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🎊 Meet our panelists for the Digital Promotion discussion at this year's #NWC! They'll share what they find works and offer practical advice for those starting out or those feeling overwhelmed. For more information on the conference, visit here: buff.ly/HmDq1KO

Wonder what happened here… (from Facebook Marketplace.) Makes an interesting creative writing prompt #Hemingway #shortstory

Professor Ruth Page and Dr Gianfranco Polizzi from our Department of Linguistics and Communication recently gave evidence to a House of Lords inquiry into media literacy. They called for greater funding for education on navigating AI-generated content. birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/acad…

👀 In Babel's Summer 2025 issue... 🎞️ Dr Paula Ghintuiala 🌈 discusses her work on the split Self in cinema 🛍️ Subscribe at babelzine.co.uk

What if the problem with a lot first-person writing isn’t too much “I”—but not enough perception? In a new post, I explore the hazards of confession & the turn toward witness, through Deborah Levy (and Barthes.) W/ a prompt. meghanorourke.substack.com/p/writing-the-…

I feel sorry for those who don't understand French, because this is by all means a masterpiece

Je me demande parfois si on aurait pas mieux fait de laisser la physique quantique dans les laboratoires, c’est-à-dire de renoncer à la vulgariser, car il y a manifestement des cas où elle sert de caution au charlatanisme le plus débridé : l’irréalité dépasse là l’affliction !

Christopher R. Matthews Yep - Social science isn’t messy - our gaze is trained to tidy it up. Pressures from positivist norms, metrics, and publication demands reward polished certainty over honest complexity. Maybe those awkward “limitations” hint the rationale wasn’t that strong to begin with.

Vacancy: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English. Department of English & Creative Arts, Edge Hill University, jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… English@EHU

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Grok” I asked my Lacanian analyst and their silence shook me to my empty, decentered core

A super time was had by all at the Birmingham City University Creative Writing Summer Show last night - great readings from our student-edited anthology, Spark, and a brilliant talk from our special guest this year, Jonathan Davidson of WritingWestMidlands. Congratulations to everyone involved! 🍾🥂

In celebration of 30 years of the journal Qualitative Inquiry, we’ve curated a virtual special issue w/ Intro + 30 most cited articles in its history, inc by Prof Bent Flyvbjerg Sarah J Tracy 🏜 Carolyn Ellis, and Elizabeth St.Pierre - all free access. journals.sagepub.com/page/qix/colle…

I’m now Associate Professor of Women’s Rights and Media Development! 💫 Grateful to God, my family, AWiM, and all who’ve shaped my journey. I’m offering mentorship to 3 early-career women in academia: 👉 forms.office.com/r/QBk88GMTKH PhD interest? 📌 bcu.ac.uk/courses/media-…

Ne pas se fier aux apparences : ces mâts ondulatoires - je vous le jure sur la tête de la courbure de l’espace-temps - sont vraiment droits.

Job alert! We are recruiting at Centre for the Politics of Feelings for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. A focus on the relation between health & politics is highly desirable. More info here: jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… Deadline 11th July. Please share!

The Penguin India Book of Poems on the Indian City, reviewed in The Wire by Uttaran Das Gupta !

I am horrified by how many academics are using AI to summarize research papers and books, not reading them otherwise. Intellectual integrity is meaningful, good-faith engagement with other people's ideas and the experience of learning their ideas on the terms set by the author

If you want someone to tell you the truth, become someone who can hear the truth.

People are often in a state of disbelief when I tell them that, as a therapist, I want less pathologising, less diagnosing, less labelling, and less dependency on therapy. The obsession with mental health is actually making people more unwell.

Unsolicited advice for incoming PhD students: Maintain your friendships with people who aren't academics