Whether or not you have been to the Kederminster Library at Langley Marish (now in the suburbs of Slough), do share this one abd consider visiting. It’s utterly spectacular and worth a long journey. langleymarish.com/stmary/keder... - hats off for them for seeing that is open to be visited.
A cartoon bunny, Buster, carries an orange lunch box that says King Lear and has a man with a crown on it, his hand extended. I am not conveying how cartoonish this is. It's a kid's book.
Arthur's friend Buster has a King Lear lunchbox and I have.... questions
Can confirm this place is delightful! I went there last July and am determined to get back these one of these days. Don’t miss the statue of Hodge the cat in the courtyard outside, or the Ole Cheshire Cheese around the corner, either…
The longer I spend in digital humanities, the more I am obsessively drawn to analog technologies and convinced we must actively and intently teach them or the digital world loses its color, texture, and depth.
In the brain, objects seen and imagined follow the same neural path New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code.
Poets always be like
I'm sorry - Bernard WHAT?!
Inside the tiny cell with small window
The cell window
View from the keyhole onto the altar
The chancel of the church in the sunlight
#Medieval (15th-century) anchorhold - a cell for an anchorite or hermit - in St Andrew's Church, Grinton (Swaledale).
Yeah, for some reason it feels like a slightly destabilising process each time I come to write a new one... good luck for yours!
🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..
We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.
And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!
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In my early conference drafting experience I was advised - rather wisely, I think - that no one will be frustrated by a presentation that is under the 20 minute mark, but people could be if/when you go over. I have certainly noticed both of these approaches out in the wild, since...!
An #owl perched atop a toppled urn with a Greek inscription - the motto of the Renaissance humanist Lodovico Castelvetro - meaning ‘I have judged’. In his edition of Aristotle’s Poetics, printed at Vienna in 1570. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social since 1715 & now L.11.31.
For me it’s around 2400 with active attempts to slow down. I find that I ad lib no matter how much I script things, though! Some of my earliest highly scripted presentations were around 2600-2700, if that’s useful. If I hit 3000 I know I will be over time, for certain.
A man sitting at a working desk, in 1540 setting, with a drinking cup, a few books, a writing desk with paper sheets, and lots of more details.
Working the morning shift as a scholar in 1540, a browser tab and a word document opened on two screens, other needed texts opened and handy, an overfull mail account nearby, and a hot beverage in reach to make for the best working condition. Bonus: wearing a thinking hat. #academicchatter
books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.
And you! Take care, and hopefully see you soon / in Verona!
In Easter Season, add Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
This is weird. Every time I ask my AI assistant to do something for me, it replies "I prefer not to."
As always, thank you to all for your hospitality to this somewhat perpetually jet lagged Australian at #shax2026. I look forward to seeing many of you at @wsc2026verona.bsky.social in July, & I hope at #shax2027 or beyond in coming years!
Alas, thus ended my last full day of #shax2026, as I had to pack and recuperate before travel on Saturday, bur I caught the superb Makers/Making/Made panel on Sat morning & left with lots to mull over, as I do each year.
The final Friday session of #shax2026 was the plenary on editing and Othello, before the collegiate & highly enjoyable conversations over drinks at the scholars of colour [sic, but only for US English] social. A welcoming & lively atmosphere, as usual!
After #shax2026 morning sessions we had the annual luncheon, where I had delightful company incl sitting between @oldnorthroad.bsky.social & @dianahenderson.bsky.social, & we heard @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social’s thoughtful provocation as outgoing SAA president.
This morning at #shax2026, I was then able to hear the Futures panel on contingency & am now auditing a fabulous seminar On Glossing before lunch. I have lots on my mind about attentiveness and attention in literary studies & pedagogy, & am excited to keep thinking about these in future sessions!
Yesterday at #shax2026 was a somewhat jet-lagged but exciting series of sessions. After attending the wonderful Lyric Attachments panel, it was a pleasure to co-chair Essaying Shakespeare & then hear the panel Beyond New Materialism before catching up with old & new acquaintances at the reception.
It's...//so// good!? It's not that I expected otherwise, but I was pleasantly surprised to be so gripped so early.
Update: this poem slaps! Big fan. Watch me enter my annual gosh-I-should-be-a-medieval-studies-scholar era... oh to have the time and money for a medieval studies masters somewhere exciting...
I’m not able to be there as I’ll be setting up for my seminar, but I look forward to hearing more from and connecting with EMCC at other points 🤝
Very excited to be heading to Denver for the #shax2026 this week! Please do pop in on Thursday afternoon to audit what is sure to be a fabulous discussion of Essaying Shakespeare, discussing all things genre and pedagogy viewed through and with early modern texts. Program link has details:
One of my handful of things for this long haul to Denver & #shax2026 from Sydney is (finally?) Beowulf … 👀 👀
Wikipedia sections of an article. 1: early life and career as a pirate. 2: archbishop of York.
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.