Professor Caroline Edwards
@theblochian.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & Director of @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
This was my Bride of Frankenstein!
November 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This was my Bride of Frankenstein!
We’re turning to contract law in an attempt to force our 7yo to agree to eat healthy dinners. She’s not signed yet - but maybe the heart doodles count?
October 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
We’re turning to contract law in an attempt to force our 7yo to agree to eat healthy dinners. She’s not signed yet - but maybe the heart doodles count?
Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025
On my way to Leuven for the @oaspa.bsky.social conference, which starts tomorrow. Found this fun guy in a Brussels metro station.
September 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
On my way to Leuven for the @oaspa.bsky.social conference, which starts tomorrow. Found this fun guy in a Brussels metro station.
Last week we had an @openlibhums.org journal editor who was elected as a Poet Laureate (Azad Sharma from The Hythe Review), this week it’s a double-page spread in @prospectmagazine.co.uk for Professor Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social, editor of Political Philosophy! OLH editors are on FIRE right now 🔥🔥🔥
September 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Last week we had an @openlibhums.org journal editor who was elected as a Poet Laureate (Azad Sharma from The Hythe Review), this week it’s a double-page spread in @prospectmagazine.co.uk for Professor Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social, editor of Political Philosophy! OLH editors are on FIRE right now 🔥🔥🔥
Just found out I’m a Professor (or Full Professor as it’s called in the US)! From October 1, I’ll be Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture. Still slightly shocked, it’s gonna take a few more cocktails this weekend for the news to sink in 🤣
August 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Just found out I’m a Professor (or Full Professor as it’s called in the US)! From October 1, I’ll be Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture. Still slightly shocked, it’s gonna take a few more cocktails this weekend for the news to sink in 🤣
Greetings from Cornwall! (And yes, the sea really is that green at Porthcurno beach).
July 31, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Greetings from Cornwall! (And yes, the sea really is that green at Porthcurno beach).
Mystery birthday gift received this morning - a poster of Sean Connery as Zardoz. Finally confirmed as coming from my ridiculous @openlibhums.bsky.social colleagues. Relieved it wasn’t my mother-in-law to be honest.
July 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Mystery birthday gift received this morning - a poster of Sean Connery as Zardoz. Finally confirmed as coming from my ridiculous @openlibhums.bsky.social colleagues. Relieved it wasn’t my mother-in-law to be honest.
Here’s the “Salmon of Steel” statue in Sheffield. Had a brilliant afternoon at the University of Sheffield, speaking with the Editors & Publishers Network. It reminded me how journals are a labour of love. We must withdraw our uncompensated labour from supporting unscrupulous commercial publishers.
July 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Here’s the “Salmon of Steel” statue in Sheffield. Had a brilliant afternoon at the University of Sheffield, speaking with the Editors & Publishers Network. It reminded me how journals are a labour of love. We must withdraw our uncompensated labour from supporting unscrupulous commercial publishers.
Putting the finishing touches on my keynote "Sonic Apocalypticism: Learning to Listen in the Necrocene" for forgottensf.wordpress.com. I'm venturing into WEIRD SOUND STUDIES for this one! (I'm hoping it'll be recorded). Full programme here, so many good papers: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
May 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Putting the finishing touches on my keynote "Sonic Apocalypticism: Learning to Listen in the Necrocene" for forgottensf.wordpress.com. I'm venturing into WEIRD SOUND STUDIES for this one! (I'm hoping it'll be recorded). Full programme here, so many good papers: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Commuting to London this week for lots of PhD supervisions. Enjoying the heat and angles.
May 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Commuting to London this week for lots of PhD supervisions. Enjoying the heat and angles.
Last night’s Lambrini Girls hometown gig in Brighton was absolutely epic. Haven’t moshed like that since I was a teenager. What a brilliant band & lovely crowd @lambrinigirls.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Last night’s Lambrini Girls hometown gig in Brighton was absolutely epic. Haven’t moshed like that since I was a teenager. What a brilliant band & lovely crowd @lambrinigirls.bsky.social
Great to see the @oipassoc.bsky.social stand at #UKSG25. Books & flyers from members such as @lsepress.bsky.social @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social & even some new @ojcollective.bsky.social flyers! #OpenAccess
March 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Great to see the @oipassoc.bsky.social stand at #UKSG25. Books & flyers from members such as @lsepress.bsky.social @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social & even some new @ojcollective.bsky.social flyers! #OpenAccess
Guess who forgot their glasses on the way into work & now has to supervise all their PhD students indoors whilst wearing prescription sunglasses.
March 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Guess who forgot their glasses on the way into work & now has to supervise all their PhD students indoors whilst wearing prescription sunglasses.
Great to see @judithfathallah.bsky.social presenting at the Oxford Forum on Open Scholarship (OxFOS) on her own research into fan studies & the benefits of publishing OA with @openbookcollective.bsky.social publishers #OpenAccess
March 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Great to see @judithfathallah.bsky.social presenting at the Oxford Forum on Open Scholarship (OxFOS) on her own research into fan studies & the benefits of publishing OA with @openbookcollective.bsky.social publishers #OpenAccess
Here I am, tired but excited to be speaking at the Bodleian Library! The panel was recorded so I’ll be able to share soon #OpenAccess
March 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Here I am, tired but excited to be speaking at the Bodleian Library! The panel was recorded so I’ll be able to share soon #OpenAccess
icy window close-up
January 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
icy window close-up
Finally, a research day. Having a great time drafting a keynote on biodata sonification, which means listening to the futuristic synth noodlings of mushrooms arranged by Tarun Nayvar (pictured) & the muffled umbral ambience of ice shelves collapsing. Is SF sound studies a field yet?!
January 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Finally, a research day. Having a great time drafting a keynote on biodata sonification, which means listening to the futuristic synth noodlings of mushrooms arranged by Tarun Nayvar (pictured) & the muffled umbral ambience of ice shelves collapsing. Is SF sound studies a field yet?!
Beautiful wintry walk before dark up at Loch Fyne, Scotland.
January 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Beautiful wintry walk before dark up at Loch Fyne, Scotland.
Happy Christmas and I love you and Christmas. Brilliant seasonal message to scrape out of the bottom of a filthy school bag, along with scavenged playground toys & highly desirable lumps of blu-tac. Wishing you all a lovely festive break - don’t check your email! 🤣🎄🤣
December 20, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Happy Christmas and I love you and Christmas. Brilliant seasonal message to scrape out of the bottom of a filthy school bag, along with scavenged playground toys & highly desirable lumps of blu-tac. Wishing you all a lovely festive break - don’t check your email! 🤣🎄🤣
Super snoozy today. They’re lying on a heated pad. Maybe I’ll join them.
December 5, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Super snoozy today. They’re lying on a heated pad. Maybe I’ll join them.
Back-cat-cha from Mrs Dora, the least elegant cat I’ve ever met 😂
November 30, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Back-cat-cha from Mrs Dora, the least elegant cat I’ve ever met 😂
You’ve just reminded me - I took this photo at one of the Heathrow T5 hotels late at night.
November 24, 2024 at 9:23 PM
You’ve just reminded me - I took this photo at one of the Heathrow T5 hotels late at night.
Back home in Brighton today. NGL it wasn’t easy to leave 22° sunshine in a Charleston, SC.
November 18, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Back home in Brighton today. NGL it wasn’t easy to leave 22° sunshine in a Charleston, SC.
Another stunning day in Charleston, SC. I cannot get over the trees here, they’re magical. After final meetings I managed to visit the International African American Museum which is incredible. Well worth the walk across town.
November 15, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Another stunning day in Charleston, SC. I cannot get over the trees here, they’re magical. After final meetings I managed to visit the International African American Museum which is incredible. Well worth the walk across town.