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Ria Cheyne

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Liverpool-based academic. Disability, medical humanities, genre fiction, neurodiversity, accessibility and inclusion in HE. #DisabilityStudies #MedHums Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello Bluesky! I'm a Liverpool-based academic w/interests in neurodiversity, representations of disability, genre fiction, 20th/21st C lit and more. I identify as a Disability Studies scholar, literature scholar or medical humanities scholar depending on the time of day...

Ria Cheyne (white 40ish woman with long curly reddish blonde hair) holding a microphone on stage, mid anecdote

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 9h

Jennifer McMahon: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the girl who gets kidnapped by fairies
Arthur Conan Doyle: ah yes yes yes
Doyle: as the resident expert on fairies and fairy behavior
Doyle: i can say that's pretty standard fairy behavior

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LJMU Special Collections & Archives @ljmu-sca.bsky.social · 15h

New blog post for the Unity Theatre Archive Project! Over the next year LJMU SCA will be working with the Unity Theatre to catalogue and digitise its archives. If you are interested in volunteering you can apply via the link in this blog. Closes Sunday 19th October.
ljmuarchives.blog/2025/10/14/i...

Introducing the Unity Theatre Archive Project

Hi everyone, my name is Megan and I’ve recently joined LJMU’s Special Collections and Archives as the Unity Theatre Project Archivist. Over the next year I’ll be cataloguing the papers of the Unity…

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 13h

Follow us to hear all the news, and - if you know any queer writers - please share this FAR and WIDE.

We're ravenously seeking:

QUEER FICTION, up to 6,000 words, in science fiction, fantasy or speculative horror ($0.08 /word)

QUEER SPECULATIVE POETRY ($50 /poem)

No reprints. #writersky 🌈📚💙

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 18h

Welcome to @claireturner.bsky.social, who joins us as a Bridging Fellow in the Affective Experience Lab 🎉

Claire is a historian of medicine and the senses. We're excited to work with her!

Find out about Claire's research in this written interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...

Introducing Claire Turner: New Bridging Fellow

Read our interview with new Bridging Fellow Claire about her research and interests.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 17h

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18h

Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

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Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jan 28

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 16h

These look excellent!

Dr Élaina is cripping out @elainagmamaril.bsky.social · 18h

I’m excited to announce the first two webinars in the WAARC series “Dreaming Up A Disability-Inclusive Workplace”.

29 Oct: Intersecting Identities and Disabled Joy with Amelia Lander-Cavallo
lnkd.in/e7v9dNkf

26 Nov: Complicated Pride: Disability, Neurodiversity and Ambivalence
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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17h

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 16h

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UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social · 17h

In fairness, UK HE was dismantled so rapidly, new PhDs can hardly be blamed for assuming universities would still exist as academic research institutions in the near future.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 17h

The tighter researchers’ identities are bound to the university, the less prepared they often feel for life beyond it. Embracing both depth and outbound modes of working can help bridge the employability gap, says Alys Kay: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/why-e... #EduSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 16h

Yes!
But still enjoying all the posts.

Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social · 18h

An unhinged literary opinion needs to be like Muriel Spark believing T.S. Eliot was sending her coded messages through his plays, not 'hear me out, I don't like Dickens'. That is simply a literary opinion. The hinges are very much intact.

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UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social · 17h

If you work in UK HE and were to resign, would your role be filled with a permanent staff member at the same or higher pay level?

This is a good indicator of whether managers see your role as important to uni operations.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18h

struggling to budget both myself & a decent post-doc under the ukri grant caps (given the massive overheads unis charge) & wondering how others are managing. Then I see all the 0.4 fte for 15 months precarious post-docs being advertised & realise that’s the only way to do it. I hate it, thanks.

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 18h

Have any of you successfully secured transcription costs via DSA as part of your PhDs?

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Disability Matters @dismatters.bsky.social · 18h

#WaysofPerceiving BLOG: Katherine Chen reflects on her journey of stumbling into Disability Studies and finding community at Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving. sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

Stumbling Beyond the Expected

Reflections of Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving, International Conversations Conference on 30th May, 2025 at OISE, the University of Toronto

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 19h

On a packed commuting train and there is a toddler singing unaccompanied nursery rhymes at the top of his lungs (I can only assume he has headphones on or something - i can’t see him) and it is giving me life this morning. Occasionally he breaks up his renditions with loud lion roars. What a guy.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 1d

Yuichi Suzuki, 48, has added “make copy of haunted video” to his to-do list, but has conceded it’s unlikely he’ll remember he made a list at all.

AuDHD man who will die in seven days unless he makes copy of tape had a pretty good run, to be fair

An auDHD man who watched a creepy videotape and then received a voicemail informing him that he would die in seven days unless he made a copy has reportedly resigned himself to the inevitable. …

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

any book, regardless of genre, can be made better by adding a boat and a trip on the high seas. i will not entertain any counterexamples

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 1d

Very much enjoying the discourse here. Sadly unable to contribute as my literary opinions are 100% hinge, no filler.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social · 1d

Okay: I think we spend too much time talking about what the best works by individuals are and should think more about corpora as a whole. One often has to have written some things in order to write other things, and those works shouldn't be placed in competition with each other.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 9d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 1d

YES

Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 1d

Ok, this isn't really unhinged, it's just obvious: Modernism is incredibly easy to teach. (It's all written for seminar discussion.) Popular fiction (Colleen Hoover; James Patterson; Lessons in Chemistry) is incredibly hard to teach.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 1d

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 1d

Thread:

wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 1d

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

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Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · 1d

This update got very long, but maybe that means there's a higher chance of it including something you'd be interested in reading?

Most of the entries are to open-access publications, so they're free to view.

A very long list of new (and some not so new) publications about romance

The open access journal TEXT dedicated a special issue to romance/romantic fiction, under the subtitle " Trope Actually – Popular Romance" b...

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