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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 7h

An exquisite autumnal Puffin Post cover by Jill McDonald. Always love the way her illustrations feel like encountering an animation paused mid-frame & how the delightful madcap motion & sublime screwball astmosphere is always pleasingly spiced with the surreal, edged with something a little darker

The colourful cartoon cover of a 1976 puffin post magazine featuring cosily woolen wearing puffins gambolling on green grass under giant falling autumn leaves in pink orange gold and brown with the title Puffin Post in red letters outlined in black in the top right corner with a pale blue grey sky as the background

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SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

⭐ Internship opportunities! Explore 40 NEW paid internships and artist residencies for PhD researchers commencing in 2027. Applicants must be a 2nd or 3rd year PhD student in the arts & humanities, registered at a Scottish HEI. Read more: www.sgsah.ac.uk/current/fund...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A reminder that applications are open for our in person SGSAH-funded training programme, Methodologies for Place and Memory Loss! Open to PGR students at Scottish institutions. 📅 11 November | University of Stirling ⏰ Deadline: 11 October Full details: tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

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Methodologies for Place and Memory Loss: Advanced Postgraduate Training

This one-day intensive training offers advanced methodological support for postgraduate researchers (PhD and MA) working at institutions in Scotland at the inte

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Extremely excited to share the CFP for the ✨fifth✨ annual #QueerBibliography conference! bit.ly/QB2027CfP When? 2-4 September 2027 Where? Manchester, UK & online Theme: TAKING STOCK Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2027 Decisions: by 12 March 2027 Submit here: forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWm...

Queer Bibliography
Taking Stock
Manchester, UK and online
2-4 September 2027

Call for Proposals

Since the inaugural 2023 conference, queer bibliography has grown from an interesting concept to a burgeoning field. Our 2027 theme, Taking Stock, marks the fifth annual conference and is a chance to pause and reflect on genealogies of the field, the present state of queer bibliographical enquiry, and our senses of the future. How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations? Where do we find ourselves and our work?

Stock also has meaning in bibliography. While “stock” originally referred to a tree trunk or plant stem, and figuratively to the source of a line of descent or even a human torso, it later began to connote an aggregate of goods—in the context of bookmaking, one might own a stock of paper or pasteboard. Towards the mid-nineteenth century, “paper stock” began to connote the raw material of paper itself. “Stock” might refer to the inventories of booksellers, the process of beginning and curating an institutional or personal collection, and the supply and material characteristics of paper. From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities? What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects?

We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or reflect on
bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we
welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies.

This three-day hybrid conference will be hosted at the John Rylands
Library, part of the University of Manchester, and online on 2–4 September 2027. The conference will feature two days of panels, conversation, and discussion on 2 and 3 September and will be followed by an optional workshop on 4 September. Conference programming may also include evening receptions, tours of Manchester libraries (including Chetham’s Library, the oldest public library in England), and collection viewings at the Rylands.

The conference welcomes participants from a diverse range of fields and
career stages, including: book arts practitioners, activists, postgraduates,
early career researchers, independent scholars, librarians, archivists, and
booksellers, both in person and via video conference. As in past years, the goal of the broadly articulated theme of “taking stock” is to bring people in and to shape conversation, not to exclude or limit. All submissions that engage with the intertwined relationship between queerness and bibliography are encouraged.

Participants will be invited to submit a 2000-word pre-circulated paper,
before presenting in panels of 10-minute papers. We also welcome
alternative contributions, such as workshops, roundtables, or self-organised seminars and creative presentations, with a pre-circulated submission that provides a grounding for the conference contribution.

Contributors should submit an abstract of 200–300 words, along with a
short bio, by 29 January 2027:

https:/ /forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWmtfjZ8

Prospective speakers will be informed of the outcome by 12th March. Pre-circulated papers will be collected and shared in mid-July.

Any questions should be directed to: queerbibliography@gmail.com

http://queerbibliography.org

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am proud of what Josh and I accomplished in this essay, which took deep reporting and data gathering, and which ultimately runs to a hearty 7000+ words to explain what's really going on with Jewish American and Israeli books in US publishing as PEN America and the ADL run cover for genocide

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For International Translation Day, here's a dataset that me and Michaela Králová have put together on the publication of translated literature in Ireland over the past decade or so: zenodo.org/records/2304...

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Translated Literature Published in Ireland, 2016-2025

The Dataset This dataset collects titles of translated literature published by Irish publishers between the year 2016 and 2025. It includes any print edition of a literary title published by a publish...

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/09/2026

Colleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts. Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my book is out now 🫶 💗 $18 with coupon code E26CNTNT enjoy!!!??? :)

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Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Abstracts are due this week! October 1. We take a broad view of "publishing" and are very interested in non-traditional forms of publishing and accessibility. Please get in touch if you have questions or want to float an idea before submitting an abstract.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 28/09/2026

2026 Jimmy Reid Memorial Lecture: Jackie Kay 20 Oct, Glasgow. £10 Poet & author Jackie Kay will deliver the Jimmy Reid Foundation’s annual lecture, & will talk about responding creatively to the challenges we face and the impact responding creatively can make reidfoundation.scot/2026/09/2026...

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a story about finding treasure among trash, about being open to magic and the joy of the dump-it site. Wild story ! So proud to play a part. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'More will turn up' - Work by Scottish artists unearthed for homecoming exhibition

Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde were among the most celebrated figures in British art.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s World Rivers Day! When I started researching historic swimming in Glasgow's urban waters, UK rivers were mostly in the news due to pollution. It's still a big issue but community campaigns and interventions by people who care deeply for their local river have sprung up #WorldRiversDay 1/...

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Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One for the book sniffers - potato soaps from Prince Edward Island themed for characters from Anne of Green Gables (Diana, Anne, Marilla & Matthew), found in Halifax airport

A set of soaps on a shelf, each with a character’s name (Diana, Anne, Marilla and Matthew) from Island Potato Soap

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Julien Hage @rfhxv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

La Chaire d'excellence Histoire de l'édition, circulations transnationales, acteurs et archivistes (Hectaar), sous ma direction, est lancée à l'université de Caen, en collaboration avec l'Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine : www.unicaen.fr/la-chaire-du...

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La chaire du livre et de l'édition contemporaine est lancée · Université de Caen Normandie

Un pôle de recherche unique en France pour l’histoire et la mémoire du livre et de l’édition contemporaine.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

seeing all these artists sacrifice money for what they believe in is really quite moving.

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rome. @romewithadot.com · 15/09/2026

If Macklemore ends up being the spearhead that changes the celebrity optics around the Palestinian crisis, my brain is going to break.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15/09/2026

“You have to be twice as good to get half as far. Everybody in the Black community knows this.” Powerful words from our member Andrew as he spoke at TUC Congress on the death of our member, colleague and friend Professor Jason Arday. Congress then joined us in a minute’s silence in Jason’s memory.

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Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📢 PSA for any non-US tax payer with an Anthropic claim settlement: this is how to declare non-residency (email is from the claim settlement team). Direct link to the form you need to complete/upload is here www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/... Please do share!

Email extract detailing in this situation you should fill in the form W-8BEN so non-resident status can be confirmed. You the. Upload this to the update information portal with your claim number.

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This will be amazing - I love Jackie Kay's writing and she is also a phenomenally good and funny speaker. She's talking about responding creatively to the challenges we face, a very important topic that she'll have tremendous insight on

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 14/09/2026

Dr Andrew Nash: EDITION Autumn Lecture & workshop 23 Oct @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Free, ticketed Workshop: Publishing the Scottish Literary Renaissance Lecture: The Voice of Scotland: Literature, Publishing & the Nation in the 1930s #BookHistory www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dr-andrew-...

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Dr Andrew Nash: EDITION Autumn Lecture and workshop

For EDITION's Autumn Lecture 2026 and an optional preceding workshop, we welcome Dr Andrew Nash (Institute of English Studies).

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Some fascinating Collaborative Doctoral Awards on offer here at the BL, including a great history of sexuality/book history/library history project relating to the Rund Collection of 19th/20thC erotic books and ephemera www.bl.uk/services/res...

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Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards

Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.

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Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today was a blaze of September sunshine on the StirUni campus; I went for a walk round the loch with a visiting researcher from Spain. We sat on a bench to talk about literary consecration and then a swan gave him a friendly bite.

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Josh Smith @smithjj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excited that my first monograph, The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, has been published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. The book examines the political, social and intellectual culture of late 18thC Britain through books and reading habits. brill.com/display/titl...

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The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, 1789-1832

"The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, 1789-1832" published on 08 Sep 2026 by Brill.

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The window of my local queer bookshop was smashed last week. They're fundraising to install shutters so they can keep themselves and their community safe. Support this one-of-a-kind place, its one-of-a-kind proprietors, and the whole Glasgow queer & trans community: www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Whatever you think of Miliband's wider politics, this was a strong and important statement. Don't underestimate the emotional toil of repeatedly claiming one's Jewishness whilst opposing Israel's genocide. share.google/tRgHtpz4nM76...

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UK accuses Israeli ‘terrorists’ of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backing

In strongest condemnation ever by UK government, Ed Miliband announces sweeping sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements

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Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We are delighted to reveal the finalists for this year's McIlvanney Prize. The winner will be announced in The Church of the Holy Rude on Friday 18th September - well done all!

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Beloved local bookshop Category Is had their window smashed at the weekend; we are running a fundraiser with all ££ going to help them get shutters. One off mashup of two popular tours, Queer Glasgow and Radical Print Cultures. Tickets £20-£25-£30 if you fancy it! www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-glas...

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Queer Glasgow x Radical Print

Fundraiser for our pals at Category Is Books

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Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Here's the link to my new Substack, The Gwilt Club, a monthly series about historical Anti-heroines! thegwiltclub.substack.com/p/the-gwilt-...

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The Gwilt Club

Historical Anti-Heroines in Novels and Real Life

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 07/09/2026

…I’ve seen the arc of the earth, From the Birsay shore, like the edge of a planet, And the lifeboat plunge through the Pentland Firth To a cosmic tide with the men that man it. —Robert Rendall, “Angle of Vision” from The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (EUP, 2005) #RNLI #poem

Angle of Vision
Robert Rendall

But, John, have you seen the world, said he,
Trains and tramcars and sixty-seaters,
Cities in lands across the sea –
Giotto’s tower and the dome of St Peter’s?

No, but I’ve seen the arc of the earth,
From the Birsay shore, like the edge of a planet,
And the lifeboat plunge through the Pentland Firth
To a cosmic tide with the men that man it.

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Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Dancing the rainy Wednesday night blues away with ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

Arrested Development on stage, including some exceptional kilt wearing for the Glasgow audience

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New publication! The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts explores Gray’s art, writing and legacy, including a chapter on AGA written by our custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social Available via the link in our bio, or book int to view our research copy!

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Lovey chat with John Cavanagh of Playback Magazine, who had lots of questions about baths and swimming in 19th century Glasgow, and an unexpected question which made me reflect more on the similarities between going swimming and doing a PhD! Sept magazine - track 33 playback.org.uk/playback-mag...

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Playback Magazine - Playback | Accessible Audio for blind and partially sighted people

Listen to Playback Magazine

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Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Pleased finally to have this essay out on when I got cancelled from a conference in Germany for wanting to talk about the genocide in Gaza. ‘Rethink the Title of Your Talk, and Possibly its Substance’: On Speaking (out) About Palestine, Genocide, and Genre www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/

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‘Rethink the Title of Your Talk, and Possibly its Substance’: On Speaking (out) About Palestine, Genocide, and Genre

Framed by a meditation on border-crossing of people and of texts, this essay reflects on the genre of autofiction in relation to the geopolitical contexts of Palestine and global literary marketpla...

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thinking about books & publishing from a different perspective? Want to write a review of the new game/trend that foregrounds bookishness? Want to express how the Muppets have influenced your book history pedagogy? Submit a proposal to @sharpnews.bsky.social Features! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A book with an eye in the center walking along on a metal stand

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Blaire Squiscoll @handle.invalid · 27/08/2026

50% of me ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/clai...

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‘Rethink the Title of Your Talk, and Possibly its Substance’: On Speaking (out) About Palestine, Genocide, and Genre

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Earlier morning hound outing, Wester Ross

Flat calm sea loch with blue layers of hills beyond. Light blue sky with small cumulus and hazy cirrostratus

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SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🤝 Considering a Collaborative PhD Partnership? Join SGSAH online on 15 Sept (2-3pm) for practical guidance on applying for a Collaborative PhD. ⚠️ For partner organisations & academic colleagues interested in Partnership PhDs, not students. 🔗 Register: tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

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