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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 23d

How do different ways of reading affect our experience of literature? In collaboration with the BBC, Open University lecturer @shaftowheed.bsky.social has developed a short quiz to show how different formats affect our reading experience. You can find the quiz here:
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OU Connect on Instagram: "📚 How do you read? 🧐 How much detail can you remember after reading in different formats? 🌍 For International Literacy Day, BBC Morning Live welcomes The OU’s Dr Shafquat Tow...

10 likes, 0 comments - ouconnect on September 8, 2025: "📚 How do you read? 🧐 How much detail can you remember after reading in different formats? 🌍 For International Literacy Day, BBC Morning Live wel...

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Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social · 20d

And to his further appearance on BBC Radio 4 this evening!

OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 20d

Ed will also feature on tonight's episode of Front Row on BBC Radio 4 at 19:15: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social · 20d

Looking forward to listening to my colleague Ed’s award-nominated story this afternoon!

OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 20d

We are delighted to reveal that our colleague Ed Hogan has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. His story, Little Green Man, will be broadcast today at 15:30 on BBC Radio 4: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award, BBC National Short Story Award 2025, Little Green Man by Edward Hogan

Edward Hogan's tender story is in the running for the 20th BBC National Short Story Award.

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Professor Delia da Sousa Correa @ddasousa.bsky.social · Jun 5

The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music is now in paperback! So happy that this is now a very affordable book. A big shoutout to all the brilliant contributors!

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Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social · 28d

Welcome to Bluesky to my colleagues at @ouliterature.bsky.social !

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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 28d

Excited to see the preparations for our upcoming Conference:
‘Letters and Literature 1500-2025: histories, forms, communities’
Online only from the 5th to 7th of November 2025. More details soon!

‘Letters and Literature 1500-2025: histories, forms, communities’
Online only conference from the 5th to 7th of November 2025.

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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 28d

A fascinating article in @theconversation.com on Jane Austin heroines co-written by OU English and Creative Writing lecturer Dr Emma Sweeney. Check it out: theconversation.com/who-was-jane...

Who was Jane Austen’s best heroine? These experts think they know

We’re pitting her much-loved heroines against each other in a battle of wit, charm and sass

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Sep 8

VCs don’t run universities.

We do.

After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.

Ballot opens October.

Vote YES.

#WeAreTheUniversity

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Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social · Jul 14

Congratulations to all the winners and judges!

Electronic Literature Organization @eliterature.bsky.social · Jul 14

Full announcement of the 2025 ELO Awards

eliterature.org/2025/07/2025...

#elo25

2025 ELO Awards – Electronic Literature Organization

ELO is excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Electronic Literature Awards. These awards were coordinated by. Alinta Krauth and Jason Nelson. ELO gives 4 juried awards that come with a cash prize and the esteem of the international e-lit community.

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Electronic Literature Organization @eliterature.bsky.social · Jul 14

Full announcement of the 2025 ELO Awards

eliterature.org/2025/07/2025...

#elo25

2025 ELO Awards – Electronic Literature Organization

ELO is excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Electronic Literature Awards. These awards were coordinated by. Alinta Krauth and Jason Nelson. ELO gives 4 juried awards that come with a cash prize and the esteem of the international e-lit community.

eliterature.org

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · Jun 23

¡MAÑANA YA! Looking forward to chairing Linda Berube's and @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social's session on Digital Comics and user-centred approaches #HCID2025

Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · Jun 23

It's tomorrow! Are you ready? hcidopenday.co.uk #HCID2025

HCID Conference

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Jun 6

ANYONE who thinks ANY group should accept fewer human rights than everyone else is totally unfit to serve as an EHRC commissioner.

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The Open University Library @oulibrary.bsky.social · Jun 5

Open Access is changing research! Traditionally, institutions paid to read journals, excluding anyone who could not afford it. But now, anything published #OpenAccess can be freely read by anyone.

Much of the OU's #research is Open Access: read it on ORO 👉 oro.open.ac.uk

A man is sitting at a bus stop in a grassy landscape, reading from an open laptop balanced on his knee. The text says 'What is Open Access? Open Access (OA) research is free to read, available online to anyone, anywhere in the world. Photo credit David Clode on Unsplash.'

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · Jun 5

5 yr Postdoc at Edinburgh - how and why digital participation is transforming experience of warfare. Data Viz, NLP, text & data mining, principally related to Russian war against Ukraine.

Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social · May 30

JOB KLAXON - 5 year Research Fellowship for experienced postdoc working with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social on digital war @edinburghuni.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Research Fellow (WARSHARE)

We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral Research Fellow with demonstrated success in delivering complex research projects, and advanced knowledge in conceptual and theoretical work on the appli...

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · Apr 17

Be amazing if £1.5m could be invested in the UK comics scene, wouldn’t it? Someone’d need to build a fully-costed, well-reasoned argument to DCMS for such a thing first, I guess…

WELL, NOW. Come see what your friends at CCIC have done! www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · May 29

You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).

A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.

Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · May 29

Comics & AI: Critical Prompts, a one-day conference at City St George’s, 4 Sept 2025 ernestopriego.com/2025/05/15/e... -deadline for abstracts: 10 July. #ComicsStudies

Explore Comics & AI at City St George’s, 4 Sept 2025

Deadline 10 July 2025. Registration is open.

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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · May 29

The date quickly approaches! Our speakers for #HCID2025 so far are: hcidopenday.co.uk/speakers/

Speakers « HCID Conference

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · May 29

How to continue to do the right thing for your trans colleagues and customers, from the brilliant folks at Gendered Intelligence. ow.ly/3g6350VZZqa

Maximising trans inclusion after the Supreme Court Judgment

How to maximise your trans and non-binary inclusion in light of the For Women Scotland v Scottish Government Supreme Court Judgment

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The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship @comicsgrid.com · May 23

New article published today! The Cartoon Mode Provides a Stage: Understanding Comics through Performance doi.org/10.16995/cg.... by Maggie Gray [Bsky may censor the image- it's safe!] thanks to @openlibhums.bsky.social @janewayolh.bsky.social @siliconchips.bsky.social #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies

The Cartoon Mode Provides a Stage: Understanding Comics through Performance

This article examines the phenomenon of cartoon theatre, an approach to performance that emerged in the alternative theatre movement of the mid-1960s to early 1990s which drew on cartooning as a visua...

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · May 23

Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here: buff.ly/2x7yE5K

A map of the UK, overlaid with a heat map that displays 'cold spots' where there is a lack of provision of social sciences and humanities higher education courses.

A map of the UK overlaid with colour coded circles that show the concentration of student numbers across different regions.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · May 19

We're hiring a postdoc (4 years) for the AI STORIES project and are looking for someone who is interested in using computational and qualitative methods to explore generative AI and literature. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Literature and Generative AI at the Center for Digital Narrative (280778) | University of Bergen

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Literature and Generative AI at the Center for Digital Narrative (280778), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, June 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · May 16

The University of Glasgow & the British Library have announced a fully funded PhD Studentship on "Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection"

www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD StudentshipsearchSearch iconClose menu iconMenu icon bar 1Menu icon bar 2Menu icon bar 3

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Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · May 18

Historian of crime, death and women here.
The law these women are being persecuted is the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act.

It is 164 years old.

It was introduced when women had no pregnancy tests, no ultrasound scans.

peterkwells @peterkwells.com · May 18

"Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss"

"...police could bypass legal requirements for a court order to obtain medical records..."

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer

New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs

observer.co.uk

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Comics & AI: Critical Prompts @comicsandai.org · May 15

You are invited to a one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity. Abstracts (200 words) + bios (100 words) due: 10 July 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to rethink comics and AI with a multidisciplinary community! #CFP: comicsandai.org #ComicsStudies

Comics & AI: Critical Prompts

A multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity

comicsandai.org

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