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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Publication day for *Sleep and Its Meanings: Sociocultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies* @mitpress.bsky.social! Proud to have worked with such great sleep scholars. Out OA soon too! Find out more about the collection: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205230...

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Not long to go: *Sleep and Its Meanings: Sociocultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies* is out with @mitpress.bsky.social in May '26 (print and OA). Featuring essays by a range of brilliant critical sleep studies scholars! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205230...

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Sleep and Its Meanings

Sleep has been an object of specialized medical research for more than a century now, yet it is only in the twenty-first century that sleep has become a sign...

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New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

As flu and Covid season strikes again, two books have lessons on how to navigate health anxiety

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Inside the world of health anxiety

It's Covid season again. Two books have lessons on how to navigate health anxiety

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UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows

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New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

As flu and Covid season strikes again, two books by @cacrampton.bsky.social and Will Rees offer lessons on how to navigate health anxiety

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Inside the world of health anxiety

It's Covid season again. Two books have lessons on how to navigate health anxiety

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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 02/09/2025

My talk in #Mantova is tomorrow at 18:30 @ #FESTIVALETTERATURA [in Italian] 📢Ho ancora due biglietti omaggio per il mio intervento, se qualcuno e' interessato (scrivete pure qui).

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Dr Natalie Jester @nataliejester.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

This Bloomsbury writing fellowship sounds great. It is 'open to UK-based, up-and-coming authors and researchers who identify as Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse (BAED)' with a 1 October deadline. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

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Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.

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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

For the Autumn issue of @newhumanist.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of writing about health anxiety and two great new books about hypochondria by @cacrampton.bsky.social and Will Reiss. Out now! newhumanist.org.uk/articles/644...

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Niki Seth-Smith @nikisethsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

This is out! A much-needed shot in the arm and antidote to space pessimism. With contributions on the African Space Agency, indigenous “Sky grief” and my interview with Mark Hilborne on the need for regulation in our age of space warfare

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Look up! New Humanist's Autumn 2025 issue on the battle for space is out now

How the battle over space affects all of us

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New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

@euanlawson.social covers the science sleuths fighting to save research from bias and fakery, while @tedilta.bsky.social writes about the the rise of health anxiety, and @andrewmueller.bsky.social reviews two books about what war does to ordinary men…

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Niki Seth-Smith @nikisethsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Also just a bunch of other amazing pieces, including @jamesrball.com on Luigi Mangione and the “rationalist” murders, and @tedilta.bsky.social on health anxiety, and why we should all be less obsessed with monitoring our bodies

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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

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Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Proofs!! My first publication on #Plastics, "Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis (1980s-2020s)", is coming out in September in Environmental History 🐬🌏

Screenshot of proofs entitled: "Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis (1980s-2020s)"

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

new book series: Literature and Politics! first title from Amanda Anderson and Simon During coming soon; pipeline bustling; consider it for your next project global.oup.com/academic/con...

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Oneworld Publications @oneworldbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Join Nathan Waddell at Waterstones Hampstead on Thursday 26th June to celebrate the enduring legacy of George Orwell and the publication of Nathan's upcoming book A Bright Cold Day! Get your tickets here ➡️ bit.ly/4jdo5Py

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Deadline extended to 13 June! Send us your brilliant work please! 📝📚

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Deadline extended to 13 June! We are particularly looking for nominations for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair, and Publicity Officer. If you have questions about Chair / Vice-Chair, get in touch with @tedilta.bsky.social; for publicity officer @juliaditter.bsky.social can answer your questions.

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

All ready for the Reimagining Sleep pop-up at The Late Shows! Come see us at @northumbriauni.bsky.social student central. thelateshows.org.uk/2025/northum...

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

We'll be at the Late Shows this Saturday with the Reimagining Sleep pop-up exhibition - come join us! thelateshows.org.uk/2025/northum...

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Northumbria University, Student Central | 2025 | The Late Shows

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Northumbria University @northumbriauni.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

We are proud to be back for another year of supporting The Late Shows, Newcastle and Gateshead's free late-night culture crawl. Join our sessions this year on the Friday 16th and Saturday 17th of May for an evening of creativity and discovery 💡

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

🏆📚 The BACLS Monograph Prize, Edited Collection Prize and Postgraduate Essay Prize are now open for submission! Entries are invited for work published in 2024 in the English language on any area of ‘contemporary literary studies’. Deadline: 23 May More details: bacls.org/site/prizes/...

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Calls for Submissions

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Come and join us at the BACLS-WHN biennial conference next month!

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Come join our Executive Committee by nominating yourself by 23rd May 2025! We are looking to fill the following positions: Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Membership Secretary Web Administrator Publicity Officer 3 Graduate Student Reps 1 Ordinary Member Details: bacls.org/site/site/me...

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Executive Committee Nominations 2025

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Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Arrived today as recommended by @tedilta.bsky.social on the podcast. Love the cover!

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

At a whopping 116k words, the finalised manuscript of *Sleep and Its Meanings: Socio-Cultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies* is off to @mitpress.bsky.social! Thanks to the wonderful sleep scholars who have contributed such exciting essays - full list in the ToC in pictures.

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Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1. The Problem of Sleep: An Introduction to Critical Sleep Studies
Diletta De Cristofaro
Part I: Sleep in Arts and Culture
2. Watching and Waking: Between Critical Attention Studies and Critical Sleep Studies
Alice Bennett
3. Toward a Politics of Drift: Curating Sleep for Critical Times
Alanna Thain and Aleksandra Kaminska
4. A Genealogy of Sleep: A (Crip) Critique of Cultural Conceptions of Sleep
Nicole Eugene
5. Sleeping Beauty and Sleep Science: Physiology and Myth-Making in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Somnocultures
Martin Willis
Part II: Sociologies of Sleep
6. The Sociology of Sleep: A Bourdieusian Approach
Simon J. Williams
7. “This is how we sleep”: Young Children’s Views on How “Biologically Normal” Sleep Is Managed in Their Homes
Lexie Scherer
Part III: Anthropologies of Sleep
8. Troubled Sleep in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada, Japan, 2011
Brigitte Steger
9. Sleeping in the Peruvian Andes and the Suburbs of Marseille: An Anthropological Reflection on Sleep as a Historical and Social Experience
Arianna Cecconi
Part IV: Sleep’s Histories and the City
10. Captive Sleep: Urban Space and the Politics of Rest in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
Amy Chazkel

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11. Revelations through Rest: Sleep and the Psyche of Mumbai
Namita Vijay Dharia
Part V: Technologies of Sleep
12. Beds as Symbols of Human Identity: A Varied History of Power
Simona Chiodo and Imma Forino
13. Sleep Consistency: Affordances of Sleep-Tracking Technologies
Nico Wettmann and Nicole Zillien
14. The Subjectivities of Wearable Sleep-Trackers: A Critical Posthumanist Discourse Analysis
Anna Nolda Nagele
15. Touching Sleep: Immersed Process, Dispersed Object, Situated Vulnerability
Stuart Murray, Christophe De Bezenac, Dave Lynch
Afterword
Sleep’s Three Faces: Vulnerability, Infrastructure, Variability
Matthew Wolf-Meyer

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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The Irish Women's Writing Network online writing group returns on Friday! NEXT SESSION Friday March 21st 9.30am – 12.30pm All are welcome! Email IrishWomensWritingNetwork [@] gmail.com to join #IrishStudies #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ECRchat #AMwriting irishwomenswritingnetwork.com/online-writi...

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Online Writing Group - Irish Women's Writing (1880-1920) Network

NEXT SESSION Friday March 21st 9.30am – 12.30pm The Irish Women’s Writing Network (1880-1920) has recently started a virtual writing group which takes places once a month. This writing group provides ...

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

📢Exciting opportunity: @c21literature.bsky.social is seeking a new editor for a three-year term, to start on 19th May 2025 C21, the journal of BACLS, is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication & circulation of 21C writings. More details on the role: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/

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Editorship of <em>C21 Literature</em>

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings is the journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publica...

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Had a fun chat with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social a few weeks ago on (post-)apocalyptic fiction, and you can now listen to it on the brilliant Utopian and Dystopian Fictions podcast open.spotify.com/episode/0kFi...

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Episode 8: Diletta De Cristofaro, (Post-)Apocalyptic Fictions

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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Want to know what's up with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction? In the latest episode of Utopian and Dystopian Fictions we talked to the wonderful Diletta De Cristofaro to find out! If you enjoy please consider rating/following the podcast or letting us know. open.spotify.com/episode/0kFi...

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Episode 8: Diletta De Cristofaro, (Post-)Apocalyptic Fictions

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hiya BlueSky! We've got a cracking special issue on Ali Smith which features an interview with Ali Smith, published in December 2024: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/901/in.... Check it out, if you haven't already had a chance! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Literature #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

⏰📢EXTENDED DEADLINE: Mon, 17 February 25. If you missed the original deadline, now is your chance to submit a proposal, and to come to beautiful Stirling to present your work on 10–12 June. Information on registration and on PGR/ECR travel bursaries will follow shortly!

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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Just had a great time chatting with @tedilta.bsky.social for season 2 of Utopian and Dystopian Fictions about apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic literature and film. Really looking forward to sharing the episode with you all soon.

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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I also came back to an inbox full of brilliant abstract for the Contemporary #WomensWriting Conference. While.the deadline has passed, we are still accepting late submissions! So do send them in! #CWWA2025 thecwwa.org/conference-2...

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Conference 2025

Annual Conference 2025 Wednesday 18th June – Friday 20th June 2025 Falmouth University, UK The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association’s 2025 conference will be an interdisciplinary and glob…

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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Did you write an article that intersects gender and medical history in 2024? Consider submitting it for the NC Prize for Best Journal Article! We are accepting submissions until April 15. Self-nominations are welcome! See our website for full details nursingclio.org/awards/

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Awards

Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article The Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article is awarded annually for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the intersection of gender and…

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Just a couple of Sicilian pastries for lunch in a lovely cloister 🍰🤣

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The cloister where the pastries were bought. Blue tiles, flowers and plants

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

@bacls.bsky.social has just launched the CfP for the next BACLS-WHN conference (10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling)! Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L3... and send abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025. #lit #C21Lit

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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Re-sharing our Call for Papers for English: Shared Futures 2025! It's going to be a fantastic conference. Do be in touch if you have any questions - and remember we also have an optional zoom session on 17th December as a space to chat about CfPs and proposals! www.englishsharedfutures.org/cfp

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Call for Papers — English: Shared Futures 2025

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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Very excited that my book is now available to read via Bloomsbury Open Access! 🎉 Can't wait to receive my physical copies 📘 Pre-order for your library and/or read it now here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... @scotlit.bsky.social @timothycbaker.bsky.social @bendoyle.bsky.social

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Check out the CFP, and calls for panels, for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference "Collective Atmospheres" July 8-11, 2025 at Univ of Maryland. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 3, 2025. Please share! #envhum #environmentalhumanities www.asle.org/conference/b... www.asle.org/conference/p...

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Müge Özoğlu @mugeozoglu.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Here’s a starter pack for those engaged in literary theory and criticism. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like to be included! go.bsky.app/FwHzUwR

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