Andrew Frayn

Andrew Frayn

@afrayn.bsky.social

Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); noncanonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.

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Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

Just updated my Moodle profile. Turns out you can still enter: ICQ number; Skype ID; AIM ID; Yahoo ID; MSN ID. Is Moodle also a portal to 2004?

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Caroline Dodds Pennock
@carolinepennock.bsky.social

Everybody is talking about Lula, but actually the victory in Serbia of a student-led, anti-government group fronting candidates from across society is almost more interesting for what it says about the potential to genuinely transform politics with the right movement at the right moment.

theguardian.comSerbian leader Aleksandar Vučić ousted by student movement in seismic electionVučić’s 12-year reign looks to have been ended by record turnout of voters in election provoked by student-led protests

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Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

I was in Vienna earlier in the week. I wanted to go to the Sigmund Freud Museum, but it wasn't open on Tuesday. So instead I took photos of all of the things in the Sigmund Freud Park that might be considered penises if you saw them in a dream. 1: cylindrical advertising post

Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

I was in Vienna earlier in the week. I wanted to go to the Sigmund Freud Museum, but it wasn't open on Tuesday. So instead I took photos of all of the things in the Sigmund Freud Park that might be considered penises if you saw them in a dream. 1: cylindrical advertising post

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Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

I was in Vienna earlier in the week. I wanted to go to the Sigmund Freud Museum, but it wasn't open on Tuesday. So instead I took photos of all of the things in the Sigmund Freud Park that might be considered penises if you saw them in a dream. 1: cylindrical advertising post

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Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

I was in Vienna earlier in the week. I wanted to go to the Sigmund Freud Museum, but it wasn't open on Tuesday. So instead I took photos of all of the things in the Sigmund Freud Park that might be considered penises if you saw them in a dream. 1: cylindrical advertising post

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Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

I was in Vienna earlier in the week. I wanted to go to the Sigmund Freud Museum, but it wasn't open on Tuesday. So instead I took photos of all of the things in the Sigmund Freud Park that might be considered penises if you saw them in a dream. 1: cylindrical advertising post

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Margot Finn
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

Replying to @eicathomefinn.bsky.social

Time to put this into a wider context. Schools and exam boards make it harder for girls/women to see themselves in science than in Humanities. Universities are cutting provision in Humanities, where students are disproportionately female. Is this what equality looks like?

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The British Academy
@britishacademy.bsky.social

1/3 Higher education in the UK is at a critical juncture. Universities make a substantial contribution to society and the economy, but the system faces mounting pressures, and too many difficult questions remain unresolved. Today we launch a new policy programme, to tackle that shorturl.at/079yt

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Kate Astbury
@100days1815.bsky.social

The police are investigating. They will have their lines of enquiry. Please share this image widely so that everyone knows what it looked like.

Historical Marker Ahead@historicalmarker.bsky.social

This stinks that a plaque at an English castle acknowledging Caribbean prisoners of war got taken right after it went up. It’s an insult to those who got it placed and the memories of the people it commemorates. Usual motive for something like this is: 1. We hate “woke” 2. Want the metal for scrap

Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

This is a disgrace in so many different ways.

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in the UK because of Palestine Action support

theguardian.comSally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in the UK because of Palestine Action supportIrish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales because of her support for group Sally Rooney has said she is being forced to withdraw her books from sale in the UK because of her support for the banned organisation Palestine Action. The Irish novelist, whose books include Normal People and Conversations With Friends, said her public support for the direct action group meant she could no longer receive royalties from UK sales. Continue reading...
Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

Thanks so much to everyone who came and spoke - we had 11 out of 15 contributors on the call! And thanks @pollyhember.bsky.social, who grabbed this picture of a key moment!

Andrew Frayn@afrayn.bsky.social

We're having an online launch event for Beyond Modernism: noncanonicity in early-twentieth-century British literature, at 6pm UK on Monday 12 October. Speakers will include the editors, @nicholasbirns.bsky.social, @rsazzad.bsky.social, Chris Hopkins, +... Sign up: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek

Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

A stellar line-up for this day in November!

Scott Lyall@scottlyall.bsky.social

Join Scotland's leading historians, writers and performers on 21 November, at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, for the Centenary Conference of Hugh MacDiarmid's A DRUNK MAN LOOKS AT THE THISTLE. Opened by Sir Tom Devine, presented by Sally Magnusson. Tickets here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/a-dr...

glasgowlife.org.ukA Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle: Hugh MacDiarmid and a Hundred Years of the Scottish Renaissance - Glasgow LifeThe Centenary Conference 1926 - 2026
Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

This coming Monday - please (virtually) come along!

Andrew Frayn@afrayn.bsky.social

We're having an online launch event for Beyond Modernism: noncanonicity in early-twentieth-century British literature, at 6pm UK on Monday 12 October. Speakers will include the editors, @nicholasbirns.bsky.social, @rsazzad.bsky.social, Chris Hopkins, +... Sign up: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek

Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

There are many problems with Turnitin from an ethical point of view, but I don't entirely agree with this. A strong correlation for AI work in Turnitin is actually an unusually LOW similarity score, as many of the common phrases students necessarily use in their own, human writing just aren't there.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

'Phil Newton, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Swansea, said the rise of AI had reduced the need for Turnitin’s core plagiarism checking service, with its AI detector proving less useful for universities.'

timeshighereducation.comMore universities end Turnitin contracts as concerns mountNewcastle and Westminster join Southampton in decision not to renew deal with plagiarism checker amid questions over how once-ubiquitous service is adapting to AI age
Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

You could also come to our online launch a week on Monday: bsky.app/profile/afra...

Andrew Frayn@afrayn.bsky.social

We're having an online launch event for Beyond Modernism: noncanonicity in early-twentieth-century British literature, at 6pm UK on Monday 12 October. Speakers will include the editors, @nicholasbirns.bsky.social, @rsazzad.bsky.social, Chris Hopkins, +... Sign up: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek

Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

Or, you could book to come along to this separate event on Scottish First World War poetry on Monday 9 Nov: bsky.app/profile/afra...

Andrew Frayn@afrayn.bsky.social

I'm organising a Remembrance Lecture on Mon 9 November at Edinburgh Napier's Craiglockhart Campus- as a War Hospital, this was where Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon met. This year David Goldie will talk about Scottish Poetry of the First World War. Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MTEHXf41Mf

Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

I made a mistake on the sign-up form, which meant that anyone who's tried previously wasn't able to click through. Here's a link that should work: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek

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Andrew Frayn@afrayn.bsky.social

We're having an online launch event for Beyond Modernism: noncanonicity in early-twentieth-century British literature, at 6pm UK on Monday 12 October. Speakers will include the editors, @nicholasbirns.bsky.social, @rsazzad.bsky.social, Chris Hopkins, +... Sign up: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek

Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

Good afternoon especially to the man on this train who has now come through 4 times and been told every time that the door to the driver's cabin is not the toilet 🍻

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Gregory Norminton
@gregorynorminton.bsky.social

We wanted robots that would relieve us of menial tasks and free us up to be creative. Instead, we’ve ceded our creative selves to robots and ended up with all the washing and cleaning.

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Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

Ahhhh yes Andy, "it worked", and we are definitely not in year 19 of a subsequent recession (*winks and taps temple)

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

I might write a little song about how standards don't fix anything without legal enforcement and routine safety inspections.

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First World War Studies
@fwwsjournal.bsky.social

We are recruiting new Associate Editors! First World War Studies, the interdisciplinary journal of the International Society for First World War Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, is seeking to expand its editorial team.

Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

New Work in Modernist Studies - the BAMS conference aimed at PGRs, and particularly first-time conference speakers, is always a lovely, welcoming event. Please consider submitting! And I always look forward to a trip to beautiful, ummm, TBC ;)

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Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

As a not yet binned member of staff who has been threatened with the bin within the last year, I'm genuinely curious about the feasibility of this and what it might look like.

Mary Madden@feministgothic.eurosky.social

Has the time come for us binned staff to start setting up our own actual universities? Leave the wreckage of neoliberal academia and publishing to the corporate warlords and their enablers and start again? I switch between this thought and settling down with the cat for a quiet life.

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Scott Lyall
@scottlyall.bsky.social

I'm really looking forward to this talk from the President of @asls.org.uk, Dr David Goldie, at Craiglockhart Campus @edinburghnapier.bsky.social , organised by the excellent @afrayn.bsky.social. Registration link below 👇

Andrew Frayn@afrayn.bsky.social

I'm organising a Remembrance Lecture on Mon 9 November at Edinburgh Napier's Craiglockhart Campus- as a War Hospital, this was where Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon met. This year David Goldie will talk about Scottish Poetry of the First World War. Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MTEHXf41Mf

Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social

I was recently in New Chapter Books in Wigtown, Scotland's Book Town, and they had this fantastic display of ephemera found in the pages of books!

Nick Hubble@thehubble101.bsky.social

Starting a thread of my best ever bookmark finds in 2nd-hand books (feel free to join in with your own in the replies). This is a Southern Vectis Omnibus ticket (a bus company on the Isle of Wight) that was in my 1938 Penguin edition of Ethel Mannin's first autobiography, Confessions and Impressions

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

dukechronicle.com‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraudNew evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...