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Students Newcastle University learning together, teaching through their actions, showing that they genuinely understand what it means for a university to be committed to social justice. Colleagues can sign to show solidarity Tinyurl.com/NCLGaza

Maurice Sendak died on this day, 8th May, in 2012. As well as illustrating books, he worked extensively on set designs for opera. Below is part of The Magic Flute (1978).

Everyone is welcome to join our event tonight for The Blake Society

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Also alumni

Calling on all University of Cambridge staff and faculty of conscience:

Sign an open letter (with the option to remain anonymous) declaring your solidarity with the student encampment

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

inscription I may render myself ineligible as this is a) one hand, singular b) two fingers not a whole hand...but I can testify that it is MY hand and A book.

.@qmul is happy to put Nadera's prolific scholarship forward for the REF and benefit from it, but won't condemn her being detained and tortured.

MY THEORY ABOUT WHY STUDENTS ARE PROTESTING: they are upset about israeli military activity in gaza, and the role the united states government has in it

Me teaching: each paragraph should have a single main idea

Me writing: my argument here is ninefold

“After 10 attempts at reading and completing James Joyce’s magnificent ‘Ulysses’ and only making it to page 10 each time, on attempt number 11, I finally did it! Hallelujah! ‘Ulysses’ should be a real inspiration to anyone interested in breaking the rules in any art form.” -Ron📚

saying l'esprit d'escalier > having l'esprit d'escalier

LRBS #movablebooks day under way with Gill Partington and we are building our own volvelles to crack the secret code...

Louis Darling was born on this day, April 26, in 1916.

The artist behind Beverly Clearly’s “Henry Huggins” and “Ramona the Pest” served with the U.S. Air Force during WWII; he was an environmentalist; and he illustrated Rachel Carson’s best-selling book, “The Silent Spring”.

what if we gassed students
and manhandled professors
outside a center for excellence
on a campus once built by slaves?
they're outside agitators, after all,
and much less seemly than
our library exhibits
of priceless archival materials
about 1968, the Freedom Riders,
and more

just used the word 'numbers-y', out loud, in a professional context. great stuff for a friday morning

Faculty at UT Austin are going on strike tomorrow to protest police and state troopers mass arresting and beating students.

Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books

This is tomorrow! Looking forward to it

A coven of bewitching reads within #SeizedBooks 🔮

Titles seized in the Operation Tiger raids delve into witchcraft's queer histories - from lesbian herbalists to the Radical Faeries' counter-cultural movement
Discover more in the #SeizedBooks exhibition london.ac.uk/seized-books

NB: Gay’s the Word under siege, British vs French independence, Emma Smith’s illustrator, Stravinsky takes a bow the-tls.co.uk/articles/paper…