Ben Doyle
@bendoyle.bsky.social
Senior Publisher for Literary Studies, Digital Cultures and Medical/Health Humanities at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Interesting take on AI and the various vested interests surrounding it; www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Interesting take on AI and the various vested interests surrounding it; www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Today's commute listen open.spotify.com/album/3gkxsf...
One Mississippi
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February 4, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Today's commute listen open.spotify.com/album/3gkxsf...
My fab colleagues are at the APA conference this week and keen to mingle, so if you're in the area and at a loose end then do swing by!
We're at the American Psychoanalytic Association conference! Stop by our table to discover our latest titles and meet our editors.
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 2:28 PM
My fab colleagues are at the APA conference this week and keen to mingle, so if you're in the area and at a loose end then do swing by!
Also publishing in Aug (but you can order your paperback copy now): 'Black Feminist Theories', an amazing collection which brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers across transnational contexts. Perfect for course use! www.bloomsbury.com/black-femini...
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Also publishing in Aug (but you can order your paperback copy now): 'Black Feminist Theories', an amazing collection which brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers across transnational contexts. Perfect for course use! www.bloomsbury.com/black-femini...
Delighted to have a final jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Vonnegut's War'! A fetching £20/$27 jacketed hardback, it fuses biography with popular history & textual analysis, telling the story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it. www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-wa...
January 28, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Delighted to have a final jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Vonnegut's War'! A fetching £20/$27 jacketed hardback, it fuses biography with popular history & textual analysis, telling the story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it. www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-wa...
Pretty sobering stuff - they don't get much more evil than Thiel and Palantir...
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
January 28, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Pretty sobering stuff - they don't get much more evil than Thiel and Palantir...
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literally thousands of people with unique expert knowledge and skills being made redundant, universities in the brink of closure, but sure, let's publicly fund the bullshit machine
January 28, 2026 at 9:44 AM
literally thousands of people with unique expert knowledge and skills being made redundant, universities in the brink of closure, but sure, let's publicly fund the bullshit machine
I resent being (increasingly bluntly) directed to help support the house of cards that technocrats like Altman, Musk et al have built.
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 10:02 AM
I resent being (increasingly bluntly) directed to help support the house of cards that technocrats like Altman, Musk et al have built.
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Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
January 27, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
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I hope all the AI boosters understand that they’re training their kids that only chumps do things the hard way—by working diligently and going through the discomfort and hassle of learning and acquiring skills.
And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
January 27, 2026 at 11:31 AM
I hope all the AI boosters understand that they’re training their kids that only chumps do things the hard way—by working diligently and going through the discomfort and hassle of learning and acquiring skills.
And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
Just a reminder to all those interested - please do sign up for our upcoming open access event (moderated by me): Open Access: Responsibility, Censorship, and Resistance. Sign up here:
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January 23, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Just a reminder to all those interested - please do sign up for our upcoming open access event (moderated by me): Open Access: Responsibility, Censorship, and Resistance. Sign up here:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/93ee36...
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/93ee36...
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🚨WOW! Now closing on 88,000 signatures! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
January 22, 2026 at 8:28 AM
🚨WOW! Now closing on 88,000 signatures! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Talking 7.30 pm tonight Thursday 22 January at Macclesfield Lit and Phil Society about Jane Austen’s Fashion Bible. The first lit and phils were founded when Austen was a teenager.
January 22, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Talking 7.30 pm tonight Thursday 22 January at Macclesfield Lit and Phil Society about Jane Austen’s Fashion Bible. The first lit and phils were founded when Austen was a teenager.
Next from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Listening In': Beginning with post-WW2 monitoring devices, it traces an arc through the Cold War era into the present day in which state and commercial spyware can record our calls, copy messages and secretly film us. www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...
Listening In
In 1945, W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was presented with a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a 'gesture…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Next from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Listening In': Beginning with post-WW2 monitoring devices, it traces an arc through the Cold War era into the present day in which state and commercial spyware can record our calls, copy messages and secretly film us. www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...
First up: 'Drone Cultures'. Encouraging us to think critically about the drone, this book traces the emergence of the drone in twenty-first-century warfare it examines its entanglement with surveillance culture, biopolitics, and artificial intelligence.
www.bloomsbury.com/drone-cultur...
www.bloomsbury.com/drone-cultur...
Drone Cultures
The drone is an object of contradiction: at once a weapon of war and a medium of wonder. Often linked to destruction and death, the drone also sparks creativity…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:08 AM
First up: 'Drone Cultures'. Encouraging us to think critically about the drone, this book traces the emergence of the drone in twenty-first-century warfare it examines its entanglement with surveillance culture, biopolitics, and artificial intelligence.
www.bloomsbury.com/drone-cultur...
www.bloomsbury.com/drone-cultur...
Happy publication day to two new books in our @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Studies in Digital Cultures series!
January 22, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Happy publication day to two new books in our @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Studies in Digital Cultures series!
Really proud to have published this groundbreaking collection of essays - out next month. It's a brilliant addition to the series and to work in the area. Congratulations and thanks to all involved!
Thrilled to finally be holding a physical copy of Art and the Critical Medical Humanities 📘
Co-edited with Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire, this book has been a true labour of love.
Co-edited with Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire, this book has been a true labour of love.
January 21, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Really proud to have published this groundbreaking collection of essays - out next month. It's a brilliant addition to the series and to work in the area. Congratulations and thanks to all involved!
Lovely review of Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction in the Journal of DH Lawrence Studies: a 'substantial and fascinating study' www.bloomsbury.com/microscopy-m...
Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction
Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers – D. H.…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Lovely review of Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction in the Journal of DH Lawrence Studies: a 'substantial and fascinating study' www.bloomsbury.com/microscopy-m...
Very, very excited to have signed this extremely important book (never more urgent than now). Coming soon from a DH editorial dream team and @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - watch this space...!
My dear friend and colleague @wernimont.bsky.social and I are uniting like Voltron, using our 40+ years of combined experience in digital humanities to write Undisciplined Digital Humanities: Designing for the World We Want. (not the actual cover) +
January 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Very, very excited to have signed this extremely important book (never more urgent than now). Coming soon from a DH editorial dream team and @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - watch this space...!
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It's a full house for 'Creative Facilitation: Insights, Practice & Futures'! To mark the occasion, we've published 6 new written interviews with people who used creative facilitation in research, work with communities & clinical practice. Check them out on our website!
tinyurl.com/4s7nke8b
tinyurl.com/4s7nke8b
January 15, 2026 at 3:07 PM
It's a full house for 'Creative Facilitation: Insights, Practice & Futures'! To mark the occasion, we've published 6 new written interviews with people who used creative facilitation in research, work with communities & clinical practice. Check them out on our website!
tinyurl.com/4s7nke8b
tinyurl.com/4s7nke8b
Unsurprising but still rather concerning...
"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'"
They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity.
www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity.
www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
www.npr.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Unsurprising but still rather concerning...
Great to see so many of our books in one place!
January 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Great to see so many of our books in one place!
Another crazily busy (but extremely fun) MLA underway! If you're here, swing by the Bloomsbury stand and come see us!
January 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Another crazily busy (but extremely fun) MLA underway! If you're here, swing by the Bloomsbury stand and come see us!