I have an essay in @dauntbookspub.bsky.social's Over the Water: Essays on Islands. It features real, imaginary and islands from art; Sylvia Plath's on Inisbofin, Napoleon and how working with Alice Maher had a spooky echo of Hagstone.
New substack about it here: open.substack.com/pub/momentso...
The Cork event looks great, Jess. I'll hope to be along, and to stay for Rosamund Taylor's event - so I'll try and say hello!
Busy week ahead! I'll be at @cuirtfestival.bsky.social tomorrow and Weds, at @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social on Thurs and then off to rep @bansheepress.bsky.social at the @poetrysociety.bsky.social Free Verse Book Fair. If you're in Galway, Cork or London come say hi 👋
This is absolutely horrendous, I'm so sorry. Solidarity for the fight ahead.
Brilliant! I'll keep a proper eye out for the call next year in that case.
This sounds like a wonderful opportunity. I have definitely spotted the call too late, but wonder if you know if they might run annually? I would love to come and do some work with Anthony Vahni Capildeo's materials in the Contemporary Poetry Archive.
It's complete vandalism. I'm sorry Aidan. Solidarity to you and your colleagues.
My fellow LEGO and Star Trek nerds may enjoy this MOC as much as I do.
rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-256...
Our PI involved in something slightly Viking-adjacent, though it does reference some Old Norse pronouns that we still use today... #Viking #Norse #OldEnglish
And the BIG BAD I SAID NO blogpost is live! (If you know the cartoon I'm referring to, welcome: childhood memory unlocked). Huge thanks to everyone below who commented on my post about 'how [and whether!] to say no in academia'. drlauravarnam.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/t...
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Oh wow, I'm very disappointed to see that. I met some really interesting independent researchers when I was part of the network. Does your institution offer any associate affiliations for graduates that might offer a way around this?
Oh, that's strange! I hope not as I feel like part of the (absolutely key) mission was to give people access to opportunities that makes research possible outside of institutions, but also hopefully to get them into employment.
I really do miss this network now that I've moved over to Cork. You don't need an affilation/academic position to join & you get access to community, so many brilliant events, & funding!
Free to join across the UK. Members have access to funding for projects as well as travel to events. If you've gained a PhD or equivalent research experience in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences within the last 10 years (excluding career breaks) check it out. You deserve to be invested in.
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project:
'The Dispersal of the Cotton Collection' - British Library & University of Birmingham
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline for student applications: 10 May
I think I initially signed up for ALCS thanks to a tweet long ago from @jamespaz.bsky.social ! So I always feel I should shout about it too, in the hopes it might encourage someone else to sign up.
Writers of all kinds, do make sure you sign up for ALCS! It's always lovely to see that people are engaging with your writing in some way (even if ALCS's magic is sometimes a little mysterious).
Seeing a lot of posts about this - a reminder that all kinds of writers can join ALCS. So academics, journalists, poets, translators, scriptwriters, novelists, editors and more!
www.alcs.co.uk/how-it-works...
***COVER REVEAL***
Don't you just love the cover of our 2026 brochure? Kieran Rigby in Coolgrey encapsulates our fest in a beautiful image, paying homage to the Catalan tradition of exchanging books & roses on 23 April, the Feast of Sant Jordi.
Stay tuned for more on this year's festival line-up!
We're delighted to feature a post by Prof Tom Birkett of @ucc.ie on The Village Green! Tom writes about #Vikings and our modern ideas about them, and his new EU-funded project #norsemap fmrsi.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/t... #spéirgorm #blog #research
'Alfred the Great’s Indian Embassy:
How likely is it that Alfred the Great sent two emissaries to India in the ninth century?' - an article by me in History Today: www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
Fascinating! I hope it all goes well and you get to enjoy a bit more exploration.
Good news that the digitised Beowulf manuscript has survived the digital equivalent of the Cottonian Library fire, the British Library cyberattack of 2023
For IWD, saw Cecilia Vicuña's excellent show at @immaireland.bsky.social with my daughter, and a stunning
@lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social show with a pal at Pavilion (including a pin-drop cover of Three Babies by Sinéad O'Connor). The Vicuña show runs until July. Buy Lisa's album: lisaoneill.ie/home/
What are you in Delhi for? If you have time, Feroz Shah Kotla and the Lodhi Gardens are well worth a visit too!
📢 Deadline extended: 30 April 2026‼️
📜 Theme: All Kinds of People
📚 TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
🏫 Host: University of Nottingham
📅 Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
#️⃣ #CfP #TOEBI #medievalsky #OldEnglish
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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Was not expecting to start my day with this good #20s30s history from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The deadline for this has been extended to 27th April. Although it's not exclusively a creative medieval CFP, some creative medievalists might be interested in its framing via Jarrow, the Codex Amiatinus, and site-writing! @guildmedmak.bsky.social