Siân Harris
@sianlouh.bsky.social
Literature academic type| she/her | Likes crimes (fictional) and dogs (real) | Unprofessional capacity
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IVE GOT IT.
a tote. academics CANNOT GET ENOUGH of a nice tote. like a really sturdy one with a cool picture but also it announces your failures to the world
a tote. academics CANNOT GET ENOUGH of a nice tote. like a really sturdy one with a cool picture but also it announces your failures to the world
December 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
IVE GOT IT.
a tote. academics CANNOT GET ENOUGH of a nice tote. like a really sturdy one with a cool picture but also it announces your failures to the world
a tote. academics CANNOT GET ENOUGH of a nice tote. like a really sturdy one with a cool picture but also it announces your failures to the world
'Rejected when it was still the AHRB' vintage fit
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 9:02 AM
'Rejected when it was still the AHRB' vintage fit
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more pointless performative cruelty from a government of sickos
If somebody had to travel 250 miles for a medical appointment then yes there’s a problem but the taking a taxi ain’t it
November 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
more pointless performative cruelty from a government of sickos
Blue skies, hot coffee, panoramic views, and the irrational nagging guilt that the dog is getting a bath the minute we're inside the door...
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Blue skies, hot coffee, panoramic views, and the irrational nagging guilt that the dog is getting a bath the minute we're inside the door...
Coming on here to announce I Changed the Printer Toner, to try and stop myself telling any more of my colleagues as they just try to do their printing in peace..
The Office Michael Scott GIF
ALT: The Office Michael Scott GIF
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Coming on here to announce I Changed the Printer Toner, to try and stop myself telling any more of my colleagues as they just try to do their printing in peace..
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It is an Andre Marriner,
And he booketh one of three
And he booketh one of three
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It is an Andre Marriner,
And he booketh one of three
And he booketh one of three
Plague on the house of the person who walked off from the lido in MY TRAINERS. Plague and an eternity of cold feet.
October 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Plague on the house of the person who walked off from the lido in MY TRAINERS. Plague and an eternity of cold feet.
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It shouldn't take an FOI request to see grant success rates. UKRI has a duty of care to researchers to supply this from the outset. We are judged, compared, promoted (or not) according to unbelievably bad odds.
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It shouldn't take an FOI request to see grant success rates. UKRI has a duty of care to researchers to supply this from the outset. We are judged, compared, promoted (or not) according to unbelievably bad odds.
If I thought the time I mixed up Will Smith and Will Self in a lecture was embarrassing, I just spent ninety hideous seconds talking to the first years about 'David Beckham's poem, Omeros' before I realised why they looked confused.
October 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If I thought the time I mixed up Will Smith and Will Self in a lecture was embarrassing, I just spent ninety hideous seconds talking to the first years about 'David Beckham's poem, Omeros' before I realised why they looked confused.
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Stop trying to over-intellectualise these people. There is no grand philosophy behind it. It’s hate, it’s as simple as that. If you’re grasping for reasons why that can’t be, save yourself the energy. You’ll need it for something else.
You can’t burn your bridges with people who are committed to racism. The bridges never existed in the first place. That’s hard to understand for people who don’t have to navigate at least one situation a week where they or their loved ones are treated as subhuman. But it’s true.
October 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Stop trying to over-intellectualise these people. There is no grand philosophy behind it. It’s hate, it’s as simple as that. If you’re grasping for reasons why that can’t be, save yourself the energy. You’ll need it for something else.
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AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
When you should really be adding some pithy topical updates to this lecture, but you'd rather stick forks in a plug socket than spend another second with the news...
September 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
When you should really be adding some pithy topical updates to this lecture, but you'd rather stick forks in a plug socket than spend another second with the news...
It always makes my day when strangers compliment the dog, but the specificity of 'she just needs one of those red neckerchiefs - she'd work that' might be my new favourite.
September 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It always makes my day when strangers compliment the dog, but the specificity of 'she just needs one of those red neckerchiefs - she'd work that' might be my new favourite.
When you get a photo from the dogsitter and realise you've been so far neglecting her art appreciation activities...
September 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
When you get a photo from the dogsitter and realise you've been so far neglecting her art appreciation activities...
In Barter Books, they're playing Leonard Cohen, buying Carbonel and Matilda for my friends' daughters. Bliss.
September 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
In Barter Books, they're playing Leonard Cohen, buying Carbonel and Matilda for my friends' daughters. Bliss.
Eight miles of the coast path and a bucket of whisky sours... starting the holiday right
September 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Eight miles of the coast path and a bucket of whisky sours... starting the holiday right
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Don't worry academics, it's still only August 32nd. Still plenty of time!
September 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Don't worry academics, it's still only August 32nd. Still plenty of time!
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This thread is exactly how I feel about genAI. Completely turned off by it on all artistic, intellectual and moral levels. I have no interest in anything it can say or generate. It is anti-human.
AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual.
Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying.
"I wrote this."
"I created this."
Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying.
"I wrote this."
"I created this."
BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
August 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This thread is exactly how I feel about genAI. Completely turned off by it on all artistic, intellectual and moral levels. I have no interest in anything it can say or generate. It is anti-human.
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This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.
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thanks so much to everyone who's signed - 300 signatures in less than 3 days and climbing. this programme is one of the best things about UoB and the very least of what the university owes the broader region
Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
docs.google.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
thanks so much to everyone who's signed - 300 signatures in less than 3 days and climbing. this programme is one of the best things about UoB and the very least of what the university owes the broader region
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Please help. Please sign & share. I work on a degree programme known as ELCE for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. Bristol uni has decided to close it. Bristol was set up to serve this community & now we are losing our most accessible degree.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
docs.google.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Please help. Please sign & share. I work on a degree programme known as ELCE for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. Bristol uni has decided to close it. Bristol was set up to serve this community & now we are losing our most accessible degree.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The sheer satisfaction of treating yourself to these beauties, whilst being able to completely shut down any judgy inner whisper of 'but do you really need any more books? / don't you have enough already?' because it's actually a matter of principle. Checkmate!
August 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The sheer satisfaction of treating yourself to these beauties, whilst being able to completely shut down any judgy inner whisper of 'but do you really need any more books? / don't you have enough already?' because it's actually a matter of principle. Checkmate!
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There is no justification for the BBC to be repeatedly broadcasting the lies Israel is spinning against the murdered Gazan journalists. Its irresponsible as well as totally shameful treatment of fellow journalists.
August 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
There is no justification for the BBC to be repeatedly broadcasting the lies Israel is spinning against the murdered Gazan journalists. Its irresponsible as well as totally shameful treatment of fellow journalists.
Kendrick & SZA in Cardiff last night - beautiful and bizarre (not pictured: huge mechanical ant) and maybe the most I've ever felt aware of witnessing a performance from people at absolute peak of their game. Incredible.
July 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Kendrick & SZA in Cardiff last night - beautiful and bizarre (not pictured: huge mechanical ant) and maybe the most I've ever felt aware of witnessing a performance from people at absolute peak of their game. Incredible.
⬇️the most harrowing spice-rack misadventure since The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
July 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
⬇️the most harrowing spice-rack misadventure since The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole