Oh God—so sorry to hear this

Warm and good-hearted—maybe everything that the Karajan isn’t?

Do you know the lovely old Alexander Faris recording?

They do now seem to pride themselves on their fact-checking, so this was v depressing

And a sparklingly entertaining writer

Claxon 📣 for English lit. graduates: here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden led by the fabulous Dr Lotte Fikkers, and co-supervised by yours truly, on literary representations of wardship in early modern English drama.

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Apply by 31 May 2026; starting date 1 Jan. 2027

Spring flowers at the foot of a tree, in warm Spring sunshine

We really enjoyed a wonderful day of research talks at the @openarc.bsky.social Spring Festival yesterday. OpenARC is the research centre for Arts and Humanities at The Open University. Thanks to @shaftowheed.bsky.social and the team for making it such a success!
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Google result shows the paper followed by interjected AI Overview which says, "AI Overview +33 The short answer is no, AI does not yet possess human-level intelligence, at least not in the sense of "Artificial General Intelligence" (AGI). While AI has reached or surpassed human performance in specific tasks, it still lacks the flexibility, consciousness, and physical embodiment that define human cognition."

I googled the title to get a look at the paper and got this lol 😂

Gorgeous is the word for Honeck’s recordings in general—full-on technicolour

We are delighted to host Sigrid Nunez at our Letters and Literature conference on the 7th of November. One week to go! Tickets here: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...
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A postcard showing scenes from the town of Chapel Hill

The first of a series of postcards for our free online conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025, 5-7 November 2025. Full programme: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

Every day we'll share a postcard sent to us by one of our guest speakers. Watch out for tomorrow’s!

In defence of unfashionable scholarship Sometimes the books that stay on the shelf are the ones that matter

Francis Young, eloquent and convincing 'In defence of unfashionable scholarship' open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...

Letters and Literature 1500-2025 at The Open University Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...

Calling everyone interested in Letters and Literature: the CFP for our free online OU conference, Letters and Literature 1600-2025, is closing soon! Brilliant keynotes: Mel Evans, Jon McGregor, and Emma Clery. Details at digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/

A bit light?

One of my best concert experiences was hearing Jansons conduct this at the proms

Beginning to wish there was a ‘Radio 3 Uptight’ stream on BBC Sounds

Mozart 23 and 24–just amazing

Very taken with ETA Hoffmann’s stories (reading them in connection with ROH Contes d’Hoffmann): more like randomly weird 21st-century fiction than anything from English Romanticism.

I guess both its (obviously deserved) popularity and the snobbery about it are both connected to its very clear programme —as with the 4 seasons.