Dan Dicks
@danieldicks.bsky.social
PGR at the University of Glasgow researching Virginia Woolf and Queer Phenomenology. Also, sometimes poet. He/Him
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This averages out at a violation roughly every four hours, around the clock, continuously since 10 October. At what point do we stop calling it a ceasefire when Israel has just literally not ceased firing
October 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This averages out at a violation roughly every four hours, around the clock, continuously since 10 October. At what point do we stop calling it a ceasefire when Israel has just literally not ceased firing
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🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
October 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Anyone know of any journals accepting poems (preferably queer leaning but I’m amenable)? all my usual spots are closed ☹️
October 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Anyone know of any journals accepting poems (preferably queer leaning but I’m amenable)? all my usual spots are closed ☹️
Library day- finishing up the final chapter of the thesis on queer objects in Orlando!
It's Monday (again!), and the final #ModWrite of September. Share what you're working on with us using the hashtag.
September 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Library day- finishing up the final chapter of the thesis on queer objects in Orlando!
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“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat
In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.
www.independent.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Gen AI has been trained and developed in ways that no university research ethics committee would approve. And yet as academics we supposedly need training in how to use it ‘ethically’…
September 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Gen AI has been trained and developed in ways that no university research ethics committee would approve. And yet as academics we supposedly need training in how to use it ‘ethically’…
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Did some mandatory gen AI training. Unfortunately, I was given an opportunity to provide feedback.
September 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Did some mandatory gen AI training. Unfortunately, I was given an opportunity to provide feedback.
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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement
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Middle East crisis – live updates
A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts.
It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Goodbye #woolf2025 My first Woolf conference. Leaving with a ton of ideas of things to read and consider in my thesis.
July 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Goodbye #woolf2025 My first Woolf conference. Leaving with a ton of ideas of things to read and consider in my thesis.
Just in time for the end of pride, a poem of mine in queerlings issue 9 www.queerlings.co.uk/issues
June 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Just in time for the end of pride, a poem of mine in queerlings issue 9 www.queerlings.co.uk/issues
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1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Finally starting work on a ‘new’ thesis chapter (new in the sense that it was the first chapter I thought of but, two years later, am only just drafting) which means spending the day re-reading Orlando!
April 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Finally starting work on a ‘new’ thesis chapter (new in the sense that it was the first chapter I thought of but, two years later, am only just drafting) which means spending the day re-reading Orlando!
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No grift has ever come to a dead stop like "Free Speech On Campus". Months of headlines when Oberlin changed some cafeteria wording. But when students are kidnapped and imprisoned - from universities denied billions on speech grounds - the free speech zealots roll up the medicine tent and skip town.
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
No grift has ever come to a dead stop like "Free Speech On Campus". Months of headlines when Oberlin changed some cafeteria wording. But when students are kidnapped and imprisoned - from universities denied billions on speech grounds - the free speech zealots roll up the medicine tent and skip town.
Wondering if anyone knows where I might find a possible home for an essay on queer loneliness in All of Us Strangers and God’s Own Country, and/or a review of Charlie Porter’s Nova Scotia House (needn’t be ‘academic’)
March 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Wondering if anyone knows where I might find a possible home for an essay on queer loneliness in All of Us Strangers and God’s Own Country, and/or a review of Charlie Porter’s Nova Scotia House (needn’t be ‘academic’)
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Today’s poetry haul from @toppingsbath.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Today’s poetry haul from @toppingsbath.bsky.social
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I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
January 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
So excited to find out that my paper ‘“Pausing to watch the boys bathing in the Serpentine”: Sexually Dissident Bathing with Duncan Grant in Jacob’s Room’ has been accepted for the 34th Virginia Woolf conference!!
January 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
So excited to find out that my paper ‘“Pausing to watch the boys bathing in the Serpentine”: Sexually Dissident Bathing with Duncan Grant in Jacob’s Room’ has been accepted for the 34th Virginia Woolf conference!!
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Reader: no, it's fucking not.
Keir Starmer, "AI is going to be transformative for the better in art, culture, industry, government, public services.. Not ten years but five"
"Getting the balance right between the potential of AI and the protection of copyright"
"Getting the balance right between the potential of AI and the protection of copyright"
December 20, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Reader: no, it's fucking not.
Come see me! Panel 9 – 4-5:30pm
📢 New Work in Modernist Studies 14 Registration Open!
🖋 Register by 28th November to join us
Provisional programme below
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🖋 Register by 28th November to join us
Provisional programme below
store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-...
November 22, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Come see me! Panel 9 – 4-5:30pm
The Kelvingrove Review (Glasgow’s student run home for PGR and ECR reviews) are excited to announce our call for cover art!
November 20, 2024 at 12:45 PM
The Kelvingrove Review (Glasgow’s student run home for PGR and ECR reviews) are excited to announce our call for cover art!
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For #ModWrite we have a packed autumn issue of The Modernist Review.
We also bid farewell to senior editors @jenniferashby.bsky.social & Serena Wong as this is their last full issue as Reps!
Yours, Jennifer, Serena, Jung Hsin Hsieh, Jingjing Cao, & Ryan O'Shea
We also bid farewell to senior editors @jenniferashby.bsky.social & Serena Wong as this is their last full issue as Reps!
Yours, Jennifer, Serena, Jung Hsin Hsieh, Jingjing Cao, & Ryan O'Shea
The Modernist Review #54
We welcome Autumn with a packed and various issue: two articles, five book reviews, an exhibition review, and an interview! This issue is the last one to be published with senior editors Jennifer A…
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October 21, 2024 at 10:59 AM
For #ModWrite we have a packed autumn issue of The Modernist Review.
We also bid farewell to senior editors @jenniferashby.bsky.social & Serena Wong as this is their last full issue as Reps!
Yours, Jennifer, Serena, Jung Hsin Hsieh, Jingjing Cao, & Ryan O'Shea
We also bid farewell to senior editors @jenniferashby.bsky.social & Serena Wong as this is their last full issue as Reps!
Yours, Jennifer, Serena, Jung Hsin Hsieh, Jingjing Cao, & Ryan O'Shea