📢 My book, Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works, is out 28th April. 🚨🚨 “an incredibly engaging popular science book that illustrates why we should care about good quality evidence.” Preorders *really* help! 🙏 @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I reviewed Barry Eichengreen's new book about global currencies and the future of the dollar, check it out:

Ahead of the release of @jimalkhalili.bsky.social's highly anticipated new book On Time on 1 Sep, we invite you to check out his BBC podcast, The Life Scientific. In it, he talks to scientists about their life & work, what inspires them, & what their discoveries might do for us in the future. (1/2)

20 Books to Read in February as recommended by @grandcontinent.bsky.social includes the new book by @vdignum.bsky.social, The AI Paradox! @florianlouis.bsky.social calls it ‘[Un] petit livre percutant’ – read the full review here:

Congratulations to PUP publicist Charlotte Coyne (@charlottecoyne.bsky.social), who's been shortlisted for a Publishers Publicity Circle Award for her work on The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman! 🎉 Read more: bit.ly/4bi8YE8

@princetonupress.bsky.social author Nicholas Money features in this @economist.com article 'Spore of the moment: mushrooms are the latest wellness-food trend'.Check out his forthcoming pbk Fungi and Human Life: The Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines That Fill Our World www.economist.com/culture/2026...

A HUGE thank you to the wonderful team at Five Star Cars in Birmingham who have been looking after my ruck sack left behind on a rail replacement bus for @gwr.com last week and then returned it to me last night in Oxford safe and sound! I can't thank you enough!🙏🎒🚖🚆😥

NEW✨ Contradictions of wokeness and privilege in the new elite We Have Never Been Woke by @musaalgharbi.bsky.social @stonybrooku.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social. #Review by Suraj Beri 👇

On the road for Thanksgiving? 🦃 Queue up this Ideas Podcast episode featuring philosopher @petersinger.info, author of Consider the Turkey: press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-... #Philosophy #Thanksgiving #ListenUP

@carlbfrey.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk professor and author of How Progress Ends, joins a panel of experts next week, 24 Nov at 7:00 pm GMT, at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social to discuss how AI will affect the world of work and our economic prospects Get tickets for this in-person event: buff.ly/8YqnWtE

Lovely to see @nicolecrust.bsky.social's new book Elusive Cures reviewed in @nature.com. Andrew Robinson calls it ‘fascinating’ – find out for yourself by ordering a copy today!

On “Money Talks”, we sit down with Nobel laureates Joel Mokyr and Philippe Aghion to discuss the work that earned them this year’s economics prize

@carlbfrey.bsky.social, author of How Progress Ends, which is shortlisted for the @financialtimes.com & Schroder’s Business Book of the Year, has a full—nearly bursting!—audience here at the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social tonight!

NEW✨ How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations by @carlbfrey.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social argues that progress is in the successful balance of innovation and implementation. #Review by Phil Bell. @ox.ac.uk @lseevents.bsky.social

Happy #SmartThinkingSaturday! @carlbfrey.bsky.social, author of How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations recommends an excellent set of books! smartthinkingbooks.com/smart-thinki... #bookrecommendations #booksky #smartthinkingbooks #nonfiction

Next week, on October 7th at 7:00 pm BST, come to @thecommonpress.bsky.social to hear Alice T. Friedman discuss her book, Queer Moderns: Max Ewing's Jazz Age New York, hosted by Dr. Joshua Mardell. Learn more about this ticketed, in-person event here: www.outsavvy.com/event/29576/....

Huzzah! Great to see the paperback of #VirtualYou (@princetonupress.bsky.social), is now out. With Peter Coveney, I examine how the digital twin revolution could make medicine truly personalised & predictive Foreword by Nobelist Venki Ramakrishnan press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Great to see BBC Countryfile featuring @davidwoodman45.bsky.social’s The First King of England and asking why Æthelstan is not a better known king like William the Conqueror

Beautifully illustrated & breathtaking in scope, The First King of England by @davidwoodman45.bsky.social is the most comprehensive, up-to-date biography of Æthelstan available. Available worldwide. Read a free sample of this panoramic work: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Æthelstan #History

Very excited to be working on this fabulous & now shortlisted book for @financialtimes.com & @schroders.bsky.social #BBYA25. Congratulations to our terrific author @carlbfrey.bsky.social for his fabulous book How Progress Ends published by @princetonupress.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8b2a...

In advance of its global publication on 16 September, How Progress Ends by @carlbfrey.bsky.social has been reviewed in @financialtimes.com by Tej Parikh, who says, “The present moment underscores the relevance of Frey’s writing… How Progress Ends is, therefore, 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐞𝐫𝐚.”

🎧 New inventions often cause great excitement yet can take years to catch on. On this episode of The Big View, Oxford University’s @carlbfrey.bsky.social joined @petertl.bsky.social to discuss the erratic history of technology – and what it tells us about AI. Listen in full 👉 tinyurl.com/yhtbtz3d

@gwr.com PLEASE could you make your notices larger for the quiet carriage?? So many people take no notice at all and it is really frustrating for those of us trying to work and who have booked especially to sit in this space. Thank you 🤫

The OII’s Prof. @carlbfrey.bsky.social's new book, “How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations” will be published next week by @princetonupress.bsky.social. Learn more and pre-order your copy here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/pub...

Beautifully illustrated and breathtaking in scope, The First King of England by @davidwoodman45.bsky.social is the most comprehensive, up-to-date biography of Æthelstan available. Out now! Learn more and order your copy of this fascinating book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Athelstan1100

The world’s largest non-fiction award, the Cundill History Prize, has revealed its 2025 shortlist, which includes Oxford academic Lyndal Roper, following a record number of submissions 👇 #BookSky

“A visual treat. . . . Anyone interested in medieval history, figurative art, the human body or medicine will wish to return to it again and again.” Wonderful to see Jack Hartnell’s Wound Man reviewed in @thespectator1828.bsky.social. Read more here (£): www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

So brilliant!!

Brain researchers are overturning decades of dogma. | iai.tv/articles/neu... Award-winning neuroscientist Nicole Rust, the brain is a dynamic complex system, whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other. #philsci ⚛️ 🧪

Check out this 6-page feature in @historyextra.bsky.social about Æthelstan, the first king of England! Written by @davidwoodman45.bsky.social, his new book publishes on 2 Sept. @holland-tom.bsky.social calls it "thrillingly epic," & Dan Jones calls it "fascinating, meticulously researched, & vital."

Congratulations to our authors whose books were selected for the 2025 Cundill History Prize Longlist. To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... The Girl in the Middle press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... The Age of Choice press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Princeton University Press has announced the launch of Bollingen Recollections, which will see the redesign and republication of nearly all titles in the Press’ Bollingen Series 👇

The philosopher Harry Frankfurt argued that bullshit was "a greater enemy of the truth than lies are". But is generative AI-generated botshit even worse than human-generated bullshit? (Yes) My latest @financialtimes.com here: on.ft.com/3SikRPK

A fantastic alien adventure can be found on our very own planet by studying the microbial life in Earth's crust, according to Karen G. Lloyd's new book Intraterrestrials

For the last 4 years I've been working on a book on symbiosis and the interconnectedness of life. It's epic, and I'll be talking about it at New Scientist Live live.newscientist.com/nsl-london-2...

The Measure of Progress by Diane Coyle — has GDP run its course? https://www.ft.com/content/3008152a-4c8a-4ef8-8d7b-dd40f2bac89c

Gosh, I’m thrilled by the FT review (by Alan Smith) of my new book! on.ft.com/3YEGUnj The Measure of Progress by Diane Coyle — has GDP run its course?

Over her career, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick has frequently questioned the conventional understanding of Soviet history. On the podcast, she talks to @danielsoar.bsky.social about her work in the Soviet archives, the obstacles researchers face, and her latest books: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

So very thrilled that @princetonupress.bsky.social have not 1, not 2, but 3 titles on The 2025 Cundill History Prize Longlist! We are rocking! 😀🥳🎉📚https://www.cundillprize.com/news/the-2025-cundill-history-prize-longlist

Arrived in the post today. Holding it in your hands for the first time is always very special. Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social !

The era of pure economics is over. Trump's tariffs signal a shift to "geoeconomics" - where commerce serves statecraft, not markets. Like the 1930s, politics now trumps profit. Countries weaponize trade, finance & supply chains. The pendulum has swung from globalization back to power politics

Memories are constantly revised in acts of recollection. They are moulded by new information, beliefs and emotions, and other people’s versions of events.

Caroline Priday has retired from Princeton University Press’ (PUP) European office after 20 years 👇

How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse. How Progress Ends by @carlbfrey.bsky.social publishes September 16! Preorder your copy of this fascinating book: press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/... #econsky

From Fallopian tubes to the G-spot, long-dead men have left their mark on women's anatomy. It's time to turf them out, says Adam Taor

While in the UK, I had an opportunity to chat with journalist Matthew Reisz. Some of my remarks made his latest essay for @timeshighered.bsky.social. You can catch his full dispatch from Buckingham here: www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/are-an...

Enjoyed talking with journalist @jamesrball.com while I was in the UK promoting We Have Never Been Woke. Our interview is now live with @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...

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Watch our 2025 Annual Lecture: We Have Never Been Woke by Musa al-Gharbi www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR00... @musaalgharbi.bsky.social @ktwamley.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

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