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Laura Dietz
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Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
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loradeets.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this talk by @tylershores.bsky.social at @uclpublishing.bsky.social - some space available for in person attendance as well! #reading #publishing #bookhistory
uclpublishing.bsky.social UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 13h
What may be gained - or lost - when AI becomes embedded in the act of reading itself? Join us 1pm Weds 4th Feb for a free online talk from @tylershores.bsky.social on online reading, including how AI can function as a thinking partner across different kinds of texts.

www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Online seminar - The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of AI
Tyler Shores (Director of ThinkLab, University of Cambridge) - 1pm Wednesday 4th February 2026
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social
Approaches to promote children’s mental health and wellbeing
Date: Feb 9 | Time: 3pm to 5pm
Location: 26 Bedford Way

Hear from UCL academics as they explore how arts, leisure & physical activity can foster resilience & wellbeing in young people.

https://bit.ly/49iLxcz
Approaches to promote children’s mental health and wellbeing
Join us on 9th February for a special event during Children's Mental Health Week 2026.
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January 16, 2026 at 10:20 AM
loradeets.bsky.social
Still time to register for today’s @uclpublishing.bsky.social free online event, Understanding the Digital Public Library Ecosystem, with guest speakers @kiberens.bsky.social and Prof Rachel Noorda - sign up via www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Understanding the Digital Public Library Ecosystem
Players, processes, and how publishers can work with libraries to reach readers
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 16, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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curatorconnelly.bsky.social
The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍

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Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
www.cam.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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danielwilson.bsky.social
!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7

Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....

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#dh #c19 🗃️
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets - Volume 1
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November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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uclpublishing.bsky.social
Looking forward to tonight's www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... event: 100+ booked but some tickets still available. See you on Zoom at 6pm UK time for a wide-ranging discussion of the impact of reading on our health and wellbeing
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
loradeets.bsky.social
…and with @shaftowheed.bsky.social of @openuniversity.bsky.social and Dr Carina Spaulding of @readingagency.bsky.social as well - join us tomorrow to share ideas on reading for wellbeing! Thank you to @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for making the event possible 📚
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
loradeets.bsky.social
So looking forward to this event, and hearing from Dr Nenna Orie Chuku, Dr Katharine Smales, and Prof Sam Duncan - our thanks as always to @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for generous support of this research #reading #wellbeing @sharpweb.org @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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pricelab.bsky.social
🚨 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 📜
Manuscript Data Curation Fellow
University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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ies-sas.bsky.social
📚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
The History of English Studies in Britain: a Symposium
ies.sas.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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heuser.bsky.social
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...
Now Hiring: Research Associate (Fixed Term) - CDH
Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher in Digital Humanities. The post will run for three years from Spring 2026. The successful candidate will work with Profess...
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk
September 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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catherinefletcher.info
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
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September 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
loradeets.bsky.social
…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/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
loradeets.bsky.social
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!
loradeets.bsky.social Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · Aug 15
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/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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melissaterras.bsky.social
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!
Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social
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!
September 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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sarahpyke.bsky.social
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!
A pile of books on a red background with a QR code with white text which reads: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People. It's a CFP for an online conference hosted by the University of Münster, 11-12 February 2026. For the full CFP, an easier to read version is available at bit.ly/CFPThinkingOfTheChildren
June 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
loradeets.bsky.social
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/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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csmc-hamburg.bsky.social
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...
August 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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manshel.bsky.social
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...
Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective
The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...
data.post45.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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miasato.bsky.social
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...
May 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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gillpartington.bsky.social
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-...
May 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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uclpublishing.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary conference from a brilliant team: exploring texts and the human experience #publishingstudies #digitalhumanities #DH
May 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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rhymesontheroad.bsky.social
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
Text Affects at The Open University
Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...
digital-humanities.open.ac.uk
May 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM