Yes that’s the idea. The article says the government are changing the laws so hopefully listed buildings will be included 🤞

Free plug-in solar panels to be rolled out to some households The technology is designed to be a simpler and more affordable way of benefiting from renewable energy

Maybe there is hope:

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Shoukd read @hallamucu.bsky.social

Solidarity! It’s disgraceful how fixed-term contracts are being abused. My institution also trying to split is into teaching/research to avoid paying into TPS and treatenong terms and conditions. Maybe they have the same consultant. @hallamucu

It’s a great idea… I’d take it!

I think it’s post #metoo even though it was controversial at the time it’s now a no can do film for young people. Let me know of you add it to the syllabus.

Benigno spying from a window.

I have found students becoming more repeled by Almodóvar’s Talk to Her. A formal masterpiece but they cannot see beyond the reprehensible actions of its sociopath protagonist.

AI is already writing novel after novel — some in seconds, and it can get pretty close to the style of your favorite authors.

It's an eerie echo of the ‘novel-writing machines’ that George Orwell imagined would be used to distract the masses in "1984".

tcnv.link/y2joGc8

Book bans are at a record high. These are the most challenged books The American Library Association says book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs.

"Book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs, according to the American Library Association. And efforts to have titles removed have never been more coordinated or politicized."

Voters have just today left to register to vote for the local elections taking place across England on 7 May. Anyone who wants to take part must register before 11.59pm tonight.

Registering takes minutes at gov.uk/register-to-vote. Just need name, address & National Insurance number. Pass it on.

because CD players, walkmans, and VCRs usually fucking worked and did precisely what was asked of them without relogging in and syncing and re-entering passwords and getting confirmation codes and doing 2FA with out TV and phone and clicking a fake "remember me" box that's fucking why

What movie did you watch too young?

Alien, about 7yo. Still haven’t seen it again…

Hi Lee I came to the UK as an Erasmus student from Spain. Working class (dad factory worker w primary ed only, mum no formal schooling). It was not easy because everything cost much more here but the only way I could have done it. Not just money also access to practical help. I’d never been abroad.

#sheffieldevents @helpsheffield.co.uk

Controversial opinion: frozen peas are the best frozen snack.

Do you or one of your colleagues need an index created for a book in the humanities?

I make beautiful indexes (yes, such a thing does exist!)

I have space to take on 1-2 additional projects in April/May. Get in touch!

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

this is actually kind of amazing. for like 50 years the main defence of C-suite executives being paid 500+ times median salary was that they're literally 500+ more valuable; now one of the world's most powerful men wants to demonstrate that his job can be done by Clippy from microsoft word

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us.

If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

How Amazing Stories Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction A century ago, at a Waukegan, Illinois boardinghouse run by his grandparents, an auburn-haired, six-year-old boy named Ray Bradbury used to search for copies of Amazing Stories left behind by the g…

Amazing Stories was launched 100 years ago by Hugo Gernsback! He called the genre he wanted to popularize 'scientifiction'. Apparently, editor and author John W. Campbell is responsible for popularizing 'science fiction'.
lithub.com/how-amazing-...

Cf. UK
1953 – women allowed to get their own passports.
1956 – rape redefined as crime.
1967 – contraception available to all women, married and unmarried, but not until 1974 on NHS
1975 - women have right to own bank accounts and sign cheques in UK
1991 – marital rape recognised as crime.

Poster: blue silhouette of a man’s head showing part of a photo of a woman’s face inside it. Woman wears shades and red clothes.

The poster for Almodóvar’s new film, Bitter Christmas, is awesome. Can’t wait to see it.

Less flags, more panels.

We are delighted to invite you to the #EnglishCreates: Futures Online Symposium, Thursday 2 July 2026.

What futures are possible for English Studies – in universities, schools, public culture, industry, and beyond? This event is open to all - please join us!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/englishcre...

I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.

Petition: Review anti-discrimination laws to strengthen trans women & LGBTQ+ protections Launch a review into strengthening legal protections and clearer enforcement against discrimination, harassment and exclusion of trans women and LGBTQ+ people in employment, education, healthcare, hou...

We need you help this petition needs your signature ✍️ let’s show the government we’re still here and we’re not going to lay down and roll over while they and the media attack us 💚

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Totally. I was thinking gender tradicionalists or conservatives too

Summer School Misinformation is a topic of high relevance, generating great concern due to its multiple negative effects on our society. The discipline of Psychology advances the understanding of how and why people...

🚨IMPORTANT:

Do you want to conduct research on misinformation? At @cimcyc.bsky.social we’re putting together a summer school for PhD students / early postdocs and, not to brag, but it’s looking fantastic. 😬

📍 Granada
🗓️ 15-18 September 2026
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"Director James understood that once you start removing books to avoid discomfort, you are no longer running a library. You are curating a narrative. You are narrowing the world instead of expanding it."