Brilliant to be back with @sgsah.bsky.social for the EARTH Scholars reunion day - here with Harish Lokhun from @britishcouncil.bsky.social Scotland welcoming scholars back to Glasgow

Only a few days until our romance fiction festival First Date starts for 2026! We started First Date in 2023 with a half-day event, and this year it will be over the course of two weeks, 24 April - 8 May, and we're co-hosting the festival with Book Lovers Bookshop! Allow us to share our programme...

📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in Scottish video game heritage! ARCS-funded PhD researching a national collection of Scotland’s game history. With @abertayuni.bsky.social, @glasgow.ac.uk & National Museum of Scotland. Apps due by 11/05/2026 🔗 Learn more & apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Ready for a pacy, comic, thrilling audiobook - set at the Frankfurt Book Fair? THE FRANKFURT KABUFF by Blaire Squiscoll is now available in audio. More detail including how to download: ullapoolism.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/t... @clairesquires.bsky.social @blairesquiscoll.bsky.social

If you are a cis woman who is opposed to being used as a pretext for establishment transphobia and trans exclusion please sign this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social. Now fewer than 300 signatures needed to get it past 100,000! notinourname.org.uk

Looking forward to be back with @sgsah.bsky.social next week for the @britishcouncil.bsky.social EARTH Scholarships Impact Programme Symposium on Wednesday 22 April - you can sign up for online attendance here tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Job role at the @societyofauthors.bsky.social Scotland for a Policy and Public Affairs Manager - 2 days a week, deadline 4 May societyofauthors.org/about-us/wor...

'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!

👉 NEW — Arms industry given direct influence over university courses By Martin Williams Officials from BAE Systems, Leonardo and Thales sit on advisory committees that oversee the ‘strategic direction’ of academic departments www.declassifieduk.org/arms-industr...

The Scottish Book Trade Conference 2026, partnering with The BooksellersAssociation. The annual gathering of the Scottish publishing and bookselling industry; we are looking forward to a day of great sessions, networking, and collaboration. Join us Wednesday 13 May, Edinburgh lnkd.in/euR-jUyE

Every single article covering Israel should start by mentioning that they dubbed yesterday's operations in Lebanon "eternal darkness." You know that so much has already been normalised when this isn't even a cause for outrage. 303 people, at least, were murdered yesterday by Israel.

Fuck this. As an industry, we are in an existential crisis of book banning because of homophobia and transphobia weaponized by racist authoritarians. “Dirty books” are not the problem. Censorship is. Make whatever books you like, but don’t you dare call other books dirty in your shitty marketing.

I also wonder whether the requirement to attend an event in the States as part of this Prize might be off-putting for some potential non-US recipients in *these times*

Helen DeWitt on turning down a $175k Windham-Campbell Prize because she wasn't able to handle the prize's mandatory publicity requirements. Imo a moving, deeply relatable, and darkly funny story about money, obligation, mental health, & executive dysfunction paperpools.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-l...

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

Where to find the words anymore? What to say when Israel continues to behave like this? And no condemnation at all from the UK Government. They carry on business as usual as if Israel aren't carrying out genocides in both Gaza and Lebanon. aje.news/jf7llm

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

All countries MUST withdraw overflight, landing or refueling permission for US planes, with immediate effect. Too much is at stake to just wait and “hope” Trump will back down, or someone, somewhere in US system will intervene to stop him.

Today is technically the official publication day for Publisher Not Found, because it's 4/04/26... but Saturday is an awkward pub day so we released it early. Thank you all who have taken time with it already and for the kind words! www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...

Some good news! The exhibition I curated for Charleston is going on tour! 'Artists, Lovers, Outsiders' closes in Lewes April 12. Then tours to Nottingham & Kilmarnock! I'm so grateful to our lenders, everyone who's seen it & to Charleston, Nottingham & the Dick. www.damianbarr.com/latest/2026/...

It's no joke! 📣Audio edition of @blairesquiscoll.bsky.social's The Frankfurt Kabuff is now available for your listening pleasure Head over here to find out more: ullapoolism.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/t... @bethdriscoll.bsky.social

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It's no joke! 📣Audio edition of @blairesquiscoll.bsky.social's The Frankfurt Kabuff is now available for your listening pleasure Head over here to find out more: ullapoolism.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/t... @bethdriscoll.bsky.social

We've raised enough for at least another £1,000 bursary for publishing projects and £500 for an internship! Can you help get us to £2,000 over this month to get more cash to the small presses that need it? Share & donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/404-bursary

"Bullen cleverly transposes academia’s publish-or-perish atmosphere to a fantasy setting." SO chuffed with this review of The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance from Publishers Weekly!! 🏔️🦌 #academicsky #booksky www.publishersweekly.com/9780593982693

neither a garrison state nor an apartheid state, just a normal country, a bastion of democracy even, that happens to subject an ethnically distinct population to a different, militarized legal system complete with capital punishment

Hello! Today is THE LAST DAY to file a claim in Bartz v. Anthropic. GET YOUR MONEY! Check the works list to see if you are on it here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/ File a claim here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form

Revisiting publishing revenues for a chapter on public history and I'm reminded of the astonishing statistic that UK consumer publishing has annual revenues of £2.5 billion while academic publishing, the bit aimed at the tiny percentage of us working in research, earns £3.5 billion.

UK authors the paperwork for this is actually pretty straightforward and well worth taking 30 minutes to do it and bash it back.

'Discrimination': Noun: "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people". This Labour government should be ashamed.

EVENT! Thinking Forwards: Collaboration The Editing Women in the Archives Project (27 March, 14:00 – 15:00) This project aims to locate, collate, conserve & provide access to endangered women’s literary, lifestyle & art publications in Pakistan. Free/online englishassociation.ac.uk/thinking-for...

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Some absolute jewels in Glasgow’s cultural ecosystem face eviction on Friday. T103 houses Photoworks, Transmission Gallery, GMAC, Sharmanka and more. It is also home to Project Ability, a vital visual arts community supporting young people with learning disabilities and mental ill-health.

As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children

This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI. I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…

A researcher at the University of Stirling is recruiting autistic trans people for a PhD project about experiences of support and support services. For more information: email [email protected] or go to app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/autistic-trans-research-eoi-forms

I love a vol-au-vent, both conceptually* and gustatorily (?) - what's your opinion? *it's flying in the wind, it's so small and perfect... #canaperesearch www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes...

Once again reminding all academics in the UK that they really, really, really, really should sign up to @alcs.co.uk Lifetime membership is £36 and they take it out of the money they collect for you so it really is "free money". I'm getting a little over £100 *every year*. Do it!

I love a vol-au-vent, both conceptually* and gustatorily (?) - what's your opinion? *it's flying in the wind, it's so small and perfect... #canaperesearch www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes...

The paperback of my historical crime novel, Love And Other Poisons, is out today!

"A ... federal judge has dismissed a writer's lawsuit accusing a bestselling fiction author of stealing her romance-fantasy book drafts to create the popular 'Crave' series, issuing a lengthy opinion finding tropes of the genre —such as 'hot, sexy, dangerous boys'— are not protected by copyright."

✨ Meet our new Featured Researcher, Mattea Gernentz! @thewhimsicalowl.bsky.social Mattea’s PhD with @glasgow.ac.uk explores how women Impressionists used nature as a site of creativity, freedom, and flânerie. Discover her journey, insights, and inspirations: sgsahresearch.com/featured-res... 🎨

Open Access pub featuring some thoughts on sustainable academe: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... Thanks for seeing this through @apasek.bsky.social and @swatimehta.bsky.social !

The best work canapé is Edge Hill’s sadly defunct brie and mango parcel - cheesy fruity deliciousness! The worst work canapé is the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus’s inexplicable onion sandwich - literally a bit of onion between two curling quarters of bread 🤷‍♂️

So this is out in paperback on Thursday, folks

📢 WE NEED YOUR HELP! We have opened applications for the 404 Ink bursary to support small presses in the UK, but that is only one part of the plan. We are also crowdfunding to raise additional bursaries to give away. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/404-bursary

Roll up! Roll up! It's The Jewel Keepers book launches. It'd be lovely to see you. Tickets here: Edinburgh Thursday 14th May: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb... Glasgow Sunday 17th May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bookface-s... St Andrews Weds 20th May: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...

📢 THE 404 INK BURSARY FOR UK-BASED SMALL PRESSES NOW OPEN Applications are now open for our bursary to support small presses in the UK. There are 2 strands you can apply for: donating £1,000 towards creative projects, or £500 towards hosting an intern. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...