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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Please submit your abstract for the Oxford Intersection on Environmental Change and Human Experience! The deadline is 01 September 2026 and we want to hear from you! Details at the link below; and you can read the first batch of published articles here: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Want to write a peer-reviewed, Oxford Intersections article on the #EnvHist of disasters? Check out our call for papers! Oxford Intersections offers a quick, respected, high-impact publishing format - perfect for new research in environmental history. academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...
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Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...
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UKRI launches two AI research labs to stay ahead in global race
Two new labs will back British researchers to develop next generation artificial intelligence (AI) systems, helping secure the UK’s position as a global leader.
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 12/07/2026
Call for Papers: Environmental Change and Human Experience Oxford Intersections seeks interdisciplinary research on human–environment relationships. Broad visibility, policy relevance, and cross-disciplinary engagement. Abstract deadline: 1 Sept 2026 🔗: oxford.ly/3QZLmMQ
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 10/07/2026
In human–animal studies, intersectional approaches are used to analyze how the lives and interests of humans and nonhuman animals are interconnected—and shaped by cultural and political structures. Read more: oxford.ly/4eKNMbe
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Interdisciplinary horizons in human–animal studies
Over the last few decades, scholarship in the arts has undergone a significant shift towards questions and topics related to animals and our relationships with them.
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Oxford Intersection on Environmental Change and Human Experience is seeking submissions across its different sections. I am editing 'Water' and would love to see more articles on -Rivers/freshwater More-than-human perspectives Militaries & water Trade & transport academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...
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Current Calls for Papers
Oxford Intersections reflects the critical role that peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research plays in helping policy- and decision-makers tackle the world
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Carla B. Estruch (elle) @carlabestruch.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is happening already in translation.
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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Last week @academic.oup.com launched two Oxford Intersections projects I've had the pleasure of working on for the past three years: 'Environmental Change & Human Experience', created and edited by Georgina Endfield and Poul Holm, and 'Gender Justice', created and edited by Madelyn Detloff.
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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It’s publication day for THWICK-A-THWACK! If you wanna know how early modern London writers imagined metalworking as musical (and music as metalwork), you can read it here — www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Save 30% on #NewBook "Cisgender" by @perryzurn.bsky.social, the first book to trace the story of how cis entered contemporary gender lexicons. #TransStudies #LGBTQStudies buff.ly/aSQPC7c
Cover of Cisgender: Disorienting a Category by Perry Zurn. The cover is a teal blue with navy blue loops and curls tangled across it. They have the texture of brush strokes. The title appears center and large in a sans serif type in light green/blue. The loops that overlap with the title appear berry pink. The subtitle is above aligned left in a white serif font. The author’s name appears below aligned right in a white serif font.
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UK Disability History and Heritage Hub @ukdishisthub.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
CFP alert: We are thrilled to announce the Call for Presenters for a hybrid event in collaboration with @britishlibrary.bsky.social! This will be taking place on 27th November 2026, with presentations happening both in-person and online. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 31st July 2026! #DisHist
Poster for the Call for Presenters for "Collections Uncovered: Disability at the British Library." All text is black typed on cream, yellow and light blue backgrounds (descending down the page in that order). The text reads:
Collections Uncovered: Disability at the British Library
27th November 2026, 10am-4:30pm, hybrid

Call for Presenters

Join the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub to explore disability stories in the collections of the British Library. The day will begin with academic, artistic, or community presentations on all things disability
history. Presentations will be online and in-person.

The afternoon will be a hands-on, in-person workshop with
selected material from the British Library collections.

Topic ideas:
. cataloguing disability
. activist publications
. access
. disability histories in the British Library collections

Presentations may be 5 or 15 minutes.
These can be standard papers or something more
creative, like an interview or performance!
Please submit by text or video:
. Summary (max 200 words)
· Personal or organisation bio (max 100 words)
. Videos may be up to 3 minutes
Email ukdishistheritagehub@gmail.com by 31st July 2026
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 15/05/2026
📣 Oxford Intersections invites abstracts for Racism by Context, bringing together original, interdisciplinary research on how racism operates across social, political, cultural, and institutional settings. 📅 18 June 2026 👉 Explore current Calls for Papers: oxford.ly/4uEggbU
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
British MP who went to Oxford herself spending several posts explaining to Bluesky users that she does not wish to defend higher education in the UK, because 4 in 5 in her constituency don’t go to university, is the perfect embodiment of a particular kind of British class bullshit too
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 'Gender and Creativity' section of the Gender Justice project for @academic.oup.com. This section is edited by Dr. Paulina Bronfman, with Madelyn Detloff serving as General Editor for the overall project. Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZI-0...
A purple banner that reads 'OXFORD INTERSECTIONS: Gender Justice'. It includes an icon depicting birds escaping from a cage, a link to the project homepage (https://lnkd.in/eNY_RVVh), and the OUP logo.
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 12/01/2026
We’re commissioning articles for Labour and the Economy in Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context—a fully online, peer-reviewed project for short-form interdisciplinary research. 🔗 oxford.ly/3MIKE46
Hand raised in fist. Oxford Intersections, Labour and the Economy.
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 15/01/2026
We're seeking articles for Legacy and Memory in Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context. This online, peer-reviewed project publishes short-form interdisciplinary research. Learn more about how you can contribute: oxford.ly/4qGbZ5x
Hand raised in fist. Oxford Intersections, Legacy and Memory.
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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Here's a blog post on 'How to write an interdisciplinary abstract' I wrote following the successful launch of @academic.oup.com's Future Authors Forum in October last year. It contains eight tips for writing effective abstracts for interdisciplinary research articles in the Arts, Hums, & Soc Scis.
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How to write an interdisciplinary abstract
The purpose of any abstract is to summarise your article’s content in a way that will help potential readers decide if they want to read your work. An abstract usually runs between 150 and 300 words a...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of citation chains? Reading people's writing and footnotes, and making assessments and notes, finding the sources in the footnotes and reading them yourself, and making more notes? I...love it?
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Oxford University Press @academic.oup.com is pleased to announce that the First Book Prize will open for submissions in Jan 2026. The prize offers up to 10 early-career researchers the opportunity to publish their first academic book fully open access on Oxford Academic, with the full OA fee waived.
A banner that reads: Early Career Researcher: First Book PrizeOxford University Press proudly announces that submissions for the annual First Book Prize for Early Career Researchers will be open between 1-31 January 2026.Explore the information page for submission details.
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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Delighted to see this article in publication!
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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"The publisher or distributor cannot force an account to carry the book...The truth of the matter is that **most** books don’t get shelf placement." This is SUCH a great primer on book distribution for authors.
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
‘Low-Carbon Histories for Zero-Carbon Futures’ is out today @jofhistgeog.bsky.social - a collective case for thinking historically about energy. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
Climate crisis has made the transition from carbon-rich to low-carbon energy systems an existential necessity for the future of our planet. This article sets out how greater attention to low-carbon energy history, currently a neglected component of modern energy development, should comprise an essential part of building a zero-carbon future. We argue for the usefulness of low-carbon as a capacious term that foregrounds the historic and ongoing relationality between low- and high-carbon energy, and set out the ways this has shaped energy infrastructures, practices, and imaginaries through the twentieth century to the present. We outline a range of analytics—materiality, scaling, community—around which critical understandings of low-carbon energy can be gained. And we show that decarbonization, while urgent, does not have to be speculative: the historical examples provided here offer valuable insights into the social and spatial impacts and temporal challenges of introducing new energy infrastructure and decommissioning old that can, and should, be paid more attention.Title page: Low-Carbon histories for zero-carbon futures, by Elizabeth Chatterjee, Marianna Dudley, Linda Ross, and Hiroki Shin, in the Journal of Historical
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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 04/10/2025
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Studies: When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader by Susan Stryker, edited by McKenzie Wark! @susanstryker.bsky.social @mckenziewark.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
"Oh, maybe I'll go to this UKHE 'festival' as that seems the only way the minister will say anything about the sector she's in charge of (even if it's in conversation with the regulator that has been proven to be unfit for purpose and not with staff)" Fucking hell.
screenshot of three tiers of prices for the WonkHE festival. the comercial rater is £1,250 + £252 VAT + £10 booking fee.
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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Please consider submitting an abstract to the wonderful Gender Justice project, led by Madelyn Detloff! We're open to proposals for interdisciplinary research articles on the concept of gender justice, however you choose to define it, authored by scholars in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
So much fun working with the @kingsartshums.bsky.social marketing team and the Globe on this ‘Top 5 Shakespearean Film Adaptations’ (and got to live out my inner TikTok star!) If you’re on Instagram - give the original a like too! — www.instagram.com/reel/DL4nTOC... #Shakespeare #skystorians
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EnvHumsOxford.bsky.social @envhumsoxford.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Academic lead for the Hub, Venus Bivar, was recently interviewed about what the Humanities can teach us about climate change: www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-...
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Professor Venus Bivar - Embedding humanities in the environment
Venus Bivar, Associate Professor of Environmental History, discusses her career and the importance of embedding the humanities in the environment.
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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Please reach out to Gabriella if you're interested in writing a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research article on food and drink for Oxford Intersections @oxfordacademic.bsky.social The cultural history of food and drink is a particular passion of mine so it's a joy to be publishing in that area.
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Here’s to other forms of bilingualism instead
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Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds @cdsleeds.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Our PGR Network are hosting a conference 'Disability within Environments: disability studies perspectives' on 17th September 2025. The call for papers is live with a deadline of 12th June. Please share with your networks
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Disability within Environments CDS PGR Conference 2025 | Centre for Disability Studies
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the turtles, for today is their special day! To celebrate World Turtle Day, here are two turtle-y amazing illustrations from 'Our Reptiles and Batrachians' by M.C. Cooke, published in 1893. 📷 Reserve 579.9 COO #WorldTurtleDay #TurtleDay #RareBooks
Full page from a book with a colour plate of two turtles, entitled 'Plate XI'. It shows an illustration of a leathery turtle in side profile (giving you magnificent side eye) and a an illustration of hawks bill turtle as seen from above.
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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Are you an Early Career Researcher looking to publish your first academic book? Join our digital workshop for personalised feedback on your book proposal from experienced OUP Editors and ECR peers. 📖 Spaces are limited. Share this opportunity with a friend! oxford.ly/ECR-Proposal...
A multicoloured banner showing an open book. The text reads: Early Career Researcher Book proposal workshop. Perfect your book proposal with OUP editors. 23-26 June, 2025. Multiple sessions. Digital workshops. Reserve your spot now.
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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
What a miserable day to be trans in the UK. Not a single trans person was allowed to make a representation to the Supreme Court. Not one. And we are the group who will pay the price.
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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Last month saw the launch of a big project I've been working on for almost 2 years, 'Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context' academic.oup.com/oxford-inter... Led by Prof. Meena Dhanda, this interdisciplinary scholarly resource on racism will build up over the next 3 years to 300 research articles.
A square purple tile with kaleidoscopic details and the words 'OXFORD INTERSECTIONS: Racism by Context' plus the OUP logo and a link to the webpage. There is a smaller tile depicting a person of colour's raised fist against a blue sky, which is the cover image for the project.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 07/04/2025
Best thing about Burke's drumming on "Dreaming" -- that was take 1. The warm-up. He was just trying mad stuff to see what worked before going for a proper one, but Mike Chapman just said "that's it, we've got the track now"
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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Without a doubt the best drummer I’ve ever seen perform live. What a privilege that was! RIP Clem Burke.
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Dominique Carlini Versini @dcarliniversini.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Please share with your students! The School of Modern Languages and Cultures @languagesdurham.bsky.social and the Centre for Foreign Language Study at @durham-university.bsky.social are delighted to launch their third creative writing contest in French on the theme of “La justice”.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.
META BOOK THIEVES - They Must Do The Write Thing

The Society of Authors are protesting Meta’s HQ today 

This image shows illustrations of authors holding placards saying “make it fair” and “do the write thing”
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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map: ‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...
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British University Redundancy Map - Google My Maps
Mapping redundancies from 2023
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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
'Vice-chancellor's rent-free house' says everything here.
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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Excited to run the annual @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives in June! Check out the CFP below, please share widely, and submit an abstract!
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Durham Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC) @languagesdurham.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We are now recruiting to three Career Development Fellowships (in French, History, and Italian) and PhD studentships made possible by the generous support of Joanna and Graham Barker. Please spread the news. Interested candidates can read more here www.durham.ac.uk/IMEMS/InventingFutures
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Inventing Futures - Durham University
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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
📚✨Two more weeks to submit a proposal for the OUP First Book Prize! Submissions close on March 3rd. Details in the link below. Entries are made by completing a short application form and submitting a proposal and two sample chapters from the manuscript.✨📚
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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If we live long enough, most if not all of us will become disabled. By age, pandemics, illness, climate catastrophes, organized abandonment, interpersonal or state violence, and working ourselves to injury/death. Disability injustice & defunding social support & healthcare are bad for you too.
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Amy J. Rutenberg @amyjay401.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Humanities and sciences are all in the same boat. We need to act like it or we all drown.
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