The @ivpress.bsky.social booth is set up at #ALAAC26! Come to booth 3936 to learn about our books, ordering information for libraries, and how to access digital review copies of our titles through NetGalley.

Reminder: Marta holds the all-time World Cup scoring record, men’s or women’s, with 17 goals 🐐⚽️

New: We've been tracking reports of ICE activity across Chicagoland for five weeks. In that time, rapid responders have seen an escalation as feds have abducted dozens, caused at least two car crashes, threatened community members with weapons and flouted state courthouse protections. Read more:

This week's feature review: SABBATH GOSPEL: A NEW NARRATIVE OF TIME, REST, AND THE WORK OF THE CHURCH by Amy Joy Erickson and G. P. Wagenfuhr englewoodreview.org/...

This week's new release round-up! https://twp.ai/4hsDN3

Kristin nails it, and one piece I want to highlight is: “if you’ve written a book for the sake of writing a book, or a book that does some good things but really isn’t differentiated from many other books doing similar good things that are already on the market, it’s going to be harder to promote.”

ReadUP on America at 250: explore this curated collection of books from our member presses & their expert authors, offering Revolutionary-era history & insights into the American experiment, 250 years along. https://bit.ly/3Pnwgjt

Learn more about The Pastor as Midwife here: www.ivpress.com/the-pastor-a... @ivpacademic.bsky.social

Somehow this graph also represents how my day of writing has gone

A hill I will die on as a publicist is that impressions are not the only thing that matter for a book’s success. Thoughtful reviews and literary criticism are necessary for a flourishing publishing industry, in addition to good books.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Writing a paper with AI is like snipping open a chrysalis. The butterfly will get out faster, but it probably won’t fly. It’s in the struggle that the strength is formed. It’s in the writing that the learning takes place.

Three signs that bookclub email you just got is probably a scam 🚩 1) Generic gmail (or similar) address 2) The book club, award, or organization doesn’t exist when you look it up 3) The email is overly long, vague, and full of excessive praise (often AI-written)

Includes Undoing Manifest Destiny, We the Fallen People, and Swing Low from @ivpacademic.bsky.social

IVP Academic finalizes contract for The Old Testament in Color, edited by Dominick Hernandez, Carmen Imes, Chloe Sun, and Esau McCaulley @ivpacademic.bsky.social @carmenjoyimes.bsky.social @esaumccaulley.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social www.ivpress.com/press-releas...

For every 10 boys identified with autism, only about 2 girls in similar situations were identified.

What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

Lung cancer continues to be so deadly because the screening criteria for lung cancer is tied to stigma and stereotypes of who gets lung cancer and so diagnoses often come far too late. Anyone with lungs can get lung cancer, not just smokers. It’s time to change the lung cancer screening guidelines

Facing the problem of getting a new episode of Daredevil for my birthday, but I’m 2.5 weeks away from the end of the semester and I have so much homework I have to get done

An Illinois commission created to document alleged abuses committed by federal immigration agents has determined a Border Patrol agent had no justification when he shot Marimar Martinez in Brighton Park last year. https://to.wttw.com/4t2p7CS

We're in the waiting days to see whether the FDA will ban shocking autistic and other disabled kids as punishment, which only one school, in Massachusetts, continues to do. The decision is slated to come before May. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

What if we just cleared Congress of all the abusers and sex pests this week what is stopping us who cares what party they are in

Watching the Cubs on Marquee and I forgot just how annoying the commercials are

The NASA program I did as a high school student back in 2009-2010 was focused on returning to the moon and going to Mars. It’s been amazing to see the calculations we practiced (based on Apollo mission trajectories) lived out by the Artemis crew. It seemed like science fiction when I was 16.

Silverio Villegas González was a father of two who lived in the Chicago area. ICE agents killed him. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and Franklin Park police did not launch probes into his slaying — though in Minneapolis, officials are investigating ICE killings. blockclubchi.co/4sXjMwR

Beautiful weather for @chicagostars.com vs Kansas City today. Grateful for my season ticket holder mittens and the free hot chocolate

I’ve been out of the game for a while and lost track of people in the move to this place, so if you’re an adjunct/VAP/postdoc in history, can you reply and let me know what you work on? I am an editor at @contingent-mag.bsky.social and we are often looking for book reviewers etc.

In all, groups affiliated with AIPAC spent more than $20 million to influence the outcome of four contests in Illinois’ 2nd, 7th, 8th and 9th Congressional districts, according to federal campaign finance reports. https://to.wttw.com/4bwVEdz

Boyd (l.), previously the Christian publisher’s academic editorial director, will step into the role of VP and associate publisher, while Cindy Bunch (r.), who held that position for 10 of her 37 years at InterVarsity, will become senior editor-at-large.

Election Day is tomorrow! Use our Cook County judicial election guide before you head to the polls. Don’t forget: You can bring your printed selections — or your phone — with you when you vote.

I startled my dog with how loudly I cheered

Misty Copeland is always stunning, and it was so great to see her back on stage after her recent hip replacement

Who could have ever predicted this? (All of us, immediately) futurism.com/artificial-i...

Here’s an A-Z glossary of the groups that are trying to influence your vote, with financial figures reported as of Thursday morning by the Federal Election Commission.

A warning from an academict: Users of Academia.edu or any online platform should read the terms and conditions carefully, particularly when it comes to AI. And users who care about accuracy, attribution and learning should delete their accounts. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

I think it's simultaneously this and the fact that many enthusiasts seem to have a narrow sense of what job tasks are/can look like. There's a lot of "you don't understand what AI can do" coming at some of us and a legitimate response is "you don't understand what I can do, and need to, in my job."

ICYMI: Bernard Lafeyette, who cofounded SNCC and helped lead the Nashville sit-in movement before his activism in Selma for voting rights, died at 85 last week. Here's my and @kirstenfiscus.bsky.social's story in @usatoday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Call for Papers: "Paul's Letter to the Romans and Christian Theology" Conference We (St Andrews and our friends at Princeton) are hosting a conference in Princeton on 23–25 October. You can propose a paper (until 31 March) and/or register at this link: ptsem.edu/event/pauls-...

Sundas “Sunny” Naqvi, a U.S. citizen from Skokie, spent nearly 30 hours in custody by federal immigration officials after she was detained at O’Hare Airport last week. She was later released out of a facility in Wisconsin. Naqvi's sister called the experience "terrifying."

Fox keeps showing the Luxembourg flag 🇱🇺 instead of the Netherlands flag 🇳🇱 when their players are at bat

Readers who love nonfiction will always read nonfiction. The real shift isn’t demand, it’s attention. Books are competing in a much louder ecosystem now, but long-form thinking still and always will matter!

A WBEZ survey of the 46 Democratic congressional candidates in four key races shows the few hopefuls getting AIPAC-linked support would not answer yes or no on putting strict conditions on U.S. military aid to Israel.

The Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, has been extended to 11:59PM ET on March 9. Don't miss this chance to engage the global community of biblical scholarship. buff.ly/4hRL28M

There are over 100 people under quarantine in Camp East Montana in El Paso due to a measles outbreak. This is due to the lack of sanitation there, experts say. This is my update to the story I wrote early today.

So cool that @authorsguild.org has a place where members can go to certify that they did not use AI in writing their books... go.authorsguild.org/account/huma...

How to use our Cook County judicial election guide in four simple steps: 1️⃣ Enter your address to find your judicial subcircuit 2️⃣ Review the candidates 3️⃣ Make your selections 4️⃣ Vote! 2026primary.injusticewatch.org