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With the seemingly human responses of #AI chatbots, many of us cannot help but think that someone is truly there, thinking about our questions and quandaries. But AI has no body, no lived experiences, and doesn't lose any sleep over difficult decisions.

In our new blog post, consultant Marc Spranger elaborates on why this lack of emotion isn't always an advantage and why human creativity and agency need to be cultivated even more in our age of digital offloading. https://blog.degruyter.com/uncopyable-creativity-and-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/

I’m thrilled to share the news that ELEMENTAL WORLD CINEMA edited by Tiago de Luca and Matilda Mroz has been shortlisted for the Best Edited Collection category at the BAFTSS 2026: www.baftss.org/contenders-p... Get your copy at brill.com/display/titl... Series webpage: Brill.com/COCI

Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO

The publication of Marc Spranger's "Unkopierbar: Warum unsere Kreativität im KI-Zeitalter überlebt oder verschwindet" is unlike anything else we have done in cultural studies at @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, and in my opinion it couldn't be more timely. blog.degruyter.com/uncopyable-c...

Just some bangers from the COIN Manual that informed so many of our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. The level of restraint we expect from our soldiers and Marines, even in a COIN environment, is remarkable. Such professionalism should be expected of every American we trust to bear arms.

Call it AI if you somehow make an LLM discover actual new physics (and please not just something it scraped off of the internet.) This will probably not happen for a few more decades at best... we are probably far from AGI, and anyone telling you otherwise is trying to raise their share price.

My family are useful canaries of what news the public actually sees from astro, and only yesterday did my mum ask me about a study (one article of many linked below) who said they "trained an AI" to simulate the Milky Way. This was NOT AI as how the public sees "AI", and this is disingenuous.

Already working on your Christmas shopping? @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social's brand new book "Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy" - the first in our "Pop Culture in Context" series - is on sale now! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

🎄🎄 CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY 🎄🎄 My book **Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy** was surprise published yesterday! Here's the book description and Barnes & Noble link if you're interested in gifting it to history and film lovers! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...

Excited to announce the virtual launch of our new book, 'The New Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London' in one week! Join our editors next Tuesday at 10:00-11:30 a.m. ET; 9:00-10:30 a.m. CT; 4:5-30 p.m. CST! @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @andypearce.bsky.social

Can’t argue with this to be honest.

What a privilege to take part in this. Thank you to everyone who attended and my fellow panelists!

Excited to be with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time! Looking forward to a great panel and discussion later.

Last day at #GSA2025 in Arlington! For those following the adventure at home, I drafted a graphical representation of how many @degruyterbrill.bsky.social books we had on our table over time. See you next year!

*No books? No problem!* Our book boxes have mysteriously disappeared but *we* are totally here! #GSA2025 @Arlington, VA

Cover-reveal of the first book in the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series 'Pop Culture in Context' I co-edit with @lizwfab.bsky.social & @hermioneclone.bsky.social! Congrats to Vaughn @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & many thanks to @davideisler.bsky.social,our editorial director,for all your hard work!

The first volume in the new @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social series “Pop Culture in Context” has a cover!

Leading up to the “Back to the Beginning” show a few weeks ago, I spent a lot of time listening to Ozzy’s music. It was such a pleasure to remember the joy I got learning his songs as a teenage guitar player. I’m glad he got to perform one last time.

How I pack for basically every trip.

I’m thrilled to work with Liz, Emily, and Judith to bring this series to life. More announcements coming soon!

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

Damn I was counting on this

I have proofs 🥹 of a book that I wrote 🥹 Huge thanks to @davideisler.bsky.social and @degruyterbrill.bsky.social for making dreams come true! MY BOOK on media manipulation of the Christmas holiday for social conservative ends in the post-war period will be out in November (in time for Christmas!)🗃️

Humanities for Humans in Berlin today! This promises to be a fascinating and timely discussion.

After a successful run in New York, the "Humanities for Humans" discussion series comes to Berlin! The Walter de Gruyter Foundation and 1014 are delighted to host these eminent American and German scholars on May 22 to debate how intellectuals can respond to the authoritarian shift of recent years.

#OpenAccess 📖📖 | Dieses neue Buch widmet sich der Frage, wie über Kunstmusik auf #Finnisch geschrieben wird. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf Texten zu zentralen Persönlichkeiten der finnischen Musik. 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @unigreifswald.bsky.social

For @newyorker.com, I wrote about how "The Great Gatsby," which turns 100 this month, went from flop to high school classic, and whether the novel can survive another hundred years www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Just fucking getting newsed in the face every fucking day

Wir freuen uns auf die Lesung aus "Krieg der Narrative" von Christian F. Trippe! Der Band analysiert Kommunikation als Waffe im digitalen Krieg und ihre Auswirkungen. ⌚️ 12.4.25, 19:30 📍 Alte Kachelofenfabrik Neustrelitz, Eintritt frei! 📖 Zum Buch: www.degruyter.com/document/doi... @news.dw.com

Our cultural studies editor Myrto Aspioti is packing her bags🧳 for Lleida, Spain to attend the ENAS and NANAS Conference on #Ageing, Old Age, and Intergenerational Relationships next week! Say hi at [email protected] @enas-agestudies.bsky.social @nanetworkinaging.bsky.social

Getting a lot of new followers all of a sudden and I can’t tell if they are random bots or if I appeared in a starter pack somewhere. Somehow this felt easier when I kept a Livejournal account circa 2005.

Different day, same story!

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

#CallforPapers | Sociolinguistica: European Journal of #Sociolinguistics is open for submissions! Learn more and submit your paper 👉 www.degruyter.com/soci. @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social

Txt STOP to opt out of updates on war plans

We’re here at the venerable Liederkranz Club on New York’s Upper East Side, ready for the event to start!

Reminder: If you're in New York, join tonight's "Humanities for Humans" discussion on the humanities' role in our challenging political moment. Join Kathryn Abrams, Michael G. Hanchard and Dagmar Herzog as they tackle these questions with Irene Kacandes. Hosted by 1014. www.1014.nyc/events/human...

Reminder for anyone based in New York - come celebrate the publication of the edited collection “Humanities for Humans” tomorrow!

The scholar who told us all to stop bowling alone would have been bowling alone himself, if not for his wife.

Out today! "Humanities for Humans," edited by Irene Kacandes. Born out of a transatlantic discussion series in New York, the book collects contributions from some of North America's most prominent academics, offering nuance and depth on urgent topics such as racism, inequality and climate change.

We are delighted to be in Mainz for the annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, #DGfS). Stop by our book table and have a chat with the acquisitions editors Natalie Fecher and Hana Ikenaga about your current book idea! #DGfS2025

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, may we recommend a heady mix of books on African languages, early 90s hip hop videos, and Lil Nas X's "Call Me By Your Name." From "Queer Pop," chapter on Lil Nas entitled "Queer Curls, Gender Power, and Plato" (open access): www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Exciting updates from Culture and Dialogue (Brill): New editor-in-chief, expanded editorial board, and fresh Calls for Papers. Seeking submissions on comparative, intercultural, cross-cultural, meta-, and non-Western philosophy. Check out the updated website and submit your work! www.brill.com/cad

A fantastic contribution in an indispensable volume from your friends @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social!

Our team is now on Bluesky! We have a lot of great titles coming this year, so follow us to keep track!

Happy International Day of Women&Girls in Science! The importance of encouraging #womeninstem today cannot be overestimated. Neither can that of discovering overlooked female scientists of the past - such as physicist, philosopher & mathematician Émilie du Châtelet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnaW...