Looking forward to welcoming new and continuing students to our gorgeous DCU All Hallows campus next week to begin semester one of the MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature! 📚 @dculibrary.bsky.social

New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.  If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

Ten years ago nobody in their right mind gave a single crap where trans people went to the toilet and the only reason anyone does now is because they were radicalised by Facebook and a handful of insane newspaper columnists and that’s just embarrassing all round

The #BookmarkProject auction is live, please get bidding and help us to raise as much money as possible for Katiyo Primary School in Zimbabwe www.jumblebee.co.uk/bookmarkproject2025 Please Share

What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

SCOOP: ICE tried to raid Chang Chang restaurant in Dupont (Washington, D.C.) but the manager ran then off.

Really, in truth, there is no need to use AI. My inclusion of "this way" was unnecessary 🤷🏻‍♀️

What is happening to the world. This is absolutely absurd. There is simply no need to use AI this way.

Such an interesting day @dcuclimate.bsky.social The diversity of speakers was fantastic. It gave us so much to think about. It can feel a bit bleak at times when talking about climate crisis, but focus on community really draws us to what @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social called persistence and resistance

In response to a question around the defence of human rights in Ireland, @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social warns that we should not take our rights for granted: “I don’t think we can be complacent at all in Ireland". #DCUClimate2025

Irish people wanting to take action to protect the environment should focus on their TDs (members of parliament) - a concerted campaign of writing to public representatives can be very effective says Mary Lawlor @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social , speaking at the @dcuclimate.bsky.social conference today.

"Art doesn't give us something. It is something... Art is nature, and nature is art" - visual artist Rosie O'Reilly offers reflections on the arts and the environment #DCUClimate2025

“We want to live in community like the mosses do, like the trees do” - write Kerri Ní Dochartaigh at the #DCUClimate2025 annual conference

Good for Radnor, Pa. School board votes to return three books previously removed from high school library. Congrats to the parents who persuaded the school board to un-ban the books. www.mainlinemedianews.com/2025/04/25/r...

Lovely to see ‘Nation’ highlighted here, one of my favourite Pratchetts for younger readers. Where to start with: Terry Pratchett www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Today is the first #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay! I'm going to be sharing some of the diverse books and graphic novels I've read and enjoyed lately! Please feel free to join in and share some of yours as well. More info: www.diversebooks.org/celebrate-we...

This looks like a cracker—more details here: ⭐ booksirelandmagazine.com/childrens-bo... ⭐ @childrensbooksireland.ie @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social @rurooie.bsky.social @dculibrary.bsky.social @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social

How does an idea cross a border illegally? What are the thoughtcrime laws? If an idea originated abroad, but I didn't know that and happened to come up with it independently, will I have an opportunity to prove it in court? "Popped into my head in the shower" doesn't leave an evidentiary record.

I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739

Thrilled that young Joseph won our World Book Day draw! Congratulations Joseph! Thank you to everyone who spent their world book day voucher with us.

In common with basically every other author, my work has been stolen by Meta and fed - against my will, and without compensation - into its AI monstrosity. I'm asking Meta: Do the Write Thing. Make it Fair. Join the @societyofauthors.bsky.social's campaign, and stand with human creativity.

Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇

An 'upbeat' and busy Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025 has seen a marked appetite for shorter and illustrated works – despite there being no runaway book of the fair – though the grim state of geopolitics dimmed many fairgoers’ moods. 👇 #BookSky

Literally on my way to an undisclosed university to spend three days with other faculty leaders of an undisclosed league+ to figure out what on earth we can still do in an environment where only one such university has refused to accede to authoritarianism.

All stories matter. Today (and everyday) let's celebrate our beautiful trans and non-binary humans! Happy #TransDayOfVisibility🏳️‍⚧️ #TransgenderDayOfVisibility #TDOV #SupportTransRights #TransRightAreHumanRights #WeStandWithYou #WeSupportYou #WeValueYou #transstories #transreads #transbooks #books

If you have any interest in writing or are anything to do with the book community, please sign this!

Congratulations to our @dublincityuni.bsky.social MA in Children’s & YA Literature students who graduated today! 🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓Congrats in absentia for those who couldn’t make today 🎊🎉🥳

I mean, we absolutely would: - Everything he’s said about the EU. - The political interference in Germany. - Vance’s Munich speech. - Greenland. - Vance about European troops in Ukraine. It’s another moment of candour but it’s part of a lengthy list at this point.

A very happy 8 year old here this morning! Had to pry it from his hands at bedtime last night @jamiesmart.bsky.social 😅

UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

A day with trainee teachers talking picture books and the myriad of ways you can interact with them. The future is so bright.

Was delighted to have the opportunity to attend the @isscl.bsky.social symposium on Saturday. Such incredible speakers & a really inspiring day. Thank you to all who organised such a great event.

All the responses here too 👌🏻📚

In case you want some sweet news today. I’m volunteering at the book fair at my kid’s school, and discovered Dav Pilkey paid for the whole thing. For the entire school. Every kid pre-k through fifth grade (the whole school) goes home with two free books.

The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Great stack @clairelinney.bsky.social Planning to do a buddy read of Jamie with my eldest ✨️💛

This is far beyond frustrating, it is theft, and we should all be shouting about it, artists or not. @chrishaughton.bsky.social has been outspoken about this topic with good reason.

Valerie Coghlan, Bookbird president, writes about IBBY Congress Trieste for our MA in Children's & YA Lit Blog @dculibrary.bsky.social @irscl.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie Thanks to our student editors, Ananya Ajay & @friendsinthepages.bsky.social 👏 search.app/ntXvBLJtY8vp...

Really looking forward to this day tomorrow! Children's literature truly is magic @isscl.bsky.social ✨️📚

St Andrews, you’ve been lush! Thanks for having me, and I cannot wait to be back again soon! Tomorrow: Stirling!

Zula and Milo are back and this time they’re heading to Victorian Leeds and the wonderful circus of Pablo Fanque, Britain’s first Black circus owner. Out April 22nd. Cover design by the wonderful @onyinyeiwu.bsky.social #kidlit

I heard a presenter on radio this week opine that children should surely be moved on from picturebooks at a certain age. This comes up regularly and each time I'm fascinated. No one visits the house of an adult & points at artwork hanging on the wall saying, "Are you not a bit past pictures now?"

Thanks to @booksireland.bsky.social for sharing this news: we’re publishing the debut by the wonderful @rurooie.bsky.social! Shorelines is a really innovative, fresh look at The Little Mermaid, and continues our commitment to the verse novel format for tweens, teens and young adults.

I'm so happy to finally share this news. Shorelines, my debut book, will be published by @littleislandbooks.bsky.social in February 2026. Shorelines is a young adult verse novel retelling of The Little Mermaid through the lens of a fat protagonist.

This is fantastic @rurooie.bsky.social !!!! Delighted for you 📚👌🏻

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

This is a conversation worth having #BookSky

Friendly PSA: when people are angry or sad about the loss of something they enjoyed, telling them you don’t like that thing adds nothing of value to the conversation. Let people process their losses in peace.