Sam Solnick
@samsolnick.bsky.social
Lecturer in Literature @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Poetry | Environmental Humanities | Controlled Panic
New book TERROR FIRMA on horror + ecology for Fitzcarraldo
Poetry | Environmental Humanities | Controlled Panic
New book TERROR FIRMA on horror + ecology for Fitzcarraldo
Another day, another moron telling us we support genocide
Tim Davie staff email:
"I deeply regret that such offensive and deplorable behaviour appeared on the BBC and want to say sorry – to our audience and to all of you, but in particular to Jewish colleagues and the Jewish community."
"I deeply regret that such offensive and deplorable behaviour appeared on the BBC and want to say sorry – to our audience and to all of you, but in particular to Jewish colleagues and the Jewish community."
July 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Another day, another moron telling us we support genocide
Delighted to see this finally announced!
Liverpool-led AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards
Funding loads of Environmental/Medical Humanities PhDs with CHASE, @livunienglish.bsky.social, & lots of collaborators!!!
Liverpool-led AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards
Funding loads of Environmental/Medical Humanities PhDs with CHASE, @livunienglish.bsky.social, & lots of collaborators!!!
Congratulations to two University projects that have have received AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards funding, including Crafting Care, building on the work of Centre for Health, Arts, Society & Environment (CHASE) to explore how care is co-produced across communities news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/07/03/a...
July 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Delighted to see this finally announced!
Liverpool-led AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards
Funding loads of Environmental/Medical Humanities PhDs with CHASE, @livunienglish.bsky.social, & lots of collaborators!!!
Liverpool-led AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards
Funding loads of Environmental/Medical Humanities PhDs with CHASE, @livunienglish.bsky.social, & lots of collaborators!!!
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*Urgent action for academics and trade unionists - sign this letter opposing the ban on Palestine Action* The UK government's plan to extend terrorism laws is a grave threat to civil liberties and freedom of expression. Join us in opposing this repressive move. tinyurl.com/PalActionlet...
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June 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
*Urgent action for academics and trade unionists - sign this letter opposing the ban on Palestine Action* The UK government's plan to extend terrorism laws is a grave threat to civil liberties and freedom of expression. Join us in opposing this repressive move. tinyurl.com/PalActionlet...
A) BOSS Pets: A merseyside pet shop whose name plays on the Liverpool word meaning "very good"
B) Hugo BOSS: A clothes company founded by an actual Nazi; made the uniforms for the SS using forced labour.
And yet it's B suing A to protect their brand. Wild.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
B) Hugo BOSS: A clothes company founded by an actual Nazi; made the uniforms for the SS using forced labour.
And yet it's B suing A to protect their brand. Wild.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Hugo Boss tells Liverpool owner of Boss Pets to take down company website
Small business latest to be targeted by fashion house over use of word boss, slang for ‘great’ in Merseyside
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
A) BOSS Pets: A merseyside pet shop whose name plays on the Liverpool word meaning "very good"
B) Hugo BOSS: A clothes company founded by an actual Nazi; made the uniforms for the SS using forced labour.
And yet it's B suing A to protect their brand. Wild.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
B) Hugo BOSS: A clothes company founded by an actual Nazi; made the uniforms for the SS using forced labour.
And yet it's B suing A to protect their brand. Wild.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
yet another reason Val is the queen of crime and she-who-shall-not-be-named will only every be a derivative, unloved and unloving pretender.
Author Val McDermid and her wife, geography professor Jo Sharp, take part in the Pride parade through Edinburgh city centre on Saturday afternoon
𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴
𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴
June 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
yet another reason Val is the queen of crime and she-who-shall-not-be-named will only every be a derivative, unloved and unloving pretender.
I can't get the absolutely harrowing recording of Kipling's poem "Boots" in 28 Years Later out of my head as it goes from metronomic to hysterical 1
youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08?...
youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08?...
28 YEARS LATER – Official Trailer (HD)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment
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June 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I can't get the absolutely harrowing recording of Kipling's poem "Boots" in 28 Years Later out of my head as it goes from metronomic to hysterical 1
youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08?...
youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08?...
Nah
First half of 28 Weeks: tense and clever take on military-industrial context.
Second half: "what happens if a helicopter fights a zombie"
First half of 28 Weeks: tense and clever take on military-industrial context.
Second half: "what happens if a helicopter fights a zombie"
Ahem
After the rewatches I can confirm that for me……… 28 Weeks Later is superior to 28 Days Later.
#filmSky
After the rewatches I can confirm that for me……… 28 Weeks Later is superior to 28 Days Later.
#filmSky
a man is laughing in a field with a group of people running in the background .
ALT: a man is laughing in a field with a group of people running in the background .
media.tenor.com
June 20, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Nah
First half of 28 Weeks: tense and clever take on military-industrial context.
Second half: "what happens if a helicopter fights a zombie"
First half of 28 Weeks: tense and clever take on military-industrial context.
Second half: "what happens if a helicopter fights a zombie"
My wife thinks she drives because I am a danger to myself and others who can't check his left-hand mirror without swerving...little does she know she's just my beard
June 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
My wife thinks she drives because I am a danger to myself and others who can't check his left-hand mirror without swerving...little does she know she's just my beard
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Difficult to express the contempt I feel for this.
No, not all Jews think "Yes, there is a genocide happening right now and children are being burnt alive, but on the other hand some of those protesting really are antisemites, which is bad, so who knows what to do?"
archive.ph/E1vxH
No, not all Jews think "Yes, there is a genocide happening right now and children are being burnt alive, but on the other hand some of those protesting really are antisemites, which is bad, so who knows what to do?"
archive.ph/E1vxH
June 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Difficult to express the contempt I feel for this.
No, not all Jews think "Yes, there is a genocide happening right now and children are being burnt alive, but on the other hand some of those protesting really are antisemites, which is bad, so who knows what to do?"
archive.ph/E1vxH
No, not all Jews think "Yes, there is a genocide happening right now and children are being burnt alive, but on the other hand some of those protesting really are antisemites, which is bad, so who knows what to do?"
archive.ph/E1vxH
The trouble with having so many MPs from two certain universities is that they seem to think every other university a) is worthless b) is not the cornerstone of many local economies
god this man's ideas would be more disastrous for local economies than mephedrone and spice put together
May 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The trouble with having so many MPs from two certain universities is that they seem to think every other university a) is worthless b) is not the cornerstone of many local economies
as ever our excellent PhD students doing typically excellent things
For the Poems for Peace Project, a collection of poems were written by various writers, each thinking about different facets of peace and conflict. In our latest episode, staff members from @livunienglish.bsky.social interview the writers on their work open.spotify.com/episode/07Vd...
Poems Promoting Peace and Addressing Conflict
The Bibliography · Episode
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April 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
as ever our excellent PhD students doing typically excellent things
We have never been human;
but I'll try anything once
but I'll try anything once
🤵Are you human? Of course you are, this isn't 'the other place'. So that means you've got a month left to apply to join this year's Being Human festival, celebrating all that's good about the humanities: www.beinghumanfestival.org/news/apply-t...
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March 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
We have never been human;
but I'll try anything once
but I'll try anything once
Have you heard the good news is the bad news?
Exit polls found that 81% of white evangelicals backed Trump. It’s virtually identical to 2016 and 2020. They haven’t changed. They’re not ashamed of him. They have no problem having their faith defined by his actions. (And we shouldn’t hesitate in connecting those dots.)
Friendly Atheist
Friendly Atheist
March 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Have you heard the good news is the bad news?
Every time an editor says 'kill your darlings' a demon child dies
(only to be reborn, louder, slimier and screaming for more delicious headspace about 3 weeks later)
(only to be reborn, louder, slimier and screaming for more delicious headspace about 3 weeks later)
And just like that, my brain generated yet another idea for a novel. To join all the other ideas for novels I'll never write.
All screaming to be written.
My half born demon children.
They sing so sweetly.
All screaming to be written.
My half born demon children.
They sing so sweetly.
March 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Every time an editor says 'kill your darlings' a demon child dies
(only to be reborn, louder, slimier and screaming for more delicious headspace about 3 weeks later)
(only to be reborn, louder, slimier and screaming for more delicious headspace about 3 weeks later)
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Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social
So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)
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March 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
📢ACTUAL ACADEMIC JOB🚨
Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social
So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)
Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social
So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)
"He's Not the Messiah He's a Very Naughty Boy"
February 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
"He's Not the Messiah He's a Very Naughty Boy"
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'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'
February 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'
My Eye Movement?
Rapid.
Rapid.
My chip?
Hot.
Hot.
My club?
Culture.
Culture.
February 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
My Eye Movement?
Rapid.
Rapid.
Universities: students, the main problem with AI is that not declaring you use it might affect your marks.
AI: Hi kids, make ethnic cleansing fun again!
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/26/w...
AI: Hi kids, make ethnic cleansing fun again!
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/26/w...
‘Trump Gaza is finally here!’: US president promotes Gaza plan in AI video | CNN
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday posted a video on his Truth Social account, which appears to have been created with generative AI, promoting the transformation of Gaza into a Gulf state-like re...
edition.cnn.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Universities: students, the main problem with AI is that not declaring you use it might affect your marks.
AI: Hi kids, make ethnic cleansing fun again!
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/26/w...
AI: Hi kids, make ethnic cleansing fun again!
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/26/w...
Just finished @rrrahul.bsky.social's amazing translation of this neon nightmare of a book by Michel Nieva which was just as thrillingly weird and wonderful as the cover suggests and totally gross in all the best ways
serpentstail.com/work/dengue-...
serpentstail.com/work/dengue-...
Dengue Boy - Serpent's Tail
serpentstail.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just finished @rrrahul.bsky.social's amazing translation of this neon nightmare of a book by Michel Nieva which was just as thrillingly weird and wonderful as the cover suggests and totally gross in all the best ways
serpentstail.com/work/dengue-...
serpentstail.com/work/dengue-...
As I begin wading through the whirlwind of semi-colons that signals the beginning of marking season I am going to keep murmuring this to myself for comfort...
Grammar, in its most vibrant form, is not about adhering to a set of implacable rules, but rather about exploring the forms of conceptual play made possible by those structuring tendencies.
I worry that new writers, raised in an auto-correcting panopticon at all times will lose this sense of play.
I worry that new writers, raised in an auto-correcting panopticon at all times will lose this sense of play.
February 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
As I begin wading through the whirlwind of semi-colons that signals the beginning of marking season I am going to keep murmuring this to myself for comfort...
My niece, bemused at me getting weepy while we were watching the end of Paddington 3: "are you crying because they have to eat marmalade forever now"
February 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
My niece, bemused at me getting weepy while we were watching the end of Paddington 3: "are you crying because they have to eat marmalade forever now"
Quite something that this is the most positive headline I've read in 2025
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Nasa: Asteroid 2024 YR4 less likely to hit Earth than thought
Following new calculations, the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth has been slashed by half
www.thetimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Quite something that this is the most positive headline I've read in 2025
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...