Clare Hooper

UP Redux Programme - ALPSP UP Redux Programme- Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers - International trade body which supports and represents not-for-profit organizations and institutions that publish…

This time next week, the first day of @alpsp.bsky.social UP Redux will have started! We're excited to have university press colleagues join us here in Liverpool.
Check out the full programme to plan your time (and let us know if you need any local recommendations!):

I found the webinars really helpful in explaining what you are trying to do 🌞

interesting, thank you for sharing.

especially in response to some of the more thorny questions we discussed - for example, bias, creativity and scholarly deskilling....

Guest Post - The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post offers a review of a panel of publishers and editors discussing the pros and cons of using Generative AI, along with ethical and policy implications.

Following on from our @aupresses.bsky.social AI 'Hang out' last week - this makes interesting reading for members (and non members!)

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/09/g...

If you're interested in any of @countermetrics.bsky.social open consultations, on reporting to multiple identities, pathways to compliance, and of course AI metrics, please check out the videos here:
www.countermetrics.org/consultation...

Advert for conference session at REDUX 2026 - How Does AI COUNT? Normalised Usage Metrics in an Artificial World. Weds 18 March.

Just a reminder that I am chairing a session at REDUX conference next week with @tashamc.bsky.social and Monica Westin. We are talking AI Usage Metrics and what @countermetrics.bsky.social are doing to help publishers and librarians make them count!
@alpsp.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

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📢 Reminder: Call for Expressions of Interest – 2027 Special Issue
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Proposals welcome on literature, linguistics, culture, film & visual arts within Hispanic Studies.

🗓 Submit by 30 March 2026

More info: bit.ly/BHS-2027-SI-Call
@ilcs.bsky.social
#HispanicStudies

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Most read in French Studies this week:
Hauntology, Spectres and Phantoms by Colin Davis.

Read it in the French Studies online archive: bit.ly/FS-Hauntology
@frenchstudies.bsky.social
#FrenchStudies #SubscribetoOpen

With less than two weeks to go until #UPREDUX2026, have you registered your place?

Join us on the 17-18 March at The Spine in Liverpool, UK, for two days of practical insights, candid conversations, and collaborative strategies for navigating the evolving terrain of publishing.

👉 buff.ly/gKQnmu1

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📖 Most read in the latest issue of the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy

Spatial Competition and Pass-through of Fuel Taxes: Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment in Germany, by Frederik von Waldow and Heike Link.

Read it online at: bit.ly/JTEP-Fuel-Taxes
#TransportPolicy #PublicPolicy

If you are attending the Redux in March, please come along to a session I am chairing - How Does AI COUNT? Normalised Usage Metrics in an Artificial World.
www.alpsp.org/events/up-re...
@countermetrics.bsky.social @tashamc.bsky.social @alpsp.bsky.social

Only for AUPresses members - sorry.

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Today at CAA 2026: Sculpture Journal editors Erin C. Giffin (Hamilton College) and Teresa Kittler (University of York) present “Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body.”
🕚 11:00–12:30
📍 Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor, Private Dining Room 2 (Hybrid)
#CAA2026 #CAA #ArtHistory

The @aupresses.bsky.social Journals Committee (including me) have organised a Hangout - Let's Talk About…The Impact of AI on University Presses, Thurs 3/5 at 12p EST.

Please do some along if you are a member!

2026 Annual Conference The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

We are delighted to announce that registration for our Annual Conference is now open.🔔

The conference will take place at the University of Leicester, 29 June - 1 July 2026.

See link below to register and check out the provisional programme:

www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...

AUPresses Hangout

Attention journals-publishing members: Make plans to attend this AUPresses Hangout: Let's Talk About…The Impact of AI on University Presses, Thurs 3/5 at 12p EST. Our Journals Committee is hosting this open discussion and exchange of ideas & resources. Register here: https://bit.ly/4rY0TcP.

This year, for Lent, I’m giving up.

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I'm attending #UPREDUX2026 in Liverpool on 17th - 18th March! Hope to see you there.
@alpsp.bsky.social

From “AI helps me write” to “AI runs the workflow”: Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens - The Scholarly Kitchen A review of eight technology industry trend reports that offer a similar conclusion: AI is no longer a feature. It’s becoming infrastructure — and the unit of value is moving from “a better tool” to “...

"In our industries, trust is the foundation and the product"

Interesting piece on SK today, looking at four tech-trend themes from finance, commerce, and marketing that are likely to impact scholarly publishing and education....

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/17/f...

Great news!

National Indexing Day 2026 The Society of Indexers is celebrating National Indexing Day for the tenth successive year on Tuesday 31 March 2026. This year we will be celebrating with a hal

Our annual celebration of indexes and indexing, National Indexing Day, takes place on Tues 31 March 2026. We’ll be celebrating online (follow #IndexDay) and running half-day workshops all about indexing for publishing professionals in London. Find out more and book your place at: buff.ly/y0rLvyT

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New Special Issue of Bulletin of Hispanic Studies now out. Exploring contemporary Spanish art fictions and the artist novel in the context of creative capitalism, late liberalism & precariousness, with work on Vila-Matas, Morales, Kopf, Chirbes & more.
🔗 bit.ly/BHS-ArtFictions #HispanicStudies

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I accept you with minor revisions.

Promotional banner for a Sculpture Journal panel at the College Art Association Annual Conference 2026. Text reads “Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body,” Friday, February 20, 2026, 11:00 AM–12:30 PM. Sculpture Journal logo at top left, CAA logo at top right, and Liverpool University Press logo at bottom right, over a monochrome abstract sculptural background.

A reminder for those attending CAA 2026: Sculpture Journal editors Erin C. Giffin (Hamilton College) and Teresa Kittler (University of York) will present the panel “Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body.”
Full details at: bit.ly/SJ-CAA-2026
#CAA2026 #CAA

We’re proud to share that our Journals & Online Manager, @emmalburridge.bsky.social, is part of the @aupresses.bsky.social Faculty Outreach Committee, who’ve created the excellent AskUP guide for authors.
➡️Take a look below or follow the link: bit.ly/LUP-AskUP

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.

Bad Bunny had read and admired Jorell Meléndez-Badillo's book "Puerto Rico: A National History", which is published by Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social.

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The new issue of Labour History Review is out now, online and in print
@livunipress.bsky.social
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Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda review – millennial vampire tale with bite This debut novel is a surefooted, art-filled and wholly 21st-century take on bloodsucking

Started this last night - really fun so far.

www.theguardian.com/books/2022/m...

Promotional banner for a Sculpture Journal panel at the College Art Association Annual Conference 2026. Text reads “Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body,” Friday, February 20, 2026, 11:00 AM–12:30 PM. Sculpture Journal logo at top left, CAA logo at top right, and Liverpool University Press logo at bottom right, over a monochrome abstract sculptural background.

Attending CAA 2026? Join Sculpture Journal editors Erin C. Giffin (Hamilton College) and Teresa Kittler (University of York) for the panel “Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body.”
Find out more at: bit.ly/SJ-CAA-2026
#CAA #CAA2026 #ArtHistory #Sculpture