Dr Adele Guyton
@adeleguyton.bsky.social
Researcher. Alternate history and also astronomical knowledge in German and British popular magazines, 1890-WWII. Singer and sewist. She/her. I'm the person on the left in my profile pic.
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Dr Guyton at last!
On Tuesday I defended my dissertation, "Popular Astronomy: Mediating Outer Space in German and British Periodical Culture, 1890-1950."
#PhDone
On Tuesday I defended my dissertation, "Popular Astronomy: Mediating Outer Space in German and British Periodical Culture, 1890-1950."
#PhDone
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When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
Friends, anyone have access to '"All Smell is Disease": Miasma, Sensory Rhetoric, and the Sanitary-Bacteriologic of Visceral Public Health' (Winderman et al.) in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine and willing to share a PDF? #AcademicSky
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Friends, anyone have access to '"All Smell is Disease": Miasma, Sensory Rhetoric, and the Sanitary-Bacteriologic of Visceral Public Health' (Winderman et al.) in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine and willing to share a PDF? #AcademicSky
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.
Any work out there on the experience of time in different modes of transport historically? A passage in a German novel from 1927 acts like everyone knows 15 minutes seems like an eternity in an airplane but passes quickly in a train. Was this a thing? #academicsky
November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Any work out there on the experience of time in different modes of transport historically? A passage in a German novel from 1927 acts like everyone knows 15 minutes seems like an eternity in an airplane but passes quickly in a train. Was this a thing? #academicsky
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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.
An axiom on cafés serving specialty coffee: the better the coffee, the jankier the bathroom.
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
An axiom on cafés serving specialty coffee: the better the coffee, the jankier the bathroom.
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Here's a paper we wrote about how it's actually very bad that a "context of constrained funding has incentivised... providers of adult education, sports, arts and community services to demonstrate ancillary wellbeing benefits." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40447986/
Reading as therapy: medicalising books in an era of mental health austerity - PubMed
In the UK, a range of everyday activities are being re-framed as interventions to promote public mental health. Drivers of this include the rising burden of mental ill-health and constrained funding for community-based arts and educational provision, in the context of austerity. A consequent interes …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Here's a paper we wrote about how it's actually very bad that a "context of constrained funding has incentivised... providers of adult education, sports, arts and community services to demonstrate ancillary wellbeing benefits." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40447986/
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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've got an article in November's @historytoday.com on the remarkably durable hypothesis that Earth is hollow, from Halley to Symmes to underground feminist utopias to UFOs. You know the drill — to the centre of the Earth (I've probably used that one before).
October 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I've got an article in November's @historytoday.com on the remarkably durable hypothesis that Earth is hollow, from Halley to Symmes to underground feminist utopias to UFOs. You know the drill — to the centre of the Earth (I've probably used that one before).
Reposted by Dr Adele Guyton
📣 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
truly when a new word comes to your life, a klaxon goes off in the wordhoard and its wild iterations come to find you
October 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
truly when a new word comes to your life, a klaxon goes off in the wordhoard and its wild iterations come to find you
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Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body.
30th January 2026.
See full CfP here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
30th January 2026.
See full CfP here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
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 12:47 PM
Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body.
30th January 2026.
See full CfP here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
30th January 2026.
See full CfP here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
📣 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
Look on my new triceratops fabric and rejoice! (She's going to be napkins for my friend)
October 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Look on my new triceratops fabric and rejoice! (She's going to be napkins for my friend)
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The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.
Reposted by Dr Adele Guyton
If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here:
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here:
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
This review is AMAZING. Go read it if you're at all interested in rail infrastructure.
In war-torn Ukraine, trains still run like clockwork. How can such an impossibly efficient system hold together while Russia bombs cities and infrastructure daily? That’s the story in « Glory to the rails » — a review by Oksana Forostyna. Read here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/glory-to-the...
September 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This review is AMAZING. Go read it if you're at all interested in rail infrastructure.
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CfP: BSLS Annual Conference 2026
The twenty-first annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Strathclyde, on 9th-11th April 2026 (in person).
Details including CfP here: bsls.ac.uk/conference20...
The twenty-first annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Strathclyde, on 9th-11th April 2026 (in person).
Details including CfP here: bsls.ac.uk/conference20...
Conference 2026 – Strathclyde – The British Society for Literature and Science
bsls.ac.uk
September 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
CfP: BSLS Annual Conference 2026
The twenty-first annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Strathclyde, on 9th-11th April 2026 (in person).
Details including CfP here: bsls.ac.uk/conference20...
The twenty-first annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Strathclyde, on 9th-11th April 2026 (in person).
Details including CfP here: bsls.ac.uk/conference20...
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As they say, when you invent the wheel, you invent the parking violation.
But Assyrians had a solution.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
But Assyrians had a solution.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
September 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
As they say, when you invent the wheel, you invent the parking violation.
But Assyrians had a solution.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
But Assyrians had a solution.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
JOB KLAXON (fully funded PhD in Environmental Humanities in the literary studies department at Ghent University)
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September 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
JOB KLAXON (fully funded PhD in Environmental Humanities in the literary studies department at Ghent University)
Martian tripods on the VPR! I wonder why... 😁
NEW ISSUE ALERT! It's a happy day when you find the latest VPR in your mailbox. This number includes the 2024 VanArsdel and Expanding the Field essays as well as articles on asylum periodicals and the bookselling trade. Treat yourself to some delightful reading: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55567 @rs4vp.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Martian tripods on the VPR! I wonder why... 😁
A moment of silence for all the informative footnotes that simply have to go. Your minutiae will live on in my memory in place of more useful things forever. 😢
September 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A moment of silence for all the informative footnotes that simply have to go. Your minutiae will live on in my memory in place of more useful things forever. 😢
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shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week
September 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week