Noreen Masud
@noreenmasud.bsky.social
Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
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everyone can do this, not just the welsh! send any self addressed envelopes back, empty, don't put a stamp.
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
everyone can do this, not just the welsh! send any self addressed envelopes back, empty, don't put a stamp.
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Do I know anyone on here who might be able to get me a digital image of a page (or a few) of a manuscript in the Library of Ahmed III (in Istanbul)? The library doesn’t appear to have digitized much (or any) of the collection?
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December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Do I know anyone on here who might be able to get me a digital image of a page (or a few) of a manuscript in the Library of Ahmed III (in Istanbul)? The library doesn’t appear to have digitized much (or any) of the collection?
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stop what you're doing and go kiss your cat
December 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
stop what you're doing and go kiss your cat
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To be entirely selfish, what is really irritating about events at Essex is that, after years of precarity (and a year with no job) I’ve finally been getting back-on-track with research. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Essex to shut Southend campus and cut 400 jobs - BBC News
The Southend-on-Sea campus is home to the award-winning East 15 drama school.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
To be entirely selfish, what is really irritating about events at Essex is that, after years of precarity (and a year with no job) I’ve finally been getting back-on-track with research. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
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Can anyone from Cardiff, Oxford, Cambridge or Suffolk unis get hold of this article for me please?
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Can anyone from Cardiff, Oxford, Cambridge or Suffolk unis get hold of this article for me please?
I have only had a handful of students who've had the temerity to do this and each time I was so livid I physically could not see out of my eyes
Students putting meetings on my calendar that are supposed to take place outside of office hours, without emailing / consulting me first: no
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I have only had a handful of students who've had the temerity to do this and each time I was so livid I physically could not see out of my eyes
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Stuck on this gutting sentence on the Women’s Institute decision. For young people it’s watching the world close to them before they’ve had a shot at life, for older women it’s watching half a century of progress vanish. Either way it’s grossly, unbearably cruel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Stuck on this gutting sentence on the Women’s Institute decision. For young people it’s watching the world close to them before they’ve had a shot at life, for older women it’s watching half a century of progress vanish. Either way it’s grossly, unbearably cruel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I was one of my local Scouts first intake of girls. It was the 90’s. I can’t believe (well, actually I can) how far backwards anti-trans obsessives want to take us.
December 4, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I was one of my local Scouts first intake of girls. It was the 90’s. I can’t believe (well, actually I can) how far backwards anti-trans obsessives want to take us.
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The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.
me: [goes compulsively again and again to the places designed for people to shoot their mouths off]
me: why won't everyone shut the fuck up
me: why won't everyone shut the fuck up
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
me: [goes compulsively again and again to the places designed for people to shoot their mouths off]
me: why won't everyone shut the fuck up
me: why won't everyone shut the fuck up
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Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
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this has reminded me that a few years ago I realized administrators in effect consume faculty time, so the more of them hired, the less time we have. probly obvious but wasn't to me, the thought was very startling to me.
June 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
this has reminded me that a few years ago I realized administrators in effect consume faculty time, so the more of them hired, the less time we have. probly obvious but wasn't to me, the thought was very startling to me.
trying to think of good UK-Based Nature Phenomena. so far I got:
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
trying to think of good UK-Based Nature Phenomena. so far I got:
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
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all academic applications should have consolation prizes.
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
December 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
all academic applications should have consolation prizes.
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
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If you have ever liked one of my posts, please help a boy out and listen to my podcast? Or share it with a friend? Or just play episode each muted so I get the streams? It’s Books Up Close on all platforms. I’ll send you a cake/gift/hug if you do.
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
If you have ever liked one of my posts, please help a boy out and listen to my podcast? Or share it with a friend? Or just play episode each muted so I get the streams? It’s Books Up Close on all platforms. I’ll send you a cake/gift/hug if you do.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
today I learned what a 'cousin walk' is
November 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
today I learned what a 'cousin walk' is
all day I've been seeing that article about the pope saying polygamy is bad. like what did you expect from the pope. have we forgotten what the pope is
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
all day I've been seeing that article about the pope saying polygamy is bad. like what did you expect from the pope. have we forgotten what the pope is
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my wife and i are going to marry the pope and he cannot stop us
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
my wife and i are going to marry the pope and he cannot stop us
pouring recklessly through my inbox saying no to everything
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
pouring recklessly through my inbox saying no to everything
tickets here to see So launch BAD LANGUAGE - 6pm tonight - come one come all (space allowing) www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/boo...
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
tickets here to see So launch BAD LANGUAGE - 6pm tonight - come one come all (space allowing) www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/boo...
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Bristol! I will see you soon!
BAD LANGUAGE launch in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social , 6pm
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
BAD LANGUAGE launch in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social , 6pm
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
Bookhaus Bristol – Author Talks, Readings & More
Discover upcoming events at Bookhaus Bristol, including author talks, book readings, and literary discussions.
www.bookhausbristol.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Bristol! I will see you soon!
BAD LANGUAGE launch in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social , 6pm
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
BAD LANGUAGE launch in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social , 6pm
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
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focus on the history of the Caribbean and/or the history of Atlantic slavery
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh (School of History, Classics and Archaeology):
memorients.com/news/postdoc...
memorients.com/news/postdoc...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh | MEMOs
The University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
memorients.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
focus on the history of the Caribbean and/or the history of Atlantic slavery
featuring a plug for @fossilfreebooks.org - come organise with us
Reading doesn’t make you a better person: Tallulah Brennan speaks to @noreenmasud.bsky.social about the mystery of flat landscapes, the current state of nature writing, & the book industry’s reticence to support Palestinian liberation & fossil fuel divestment www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/read...
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
featuring a plug for @fossilfreebooks.org - come organise with us