Geez, this sucks! Seeing this on the day I finished listening to the Tale of Today season, so thought I'd mention that it has been SO helpful, insightful, and astonishingly well-produced and researched. Thank you so much for giving it to us.

Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body.
30th January 2026.
See full CfP here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...

📣 CFP British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2026 -- "Alternate Histories of the Body"

I'm very excited to be organising this together with Lloyd Maedhbh Houston! 🥳 Send us your abstracts by November 21! #academicsky #callforpapers #literatureandscience

Fabric is the appropriately titled "Roar!" by FreeSpirit

Look on my new triceratops fabric and rejoice! (She's going to be napkins for my friend)

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here:

fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Ich denke das kann man. Habe ich jedenfalls in der Vergangenheit mit Erfolg so getan.

This review is AMAZING. Go read it if you're at all interested in rail infrastructure.

CfP: BSLS Annual Conference 2026
The twenty-first annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Strathclyde, on 9th-11th April 2026 (in person).
Details including CfP here: bsls.ac.uk/conference20...

Did you see the gramophone?

SO COOL. I did not know Lego Ideas was a thing. I like this.

As they say, when you invent the wheel, you invent the parking violation.

But Assyrians had a solution.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...

JOB KLAXON (fully funded PhD in Environmental Humanities in the literary studies department at Ghent University)

Babbel is fantastic!

Yaaay, you're warching the Pitt! How are you finding it so far?

Martian tripods on the VPR! I wonder why... 😁

A moment of silence for all the informative footnotes that simply have to go. Your minutiae will live on in my memory in place of more useful things forever. 😢

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

It's out! 🥳 My 2024 Rosemary VanArsdel Prize-winning essay on the differences between the serialised and book versions of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds has just appeared in the Victorian Periodicals Review. If you're interested in science, genre, and serial novels' audiences, check it out 👇

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

This looks absolutely fabulous. Wish I could be a fly on the wall!