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Dr Andrew McInnes

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Hopeless Romanticist, cat lover, and coffee addict.

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Voting opens - like the GE - tomorrow! In the meantime please read my mammoth manifesto! And everyone else’s of course!

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Never mind* the General Election, please vote in the @bars.bsky.social Election!

I’m standing for President & pitching for a research away day, supporting research in all its forms, a European conference, karaoke, accessibility, inclusivity, activism!

* please actually also vote in the GE

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There may be some of you who do not know that I have Thoughts about Twilight, it seems only fair to warn you

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OK MAYBE I’ll try the rest of the series (I just binged Geek Girl which has an incredibly formulaic style - chapter after chapter begins with a factoid which segues into Harriet’s current crisis - so Meyer is already winning with her atmospheric fog and greenery)!

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And the prose is no worse than Rowling’s and Stephenie Meyer funds scholarships for promising young female filmmakers rather than becoming a transphobic hellspawn so there’s that

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I got the ugly duckling thing! I liked the names in general (eg her politics teacher Mr Jefferson & gym coach Clapp). I’m also for straight-up high-femme wish fulfilment - Laura Wood’s Agency for Scandal books are GREAT. I guess I enjoyed Twilight’s weirder gothic angles & wanted more of that?

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My longest running New Year’s Resolution: keeping up a mini journal from January to June - starting a new one for July.

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It hasn’t left me with a desire to read any of the later books! Basically, I’m taking the last line of the novel - ‘And he leaned down to press his cold lips once more to my throat’ - as he kills her then and there!

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An exciting week for me: I’ll be starting my new postdoc on Fred Schurink’s project, Continental European Books in Early Modern England, at Manchester. And it’s my first in-person SHARP conference! Looking forward to meeting lots of lovely book history people and a super interesting set of papers

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Twilight’s depiction of Bella’s obsessive (and submissive) love for Edward is compelling tho Edward reads better as the monster he thinks he is (watching her sleep IS creepy!). The late addition of outside villains disrupts central conflict-between her desire & his ethics-rather than clarifying it.

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Finally read Twilight as I’m teaching ‘Vampire Fictions’ next year: it’s fine! Perfectly serviceable YA fiction complete with unreliable preface (setting up a vampire encounter but not the one you might think), a gangly but irresistible heroine, & Byronic or Brontëan tortured anti-hero.

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Delighted to announce that I have been appointed the Senior Faculty Advisor of the National Recording Preservation Foundation, a charter of the 106th US Congress, proximate to the Library of Congress NRPB.

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Writing a paper about ecological loss and wonder, focusing especially on Rachel Carson and the British authors who influenced her and whom she influenced. I think it's a rich topic but also making me even more worried about the low insect numbers we're seeing this spring. #envhum

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I'm very pleased to report that my first ever book *Knowing What It Is Like* is now in production for an August release. #philsky

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Looking for a job with impact? Join the British Library as a Digital Curator, OCR/HTR and help make the Library's collections more accessible to readers and computational methods!
blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

Closes Sunday 21 July 2024. Pay close attention to questions in the application process.

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The only thing better than someone making something great with open collections from the British Library is when they share how they did it!

Guest post from Sak Supple on how he made digitised British Library playbills searchable online blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

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Sunak "is best understood as the product of a postcolonial, post-Thatcherite ideology that considers social mobility as the sum total of achievement. That achievement is secured not just through 'determination and focus' but through proximity and affinity with the establishment and its institutions"

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Make a band bready: Deathciabatta for Cutie Bread Zeppelin Scone Temple Pilots

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Ned's Atomic Breadbin?

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Make a band bready: Ciabatta for Lashes

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Nesrine Malik comes to bury Rishi Sunak

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My wife (Icelandic literature translator genius) has been leading me on a tour of places in Copenhagen where famous Icelandic authors have got drunk over the centuries. As you can imagine, it's a bit of a list

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Today is a good day to remember that Denmark doesn't mess around when it comes to ice cream

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We were talking about housing in Norway last night at dinner. My one question is whether it’s affjordable

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It’s Wilbur’s chair even though I was trying to sit in it.

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Just read a post suggesting that Troi's empathy is just an ability to hear the episode's background music when someone is speaking. This is now my personal canon.

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Wow. This nine page comic by Kevin Conroy (voice of Batman) and J. Bone really hit me in the gut. It's about Kevin's dysfunctional family, his early acting career, his closeted homosexuality in the 70s-80s, and coming to his audition for Batman in the early 90s. Full: www.tumblr.com/why-i-love-c...

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Please enjoy this small elephant hawkmoth 💖 To help moths like this, leave some weedy/unmown areas in your garden if you have one. Do less. Don't mow eeeeverywhere. Have a sit down. If anyone asks, tell them you're looking after your local flying kittens 🦋🐈 Thank u from the Moth Promotional Board

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The last of my pre-COVID projects is finally out! My contribution is about starlings and U.S. immigration policy and the sounds of acclimatization. I'm super pleased to be part of a collection of work by so many scholars I adore.
#histstm #histsci #histmed #histtech

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Call for Papers: Displaying the British Museum: Past, Present, Future. Conference to be held at the British Museum 20-21 February 2025.

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Do you find yourself holding on to old photographs, letters, tickets - scraps that tempt a story? How can we craft a whole from this jumble of parts? Sign up via Starcroft Farmcabins - double occupancy available for a reduced rate.

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Europe digesting the US presidential debate

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50 likes and ill write the honest mid career blues blog post 100 likes and ill publish it

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'Eighty-one per cent of Labour supporters and 77 per cent of Conservatives said it was “important” or “very important” that the next government take action to support any university at risk of closure because of financial issues, “including providing emergency funding”.'

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Saving this to secretly show to my 3rd year students to explain that the latter system is essentially how the NSS is understood.

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