Great that Prof Murphy is now able to continue her important work, but worrying that it came to this at all... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Happy publication day to the latest in our #medicalhumanities series, 'Autism and the Empathy Epidemic'. Available in paperback or FOR FREE, open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... Feel free to drop me a line to learn more about the series!

A stream of blue humanities projects is flooding my desk (ok, done with the watery language now, I promise) for our new series. 1st manuscript is also now out with peer reviewers! Check out the series' overview and get in touch if working on anything relevant! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/th...

Just started watching Mythic Quest and it is SO GOOD!

*NEW DAVE ALBUM DROPPED* ARGHHHH open.spotify.com/album/24f1GF...

Hypernormalisation: my new favourite concept. Oh, also, that Adam Curtis documentary is brilliant www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin

Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...

Sprinting towards dystopia thanks to big tech. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

Really, really excited to see what comes of this. A great topic and a book that I'm excited to look at for the list here, when the time comes!

Really nice review of 'Love, Friendship and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury' in the Journal of Modern Literature, which calls it 'deeply researched and tightly argued'. Check the book out here: www.bloomsbury.com/love-friends...

Final day book giveaway at #MSA25. Come see me in the book exhibit!

All set up at #MSA25. Stand looking good and we are ready to rock!

Day one of MSA - heading down to set the stand up now. Swing by to say hi if you're around!

Look what just landed on my desk...! It looks amazing and GREAT to see it in the real world. Grab a copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-we...

A free row?! I'll take this as a good omen.

At Heathrow now killing time pre-MSA flight. Looking forward to a few days of modernism and Boston! Drop me a line if you're around and keen to chat at the conference!

Throwback pre-evening out listen open.spotify.com/album/7gXuEl...

Bit of a throwback for the commute today: open.spotify.com/album/5OwsAU...

This #InternationalPodcastDay tune into ‘Confessions of an Early Career Researcher’ – a new guide to the world of academia post-PhD. The first three episodes of the podcast are available now. Subscribe for our next episodes, live on 15 October: https://bit.ly/4pNaTp1

Just giving another shout out to 'Representing the New AI in Film and Television', available in paperback now! www.bloomsbury.com/representing...

Attending the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2025 conference? Book a meeting with @bendoyle.bsky.social to discuss your book idea on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social stand! Find out more about publishing with us ⤵️ https://bit.ly/42sYjRI

Just starting to arrange meetings for #MSA25 in Boston in a couple of weeks. If you're in town and want to talk publishing or research, let me know!

A raft of new titles announced in our Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities series: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/cr... - if you work in the area, please do get in touch as I'd love to hear what you're up to!

Hot on the heels of my last, please join me in welcoming the brilliant Ulla Kriebernegg as our new series editor for the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social series 'Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life' www.bloomsbury.com/series/bloom... - Ulla, welcome aboard and I can't wait to work with you!

Really sad to see the wonderful Kate de Medeiros step down from her role as series editor for our @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life' series. Kate, thanks for all of your hard work, energy and vision, you've been a DELIGHT to work with.

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Great to have the final jacket for the next book in our Studies in Digital Cultures series locked down. Available in paperback near you soon! www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...

The British Academy Book Prize 2025 shortlist Is here! 📚 Africonomics by Bronwen Everill Sick of It by Sophie Harman The Burning Earth by Sunil Amrith The Golden Road by William Dalrymple The Baton and the Cross by Lucy Ash Sound Tracks by Graeme Lawson Find out more 👇 bit.ly/4glo8Jo

The first book from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social new innovative multidisciplinary series now published: 'Theory Across Disciplines' brings together key scholars to examine how theoretical concerns from a range of disciplines operate within their respective fields. www.bloomsbury.com/theory-acros...

Open (free) access recent edited book with chapter on human-tree relations in a graphic novel, as well as other mentions of plants - Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

"UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost" www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

I'm honoured and excited to be a part of the REF's Main Panel D as a 'User Expert', as announced today. Looking forward to getting stuck into the role over the next few years! 2029.ref.ac.uk/panels/main-...

Publishing next month, for the Austen fan in your life (or for you, if you're the Austen fan in your life!): www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...

Less than £18/$25 for the most comprehensive overview of literary and cultural theory on the market. All 472 pages of it! Eminently suitable for classroom use so please do add it to your Theory 101 reading lists today! www.bloomsbury.com/contemporary...

This morning's mood...reflective: open.spotify.com/track/1UKobF...

Well that's summer definitely over...

💥An updated version of the program for the “Critical Health” conference I am co-organizing with @jpitettiheil.bsky.social is now online! Please visit our website (desktop version is recommended) at criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com

Really sad to see this - a very interesting press with some really nice Lit Studies books.

Now published both in paperback and ebook (and available for free Open Access), 'Resisting Big Tech' advocates for the de-Googling of life and the need to foster truly communal spaces, online but especially offline. Could it BE more timely?! www.bloomsbury.com/resisting-bi...

Another year of the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship - time to get your applications in!

Advance copies of 'The American Sentence' by Ira Nadel from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social just dropped onto my desk and look AMAZING! Available in paperback, it's a thoroughly engrossing account on the evolution of the American sentence over the years. www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...

Another shout out for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies' in our med hums series, from @louisecreechan.bsky.social , Jenny Bergenmar and Anna Stenning. It's a foundational collection and one that will be very, very important for the field. www.bloomsbury.com/critical-neu...

We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

disgraceful decision to suspend the flagship widening participation initiative in the humanities at Bristol please sign and share this letter to oppose this docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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

Once of the saddest songs I've ever heard. Teary on the train home! open.spotify.com/track/6m7yfT...

Just published in paperback, Jeffrey Di Leo's magisterial overview of contemporary literary and cultural theory: www.bloomsbury.com/contemporary... Excellent both for teaching and reference, and excellent value at under £25/$35 for more than 400 pages!

Lazy Friday dog.