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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 23h

this is lovely. 🍂🌞🐕

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 23h

I am reading this at the moment - it's a fabulous novel.

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 1d

Watch Rory Kinnear read from The Rest of Our Lives, the #BookerPrize2025 shortlisted novel by Ben Markovits.

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Rory Kinnear reads from The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits | The Booker Prize

YouTube video by The Booker Prizes

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 1d

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/oxfords...

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 1d

She didn’t have long to wait bless her

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 2d

EVENT: Join us at @sotauol.bsky.social on 6/11/25 from 11am - 12:30pm for an ECR Publishing Roundtable with publishing professionals followed by an audience Q&A. Part of the #TerraqueousGlobe Conference @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social
Tickets & registration: bit.ly/Registration-TG🌍

ECR Publishing Roundtable, School of the Arts Library, University of Liverpool
11am - 12:30pm, 6th November 2025.
Designed for Early Career Researchers in the Arts and Humanities, the event will feature a Q&A and discussions from publishing professionals about both book and journals publishing more broadly.
Organised as a part of the Terraqueous Globe conference.

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 2d

Furious because it’s not treat time yet.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 9d

Haha!! She seems to know when I am presenting - she must sense it. I had to mute myself to shoo her off the desk.

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 9d

When you're presenting on a webinar, and speaking, and your cat jumps on your desk and waves her tail in front of your face....sigh. 🫣

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 9d

because we aren't even allowing homeless folks to sleep, now?

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The Indexer @indexer.bsky.social · 9d

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The Indexer @indexer.bsky.social · 9d

The latest issue of The Indexer, 43(3), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about Chinese language indexing, natural-language processing and indexing, the ASI 2025 conference and National Indexing Day 2025, and more!

The Indexer Home

The journal seeks to cover the full range of subjects, from articles at the cutting edge of new techniques to contributions discussing in a practical way the new tools available to indexers at all points in the technical spectrum or exploring the history of indexing.

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 12d

It’s so good - I hope you love it too 🙂

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 13d

it is a beautiful cover....

Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 13d

I really loved this book! Two graduate students follow their analytic magick Professor into Hell but it’s not how the philosophers claimed…..

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 16d

Librarians, by subscribing to LUP Open Planning journals, you:
✔ Support equitable #OpenAccess
✔ Give your researchers access to a century of scholarship (TPR 1910, IDPR 1979)
✔ Help ensure today’s research is #OA for tomorrow’s scholars
Find out more: bit.ly/LUPOpenPlanning
@aupresses.bsky.social

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ORCID @orcid.org · 13d

Can't make our AMA on 30 Sept? No problem! 🗓️ Register anyway to get the recording and materials after the session. You can even submit your questions when you sign up! Register: https://linktr.ee/orcid_org

#ORCIDOnDemand #UniversityPresses #ScholarlyPublishing

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 13d

Come and hear me and my @livunipress.bsky.social colleague talk about all things ORCID!
@aupresses.bsky.social

ORCID @orcid.org · 15d

🗓️ Our next Ask Me Anything is with University Presses on 30 Sept! Join us to learn how small publishers are making the most of ORCID membership. Got questions? Submit them when you register! Register: https://linktr.ee/orcid_org

#ORCIDevents #ScholarlyPublishing #UniversityPresses

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 20d

The latest JRS special issue explores multilingual & transcultural narratives of health and illness in European literatures (1870s–1960s+).
Read the introduction to the issue #OpenAccess.
➡️ bit.ly/JRS-Reading-Bodies
@ilcs.bsky.social @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @profstevenwilson.bsky.social

Cover image for the Journal of Romance Studies, Volume 25, Number 3, Autumn 2025. The left side shows the journal cover with a decorative tile motif. On the right, text reads: Reading Bodies: Narrating Illness in European Literatures and Cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond), edited by Katharine Murphy and Olivia Glaze. Logos of the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, the School of Advanced Study (University of London), and Liverpool University Press are also displayed, with a green banner at the bottom reading “Special Issue.”

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 17d

Sunday night film watching was The Innocents. Really really good and absolutely terrifying in parts.

www.theguardian.com/film/2022/ma...

The Innocents review – icily brilliant tale of kids with supernatural powers is future classic

Young actors steal the show in this scary movie set on a Norwegian housing estate, where grownups are unaware of the children’s abilities

www.theguardian.com

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 21d

Take a look at the Contemporary French Civilization 50th Anniversary Virtual Issue, available free to read for a limited time.
#FrenchStudies

Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 21d

🎉 Contemporary French Civilization celebrates 50 years!
Marking this milestone, the editorial team reflects in a special blog post—and explore the 50th Anniversary Virtual Issue, available free to read for a limited time.
@sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @sfhs.bsky.social
#FrenchStudies

Celebrating 50 Years of Contemporary French Civilization

To celebrate fifty years of Contemporary French Civilization (CFC), the journal’s editorial team has put together a blog post reflecting on its past, present, and future. As part of the anniversary…

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 21d

I am *really* loving this book - Katabasis by RF Kuang

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Katabasis by RF Kuang review – a descent into the hellscape of academia

The bestselling author’s sixth novel is far from perfect, but this journey into the underworld is delivered with heretical glee

www.theguardian.com

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Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social · 23d

Thrilled that @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and my co-edited Special Issue is now out in the Journal of Romance Studies! 🎉 Huge thanks to our contributors across French, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese studies—showing the value of a multilingual approach to the Medical Humanities: tinyurl.com/mrxmznsm

Contents | Journal of Romance Studies 25, 3

This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 23d

*growls*

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 23d

The incredible Bernardine Evaristo has used her @womensprize.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution Award to create a new @rsliterature.bsky.social Prize. For the next decade, we will be celebrating pioneering women writers, starting with Maureen Duffy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

91-year-old author Maureen Duffy wins Pioneer prize launched by Bernardine Evaristo

The RSL president has set up a new literary award for female writers over 60 using the £100,000 she herself won through the Women’s prize

www.theguardian.com

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