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Julia Skinner, PhD

@bookishjulia.bsky.social
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Author, fermenter, food historian, writing coach, Library Science PhD, culinary educator, forager, maker of everyday magic. Wrote Our Fermented Lives. Agent: Ekus Group linktr.ee/juliaskinner

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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just messaged you the details! See you there!
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This meditation is happening online on October 17! Donation based but no one will be turned away if they can’t pay. Lmk if you want to join!
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This meditation is happening online on October 17! Donation based but no one will be turned away if they can’t pay. Lmk if you want to join!
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I run group meditations where we imagine ourselves as part of a mycelial network, so we can tap into that mycelial wisdom and see how best each of us can serve (and be held by) the collective. If I ran one online would you come?
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Danielle Holliday scholarship for misfit creatives closes in 4 days. Please share + apply if you haven’t already! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Danielle Holliday scholarship for misfit creatives
Named for chef and creative spirit Danielle Holliday, who had a multidisciplinary creative drive and never fit cleanly into any category, this scholarship gives two misfit creatives free access to my ...
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Danielle Holliday scholarship for misfit creatives closes in 4 days. Please share + apply if you haven’t already! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Danielle Holliday scholarship for misfit creatives
Named for chef and creative spirit Danielle Holliday, who had a multidisciplinary creative drive and never fit cleanly into any category, this scholarship gives two misfit creatives free access to my ...
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m curious what brand these arch support/soft upper pumps are (also condolences/congrats on your new pair)
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I made a scholarship in honor of my best friend. If you’re a creative person who doesn’t fit cleanly in any box, and who wants to build a sustainable writing practice, please apply! The winner receives access to my 4 week live workshop this November! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Danielle Holliday scholarship for misfit creatives
Named for chef and creative spirit Danielle Holliday, who had a multidisciplinary creative drive and never fit cleanly into any category, this scholarship gives two misfit creatives free access to my ...
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m running a live class on fermentation and magic in Cork on 11/10. I’m also thinking of running the same class online. Think: how I use ferments in my spells/magic, daily fermentation as a simple mindfulness practice, how I build a sour jar (w/ vinegar, hence the ferment), etc. Would you join?
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cork friends, I’m teaching medieval calligraphy (specifically uncials) at the My Goodness restaurant above Quay coop on October 23. All materials are provided, but you have to book with me to save a spot (it’s 25 Euro, 20 if you’re a night coop member or pay cash). DM me if you want to come!
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I fell backwards out of a chair, the force of which caused me to somersault and land on my back on the floor mid-interview. The interviewer laughed but I was offered the job on the spot 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One thing I did this year was completely reswizzle my most popular writing practice workshop. I knew it needed a refresh to help writers have even more support for crafting their practice and for actually, well, writing. We meet online in November! www.rootsandbranches.site/learn-more-b...
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Look I’ve never been diagnosed as neurodivergent but I just finished writing, illustrating, and designing a short story collection specifically about the history of fermentation, so I leave you to draw your own conclusions.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪
Meme. Painting of St. Hildegard, from the shoulders up. She is dressed up in her nunnish finery. Her wimple is white and very creased, so that she looks a bit like a mummy and her veil is the dusky black of that suggests it's been through the wash many times. She has something like a crown on her head, with little spikes that look for all the world like duck feet. The saint's eyebrows are hard lines like windshield wipers, & her nose is ski-jump smooth.

Her head is surrounded by a nimbus of blue with a white outline, set against an orange background. She is looking up and towards your right, as if she's watching a possum that's about to drop onto the person sitting next to you. Her mouth is set in a tight smile. She's likely thinking about sex again. And maybe not just eel sex.

Hildegard provided us with the first written description of the female orgasm, so it's quite possible that she's got that on her mind.

Meme text reads:
"Medieval Eel Truth:
It's all about the Bingen's, baby!"
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m noticing wayyyy more people setting up and last-minute canceling or changing dates lately. I’m not sure if this is a Cork thing or a thing happening everywhere? It’s happened with both men and women. I love going on dates but not respecting my time is a big red flag!
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Both a timely and evergreen reminder to fellow journalists: Make PDFs of all your pieces as they come out so you have them even if/when things go offline. If you haven’t been, go back and grab what you can now then get in the practice of capturing as things go live.
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For a year or more, I’ve been wanting to send cozy letters, little trinkets, pressed plants, and other tiny revelations from my walks, travels, and my own garden. So this fall I’m starting. Sign up for the waitlist below. Get cool mail from wherever I am in the world. forms.gle/3Y6vWhW3kBcD...
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Dispatches from Daily Life mail club
Hi friend! Thanks for your interest in my new mail club, where I'll share little pieces of my daily life as lived on two continents and through lots of walks. Every month, you'll receive mail that'...
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
See and I would have had to look sea beans up!
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nontraditional but delicious letter of recommendation: sprinkle chopped marsh samphire on your fajitas just before serving. The briny crunch really brings something special.
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
One of my ‘I’m wealthy’ goals has been to set up a scholarship fund in honor of my best friend. Then I realized I already give scholarships and there’s no reason I can’t name them. Anyhow the Danielle Holliday Scholarship for Misfit Creatives will be opening soon. I think they’d be proud.
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Cork! I’ve a book signing at the Patrick Street Eason’s at noon this Saturday, August 22. Come say hi, grab a book and let me personalize it for you!
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Honestly I should start doing this
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Thank you ❤️! And yes it’s true, the sads are sneaky like that!
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Had the sads this weekend but the whole thing turned around when two separate folks (a newsletter reader and a writing client) reached out to tell me how much they love my work and how much it’s helped them. If you’ve been waiting to send a nice message to an author or teacher, this is your sign!
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I love the messy and generative early stages of a new project. I’ve written most of the intro text to my next writing project in the margins of a teetering stack of books I’m revisiting from grad school and the sense of elation I feel is like nothing else on earth.
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I hope it’s helpful for you!
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I am a writing coach who’s worked with dozens of academics and I’ll say it varies a lot, so there’s no ‘right’ amount. One thing that helps me though is to set aside my writing time *before* other things in my day: so I can focus without those other obligations butting in.
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wonderful to talk with @bibliocook.bsky.social about all things food preserving for the Irish Examiner. If you’ll be at Cork on a Fork, come watch my demo on the 16th! www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/he...
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How to make the most of seasonal gluts
Learning how to preserve fruit and vegetables while they're fresh and bountiful is an economical, sustainable and mindful way of holding on to nourishing and delicious foods even when they're out of s...
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Leaning back into being my 13 year old self by voriaciously poring over books, then putting lemon juice in my hair and sitting in the sun
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Matt Schneider @mattlaschneider.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Me: *sighs wistfully* Wife: what’s wrong? Me: just thinking about— Wife: Michael Collins’s wolf slippers? Me: yeah Wife: Me: *sigh* Wife: they’re really good slippers Me: so fucking good
A comfy set of slippers in a rich blue with jaunty wolf faces over the toes, originally owned by Michael Collins
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Thank you ❤️❤️
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Absolutely, I’m grateful we have a good care team here for her!
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Thank you ❤️
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Our sweet girl goes home to the stars on Tuesday and we will miss her terribly
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thank you ❤️
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I’ve spent the day at Kitty ER with Bonk, where I have received not great news that I don’t really want to share online. But if you’ve been wanting to book a class or 1:1 session with me, get some Reiki, or just send me a tip or something for my work, now is a time I’d really extra appreciate it!
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Co-signing all of this. I never thought my Colorado-raised natural disaster advice would be needed in Ireland but, here we are. Thanks for sharing these pieces of advice for the folks who haven’t lived with fires before.
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Thank you! Here’s to all the fun preserving projects this summer!
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FoodPrint @foodprintorg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Fermentation is HOT but so many food preservation practices are not new — a fact that guides @bookishjulia.bsky.social’s latest book, “Essential Food Preserving.” She outlines how to use the tools of our ancestors to transform fresh, seasonal ingredients into ones that taste great and keep longer:
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Beyond fermentation: A new book explores the many methods of food preservation
While fermentation may be the food trend of the moment, Julia Skinner's new book explores the full spectrum of food preservation techniques.
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Join the waitlist here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Preserving Mail waitlist
Hi friend! Thanks for your interest in the Preserving Mail Club from Marisa and Julia. This bimonthly mail club sends out small recipe zines, handwritten notes, one-of-a-kind drawings, and more, all...
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Co-creating a very special mail club with @foodinjars.bsky.social, all about food preserving. Recipe zines, stories, original drawings, handwritten notes, plus the occasional surprise. We’ve opened the waitlist! Sign up below and we’ll be in touch when it’s ready to go:
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Emergency alert! 🚨the pomegranates on my pomegranate tree are almost ripe🚨 (I am about to have The Most sensual and delicious August)
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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 13/03/2026
Can we please, I beg you all, stop naming laws after sympathetic victims? It is so much easier for politicians to work some nasty things into them. "This law will effectively remove important rights in very many situations." "So you want there to be more unfortunate children like Angela, then?"
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Energy work is a long-treasured series of practices used around the world for healing, expansion, and many other things. I do it specifically with an eye towards supporting your creative practice. Sign up here (or DM for sliding scale): rootsandbranches.squarespace.com/learn-more-b...
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Learn More Body of Work — Roots and Branches
Live and recorded energy work sessions just for creatives from all creative backgrounds and interests including writers, musicians, artists, business owners, engineers, researchers and more. Receive t...
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I’m both a PhD and author, and an energy worker and mentor for creative folks. I started offering monthly, automatic energy work for creative people who need that support but do not need more appointments to remember and it’s already having a huge impact. I’d love to help you, too:
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My favorite summer (and any time) activity!
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FoodPrint @foodprintorg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Knowing how to preserve food can help you save money, prevent food waste and ensure your pantry is stocked should the unexpected happen (like a power outage). Fermentation expert @bookishjulia.bsky.social's latest book can teach you how to master the many methods of food preservation:
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Beyond fermentation: A new book explores the many methods of food preservation
While fermentation may be the food trend of the moment, Julia Skinner's new book explores the full spectrum of food preservation techniques.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Real AF
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Julia Skinner, PhD @bookishjulia.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
So sorry, Aine. Sending you and yours love
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