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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 4h

Horrible. Solidarity. We went through this last year and it was awful but I was heartened by the care of our staff.

Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 1d

Diana Wynne Jones wrote a great piece about her writing of Fire and Hemlock which can be found in the edited collection of her writings Reflections. She relates it to her ideas about heroism and discusses Its structural qualities

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 1d

I hope that this special issue will do justice to Aidan's enormous contribution to the field. He was a true innovator. If you are interested in doing work on his archive do feel free to get in touch - I am happy to advise on what is there and how to access it!

Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to see submissions for this special issue of Children's Literature in Education, which I am editing with Hazel Sheeky-Bird! Our work on the Aidan and Nancy Chambers archive (held at Seven Stories in the UK) highlighted how important they both were to children's lit #kidlit #aidanchambers

International Research Society for Children’s Literature @irscl.bsky.social · 11d

#CFP: Aidan Chambers Memorial Issue
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: [email protected]
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 5d

Luckily for me I’m not a nervous flyer but that flight really tested my nerves. fairly sure some of the other passengers will never fly again!

Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 5d

In retrospect I was mad to board but naively I assumed that a flight wouldn’t run unless it was safe for it to do so.

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 5d

I’ll never fly Ryanair again. The experience of making multiple attempts to land while people vomited, passed out and called for help from terrified few who couldn’t safely leave their seats demonstrated how little they care about crew or passenger safety.

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 5d

The description of the attempts to land here are almost exactly what happened on my Ryanair flight in Storm Éowyn. Ryanair were the only airline who ran flights from Dublin at that time. I wonder how much fuel was left when my Newcastle flight landed in Stansted? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left, flight log suggests

Investigation under way after flight during Storm Amy made three landing attempts in Scotland before flying to Manchester

www.theguardian.com

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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · 7d

We're opening our 2025-26 Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing x Outside in World webinar series Explorations in Translation for Children on Thurs Oct 23rd, @ 5pm GMT
Discussing the project: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101
Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

Select tickets – CBCP x OIW webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 – Teams

CBCP x OIW webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 – Teams, Thu 23 Oct 2025 - 'Explorations in Translation for Children' is a webinar series co-organised by The Centre for Book Cult...

www.tickettailor.com

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 8d

Good.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 8d

Yes! They are so reluctant to do so and it makes so much difference.

Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 8d

You feel invested in their work / problem and derive pleasure from solving the query. This must go two ways. I'd love to run an experiment of just taking as much as possible back to in person interactions and seeing how it affected staff and student wellbeing.

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 8d

Thinking a lot today about how the digital works to increase stress and alienation in HE. So often we receive emails from e.g. a student we've never met and it just feels like another item on the to do list. If you actually see someone in person the same query takes on a social quality

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 9d

Yes. Just an 'ordinary girl', you might meet her anywhere!

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 9d

I wonder if for that period it just felt like a very likely ‘neutral’ name. I’ve noticed ‘Will’ is an extremely common children‘s book name too and surmise it’s for same reason

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 9d

Sorry for your loss.

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Make Space for Girls @makespaceforgirls.bsky.social · 11d

Look around parks - who is missing?

Teenage girls are systemically designed out of parks and public spaces. We campaign to design them in.

It’s just 5 days to go until the Big Give campaign starts.
Donate to Make Space for Girls between 8-15 October and every donation is doubled.

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International Research Society for Children’s Literature @irscl.bsky.social · 11d

#CFP: Aidan Chambers Memorial Issue
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: [email protected]
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 13d

Also, it's one of the few movies I've seen recently that's made me keep thinking about it two days later.

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 13d

You never feel the same level of threat when with Leonardo di Caprio's character as when you're with his daughter. Because that's the difference between being a white man and being a mixed race girl. I still feel a bit mixed about how it handled race and gender but this aspect really worked for me.

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 13d

Saw One Battle After Another the other night and I think one of the things I enjoyed is that the combination of stoner comedy and big concept movie is actually quite intentional. The white men in this movie are literally in a different genre to everyone else.

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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 14d

The settlement website in the Bartz v Anthropic class action is now live: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com.

It includes comprehensive information about the case and settlement, including a searchable tool to see if your books are included in the settlement and a claim form.

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 14d

Just to be clear this means that people who flee from incredibly dangerous situations, taking the riskiest routes out of desperatoon, will now face permanent separation from their families. Revolting. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities say is ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 15d

Have you got interesting things to say about Aidan Chambers? Submit a proposal for our special issue of CLE! This one is a labour of love for me as one of the many people in the field who benefited from his mentorship

Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 16d

CFP: Special issue of Children's Literature in Education in memory of Aidan Chambers: link.springer.com/collections/... Deadline for abstracts 3rd December 2025.
Proposals welcome on any aspect of Aidan's career, including his writing, editorial work, contributions to education, and reader response

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