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Charlotte Boyce
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Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
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jrvaldez.bsky.social
Don't forget to submit an abstract for RSVP's Dublin conference on movements and migrations by tomorrow!
conference.rs4vp.org
RSVP Conference 2026 – RSVP
Dates July 23-25, 2026
conference.rs4vp.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
c19thceleb.bsky.social
Pam’s writing retreats are great! She’s previously run some for our PGRs at Portsmouth, and they always had excellent feedback 😊
pamplemoussepam.bsky.social Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 1d
Did you know that I run writers' retreats for PGRs & academics? So if you are looking for a way to offer a quiet space to write in a healthy and productive format that breaks the isolation of writing, get in touch. I do one day and residentials.

More info: writingwithpam.wordpress.com
Photo of block typing in a lovely pile by Amador Loureiro on Unsplash
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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rs4vp.org
📣 Save the date! Nominations for our annual Colby Book Prize opens next week on 15 November. To comply with tax laws, books must be nominated by somebody other than the author, so tell us about the best book YOU read on #19thC periodicals published in 2025. rs4vp.org/awards/colby...
The Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – RSVP
The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, Vineta Colby, distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’s death, the Board of Dire...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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drhorrocks.bsky.social
Do come and join us in Liverpool next July, we look forward to welcoming you!
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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sarahwieten.bsky.social
Might be of interest to philosophy of medicine people:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine
This is a joint post 65% Sociology, 35% HPS. The Departments of Sociology and History and Philosophy of Science are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine in a
www.cam.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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darrenm1973.bsky.social
If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
c19thceleb.bsky.social
One of my favourite objects at MFA Boston: an inkwell of Sarah Bernhardt as a sphinx - sculpted by the actress herself!

#HappyHalloween
A Gothic looking inkwell depicting the 19th century actress Sarah Bernhardt as a sphinx with bat’s wings.
October 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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manonradge.bsky.social
Dwi'n meddwl mai neges ynghylch Grangetown ydi hwn.
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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nathankhensley.bsky.social
Great, scathing, important essay by @jraden.bsky.social on the function of "AI" in accelerating already-existing dynamics of transformation in higher ed —and what we can do to fight them
Born out of these now-distant federal research projects, then, AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy.
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested.' 1/2
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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rs4vp.org
Just a quick reminder that Curran Fellowship recommendation letters are due TODAY! If you're writing a letter of support for a Curran applicant, be sure to submit it via our online portal by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (which might buy a few of you some time 😏): buff.ly/1p1VE8f
October 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
c19thceleb.bsky.social
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ariadnereviews.bsky.social Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · Oct 21
I'd argue that decorating a Burnt Basque Cheesecake is to fundamentally ruin a Burnt Basque Cheesecake. #gbbo #BakeOff
October 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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finkelsteind.bsky.social
Excited about launch of a new book series I'm co-editing for EUP, entitled Edinburgh Critical Studies on the Colonial and Anti-Colonial Press. Several contributions in the pipeline already, and we're on the lookout for potential additions. Get in touch! edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinb...
Edinburgh Critical Studies on the Colonial and Anti-Colonial Press
<p>The series<em> </em>showcases the latest research into Anglophone and non-Anglophone colonial and anti-colonial press and periodicals by leading and emerging scholars in the field. It offers cuttin...
edinburghuniversitypress.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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samfordsaunders.bsky.social
Very excited for BAVS to come to Liverpool next year, and very pleased to see our CfP out! No specific theme, we are open to any exploration of the multifaceted nature of 'the Victorian' - have a look at the call here: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
victorianist.wordpress.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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emmamerkling.bsky.social
Calling all c19 art and queer theory ppl! @frankiedytor.bsky.social and I are still welcoming proposals for our #AAH panel on c19 British art after trans studies: see CFP below. #c19 #lgbtqhistory
Call for papers: “The nineteenth century saw profound transformations in how being and embodiment were figured across British culture. Art and science were at the forefront of these changes. As new forms of subjectivity were being formulated, the relationship between the self and the body, and between the body and life itself, were being reconfigured in visual productions and scientific writings alike. These transformations were entangled with new, ambivalent, and profoundly modern ways of thinking about gender, sexuality, form, and the nature and limits of the human. In Victorian art, the body was opened up to forces and flows which constituted and exceeded it. This panel invites papers which centre trans studies as a lens through which to explore these turbulent transformations in nineteenth-century art. What modes of…” “… embodiment, being, or becoming come into view when Victorian visual culture is approached via trans theory? What kinds of subjects and materials come to matter differently? What are the uses of transness— attuned to transition, indeterminacy, multiplicity, and bodily change—as a theoretical and historical framework? We invite 20-minute papers exploring British art (broadly conceived) in the long nineteenth century through the lens of trans theory and/or from trans perspectives. Topics might include, but are not limited to: • The (un) making of the human; nonhuman bodies; monstrosity; animality • Ecology, metamorphosis, bodies and environments • Racialization of sex, gender, and embodiment • Coloniality of gender; imperialism and difference • Transness and disability; mutable, prosthetic, and anomalous bodies • Fairytales, folklore, myth, and transformation • Spirituality and immaterial bodies • Sexology and medical imaging”
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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katiewalshstx.bsky.social
Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
October 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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21group.bsky.social
Modern university ethos is invest in buildings, divest from people

Concrete has better job security than the staff

200 redundancies at University of Derby

Job cuts come weeks after opening of a new state-of-the-art £75m building for its Business School

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Derby proposes more than 200 redundancies
The university says it is committed to supporting everyone affected.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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pamelakgilbert.bsky.social
New series just dropped! Victorian/ 19th C Global Anglophone folks, please take a look.

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
Elements in Victorian Literature, Science, and the Environment « Humanities# « Cambridge Core Blog
Many eco-scholars today have lamented our current tendency to soft denial. We acknowledge major environmental concerns such as climate change while continuing to go about our lives as if they don’t ex...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
c19thceleb.bsky.social
Once again, Microsoft Authenticator stymies me from being able to actually do my job 😩
October 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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preraphsrule.bsky.social
"Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism."
robbhawkes.bsky.social Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · Oct 3
As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.
UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…
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October 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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haushoferl.bsky.social
Nothing to see here only a #foodhistory dream job at the Smithsonian... 🥦🍎🍾
trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...
Museum Curator (Food & Wine History), IS-1015-13
Job Opening: Museum Curator (Food & Wine History), IS-1015-13 at Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
trustcareers.si.edu
September 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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dbenjw.bsky.social
My periodic call for pitches to the 19th-Century Networks section of ✨Literature Compass✨:

Do you have a state-of-the-field essay to propose on #Romantic or #Victorian topics? a little-known or understudied author to spotlight?

Please get in touch!

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1741...
Literature Compass
Click on the title to browse this journal
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM