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Claire Squires
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Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
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Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social · Aug 27
Pleased finally to have this essay out on when I got cancelled from a conference in Germany for wanting to talk about the genocide in Gaza.

‘Rethink the Title of Your Talk, and Possibly its Substance’: On Speaking (out) About Palestine, Genocide, and Genre www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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‘Rethink the Title of Your Talk, and Possibly its Substance’: On Speaking (out) About Palestine, Genocide, and Genre
Framed by a meditation on border-crossing of people and of texts, this essay reflects on the genre of autofiction in relation to the geopolitical contexts of Palestine and global literary marketpla...
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regretteruane.bsky.social
An exquisite autumnal Puffin Post cover by Jill McDonald.
Always love the way her illustrations feel like encountering an animation paused mid-frame & how the delightful madcap motion & sublime screwball astmosphere is always pleasingly spiced with the surreal, edged with something a little darker
The colourful cartoon cover of a 1976 puffin post magazine featuring cosily woolen wearing puffins gambolling on green grass under giant falling autumn leaves in pink orange gold and brown with the title Puffin Post in red letters outlined in black in the top right corner with a pale blue grey sky as the background
October 7, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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⭐ Internship opportunities! Explore 40 NEW paid internships and artist residencies for PhD researchers commencing in 2027.

Applicants must be a 2nd or 3rd year PhD student in the arts & humanities, registered at a Scottish HEI.

Read more: www.sgsah.ac.uk/current/fund...
September 30, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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memoryplace.bsky.social
A reminder that applications are open for our in person SGSAH-funded training programme, Methodologies for Place and Memory Loss!
Open to PGR students at Scottish institutions.
📅 11 November | University of Stirling
⏰ Deadline: 11 October
Full details: tockify.com/sgsah/detail...
September 26, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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sarahpyke.bsky.social
Extremely excited to share the CFP for the ✨fifth✨ annual #QueerBibliography conference!

bit.ly/QB2027CfP

When? 2-4 September 2027
Where? Manchester, UK & online
Theme: TAKING STOCK
Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2027
Decisions: by 12 March 2027

Submit here: forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWm...
Queer Bibliography Taking Stock Manchester, UK and online 2-4 September 2027 Call for Proposals Since the inaugural 2023 conference, queer bibliography has grown from an interesting concept to a burgeoning field. Our 2027 theme, Taking Stock, marks the fifth annual conference and is a chance to pause and reflect on genealogies of the field, the present state of queer bibliographical enquiry, and our senses of the future. How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations? Where do we find ourselves and our work? Stock also has meaning in bibliography. While “stock” originally referred to a tree trunk or plant stem, and figuratively to the source of a line of descent or even a human torso, it later began to connote an aggregate of goods—in the context of bookmaking, one might own a stock of paper or pasteboard. Towards the mid-nineteenth century, “paper stock” began to connote the raw material of paper itself. “Stock” might refer to the inventories of booksellers, the process of beginning and curating an institutional or personal collection, and the supply and material characteristics of paper. From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities? What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects? We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or reflect on bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies. This three-day hybrid conference will be hosted at the John Rylands Library, part of the University of Manchester, and online on 2–4 September 2027. The conference will feature two days of panels, conversation, and discussion on 2 and 3 September and will be followed by an optional workshop on 4 September. Conference programming may also include evening receptions, tours of Manchester libraries (including Chetham’s Library, the oldest public library in England), and collection viewings at the Rylands. The conference welcomes participants from a diverse range of fields and career stages, including: book arts practitioners, activists, postgraduates, early career researchers, independent scholars, librarians, archivists, and booksellers, both in person and via video conference. As in past years, the goal of the broadly articulated theme of “taking stock” is to bring people in and to shape conversation, not to exclude or limit. All submissions that engage with the intertwined relationship between queerness and bibliography are encouraged. Participants will be invited to submit a 2000-word pre-circulated paper, before presenting in panels of 10-minute papers. We also welcome alternative contributions, such as workshops, roundtables, or self-organised seminars and creative presentations, with a pre-circulated submission that provides a grounding for the conference contribution. Contributors should submit an abstract of 200–300 words, along with a short bio, by 29 January 2027: https:/ /forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWmtfjZ8 Prospective speakers will be informed of the outcome by 12th March. Pre-circulated papers will be collected and shared in mid-July. Any questions should be directed to: queerbibliography@gmail.com http://queerbibliography.org
October 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
I am proud of what Josh and I accomplished in this essay, which took deep reporting and data gathering, and which ultimately runs to a hearty 7000+ words to explain what's really going on with Jewish American and Israeli books in US publishing as PEN America and the ADL run cover for genocide
jewishcurrents.bsky.social Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 6d
When Josh Lambert and Dan Sinykin tracked publishing deals since 2000, they found—rather than a decline in Jewish literature—that 2025 was the third-best year of the 21st century for book deals that publicly signaled Jewish or Israeli content. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
October 1, 2026 at 8:12 PM
clairesquires.bsky.social
Lake Ontario
A view of downtown Toronto, with city beach and lake in front
October 2, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
jewishcurrents.org
October 1, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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For International Translation Day, here's a dataset that me and Michaela Králová have put together on the publication of translated literature in Ireland over the past decade or so:

zenodo.org/records/2304...
Translated Literature Published in Ireland, 2016-2025
The Dataset This dataset collects titles of translated literature published by Irish publishers between the year 2016 and 2025. It includes any print edition of a literary title published by a publish...
zenodo.org
September 30, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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ucu.org.uk
Colleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts.

Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.
September 29, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
my book is out now 🫶 💗

$18 with coupon code E26CNTNT

enjoy!!!??? :)
Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era
dukeupress.edu
September 28, 2026 at 1:06 PM
clairesquires.bsky.social
Cat. Tunnel. Shark.
A long-haired tabby cat stares meaningfully down a play tunnel at a soft toy shark.
September 29, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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ellenforget.bsky.social
Abstracts are due this week! October 1. We take a broad view of "publishing" and are very interested in non-traditional forms of publishing and accessibility. Please get in touch if you have questions or want to float an idea before submitting an abstract.
jepub.bsky.social Journal of Electronic Publishing @jepub.bsky.social · Jun 1
New Call for Papers alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on "Accessibility in Digital Publishing" edited by Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social and
John W Maxwell. CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/253/ Abstracts due October 1 2026.
Making sure you're not a bot!
journals.publishing.umich.edu
September 28, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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asls.org.uk
2026 Jimmy Reid Memorial Lecture: Jackie Kay
20 Oct, Glasgow. £10

Poet & author Jackie Kay will deliver the Jimmy Reid Foundation’s annual lecture, & will talk about responding creatively to the challenges we face and the impact responding creatively can make
reidfoundation.scot/2026/09/2026...
reidfoundation.scot
September 28, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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This is a story about finding treasure among trash, about being open to magic and the joy of the dump-it site. Wild story ! So proud to play a part.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'More will turn up' - Work by Scottish artists unearthed for homecoming exhibition
Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde were among the most celebrated figures in British art.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 28, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
September 27, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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lucyjanes.bsky.social
It’s World Rivers Day! When I started researching historic swimming in Glasgow's urban waters, UK rivers were mostly in the news due to pollution. It's still a big issue but community campaigns and interventions by people who care deeply for their local river have sprung up #WorldRiversDay 1/...
September 27, 2026 at 8:32 PM
clairesquires.bsky.social
One for the book sniffers - potato soaps from Prince Edward Island themed for characters from Anne of Green Gables (Diana, Anne, Marilla & Matthew), found in Halifax airport
A set of soaps on a shelf, each with a character’s name (Diana, Anne, Marilla and Matthew) from Island Potato Soap
September 23, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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La Chaire d'excellence Histoire de l'édition, circulations transnationales, acteurs et archivistes (Hectaar), sous ma direction, est lancée à l'université de Caen, en collaboration avec l'Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine : www.unicaen.fr/la-chaire-du...
La chaire du livre et de l'édition contemporaine est lancée · Université de Caen Normandie
Un pôle de recherche unique en France pour l’histoire et la mémoire du livre et de l’édition contemporaine.
www.unicaen.fr
September 22, 2026 at 2:27 PM
clairesquires.bsky.social
Current state
A yoga mat in a wooden-floored studio, with floor to ceiling windows facing the ocean and blue sky
September 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
seeing all these artists sacrifice money for what they believe in is really quite moving.
September 15, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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romewithadot.com
If Macklemore ends up being the spearhead that changes the celebrity optics around the Palestinian crisis, my brain is going to break.
unamullally.bsky.social Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 22d
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
September 15, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:
unamullally.bsky.social Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 22d
Lukas Graham, another support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour, also now withdrawing from the tour.
September 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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ucu.org.uk
“You have to be twice as good to get half as far. Everybody in the Black community knows this.”

Powerful words from our member Andrew as he spoke at TUC Congress on the death of our member, colleague and friend Professor Jason Arday.

Congress then joined us in a minute’s silence in Jason’s memory.
September 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
clairesquires.bsky.social
📢 PSA for any non-US tax payer with an Anthropic claim settlement: this is how to declare non-residency (email is from the claim settlement team).

Direct link to the form you need to complete/upload is here www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/...

Please do share!
Email extract detailing in this situation you should fill in the form W-8BEN so non-resident status can be confirmed. You the. Upload this to the update information portal with your claim number.
September 15, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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This will be amazing - I love Jackie Kay's writing and she is also a phenomenally good and funny speaker. She's talking about responding creatively to the challenges we face, a very important topic that she'll have tremendous insight on
reidfoundation.bsky.social Jimmy Reid Foundation @reidfoundation.bsky.social · 24d
Tickets are now available for the 2026 Jimmy Reid Memorial Lecture, at Glasgow City Chambers on Tuesday 20 October 2026 starting at 7pm. Tickets can be purchased here:
www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...
September 15, 2026 at 8:12 AM