Sunday night film night featured House of Dynamite - I thought this was absolutely riveting. We didn't speak for the first 40 minutes! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

The Exec Director of AUPresses has submitted a letter to the Chronicle of HE, calling attention to the essential function that university presses play in the curation and advancement of the scholarly record, particularly in the H&SS. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter... @aupresses.bsky.social

Happy Wednesday! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Oxford University Press announces agreement to acquire Karger www.researchinformation.info/news/oxford-...

To mark 40 years of Continuity and Change, the editors invite submissions reflecting on the past and reimagining the future of social and economic history. Check it out on the @livunipress.bsky.social blog! ⬇️

BARS News: Independent Researcher Bursary Call for Applications Independent researchers with an interest in any aspect of Romantic Studies (literature, architecture, art, politics, culture, history etc) are invited to apply for the Independent Researcher Bursary.  www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189

Last night's film was 'The Wailing' - a creepy atmospheric Korean film which is truly terrifying in parts. www.theguardian.com/film/2016/no...

Go see my lovely colleagues on the @aupresses.bsky.social booth at the Charleston Conference to chat about our digital collections, archives, and open access initiatives!!

The Rose Field by Philip Pullman – nail-biting conclusion to the Northern Lights series

Here’s the latest call for reviewers for EXTRAPOLATION: m.facebook.com/Extrapolatio... @livunipress.bsky.social @springernature.com @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @oupacademic.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

New non-executive directors appointed to the @livunipress.bsky.social board!

Liverpool University Press is pleased to share two new appointments to our Board of Directors: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/10/22/n... @aupresses.bsky.social

Please share with your networks! It’s a *very* short survey, I promise…

📢 Our new report 'Publishing futures: Working together to deliver radical change in academic publishing' calls for urgent, coordinated action to make academic publishing more open, equitable, and sustainable. 🎥 Learn more in our short video: https://cup.org/4qemvBy

Skills White Paper: Labour commits to automatic tuition fee rises www.timeshighereducation.com/news/skills-...

Charlotte Lemanski’s IDPR article ‘Infrastructural citizenship: (de)constructing state–society relations’ explores how infrastructure shapes relations between citizens and the state — now featured in @uk.theconversation.com. Read the feature below 👇 Full article: bit.ly/infrastructuralcitizenship

Most read in British Journal of Canadian Studies🍁 '‘The abiding condition was hunger’: assessing the long-term biological & health effects of malnutrition & hunger in Canada’s residential schools' by @ianmosby.bsky.social & Tracey Galloway @csnrec.bsky.social Read it #OA: bit.ly/BJCS-Galloway-Mosby

Our Finance team are hiring an Accounts Receivable Assistant. Find out more about the role and how to apply: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/10/15/j... #PublishingJobs #LiverpoolJobs

Diamond Dreams, Unequal Realities: The Promise and Pitfalls of No-APC Open Access scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/15/d...

I am reading Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder - I have only just started it but it seems to divide my friends on Goodreads so I am interested to see how I get on! www.theguardian.com/books/2021/j...

TONIGHT: Join us at @waterstones.bsky.social Liverpool One to hear Peter Moore discuss his memoir Game Changer: Playing to win at Xbox, EA Sports and Liverpool Football Club with Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region. Final tickets available: www.waterstones.com/events/forme...

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK. www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Great to see some of the stellar work we're doing, @global19c.bsky.social, @clarehooper.bsky.social, & @livunipress.bsky.social! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/subjec...

I am reading this at the moment - it's a fabulous novel.

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/oxfords...

EVENT: Join us at @sotauol.bsky.social on 6/11/25 from 11am - 12:30pm for an ECR Publishing Roundtable with publishing professionals followed by an audience Q&A. Part of the #TerraqueousGlobe Conference @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social Tickets & registration: bit.ly/Registration-TG🌍

Furious because it’s not treat time yet.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

When you're presenting on a webinar, and speaking, and your cat jumps on your desk and waves her tail in front of your face....sigh. 🫣

The latest issue of The Indexer, 43(3), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about Chinese language indexing, natural-language processing and indexing, the ASI 2025 conference and National Indexing Day 2025, and more!

I really loved this book! Two graduate students follow their analytic magick Professor into Hell but it’s not how the philosophers claimed…..

Librarians, by subscribing to LUP Open Planning journals, you: ✔ Support equitable #OpenAccess ✔ Give your researchers access to a century of scholarship (TPR 1910, IDPR 1979) ✔ Help ensure today’s research is #OA for tomorrow’s scholars Find out more: bit.ly/LUPOpenPlanning @aupresses.bsky.social

Can't make our AMA on 30 Sept? No problem! 🗓️ Register anyway to get the recording and materials after the session. You can even submit your questions when you sign up! Register: https://linktr.ee/orcid_org #ORCIDOnDemand #UniversityPresses #ScholarlyPublishing

Come and hear me and my @livunipress.bsky.social colleague talk about all things ORCID! @aupresses.bsky.social

The latest JRS special issue explores multilingual & transcultural narratives of health and illness in European literatures (1870s–1960s+). Read the introduction to the issue #OpenAccess. ➡️ bit.ly/JRS-Reading-Bodies @ilcs.bsky.social @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @profstevenwilson.bsky.social

Sunday night film watching was The Innocents. Really really good and absolutely terrifying in parts. www.theguardian.com/film/2022/ma...

Take a look at the Contemporary French Civilization 50th Anniversary Virtual Issue, available free to read for a limited time. #FrenchStudies

I am *really* loving this book - Katabasis by RF Kuang www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Thrilled that @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and my co-edited Special Issue is now out in the Journal of Romance Studies! 🎉 Huge thanks to our contributors across French, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese studies—showing the value of a multilingual approach to the Medical Humanities: tinyurl.com/mrxmznsm

The incredible Bernardine Evaristo has used her @womensprize.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution Award to create a new @rsliterature.bsky.social Prize. For the next decade, we will be celebrating pioneering women writers, starting with Maureen Duffy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

🎉 We’re proud to have launched LUP Open Languages A #SubscribetoOpen initiative aiming to make research in languages, literatures & cultures #OpenAccess. Thanks to partners & editors for their support. Find out more ⬇️ #S2O @frenchstudies.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social

✨ Join us for ORCID’s Ask Me Anything: University Press Session on 30th of September! LUP's Clare Hooper (Director of Journals Publishing) and Natasha Bikkul (Journals Marketing Manager) will be on hand to answer your questions. 📌 Full details below ⬇

Our CEO Anthony Cond, the Chair of LUP's Board of Directors Professor Georgina Endfield FBA, and the Chair of LUP's Editorial Advisory Board Professor Claire Taylor have all been appointed to #REF2029 panels. Find out more about @ref2029.bsky.social: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...

The finest response I've seen so far.

Heading to UK-Ireland PRC 2025? 📢 Meet Town Planning Review co-editor John Sturzaker. TPR is a leading journal on planning, regeneration, housing & more. Discuss your work & find out how to make a submission to the journal. 🗓️ Wed 10 Sept 4-5pm | Ulster University #UKIPRC2025 #UrbanPlanning

We are surprised & disappointed to learn of plans to close @bucknellupress.bsky.social in 2026. AUPresses has offered our community’s assistance & insights to the university as planning for the press proceeds. https://bit.ly/41yszu5 Learn more abt the press's work: https://bit.ly/4m1elcH #ReadUP

The first eight books in our new partnership with ‪@livunipress.bsky.social have just been published – and with them, we are proud to offer new ‘delayed Open Access’. Find out more: https://bit.ly/46opK0r

My current read is The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson. www.theguardian.com/books/2016/f...

Thursday night croissant 🥐