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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 2h

Hundreds of talks on Gothic and Horror topics by experts from around the world?

Check it out!

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 11h

I updated the Online Class page so that now you can:

See the programme right up to the end of the year!

See ALL out Saturday and Sunday talks from the last 5 years!!

romancingthegothic.com/class-schedu...

Class Schedules

For classes that have already happened, you can click on ‘Online Here’ to see a recorded version. Check out the YouTube channel for earlier classes as well! Sign up here Date (All times…

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote to Tony Burke about the closure of Meanjin, and finally received a reply from the office of Jason Clare, who had been forwarded the message because it was an issue for higher education, rather than the arts (!).

This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 1d

Lobbying the local cinema to show @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein on the big screen, as nature intended

Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure he likes a pastry too

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 2d

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 2d

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 3d

New Heidecker after taking supplements to decrease the age of his organs

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 4d

WHAT ON EARTH

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 4d

Etymology of badger as a verb possibly links back to the animal

Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 4d

Dog, parrot, badger?

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 5d

I have so many of these to catch up on. Got to do my Decent Choons homework for the month

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 6d

Someone on here compared the rooftop skating scene in One Battle After Another with Singin' in the Rain ... I can't find the original post but I love that idea. Little moments of rebellion, joy, weightlessness, despite the police on patrol

Still from One Battle After Another. Silhouettes of three skaters leaping across a city rooftop, backlit by the smoke and fire of a riot.

Still from the Singin' in the Rain number from the film of the same name. Gene Kelly is flipping and catching an umbrella, standing on a rainy footpath outside a glowing red millinery shop window.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 6d

Yep they think you fly the team colours and toot your horn down High Street Kensington when the ranking goes up

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 6d

Rank the macerated remains of our university system from 1 to 10

Headline in the Guardian: University of Melbourne rated best in Australia in global rankings report
Times Higher Eduction ranks university as 37th in the world, with five other Australian schools in top 100

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 6d

Waiting next to my email inbox like a labrador for the next six months

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English at UTAS @utasenglish.bsky.social · 8d

Love writing? Curious about how to get published? Teaching creative writing? Come join a vibrant community of writers at Read, Write, Publish: Hobart on Monday 27th October! www.facebook.com/share/19hBVu... @utas.edu.au

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 7d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 9d

I sent a book proposal out into the wild. Will I ever hear from it again y/n

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 12d

First slop presidency

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 14d

We are hugely honoured to have won the 2025 MSA Book Prize for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Thank you to everyone involved. It was a huge joy to work on such a wonderful period in Pacific writing.

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 14d

It's time to announce the winners of the 2025 MSA Book Prize: Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism. Congratulations! @maebhlong.bsky.social, Matthew, and @columbiaup.bsky.social

The Rise of Pacific Literature | Columbia University Press

In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. At... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 13d

I wonder if I've escaped a ghastly fate.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 14d

No they did not. I’m outraged.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 14d

International socialism and “Pluto is a planet again” is the winning agenda for failing liberal democracies

Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 14d

Pluto is fren.

Also (shhhhh!) is planet!
One day the truth will win.

Daniel Machacek @danielmachacek.bsky.social · 14d

My new color photographic map of Pluto is now online.

Full resolution image version (~322Mpix) is available on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/10958...
PDF version (~73MB) is available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1EW-x...

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 14d

Why didn't anyone tell me there's a new Throwing Muses album

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 16d

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 16d

Love how PTA made only a loose Pynchon adaptation while out-Pynchoning Pynchon’s character names youtu.be/HiZY9rr4hHk?...

1st RECORDING OF: Perfidia (in Spanish) - Lupita Palomera (1937)

YouTube video by The78Prof

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