Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!

I gave my first lecture in my first-year undergraduate course tonight I talked at some length about AI, giving my rationale for my categorical no-AI policy, encouraging them to think about what its (non)use implies for their own educational experience, and closing with Joseph Fasano's poem

How amazing is this? Every bookshelf should have one!

Academic authors: are you thinking of joining a writing group or workshop this fall? @kyrafreestar.bsky.social and I have compiled an up-to-date list of options for you! You'll find free coworking groups, self-paced courses, multi-week Zoom workshops, and more. Check it out!

Come and join us for our first @womenwritersnet.bsky.social chat here on Bluesky! It’ll be on 18 September at 6 pm BST. Save the date! #writing #writers #writinglife

TWO NEW BOOKS from the Illuminating Women Artists series are officially published today!! ⭐️ Maria Sibylla Merian by Catherine Powell-Warren ⭐️ Josefa de Óbidos by Carmen Ripollés www.lundhumphries.com/collections/... Co-published in North America with @gettymuseum.bsky.social

Art and Conversation: Artemisia Gentileschi at the Portland Art Museum, Sept. 4

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary

I love being a reviews editor. It brings you into contact with the most exquisite books. I sent these beauties to a lucky reviewer today. "Clara Peeters" by Alejandro Vergara-Sharp "Maria Sibylla Merian" by Catherine Powell-Warren Published by @lhartbooks.bsky.social #womensart #review #newbooks

I think I'm a pretty good copy editor, and I'd say that an appropriate rate of response to copyediting should be 85 to 90 percent flat-out yes, 5 percent absolutely not, what are you thinking?, and the rest is Oh, interesting, let me do some improvements of my own.

Tomorrow is the Netflix premiere of a film by Richard Osman and ‘How do you like my trimming: Accessories, Making and Jane Austen’s Novels' by me. Shot in the Drawing Room at Jane Austen’s House, the talk examines Austen's needlework: www.youtube.com/user/janeaus... 1/

Interested in women's history? I had the pleasure of editing this book with @saralread.bsky.social, Carolyn Williams & Felicity Roberts for the 30th anniversary of @wsguk.bsky.social. It's currently 30% off with @penandswordbooks.bsky.social See: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Exploring-th... 1/2

A really interesting and thoughtful thread on LLMs.

Interested in creative writing? This new Substack is for #skystorians and comes to you from the novelist and academic @saralread.bsky.social - definitely worth a subscribe!

So excited to see our book is now available for pre-order from Bloomsbury - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-and... A must read for anyone interested in gender studies, music, art, philosophy, writing, and history! With @louiseduckling.bsky.social

Delighted @breerob-kirk.bsky.social and @louiseduckling.bsky.social volume Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange is available for pre-order! I contributed a mini piece on Mary Anne Canning’s 188 page letter-memoir shaping 18thc. motherhood identity www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-and... #skystorians

A necessary article. Publishing has changed out of all recognition in the 25+ years since my debut novel. A big problem is the public's perception, and far too much creative writing biz advice, believes the defunct business model where making a modest living was possible, still applies. It doesn't.

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

We had a perfectly balanced weekend of fun and rest, as demonstrated here by Benji the collie (having a lovely nap after a long play with his favourite ball). So we're recharged and making headway on this week's projects: a business website copyedit and an academic book index. #stetpet #amediting

The Women Writers Network have arrived! You can catch up with their author interview with Anne Hamilton which took place earlier this evening. Scroll through their timeline for the Q&A. #WomenWritersNet

This course gave me a lot more tools for working with memoirists. I came away with a lot more questions to apply to manuscripts and frameworks for understanding how the genre works – highly recommend!

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

A reimagining of William Hogarth’s ‘A Rake’s Progress’ with Trump as the titular rake. Plates 1 to 4.

Non-academics: if you see an interesting academic paper on here and you can’t access it due to a paywall just email the author and (depending on the state of their inbox 😜) they will generally be thrilled you are interested in their work and send you a copy.

It's Tuesday. You're dragging yourself through the world, one cup of coffee at a time. Can nothing liven up this day? How 'bout a thread of eel ships on maps? These maps are what got me into eels in the first place! "Cool!" you say. "But wait...what's an eel ship?" Well... 1/14

the amount of people who still don’t understand this utterly foundational fact is staggering

Just over a week until all #EarlyModern ists descend upon Bristol!! Find out who’s joining us at #RenSoc25 and start those conversations ahead of our gathering in person: go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt #SkyStorians

Related: if you don't want to learn, don't be a student

Or let’s try a bigger idea: we give proper support public libraries doing their best to provide research access and databases to the *entire* reading public? Not just private institutions and the current/former academic class 🤷🏻‍♀️

I briefly mentioned that I’ve started a PhD with Greenwich Uni where I’ll be looking at female gardeners and environmentalists in the long 19th century. Who are the best people to follow here into that topic? Any ideas? #history #victorian #19C #gardening #gardeners #environment 🌱

Say hi. This is an example of how human labor will be remembered when all books are digitized and we all work with digital copies only. And maybe, hand on heart, this hand was intentionally raised to greet us from the past. #skystorians #bookhistory #digitalhumanities

Are you a researcher, archivist, curator, student or librarian who wants to develop their skills with reading early modern English handwriting? ✒️ Look no further than our 2-week, online short course, with bursaries available. Next running 16-27 June: imemsdurhamlearn.com/early-modern... 💻

A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).

In a survey of 1200+ authors by BookBub, 45% currently use generative AI for a wide range of tasks. 74% of this group do not disclose their AI use to their readers. A common fear among all surveyed was the "devaluing of art and artists". insights.bookbub.com/how-authors-...

I'm also refusing to make a martini with Drano.

One of my favourite places to visit in my local town. It always takes my breath away.

Become a Documentation Detective! Explore and transcribe #Birmingham Museums collection records online New uploads released every three weeks - new uploads today!

This is a great opportunity for doctoral students or ECRs to test out their work in a collegial and supportive environment. WSG call for papers - deadline 30 April

Do you live near a women's suffrage memorial? Help researchers at Aix-Marseille uni to map it alongside hundreds of others. Celebrate and value global histories of democracy and feminist activism - a powerful message given ebbing support in the twenty-first century framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...

Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Hello Bluesky! This is the official account of the Society for Reformation Studies. We meet each April in Cambridge for our annual conference and our journal is Reformation and Renaissance Review. We are keen to engage with anyone interested in Reformation studies! #earlymodern #skystorians

Our annual workshop is open for registration. This year's theme is "Meeting and Greeting in (im)Polite Society". Keynote: Professor Penelope Corfield. 18 May 2205 Venue: @foundlingmuseum.bsky.social Full details on our website: womensstudiesgroup.org/annual-works... All welcome, please share!

Data - facts or statistics collected together for analysis or reference. Creator - someone or something that brings something into existence. Original fiction, artwork, music, lyrics, poetry, nonfiction -the list goes on- are not 'data' to be 'scraped' for AI fodder. What they are is COPYRIGHT!

just imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”

OK, so I'm a day late (I had a writing deadline!) But what a delight it was to receive my 4th payment from @alcs.co.uk yesterday. If you're an author, please sign up - you deserve to get £££ for your efforts!

Some fantastic resources here on women's reading in history - do check them out! Thanks @sharonhoward.bsky.social

Join us as we explore a carefully curated selection of titles from Cornell University Press that illuminate the contributions of women throughout history for this #WomensHistoryMonth. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/honoring-wom...

Due to several requests (we all know you are all super busy), we are extending our CfP until Wednesday 26th March. So if you are interested in joining us for 18th c shenanigans in Bath in July, please submit a proposal! Full details below ⬇️ #skystorians #18thc @bsecs.bsky.social

Iconic feminist graffiti (UK) 1979, photographed by Jill Posener, British photographer /activist #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth