🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

📚Join us on 30 Oct 2025 at Senate House for The History of English Studies in Britain symposium 🎤 Speakers include Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc #EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature

FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

Quick rundown for non-US academics of whether you're likely to be eligible for the Anthropic payout: 1. you have works published in or before 2022 2. which are registered for US copyright (most likely if you had a US publisher, not otherwise): check here publicrecords.copyright.gov 1/2

…and another permanent, full time role available at UCL DIS: Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice, Grade 8/9. Closing date 16th September. Come work with us! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Closing date coming up soon: Monday 8th Sept for the Lecturer (Teaching) in Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society role (permanent, full time). Click below for details and to apply!

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

So great to see this in the world. Thank you to editor Janneke Adema, all of the authors, reviewers, and fine folks at @michiganpublishing.bsky.social for creating this timely special issue!

CFP: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People An online conference hosted by the University of Münster 11-12 February 2026 Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August! Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/ Please share!

Come work with us! Three jobs with UCL Department of Information Studies: first up, Lecturer (Teaching): Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society - application deadline 8th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Do your PhD in Manuscript Cultures with us! Our Grad School invites applications for full PhD scholarships (3 years, 1300 EUR/month + allowances) in the Scholarship Programme of the German Academic Exchange Service @daadworldwide.bsky.social Apply by 30 Sep! More info here👉 uhh.de/csmc-scholar...

Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

The Sun-Times' AI content also includes made up experts, quotes, and publications. It's the same story, over and over: a news outlet outsources work to freelancers or third-party firms that use AI, and that content is thrown in with actual human work w/o review. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

A reminder that THIS is coming up next month. A week-long deep dive into the artists' book, with some amazing guest speakers and visits to key collections. Places still available so PLEASE SHARE!!! 16-20th June, London Rare Books School Book here: ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...

Interdisciplinary conference from a brilliant team: exploring texts and the human experience #publishingstudies #digitalhumanities #DH

Postgraduate student in book history or literary studies? Apply for a bursary to the Digital Scholarship Winter School. Learn concepts and methods for research on new sources and media technologies. Generously sponsored by @sharpnews.bsky.social digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 2/end

Join us on 16-18 December in Chieti to explore how texts — from hypertexts and digital narratives to literature and social media — shape human experience: influencing social change, reframing histories. CfP open now digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 1/

Fully funded PhD at Glasgow University as part of the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

EADH seeks to elect 4 new members to the Executive Committee. We encourage direct members & members of AOs (DHNB, CzADH, AIUCD, DhD) to self-nominate for these positions to better rep EADH/AO joint missions. To vote/nominate, must be member in good standing by 25 April (Friday!) eadh.org/membership

📣The Charles Darwin Archive has been added to the prestigious @unesco.org International Memory of the World Register! 🔎Read the full story: loom.ly/g_s0slk

I have a fully-funded, 4 yr AHRC collaborative PhD studentship 'Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870' supervised by myself and Matt Ingleby with colleagues at The Museum of the Home. Deadline 23 May See: www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/postgra...

Lynette Owen and Diane Spivey, two of our favourite regular UCL MA Publishing guests, are running a 2025 edition of their renowned Selling Rights short course at IES (this year with the brilliant Juliet Pickering as well) #publishing

!! it's here this was a total joy to work on -- a riso catalogue for Seized Books!, printed and stitched by PageMasters, phenomenally illustrated by Esther MacManus and with an Afterword by Michael Bronski Looking forward to getting my hands on a physical copy soon

Interesting response from Meta's AI chatbot when I said it had been trained on pirated books, including two of my own.

Happy #WorldPoetryDay! 🌍✍️ Excited to share my new open-access monograph, Women Poets, Male Publishers! It explores how publishers like Carcanet have rediscovered women poets since the 1960s. Read it for free here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Poetry #WomenInLiterature @lboroor.bsky.social

An extra fun surprise: took me a minute to notice how many edited collections appear only under editor name(s). So chapters in there too, in case the articles, stories, books get lonely. Echo what others have said: feels different to know.

Digital History: permanent post (Lecturer, standard teaching and research contract) at UCL History Department in Digital History. We're a friendly and diverse group with ace access to research resources and diverse, smart and friendly student cohorts. 1/2 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI974/l...

13,000 responses to the AI govt consultation 👏

The lecture is brilliant! 🧠🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥳

In case we needed a reminder of how important the creative industries are to the UK economy (spoiler from @melissaterras.bsky.social , bigger than construction) www.eca.ed.ac.uk/event/inaugu...

KLAXON 🚨: Indie SAGE has come out of retirement to release a new short report standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the sciences! DEI is not just the right thing to do, it *improves* the quality of the science. Please read and share. independentsage.org/wp-content/u... 1/2

Today is the last day to apply for this postdoc with me! jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Exciting job opportunity to become St John's College's Special Collections Librarian www.joh.cam.ac.uk/special-coll... - permanent post, salary £41,944-£47,208 (depending on experience) plus benefits. Working with a great collection and a friendly team. @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social #LibraryJobs

Want to hear about the latest research in audiobooks? Maybe you're doing research into audiobooks? Join ANU English's own Millie Weber in this online workshop:

🤩 Hello familiar and new faces! Now that we're settled here, this is just a reminder that SHARP News is happy to share posts about your events, publications, exhibits, or other cool bookish things you're doing!! Just tag us and use alt text for pictures! We can't wait to see what you're up to.📚

Fantastic project, plus a chance to work with the amazing @kajamarczewska.bsky.social @uclspeccoll.bsky.social @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social Apply!

A thing I learned at the London Book Fair yesterday: this is expected to be the first year to see the production of more audiobooks with AI narrators than those with human voice actors

OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)

Correspondence to Nature: "LLMs are trained on texts, not truths. Each text bears traces of its context, including its genre … audience and the history and local politics of its place of origin. A correct sentence in one [context] might be … nonsensical in another." Excellent. We're getting there!

It's been delayed a little, but here — at last — is the CFP for Schmidt Sciences' Humanities and AI Virtual Institute, to support research "at the intersection of AI and the humanities." Expressions of interest are due April 4th. Pls RT! www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

This new issue of @jepub.bsky.social is out, and its first article is from @literaturegeek.bsky.social: 'Organized Futures: Speculative Design for More Just and Joyful Scholarly Infrastructure'. I recommend @jepub.bsky.social as a place to organize Just and Joyful collaboration in the future.

"A new tool developed by Stanford University Libraries (CA) allows researchers to proactively review their content and identify AI-generated text" 📚 news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

A question for my colleagues in creative industries…can anyone point me to work that uses creative methods to research the creative industries? Non-traditional or unusual methodologies?

Required reading If you ever use models to brainstorm. Really nice study design: Domain expert researchers search for plagiarized papers of LLM- systems that generate research plans. Many successfully find papers, verified by authors of those papers. But very hard to detect, see screenshot.

Ooh, ooh, the last issue of RECEPTION on reading time has 3 papers about valuing reading time in academic work, including @bendavies.bsky.social and Christina Lupton’s interview-based “When Your Job Is To Read After Work” & a fab piece by @johnsenrm.bsky.social on being a scholar-administrator:

In spite of it all the research group I'm leading at Cornell is hiring a postdoc! We're looking for someone w a lit/cultural studies + DH background, esp those who employ data-driven or computational methods. 2-yr position, 1/1 teaching load. Apps due 3/21 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29746

My lab has been adding Closed Captioning to the interviews and Traversals we did for the Pathfinders project (2013-2015). You can now watch Judy Malloy's Interviews 1-6 via CC now: vimeo.com/114754676?sh...

We have 11 new doctoral positions, starting October 1st, 2025 in our RTG (GRK) »Literatur & Public Sphere« Apply by May 1, 2025! The place to be is @fau.de in Erlangen, Germany. 👉German: www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de 👉English: www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/en/