Looking forward to tonight's www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... event: 100+ booked but some tickets still available. See you on Zoom at 6pm UK time for a wide-ranging discussion of the impact of reading on our health and wellbeing

So looking forward to this event, and hearing from Dr Nenna Orie Chuku, Dr Katharine Smales, and Prof Sam Duncan - our thanks as always to @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for generous support of this research #reading #wellbeing @sharpweb.org @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper? Join the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and the UCL Centre for Publishing for a free online event 11th November 6pm (UK time): Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...

Job alert: closing date today, 8th September!

Come work with us! Three jobs with UCL Department of Information Studies: first up, Lecturer (Teaching): Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society - application deadline 8th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Second up: Lecturer Humanities Data Science - application deadline 15th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Third up: Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods – 0.5 FTE Grade 7 - application deadline 15th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Interdisciplinary conference from a brilliant team: exploring texts and the human experience #publishingstudies #digitalhumanities #DH

Postgraduate student in book history or literary studies? Apply for a bursary to the Digital Scholarship Winter School. Learn concepts and methods for research on new sources and media technologies. Generously sponsored by @sharpnews.bsky.social digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 2/end

Lynette Owen and Diane Spivey, two of our favourite regular UCL MA Publishing guests, are running a 2025 edition of their renowned Selling Rights short course at IES (this year with the brilliant Juliet Pickering as well) #publishing

There's still time to apply for an IES Fellowship! We will consider all topics within the field of English Studies, the history of the book, manuscript studies & palaeography, bibliography, textual scholarship & scholarly editing. Deadline: 10 April More info here: ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Can books be bad for you? Bad books vs bad readers - University of London Press author Karen Attar writing for @theconversation.com about her recent #OpenAccess book, Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction! Available to read free online. @ies-sas.bsky.social theconversation.com/can-books-be...

As if the MA Publishing students didn't have enough to talk about in their Ethics in Publishing module next week...

Just a few days before submissions close for this exciting collection (31 March)

This new issue of @jepub.bsky.social is out, and its first article is from @literaturegeek.bsky.social: 'Organized Futures: Speculative Design for More Just and Joyful Scholarly Infrastructure'. I recommend @jepub.bsky.social as a place to organize Just and Joyful collaboration in the future.

Fantastic project, plus a chance to work with the amazing @kajamarczewska.bsky.social @uclspeccoll.bsky.social @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social Apply!

📣 New on the blog! 📣 Medieval Pigments in the Twenty-First Century Reflecting on the fantastic workshop held at Senate House last month, in collaboration with @senatehouselib.bsky.social @saracharles.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social 🔗👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/blog/medieva...