Cuts to and closures of university presses are 100% part of the separation (or as @mattseybold.bsky.social has called it "unbundling") of research and teaching in the humanities and the devaluation of both quite frankly--in this case at the expense of the career training admin claims to care about.

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

"Drawing on decades of ethnographic experience…and engaging with material semiotics, Blaser recasts the fundamental political question of how to live together well as a cosmopolitical one: how to become emplaced with others, in divergence" www.dukeupress.edu/for-emplacem...

"We remain committed to the open access movement and reject the commercial model of the big five publishers that has been strangling libraries with costly licenses and authors with unfair publication fees. But the current funding model for open access journals is untenable in the long term."

Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices. 🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961 #Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org

I had not heard that Edwin Wilmsen had passed away, his Land Filled with Flies was quite influential on my thinking, and during my graduate school days at UT Austin, Wilmsen, the man in black as he was nicknamed, would occasionally stop by the department www.anthropology-news.org/articles/edw...

How to create a great environment for an academic scam: Require grad students to publish papers in selected “indexed”journals to graduate. Like Iraq does. Surprise factor that someone took advantage of those grad students with fake publishing opportunities: exactly ZERO. 0️⃣

a most useful+dialectical philosopher, on shame +decency "seeing this kind of basic social norm enforcement as fundamentally at odds with living in a free country is deeply delusional...shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to political violence." www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

Thrilled to announce “The Humanities Laboratory: From Design to Archaeology”, which I co-edited with Jacek Małczyński and the late, dearly remembered Dorota Wolska. www.peterlang.com/document/161...

Hoping this problem solves itself today.

REFERENCE to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) by @oapenbooks.bsky.social Niels Stern at #OASPA2025 open book panel - using as a mechanism for structuring the panel discussion around Introductions, Governance, Impact & Quality and Sustainability openscholarlyinfrastructure.org

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

Of course, the first Mertonian norm is communism, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ #OASPA2025 I was reading an interesting paper adjacent to Merton recently, and can't remember it now, of course, but I *am* delighted by the abstract for this paper and DECAY as an acronym: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Interview with Naomi Morris, Editorial Officer at the Open Library of Humanities, on her creative-critical PhD, career path, and the challenges and rewards of working in open access publishing: www.openlibhums.org/news/855/ #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

Now that I've moved to Saint Martin, I'm finding that much local news and P2P commerce happens on Facebook. While I've kept my old FB account, I haven't used in it years. Can anyone point me to resources on how to use FB while withholding as much of my data as possible?

Now that I've moved to Saint Martin, I'm finding that much local news and P2P commerce happens on Facebook. While I've kept my old FB account, I haven't used in it years. Can anyone point me to resources on how to use FB while withholding as much of my data as possible?

💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Note to self: Increasingly thinking I should stop thinking of social media as a one-to-few, or (aspirationally) one-to-many channel. At this point, it would be better if it worked as a one-to-none, dissemination without expectation of germination, missives to an unresponsive universe, channel.

US comedians would be advised to retool their craft by learning about what Soviet called "stiob." Here's a serious-minded place to stop: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

CALL TO ACTION: How you can support @kcommons.bsky.social Because we support Knowledge Common's mission, have high regard for their services & benefit from their work, we encourage you to consider financially supporting Knowledge Commons: ➡️ openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/09/16/a...

Saint Martin notes: #1

Essential reading: “AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response” doi.org/10.21428/ae6... from @punctumbooks.bsky.social

Our Subscribe to Open program continues to thrive, thanks to the unwavering support of libraries, scholars & institutions worldwide. This has been a truly collaborative journey. Thanks @pkp.sfu.ca & John here for the support. Discover S2O on MUSE: bit.ly/MUSE_S2O #oa #S2O @aupresses.bsky.social

This is what happens when you let midwesterns on the beach.

👉“Commons-based publishing should be nurtured not because it costs less money but because it is embedded in scholarly communities.”

The first time I heard the phrase "publish a dataset" I thought, "well, that doesn't apply to us. Why would an anthropologist publish their data?" It's been a minute, and now I understand why *sometimes* it's actually a great thing to do. And we did it!

I have an op-ed out today in @resprofnews.bsky.social introducing my new book on the commercialisation of open access publishing.

Just learned that we’re flying to Saint Martin on the day that is the statistical peak of hurricane season.

And just like that, after 6 years, we’re leaving Wisconsin. On to the next adventure, this time in the Caribbean.

On the EASE Digest, we highlight the new book from @samuelmoore.org tackling the infrastructures and integrity of the open access research publishing landscape. ease.org.uk/2025/09/publ... #EASEdigest #OpenAccess

Recently posted on Gary Hall's Media Gifts blog: Commons vs Creative Commons III: Some Problems, Distinctions and Alternatives - Including CC's Response to AI garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025... III: CC and AI * CC is Not a Commons * Commons and CC: Some Distinctions * Alternatives to CC

The recipe book created by my 3rd grade class. Most of the kids’ recipes where quite clearly those of their anxious-to-impress parents: soufflés, egge dosis, quiche lorrainne, etc. My mother understood the assignment & had me write up (& illustrate) my own egg recipe for an “egg samwich.”

A favorite articles from library school was an ethnography of home kitchen organization schemes w/ a focus on the function of the miscellaneous drawer. The argument was that the misc. draw’s main function is to hold hard-to-categorize items over time, when people would be better able to place them.

Depressing look at the state of commercial publishing from an editor's perspective. No easy way out of this situation.

Goodbye Texas Youth Race Week Sportsmanship trophy from 1993. You affirmed my essential goodness every time I gazed at you.

Bye Foreword, you were a great boat even if we didn’t get to sail you as much as we would have liked. See you out there.

For those hope(less or ful) humanities students in the Madison area, I'll be scattering my not insubstantial collection of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze in the little free libraries of the Marquette neighborhood. Have brunch at Lazy Jane's or Batch then go search for theory.

Good zines from a good friend: @marc-fischer.bsky.social's Why self-publish under fascism? & Toward a self-sustaining publishing model, Emily Larned's Sewing books by hand, @justseeds.bsky.social Open Type Project, Elliott Giannini's How to support your non-binary family member, & more

you've read your last free article (the grim reaper)

The NIH recently announced it’s considering to limit how much of their grant money can be spent on APCs. We looked at evidence of how the three proposed APC caps might play out.

I wish more people were aware of this: new technologies that promise to reduce or eliminate the need for labor often just shift the burden to different kinds of work or to different laborers. They change the quality & arrangements, not the quantity, of required labor.

Have you ever heard of predatory journals? Our new study—published this week in Journalism Practice—suggests many science journalists haven't. When they were familiar with predatory journals, most said they weren't worried, confident they'd "be able to spot one if they saw one." Details in 🧵👇

In Memoriam: BRINKLEY MESSICK 1946 - 2025

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Publishing and Climate Justice, edited by Janneke Adema! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/38... [1/n]

You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)

There are many zombie statistics in metascience but for the first time I read a general claim that *73%* of social science findings cannot be replicated. Why are folks still so attached to the "replication crisis" narrative that they'll just confidently make up numbers to support it?

I’m going to miss all the summer festivals in Madison. Our neighborhood is ground zero for festival season: lovely shady Orton Park is hosting this weekend.

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice