@onlinereader24.bsky.social
Former Prof of English and New Media. Now mainly tbf reading, playing pickleball and eating out
Fantastic many congrats
My first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by
@lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026!
It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory.
See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.
@lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026!
It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory.
See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Fantastic many congrats
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Investigation: Thousands of retired teachers and leaders potentially entitled to better pensions following the landmark McCloud ruling have died before even receiving statements outlining what they could receive
schoolsweek.co.uk/thousands-of...
schoolsweek.co.uk/thousands-of...
Thousands of retirees die before pensions row settled
New data reveals scale of backlog facing the Teachers’ Pension Scheme administrators Capita
t.co
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Investigation: Thousands of retired teachers and leaders potentially entitled to better pensions following the landmark McCloud ruling have died before even receiving statements outlining what they could receive
schoolsweek.co.uk/thousands-of...
schoolsweek.co.uk/thousands-of...
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…and with @shaftowheed.bsky.social of @openuniversity.bsky.social and Dr Carina Spaulding of @readingagency.bsky.social as well - join us tomorrow to share ideas on reading for wellbeing! Thank you to @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for making the event possible 📚
What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper? Join the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and the UCL Centre for Publishing for a free online event 11th November 6pm (UK time): Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing
What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper, or a reading community meets in a virtual space? How, and why, do reading practices change, and what does this mean for readers wh...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
…and with @shaftowheed.bsky.social of @openuniversity.bsky.social and Dr Carina Spaulding of @readingagency.bsky.social as well - join us tomorrow to share ideas on reading for wellbeing! Thank you to @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for making the event possible 📚
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Make hope normal.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani is the new mayor of New York.
Amdani, Mamdani!
(Amdani - 'go for it' in welsh)
Zohran Kwame Mamdani is the new mayor of New York.
Amdani, Mamdani!
(Amdani - 'go for it' in welsh)
this portion of zohrans victory speech genuinely brought tears to my eyes
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Make hope normal.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani is the new mayor of New York.
Amdani, Mamdani!
(Amdani - 'go for it' in welsh)
Zohran Kwame Mamdani is the new mayor of New York.
Amdani, Mamdani!
(Amdani - 'go for it' in welsh)
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Amdani, Mamdani!
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Amdani, Mamdani!
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So looking forward to this event, and hearing from Dr Nenna Orie Chuku, Dr Katharine Smales, and Prof Sam Duncan - our thanks as always to @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for generous support of this research #reading #wellbeing @sharpweb.org @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper? Join the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and the UCL Centre for Publishing for a free online event 11th November 6pm (UK time): Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing
What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper, or a reading community meets in a virtual space? How, and why, do reading practices change, and what does this mean for readers wh...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So looking forward to this event, and hearing from Dr Nenna Orie Chuku, Dr Katharine Smales, and Prof Sam Duncan - our thanks as always to @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for generous support of this research #reading #wellbeing @sharpweb.org @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
‘I felt like that character on Trigger Happy TV with his enormous mobile phone. “Look,” I seemed to be telling the passengers scrolling Instagram on their devices, “I’m reading a book!” ‘
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z Danielewski – House of Leaves author returns with a 1200-page western
A quarter century after that landmark cult novel, this new epic has aspects of brilliance but seems designed for academic study rather than readerly enjoyment
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
‘I felt like that character on Trigger Happy TV with his enormous mobile phone. “Look,” I seemed to be telling the passengers scrolling Instagram on their devices, “I’m reading a book!” ‘
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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Many congrats to @charlottejohanne.bsky.social for this award winning #ComicsStudies article which we are delighted to have published in Studies in Comics! Free to read at the link below.
🎉 Congratulations to Charlotte Johanne Fabricius, winner of this year’s Martin Schüwer Publication Prize for Outstanding Comics Research!
Her article 'Drawing in Circles' is FREE to read in Studies in Comics 15.1&2 👉 https://ow.ly/menj50XjO0U
More on the award 👉 https://ow.ly/1gZY50XjO0V
Her article 'Drawing in Circles' is FREE to read in Studies in Comics 15.1&2 👉 https://ow.ly/menj50XjO0U
More on the award 👉 https://ow.ly/1gZY50XjO0V
November 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Many congrats to @charlottejohanne.bsky.social for this award winning #ComicsStudies article which we are delighted to have published in Studies in Comics! Free to read at the link below.
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#AcademicSky Please share this call for #ComicsStudies chapters for our proposed Companion to International Comics Studies as widely as possible. Full details here ow.ly/5vY050XipXT and deadline for proposals is 31 Jan 2026.
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
#AcademicSky Please share this call for #ComicsStudies chapters for our proposed Companion to International Comics Studies as widely as possible. Full details here ow.ly/5vY050XipXT and deadline for proposals is 31 Jan 2026.
So the self styled ‘most beautiful bookshop’ in Porto was a big disappointment. 10 euro entry long queues and not much by the way of books but plenty of ‘merch’
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
So the self styled ‘most beautiful bookshop’ in Porto was a big disappointment. 10 euro entry long queues and not much by the way of books but plenty of ‘merch’
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‘It would be a great loss’: London’s oldest Islamic bookshop at risk of closure
‘It would be a great loss’: London’s oldest Islamic bookshop at risk of closure
Loved by the likes of Yusuf Islam and Gai Eaton, Dar al-Taqwa is finding it tough to survive an era of online retail
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
:-(
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Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Short BBC podcast about the history of Tippex, invented by Bette Graham 😍 - will be of interest to history of the book, and history of tech folks... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Witness History - The secretary who made millions from her typos - BBC Sounds
In the 1950s, secretary Bette Graham invented correction fluid to cover up her errors
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Short BBC podcast about the history of Tippex, invented by Bette Graham 😍 - will be of interest to history of the book, and history of tech folks... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels including 'reading resilience' tuition
October 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels including 'reading resilience' tuition
