Every librarian dreams of being published, and I'm so grateful to @ecwpress.bsky.social for supporting my research and book called 'Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders.' Pre-ordering is now available. tinyurl.com/Girlgangs #coverreveal #bookssky #newbook

Door #1: Lose at least $400 million in federal grants. Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy. Columbia picks Door #2. dailynous.com/2025/07/24/c...

Hey look! Tomorrow night (7 pm, Thursday the 24th) I'm talking with Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer about his new book about experts, data, and gay marriage at @redemmas.org Come early to get a good seat, maybe a falafel salad and a mazagran while you're at it!

Attn nerds: I will be giving these books away FOR FREE tomorrow, 8:30-11. Note that the book exhibit is moving to the FIRST FLOOR of the Omni, so find us there. First come first served, one book per person, and again, FREE. #SHEAR2025

“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument… the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life” — C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) at Daily Nous on the creative craft of writing philosophy.

Congratulations to @hopkinspress.bsky.social author @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social who has won the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize! You can buy the book anywhere in Europe from your local bookstore or @blackwells.bsky.social. royalhistsoc.org/prizes/royal...

Countdown to August 19, the official release date for my book, Birth Politics, with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. Happy to schedule zoom and in-person talks. If you adopt the book as a required text in your classroom, I definitely owe you a classroom visit. Please let me know.

Today, I get to make my first major announcement as Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. I am SO EXCITED that we are, in a small way, able to step in right at the moment when the NEA has left our country’s arts and culture sector high and dry. www.deepvellum.org/news/aghi-dv...

all tenure-track assistant professors in the humanities:

I wrote: “Jefferson dreamed of forging a grand, vibrant Athens on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, in its third century, the United States seems a lot more like Sparta.” newrepublic.com/article/1973...

Friends! We would be so excited to see you for our DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH. I will be in the UK in spirit struggling through the Midwestern heat at 9 am (CDT), but invigorated by the brilliant @elsadevienne.bsky.social and @rebwright.bsky.social. @uchicagopress.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

I ask my new + old followers to circulate this open access roundtable onAmerican science. Please repost! We in the USA are losing our lead in scientific research due to totalitarian tendencies in the current administration. This loss will affect all of us. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Smartphones are not a good example of extended cognition. A social history of philosophy. Videos about causal inference. Enlightenment stand-up. Anti-trans arguments. The math of gas & the direction of time. Your brain on ChatGPT, and more...

A related project would study the phrase “dialed in”

Habermas is 96 today, and that is because Habermas is still alive.

There is a good project in gender/masculinity studies just waiting to be written that looks at online aviation forums after a major place crash.

It should go without saying, but apparently it needs to be said: if you are peer reviewing a ms for a scholarly press, DO NOT feed that ms into an AI machine to write your reader report for you. DO NOT.

Who wants free books? These are some of the titles that we at @urbanhistory.bsky.social are looking to review. Let me know if you or a friend want one, or if you have other suggestions. First, @rebwright.bsky.social's fabulous looking history of mid century US energy regimes:

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

Given this week’s events re: COVID vaccines, there’s lots of new interest in ‘shared clinical decision-making’ recommendations—what they are, what they mean, etc. Wrote about them in @jlme-journal.bsky.social several years back. (Message me if you can’t access it) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Harvard is offering 558 free classes, including but not limited to "We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy", "American Government: Constitutional Foundations", and "U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy." Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏

"Like my cat, Derek did simply what he wanted to do." A new collection of essays about philosopher Derek Parfit by people who were close to him.

Good morning, this is my more-or-less annual reminder/plea to make sure your faculty page is reasonably up to date. Helps me find you AND helps me know not to bug you to peer review stuff if your interests have changed significantly.

Coming next week, the story of the Third Reich's efforts to influence hearts and minds at American universities with exchange students -- by Aaron Gillette @uh.edu @hopkinspress.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

The death of Alastair MacIntyre prompts my semi-annual reminder of this incredible fact: Habermas is still alive.

Came into the office to find our #dolessharm postcards have arrived just in time for #aahm2025! You can pre order from @hopkinspress.bsky.social now!

many thanks to @patrickmccray.bsky.social & Michael Gordin for editing, & @mxmcadam.bsky.social @ JHUP for publishing Greedy Science, an edited volume on science in the go-go '80s 1/x www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Shout out to archaeologists! I emailed 4 yesterday about reviewing a project and all responded within 24 hours! That never happens.

A lost essay by HLA Hart published for the first time the American Journal of Jurisprudence. “Policy, Principles, and Adjudication.” academic.oup.com/ajj/advance-...

Another Philosophy Bites interviewee L.A. Paul gets the New Yorker treatment… www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

50% off my book and everything else @columbiaup.bsky.social for the rest of today, including all of the titles in the Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past/Present/Future series!

New blog post: Philosophy of mind has changed a lot, with a truly massive shift toward empirically-informed work — but we still have in place various norms and institutions that were created decades ago and don’t make sense for the field as it is now xphi.net/2024/12/02/p...

Interested in the role of university presses and the @aupresses.bsky.social community? Thank you to @juliadolinger.bsky.social of the @scholarlypub.bsky.social Early Career Subcommittee for the opportunity to speak with SSP Early Career Development Podcast hosts Meredith Adinolfi and Sara Grimme.

Really excited that @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social made my new book the book of the day! Check out the podcast I recorded with @drsusanliebell.bsky.social - lots of good conversation and some serious depth to the questions she asked! newbooksnetwork.com/tackle-footb... #PHLaw #PHEthx

77. Philosophy as a profession is weirdly bad at reflecting on what it is that we do. It's something I think about a lot, and last summer had a wonderful time reflecting on these questions with students and staff in Florianopolis. Some notes here: diaryofdoctorlogic.wordpress.com/2023/08/10/w...

New from me in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences: "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process." [54 (5): 625–629. doi.org/10.1525/hsns... A discussion of the way that LLM's & other "AI" have shaped the expectations, norms, & disciplinary practices of contemporary academia. Check it out:

It’s #WorldPhilosophyDay today, so why not listen to a few episodes of the Philosophy Bites podcast - over 300 to choose from on Spotify, Apple Podcasts etc podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Fordham University Press is having a sale right now. Here's the details: Save 25% on print and eBooks during our Winter Sale! Plus, get free domestic shipping on all print books. Use the promo code WINTER24-FI at checkout.

Friends of the pod! I need your help to make the end-of-year episode. The assignment is easy: tell me about a great history book you read this year.

Applications are now open for 2025-26 fellowships at @scihistoryorg.bsky.social! We offer postdoc, dissertation, distinguished & short-term fellowships for researchers from anywhere in any fields w/ projects that can make use of our collections. Questions? Ask here!

I’m tempted to get Twitter again just to read Baltimore fans drag the Ravens, who manage to lose every big game they play.

Here's a new discovery: *3* brothers of #JaneAusten participated in public anti-slavery activism, as my research has uncovered. My piece in Conversation US describes Frank Austen's previously unknown abolitionist activities in Gosport in 1826. theconversation.com/3-of-jane-au...

We're in Baltimore for #2024ASA! Check out the blog today for all the details. #AmericanStudies ow.ly/Ms7250U4AeJ

Attending the American Studies meeting in Baltimore? I’ll be there and eager to see you at the UChicago Press booth. Check out our featured titles here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi... @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Kent State University Press, where I help out doing at-large work, now has a presence on this site, and they kick things off with a post about publishing, place, and the celebration of different kinds of success.