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Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social · 1d

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026

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CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 3h

Me nibbling through all my favorite little foods to deal with the horrors.

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 8h

I need this recovery suit for my kitten to get here soon.

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 18h

What if it what the skills learned from golden age fiction analysis was all we needed to meet this important moment?

It may be true!

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 21h

“The drugs will either knock her out or she’ll go wild crazy getting the cone off.”

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She has removed it every ten minutes. Buying emergency kitten onesie.

Meditating to cope with chaos.

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 22h

Oh, and too much comfort food. Also very 2025.

Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 22h

My 2025 so far is watching that docuseries on the hubristic guy who imploded that submarine repeatedly when rich uninformed people do risky things with house money.

Is that what the kids mean by an aesthetic?

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 1d

Don't know if I'll be able to make it to the UK next summer — hope so, tho, bc this is exactly my field of study: weird modernism and/or the intersections of modernism and weird fiction.

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 2d

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 1d

Why must everything be pants?

I’m using pants because the words I want to use are not nicer than pants.

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly!
Silver linings for sure!

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

My flight landed like 13 hours ago and the Ohio higher Ed news already hitting like:

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

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Signed, sealed, delivered: Why NASA is sending poetry to space

NASA is sending a spacecraft to Jupiter with poetry on board—the latest in NASA’s history of sending cultural objects into space.

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

Answer: heck yah they do!

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

Because they actually go on the water: the answer I’m kinda too dense to recognize.

Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you to the MSA for a wonderful conference. Not only great inspiration for research, but also amazing teaching resources!

Gonna go get my passport renewed for Loughborough’s “Weird Modernisms”

Considering dusting off a piece on Beyond That Limit.

Weird managers? Any takers?

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate that this game acts as a Dayton brand ambassador.

A game that is bound to injure you but is also somehow still enjoyable.

It fits somehow.

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

Well despite all signs against it, I’m getting home nearly the same day I was meant to!

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

When the airline changes flight status from delayed to NOT.

All board, only to be told airline was lying and you’re gonna sit on that tarmac for ?????

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 3d

If Boston wants to keep me from returning to Ohio, Im not gonna fight too hard, to be honest.

Best MSA I can recall. Kudos organizers!

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 3d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 3d

There are moments when 2025 just kind of hits you and this is one:

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 3d

Well, conference travel just got interesting with this Nor’easter

Can’t seem to book anything that’s any more likely to get out of the east coast than my original flight, even if I was willing to pay more.

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 4d

Boston query: why are all your tour buses boats?

Thanks.

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 4d

Questions you Google at the amazing panels…

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NPR @npr.org · 4d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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