dr joshua phillips
@woolfianjosh.bsky.social
Woolf Doctor | Turns squiggles into angle brackets | modernism, digital humanities, bad puns | he/him | would prefer not to
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The Digital Anon
www.digital-anon.com
*ahem* now for a professional one.
I am excited to announce the publication of The Digital 'Anon', a new digital edition of Virginia Woolf's final, unpublished essay drafts which makes this remarkable corpus available as an OA resource.
It is available here: www.digital-anon.com.
I am excited to announce the publication of The Digital 'Anon', a new digital edition of Virginia Woolf's final, unpublished essay drafts which makes this remarkable corpus available as an OA resource.
It is available here: www.digital-anon.com.
Why bother with QR at all? Why not just allocate funding based on which PIs seem the most clubbable?
;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3
‘Beware trade-offs’ of removing REF funding for 3* outputs
Review of formula used to allocate £2 billion QR funding could downgrade or withdraw money for ‘internationally excellent’ research, some fear
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Why bother with QR at all? Why not just allocate funding based on which PIs seem the most clubbable?
Tired: Teaching kids cursive because of ideology
Wired:Teaching kids cursive because of palaeography
Inspired: Teaching kids Carolingian miniscule
Wired:Teaching kids cursive because of palaeography
Inspired: Teaching kids Carolingian miniscule
Came across this on Instagram and was immediately annoyed - most people currently alive can’t read most historical documents for a myriad of reasons that far exceed handwriting. That’s why people who actually do read those documents (historians) learn palaeography!
January 2, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Tired: Teaching kids cursive because of ideology
Wired:Teaching kids cursive because of palaeography
Inspired: Teaching kids Carolingian miniscule
Wired:Teaching kids cursive because of palaeography
Inspired: Teaching kids Carolingian miniscule
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Prose is a GREAT gateway drug to real books (comics)
January 1, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Prose is a GREAT gateway drug to real books (comics)
Can we make some sort of NYE-lite that isn’t anathema to people who would like a little socialising but also prefer to be in bed at a decent hour?
December 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Can we make some sort of NYE-lite that isn’t anathema to people who would like a little socialising but also prefer to be in bed at a decent hour?
Bingeing Eastenders just to Beale something
Talking to @greenleejw.bsky.social just to eel something.
Heating up wax just to seal something.
December 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Bingeing Eastenders just to Beale something
Dun3: Spice Up Your Life
December 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Dun3: Spice Up Your Life
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It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed tiny Tim, who did NOT die
It was the day tiny Tim, who did NOT die, exploded.
This Is Just To Say
I have eaten
Tiny
Tim, who did
NOT die,
and who
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
he was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I have eaten
Tiny
Tim, who did
NOT die,
and who
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
he was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
December 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed tiny Tim, who did NOT die
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This Is Just To Say
I have eaten
Tiny
Tim, who did
NOT die,
and who
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
he was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I have eaten
Tiny
Tim, who did
NOT die,
and who
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
he was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
"My name is Tiny Tim, who did NOT die,
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair"
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair"
‘It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite, Tiny Tim who did NOT die, when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me’
December 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This Is Just To Say
I have eaten
Tiny
Tim, who did
NOT die,
and who
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
he was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I have eaten
Tiny
Tim, who did
NOT die,
and who
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
he was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
With a sudden intensity, as if he saw it clear for a second, he drew a line there, in the centre. It was done; it was finished. Yes, Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, thought, laying down his brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.
Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, stood by himself against the hills, holding darkness within; he had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.
The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On one of those rocks is Tiny Tim, who did NOT die—under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are his. I am haunted by waters.
December 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
With a sudden intensity, as if he saw it clear for a second, he drew a line there, in the centre. It was done; it was finished. Yes, Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, thought, laying down his brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.
EXPLAIN YOUR USERNAME
my name is Josh and I’m a Woolfaholic.
my name is Josh and I’m a Woolfaholic.
EXPLAIN YOUR USERNAME
King Alistair knows (and this world's made me one)
King Alistair knows (and this world's made me one)
EXPLAIN YOUR USERNAME
every damn day is a new, terrible crisis.
every damn day is a new, terrible crisis.
December 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
EXPLAIN YOUR USERNAME
my name is Josh and I’m a Woolfaholic.
my name is Josh and I’m a Woolfaholic.
Suing my institution because nobody checks the weekly events newsletter
Also, who do I need to write to complain about the substandard advertising used to promote my events at universities? Pfft. Have university administrators never heard of Canva?
December 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Suing my institution because nobody checks the weekly events newsletter
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Who’s going to tell them all that the research is fun, and why many of us got into academia*?
I fell in love with research. I am infatuated by it. I am obsessed with creating new knowledge. Research is at least 60% reading what other people have written and think. Reading is part of the fun.
I fell in love with research. I am infatuated by it. I am obsessed with creating new knowledge. Research is at least 60% reading what other people have written and think. Reading is part of the fun.
December 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Who’s going to tell them all that the research is fun, and why many of us got into academia*?
I fell in love with research. I am infatuated by it. I am obsessed with creating new knowledge. Research is at least 60% reading what other people have written and think. Reading is part of the fun.
I fell in love with research. I am infatuated by it. I am obsessed with creating new knowledge. Research is at least 60% reading what other people have written and think. Reading is part of the fun.
Bro didn’t do four years in the Year’s Work in English Studies trenches while doing his own research. Bro couldn’t even conceive
December 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Bro didn’t do four years in the Year’s Work in English Studies trenches while doing his own research. Bro couldn’t even conceive
Revoke their qualifications, take their jobs and redistribute them among those of us who actually *want* to be intellectually responsible and rigorous members of an academic community.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Revoke their qualifications, take their jobs and redistribute them among those of us who actually *want* to be intellectually responsible and rigorous members of an academic community.
Headington Hill zipline when?
Following the news that Paris has launched a cable car, a councillor is calling to explore this in Oxford. Green City & County Councillor Emily Kerr said “Cable cars are cheap, fun, and low-environmental impact. We should be following transport innovators like Paris in considering all options."
Europe’s longest urban cable car unveiled in Paris 17 years after initial proposal
The innovative new project will connect the south-eastern region of the city which is poorly served by public transport
www.independent.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Headington Hill zipline when?
show me how your 2025 went
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
show me how your 2025 went
Finally getting round to watching the new Doctor Who thing and it’s very much this meme
a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards
Alt: Garth Marengi saying “ I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards”
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Finally getting round to watching the new Doctor Who thing and it’s very much this meme
Today in Cartopia, the town built entirely for cars, an alarm has been going off in one of my local car parks for OVER TWELVE HOURS. It was going off when I went to bed last night and the same alarm is going off now.
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Today in Cartopia, the town built entirely for cars, an alarm has been going off in one of my local car parks for OVER TWELVE HOURS. It was going off when I went to bed last night and the same alarm is going off now.
Tell that to the Joyceans.
![Footnotes from an academic article, reading: Joyce, J (1986) [1922] Ulysses Gabler, HW; Steppe, W and Melchior, C (eds) Bodley Head at 577 (line 1215). The 1984 Gabler edition is widely regarded as authoritative.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oamwovl7ekaxh65v4sxmtnmk/bafkreibc2fmirgo5p5wnj7ic4i7ztlycurtecuito3iica4ujgj56nhw5e@jpeg)
December 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Tell that to the Joyceans.
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Of course, you couldn't write Great Expectations now because Miss Havisham wouldn't qualify for a PIP
December 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Of course, you couldn't write Great Expectations now because Miss Havisham wouldn't qualify for a PIP
D-did a human write this?
December 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
D-did a human write this?
gender rolls send tweet
December 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
gender rolls send tweet
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Counterpoint: imagine being one of the Stranger Things kids who goes to college and gets told, by a rich kid, their freshman year, “I’m going to study the works of Jacques Derrida!” and muttering “what the hell?”
1987 was a hell of a time. GI Joe lunch boxes. Trapper Keepers. Entire essays premised on being aggrieved that a book about puns did not sacrifice sufficient hekatombs to Derrida’s work on Joyce.
December 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Counterpoint: imagine being one of the Stranger Things kids who goes to college and gets told, by a rich kid, their freshman year, “I’m going to study the works of Jacques Derrida!” and muttering “what the hell?”
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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
this has become a very important video to me