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da Cunha, Yanis & Heidinger, Steffen. 2025. Animacy restrictions without animacy features: The case of strong pronouns in French and Spanish. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–40.
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Animacy restrictions without animacy features: The case of strong pronouns in French and Spanish
When used as complements in prepositional phrases, French (and to a certain extent also Spanish) strong and null pronouns seem to differ in animacy: Typically, strong pronouns have human antecedents a...
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February 3, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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Had a great day in Paris at the École pratique des hautes études mapping out the future alignment between @ojcollective.bsky.social & @openbookcollective.bsky.social. Here’s me with @rupertgatti.bsky.social & @joedeville.bsky.social (Fernand Braudel looks on). #diamond #openaccess
February 6, 2026 at 8:08 PM
“A Manifesto That Reads Itself: Towards a palimpsest method for 'reading' site-specific works of art” by Dori Ben Alon: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection Beyond Text: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Textuality
A Manifesto That Reads Itself: Towards a palimpsest method for 'reading' site-specific works of art
A method is proposed for reading video works as a palimpsest: examining the source texts (the original manifestos), the visual text, and, perhaps most importantly, the spatial context, and then adding...
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February 9, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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The fabulous @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social journal is one of the titles libraries can support via @ojcollective.bsky.social, a new initiative in support of #DiamondOpenAccess. It's one of 285 #AHSS & #STEM journals in our catalogue.

You can join our movement here: www.openjournalscollective.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Check out the latest articles published in Glossa: a journal of general linguistics / @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social: www.glossa-journal.o...
February 7, 2026 at 9:54 AM
New (in German) at ZFF / Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung > Kristin Aubel reviews Superhelden im Film: Zur post-patriarchalen Utopie des Marvel Cinematic Universe by Peter Vignold:
Vignold, Peter. <em>Superhelden im Film: Zur post-patriarchalen Utopie des Marvel Cinematic Universe</em>. transcript, 2023.
Review of Superhelden im Film: Zur post-patriarchalen Utopie des Marvel Cinematic Universe by Peter Vignold.
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February 6, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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Now the #OpenJournalsCollective catalogue is live time to revisit @theblochian.bsky.social's @lseimpactblog.bsky.social article abt why it matters, why #TheFutureIsDiamond & how you can join our movement

Read the blog & follow links to the #OJC website for more info

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Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements - LSE Impact
Caroline Edwards argues transformative agreements are unaffordable and introduces the Open Journals Collective as a model for scaling open access.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
New issue of @zygonjournal.bsky.social is out!

Featuring two thematic sections: "Theology and Philosophy Engage the New Cosmology" and a book symposium on Critical Approaches to Science and Religion. Read the full issue here: www.zygonjournal.org/issue/1829/i...
February 5, 2026 at 12:29 PM
New in Open Screens: Enes Akdağ reviews Serge Siritzky’s Le cinéma était leur pays (Paris: Vérone éditions, 2024): doi.org/10.16995/OS....
Book Review: Serge Siritzky, <em>Le cinéma était leur pays</em> (Paris: Vérone éditions, 2024)
Serge Siritzky, Le cinéma était leur pays (Paris: Vérone éditions, 2024) pp. 242, ISBN: 9791028433666 (hb), €19.
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February 5, 2026 at 11:30 AM
New in @comicsgrid.com: Nina Mickwitz reviews Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (2025), co-authored by Dominic Davies and @crifkind.bsky.social. doi.org/10.16995/cg....
On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics
This review of the book Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (2025), co-authored by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, provides an overview of the key conceptual framing and inter...
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February 4, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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Huzzah!
February 2, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Jarvis, Rebecca. 2026. Multiple sources of movement-derived resumption: Evidence from Atchan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–46.
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Multiple sources of movement-derived resumption: Evidence from Atchan
This paper argues for the existence of multiple mechanisms in the grammar that can give rise to resumption in syntactic movement. Empirical motivation for this split comes from extraction patterns in ...
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February 3, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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Todisco, Emanuela & Wallentin, Mikkel. 2026. 'Este hombre' or 'el hombre este'? Semantic factors defining pre- or postnominal demonstrative constructions. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–34.
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<em>Este hombre</em> or <em>el hombre este</em>? Semantic factors defining pre- or postnominal demonstrative constructions
This study focuses on the relationship between the semantic features of nouns and the pre-nominal vs. post-nominal demonstrative construction in European Spanish. Saying este hombre or el hombre este ...
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February 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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Always impressed by my incredible @openlibhums.org colleagues - for their known, as well as secret, talents! This factoid was a lot more impressive than the trivia I submitted for myself - that growing up we had a pet sheep called George, named after George Bush Sr because my mum fancied him.
We kicked off our monthly OLH meeting with a quiz this morning 🧠🎉

Congrats to our winner, Editorial Director Dr Rose Harris Birtill

Unexpected revelation: she once danced competitively at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool 💃👏
a little girl is wearing a purple pajama set and dancing .
ALT: a little girl is wearing a purple pajama set and dancing .
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February 3, 2026 at 12:04 PM
We kicked off our monthly OLH meeting with a quiz this morning 🧠🎉

Congrats to our winner, Editorial Director Dr Rose Harris Birtill

Unexpected revelation: she once danced competitively at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool 💃👏
a little girl is wearing a purple pajama set and dancing .
ALT: a little girl is wearing a purple pajama set and dancing .
media.tenor.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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New in the journal! Mickwitz, N., (2026) “On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies powered by @openlibhums.org; @janewayolh.bsky.social
On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics
This review of the book Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (2025), co-authored by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, provides an overview of the key conceptual framing and inter...
doi.org
February 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
New at Digital Studies/Le champ numérique > "Refrigerator Wisdom: Social Rules and Rights as a Conceptual Framework for Digital Ethics" by K. Colette Hill: doi.org/10.16995/dsc...
Refrigerator Wisdom: Social Rules and Rights as a Conceptual Framework for Digital Ethics
Is it possible that examining the rules which govern our use of an everyday appliance can assist data practitioners in collecting and using data in ethical and responsible ways? This inquiry is based ...
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February 2, 2026 at 12:27 PM
The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component.

📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/news/882/
The OLH Open Access Award 2026: call for applications
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2026, a fund dedicated …
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February 2, 2026 at 12:17 PM
“Online Visual Reconceptualisation of Humorous Stereotypes: The Case of Catalonia” by Guillem Castañar-Rubio and Bai Zhimeng: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Visual Rhetorics of Humour: The Formation and Dissemination of Stereotypes through Cartoons and Memes
Online Visual Reconceptualisation of Humorous Stereotypes: The Case of Catalonia
Catalan people have traditionally been one of the targets of ethnic joking in Spanish humour. In canned jokes, Catalans are the butts of slurs that depict them as thrifty, stingy and business-oriented...
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February 2, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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C21 journal has published a ‘round table review’ of Timothy Bewes’s book FREE INDIRECT. It includes a short essay by me; other contributors include Leonid Bilmes, Laura Zander & Adam Kelly. Bewes does a response at the end 👇

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<em>C21</em>’s Roundtable Review of Timothy Bewes’s <em>Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age</em> (2022)
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January 30, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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🎉 Félicitations à Mathis et Mathilde

Using 🇫🇷 labour force survey, Mathis & Mathilde complicate the idea of “good green jobs” as job quality varies, especially by skill level.

We’ve published this research as #OA from @clerseumr8019.bsky.social @univlille.bsky.social in Issue 1 for 2026.

Read ⤵️
The final (and improved) version of our article, co-authored with Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière and entitled "Assessing the quality of green jobs: An empirical analysis of French data", is now published open access in the @ilr-rit.bsky.social: doi.org/10.16995/ilr.... Hope you’ll find useful insights!
January 28, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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🎉 Big congratulations to @wzwysen.bsky.social on this new
paper in our Issue 1 for 2026!

Using 🇪🇺-wide data, authors find migrants are ~20% more likely to do platform work, especially in delivery & ride-hailing, reflecting labour market vulnerability, not preference.

Early view now in English ⤵️
January 21, 2026 at 10:20 AM
We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. 📅 31/03: www.openlibhums.org/news/883/
CHASE placement opportunity at the Open Library of Humanities
The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The placement is only available …
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January 30, 2026 at 11:13 AM
"Stereotypical Poles and Their Funny Beaver (Bober)" by Wladyslaw Chlopicki and Dorota Brzozowska: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Visual Rhetorics of Humour: The Formation and Dissemination of Stereotypes through Cartoons and Memes
Stereotypical Poles and Their Funny Beaver (Bober)
The aim of the paper is to analyse the viral presence of the beaver in the contemporary Polish digital sphere to identify the features of a specific text that make it popular, recognised, and dissemin...
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January 30, 2026 at 10:43 AM