Jane Samuels

is being conservative the new “punk rock”? of course not you fuckin dip shit

A new book for the new academic year: my monograph, ‘Reading Place Writing: Geography, Form, Immersion, 2010-2020’ has been published by @livunipress.bsky.social as part of the @englishassociation.bsky.social ‘English at the Interface’ series www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Someone has been doing great work clearing vegetation from the prehistoric entrance graves on Kittern Hill (Gugh, Scilly). One of life's greatest pleasures is crawling into an ancient tomb, don't you agree? #TombTuesday

Talk to me, please about Meta. With the new terms and conditions, if you have a buisness page for art or writing, will you stay on facebook and Instagram?

Trump: "It's going to be the greatest ballroom and military complex combination ever built!" (Has any ballroom/military complex EVER been built?!)

How they started, how they’re doing. Sloes/Gin.

I really enjoyed giving a talk for the Virtual Seminar Series in Precambrian Geology last week on a little #sciart project on the iconic #Ediacaran fossil #Charnia (masoni & brasieri). you can see the talk here and look up the other great seminars on their YouTube channel. youtu.be/PsdixR_j1XI?...

Its inktober (quite some way in!) and this morning I realised I havent touched this, or anything, for over a year. I'd really like to finish it, so aiming for some movement for the rest of this month. Grief and dying steal from you, and there are things to reclaim.

I keep on walking through Paris by night.

You never know who you'll meet late at night in the valley. Some wood-walkers are just full of beans.

A few years back, the BBC asked me on to talk about asylum, but then the researcher started to panic because I wasn't "balanced" with someone who hated asylum seekers. I guess the BBC's definition of "balance" only goes one way

I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably large twitter following, and I really *enjoyed* twitter for a lot of years, and yet leaving there and never looking back was maybe the easiest what-felt-like-a-big-ethical decision I've ever made.

Watching a documentary about the emperor Hadrian's visit to Britain in AD 122 There's a lot of AI If you're going to use AI (which you shouldn't) at least get an expert to check it Hadrian's Wall has been studied for 100s of years We don't know what this Wall is 😱 #AI #archaeologyhorror

A good night for for the moors.

Goodnight from the Red House Transport Cafe, where Sadie Stowen is finding out the going rate for her soul. Goodnight from the boot boys under Brighthaven Pier, suddenly realising that they aren’t tooled up enough for a ruck with what’s emerging from the sea. Goodnight from Hookland.

I came away to a house on the moor and brought some friends with me. A book about stones. A book about paths. And from Hookland, a book about everything. @hookland.bsky.social very kindly send me a Right to Reside and I brought that too, just in case. The wind here is strong. Who know what it moves.

All the artists and writers perking their ears. Being anti-AI has been profitable when?

Not long to go until spooky season, and I'll be doing my bit to contribute to those chills with my online course on WRITING GHOST STORIES this September and October! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-gh... #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #haunted #hauntings #spooky

Hello, John Holmes. I came to see you, today. Not at your grave, deep in Shap loam, but here, at your home as the waters shrank. I stood on the cobbles of the path you walked. Stopped at the midden and tried to find a sherd that felt like yours. I watched the sun set with you, over Harter Fell.

Oh what a lovely surprise!

I support university students who have ADHD. During the meds shortage: chaos. Missed appointments, late essays, frustration as they tried so hard and found it ten times harder. Lots of tears. As it went on, depression, anxiety. Meds arent a cure but they make life manageable for so many people.

Your tissue? No, I haven't seen it, sorry.

Reform's plan to fix our water crisis is to...make reservoirs nationally significant infrastructure projects. Something they.... already are!

Cockpit stone circle is a scheduled monument. There is archaeology under the surface, and there is peat that doesn't need disturbing. I'm never one to follow a pointless rule. Whatever your belief system, this is illegal for really good reasons.

Let's face it: this wasn't even the biggest scandal *at Cambridge University*. Yet the much bigger story, exposed by Byline Times, has scarcely been picked up anywhere. Of course, that involved white, radical-rightwing professors, so nothing to see here. bsky.app/profile/geor...

Reminder for those who might not remember that a scholar in my subfield was, c2013, credibly accused of plagiarism, found guilty by an independent committee, had the book revoked by the press—& was not fired or dragged in the press but (over objections from 13 of her own colleagues) made into a dean

Oh did a female academic with an extensive history of study and practice in a particular area of literature make a reasoned critique of a male filmmaker’s movie? I’m sure this will be handled with maximum normality.

Too much ouzo.

Don't know if this is a good place for a honeymoon as tempers can be short in the heat.