Kath Burton | Radically Hopeful

Well worth a listen/read 👇🏼 (full disclosure: I am biased, but not a bot) #authenticity #communication #publicknowledge

Right place, right time: Luck, geography, and politics On 12th May 2020, Mass Observation collected c5,000 diaries from people across the UK. Many of these diaries mention luck and many of these luck stori…

New paper on luck, geography, and politics

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Brick wall bearing a National Park Service sign and a large mural showing key figures in the US women's rights movement.

#indivisible ICE out for good Seneca Falls. If you don't know, Seneca Falls is where a group of anti-slavery activists issued the first formal demand for women to have full citizenship rights in the United States. Good place for a protest against tyranny!

Need help with your procrastination problem? Read my latest article in Psyche! psyche.co/guides/how-t... #academicsky #procrastination #productivity

Woo hoo! Way to beat the January blues @beckyguest.bsky.social 😎

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Proposals for the 10th NYC Open Data Week & NYC School of Data in March 2026 are accepted through 12/15/25. This is an excellent example of public scholarship & civic data literacy. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunygcdi.bsky.social @cunygcps2.bsky.social @cunypitlab.bsky.social

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Radically Hopeful isn't just a company name - it's an approach to publishing that puts possibility at its heart, combining community engagement with practical publishing support.

If you have an idea you'd like to discuss, let's find a time to chat. 👇
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Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health is currently accepting submissions! They're looking for topics that discuss ongoing exploitation of Indigenous lands and knowledge impacts on Indigenous Peoples worldwide. Submissions close January 9th.

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#edusky #academia

Looking to after next week's holiday, we've a public talk on designing a digital archive of Caribbean speculative storytelling cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15359711; workshop for coders on LLMs to classify texts cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15249593; 3 textile makerspace workshops & an origami workshop:

There's a research guide for Anthropology! This guide provides you with access to anthropology and related resources. For example, the Encyclopedia of Human Relationships.
Learn more at:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology

#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary

There's a research guide for Africana Studies!

For example, umbrasearch.org brings together items from more than 1,000 U.S. archives, libraries, and museums of African American history and culture.

Learn more at:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/africana

#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary

A photograph of a wrinkled white poster with repeating red text, pasted onto a rough, light-colored wall. The text in the center is emphasized and reads: "BEING AN IMMIGRANT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A CRIMINAL". This phrase is repeated multiple times on the poster, with some lines in bold red fill and others in thin red outline. Red arrows are drawn pointing to the core message.

Immigrants make our communities stronger every day.

Now a more in-depth look at the @openbookcollective.bsky.social and the amazing things they are making possible, including the OBC's Collective Development Fund, which is providing support to build capacity for #DiamondOA publishing activities of #OAbooks

Purple aubretia plant growing in a stone wall

Small gardens can boost biodiversity just as much as large ones – and when little green spaces join together with others, it creates a network of wildlife-friendly areas that benefits many different species.
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/sma...

✨🙌🏼 Thank you to the OBC for this opportunity to share some of the #CPG progress to date 🌱@radishpress.bsky.social @commpubgarden.bsky.social

Happening now (and until 1pm EST on Tuesday 29 April). Columbia 25 Hour speakout 🔉
Live streamed here: www.youtube.com/live/6kXvnC6...
Strength and solidarity to all #CUIMCStandsUP for this bold and effective stance in support of #academicfreedom #humanities #values

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Thank you @beckyguest.bsky.social 🤩 My enormo-head is grateful for your enduring support 😉

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

The Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Government Censorship community is now nearly 4,300 strong ✊🏻✨😎 - help reach the 10,000 signatories target by end April 👇🏼

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New York City has its very own #zine shop called Quimby's! Find it in Brooklyn, across the street from the Metropolitan Avenue subway.

Visit! ✨
Buy zines! 📚
Support zinesters! ✂️

Please spread the word!

📍 Quimby's Bookstore NYC
536 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn
New York,
NY 11211
United States

📣 Incoming w/ a new post on CHC’s newly minted HumComm Talk - ease into the weekend with a little bit of Amplifying Humanities Communication Together 👇🏼

📜 CALLING all #publishing nerds and #community champions!

An opportunity to share joy and imagine a brighter tomorrow for an imperfect publishing system - how might we craft radically hopeful open publishing models in community?
JOIN the CPG! ▶️💚🌱
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Come on in, the water’s … warming up?!? 🪼🪼🪼

It's early days, but we're hard at work growing our reach, and setting up things like DOIs to make your work count in the ways you want it to. It all comes back to people and stories. You're our people, let's tell your stories.

⬇️ for more #misfit mayhem and all the fun(ghi) you need today #OTL ✨💚

We're back from our winter hiatus, and to start 2025, we just published Karen Copp's review of 'The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agenda, and Other Curious Readers' by Debbie Berne!
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Learn more about the reflective and deliberative approach to building strong partnerships in the #article & join us at the @jepub.bsky.social x @ach.bsky.social roundtable (31 January 2025). Follow our stories @hikmacollective.bsky.social and www.radicallyhopeful.org/publications [6/6]

An set of illustrations depicting the collective process involved in creating a shared growing space, using itemss from gardening and emphasising a cycle of Pause, Shape, Make

Writing about our direct experiences of the collaborative #Grantwriting process - and in homage to the quiet power of mycological growth cycles - our work has spored Pause | Shape | Make (with illustrations by Sophia van Hees (@bravesnaildesigns). [5/6]

We’ve also reflected on how crafting knowledge in community means radically rethinking what counts as scholarly communication, with the aim of moving towards a more hopeful process where what matters - the sharing, recycling and gifting of knowledge - counts just as much as the outputs. [4/6] #CPG