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I teach women and non-binary scholars how to write books. Learn more at rightprose.co
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Don Moynihan
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When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
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NYC Public Library Action Network
5 days ago
While a candidate,
@mayor.nyc.gov
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Adam Bonica
3 months ago
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men wouldâve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
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Association of University Presses
5 months ago
All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions. Register here:
https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M
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Sadly, Sandy Brodello and Noelle Quinn were just fired after bringing their teams to the playoffs (and the Liberty winning the championship last year).
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Laura Sell
5 months ago
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Censorship Is the Authoritarianâs Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/debatable-ideas/2025/09/19/censorship-authoritarians-dream
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When I work with junior faculty writing books â especially Black women â one of their primary concerns is that the book they're writing will be banned. Even if its not an outright ban, they're worried the books won't be assigned in classes for the very reasons being discussed here today.
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Prof. Anthea Butler
6 months ago
When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....
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Liam McHugh-Russell
6 months ago
If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
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The weather in NYC is fantastic. If we have to listen to Adams and Cuomo bloviate for the next two months, hopefully we will at least have crisp autumn air.
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I spend most of my day helping academics writie their first book, which means I've seen a lot of different approaches and also developed some principles to make the process as pain-free as possible :). I share what I've found to be most useful in this podcast episode :
rightprose.co/podcast/star...
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Starting Your Academic Book? Do This First â Right Prose
https://rightprose.co/podcast/starting-your-academic-book-do-this-first/
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
6 months ago
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign âpermission slipsâ & take police escorts to leave? Thatâs not procedure. Thatâs some old Jim Crow playbook.
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I had the pleasure of being a beta reader for Lauraâs book. Itâs an indispensable resource for academics editing their own work or reviewing their peersâ work. Order today so she can increase her donation to the Trevor Project.
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All writing you do for your book (or whatever project you're working on) is real writing. Outlines, rough drafts, random bullet points, notes on cocktail napkins, ideas in your notes app. It's all real. There's no fake writing.
7 months ago
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Laura Portwood-Stacer
8 months ago
MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK is available on
@bookshop.org
for $1 less than on Amazon plus free shipping if you order by July 11. Once youâve ordered, fill out the form here to win cool stuff and have me send $ to
@trevorproject.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Preorder incentives for Make Your Manuscript Work
Thank you for preordering Make Your Manuscript Work by Laura Portwood-Stacer. Note: submitting a patron request to your public or institutional library counts as a preorder for the purposes of this f...
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Mike Lawlerâs district is NOT reliably Republican. It actually went for Kamala Harris in the presidential election. Call him!
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8 months ago
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Celeste Ng
8 months ago
If any of these are your reps, please take 5 min today and call. Scripts and numbers at 5calls.org. Kill this absolute travesty of a bill.
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Brad Lander
8 months ago
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
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John Garrison Marks
9 months ago
Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.
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Whatever happened to writing a nasty letter then burning it in a cathartic ritual?
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9 months ago
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Just recorded a podcast aboutâŠall of this⊠and what it means for folks writing books. I managed to stay calm because Iâm not trying to raise my blood pressure on top of the rest of this bullshit.
11 months ago
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Clara Jeffery
11 months ago
This Is the top story on
@motherjones.com
, as it should be on every news site. Millions of people turned out to oppose Tump/Musk/facism yesterday.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has doneâbut what they fear he will do next.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/hands-off-donald-trump-fear-new-york-city/
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Iâm really proud to be one of the coaches working with Princeton. If youâre in the humanities or social sciences, please consider applying.
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Leslie Mac
11 months ago
đ§” Itâs
#TransDayOfVisibility
. A day to celebrate our Trans Siblingsâand to name the danger they face daily, simply for existing. We canât let visibility be the end goal. Safety and liberation must be. Today is a great day to support Black-led trans organizations.
#TDOV2025
Here are a few:
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Prem Thakker ă
12 months ago
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confusedâthen said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
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BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-dhs-detains-palestinian
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I promise my podcast is better than Gavin Newsomâs:
rightprose.co/podcast/
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Sarah Posner
12 months ago
why is this not a gigantic fucking scandal that we're talking about 24/7. an unelected billionaire is fueling threats against federal judges and he just keeps on with his wanton destruction of the federal government
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If you're going to the Eastern Sociological Society Conference this week and would like to discuss your book project with me, DM me. I'm a developmental editor/ writing coach who helps scholars in the social sciences and humanities write books. I'd be happy to give you some (free) book advice.
12 months ago
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Just had to scream at everyone and by âeveryone,â I mean the article Iâm reading on my phone.
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If you're going to the Eastern Sociological Society Conference this week and would like to discuss your book project with me, DM me. I'm a developmental editor/ writing coach who helps scholars in the social sciences and humanities write books. I'd be happy to give you some (free) book advice.
12 months ago
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Iâm old enough to remember the body bags lined up in nursing homes.
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Unconscionable on so many levels.
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Maxwell Frost
12 months ago
Translation: We want to cut Medicaid.
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One of my many villain origin stories is going to be finding en-dashes where there should be em-dashes (to be fair, I find this mostly in my own writing. I'm the problem).
about 1 year ago
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Agreed! This is our job.
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about 1 year ago
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Everyone will need feedback on their writing at some point, but it can be hard to figure out what to ask for. Here are three categories to consider to organize your thoughts around what feedback would be most helpful:
rightprose.co/what-kind-of...
about 1 year ago
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Gibsonia
about 1 year ago
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a video posted on social media, âI will never, under any circumstances, turn this doctor over to the state of Louisiana under any extradition requests,â signaling a potential legal battle between the states. This is how itâs done. Do not comply.
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about 1 year ago
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Totally forgot that the waffles I bought are blueberry waffles, and this is a delightful way to start my morning.
about 1 year ago
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If youâre working on your book and suddenly get a revise and resubmit or a coauthor sends back a draft, how can you maintain progress on your book? This podcast episode can help you figure it out:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
about 1 year ago
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If you're writing a book proposal, you should work with Laura. The proof is in the publications!
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about 1 year ago
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I talk to a lot of academics who are hesitant to commit to an argument for their book and want to be sure before they start writing. The only way you'll gain certainty is by writing those arguments down and assessing them.
about 1 year ago
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Mark Simpson-Vos
about 1 year ago
Public service announcement: if you're a historian attending
#AHA25
in New York next month and you hope to meet with an editor attending on behalf of a publishing house, don't wait beyond this week to reach out. Particularly for university press editors, this is a super busy time. Plan ahead!
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After much consideration (đ), I'm going back to a paper planner. This digital planner life isn't working out for me.
about 1 year ago
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Amaka Okechukwu
over 1 year ago
Hey folks, if you know of any Black, Indigenous, or Latinx Sociology postdocs or those finishing Sociology phds Spring/Summer 2025, dm me or email me. For a symposium of early career scholars of color.
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There are so many books I'm going to buy and pre-order. I love when the university presses start releasing their catalogues.
over 1 year ago
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You don't have to write your book in order. Stop laboring over that introduction you'll have to revise once the rest of the book is complete.
over 1 year ago
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