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Joan Passey
@joanpassey.bsky.social
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Gothic, horror | Victorian environments, coasts & seascapes 🌊 | Queer ecologies 🍄 | she/they 🏳️‍🌈 | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | English Lecturer | UCU Rep | Haunted Shores Network
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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Nov 11
An intro! I'm a lecturer in English & I specialise in Victorian lit, the gothic from the c18-present & the representations of seas & coasts in lit & culture. I am writing a book about queer ecologies of the gothic! I post about ADHD, food, queer stuff, horror, TV & film, writing, fanfiction & cats
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uniwalespress.bsky.social
' ... a foundational contribution to regional gothic studies.'

A brilliant review of 'Cornish Gothic' by @joanpassey.bsky.social in @victstudies.bsky.social!

muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

Discover more about this 'compelling' book here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/cornish...
Book cover which features a black and white photo of a sinking ship with the sails just above the surface, the ship itself already below the waves.
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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ianwalker.bsky.social
I am genuinely dumbfounded that anybody, even for a nanosecond, might have thought that LLM simulations of human participants could provide novel insights on the human mind
mjcrockett.bsky.social M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 26d
Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
joanpassey.bsky.social
I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...
September 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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glensidehospmuseum.bsky.social
Did Victorians believe heavy drinking caused spontaneous human combustion?

Dr Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social is going to enlighten us on this rather unusual subject, on Thursday 16th October at Glenside Hospital Museum, and we can't wait!

Tickets here: glensidemuseum.org.uk/introducing-...
September 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
joanpassey.bsky.social
I love Amelia B Edwards, not least because 'A Thousand Miles Up the Nile' has so many euphemistic applications
August 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
joanpassey.bsky.social
absolutely gobsmacked to find red and white flags painted on zebra crossings and roundabouts in my little part of bristol, ST GEORGE.
August 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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roxannedouglas.bsky.social
Spotted @jendeavour.bsky.social and @joanpassey.bsky.social’s books in the wild (“the wild” being The Bodies in the Bookshop in Cambridge in this instance)
August 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
joanpassey.bsky.social
Ahh yes, my favourite Jane Austen novels - The Schutzstaffel, Postage and Packaging, Member of Parliament, Electronic, Not Applicable and Phosphorous <3
August 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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deathbybadger.bsky.social
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
August 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
joanpassey.bsky.social
it's been DAYS since i saw it but i still can't stop thinking of the GENIUS of casting Jacob Anderson as Daniel Hall
August 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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amandajanemason.bsky.social
This is why I am sometimes grumpy when people tell me how lucky I am to live somewhere with limited public transport links and an economy built on on low paid seasonal work. Yes, it's beautiful, but that's not enough, particularly for the young.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Young people in England’s coastal towns three times more likely to have a mental health condition
They are suffering disproportionately and without help, say researchers, and unless they are given a voice, problems will continue to mount up
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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ghoulguides.bsky.social
I’m (Lauren) pleased to announce the safe arrival of my first child, ‘The Gothic at War’, weighing 75 pounds. It was a long and difficult birth but worth the effort.

If you want to support my sweet child, why not order a copy for you library: www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-got... #AcademicChatter #Gothic
July 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
joanpassey.bsky.social
I actually loved Thunderbolts. A profoundly on the nose reflection on self loathing and loneliness where a group hug saves the day but I'm a simple creature and I love a haunted house story with found family
July 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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metoffice.gov.uk
Did you know? 100 years ago today, the BBC broadcast the #ShippingForecast for the very first time, produced by the Met Office for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

More than just a lifesaver, it’s become a beloved part of Britain’s cultural identity. Learn more: bit.ly/4kg877D 🛳️🌊
Met Office graphic with the heading 'DID YOU KNOW?' and an illustration of a light bulb. Text reads: '100 years ago today, the BBC broadcast the very first Shipping Forecast, produced by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.' Includes the hashtag '#WhenItMatters'. On the right, a photo shows rough ocean waves under a cloudy sky.
July 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
For 30 years I've been experimenting with ways to see & use the online collections of libraries, archives & museums. I've made useful things, playful things, & weird things. Here's a big list of them for you to explore! https://wraggelabs.com #glam #histodons #digitalhumanities
Wragge Labs
A compilation of things I've built over the last 30 years to help people see and use the online collections of libraries, archives, and museums.
wraggelabs.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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nateo.bsky.social
At this point I think I may be one of an incredibly small number of people to have read the second Sullivan report in detail. It is uniformly poor scholarship, containing flagrant fabrications and misrepresentations, calling into question Alice Sullivan's ability to conduct basic academic research
July 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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willpooley.bsky.social
it’s hard to stress just how important it is for universities to provide tailored support for students for whom english is not a first language, and how counter-productive these proposed redundancies are

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@ucu.org.uk
University of Bristol jobs at risk amid lower student numbers
The university says the number of applicants to the languages course has fallen in recent years.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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kcfennessy.bsky.social
Massive Attack via Instagram.
The first two paragraphs: "Today, a hot day when 22 Palestinians (including journalists) sat in a seafront café were murdered by one Israeli bomb, various national media outlets have contacted us (again) to ask our view of something a musician said. For 636 days now, unprecedented & insufferable horror has been recorded by the brutalised communities of Gaza and shown to us on our phone and television screens. It will not stop. No one, it seems, will stop it." The last two paragraphs (in part): "As we all watch on aghast, every single day, shouting or typing into an echo chamber of complicity... Given the total ban by Israel on international journalists reporting from Gaza, and the simultaneous murder of hundreds of journalists in Gaza by Israeli forces, Massive Attack would urge the BBC and other media outlets to redirect their considerable news resource to reporting the truth of what is happening, daily, to the people of Gaza, and critically, to explaining the corresponding inaction of western governments (such as the UK) to their viewers.”
July 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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joesaunders1.bsky.social
Summer trips planned to a range of libraries and archives where I have some research time available. Let me know if you're in need of (paid) research in Cumbria, Yorkshire, Essex, London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Hereford, Devon, Cornwall or the West Midlands. 🗃️ www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Joe Saunders History
Here to help with any historical project including genealogy, property history, problem solving, archival photography and writing up research. Joe Saunders History
www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
June 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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bookhaus.bsky.social
Hello folks, I just wanted to give you an update on our crowdfunder campaign. We hit 18% of our target in the first 24 hours! Thank you so much for all your contributions, it means a lot. Thanks for all your messages of support as well!
June 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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davidebrown.bsky.social
BBC Four is bringing us some classic #Moviedrome intros to The Wicker Man and Don't Look Now before showings of the films themselves. Thursday 10 July is the date for your diary.
June 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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nicanstett.bsky.social
You should always be reading trans fiction, but now feels like an even more important time to be reading our stories and supporting our art. Good thing 2025 has already served up some absolutely incredible novels by trans authors!
7 New Trans Novels To Read This Summer
2025 has already amassed an absolutely stellar line-up of trans novels.
www.autostraddle.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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pietersender.bsky.social
A trio of new Tales of the Weird visitors from @blpublishing.bsky.social and especially exciting to see new anthologies from @joanpassey.bsky.social and @kjsoar.bsky.social

#TalesOfTheWeird #Horror #Weird #Fiction
June 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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uniwalespress.bsky.social
It's day two of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies ‘Gothic Crossroads’ conference!

Are you feeling inspired by @joanpassey.bsky.social's session yesterday? Discover more in her brilliant book 'Cornish Gothic'.

Find even more Gothic and Horror books on our stand in the Dalton Building 📚
Image shows many gothic and horror books on table covered in a blue tablecloth
June 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
joanpassey.bsky.social
Have found out that this is legitimately actually a murder hotel
joanpassey.bsky.social Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Jun 25
This hotel is definitely haunted!!! 'if Wetherspoons made hotels' is the vibe. I'm qualified to comment as I've done three conferences in three cities in three lots of accommodation in three weeks
June 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM