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Professor Caroline Edwards
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Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & Director of @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
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Ooooh look what's AVAILABLE TO PREORDER! Looking pretty lush and £21.99 is about as affordable as it gets for a new academic book these days! @universitypress.cambridge.org #AcaSky

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Ooooh look what's AVAILABLE TO PREORDER! Looking pretty lush and £21.99 is about as affordable as it gets for a new academic book these days! @universitypress.cambridge.org #AcaSky

www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
[EVENT] Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area 💎

The showcase session Institutional & Community-Driven Diamond OA Initiatives features lightning talks by @alittleroad.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social

Full programme and event link 👉 buff.ly/Ntr9Zem

#AHSS #SSH
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November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Top Stanford economists:
By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times

*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*

Receipts in thread.
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
The November 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is out now! Check it out for all the lastest #envhum scholarship
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Cover image: A Marshall Islands navigation chart collected by Thomas William Smillie in 1899. Smithsonian Institution Archives.
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Two opportunities to join @openingthefuture.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social TOMORROW 🥳

📝 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚-𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏-𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔
📅 26 November
📌 Online
🔗 buff.ly/pExK5d3 (9-10 AM GMT), buff.ly/0FWhoz5 (1-2PM GMT)
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
The recording of Mainstreaming Diamond — Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures, held during #OAWeek, is available to watch.

With contributions from Opening the Future, Open Book Publishers, OLH, the Open Journals Collective, Open Book Collective and DOAJ:
Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond Regional perspectives, Shared Futures
This recording features a panel discussion hosted by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) during Open Access Week 2025 Leaders from across the diamond open access community discuss how we can move beyond “alternative models” to make equitable, community-owned scholarly publishing the mainstream. Th
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November 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies.

After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.

This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy

A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation

laist.com/news/arts-an...
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
The Open Journals Collective
"This initiative replaces transformative agreements with a non-profit, community-led research infrastructure, collectively raising funds to support diamond journals."
Caroline Edwards, Birkbeck & a director of the Open Journals Collective.

* openjournalscollective.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing.

Another one of our most-read articles over the last week.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
The president of Soas’s Palestine Society was expelled this summer for breaching the university’s code of conduct—one of the first cases of its kind in the UK.
The pro-Palestine activist expelled from university
Haya Adam protested for Palestinian human rights. Is free speech at stake?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
Join us next year (26-27 February 2026) to explore the future of community-led open access book publishing 🔮

📍 Loughborough University | London or online
🥳 Registration is now open!
🎫 Get your ticket now! buff.ly/DhtaOAJ

#CopimConference
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Things my 7yo said to me this morning… “Why are you putting hairspray in your armpits?” And “why can’t we make money extinct?” Which led inevitably to a teachable moment about personal hygiene and anti-capitalism.
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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"What’s certain is that the Big Five will no longer reap the obscene profit margins they’ve enjoyed for decades. Their multimillion-dollar agreements with artificial intelligence companies may be the last windfall." About time! www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
as a smaller, digital-only journal that is diamond open access and charges no author-processing fees (thanks @openlibhums.org!), we can promise that we will be able to make a decision about your submission much faster than traditional print journals.
We've refreshed out author guidelines for submissions to our journal, including new guidance for anyone looking to submit an interview. We'd love to hear from you!
c21.openlibhums.org/site/authorg...
Author Guidelines
c21.openlibhums.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I'm honored to have my article, "Counterfactuals and the Tumblr Aesthetic: Allegories of Reading in _Frankenstein_ and _The Locked Tomb_" included in this special issue!
New issue of @c21literature.bsky.social: Journal of 21st-century Writings, Volume 12, Issue 2, is out now! Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
New issue of @c21literature.bsky.social: Journal of 21st-century Writings, Volume 12, Issue 2, is out now! Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
November 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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How do labour rights shape the economy? ⚖️📈

📖 In our final issue of 2025, César F. Rosado Marzán reviews Adrián Todolí-Signes’s (@uv.es) attempt to revisit the big question: Do employment rights boost economic performance?

🌍 Get early view now via @openlibhums.org
Published in @ilr-rit.bsky.social / International Labour Review > César F. Rosado Marzán reviews "Labour Law and Economic Policy: How Employment Rights Improve the Economy", by Adrián Todolí-Signes: doi.org/10.16995/ilr...
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
🔖 Early view content via @openlibhums.org

Albert Berry (@utoronto.ca) reviews a book tracing nearly 50 years of economic change, artisan work and informality in Ecuador 🇪🇨

📖🌐 Forthcoming in our Issue 4 for 2025!
Published in @ilr-rit.bsky.social / International Labour Review: Albert Berry reviews The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms, by Alan Middleton: doi.org/10.16995/ilr...
Book review - The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms, by Alan Middleton
doi.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
Our first few articles are online, and our rolling publication model allows us to add more. Keep an eye out for the new additions to this issue!
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich:
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings | Issue: Issue: 2(12) Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025) (2025)
c21.openlibhums.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Reposted by Professor Caroline Edwards
#SaturdayVibes Hope everyone got through yesterday's storm unscathed, sounded wild outside with lots of things going bump in the night but it looks like there's no damage this morning. Here's a beautifully coloured fallen leaf with rain droplet diamonds from this week. #Autumn25
November 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM