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S. M. Carroll
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Academic Blue Sky for Siobhan Maria Carroll. Victorian Studies, Romantism, 18C Studies, Science Fiction, Environmental Humanities. Short reviews of things I love and occasional gardening complaints.
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Also hiring for another position in our Marketing Department! We're looking for a Marketing Manager to manage campaigns and champion our authors. Join our mission-driven team! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I saw this recently, and it was terrifically weird. More of a Gothic fairytale about plastic surgery than a straightforward mad scientist tale. It seemed very much up Del Toro’s alley.
"My face frightens me. My mask frightens me even more."

Today, 11/23, at 1pm and 7pm EST, the Deadlights Theater presents...

EYES WITHOUT A FACE

Come and join us on Discord for this disturbing modern fairytale about beauty, captivity, and personhood.

www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Surveys find students feel “demoralized” when instructors use ChatGPT for grading and lecture preparation.
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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AI bubble looking good today.

youtu.be/1ujRE2IkEIo?...
Monty Python: Mystico and Janet - Flats Built By Hipnosis
YouTube video by Bruno Carneiro da Cunha
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November 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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This section of Gerald of Wales' The Conquest of Ireland in which he praises his own family is essentially the Theme from Shaft.
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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If you're doing your holiday shopping and/or thinking about best to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday, 1 month from today, I have some news: Harvard UP's annotated editions of Austen's fiction (my own edition of Mansfield Park included) are now 25% off.
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/hap...
Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen — Harvard University Press
Celebrate with six gorgeous annotated editions of Jane Austen’s classics. “A sumptuous reading experience…richly illustrated with paintings, museum-quality photographs, and colorful Regency prints. A ...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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This headline ticks all the boxes for me.
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.

All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.

Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983) | University of Stavanger
Job title: PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, January 4, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Eric William Ravilious, y’all.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Dr Seward’s journals are famously ‘Kept in Phonograph’. Join me for a nerdy deep dive in which I, brandishing back-of-an-envelope math, calculate the cost of Seward's phonograph habit, & encounter a creature more uncanny than Dracula himself! 1/14 #Gothic
November 10, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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i think you need a baby sea otter swimming with mom right about now...
October 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
October 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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topical
a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman
ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman
media.tenor.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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V. excited to have found a child's diary from 1789, covering the period he & his family fled the French Revolution

... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c
a man sitting in a chair with a hulu logo on the bottom
ALT: a man sitting in a chair with a hulu logo on the bottom
media.tenor.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Your yearly reminder: Oct 1st means Spooky Season has begun!
October 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Is there anything more tantalising than the promise of an early 19th-century letter with the postscript "Burn this immediately"?
September 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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A rose spotted in Newbury today
September 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Morning walk
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Word.
so far as 18th & 19th century asshole poets go i see a lot of people taking easy shots at byron when dante gabriel rossetti is right there, digging up his wife's grave to get the book of poetry he buried with her
September 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Great to see the US climate scientists that Trump fired, fight back by setting up a parallel infrastructure website - climate.us - a crowdsourced nonprofit that aims to rebuild an independent version of the Government climate website that was closed down.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump
Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 6:11 AM