"look we're all trying to find the guy who did this"

Weekend book foraging! Perks of living in York, the UK’s rare book capital. It’s not a Hogarth but glad to add a 1940 Faber Waste Land to the Eliot collection and complete my set of Faber Berrymans with a pristine His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.

We're delighted to share with you our brand-new Spring / Summer 2026 Trade Catalogue.

Featuring new titles publishing March-August 2026, including @jtwelsch.bsky.social, @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social, @arghkid.bsky.social and others.

Browse here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogues #booksky

Thrilled this network now exists & thrilled to be part of it. Please share with anyone researching aro/ace things. Happy Ace Week indeed!

I don’t really understand Substack, but I needed a place to work through some thoughts about my new book. For a cheery first post, I’m grappling with how to avoid ‘selling your trauma’.
open.substack.com/pub/jtwelsch...

So pleased with the cover MUP came up with for this tough book. In it, Ophelia’s offstage death is an exemplar of the poetry-like ambiguities around every suicide.

Out in April, but pre-order-able now from the usual places & @manchesterup.bsky.social: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191991/

"We need to lead the design of data systems, not the other way round."

📝 A short blog post from the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab on last week's QUEER DATA SHOWCASE in Edinburgh. gensexdatalab.business-school.ed.ac.uk/updates/quee...

Smiths in York Station looking Pride-ready as I head to Edinburgh today for a talk in this very exciting Queer Data Showcase 🏳️‍🌈 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-queer-...

🎺Announcing the fantastic lineup of speakers for the Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School in Vienna from July 14-18, 2024 (Part 1)!! 🥁

More info: lnkd.in/ged32uZg

#irishstudies #summerschool

Mini-festival today for PhD students @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social - immediately fascinated in a session on careers outside academia to see some actual (rare) data on this, showing Humanities PhDs are most likely to move into ‘other occupations’.

Looking forward to this first-of-its-kind #QueerDataShowcase in Edinburgh, 5 June - a lovely bunch of artists, academics, and activists playing with queer data in different ways. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-queer-...

Preludes to a Mallorcan pilgrimage.