The Sixth Annual @humanitiespodnetwork.bsky.social Symposium is coming soon! 🎙️ "What to do now?": Humanities Podcasting Agency and Avowal 23–24 October | Free | Virtual If you're a humanities podcaster or curious about #creativescholarship submissions are open now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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At Public Books, our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is actually on our nightstands?
On Our Nightstands: July 2026 - Public Books
At “Public Books,” our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is actually on our nightstands? Here we…
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Started a newsletter. Posted via Substack: What we tend Visit us via the link below to ponder some more on what we tend and what may grow next... 🟨 open.substack.com/pub/radicall...
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Introducing On Hopeful Gathering, a Radically Hopeful newsletter
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The Humanities Podcast Network x the Center for Humanities Communication | FREE 90-minute online workshop | Explore podcasting as a powerful, accessible medium for humanities scholarship. Wednesday 9 July 2026, 10:00–11:30am ET - register 👇 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #podcasting #humcomm
Can creativity open up new ways of thinking about research? This collaborative zine explores feminism, #openScience, and collective knowledge-making through reflection and making. doi.org/10.17613/afd...
Knowledge is #human If you're a researcher who cares about shaping #public knowledge - this is for you ➡️ diff.wikimedia.org/2026/05/29/a... @wikimediafoundation.org
A new online course for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia
“Wikipedia for Researchers: Building reliable knowledge through citations” is a new free course on WikiLearn! Co-developed by Kath Burton, Carlos Areia, and Asaf Bartov, it brings toget…
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Your research deserves to be read beyond academia! Wikipedia for Researchers is a free online course about how to add peer-reviewed citations to Wikipedia. Help your field reach more students, journalists, policymakers, and the AI systems shaping public knowledge. Enroll today! buff.ly/bMUJAsU
Wikipedia for Researchers: Building Reliable Knowledge Through Citations
Learn to contribute peer-reviewed citations to Wikipedia responsibly and strengthen the reliability of public knowledge as a researcher.
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Introducing PhD Journeying: a small-group workshop programme for doctoral researchers. Six sessions. Maximum six people. Two hours each. Delivered online by real humans. buff.ly/aMCkHu4
A Creative Act of Service — Radically Hopeful
Completing a PhD isn’t just technical; it’s creative, relational, and deeply human. Universities provide much, but doctoral work also needs dedicated space for reflection, creativity, and community.…
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Well worth a listen/read 👇🏼 (full disclosure: I am biased, but not a bot) #authenticity #communication #publicknowledge
I was on BBCR4’s Rethink today talking with @benansell.bsky.social about political authenticity Research links to follow. With co-authors @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, @jmoss88.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
New paper on luck, geography, and politics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Right place, right time: Luck, geography, and politics
On 12th May 2020, Mass Observation collected c5,000 diaries from people across the UK. Many of these diaries mention luck and many of these luck stori…
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#indivisible ICE out for good Seneca Falls. If you don't know, Seneca Falls is where a group of anti-slavery activists issued the first formal demand for women to have full citizenship rights in the United States. Good place for a protest against tyranny!
Need help with your procrastination problem? Read my latest article in Psyche! psyche.co/guides/how-t... #academicsky #procrastination #productivity
How to think differently about procrastination and make progress | Psyche Guides
Avoid the trap of thinking you’re either working or not. A different mindset promises less self-judgment and more progress
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Proposals for the 10th NYC Open Data Week & NYC School of Data in March 2026 are accepted through 12/15/25. This is an excellent example of public scholarship & civic data literacy. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunygcdi.bsky.social @cunygcps2.bsky.social @cunypitlab.bsky.social opendataweek.nyc
Radically Hopeful isn't just a company name - it's an approach to publishing that puts possibility at its heart, combining community engagement with practical publishing support. If you have an idea you'd like to discuss, let's find a time to chat. 👇 scheduler.zoom.us/kath-burton-...
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Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health is currently accepting submissions! They're looking for topics that discuss ongoing exploitation of Indigenous lands and knowledge impacts on Indigenous Peoples worldwide. Submissions close January 9th. networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #edusky #academia
Looking to after next week's holiday, we've a public talk on designing a digital archive of Caribbean speculative storytelling cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15359711; workshop for coders on LLMs to classify texts cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15249593; 3 textile makerspace workshops & an origami workshop:
Redirecting…
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Our makerspace will be closed all next week (11/24-30) for the holiday. We'll be back open the week of 12/1 with free workshops on making stuffed buddies, sewing pen/pencil cases, origami, & DIY felt wallets: scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/events/
There's a research guide for Anthropology! This guide provides you with access to anthropology and related resources. For example, the Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Learn more at: libguides.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology #academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
There's a research guide for Africana Studies! For example, umbrasearch.org brings together items from more than 1,000 U.S. archives, libraries, and museums of African American history and culture. Learn more at: libguides.gc.cuny.edu/africana #academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
Now a more in-depth look at the @openbookcollective.bsky.social and the amazing things they are making possible, including the OBC's Collective Development Fund, which is providing support to build capacity for #DiamondOA publishing activities of #OAbooks
Small gardens can boost biodiversity just as much as large ones – and when little green spaces join together with others, it creates a network of wildlife-friendly areas that benefits many different species. Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/sma...
Happening now (and until 1pm EST on Tuesday 29 April). Columbia 25 Hour speakout 🔉 Live streamed here: www.youtube.com/live/6kXvnC6... Strength and solidarity to all #CUIMCStandsUP for this bold and effective stance in support of #academicfreedom #humanities #values www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kXv...
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The Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Government Censorship community is now nearly 4,300 strong ✊🏻✨😎 - help reach the 10,000 signatories target by end April 👇🏼 docs.google.com/forms/d/1hTI...
Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship
This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...
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New York City has its very own #zine shop called Quimby's! Find it in Brooklyn, across the street from the Metropolitan Avenue subway. Visit! ✨ Buy zines! 📚 Support zinesters! ✂️ Please spread the word! 📍 Quimby's Bookstore NYC 536 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn New York, NY 11211 United States
📣 Incoming w/ a new post on CHC’s newly minted HumComm Talk - ease into the weekend with a little bit of Amplifying Humanities Communication Together 👇🏼
New on our Center for Humanities Communication’s blog: 3-part interview series by Cheryl Sadowski on high-impact leaders & professionals who started with humanities degrees. 1st post: on Kirsten Dueck, CEO of social-enterprise investing org NESsT. center-humanities-communication.org/humcomm-talk...
📜 CALLING all #publishing nerds and #community champions! An opportunity to share joy and imagine a brighter tomorrow for an imperfect publishing system - how might we craft radically hopeful open publishing models in community? JOIN the CPG! ▶️💚🌱 bsky.app/profile/comm...
How might your publishing experiences help our publishing garden grow? The Community Publishing Garden (CPG) is now open! Share your expression of interest with us: buff.ly/4bsZm7G And join us in creating opportunities for new ways of publishing in community to flourish.
It's early days, but we're hard at work growing our reach, and setting up things like DOIs to make your work count in the ways you want it to. It all comes back to people and stories. You're our people, let's tell your stories.