Chris Lloyd
@cilloyd.bsky.social
he/him. associate prof, poet, writer, host of “books up close” and coeditor of seaford review journal 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴🇵🇸
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BBC Radio 4 this morning joined Trump in describing Zohran Mamdani as a "radical leftist".
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
BBC Radio 4 this morning joined Trump in describing Zohran Mamdani as a "radical leftist".
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Remember, while the UK government prattled on about 'cancel culture' they cultivated the real threats to academic freedom. Forcing universities to be dependent on internationalization through broken funding models and failing academic staff.
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Remember, while the UK government prattled on about 'cancel culture' they cultivated the real threats to academic freedom. Forcing universities to be dependent on internationalization through broken funding models and failing academic staff.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
Sleepaway Camp horror jock realness. (This fake blood won’t come off)
November 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Sleepaway Camp horror jock realness. (This fake blood won’t come off)
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL. In this new episode of my podcast, I talk to Kaja Franck about Bram Stoker’s Dracula!!! 🧛 open.spotify.com/episode/7bUK...
Ep. 18. Bram Stoker, Dracula (with Kaja Franck)
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October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL. In this new episode of my podcast, I talk to Kaja Franck about Bram Stoker’s Dracula!!! 🧛 open.spotify.com/episode/7bUK...
New ep from me!!
It's season 4 of the podcast!! Time flies. In this episode
@cilloyd.bsky.social
talks to AJ Singh about their work on decolonising the mindbody, on the entanglements of racism and ableism, and so much more. Subscribe, review, send to friends, and leave feedback! open.spotify.com/episode/3K2a...
@cilloyd.bsky.social
talks to AJ Singh about their work on decolonising the mindbody, on the entanglements of racism and ableism, and so much more. Subscribe, review, send to friends, and leave feedback! open.spotify.com/episode/3K2a...
Episode 25: AJ Singh
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October 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New ep from me!!
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It's season 4 of the podcast!! Time flies. In this episode
@cilloyd.bsky.social
talks to AJ Singh about their work on decolonising the mindbody, on the entanglements of racism and ableism, and so much more. Subscribe, review, send to friends, and leave feedback! open.spotify.com/episode/3K2a...
@cilloyd.bsky.social
talks to AJ Singh about their work on decolonising the mindbody, on the entanglements of racism and ableism, and so much more. Subscribe, review, send to friends, and leave feedback! open.spotify.com/episode/3K2a...
Episode 25: AJ Singh
open.spotify.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It's season 4 of the podcast!! Time flies. In this episode
@cilloyd.bsky.social
talks to AJ Singh about their work on decolonising the mindbody, on the entanglements of racism and ableism, and so much more. Subscribe, review, send to friends, and leave feedback! open.spotify.com/episode/3K2a...
@cilloyd.bsky.social
talks to AJ Singh about their work on decolonising the mindbody, on the entanglements of racism and ableism, and so much more. Subscribe, review, send to friends, and leave feedback! open.spotify.com/episode/3K2a...
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Anyway I hated Jill Lepore from when I first knew her in the late 1990s Cambridge playground days and I was an adjunct at Trinity and she referred to her tenure track position at BU as a “starter job.”
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Anyway I hated Jill Lepore from when I first knew her in the late 1990s Cambridge playground days and I was an adjunct at Trinity and she referred to her tenure track position at BU as a “starter job.”
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
My workout app knows me well 👻 ♏️ 🍑 happy Scorpio season x
October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My workout app knows me well 👻 ♏️ 🍑 happy Scorpio season x
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In case you're wondering where we're at with #UKHE: senior managers are now trying to use the *anti-terrorism* mechanisms to reprimand their staff for talking with local politicians.
But everything's fine. No need for government to intervene and put an end to the abuses of power.
De Montfort University threatened to report staff to Prevent in response to online meeting
Exclusive: the troubled university is facing allegations of stifling free speech, in yet another spat over job cuts
www.leicester.news
October 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In case you're wondering where we're at with #UKHE: senior managers are now trying to use the *anti-terrorism* mechanisms to reprimand their staff for talking with local politicians.
But everything's fine. No need for government to intervene and put an end to the abuses of power.
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this is very very nice and I am still not sure I read the email accurately - big thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk, without whom, incidentally, I could not have written A FLAT PLACE
Dr @noreenmasud.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Creative and Critical Writing from the Department of English, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded by the @leverhulme.ac.uk - one of only 30 recipients from across the UK who will receive £100,000.
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
this is very very nice and I am still not sure I read the email accurately - big thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk, without whom, incidentally, I could not have written A FLAT PLACE
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take me back to Spain
October 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
take me back to Spain
As an external examiner for their amazing literature/creative writing programme, this is a decimation (of people’s lives and careers; of education; of student opportunity; of disciplines). Fuck austerity in all its forms.
Job losses at Staffordshire University for third year running while the senior management claim “student experience remains paramount”
We note the precision of cutting 66.7 people to “save” education
The remaining 0.3 of a person picks up all the extra workload?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We note the precision of cutting 66.7 people to “save” education
The remaining 0.3 of a person picks up all the extra workload?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Staffordshire proposes to cut nearly 70 jobs
The university says the proposed reduction in staff comes are in response to financial challenges.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
As an external examiner for their amazing literature/creative writing programme, this is a decimation (of people’s lives and careers; of education; of student opportunity; of disciplines). Fuck austerity in all its forms.
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Job losses at Staffordshire University for third year running while the senior management claim “student experience remains paramount”
We note the precision of cutting 66.7 people to “save” education
The remaining 0.3 of a person picks up all the extra workload?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We note the precision of cutting 66.7 people to “save” education
The remaining 0.3 of a person picks up all the extra workload?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Staffordshire proposes to cut nearly 70 jobs
The university says the proposed reduction in staff comes are in response to financial challenges.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Job losses at Staffordshire University for third year running while the senior management claim “student experience remains paramount”
We note the precision of cutting 66.7 people to “save” education
The remaining 0.3 of a person picks up all the extra workload?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We note the precision of cutting 66.7 people to “save” education
The remaining 0.3 of a person picks up all the extra workload?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.
October 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.
Not a bad place for my first keynote in Spain! ☀️ 🌊
October 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Not a bad place for my first keynote in Spain! ☀️ 🌊
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Did you see your friend's book at the store? Email them a pic! See them cited? Email them (esp. as aggregators fail to catch many citations)! Did a scholar mention their work! Email them! Did a student use their work in a paper? Email! Did a professor teach their work? Email! Email! All the time!!!
Friends tell other friends when they see their work out in the world. Just got an email about my book and it made my day.
September 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Did you see your friend's book at the store? Email them a pic! See them cited? Email them (esp. as aggregators fail to catch many citations)! Did a scholar mention their work! Email them! Did a student use their work in a paper? Email! Did a professor teach their work? Email! Email! All the time!!!
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Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.
"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net
A post from Feeding the
networks.h-net.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.
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Thank you to all who joined. Stay tuned for more “America Now!” sessions coming up!
Season 2 of “America Now!” launches at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. We talked about the long history of Americans aboard, from Jefferson to Emily in Paris.
Co-hosted by the Eccles Institute and @officialbaas.bsky.social! Come join us for the next one.
Co-hosted by the Eccles Institute and @officialbaas.bsky.social! Come join us for the next one.
September 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Thank you to all who joined. Stay tuned for more “America Now!” sessions coming up!
Season 2 of “America Now!” launches at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. We talked about the long history of Americans aboard, from Jefferson to Emily in Paris.
Co-hosted by the Eccles Institute and @officialbaas.bsky.social! Come join us for the next one.
Co-hosted by the Eccles Institute and @officialbaas.bsky.social! Come join us for the next one.
September 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Season 2 of “America Now!” launches at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. We talked about the long history of Americans aboard, from Jefferson to Emily in Paris.
Co-hosted by the Eccles Institute and @officialbaas.bsky.social! Come join us for the next one.
Co-hosted by the Eccles Institute and @officialbaas.bsky.social! Come join us for the next one.
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"you are the ones with the most to lose. My colleagues & I may have to leave this cherished institution & that would be a great loss for us. But we have already lived lives of consequence and can find other pursuits. You, however, would lose the education you deserve." 🔥
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Anonymous Texas A&M professor calls on students to be ‘agent of change’
Editor's note: The following is an open letter to the Texas A&M student body written by a tenured professor at A&M and provided to The Battalion. The pr
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September 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"you are the ones with the most to lose. My colleagues & I may have to leave this cherished institution & that would be a great loss for us. But we have already lived lives of consequence and can find other pursuits. You, however, would lose the education you deserve." 🔥
thebatt.com/news/anonymo...
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