David Pearson
@dj-pearson.bsky.social
Librarian at SOAS Library
Anthropology, Linguistics, Migration, Food Studies, Teaching, HEIs
https://soas.libguides.com/
Anthropology, Linguistics, Migration, Food Studies, Teaching, HEIs
https://soas.libguides.com/
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'The economic impact of international students in the UK surged from £31.3 billion in 2018/19 to £41.9 billion by 2021/22. On average, every parliamentary constituency in Britain benefits by £58 million.' 1/3
Which UK regional economies are most reliant on international students? - HEPI
Join HEPI for a webinar on Thursday 11 December 2025 from 10am to 11am to discuss how universities can strengthen the student voice in governance to mark the launch of our upcoming report, Rethinking ...
www.hepi.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
'The economic impact of international students in the UK surged from £31.3 billion in 2018/19 to £41.9 billion by 2021/22. On average, every parliamentary constituency in Britain benefits by £58 million.' 1/3
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Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
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A beautiful tale about trees and stories by @pengshepherd.bsky.social . Take a look! 😁📚🌳
"More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth discovers a secret about the trees."
Let's revisit @pengshepherd.bsky.social's "The Future Library," edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
Let's revisit @pengshepherd.bsky.social's "The Future Library," edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
The Future Library - Reactor
More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth discovers a secret about the trees—one that changes not only her life, but also the fate of our worl...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A beautiful tale about trees and stories by @pengshepherd.bsky.social . Take a look! 😁📚🌳
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy, dannah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social, and Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social in a room together, is it Christmas already..?
Hey, y'all! This week we have a special episode of Peoples & Things - a recent livestream featuring very special guest host danah boyd talking with Cory Doctorow about his new book, _Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It_.
newbooksnetwork.com/cory-doctoro...
newbooksnetwork.com/cory-doctoro...
Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It - New Books Network
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November 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy, dannah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social, and Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social in a room together, is it Christmas already..?
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People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.
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I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
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Did some maths & worked out that if every one of my 12,400 followers on Bluesky was moved to buy a paperback of Villager after reading this extract, & I received the royalties from that in 2026 I still wouldn't have recouped 1/4 of the unpaid earnings my ex-publishers owed me when they went to hell.
I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
The Village Message Board
Its authenticity was discredited because of his reputation, but also because he was quick with gin at the time and wearing an item of knitwear back to front.
www.tom-cox.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Did some maths & worked out that if every one of my 12,400 followers on Bluesky was moved to buy a paperback of Villager after reading this extract, & I received the royalties from that in 2026 I still wouldn't have recouped 1/4 of the unpaid earnings my ex-publishers owed me when they went to hell.
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📣SOAS Event 19 Nov
Exploring 'City of Desire' - a portrait of the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh.
Register: bit.ly/4oPm1Ro
Exploring 'City of Desire' - a portrait of the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh.
Register: bit.ly/4oPm1Ro
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📣SOAS Event 19 Nov
Exploring 'City of Desire' - a portrait of the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh.
Register: bit.ly/4oPm1Ro
Exploring 'City of Desire' - a portrait of the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh.
Register: bit.ly/4oPm1Ro
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Brits believe the bots even though study finds they're often talking nonsense
Brits believe the bots even though study finds they're often talking nonsense
Consumer group Which? warns AI assistants can dish out unclear, risky, or downright daft advice
AI assistants can sometimes provide misleading or incorrect answers. However, almost half of British consumers using the services put more faith in them than they maybe should.…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Brits believe the bots even though study finds they're often talking nonsense
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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Just published! "Journeying with one of Japan’s leading anthropologists"
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CK3DQ... #anthropology #biography #Yamashita #Japan
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CK3DQ... #anthropology #biography #Yamashita #Japan
Epilogue: Journeying With One of Japan’s Leading Anthropologists
This epilogue concludes a special issue honouring the life and work of Professor Shinji Yamashita and his profound influence on anthropology and anthropologists in Japan and beyond. I describe Yama...
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July 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Just published! "Journeying with one of Japan’s leading anthropologists"
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CK3DQ... #anthropology #biography #Yamashita #Japan
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CK3DQ... #anthropology #biography #Yamashita #Japan
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Gift 🎁 link. A great piece by a dad & cultural anthropologist who teaches about mental health.
Two excerpts:
🔹️"The administration’s project is built on the premise that an autism diagnosis is a terrible tragedy and that scientists and doctors have failed to...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Two excerpts:
🔹️"The administration’s project is built on the premise that an autism diagnosis is a terrible tragedy and that scientists and doctors have failed to...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Gift 🎁 link. A great piece by a dad & cultural anthropologist who teaches about mental health.
Two excerpts:
🔹️"The administration’s project is built on the premise that an autism diagnosis is a terrible tragedy and that scientists and doctors have failed to...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Two excerpts:
🔹️"The administration’s project is built on the premise that an autism diagnosis is a terrible tragedy and that scientists and doctors have failed to...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
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Thank you so much to Arushi Sahay for this beautifully written and critical review of my book (www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...) in the most recent issue of the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Thank you so much to Arushi Sahay for this beautifully written and critical review of my book (www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...) in the most recent issue of the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology.
@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Please can you tell me if/when Fierceland by
Omar Musa will be published/available in the UK?
www.penguin.com.au/books/fierce...
Please can you tell me if/when Fierceland by
Omar Musa will be published/available in the UK?
www.penguin.com.au/books/fierce...
Fierceland by Omar Musa
The globe-spanning epic of power and family secrets from the Miles Franklin listed author.
www.penguin.com.au
October 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Please can you tell me if/when Fierceland by
Omar Musa will be published/available in the UK?
www.penguin.com.au/books/fierce...
Please can you tell me if/when Fierceland by
Omar Musa will be published/available in the UK?
www.penguin.com.au/books/fierce...
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Something a bit different from me today! Really enjoyed spending a few mornings riding South London's night buses for this piece for @londonermag.bsky.social and love any opportunity to combine narrative storytelling with data journalism
www.the-londoner.co.uk/meet-londons...
www.the-londoner.co.uk/meet-londons...
October 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Something a bit different from me today! Really enjoyed spending a few mornings riding South London's night buses for this piece for @londonermag.bsky.social and love any opportunity to combine narrative storytelling with data journalism
www.the-londoner.co.uk/meet-londons...
www.the-londoner.co.uk/meet-londons...
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Spread librarian love! Nominate an extraordinary librarian for the #ILoveMyLibrarian Award. Nominations are accepted online now through Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. ilovelibraries.org/love-my-librarian
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Spread librarian love! Nominate an extraordinary librarian for the #ILoveMyLibrarian Award. Nominations are accepted online now through Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. ilovelibraries.org/love-my-librarian
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We are committed to advancing equitable open access initiatives benefiting authors and libraries. With help from the library community and generous institutional funders, we published more than 200 open access books and 22 open access journals to date.
View all initiatives: bit.ly/4n5g0hF #OAWeek
View all initiatives: bit.ly/4n5g0hF #OAWeek
October 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We are committed to advancing equitable open access initiatives benefiting authors and libraries. With help from the library community and generous institutional funders, we published more than 200 open access books and 22 open access journals to date.
View all initiatives: bit.ly/4n5g0hF #OAWeek
View all initiatives: bit.ly/4n5g0hF #OAWeek
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I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
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Some key stats on UK immigration
October 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Some key stats on UK immigration
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🎉ICYMI!🎉
We are DELIGHTED that @vajra.me's RAKESFALL is the winner of the 2025 @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction!
Huge congratulations Vajra and to all of the other finalists!
See Vajra's acceptance speech here: https://geni.us/ursulak25
Buy the book: https://geni.us/rakesfall
We are DELIGHTED that @vajra.me's RAKESFALL is the winner of the 2025 @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction!
Huge congratulations Vajra and to all of the other finalists!
See Vajra's acceptance speech here: https://geni.us/ursulak25
Buy the book: https://geni.us/rakesfall
October 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🎉ICYMI!🎉
We are DELIGHTED that @vajra.me's RAKESFALL is the winner of the 2025 @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction!
Huge congratulations Vajra and to all of the other finalists!
See Vajra's acceptance speech here: https://geni.us/ursulak25
Buy the book: https://geni.us/rakesfall
We are DELIGHTED that @vajra.me's RAKESFALL is the winner of the 2025 @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction!
Huge congratulations Vajra and to all of the other finalists!
See Vajra's acceptance speech here: https://geni.us/ursulak25
Buy the book: https://geni.us/rakesfall
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#Inside the Rijksmuseum Library in Amsterdam. A sanctuary of light, color, and knowledge. This space feels like stepping into the architecture of wisdom itself. A moment of stillness amid centuries of curiosity and creation.
#Photography #BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography #BlueSkyArtShow
October 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#Inside the Rijksmuseum Library in Amsterdam. A sanctuary of light, color, and knowledge. This space feels like stepping into the architecture of wisdom itself. A moment of stillness amid centuries of curiosity and creation.
#Photography #BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography #BlueSkyArtShow
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Events coming up from @soasdevelopment.bsky.social 📣
📚 Book Launch: Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
📽️ Violence, conflict and changing global orders: Marking 25 years of the MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development at SOAS
🔗 buff.ly/47Lw5Cm
📚 Book Launch: Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
📽️ Violence, conflict and changing global orders: Marking 25 years of the MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development at SOAS
🔗 buff.ly/47Lw5Cm
October 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Events coming up from @soasdevelopment.bsky.social 📣
📚 Book Launch: Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
📽️ Violence, conflict and changing global orders: Marking 25 years of the MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development at SOAS
🔗 buff.ly/47Lw5Cm
📚 Book Launch: Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
📽️ Violence, conflict and changing global orders: Marking 25 years of the MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development at SOAS
🔗 buff.ly/47Lw5Cm
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We Sinful Women: Women in Art and Activism: 16 October, SOAS, 6:00-7:30pm.
A roundtable discussion about the current exhibition in the Wolfson Gallery. Booking here www.eventbrite.com/e/we-sinful-...
The exhibition in the Library continues until 7 December.
A roundtable discussion about the current exhibition in the Wolfson Gallery. Booking here www.eventbrite.com/e/we-sinful-...
The exhibition in the Library continues until 7 December.
We Sinful Women: Women in Art and Activism
A Roundtable discussion
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October 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
We Sinful Women: Women in Art and Activism: 16 October, SOAS, 6:00-7:30pm.
A roundtable discussion about the current exhibition in the Wolfson Gallery. Booking here www.eventbrite.com/e/we-sinful-...
The exhibition in the Library continues until 7 December.
A roundtable discussion about the current exhibition in the Wolfson Gallery. Booking here www.eventbrite.com/e/we-sinful-...
The exhibition in the Library continues until 7 December.