Our lead title is by a singular voice in art criticism and on Native culture. It’s been wonderful to work again with the inestimable Paul Chaat Smith on a new collection of essays.

Our Fall/Winter 2026 catalog is out! Divergent, diverse, and unexpected. issuu.com/uminnpress/d...

I love that it sounds like he's saying his son is a person he's known for a long time.

Best to read the Manuscript Preparation Guidelines, especially if your ms is a tenure book tied to a particular season.

publisher's (Minnesota's) description: Darkness is widely misunderstood, argues Kyle Parry. We take darkness as the enemy of sight, yet we can’t see without it. We call the worst parts of our lives dark, yet we wouldn’t be here without wombs, skulls, oceans, the moon, and other shadowed places...

Commencement speakers 90% of the time have nothing to do with the students, and everything to do with admin relations. My commencement was the local BBQ chain guy who preached to a bunch of liberal arts majors the importance of marrying god w/ capitalism. Turns out the U just wanted a big donation.

The volume of submissions I am receiving has gone up considerably in the past few months. I received ten ms submissions just in the last 24 hours to work through.

When you look at the economic data coming out I suppose it's no wonder Republicans are trying to gerrymander their way into permanent power.

One of MPR's best shows is Call to Mind, a series of grounded documentaries on mental health timed for Mental Health Awareness Month.

Inspiring week during the @mpr.org member drive. We no longer have federal funding... so MEMBERS have stepped up! It matters. Such an important time to support #publicradio. If you count on @mprnews.org for your news... I hope you'll support: www.mprnews.org #PublicMediaMatters

I hope so. Including the MILLIONS Minneapolis police officers bilked from the city in "on call" overtime status while sitting in their homes in the suburbs while Minneapolis residents were terrorized, kidnapped, and murdered by ICE.

Hearing about an author who used AI to develop chapter abstracts from his book for our marketing team. I'm so embarrassed for him. While not an egregious use, imagine not giving, or caring, or knowing enough to write out your chapters in your own words.

There’s too many edited volumes y’all.

So excited to see this forthcoming with Minnesota!

You can preorder my book — disorienting phenomenology: queer space and trans life — now!

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

Still flogging that hope shit.

Authors! The arrow of time moves in one direction and for all of us. For every Thing there is a Season. If you take two months longer to do the thing, that may add two months to the schedule.

I hope someone secured these Artefacts and they are now safe at The Smithsonian.

An author I worked with showed me an email she received announcing a new ghoulish AI scam... They want to license her books to create an AI chatbot of her personality... "We build AI replicas that preserve how a specific scholar reasons." ☠️

I've gone seamlessly from Return to Moria to Windrose... I am a sucker for base building games.

I have a beautiful ethnography of human-microbe relations set in this traditional sake brewery coming out this fall by anthropologist Maya Hey. The most beguiling and evocative ms I've encountered in a long while. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I wonder if any video games scholar/anthropologist is studying the players who run guilds... Why players start guilds and what they get out of managing other players.

Don't stop there!

Target should move their HQ to the Whipple Building.

Haven't seen Hegseth lately. What's he been up to?

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

On a sunny Friday afternoon, took Judy for a long loop around s mpls. Loved seeing kids out, being kids... glued to their phones, popping wheelies on their bikes, walking dogs with their moms. I hope its a sign this neighborhood is healing.

I am glad the Council did this. As a resident of the city, I had no idea what he did to earn his whopping $350,000 a year salary. During the height of the ICE occupation, this supposed commissioner of community safety was persona non grata.

Doomscrolling and stress eating Cadbury crème eggs between meetings who else

Armageddon. I wish it hadn’t happened. But…

This is a great essay on academic publishing... I shared it with my colleagues at Minnesota and encouraged everyone to read it.

I've been having a blast this winter taking a nostalgia trip through Azeroth via WoW Classic, but that seems to be coming to an end, as the guild I've been running with transitions to Kara prep. I am too old to be assigned a raiding slot in a spreadsheet by strangers.

My thirteen year old cousin was struck and killed by a drunk driver when I was a kid. This shit enrages me. Elliott Engen must resign.

elliott engen must have been drinking all day ahead of his DUI earlier this morning. redditor caught him and walter hudson drinking at 2:30pm

*My niece, after leaving me on read for 24 hours*: haha yeah

*Me, in a panic, texting my 14 & 15 year old nieces*: I'm not chopped, am I? Am I a chopped unc???

ICE agents should be fired, not deployed to airports.

Weird to say, but these days finding the occasional typo doesn't bother me at all (perhaps that's partly what comes with 20 years working in typoland), but a typo reminds me that humans made this, the author, but also copyeditors and editors and proofreaders. Wonderful humans.

Mark Griffiths shows how the infamous Checkpoint 300 embodies larger geographies of Israeli control — reshaping a once-vibrant commercial strip in the West Bank. nextcity.org/features/che...

Conferences in spaces like the Hilton Union Square can be disabling events for people with metabolic disorders. I’ve packed my luggage with fresh fruit, granola bars, and nuts.

Super excited to be heading to (balmy) San Francisco today for the #AAG #AAG26 meeting. We have a stellar lineup of new works in geography. I am so excited to showcase a 20th anniversary edition of Katherine McKittrick's (@demonicgrounds.bsky.social) field-defining DEMONIC GROUNDS.

Is it just me or do resorts catch fire in the Lusten area an awful lot?

To the taconite mill!

Have we tried queering it?

Kristin Bluemel is the author of the new book "Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain," published by @uminnpress.bsky.social, www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477... She discusses the contributions of artists Gwen Raverat, Agnes Miller Parker, Clare Leighton & Joan Hassall.

If my Grandma Wilson were still alive, she'd describe the weather in Minneapolis today as "Windier than a hoot."

Me to all my colleagues in scholarly publishing:

I hope I live to see the Whipple Building torn down, its rubble crushed into fine powder.

This is going to be a super stellar symposium.