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Maddie Sinclair

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Editorial Officer @openlibhums.org | Teaching Fellow (Contemporary Literature) @ University of Warwick

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Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Lots in this -- worth a read! 'People don't want to be isolated, competing with each other as their condition of existence. And so, I think this transition is a moment for us to reflect on the fact that we don't have to just accept these legacy systems that exploit our labour.' #AcademicPublishing
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Maddie Sinclair @maddiesinclair.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"This transition is a moment for us to reflect on the fact that we don't have to just accept these legacy systems that exploit our labour." Read OLH’s latest interview with the editors of SNL about their transition to open access and what it means for the future of scholarly publishing.
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 17/07/2026
The first issue of The Hythe Review is here! Published by the Open Library of Humanities in partnership with the87press, it brings together poetry, essays and an interview exploring modernism, anti-colonialism, translation, and migration. Read more:
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The Hythe Review first issue with OLH
We are thrilled to announce the publications of the first issue of The Hythe Review with the Open Library of Humanities. The Hythe Review joined OLH in 2025, when the …
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Maddie Sinclair @maddiesinclair.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"It is difficult to justify spending millions on commercial publishing contracts while universities continue to cut staff and teaching." Read OLH's latest blog on why it's time to redirect money away from commercial publishing and towards community-owned, not-for-profit infrastructure.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 01/06/2026
Now that’s what people power stopping hate and bringing hope looks like! ✨🌈 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/…
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‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the miners
Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Another one bites the dust. Please share among your networks. This movement is growing. #OpenAccess #AcaSky
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 03/06/2026
BIG NEWS! We've flipped another journal to diamond OA. Today the entire editorial team of Springer Nature's flagship linguistics journal Natural Language Semantics resigned in protest at commercial pressure. They are launching Semantics of Natural Languages at the OLH. www.openlibhums.org/news/943/
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New Open Access Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from <em>Natural Language Semantics</em>
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Make Hate Weird Again.
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...
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Radical Histories - Manchester University Press
The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I've been writing my inaugural lecture this week - lots of weirdness about woods, rocks, mycelium, intimate cross-species relations & some quite personal bits about my childhood. Goodness! Still time to grab a ticket for Tues 14 April (in-person or live-streaming): www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
A screenshot of the opening slide for Prof. Caroline Edwards' inaugural lecture featuring a black and white image of Bowerman's Nose, Dartmoor and the text "where is hope taking us? the utopian art of desecration amidst capitalist ruins."
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Maddie Sinclair @maddiesinclair.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New OLH poster drop and accompanying piece by Dr Paula Clemente Vega: “If scholarly publishing is a site of struggle, the question is no longer whether change is needed, but whether we are prepared to redistribute power and resources to make knowledge truly free.”
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Paula Clemente Vega @paulaclemente.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I wrote the blog post behind our new Robin Hood @openlibhums.org poster! In it, I reflect on why divesting scholarly publishing from commercial interests and redirecting library budgets into #diamondOA is so urgent. Read it (and grab the poster!) here: www.openlibhums.org/news/932/ #UKSG2026
A vintage-style “Wanted” poster featuring Robin Hood–themed characters posing as a diverse band of archers and scholars. The text reads: “Join the fight to make knowledge free. Divest from commercial academic publishing and join the Open Library of Humanities.
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Maddie Sinclair @maddiesinclair.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Brilliant new OLH post: “Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers“ by anon - a sharp take on why we need “scholarly infrastructure that is interoperable, collectively governed, and not permanently rented back to the academy“.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/03/2026
‘I’ve learned first-hand how evil is tolerated’: Colm Tóibín on living in the US under Trump
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‘I’ve learned first-hand how evil is tolerated’: Colm Tóibín on living in the US under Trump
The Brooklyn author on immigration and the inspiration behind his latest collection of stories
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Friends! Please join me in London or online for my inaugural lecture in April. There will be wine and nibbles! You can heckle me from the back row! I've already promised some raunchy Zed from Zardoz references - other indecent shout-out requests may be considered. Booking via QR code.
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Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...
An image reading the statement "The Future is Diamond" alongside the logo of the Open Journals Collective.
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Feeling quite emotional today - it's the OFFICIAL LAUNCH of @ojcollective.bsky.social! It's taken 14 months of hard work to get here & I'm incredibly proud of our brilliant team. This is just the beginning - more announcements coming soon from the collective! drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...
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OJC Press release Jan 2026.pdf
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 07/01/2026
New ISSUE out! Theory and Social Inquiry, Volume 1, Issue 2 (2025) is now available: www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1815/i...
Journal cover of Theory and Social Inquiry featuring an industrial workers illustration.
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 05/01/2026
🎄 Day 12 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas On the twelfth day of Christmas the OLH gave to us twelve sleepy humans, who are back at work doing it all again. Meet our team:
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Our team - Open Library of Humanities
We are based at Birkbeck, University of London, but make up a geographically distributed network of expert bookworms, specialist software developers, and typography enthusiasts.
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Josephine Taylor @josietaylor.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I wrote an author's note on my book for the energy humanities website, do check it out: www.energyhumanities.ca/news/the-non...
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Energy Humanities News | The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy: Multispecies Encounters in Extraction
In this Author’s Note, Josephine Taylor outlines the intellectual and ethical foundations of her recent book, The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy, tracing how animal life has been rendered absent within...
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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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Maddie Sinclair @maddiesinclair.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Philosophical Logic has joined the OLH! Read their open letter on mass editorial resignation and the push to make academic research “as accessible as possible to both the academic community and society at large”.
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
We’re hiring! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18/11/2025
Just disgusting to see these unelected, extremely wealthy, pompous relics voting against working class people. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Out of touch’ peers criticised for voting against workers’ rights
Trade union leaders and senior Labour figures say the Lords looks ‘undemocratic and firmly against the interest of working people’
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Although I'm horrified to see a massive landscape picture of my head here, this is a really important piece about the maturation of scholar-led, non-profit publishing. As I write, chaos is coming but there are enormous opportunities to quit the big 5 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
If you'd like to catch up with the @oaaustralasia.bsky.social #OpenAccessWeek event on Community Ownership the recording is now available: youtu.be/bdNdkWG-uCg?... I was honoured to speak alongside Dr. Kiri West (Māori Data Sovereignty Network) & Dr. Alice McSherry (Waiheke Marine Project).
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Community ownership: relation, reciprocity and responsibility
YouTube video by Open Access Australasia
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 30/10/2025
It’s spooky season… 🧟‍♂️ Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access! The zombie poster is back! #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween
Comic-style poster warning that commercial publishers are “eating your journal’s brains,” promoting the Open Library of Humanities.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 01/09/2025
You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
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Publishing Beyond the Market
Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for scholarly ...
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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The Energy Humanities editorial team is thrilled to be part of what OLH is doing!
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Paula Clemente Vega @paulaclemente.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We’ve just released our 2024–2025 Annual Report! Lots of exciting updates and highlights inside — take a look 👇
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Maddie Sinclair @maddiesinclair.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“Amidst increasing corporate pressure on editors to compromise academic integrity in favour of increasing profit margins, there are signs that a tipping point has been reached in recent years”. Check out Rose Harris-Birtill’s piece on editorial freedom, radical hope, and the mission of the OLH
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Editorial Freedom in Academic Publishing: On the First Decade of the Open Library of Humanities
This editorial commemorates the tenth anniversary of diamond open access journal publisher the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) and its flagship journal, the Open Library of Humanities journal (OLHJ)....
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This week is pretty special for us at @openlibhums.org. It's #OAWeek & also 10 years since we launched as a publisher! As my brilliant colleague Dr Rose Harris-Birtill writes in her Editorial, academics must speak up with "radical hope and courage": olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2... #OAWeek25
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Editorial Freedom in Academic Publishing: On the First Decade of the Open Library of Humanities
This editorial commemorates the tenth anniversary of diamond open access journal publisher the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) and its flagship journal, the Open Library of Humanities journal (OLHJ)....
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Josephine Taylor @josietaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Myself and my colleague John Miller are collaborating on a book project Crude Tunes: Histories and Cultures of Petroleum in Popular Music. Check out our cfps and consider sending us an abstract: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...
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cfp | call for papers
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 25/09/2025
“Dogwhistles, Discrimination, Humour and the Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging” by Jennifer Young: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection Humour as a Human Right
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Dogwhistles, Discrimination, Humour and the Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging
This paper explores how implicit, discriminatory messages bypass sanctions in the United Kingdom and beyond, despite their potential for significant societal harm. Drawing on linguistic and humour res...
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Lovely interview with our new OLH colleague Dr Maddie Sinclair who reflects on the importance of research being publicly available. "As a researcher, I became aware very early on of the structural inequalities in publishing systems, and I didn’t want to perpetuate them." #OpenAccess #AcaSky
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Is a Better World Possible? @solidarityconf-25.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
📢 CfP: A hybrid conference at Warwick themed on Solidarity. We seek to ask what it means to stand in solidarity, how is it built and what are the challenges involved, and analyses/perspectives on historical and contemporary solidarity campaigns in support of emancipatory struggles.
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Farhana Khalique @hanakhalique.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Loved 'Short Forms in the Global Literary Marketplace' at QMUL today, organised by Dr Rehana Ahmed and Dr Shital Pravinchandra. Ft. academics, publishers and writers working in the field, including Mr Paul McVeigh! Followed by a public event ft. Gurnaik Johal, in partnership with Wasafiri 😊
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