Enraged Brontë fans making their feelings known in Fleet

Really nice to see the final paperback jacket proof for the latest in @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Global Challenges...' series. Edited by Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby, 'Unsettling Extinction': www.bloomsbury.com/unsettling-e...

"Reform UK's threat to defund Bangor University 'shows how bullying would be its style in government'"

#EnglishCreates: Futures We are thrilled to share today's blog by Caroline Lucas, Britain’s first Green MP: 'Literature is the way we exercise the muscle of the imagination... And unless we can imagine a greener, fairer world, we’ll struggle to achieve it.' universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

Congratulations to Fatima Naveed, winner of the @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social Academic Writing Fellowship for 2025! www.bloomsbury.com/connect/late...

⚠️ 12th February is the deadline to apply for the role of Impact Associate at University of Nottingham, working with the Indigenous North American Collection.

Also out now from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - another I've been waiting for, 'How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change' by Astrida Neimanis and Jen Hamilton: www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-weath...

I know I've been banging on about this for ages but it really is BRILLIANT! 'Listening In' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social tells the story of audio surveillance from the very first (and tragically unsubtle) bug, to in-home AI: www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...

Interesting take on AI and the various vested interests surrounding it; www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Today's commute listen open.spotify.com/album/3gkxsf...

My fab colleagues are at the APA conference this week and keen to mingle, so if you're in the area and at a loose end then do swing by!

Also publishing in Aug (but you can order your paperback copy now): 'Black Feminist Theories', an amazing collection which brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers across transnational contexts. Perfect for course use! www.bloomsbury.com/black-femini...

Delighted to have a final jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Vonnegut's War'! A fetching £20/$27 jacketed hardback, it fuses biography with popular history & textual analysis, telling the story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it. www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-wa...

Pretty sobering stuff - they don't get much more evil than Thiel and Palantir...

literally thousands of people with unique expert knowledge and skills being made redundant, universities in the brink of closure, but sure, let's publicly fund the bullshit machine

I resent being (increasingly bluntly) directed to help support the house of cards that technocrats like Altman, Musk et al have built.

Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously! 4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦‪ MARK RUSKELL MSP‬⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!

Keep on rocking in the free world, Greenland. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

I hope all the AI boosters understand that they’re training their kids that only chumps do things the hard way—by working diligently and going through the discomfort and hassle of learning and acquiring skills. And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.

Just a reminder to all those interested - please do sign up for our upcoming open access event (moderated by me): Open Access: Responsibility, Censorship, and Resistance. Sign up here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/93ee36...

🚨WOW! Now closing on 88,000 signatures! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed. Let’s keep going! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Talking 7.30 pm tonight Thursday 22 January at Macclesfield Lit and Phil Society about Jane Austen’s Fashion Bible. The first lit and phils were founded when Austen was a teenager.

Next from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Listening In': Beginning with post-WW2 monitoring devices, it traces an arc through the Cold War era into the present day in which state and commercial spyware can record our calls, copy messages and secretly film us. www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...

First up: 'Drone Cultures'. Encouraging us to think critically about the drone, this book traces the emergence of the drone in twenty-first-century warfare it examines its entanglement with surveillance culture, biopolitics, and artificial intelligence. www.bloomsbury.com/drone-cultur...

Happy publication day to two new books in our @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Studies in Digital Cultures series!

Really proud to have published this groundbreaking collection of essays - out next month. It's a brilliant addition to the series and to work in the area. Congratulations and thanks to all involved!

Lovely review of Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction in the Journal of DH Lawrence Studies: a 'substantial and fascinating study' www.bloomsbury.com/microscopy-m...

Very, very excited to have signed this extremely important book (never more urgent than now). Coming soon from a DH editorial dream team and @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - watch this space...!

It's a full house for 'Creative Facilitation: Insights, Practice & Futures'! To mark the occasion, we've published 6 new written interviews with people who used creative facilitation in research, work with communities & clinical practice. Check them out on our website! tinyurl.com/4s7nke8b

Unsurprising but still rather concerning...

Great to see so many of our books in one place!

Another crazily busy (but extremely fun) MLA underway! If you're here, swing by the Bloomsbury stand and come see us!

A great topic and should provoke some extremely interesting discussion. Check out this CFP

Just published in paperback from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - 'The American Sentence'. A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book asks what an American sentence is and how has it changed? www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...

Lovely piece on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social blog from Susan Allen Ford on Jane Austen’s enduring way with words: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Author Suzanne Jill Levine sat down with TV Santa Barbara's The Creative Community to discuss her book, 'Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir' Watch the full interview👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktn2...

On Feb 5th I'll be moderating what promises to be a fascinating discussion on Open Access: Responsibility, Censorship and Resistance. Join us online!

;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3

Check out these amazing keynotes for Weird Modernisms - and there's still time to propose a paper or panel: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Excited to see this out from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social after many excited conversations about it - thanks to the editorial team, who have been a dream to work with!

To all DH/AI folks, Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) is requesting proposals for research projects which foster research in the digital humanities with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Grants of up to $800k available. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

At @bloomsburylit.bsky.social we LOVE Jane Austen. Check out some of our more recent Austen-related offerings in our most recent newsletter (and please sign up if you haven't already!): mailchi.mp/bloomsbury/j...

What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research? I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...

You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

We don’t have to be stuck with bullsh*t like meta. We left twitter/x; we can find or build a new platform for what meta offers, right? I’m right now looking at @hardcover.app as an alt to Goodreads—and @shepherdbooks.bsky.social too. People are building alts. We gotta make a better world.

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

Just published today from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - the latest addition to our medical humanities series: 'A Cultural History of Vertigo': www.bloomsbury.com/cultural-his... with a lovely blurb from @travisclau.bsky.social

Newest paperback entry in our Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities series now on the website! 'Unsettling Extinction' (ed. Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby) presents cutting-edge work on species extinction across the environmental humanities. www.bloomsbury.com/unsettling-e...