Ben Doyle
@bendoyle.bsky.social
Senior Publisher for Literary Studies, Digital Cultures and Medical/Health Humanities at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
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January 23, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Just a reminder to all those interested - please do sign up for our upcoming open access event (moderated by me): Open Access: Responsibility, Censorship, and Resistance. Sign up here:
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🚨WOW! Now closing on 88,000 signatures! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
January 22, 2026 at 8:28 AM
🚨WOW! Now closing on 88,000 signatures! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Talking 7.30 pm tonight Thursday 22 January at Macclesfield Lit and Phil Society about Jane Austen’s Fashion Bible. The first lit and phils were founded when Austen was a teenager.
January 22, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Talking 7.30 pm tonight Thursday 22 January at Macclesfield Lit and Phil Society about Jane Austen’s Fashion Bible. The first lit and phils were founded when Austen was a teenager.
Next from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Listening In': Beginning with post-WW2 monitoring devices, it traces an arc through the Cold War era into the present day in which state and commercial spyware can record our calls, copy messages and secretly film us. www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...
Listening In
In 1945, W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was presented with a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a 'gesture…
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January 22, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Next from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Listening In': Beginning with post-WW2 monitoring devices, it traces an arc through the Cold War era into the present day in which state and commercial spyware can record our calls, copy messages and secretly film us. www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...
First up: 'Drone Cultures'. Encouraging us to think critically about the drone, this book traces the emergence of the drone in twenty-first-century warfare it examines its entanglement with surveillance culture, biopolitics, and artificial intelligence.
www.bloomsbury.com/drone-cultur...
www.bloomsbury.com/drone-cultur...
Drone Cultures
The drone is an object of contradiction: at once a weapon of war and a medium of wonder. Often linked to destruction and death, the drone also sparks creativity…
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January 22, 2026 at 9:08 AM
First up: 'Drone Cultures'. Encouraging us to think critically about the drone, this book traces the emergence of the drone in twenty-first-century warfare it examines its entanglement with surveillance culture, biopolitics, and artificial intelligence.
www.bloomsbury.com/drone-cultur...
www.bloomsbury.com/drone-cultur...
Happy publication day to two new books in our @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Studies in Digital Cultures series!
January 22, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Happy publication day to two new books in our @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Studies in Digital Cultures series!
Really proud to have published this groundbreaking collection of essays - out next month. It's a brilliant addition to the series and to work in the area. Congratulations and thanks to all involved!
Thrilled to finally be holding a physical copy of Art and the Critical Medical Humanities 📘
Co-edited with Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire, this book has been a true labour of love.
Co-edited with Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire, this book has been a true labour of love.
January 21, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Really proud to have published this groundbreaking collection of essays - out next month. It's a brilliant addition to the series and to work in the area. Congratulations and thanks to all involved!
Lovely review of Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction in the Journal of DH Lawrence Studies: a 'substantial and fascinating study' www.bloomsbury.com/microscopy-m...
Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction
Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers – D. H.…
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January 20, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Lovely review of Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction in the Journal of DH Lawrence Studies: a 'substantial and fascinating study' www.bloomsbury.com/microscopy-m...
Very, very excited to have signed this extremely important book (never more urgent than now). Coming soon from a DH editorial dream team and @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - watch this space...!
My dear friend and colleague @wernimont.bsky.social and I are uniting like Voltron, using our 40+ years of combined experience in digital humanities to write Undisciplined Digital Humanities: Designing for the World We Want. (not the actual cover) +
January 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Very, very excited to have signed this extremely important book (never more urgent than now). Coming soon from a DH editorial dream team and @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - watch this space...!
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It's a full house for 'Creative Facilitation: Insights, Practice & Futures'! To mark the occasion, we've published 6 new written interviews with people who used creative facilitation in research, work with communities & clinical practice. Check them out on our website!
tinyurl.com/4s7nke8b
tinyurl.com/4s7nke8b
January 15, 2026 at 3:07 PM
It's a full house for 'Creative Facilitation: Insights, Practice & Futures'! To mark the occasion, we've published 6 new written interviews with people who used creative facilitation in research, work with communities & clinical practice. Check them out on our website!
tinyurl.com/4s7nke8b
tinyurl.com/4s7nke8b
Unsurprising but still rather concerning...
"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'"
They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity.
www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity.
www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
www.npr.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Unsurprising but still rather concerning...
Great to see so many of our books in one place!
January 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Great to see so many of our books in one place!
Another crazily busy (but extremely fun) MLA underway! If you're here, swing by the Bloomsbury stand and come see us!
January 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Another crazily busy (but extremely fun) MLA underway! If you're here, swing by the Bloomsbury stand and come see us!
A great topic and should provoke some extremely interesting discussion. Check out this CFP
So much of the Internet has disappeared. Are you a modernist scholar who wants to do something about it? Abstracts due Feb 2 for the collection _A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms_. www.shawnaross.com/cfp/
CFP for A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
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January 8, 2026 at 10:12 PM
A great topic and should provoke some extremely interesting discussion. Check out this CFP
Just published in paperback from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - 'The American Sentence'. A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book asks what an American sentence is and how has it changed? www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...
The American Sentence
A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - t…
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December 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Just published in paperback from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - 'The American Sentence'. A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book asks what an American sentence is and how has it changed? www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...
Lovely piece on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social blog from Susan Allen Ford on Jane Austen’s enduring way with words: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
Felicity, character, consequence: Jane Austen’s enduring way with words | Maria Frawley on Jane Austen in 50 Words
Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with insights into her most-used words - like ‘felicity’ and ‘character’ - revealing the genius behind her timeless fiction.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Lovely piece on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social blog from Susan Allen Ford on Jane Austen’s enduring way with words: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
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Author Suzanne Jill Levine sat down with TV Santa Barbara's The Creative Community to discuss her book, 'Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir'
Watch the full interview👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktn2...
Watch the full interview👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktn2...
The Creative Community 2 Author Suzanne Jill Levine
YouTube video by TV Santa Barbara
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December 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Author Suzanne Jill Levine sat down with TV Santa Barbara's The Creative Community to discuss her book, 'Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir'
Watch the full interview👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktn2...
Watch the full interview👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktn2...
On Feb 5th I'll be moderating what promises to be a fascinating discussion on Open Access: Responsibility, Censorship and Resistance. Join us online!
What does it mean to make knowledge truly accessible?
In this era of global political unrest and government censorship, can open scholarship be a tool for democratising knowledge?
Join us on 5 February 2026 for a free online webinar: bit.ly/4iXRKO6
In this era of global political unrest and government censorship, can open scholarship be a tool for democratising knowledge?
Join us on 5 February 2026 for a free online webinar: bit.ly/4iXRKO6
December 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
On Feb 5th I'll be moderating what promises to be a fascinating discussion on Open Access: Responsibility, Censorship and Resistance. Join us online!
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;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3
‘Beware trade-offs’ of removing REF funding for 3* outputs
Review of formula used to allocate £2 billion QR funding could downgrade or withdraw money for ‘internationally excellent’ research, some fear
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3
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Check out these amazing keynotes for Weird Modernisms - and there's still time to propose a paper or panel: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... @moderniststudies.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Check out these amazing keynotes for Weird Modernisms - and there's still time to propose a paper or panel: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... @moderniststudies.bsky.social
Excited to see this out from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social after many excited conversations about it - thanks to the editorial team, who have been a dream to work with!
This volume, a long time in the works, now lives on the Bloomsbury website. Thanks to my co-editor Katie, associate editors Lauren Faro and Petar Penda, and to @bendoyle.bsky.social and the Bloomsbury team. Look out for the excellent cover, coming very soon...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...
Beyond Modernism
Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism? See…
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December 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Excited to see this out from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social after many excited conversations about it - thanks to the editorial team, who have been a dream to work with!
To all DH/AI folks, Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) is requesting proposals for research projects which foster research in the digital humanities with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Grants of up to $800k available. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...
Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences
www.schmidtsciences.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
To all DH/AI folks, Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) is requesting proposals for research projects which foster research in the digital humanities with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Grants of up to $800k available. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...
At @bloomsburylit.bsky.social we LOVE Jane Austen. Check out some of our more recent Austen-related offerings in our most recent newsletter (and please sign up if you haven't already!): mailchi.mp/bloomsbury/j...
Jane Austen in 50 Words
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December 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
At @bloomsburylit.bsky.social we LOVE Jane Austen. Check out some of our more recent Austen-related offerings in our most recent newsletter (and please sign up if you haven't already!): mailchi.mp/bloomsbury/j...
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What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research?
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
The Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research - by Professor Claire Squires | SAHA: The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance
A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research?
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
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You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview