Dr Melanie Selfe

[Dr Melanie Selfe @melselfe]

@CultrHack Why are we still here? I ask myself this (it takes me beyond my immediate field). I only have this work account left. And tweet much less. But humanities academia needs to decide where to decamp to, as science academia already has. And then we need to persuade our institutions.

[Dr Melanie Selfe @melselfe]

This! Do uni’s want their PhD graduates (usually scrabbling for any job to stabilise finances after completion) to have the best chance of turning their PhD research into top quality articles, framed by the latest literature? If so, do this.

[Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @LizzieSwarbrick]

There’s one easy thing that universities could do to make their PhD graduates more successful and employable. Just give them online library access rights for a few years/life. It seems like such an easy win.

There’s probably a tech reason why it would be unmanageable but…

[Dr Melanie Selfe @melselfe]

@best2vilmabanky It really is jaw dropping. I visited for the first time this summer when in Amsterdam for a conference. Look forward to returning.

[Dr Melanie Selfe @melselfe]

@dieworkwear I see what they are doing with the dial and hands, but a reconditioned 1960s Seiko would be much nicer and vastly cheaper.

[Dr Ruth Alison Clemens @RuthieClems]

@routledgebooks @tandfonline Perhaps it's time for us academics to do what we do best... filibuster those research deadlines! "So sorry for the late reply, I've been rushed off my feet, can we move the draft to end April? I'll have a teaching-free week" etc etc

[Dr Ruth Alison Clemens @RuthieClems]

@routledgebooks @tandfonline This sets a worrying precedent, with the potential of published research being rushed through so that it can be fed into the LLMs in time. Which means lower research quality AND AI companies shaping the quality of published research AND rushed research being used to train LLMs..

[Dr Ruth Alison Clemens @RuthieClems]

UPDATE: yesterday @routledgebooks @tandfonline told all staff that it's extra important to meet 2024 targets as they have promised the LLM companies a quota of books for them to digest to train their AIs. So if your editor is pushing you to meet that deadline, this is why!

[Women Film Pioneers @WFPProject]

"After making her mark as a film journalist in Britain and a publicity and film sales manager in the Netherlands, she found fame as the manager of art house cinemas, notably the Academy in London, playing a huge part in spreading the appreciation of film as art in the 1930s."

[Cinema Rediscovered @CineRedis]

As we share the dates for Cinema Rediscovered 2025 (Wed 23 - Sun 27 July), look back at this summer c/o filmmaker @arthurcauty which captures what the festival is all about – bringing people together to celebrate the rediscovery and revival of great films on the big screen.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Lauren Bacall would have turned 100 today.

In 1946, she was immortalized in the WB cartoon, Bacall to Arms.

They don't make cartoons like this anymore. 😂

[Dr Melanie Selfe @melselfe]

@DrPadamson Hope tomorrow is better.

[Dr Melanie Selfe @melselfe]

@bergersmicer @kenbioscope Ah, if only I could teleport.

[Dr Melanie Selfe @melselfe]

@donsheldon @michaelharriot Also a haggis pakora is a perfect and delicious fusion food. Sounds weird. Totally works.

[Dr Melanie Selfe @melselfe]

@donsheldon @michaelharriot Not ALL the UK answer are curry. If I still lived in Edinburgh I’d say fish and chips with salt n’ sauce, obviously. (And of course fried fish and chips is also immigrant/colonialism food)

[Dr Melanie Selfe @melselfe]

@SPBPHD @MsWilliamsWorld The whole Business As Usual album was one of the first I played to death. I mean I still have the copy i had in 1983. But it crackles.

[Dr Melanie Selfe @melselfe]

@DrPadamson That’s a lot of plot.

[Dr Melanie Selfe @melselfe]

@MarthaPShearer And now I do too.

[Dr Melanie Selfe @melselfe]

@drmelaniebell I think this used to be on display in MOMI. Stunning. And tiny.

[Seth For Privacy @sethforprivacy]

If you run any sort of infrastructure on Linux, even if not publicly known, please update ASAP.

Any server with SSH exposed publicly is extremely vulnerable.