American Courtney Olsen has reset the women’s 50-mile world record by 8 minutes and 22 seconds while running an incredible average pace of 6:39 per mile. irunfar.com/courtney-olsen…

It's unexpectedly emotional to hold a physical copy of your (🥳passed without corrections🥳) PhD thesis... ... I might not have had the degree conferred yet, but it's almost time to celebrate these beautiful objects with my HDR colleagues University of Tasmania passed(😜) and present 🍻

My review of Conal Condren's 'Between Laughter and Satire: Aspects of the Historical Study of Humour' has been accepted by the European Journal of Humour Research... 😀 ...thanks to Dr Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera, ahsenkurekci, and the EJHR, for their support while I've been writing it!

It's been a great start to #AMSN6 being hosted here University of Tasmania on a delightful day here in Hobart...

The Invention of Love review – Simon Russell Beale is perfectly cast in Tom Stoppard revival whatsonstage.com/news/the-inven…

Super excited to share that my public address during my fellowship at University of Tasmania is now available as an essay. To cite it: The Writer as an Agent of Change. (2024). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 24(1). openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/…

Well this was very pleasant... Thanks to everyone English at UTAS who helped me celebrate, in person or in spirit, and congratulations to Dr Dr Philippa Moore and my fellow graduates!

Accidentally beginning 2025 with a new article: a book review of Condren's 'Between Laughter and Satire' in the European Journal of Humour Studies 🤓 europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/v…

A new publication! 🥳 The entry on Stoppard's 'Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth' is now live at the Literary Encyclopaedia 🐶💀, 🚗🦉🧙‍♀️ I was helped by two very generous editors; thanks to them both! litencyc.com/php/sworks.php…

The major festive period for ultra trail runners began ten hours ago, and it's not going to last the full sixty hours at this rate...

Three runners on loop three; even a Fun Run looks unlikely, but with John and Tomo out the party might keep going a little longer...

Party's over... Next year's going to be fascinating though 😀

What's so funny about #LastOneLaughing? My first article for The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand: theories of humour, definitions of comedy, and why Lou Sanders didn't even get to her set-up line 🤣 Appropriately for a programme with Jimmy Carr, there's a Czech involved theconversation.com/were-hardwired…

Who doesn't love to have jokes explained to them? Thanks to the Honours students English at UTAS, who are enjoying the extended, twelve week version...

Just seen that The New Daily has picked up my article, and I do like the wording of their front page link! thenewdaily.com.au/life/entertain…

he most read Arts+Culture article on The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand from University of Tasmania over 2025 YTD 🙂 The most read article from University of Tasmania from any section over the past week 😀 10,000+ reads since Tuesday 😂 Not bad for a first article 🤣 theconversation.com/were-hardwired…

Looking forward to chatting with Helen Earth on ABC Hobart at about 21:10 tonight, about why things - like #LastOneLaughing - are quite so funny... 😂 youtu.be/-HeAAhlNNgw?si…

This month's streaming recommendations The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand - including Last One Laughing UK, which is *specifically* designed to demonstrate competing theories of humour 😂 (Odd bonus fact: the French version begins with a clip from the Australian 🤷) theconversation.com/feuding-mob-fa…

From the new seasons of Andor and Black Mirror, to The Narrow Road to the Deep North – May’s must-watch TV proves time flies when your options are this good. Jessica Gildersleeve @drjessicaford Steve Gaunson Dr Fergus Edwards La Trobe University RMIT University Uni of Adelaide University of Canterbury UniSA

What's so funny about research? 🥸 The awesome Til Knowles is talking with a new generation of humour researchers: what are we working on, why, and how? 🤓 While I'm really proud to be talking with her for ep.1, I can't wait to hear the ep.s to come open.spotify.com/episode/1BGLbL…