Sam Solnick
Lecturer in Literature @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Poetry | Environmental Humanities | Controlled Panic
New book TERROR FIRMA on horror + ecology for Fitzcarraldo
- Bloody Hell Warwick, WTAF brand.warwick.ac.uk/en/brand-gui...
- Another day, another moron telling us we support genocide
- Delighted to see this finally announced! Liverpool-led AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards Funding loads of Environmental/Medical Humanities PhDs with CHASE, @livunienglish.bsky.social, & lots of collaborators!!!
- Congratulations to two University projects that have have received AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards funding, including Crafting Care, building on the work of Centre for Health, Arts, Society & Environment (CHASE) to explore how care is co-produced across communities news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/07/03/a...
- Reposted by Sam Solnick*Urgent action for academics and trade unionists - sign this letter opposing the ban on Palestine Action* The UK government's plan to extend terrorism laws is a grave threat to civil liberties and freedom of expression. Join us in opposing this repressive move. tinyurl.com/PalActionlet...
- A) BOSS Pets: A merseyside pet shop whose name plays on the Liverpool word meaning "very good" B) Hugo BOSS: A clothes company founded by an actual Nazi; made the uniforms for the SS using forced labour. And yet it's B suing A to protect their brand. Wild. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- yet another reason Val is the queen of crime and she-who-shall-not-be-named will only every be a derivative, unloved and unloving pretender.
- I can't get the absolutely harrowing recording of Kipling's poem "Boots" in 28 Years Later out of my head as it goes from metronomic to hysterical 1 youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08?...
- TBH using Kipling in a film about a small, rage-fuelled island caught up myths of militarism is a bit of a tonic. Because every time if I hear "the nation's favourite poem" is bloody "IF" I die a little inside. 2
- although THIS might actually be an even better appropriation of Boots than 28 Years Later www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVoi...
- Nah First half of 28 Weeks: tense and clever take on military-industrial context. Second half: "what happens if a helicopter fights a zombie"
- Ahem After the rewatches I can confirm that for me……… 28 Weeks Later is superior to 28 Days Later. #filmSky
- My wife thinks she drives because I am a danger to myself and others who can't check his left-hand mirror without swerving...little does she know she's just my beard
- Reposted by Sam SolnickDifficult to express the contempt I feel for this. No, not all Jews think "Yes, there is a genocide happening right now and children are being burnt alive, but on the other hand some of those protesting really are antisemites, which is bad, so who knows what to do?" archive.ph/E1vxH
- The trouble with having so many MPs from two certain universities is that they seem to think every other university a) is worthless b) is not the cornerstone of many local economies
- as ever our excellent PhD students doing typically excellent things
- For the Poems for Peace Project, a collection of poems were written by various writers, each thinking about different facets of peace and conflict. In our latest episode, staff members from @livunienglish.bsky.social interview the writers on their work open.spotify.com/episode/07Vd...
- Famous Scientists Discover New Formula for Pusillanimity www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- We have never been human; but I'll try anything once
- 🤵Are you human? Of course you are, this isn't 'the other place'. So that means you've got a month left to apply to join this year's Being Human festival, celebrating all that's good about the humanities: www.beinghumanfestival.org/news/apply-t...
- Have you heard the good news is the bad news?
- Every time an editor says 'kill your darlings' a demon child dies (only to be reborn, louder, slimier and screaming for more delicious headspace about 3 weeks later)
- 📢ACTUAL ACADEMIC JOB🚨 Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)
- Are you a recent recipient of a doctorate? Come work with us! This post is designed to provide experience in teaching and teaching-related administration in a world class university environment. The post is tenable for one year only from September 2025. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD111/a...
- "He's Not the Messiah He's a Very Naughty Boy"
- Reposted by Sam Solnick'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'
- Universities: students, the main problem with AI is that not declaring you use it might affect your marks. AI: Hi kids, make ethnic cleansing fun again! edition.cnn.com/2025/02/26/w...
- As it happens am teaching Larissa Sansour's 2012 film Nation Estate today -- which imagines Gaza as a skyscraper Ballardian nightmare -- so it's going to be interesting to see the students discuss how this has gone from SF-dystopia to policy plan in a decade larissasansour.com/Nation-Estat...
- My Eye Movement? Rapid.
- Just finished @rrrahul.bsky.social's amazing translation of this neon nightmare of a book by Michel Nieva which was just as thrillingly weird and wonderful as the cover suggests and totally gross in all the best ways serpentstail.com/work/dengue-...
- As I begin wading through the whirlwind of semi-colons that signals the beginning of marking season I am going to keep murmuring this to myself for comfort...
- My niece, bemused at me getting weepy while we were watching the end of Paddington 3: "are you crying because they have to eat marmalade forever now"
- Quite something that this is the most positive headline I've read in 2025 www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
- Have now been thinking about monometric sonnets all day and remembered this total banger...which is also very @bsky.app appropriate
- Slightly taken aback by the amount of poetry-geek glee reading a 3-in-1 anapestics sonnet generated in me
- Farage fetishizing "Judeo-Christian" civilisation is a) an Islamophobic dog-whistle b) a way of ignoring centuries of Christian antisemitism c) pretty rich coming from someone whose schoolmate accused him of singing Neo-Nazi ditty “gas ‘em all, gas ‘em all” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- To do list for Tuesday: 1. Book Dentist 2. Finish marking late assessments 3. POISON ALL MY UNDERGRADS' MINDS WITH POEMS THEN LAUGH MANIACALLY
- I can't even curse them to further spursy decades of trophyless irrelevance because we all know that's going to happen anyway
- Spurs haven't won anything for years EXCEPT this court case allowing them to rip up a re-wilded park... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- Spurs haven't won anything for years EXCEPT this court case allowing them to rip up a re-wilded park... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- How I think I look when teaching/How I actually look
- well this looks like it'll be amazeballs
- On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
- Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in cows...
- I sometimes imagine an alternate timeline where the wonder that is Teen Vogue existed in the late 90s and saved older milennials from ourselves...
- The word "recycling" allows corporations to dupe consumers. Don't fall for it. Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...
- 📢 Actual paid publishing job at world's sexiest academic press (for any fellow academics who also have undergrads asking them how to get into publishing)
- We're hiring a Journals Publishing Assistant - find out more about this role and how to apply: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/02/05/j... #jobsinpublishing
- Unsure whether one of my local Labour MP's complaints about "progressive politics" harming communities and "Churches" (?!?!?!?!) is an instance of a) Racism b) Stupidity b) Cynical careerism d) All of the above www.politicshome.com/news/article...
- THIS So much of the hand-wringing about GenAI in universities revolves around plagiarism and marking (ie not being able to fairly/accurately rank students). The real worry should be how it (often) disrupts what students are actually learning -- how to think and communicate complex thoughts
- I am starting to suspect that Oxford nurturing the Bullingdon Club, Dominic Cummings, Sunak and Liz Bloody Truss was all a cunning plan to eventually bankrupt other universities via Brexit/Visa crisis and thereby keep them in sherry for another 1000 years.
- Also to post this as a university with an £8 BILLION endowment on a day when the sector is watching great institutions like Cardiff (endowment 50 million), Durham (100 million) and UEA (15 million) shed jobs is...pretty much what you'd expect from them tbh
- 1. Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds (3 of the 5 biggest urban areas in the UK) - 72 miles 2. Shenfied to Reading (ie the Elizabeth Line; 78 miles) 3. Oxford-Cambridge; with less than 10% of the population of 1 (85 Miles) FFS
- I dunno, MAYBE fast, functioning and cheap East-West Travel across the cities and universities of the North of England would drive growth faster than Reeve's latest tech unicorn solution.
- Reposted by Sam SolnickBut thei were all of them deceivid for anothir environment-killinge plagiarism machyne was made
- Overjoyed for our @livunienglish.bsky.social PhD James Walsh who passed his viva yesterday for an absolute banger of a thesis about Shax and contemporary sonnets. If you want to read someone writing with nerve and verve about everything from sexbots to the tar sands then keep an eye out for him!
- Oh and many thanks to the examiners @lukekennard.bsky.social and Andrew Duxfield...who seemed to enjoy reading the thesis almost as much as we enjoyed supervising it!
