It's always a pleasure to be at @baal-linguistics.bsky.social's annual conference. If you're here too, pop by our stand to browse our latest research and coursebooks in applied linguistics, request textbook inspection copies for your courses and much more. Editor Sarah's waiting to say hi 👋

New academic year = new books! And what better excuse to stock up than 30% off? 📚 Browse book highlights in our Back To University / Back To School sale: US/CA customers: bit.ly/4qpeNVH UK and Rest of World: bit.ly/4gjoD8p

Join Müge Satar & Paul Seedhouse tomorrow for the online launch of Cultural Tasks for Digital Language Learning, when chapter authors will share how the ENACT app was used to deliver language learning through cultural activities in their language. 📅 Tue 25 Aug 🕔 17:15 BST Register: bit.ly/4gvm8i6

Wow, quite the amazing review in the International Journal of Comic Art for my book Speaking in Pictures! 🥳 Coincidentally, you can get it 30% off this week at @bloomsburyling.bsky.social Back to School sale... www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-...

Struggling to find the perfect summer audiobook? Whether you’re surviving a family holiday or a sweltering commute, these are the perfect companions! See our top 5 👉 https://bit.ly/4clrtHo 🎧📚 #BookSky @leighstraw.bsky.social

Bloomsbury Academic's best 5 audiobooks for summer | From the Beach Boys to football

Bloomsbury Academic has the perfect audiobook for your summer reading list. From The Beach Boys to football (soccer), these enlightening audiobooks are 50% off.

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AI didn't break your course. It stress-tested it. In today's blog post, @stephenaguilar.com explores how generative AI is challenging traditional assessment in higher education and offers a practical framework for teaching staff who are wondering where to begin. Read on: bit.ly/3TYFm83

Interested in publishing on the SLA Blog? We are currently accepting pitches on any topic relevant to linguistic anthropology! Learn more about SLA, our blog, and how to submit here: linguisticanthropology.org/submissions/

🎧 Catch Neil Cohn on Unpacking Peanuts podcast, sharing how he became interested in visual language and how much his research owes to Charles M. Schulz's comic strip: pod.link/unpackingpeanuts Neil's latest book is Speaking in Pictures: Bloomsbury.com/speaking-in-pictures-9781350402164/

Unpacking Peanuts

Listen to Unpacking Peanuts wherever you get your podcasts!

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Unpacking Peanuts Podcast@unpackingpeanuts.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We talk with Eisner-nominated cognitive scientist @neilcohn.bsky.social who looks at how our brains perceive comics. His latest book challenges the conventional understandings of how pictures communicate, how people learn to draw, and the nature of language itself. #comics #cartooning #comicstrips

UK-based BAED scholars: ⏰Time is ticking! Just 3 days left to apply for the 2026 Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship. Apply👉 https://bit.ly/4pd67Bs Don't miss your chance to receive 1:1 mentorship and resources to get your book idea publication-ready. cc @writersandartists.bsky.social

Have you taken advantage of our week-long summer sale yet? ☀️ Linguistics bestsellers and recent releases are up to 30% off until Sunday 19! Start with these highlights: bit.ly/3VaCsLh @neilcohn.bsky.social @philipseargeant.bsky.social

Have you wanted to check out my research about comics, drawings, language, cognition, and multimodality? All my books, including my graphic novel Speaking in Pictures, are now 30% off for this week from @bloomsburyling.bsky.social! www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-...

For one week only, get up to 30% off books for every kind of summer! Whether it's language, music, sport, current affairs or something else that interests you most, find your next summer read here. See what's on offer: bit.ly/3SOITFE

Small change to the timing of our editor Sarah's talk at CADAAD 2026 this Thursday - she'll now be presenting at 15:00 CEST. Come along to learn more about publishing at Bloomsbury & writing a book for our Advances in Critical Discourse Studies series: bit.ly/444OcTC @cadaad2026.bsky.social

📢UK writers: Academic Writing Fellowship Applications now open 🎉 In partnership with @writersandartists.bsky.social, this fellowship helps UK-based early-career scholars from Black, Asian, and ethnically diverse backgrounds publish their first book. Apply by 1 Aug 👉 https://bit.ly/4erXWNR

Attending CADAAD 2026 next week? Don't miss Commissioning Editor Sarah's 30min overview of how to publish a book in our Advances in Critical Discourse Studies series: bit.ly/444OcTC 📅Thu 9 July 🕝14:30 CEST 📍TBC on programme All welcome! @cadaad2026.bsky.social @cadaad.bsky.social

Academics need reliable, free-to-access research. Learn about the growing relationship between AI and #OpenAccess scholarly publishing from author Bart Van der Sloot. https://bit.ly/4uiEo35

The future of open access and artificial intelligence

Bart van der Sloot reflects on the relationship between open access and artificial intelligence and its potential for democratizing knowledge, following his appearance at Bloomsbury’s panel event ‘Ope...

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Happening today at LL17 conference: editor Sarah will outline the publishing process and what you need to know to successfully pitch and publish a book with us. 13:45 in the John Holland Lecture Theatre. We hope to see you there!

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If you're at Linguistic Landscape 17 at @unioflimerick.bsky.social this week, don't miss editor Sarah's short talk on publishing at Bloomsbury, including tips on how to successfully propose a new book. Mark the event in the conference app: 📅 Fri 5 June 🕙 13:45-14:15 📍John Holland Lecture Theatre

If you're at Linguistic Landscape 17 at @unioflimerick.bsky.social this week, don't miss editor Sarah's short talk on publishing at Bloomsbury, including tips on how to successfully propose a new book. Mark the event in the conference app: 📅 Fri 5 June 🕙 13:45-14:15 📍John Holland Lecture Theatre

Out now: The 'Socially Networked' Newsroom: Journalists and their Discourses of Digital Communication. Helen Sissons & Philippa Smith analyse 300+ hours of video-ethnographic material from 3 newsrooms to unravel the complex interactions of journalists. Read more: Bloomsbury.com/9781350476714/

The 'Socially Networked' Newsroom

The 'Socially Networked' Newsroom identifies discourses of digital communication through observations of online and offline newsroom interactions, interviews, a…

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Our May sale continues, with up to 30% off in linguistics until Sunday. Save on new books and bestsellers by @philipseargeant.bsky.social, @neilcohn.bsky.social and many more. Browse our highlights: US customers: bit.ly/3VaCsLh UK / international: bit.ly/49CuhiZ

All my books are now 30% off in the @bloomsburyling.bsky.social sale until May 24th, including my recently released graphic novel Speaking in Pictures! Here’s the link to the US store but you can change location in the upper right: www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-...

Here's something to put a spring in your step 🌷🌱 Up to 30% off new and bestselling books in linguistics and much more, this week only! Browse by your area of interest: bit.ly/4mQpcqx Or view our top academic picks: bit.ly/4fyHADM #academicsky

The book launch went very well. Many thanks to Jennie Li for serving as a discussant, to the 80 or so attendees (both in person & online), and for the thoughtful questions. This research was funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk and the book is published by @bloomsburyling.bsky.social

For #EarthDay, our latest linguistics newsletter showcases some of our new and upcoming titles that sit at the nexus of language and ecological justice. Enjoy 20% off all books on this email for the rest of this month with code EARTHDAYLING: bit.ly/4cJMniX

We're so glad to be at #AAAL2026 in Chicago this week! If you're also here, be sure to visit Commissioning Editor Sarah at our booth and check out the array of #appliedlinguistics books and series we have on display 🤩

Join @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social, Heng Wang and discussant Li Zhen at the hybrid launch of Heritage Literacy in the Lives of Chinese Muslims. 📆 Wed 22 April 🕒 3:10pm (UK) Register here: bit.ly/4rBBRj8 More on the book: bloomsbury.com/9781350497535

Celebrate #WHM26 with incisive books on gender, power, culture and the forces shaping everyday life. 📚💙 https://bit.ly/4tSwBtO 💡 #HistBookChat

Three female scholars from different fields sit down for a candid conversation on barriers in #HigherEd. Read on the blog: https://bit.ly/4rjdbM4 #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

📢 Most successful year to date for Bloomsbury Open Collections! Thanks to the contribution of our participating libraries, our #OpenAccess model will be making 29 new titles open access throughout the year, at no cost to the authors. 📙🔓 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/l...

Bloomsbury Open Collections | Open Access textbooks

Bloomsbury today announced that Bloomsbury Open Collections has reached 48% of its funding goal globally for 2025-26, ensuring a further 29 titles are added.

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Out today and 30% off in our website sale: Speaking in Pictures by Neil Cohn challenges our conventional understandings of how pictures communicate, how people learn to draw and the nature of language itself. Get your copy: Bloomsbury.com/9781350402164 @neilcohn.bsky.social