Announcing the results of the OUP First Book Prize! Congratulations to all of the ten winners: corp.oup.com/news/first-b...

First Book Prize 2026 winners announced - Oxford University Press

The First Book Prize aims to support early career researchers by providing fully open access and hardback publication for their first monograph.

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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...

Oxford Academic@academic.oup.com · 3mo ago

Final call approaching: Environmental Change and Human Experience. Contribute to an interdisciplinary forum on climate, history, and ecological change. Abstracts due 01 September 2026. 👉 Submit your abstract before the deadline: oxford.ly/4w6i8KG

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...

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...

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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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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

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

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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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...

This is happening already in translation.

Yorgos Cotronis@cotronis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A nightmare scenario I didn't quite expect: I get clients that say they already have the "art" ready (AI generated), they just want it re-done by a human. So they want to essentially "wash" the AI generated trash so they don't get any flack for it.

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.

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...

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

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

📣 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

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

Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Disability and the Gothic

Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic

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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...

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

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

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.

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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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?

Ryan Hagen@alltheshapes.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Not for academics it isn’t. You learn by reading and by following citation chains and talking to other people in the field. Letting the AI do the summary is abdicating your job.

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

Emmanuel Chastellière@gillossen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA" Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/ #traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF

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Emily Rowe@emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Finishing the year on a high - I've signed a contract with Cambridge University Press for my book: Metal and Literary Production in Early Modern England: Labour, Value, Violence. Transforming my PhD into a book whilst on a series of lectureships wasn't easy, so I WILL be celebrating every milestone

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.

Delighted to see this article in publication!

lsegender@lsegender.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our LSE Fellow R. Sánchez Rivera has published a new article in Oxford Intersections! 🥳 Read it now ➡️ academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

"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.

The H-Net Book Channel@hnetbookchannel.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In our quest to demystify scholarly publishing, #FeedingTheElephant invited @leekinginc.bsky.social to explain "Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Book Distribution, but Were Afraid to Ask." How does your book make it onto shelves and into readers' hands? networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

‘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...

🎉🎉🎉 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

"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.

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

Oxford Academic@academic.oup.com · last yr.

🚨 Oxford Intersections: Gender Studies invites abstracts for new articles that explore how gender intersects with all aspects of life through interdisciplinary research. 🗓️ Deadline: 11 Aug 2025 📩 Submit: oxford.ly/44JrIYj

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