Rebecca Anne Barr

It's happening! 'Killjoy Comedy: Willful Women and 1750s Fiction' is coming out with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2027. @sinsleyh.bsky.social says it is 'a ROMP'. I am *floored* @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thcentury #c18th www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10256/

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

Tech bros have always been sexual harassers and abusers • Zuck invented “The Facebook” to rank and compare his female classmates at Harvard • Jawed Karim’s idea for YouTube stemmed from his difficulty finding online video of Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction” • Elon Musk…is…Elon Musk…

This is how it feels to me, too. Just sad and desperate and insecure about our own ability to reach human beings as human beings.

Proofs are up, that's what.

happy to have missed the memo about compulsory lipstick wearing for all middle-aged women.

Latest read - Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon. I loved this. The story of two unemployed potters from Syracuse during the Peloponnesian War who stage a production of Medea and The Trojan Women using Athenian prisoners from the unsuccessful invasion of the city. Wonderful. #booksky

Sharing this poem again tonight in light of the terrible news that Douglas Dunn has died. A huge loss for U.K. poetry...

The Shandean journal is pleased to support this conference, in Aix-en-Provence, Autumn 2027. The theme is travel and cultural exchanges in the age of Sterne, meaning you don't have to be a Sternean to join us! CFP deadline, February 2027. www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

CONGRATULATIONS to @starcrossed2018.bsky.social on this incredible accolade. So well-deserved! @cam-english-fac.bsky.social rejoices.

Very proud of my partner for getting into the OED! His is the most recent example for 'textus' (an ornately decorated manuscript or book, often of religious importance, in case you wondered). A nerdy win for @qmul.bsky.social! #OED

Remember to celebrate Gulliver in the manner of your choosing: - fighting over which end of the egg to open - pissing on government buildings - finding a giant lady to hug you - hiring someone to hit you with a balloon when you get distracted - running away from humanity to talk to horses

We are delighted to share the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies (CGIS) seminar series programme for Michaelmas Term 2026 with our first meeting on Tuesday, 27th October. All seminars take place on Tuesdays at 5:30 pm (Cambridge time) in person at Magdalene College, with a hybrid option via Zoom.

Starry Night, painting by Spennymoor-born Norman Cornish (1919-2014). He was a coal miner for 33 years.

Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing

Eamonn McCann is always razor sharp in his analysis of the North. Garvagh road is not a difference between ‘two communities’ that needs ‘both sides’ understood. It only benefits the DUP and hardline loyalists to force us to revisit a terrible time in the North. rebelnews.ie/2026/10/02/g...

This symposium on “Whiteness as Property” will be absolutely incredible and I am so grateful I will be able to attend! Cheryl Harris will speak, along with a list of scholars from around the world

This, by @starcrossed2018.bsky.social, has been my early autumn companion, and it’s such a wonderful and illuminating read. I love this eloquent observation about early modern making.

Introducing our Research Networks for 2026-27 🎉 Our Research Networks programme facilitates the exchange of ideas across disciplinary boundaries and allows Cambridge researchers to explore new forms of collaborative work. Events are free & open to everyone Find out more at https://bit.ly/3Vr0aWy

📣 Open for applications Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship Apply to spend time at CRASSH as a salaried fellow from September 2027 to May 2028 ⬆️ Read the eligibility criteria and FAQs at https://bit.ly/44IBme6 ⏳ Apply by 16 October 2026

Visit our 25th anniversary exhibition! 🎉 Knowledge in a Fractured World CRASSH, CB3 9DP 5 Oct- 11 Dec 9am-7pm weekdays PV 19 Oct 5.30pm RSVP https://bit.ly/3VBgR1x A showcase of interdisciplinary research alongside a fascinating collection of works by international artists.

It’s astounding this isn’t the only thing people are talking about. It shows how much power mainstream news, who are blacking out the climate element of this El Niño, still holds. #ClimateCrisis

This article was very much a labour of love, and it took even longer than usual to be published, so I really mean it when I say I am DELIGHTED to see it in print. I have free prints if anyone needs one! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VXW3P...

Today is Michaelmas, a quarter day in the Irish calendar, and traditionally when rents were paid & contracts signed. It's also the last day to eat blackberries - after today, they belong to the Devil and will make you sick!

Season of mists and mellow proofingness. #proofs #typos

Announcing the 2027 CSECS Conference, in Trois-Rivières, Québec (October 20-23, 2027), on "Pleasures and Social Life in the 18th Century". Deadline for submissions is January 11, 2027. tr2027.csecs.ca

1/2 We have vastly improved data now on British slave-owners (www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/) and slave-traders (britishslavetraders.org). Wonderful that this research has persisted despite all the fury of the nationalist right wing backlash.

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Excited to be in London on October 9th to read/ chat with one of my favourite living writers, Daniela Cascella. We'll be talking about our new books from @erratumpress.bsky.social and @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Free tickets at link below 💙 www.eventbrite.ie/e/little-boo...

I and many college teachers have seen this IRL and it is astonishing actually — the vacant look, the shifting eyes, the final attempt to start saying something & then it just stops. “I have trouble remembering things after I write them down,” the most memorable guy told me— and then stared at me

This headline sounds like it's from The Onion.

I am a middle-aged childless female academic in need of a 2026-7 pocket diary and HELL will FREEZE OVER before I give in and purchase something called a 'Mum's Diary'...🤬😱😭

Membership in Club White is not guaranteed especially for recent entrants

I'll be reading at UCC library on Culture Night with some of my favourite poets (including Maggie O'Sullivan, Randolph Healy and Aodán McCardle) at the SoundEye Cabaret organised by Fergal Gaynor. Sign up at the link libcal.ucc.ie/event/4574625

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...

‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ is published today! Seven years in the writing, many more in the planning, and - here it is!

Superb news - an exciting project to create a digital edition of the Correspondence Networks of James Murray and the OED. The largest collection of these letters is at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Congratulations @stephenturton.bsky.social! #archives #libraries