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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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Very cool event celebrating feminist press Arlen House's 50th anniversary, with the launch of what looks like a wonderful anthology. Sign up for tickets here: irishlitsoc.org/event/arlen-...
Arlen House 50th – 25 November
We’re delighted to welcome back to the Society Nuala O’Connor and Alan Hayes representing Arlen House as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of this pioneering press with a group of writers drawn from t...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Very cool event celebrating feminist press Arlen House's 50th anniversary, with the launch of what looks like a wonderful anthology. Sign up for tickets here: irishlitsoc.org/event/arlen-...
Pro-Russian bribes?! What a patriot! It's almost as if Reform is a party of grifters... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes
The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Pro-Russian bribes?! What a patriot! It's almost as if Reform is a party of grifters... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
Publishing soon in our flagship 'Environmental Cultures' series, 'Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment' by Pramod Nayar, which studies the work of over 50 poets: www.bloomsbury.com/postcolonial...
Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment
Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, South American and settler colonies such…
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November 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Publishing soon in our flagship 'Environmental Cultures' series, 'Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment' by Pramod Nayar, which studies the work of over 50 poets: www.bloomsbury.com/postcolonial...
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Humanities decline ‘threatens Australia’s regional capability’.
Group of Eight tells parliamentary inquiry Job-Ready Graduates scheme should be “dismantled”.
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Group of Eight tells parliamentary inquiry Job-Ready Graduates scheme should be “dismantled”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
Humanities decline ‘threatens Australia’s regional capability’ - Research Professional News
Group of Eight tells parliamentary inquiry Job-Ready Graduates scheme should be “dismantled”
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November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Humanities decline ‘threatens Australia’s regional capability’.
Group of Eight tells parliamentary inquiry Job-Ready Graduates scheme should be “dismantled”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
Group of Eight tells parliamentary inquiry Job-Ready Graduates scheme should be “dismantled”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
Great that Prof Murphy is now able to continue her important work, but worrying that it came to this at all... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Great that Prof Murphy is now able to continue her important work, but worrying that it came to this at all... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Would be great to catch up again soon and find out what you're working on!
October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Would be great to catch up again soon and find out what you're working on!
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
Happy publication day to the latest in our #medicalhumanities series, 'Autism and the Empathy Epidemic'. Available in paperback or FOR FREE, open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... Feel free to drop me a line to learn more about the series!
Autism and the Empathy Epidemic
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October 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Happy publication day to the latest in our #medicalhumanities series, 'Autism and the Empathy Epidemic'. Available in paperback or FOR FREE, open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... Feel free to drop me a line to learn more about the series!
A stream of blue humanities projects is flooding my desk (ok, done with the watery language now, I promise) for our new series. 1st manuscript is also now out with peer reviewers! Check out the series' overview and get in touch if working on anything relevant! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/th...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A stream of blue humanities projects is flooding my desk (ok, done with the watery language now, I promise) for our new series. 1st manuscript is also now out with peer reviewers! Check out the series' overview and get in touch if working on anything relevant! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/th...
Just started watching Mythic Quest and it is SO GOOD!
October 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just started watching Mythic Quest and it is SO GOOD!
Hypernormalisation: my new favourite concept. Oh, also, that Adam Curtis documentary is brilliant
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
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October 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Hypernormalisation: my new favourite concept. Oh, also, that Adam Curtis documentary is brilliant
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
It’s Ursula Le Guin’s birthday.
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
October 22, 2023 at 1:37 AM
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
Sprinting towards dystopia thanks to big tech. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...
Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Sprinting towards dystopia thanks to big tech. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...
Really, really excited to see what comes of this. A great topic and a book that I'm excited to look at for the list here, when the time comes!
CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
CFP for A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
www.shawnaross.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Really, really excited to see what comes of this. A great topic and a book that I'm excited to look at for the list here, when the time comes!
Really nice review of 'Love, Friendship and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury' in the Journal of Modern Literature, which calls it 'deeply researched and tightly argued'. Check the book out here: www.bloomsbury.com/love-friends...
Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury
Exploring how the Bloomsbury Group's cutting-edge thinkers-Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, and E. M. Forster-understood the intimacy of friends, lovers, spouses,…
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October 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Really nice review of 'Love, Friendship and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury' in the Journal of Modern Literature, which calls it 'deeply researched and tightly argued'. Check the book out here: www.bloomsbury.com/love-friends...
Day one of MSA - heading down to set the stand up now. Swing by to say hi if you're around!
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Day one of MSA - heading down to set the stand up now. Swing by to say hi if you're around!
Look what just landed on my desk...! It looks amazing and GREAT to see it in the real world. Grab a copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-we...
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Look what just landed on my desk...! It looks amazing and GREAT to see it in the real world. Grab a copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-we...
A free row?! I'll take this as a good omen.
October 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A free row?! I'll take this as a good omen.
At Heathrow now killing time pre-MSA flight. Looking forward to a few days of modernism and Boston! Drop me a line if you're around and keen to chat at the conference!
October 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
At Heathrow now killing time pre-MSA flight. Looking forward to a few days of modernism and Boston! Drop me a line if you're around and keen to chat at the conference!