when you get to the cart below …
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thelastbooks.org
Publisher of geniuses, #LastBooks, has just introduced a 20% discount on all their books. Type ‘20%2025’ when you get to the cart below …
thelastbooks.org
thelastbooks.org
The Last Books
The Last Books is a small press edited by Phil Baber. Publishing poetry, poetics, and writing in translation.
thelastbooks.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Publisher of geniuses, #LastBooks, has just introduced a 20% discount on all their books. Type ‘20%2025’ when you get to the cart below …
thelastbooks.org
thelastbooks.org
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Happy Wrong Thanksgiving to my neighbours in the melancholy republic to the south.
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Happy Wrong Thanksgiving to my neighbours in the melancholy republic to the south.
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Sign my petition! 🙏 x
This campaign needs you now
Protest the BBC's cut to Bregman's Reith lecture
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November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Sign my petition! 🙏 x
Sign my petition! 🙏 x
This campaign needs you now
Protest the BBC's cut to Bregman's Reith lecture
c.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Sign my petition! 🙏 x
Against critical sobriety 🙃
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Against critical sobriety 🙃
God is dead, Charlie Brown
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
God is dead, Charlie Brown
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To mark the publication of my first book, join us online (or in-person) on 3rd Dec 2025 at 16:30GMT / 11:30EST
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
To mark the publication of my first book, join us online (or in-person) on 3rd Dec 2025 at 16:30GMT / 11:30EST
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
Look at this gorgeous thing I got given 😍😍😍😍😍
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Look at this gorgeous thing I got given 😍😍😍😍😍
‘What a night that was, on that soft-looking bed, encircled by sound, said the sky’ (Keston Sutherland, Jokes)
November 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
‘What a night that was, on that soft-looking bed, encircled by sound, said the sky’ (Keston Sutherland, Jokes)
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Scholars of Critical University Studies & related fields need to consider whether the Brandeisian "bigness is badness" formulation applies to schools, especially universities, & applies precisely because scale is what makes schools attractive to parasitical profit-seeking enterprises.
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Scholars of Critical University Studies & related fields need to consider whether the Brandeisian "bigness is badness" formulation applies to schools, especially universities, & applies precisely because scale is what makes schools attractive to parasitical profit-seeking enterprises.
Keston Sutherland on being close read (in Jokes (2025))
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Keston Sutherland on being close read (in Jokes (2025))
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I think it's likely that I look back on the book launch symposium for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century as one of the absolute highlights of my career
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
We are underway. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social delivers opening remarks at a packed “Close Reading For The 21st Centure” book launch symposium.
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I think it's likely that I look back on the book launch symposium for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century as one of the absolute highlights of my career
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
Speaking on Veriry Soott today, among these assorted geniuses 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Speaking on Veriry Soott today, among these assorted geniuses 🤩
‘try to cope with a woman who is not tantalised, who is actually extremely annoyed’ Anna Mendelssohn 🔥🔥🔥
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
‘try to cope with a woman who is not tantalised, who is actually extremely annoyed’ Anna Mendelssohn 🔥🔥🔥
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Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!
November 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!