So grateful to @mmagency.bsky.social, esp. @agentbal.bsky.social who helped me figure out this book (and how to not write like an academic!), and to @christofi.bsky.social at @torvabooks.bsky.social and @sarahhaugen.bsky.social at @harperbooks.bsky.social who are excellent editors. I got so lucky. 🥰

I'm hiring a mid-level full-stack SWE! Our team at @jstor.bsky.social Labs is looking for yet another product-minded engineer to join our team. We come from all kinds of backgrounds, tech and non-tech alike. Please apply or send to your awesome friends, and DM me with ?s: grnh.se/19o370345us

Summer has officially ended.

Sending love to all my colleagues submitting reappointment, tenure, or promotion files today. And sending love to everyone out there who's done it recently or will be submitting soon. It's a lot of work to package up all of your work, especially while the world crumbles around us.

So Tylenol is woke now. Did not have that on my bingo card

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

The median LLM paper is insanely sloppy. Charts with no axes, wild speculation, conclusions drawn from weak or insufficient evidence. It’s a whole standard below prior ML sloppiness

Maybe someone will buy this one since lawlessness in rightwing American politics has made a giant comeback 🍻

Is it just me or do other ppl also completely forget they have a LinkedIn account? Like who is consistently checking their LinkedIn? What in God's name is going on over there?

Try to switch off from the world for 12 hours and return to see the news about my H1B visa category. Email from the university telling me not to travel outside the country (by far the most direct messaging I’ve had from the institution since Jan). I just… 🥺

Just gently again reminding anyone newly interested in critical social science and humanities research on AI in education that the resources for your lit review are available from education researchers to be built upon - a partial but still long and updating selection going back a while ⬇️

I’m on the IOBA PR committee. If you want to support this org, let me know. They’re genuinely interested in helping booksellers navigate the craziness.

Zuck invented a migraine machine you can wear on your face for constant migraines

Sir Francis laps up the last days of summer sun.

Alone With Me. Inscribed by Eartha Kitt. First Edition, First Printing. Henry Regnery Co. Chicago, 1976. SOLD

I miss machine learning as the buzzword. It promised less

Mondays are for Misery. By Stephen King. First Edition, First Printing. Viking. New York, 1987. SOLD

This is worse than the eggs. I can live without eggs.

Today in three parts: coding in the morning, book-scouting in the afternoon, gym in the evening. Life is good.

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We're so cooked. If dems fail to respond by redistricting their own states, there will be no chance of building an effective opposition. To say nothing of the new corrosive standard of just redrawing the maps every election year.

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy. Inscribed by Maurice Sendak. First Edition, First Printing. Harper Collins. New York, 1993. SOLD

Cheers to the folks strategically keeping their heads down on social media for the past 24 hours 🍻

The President Is Missing. Signed by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. First Edition, First Printing. Little, Brown and Knopf. New York, 2018. SOLD

If any of you new followers happen to be bibliophiles, may I offer you this abundant resource 📚❤️

Just tested out Google AI Mode by searching my name It was accurate–extremely specifically accurate about my lack of relevance to the sport of baseball?

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. By Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault. Illustrated by Lois Ehlert. First Edition, First Printing. Simon & Schuster. New York, 1989. SOLD

Apollo. Inscribed by Alan Bean. First Edition, First Printing. Greenwich Workshop Press. Shelton, 1998. SOLD

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In honor of Labor Day: The Truth About Inflation. No Author. Informational Pamphlet. Socialist Labor Party. Palo Alto, Circa 1966. Find it here: eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

It's here! The September 2025 issue of PBSA is live! 25.3's cover issue continues the "Binding" theme with a 19th-century Sinhalese palm-leaf manuscript from the Wellcome Collection. wellcomecollection.org/works/bfm35q...

A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America. By Father Louis Hennepin. First American Trade Edition, First Printing. A.C. McClurg & Co. Chicago, 1903. SOLD

Please share! We're trying to crowd-source a dataset of post-1929 novels with maps.

Why does nudging folks to send their wedding RSVPs feel like I'm personally negotiating a hostage release

Thunderball. By Ian Fleming. First Edition, First Printing. Jonathan Cape. London, 1961. Find it here: eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

Americans paid a record $30B (or $360B annualized) in tariffs this month, as the costs of Trump's trade war continue to escalate. Tariff revenues are now up more than 230% from this time last year and still rising.

Graduation season is great, but idk if there’s anything better than that fresh-start liveliness of a college campus at start of fall semester

Slapstick. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Delacorte. New York, 1976. SOLD

You would not believe the amount of calories I burn each day just restraining myself from posting responses to all the bad political news. The effort has been working lately, but it dawns on me how much work it is just to remain sufferable online.

In Savoy. By Gertrude Stein. First Edition, First Printing. Pushkin Press. London, 1946. Find it here: eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

Spotify, thank you for feeding me Norah Jones while at the gym, surrounded by swole bros. Truly, it was a masterpiece of setting and background music, a perfect match

A book we didn't know existed, a book we didn't know we needed in our lives: Life as I Have Known It has been Finger Lickin’ Good. Inscribed by Col. Sanders. First Edition, First Printing. Creation House. Carol Stream, 1974. Find it here: eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

Palm Sunday. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut. Signed Limited First Edition. Delacorte. New York, 1981. SOLD

I’m ready for fall, plz god no more swampy hot prairie days in central IL

Sir Francis boops back

Seize the Time. By Bobby Seale. First Edition, First Printing. Random House. New York, 1970. Find it here: eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

It’s literally *years* overdue—both the pandemic & team members going & *getting jobs and stuff* delayed the multigraph so, so much But I just sent a draft of the final chapter for our Viral Texts Project book to the press! There will be much yet to do—but hitting send on that email was incredible

Saw Eddington and no movie in recent memory has me more conflicted in my opinions of it. The film def captures the cultural horrors of contemporary America, but it takes none of the realities of our politics seriously. So, in one sense, it's brilliant horror. But it's also bad social commentary.

Ishmael. Inscribed by Daniel Quinn. First Edition, Second Printing. Bantam Turner Book. New York, 1992. Find it here: eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...