Research funding opportunity! This is an excellent bursary for those working on any aspect of women's studies - it's designed for those who need it most (ECRs, indie scholars, PhDs). Do check out the details at @wsguk.bsky.social and apply!

🎙️ Running an Editorial Agency—a live panel with four agency owners sharing their different models. Thinking about starting an agency? Or just curious how they work? This one's for you. Tues., Oct. 28 | 1:45 pm ET Register: zurl.co/MJlCO #AmEditing #FreelanceEditing #SmallBusiness

A reminder that @societyofauthors.bsky.social offers a lively programme of events for #writers, online and in person: societyofauthors.org/events/ #WritingCommunity

The Chevalier d'Eon, the Man-Woman, from the frontispiece to The Mysteries of Sex : Women Who posed as Men and Men Who Impersonated Women by C. J. S. Thompson (1938). Available on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/...

Hey folks - no birthday on our lists for today so instead we're just going to remind y'all that our series of books on the history of #WomenInSTEM are out there and available, and that all proceeds go to keeping the Archive funded and free to access for Everybody! #BookSky #AstroSky #MedSky 🧪🧮🧠🔭

A3 - Good writing mindset comes over time. It is a bit like editing a book - practice. Determination is another quality needed for life in general can disturb the thought pattern. #WomenWritersNet

Just catching up with the #WomenWritersNet chat from last night. This month's theme was writing mindset. If you struggle to get into the writing zone, you may find these responses helpful.

Who are @womenwritersnet.bsky.social anyway? We’re an international team dedicated to supporting our fellow #WomenWriters through our social media presence. Want to know more? You can read all about us thanks to @Pen_to_Print. pentoprint.org?s=women+writ...

Calling all women writers - come along to this online chat if you're free on Thursday. The discussion is always illuminating - and friendly!

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England] phys.org/news/2025-10...

I'm looking forward to catching up with friends old and new at this WSG seminar this Saturday, at the Foundling Museum in London. Come along and say hi?

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...