Dr Naomi Jacobs
@ladylark.bsky.social
Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking based at @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. @blackarchive.co.uk author. She/her.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
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Dr Naomi Jacobs
@ladylark.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I believe I'm on a Doctor Who related starter pack, so if you're here for that be aware that while I did co-write two Black Archive books about the show (and an academic paper about livestreaming of classic episodes) it's not a topic I post about a lot. I won't be offended if you decide to unfollow!
If you're here off an academic pack, I do share research stuff, but I'm an interdisciplinary magpie so it's all over the place. And you might just get food pictures, or in fact Doctor Who (or other geekiness).
Also, I curate my follows quite tightly so nothing personal if I don't follow back!
Also, I curate my follows quite tightly so nothing personal if I don't follow back!
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We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing.
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
October 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing.
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
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James Watson: terrible man, great Jeff Goldblum performance
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
James Watson: terrible man, great Jeff Goldblum performance
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Opening #TWC46's New Currents on Fans and AI, guest editors @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @ladylark.bsky.social identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom & fan studies arising from AI and suggest what the consequences might be. Read the editorial here:
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November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Opening #TWC46's New Currents on Fans and AI, guest editors @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @ladylark.bsky.social identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom & fan studies arising from AI and suggest what the consequences might be. Read the editorial here:
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Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
I couldn't make this event but it's great to see pictures of more sheep-making and my lovely colleagues talking to people about our Speculative Woolgathering project!
We enjoyed our time at the Festival of Social Science in Sheffield, where we asked questions about future technologies in industries like agriculture, and encouraged people to share positive messages from loved ones to explore the role that digital communication plays in our relationships.
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I couldn't make this event but it's great to see pictures of more sheep-making and my lovely colleagues talking to people about our Speculative Woolgathering project!
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I'm proud to announce my latest pin design!
These are for everyone with split pronouns who gets tired of people only referring to them one way. My lenticular pin shows different pronouns at different angles!
Please share with anyone who might like one 💖 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4396... #SciArt
These are for everyone with split pronouns who gets tired of people only referring to them one way. My lenticular pin shows different pronouns at different angles!
Please share with anyone who might like one 💖 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4396... #SciArt
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I'm proud to announce my latest pin design!
These are for everyone with split pronouns who gets tired of people only referring to them one way. My lenticular pin shows different pronouns at different angles!
Please share with anyone who might like one 💖 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4396... #SciArt
These are for everyone with split pronouns who gets tired of people only referring to them one way. My lenticular pin shows different pronouns at different angles!
Please share with anyone who might like one 💖 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4396... #SciArt
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Reposted by Dr Naomi Jacobs
If you were at Friday night's screening of Frankenstein at @thedukescinema.bsky.social and you picked up my scarf, could I have it back please? It's dark blue and grey, though there can't have been that many scarves lying around
November 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If you were at Friday night's screening of Frankenstein at @thedukescinema.bsky.social and you picked up my scarf, could I have it back please? It's dark blue and grey, though there can't have been that many scarves lying around
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Anyone want 4 tickets cause I‘m sick af -.-
Do I know anyone who‘d want two tickets to see the Thrilling Adventure Hour Anniversary live show this Sat Nov 1 in London? I‘m going but we‘re short 2 people
www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/the-thr...
www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/the-thr...
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Anyone want 4 tickets cause I‘m sick af -.-
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I interrupt your doomscrolling for a heartwarming update: Notre Dame, which is generally unavailable for private events, is hosting a wedding...for one of the carpenters who helped rebuilt it after the fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7D...
Notre-Dame hosts rare wedding for carpenter who helped rebuild it • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I interrupt your doomscrolling for a heartwarming update: Notre Dame, which is generally unavailable for private events, is hosting a wedding...for one of the carpenters who helped rebuilt it after the fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7D...
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It's International Animation Day. Animation professionals, quote this with something you worked on. Here's an episode of Sarah & Duck I wrote ten years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Sarah & Duck - Series 3: 1. Picture Planes
Animation for preschool children. When Sarah and Duck race paper planes, they chance upon an exciting discovery.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's International Animation Day. Animation professionals, quote this with something you worked on. Here's an episode of Sarah & Duck I wrote ten years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Flashbacks to one of the more spectacular flamewars on a Doctor Who mailing list circa 2000.
October 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Flashbacks to one of the more spectacular flamewars on a Doctor Who mailing list circa 2000.
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'Every essay will focus on a specific story (or series), asking how a fan author uses a fandom’s narratives and tropes to think beyond the themes or interests of the fannish source; or, to put it another way, to ask what is the fanfiction author using the fandom to think about?'
Oh yes, exactly
Oh yes, exactly
October 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
'Every essay will focus on a specific story (or series), asking how a fan author uses a fandom’s narratives and tropes to think beyond the themes or interests of the fannish source; or, to put it another way, to ask what is the fanfiction author using the fandom to think about?'
Oh yes, exactly
Oh yes, exactly
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Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading
If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
rb.gy/8hqqzb
If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
rb.gy/8hqqzb
rb.gy
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading
If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
rb.gy/8hqqzb
If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
rb.gy/8hqqzb
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Oh look, another “All fans of (insert franchise) are dudes” clickbait article has dropped, which means it’s time to give away a couple of copies of my book “Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry.”
Comment below if you would like to be entered into this raffle!
Comment below if you would like to be entered into this raffle!
a woman with glasses is holding a cell phone and saying nerd raaaaage .
ALT: a woman with glasses is holding a cell phone and saying nerd raaaaage .
media.tenor.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Oh look, another “All fans of (insert franchise) are dudes” clickbait article has dropped, which means it’s time to give away a couple of copies of my book “Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry.”
Comment below if you would like to be entered into this raffle!
Comment below if you would like to be entered into this raffle!
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Hoping for some academic help...updating my readings in a Monsters class & would love a book that focuses on different monsters (zombie, vampire...) from histor/cult perspective. I've used (& enjoyed!) Asma's On Monsters and Poole's Monsters in America, but both are a bit dated by now. Thoughts?
October 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hoping for some academic help...updating my readings in a Monsters class & would love a book that focuses on different monsters (zombie, vampire...) from histor/cult perspective. I've used (& enjoyed!) Asma's On Monsters and Poole's Monsters in America, but both are a bit dated by now. Thoughts?
I'm enjoying #FSNNA2025 so much, and it was very much worth staying up for the vid show just now, but having a full day of work including teaching running straight into a full conference programme until nearly midnight UK time is punishing.
October 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I'm enjoying #FSNNA2025 so much, and it was very much worth staying up for the vid show just now, but having a full day of work including teaching running straight into a full conference programme until nearly midnight UK time is punishing.
It's #FSNNA2025 time! Always a fun conference. Later today I'll be presenting in an exciting panel: 'methods, pedagogy and disciplinary directions'. I'll be giving a preview of ideas behind the (edited collection) book I'm working on bringing Design Research and Fan Studies together, out next year!
October 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It's #FSNNA2025 time! Always a fun conference. Later today I'll be presenting in an exciting panel: 'methods, pedagogy and disciplinary directions'. I'll be giving a preview of ideas behind the (edited collection) book I'm working on bringing Design Research and Fan Studies together, out next year!
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Are you a UK or Ireland-based designer looking to get started in the industry? Penguin UK has launched its cover design awards and this year, the focus is fantasy – and one of the two titles is Terry Pratchett's Night Watch. More details:
terrypratchett.com/news/calling...
terrypratchett.com/news/calling...
Calling all designers! Create your own version of a classic Discworld cover... | Terry Pratchett
Penguin UK has launched its annual cover design award contest where all UK and Ireland-based designers can submit their own designs for two classic Penguin titles. This year’s focus is fantasy and the...
terrypratchett.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Are you a UK or Ireland-based designer looking to get started in the industry? Penguin UK has launched its cover design awards and this year, the focus is fantasy – and one of the two titles is Terry Pratchett's Night Watch. More details:
terrypratchett.com/news/calling...
terrypratchett.com/news/calling...
Yikes
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Yikes
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So you need a fresh costume idea. Don't ask chatgpt!
no what you need is one of these costumes
tiny neural net running on my laptop, trained on user-submitted halloween costumes
best quality costumes guaranteed
www.aiweirdness.com/halloween-co...
no what you need is one of these costumes
tiny neural net running on my laptop, trained on user-submitted halloween costumes
best quality costumes guaranteed
www.aiweirdness.com/halloween-co...
October 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
So you need a fresh costume idea. Don't ask chatgpt!
no what you need is one of these costumes
tiny neural net running on my laptop, trained on user-submitted halloween costumes
best quality costumes guaranteed
www.aiweirdness.com/halloween-co...
no what you need is one of these costumes
tiny neural net running on my laptop, trained on user-submitted halloween costumes
best quality costumes guaranteed
www.aiweirdness.com/halloween-co...
I wish I could have gone to Brazil for #AoIR or even to Cork for #IDWCon. But it was a good decision not to, since the last fortnight here has been exhausting to the point that last night I came home at a reasonable time from the pub after a couple of drinks then accidently fell asleep on the sofa.
October 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM