Dr Jennie 🐝 (she/her)
@jenruthbailey.bsky.social
#HEinFE library lass, writer, wanderer, benign menace to society. Refuse to outsource my intellect to gen AI.
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Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).
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Deadline: 1 May 2026
Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).
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www.tandfonline.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).
Please repost.
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).
Please repost.
It's too late... 🌿
January 4, 2026 at 3:19 PM
It's too late... 🌿
PhD ponderings from from ten years ago (how is it a decade ago?! How?!!!!!). This absolute lad standing on a mind map about maps. Insert meta paw here. #placewriting #maps
January 4, 2026 at 11:36 AM
PhD ponderings from from ten years ago (how is it a decade ago?! How?!!!!!). This absolute lad standing on a mind map about maps. Insert meta paw here. #placewriting #maps
Read this book to the baby last night and oh my word do I have feelings about it. app.thestorygraph.com/books/182986...
The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit by Christopher Wormell
ONCE IN A cave, lived a horrible ugly monster. Perhaps the most horrible and ugly monster in the ...
app.thestorygraph.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Read this book to the baby last night and oh my word do I have feelings about it. app.thestorygraph.com/books/182986...
I hope to make this year another year filled with books. And new adventures of sharing the love of reading with a little one! 2025 graphic created from my @thestorygraph.com account. Some books not included on here are the Oldham poetry books but it's nearly everything! #NationalYearOfReading2026
January 1, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I hope to make this year another year filled with books. And new adventures of sharing the love of reading with a little one! 2025 graphic created from my @thestorygraph.com account. Some books not included on here are the Oldham poetry books but it's nearly everything! #NationalYearOfReading2026
The annual thinning of the veil and this year's "I probably should have done GCSE art" offering: Derpkin the Pumpkin lit up by camping torch!
October 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The annual thinning of the veil and this year's "I probably should have done GCSE art" offering: Derpkin the Pumpkin lit up by camping torch!
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This week is #BannedBooksWeekUK. Join @indexoncensorship.org to celebrate the books that have been challenged, removed or silenced, and to stand with the people who write, sell and lend them. Celebrate the freedom to read.
Banned Books Week UK - Index on Censorship
Banned Books Week UK returns from 5–11 October 2025. It’s a week to celebrate the books that have been challenged, removed or silenced
www.indexoncensorship.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This week is #BannedBooksWeekUK. Join @indexoncensorship.org to celebrate the books that have been challenged, removed or silenced, and to stand with the people who write, sell and lend them. Celebrate the freedom to read.
#librarysky #librariansky #skybrarian (signal boost as am on leave so will live vicariously through you all 📚)
We are very pleased to announce that the #LILAC26 Call for Presentations is now open! Find out about the different types of presentation you can submit and how to submit on the #LILAC website: buff.ly/cICI5lk #infolit #digilit
LILAC
LILAC is an annual conference covering all aspects of information literacy and is a firm favourite in the calendar of information professionals. The conference is brimming with new ideas, innovative…
buff.ly
September 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#librarysky #librariansky #skybrarian (signal boost as am on leave so will live vicariously through you all 📚)
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Hello world! We're the History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London account. Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, Warburg Institute, and CILIP Library & Information History Group.
September 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Hello world! We're the History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London account. Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, Warburg Institute, and CILIP Library & Information History Group.
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'The arts are essential to a rounded education; they are social not solitary'.
Abandoning the arts in schools is a national scandal
A narrow, exclusively exam-focused education in the UK damages young minds
www.ft.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
'The arts are essential to a rounded education; they are social not solitary'.
Ugh, that guy... He'd be pissed off to know that his institution funded my so-called "hobbyist"* PhD. Deeply worrying rhetoric from UUK.
* No such thing, btw. This is inflammatory bobbins set to ignite the STEM Vs Humanities bros...
* No such thing, btw. This is inflammatory bobbins set to ignite the STEM Vs Humanities bros...
'"You can’t have hobbyist research that’s unfunded going on in institutions. We can’t afford it.”'
Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.
Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
September 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Ugh, that guy... He'd be pissed off to know that his institution funded my so-called "hobbyist"* PhD. Deeply worrying rhetoric from UUK.
* No such thing, btw. This is inflammatory bobbins set to ignite the STEM Vs Humanities bros...
* No such thing, btw. This is inflammatory bobbins set to ignite the STEM Vs Humanities bros...
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🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025.
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
September 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025.
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
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I was contacted by Emily, a Masters student from Oxford, who is conducting a research project examining how publishing is responding to the current growing interest in folklore.
PUBLISHERS - take note!
If you can help by completing her short survey, please visit
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
PUBLISHERS - take note!
If you can help by completing her short survey, please visit
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reader Preferences: Folklore Treasuries
Study Title: The Evolution of Folklore’s Presentation: Adapting to Contemporary Reader Demands.
You are being invited to take part in a research study. Before you decide whether to take part, it is i...
docs.google.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I was contacted by Emily, a Masters student from Oxford, who is conducting a research project examining how publishing is responding to the current growing interest in folklore.
PUBLISHERS - take note!
If you can help by completing her short survey, please visit
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
PUBLISHERS - take note!
If you can help by completing her short survey, please visit
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Dropping this into the Bluesky void. Had an upsetting & incredibly vivid dream last night about a crocodile eating an otter in the river. (River Calder not the Nile.) Just now I've learned that it's #worldotterday. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME, SUBCONSCIOUS?!!!! 🐊
May 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Dropping this into the Bluesky void. Had an upsetting & incredibly vivid dream last night about a crocodile eating an otter in the river. (River Calder not the Nile.) Just now I've learned that it's #worldotterday. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME, SUBCONSCIOUS?!!!! 🐊
And this sounds ace but alas I cannot go (it's show tech week). If you're going I shall live vicariously through you!
'Folklore and the Senses', our hybrid conference in collaboration with the Department of Folklore & Ethnology
@ucc.ie, is fast approaching and the deadline for booking to attend in person is 6 June 2025. View the programme & download the booking form here: folklore-society.com/event/folklo...
@ucc.ie, is fast approaching and the deadline for booking to attend in person is 6 June 2025. View the programme & download the booking form here: folklore-society.com/event/folklo...
Folklore and the Senses - The Folklore Society
Folklore and the Senses: Hybrid conference of The Folklore Society in collaboration with the Department of Folklore and Ethnology, University College Cork, Ireland The Folklore Society’s Annual Confer...
folklore-society.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
And this sounds ace but alas I cannot go (it's show tech week). If you're going I shall live vicariously through you!
Bee bum in the Rosa rugosa 'Roseraie de l'Haÿ'! Happy #worldbeeday (Am bit burned out after caning it / "girlbossing too close to the sun" last week, have a chunk of this week booked off work & feel like I'm crawling towards it - not unlike a bumblebee crawling into a blousy bloom for pollen...) 🐝🐝🐝
May 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Bee bum in the Rosa rugosa 'Roseraie de l'Haÿ'! Happy #worldbeeday (Am bit burned out after caning it / "girlbossing too close to the sun" last week, have a chunk of this week booked off work & feel like I'm crawling towards it - not unlike a bumblebee crawling into a blousy bloom for pollen...) 🐝🐝🐝
Yes, this!!
If we care about the future of our children, we need a library & a librarian in every school, to help every child find the books that will make them readers. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER - and they're more vital now than ever! #libraries #librarians #literacy
May 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Yes, this!!
(ad)venturing to the #lithicgathering @manmetuni.bsky.social Bringing a pocketful of Rochdale stones to the symposium party. Excited but nervous! #placewriting
May 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
(ad)venturing to the #lithicgathering @manmetuni.bsky.social Bringing a pocketful of Rochdale stones to the symposium party. Excited but nervous! #placewriting
If you're in HE 'tis the season where transitions and endings occur as we hurtle towards the end of summer term. Been in for just over an hour and we've had: a victory hug (a well deserved 2:1), a huge bag of books returned, and chocolates. #librarysky
May 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
If you're in HE 'tis the season where transitions and endings occur as we hurtle towards the end of summer term. Been in for just over an hour and we've had: a victory hug (a well deserved 2:1), a huge bag of books returned, and chocolates. #librarysky
There are a heap of "citation needed"s about these claims... #eurovision
May 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
There are a heap of "citation needed"s about these claims... #eurovision
I...um.. i have to admit that I really like that; it's sort of three or four music styles in one... #Croatia #Eurovision
May 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I...um.. i have to admit that I really like that; it's sort of three or four music styles in one... #Croatia #Eurovision
God, I love Ziferblat, it's like a 3 minute intro to some serious prog rock. His voice is gorgeous too. People who can vote send one from me #eurovision
May 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
God, I love Ziferblat, it's like a 3 minute intro to some serious prog rock. His voice is gorgeous too. People who can vote send one from me #eurovision
And with a shriek, the swifts are back in Todmorden! (Pictured: a bird that stops for long enough to get a picture of. Thank you, pigeon.)
May 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
And with a shriek, the swifts are back in Todmorden! (Pictured: a bird that stops for long enough to get a picture of. Thank you, pigeon.)
Rochdale's Seven Sisters from Rooley Moor Road / Catley Lane / The Cotton Famine Road. Loads of sky larks making their raspy high-pitched multi-noted presence known. #Rochdale
May 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Rochdale's Seven Sisters from Rooley Moor Road / Catley Lane / The Cotton Famine Road. Loads of sky larks making their raspy high-pitched multi-noted presence known. #Rochdale