Jane Desmarais🕷🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻🏳️🌈🦋
@janedesmarais.bsky.social
Prof of Decadent voluptuousness
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Using this to say that if you’ve never read The @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social imprint of The Gate you are missing out on a) one of the masterpieces of Japanese literature and b) one of the great acts of literary translation, by William F. Sibley.
Went to the Natsume Sōseki Memorial museum last week where they’ve recreated his writing room.
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Using this to say that if you’ve never read The @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social imprint of The Gate you are missing out on a) one of the masterpieces of Japanese literature and b) one of the great acts of literary translation, by William F. Sibley.
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/yamapeh2
CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
and more!
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/yamapeh2
CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
and more!
September 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/yamapeh2
CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
and more!
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/yamapeh2
CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
and more!
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Quick - look under your sofa cushions! We can buy David Lynch’s 10 bedroom, 11 bathroom compound for $15 million.
(Yes, it is the house from Lost Highway.)
www.realtor.com/realestatean...
(Yes, it is the house from Lost Highway.)
www.realtor.com/realestatean...
September 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Quick - look under your sofa cushions! We can buy David Lynch’s 10 bedroom, 11 bathroom compound for $15 million.
(Yes, it is the house from Lost Highway.)
www.realtor.com/realestatean...
(Yes, it is the house from Lost Highway.)
www.realtor.com/realestatean...
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Very sorry to read this. When I was young and green he took me under his wing on a trip to James Ensor's house in Ostend. We looked at the weird masks, the mermaids made from monkeys, and realised Ensor was just painting what he saw. A suitably Hitchcockian moment. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
John Russell Taylor obituary: biographer of Alfred Hitchcock
Journalist who was by turns The Times’s art, film and theatre critic and also ‘the son Alfred Hitchcock never had’, dies aged 90
www.thetimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Very sorry to read this. When I was young and green he took me under his wing on a trip to James Ensor's house in Ostend. We looked at the weird masks, the mermaids made from monkeys, and realised Ensor was just painting what he saw. A suitably Hitchcockian moment. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
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Mute and block with alacrity, retweet beautiful images, recommend good things, post dog and cat pics, and and regularly remind people that I have no interest in any "heated exchange of opinions in the marketplace of ideas".
What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart
September 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Mute and block with alacrity, retweet beautiful images, recommend good things, post dog and cat pics, and and regularly remind people that I have no interest in any "heated exchange of opinions in the marketplace of ideas".
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Well obviously there are thousands of "B&W Movies that are not boring" but for the sake of the meme:
A Colt Is My Passport
Letter Never Sent
The Sweet Smell Of Success
L'Atalante
A Colt Is My Passport
Letter Never Sent
The Sweet Smell Of Success
L'Atalante
September 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Well obviously there are thousands of "B&W Movies that are not boring" but for the sake of the meme:
A Colt Is My Passport
Letter Never Sent
The Sweet Smell Of Success
L'Atalante
A Colt Is My Passport
Letter Never Sent
The Sweet Smell Of Success
L'Atalante
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“We need to think about research training – in particular, PhD training and training down to master’s level. If we look back 10 to 15 years, to the time when the [UK] business department’s budgets were a bit more flush, we saw a lot of investment in doctoral training programmes".
Anton Muscatelli: ‘I was quite happy being an academic’
The retirement of arguably the UK’s most politically adept university leader leaves big boots to fill. The Glasgow principal talks to Jack Grove about 40 years of sectoral evolution, his thoughts on S...
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
“We need to think about research training – in particular, PhD training and training down to master’s level. If we look back 10 to 15 years, to the time when the [UK] business department’s budgets were a bit more flush, we saw a lot of investment in doctoral training programmes".
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... until Stockton Rush
Glurpo, the world's only underwater clown, c.1960. 🤡
September 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
... until Stockton Rush
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"leaving what is taught in our universities solely up to market forces undermines resilient subject provision and economic strategy, with lasting consequences for students and for universities’ ability to serve a public good.” 2/2
Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education
This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
"leaving what is taught in our universities solely up to market forces undermines resilient subject provision and economic strategy, with lasting consequences for students and for universities’ ability to serve a public good.” 2/2
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"Edinburgh University staff begin five-day strike"
Edinburgh University staff begin five-day strike
Members of the University and College Union are due to be on picket lines until Friday.
bbc.in
September 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"Edinburgh University staff begin five-day strike"
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Happy Birthday to the man with the brass neck to release a succession of EPs and finally an album of French songs entitled…
September 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Happy Birthday to the man with the brass neck to release a succession of EPs and finally an album of French songs entitled…
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Francis Bacon, by John Deakin for Vogue, 1952
via Tui Sankamol
via Tui Sankamol
September 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Francis Bacon, by John Deakin for Vogue, 1952
via Tui Sankamol
via Tui Sankamol
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Keen to reach new audiences? We are offering up to £8k to humanities and social sciences researchers to deliver public engagement projects working in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum. Deadline 15th Oct
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...
SHAPE Involve and Engage
A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Keen to reach new audiences? We are offering up to £8k to humanities and social sciences researchers to deliver public engagement projects working in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum. Deadline 15th Oct
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...
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We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
August 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
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Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.”
Full statement
Full statement
August 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.”
Full statement
Full statement
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Belgian Symbolism expo at Maison Hannon in Saint-Gilles! Brussels 29/8/25 to 19/04/26. I have walked past this beautiful building many, many times - but never been inside. maisonhannon.be/fr/evenement...
August 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Belgian Symbolism expo at Maison Hannon in Saint-Gilles! Brussels 29/8/25 to 19/04/26. I have walked past this beautiful building many, many times - but never been inside. maisonhannon.be/fr/evenement...
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News from Suffolk demonstrates what's happening across the university sector far beyond redundancies - massive amounts of part-timing, downshifting and sideways movements. All of this will have a deep effect on quality. Not picking on Suffolk at all btw, it's a massive success story.
August 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
News from Suffolk demonstrates what's happening across the university sector far beyond redundancies - massive amounts of part-timing, downshifting and sideways movements. All of this will have a deep effect on quality. Not picking on Suffolk at all btw, it's a massive success story.
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Today's university making redundancies is Suffolk, following news from Cranfield, Dundee (again) and Bournemouth in recent days. We're *still* running at nearly one a day, deep in the August hibernation period. When will someone step in and stop the madness? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Suffolk cuts jobs due to 'financial pressure'
The university says it made 26 people redundant and decided to close 19 vacant posts.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Today's university making redundancies is Suffolk, following news from Cranfield, Dundee (again) and Bournemouth in recent days. We're *still* running at nearly one a day, deep in the August hibernation period. When will someone step in and stop the madness? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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RIP Terence Stamp
"The Devil is cheerful, agile. He looks like a little girl."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8vL...
"The Devil is cheerful, agile. He looks like a little girl."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8vL...
August 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
RIP Terence Stamp
"The Devil is cheerful, agile. He looks like a little girl."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8vL...
"The Devil is cheerful, agile. He looks like a little girl."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8vL...
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Terence Stamp was Angel and Devil on screen. Interviewing him was a wicked pleasure. But seeing him around town, on the bus with his Eric Morecambe flat cap, sitting at the old heel bar at Piccadilly, was best of all. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Terence Stamp
Matthew Sweet talks to actor, writer and international screen star Terence Stamp.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Terence Stamp was Angel and Devil on screen. Interviewing him was a wicked pleasure. But seeing him around town, on the bus with his Eric Morecambe flat cap, sitting at the old heel bar at Piccadilly, was best of all. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
August 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
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Today's university with the redundancies is (unsurprisingly) yet again Dundee, after Bournemouth yesterday and Cranfield the day before that. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
EXCLUSIVE: Dundee University recovery plan proposes further job losses
It is understood the proposed route to recovery suggests further redundancies beyond the 300 already announced.
www.thecourier.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today's university with the redundancies is (unsurprisingly) yet again Dundee, after Bournemouth yesterday and Cranfield the day before that. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
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