Lloyd Meadhbh Houston
@lejhouston.bsky.social
IRISH MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL HEALTH (OUP); Leverhulme (University of Cambridge); Senior Postdoctoral Researcher (Trinity College, Cambridge); BAIS and BSLS Executive; Co-facilitator of 'Relatively Queer'; Co-host of 'Censored'; FRHistS.
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Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium January 30th 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science
www.bsls.ac.uk
CFP: "Alternate Histories of the Body" (BSLS Winter Symposium, 30 January 2026 - Online)
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I eagerly welcome papers and panels for this one-day symposium exploring alternate ways to historicize 'the body' and embodied approaches to history.
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I eagerly welcome papers and panels for this one-day symposium exploring alternate ways to historicize 'the body' and embodied approaches to history.
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“In at least three of the cases, [out of seven lawsuits] the AI explicitly encouraged users to cut off loved ones. In other cases, the model reinforced delusions at the expense of a shared reality, cutting the user off from anyone who did not share the delusion.”
ChatGPT told them they were special — their families say it led to tragedy | TechCrunch
A wave of lawsuits against OpenAI detail how ChatGPT used manipulative language to isolate users from loved ones and make itself into their sole confidant.
techcrunch.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“In at least three of the cases, [out of seven lawsuits] the AI explicitly encouraged users to cut off loved ones. In other cases, the model reinforced delusions at the expense of a shared reality, cutting the user off from anyone who did not share the delusion.”
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
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Part of me wonders why Musk would allow something like this that reveals the scale of bots and sock-puppeting on X, but then I remembered there is literally nothing that could ever actually stop people volunteering their time, effort and money to help him out and prop up X's ad revenue and influence
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Part of me wonders why Musk would allow something like this that reveals the scale of bots and sock-puppeting on X, but then I remembered there is literally nothing that could ever actually stop people volunteering their time, effort and money to help him out and prop up X's ad revenue and influence
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This flaunting of pseudoscience will cost lives; vaccines skeptics are slowly being given more authoritative grounds on which to justify not vaccinating themselves and their children, leading more to vulnerability for disease and illness to take serious effects.
Trump and RFK Jr's CDC just added a page that is full of disinformation about vaccines and autism.
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This flaunting of pseudoscience will cost lives; vaccines skeptics are slowly being given more authoritative grounds on which to justify not vaccinating themselves and their children, leading more to vulnerability for disease and illness to take serious effects.
Just one more day to get your abstracts and proposals in for the BSLS Winter Symposium ("Alternate Histories of the Body"):
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I can't wait to get stuck in to the submissions.
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I can't wait to get stuck in to the submissions.
Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium January 30th 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science
www.bsls.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Just one more day to get your abstracts and proposals in for the BSLS Winter Symposium ("Alternate Histories of the Body"):
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I can't wait to get stuck in to the submissions.
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I can't wait to get stuck in to the submissions.
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French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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📣 CFP British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2026 -- "Alternate Histories of the Body"
I'm very excited to be organising this together with Lloyd Maedhbh Houston! 🥳 Send us your abstracts by November 21! #academicsky #callforpapers #literatureandscience
I'm very excited to be organising this together with Lloyd Maedhbh Houston! 🥳 Send us your abstracts by November 21! #academicsky #callforpapers #literatureandscience
Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium January 30th 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science
www.bsls.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
📣 CFP British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2026 -- "Alternate Histories of the Body"
I'm very excited to be organising this together with Lloyd Maedhbh Houston! 🥳 Send us your abstracts by November 21! #academicsky #callforpapers #literatureandscience
I'm very excited to be organising this together with Lloyd Maedhbh Houston! 🥳 Send us your abstracts by November 21! #academicsky #callforpapers #literatureandscience
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A little less than two weeks to send in your abstracts for "Alternate Histories of the Body"!
@lejhouston.bsky.social and I are very excited by what has come in so far.
@lejhouston.bsky.social and I are very excited by what has come in so far.
📣 CFP British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2026 -- "Alternate Histories of the Body"
I'm very excited to be organising this together with Lloyd Maedhbh Houston! 🥳 Send us your abstracts by November 21! #academicsky #callforpapers #literatureandscience
I'm very excited to be organising this together with Lloyd Maedhbh Houston! 🥳 Send us your abstracts by November 21! #academicsky #callforpapers #literatureandscience
Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium January 30th 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science
www.bsls.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A little less than two weeks to send in your abstracts for "Alternate Histories of the Body"!
@lejhouston.bsky.social and I are very excited by what has come in so far.
@lejhouston.bsky.social and I are very excited by what has come in so far.
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“Instead of mobilizing his unprecedented grassroots machine to pressure obstructionist lawmakers, support state and local candidates who shared his vision, and counter the Tea Party, Obama mothballed his campaign operation, bottling it up inside the Democratic National Committee.”
Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“Instead of mobilizing his unprecedented grassroots machine to pressure obstructionist lawmakers, support state and local candidates who shared his vision, and counter the Tea Party, Obama mothballed his campaign operation, bottling it up inside the Democratic National Committee.”
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Really like this article on the circulation of the Marquis de Sade's works in C19 England, looking at everything from adaptation/imitation/influence to two-penny serial parts of Nouvelle Justine.
www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...
www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...
The Marquis de Sade in English, 1800–1850 on JSTOR
Will McMorran, The Marquis de Sade in English, 1800–1850, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 112, No. 3 (July 2017), pp. 549-566
www.jstor.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Really like this article on the circulation of the Marquis de Sade's works in C19 England, looking at everything from adaptation/imitation/influence to two-penny serial parts of Nouvelle Justine.
www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...
www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...
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Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
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Chuck Schumer is the Paul Reiser in Aliens of the Democratic Party. Listen, motherfucker, I don’t give a shit what helps the Weyland Yutani Corporation, these fucking monsters are going to eat us. You need to get off your ass or you have to go.
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Chuck Schumer is the Paul Reiser in Aliens of the Democratic Party. Listen, motherfucker, I don’t give a shit what helps the Weyland Yutani Corporation, these fucking monsters are going to eat us. You need to get off your ass or you have to go.
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The media’s normalisation of evil really irks me. This tulip meets every definition for a Neo-Nazi - at the very least he should be described as a fascist, or far right. ‘White nationalist’ ignores his antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, anti-miscegenation & Holocaust denial.
November 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The media’s normalisation of evil really irks me. This tulip meets every definition for a Neo-Nazi - at the very least he should be described as a fascist, or far right. ‘White nationalist’ ignores his antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, anti-miscegenation & Holocaust denial.
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Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
August 14, 2023 at 4:43 PM
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
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My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
Astro-TERFs - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
In the backlash against trans rights in the UK since the late 2010s,
the LGB Alliance has been implicated as a leading exponent of the new
moral panic, typified by its newspaper campaign against GRA r...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
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Just over two weeks left to get your abstracts and panel proposals in for the @thebsls.bsky.social Winter Symposium: "Alternate Histories of the Body"
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I are already thrilled by what people have been proposing.
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I are already thrilled by what people have been proposing.
Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium January 30th 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science
www.bsls.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Just over two weeks left to get your abstracts and panel proposals in for the @thebsls.bsky.social Winter Symposium: "Alternate Histories of the Body"
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I are already thrilled by what people have been proposing.
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I are already thrilled by what people have been proposing.
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ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
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Honestly I love this for Elon.
They’ve kept X upright while constantly degrading the service, all under the banner of “hey remember Twitter? This is still basically Twitter. You’re too lazy to move, right?”
Now they’re ripping out the user experience, replacing it with a Grok slop bucket.
They’ve kept X upright while constantly degrading the service, all under the banner of “hey remember Twitter? This is still basically Twitter. You’re too lazy to move, right?”
Now they’re ripping out the user experience, replacing it with a Grok slop bucket.
November 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Honestly I love this for Elon.
They’ve kept X upright while constantly degrading the service, all under the banner of “hey remember Twitter? This is still basically Twitter. You’re too lazy to move, right?”
Now they’re ripping out the user experience, replacing it with a Grok slop bucket.
They’ve kept X upright while constantly degrading the service, all under the banner of “hey remember Twitter? This is still basically Twitter. You’re too lazy to move, right?”
Now they’re ripping out the user experience, replacing it with a Grok slop bucket.
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I hope you’re all proud of yourselves, you have disgracefully sullied the good name of the renowned and respected Glamour Magazine Women Of The Year Award
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I hope you’re all proud of yourselves, you have disgracefully sullied the good name of the renowned and respected Glamour Magazine Women Of The Year Award
CFP: "Alternate Histories of the Body" (BSLS Winter Symposium, 30 January 2026 - Online)
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I eagerly welcome papers and panels for this one-day symposium exploring alternate ways to historicize 'the body' and embodied approaches to history.
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I eagerly welcome papers and panels for this one-day symposium exploring alternate ways to historicize 'the body' and embodied approaches to history.
Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium January 30th 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science
www.bsls.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
CFP: "Alternate Histories of the Body" (BSLS Winter Symposium, 30 January 2026 - Online)
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I eagerly welcome papers and panels for this one-day symposium exploring alternate ways to historicize 'the body' and embodied approaches to history.
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
@adeleguyton.bsky.social and I eagerly welcome papers and panels for this one-day symposium exploring alternate ways to historicize 'the body' and embodied approaches to history.
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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
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
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
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"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
October 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.