Clare Hooper

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.

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🌍

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Furious because it’s not treat time yet.

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

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

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. 🫣

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

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.

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!

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

it is a beautiful cover....

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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Librarians, by subscribing to LUP Open Planning journals, you:
✔ Support equitable #OpenAccess
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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/.

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

*growls*

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

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...

Liverpool University Press Launches LUP Open Languages: A New Subscribe to Open Initiative Liverpool University Press (LUP) is pleased to announce the launch of LUP Open Languages, a new Subscribe to Open (S2O) initiative designed to make high-quality research in languages, literatures a…

🎉 We’re proud to have launched LUP Open Languages
A #SubscribetoOpen initiative aiming to make research in languages, literatures & cultures #OpenAccess. Thanks to partners & editors for their support.
Find out more ⬇️
#S2O @frenchstudies.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social

✨ Join us for ORCID’s Ask Me Anything: University Press Session on 30th of September!

LUP's Clare Hooper (Director of Journals Publishing) and Natasha Bikkul (Journals Marketing Manager) will be on hand to answer your questions.

📌 Full details below ⬇

Our CEO Anthony Cond, the Chair of LUP's Board of Directors Professor Georgina Endfield FBA, and the Chair of LUP's Editorial Advisory Board Professor Claire Taylor have all been appointed to #REF2029 panels.
Find out more about @ref2029.bsky.social: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...

The finest response I've seen so far.

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Heading to UK-Ireland PRC 2025?
📢 Meet Town Planning Review co-editor John Sturzaker. TPR is a leading journal on planning, regeneration, housing & more. Discuss your work & find out how to make a submission to the journal.
🗓️ Wed 10 Sept 4-5pm | Ulster University
#UKIPRC2025 #UrbanPlanning

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We are surprised & disappointed to learn of plans to close @bucknellupress.bsky.social in 2026. AUPresses has offered our community’s assistance & insights to the university as planning for the press proceeds. https://bit.ly/41yszu5

Learn more abt the press's work: https://bit.ly/4m1elcH #ReadUP

First books published under new partnership with Liverpool University Press – with new 'delayed Open Access' Eight new British Academy books are the first to be published with Liverpool University Press as part of a new partnership this year.

The first eight books in our new partnership with ‪@livunipress.bsky.social have just been published – and with them, we are proud to offer new ‘delayed Open Access’. Find out more: https://bit.ly/46opK0r

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small black kitten on lap

aw he's lovely! We have a black kitten (well he's 2 but the youngest so technically a kitten).
He is of the same temperament. Our other cats tolerate him as long as he behaves himself! We named him Gustav (after Mahler)

Jennifer Dawson’s laughter in the dark still rings true today An elegant 60s novel about mental health, The Ha-Ha is based on Dawson’s own experiences of life in a psychiatric hospital

My current read is The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson.

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