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It's New Books Tuesday 🙌 Check out these two new titles publishing today uncpressblog.com/2025/11/04/n...

5. History meets graphic novel in this interview with Dr. Walter Greason @walterdgreason.bsky.social and Tim Fielder @graphichistoryco.bsky.social making an impact for students around the world. A story of collaboration to inspire you for what's possible ✨️ theacademicdesigner.com/2025/graphic...

3. Dynamic duo @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social and @americanstudier.bsky.social teamed up for a new website to share their public scholarship. As a long time follower of #ScholarSunday since the old days of #AcademicTwitter (sigh), this conversation was delightful theacademicdesigner.com/2025/public-...

7. Our free course to help you promote your book, in collaboration with the amazing Dr. Sheena Howard @drsheenahoward.bsky.social Her Patreon is a wealth of resources for authors and creatives too. Literally she was on a billboard for it in Times Square ✨️ theacademicdesigner.com/promoting-yo...

On my blog / podcast / YouTube The Social Academic ✅️ Interviews with faculty, graduate students, and people who support them about their online presence 🎙🎧 Articles to help you with your website, social media, and digital footprint as an academic 🌱 theacademicdesigner.com/blog

Find your market. Serve your purpose. #writers

This echoes the conservative counterargument to union rights a century ago, the so-called "liberty of contract." As FDR's Interior Secretary Harold Ickes noted, that kind of "liberty" merely gave helpless individuals the freedom to "drive a bargain with a great corporation."

Those white residents of South Africa that Trump is trying to paint as victims? Have this to say: "Singling us out as victims of multiracialism alienates us from our fellow South Africans and harms relationships that have been fostered over the past 30 years."

20 years ago, I gave a TED talk calling for an interdisciplinary study of cooperation. 15 years ago, I taught an online introduction to cooperation studies Now the University of Arizona launches the cooperative Futures Institute. www.cooperativefutures.org

I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:

My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!

The Tenants United movement in Bozeman, Montana has pushed policy to restrict second-home vacation rentals, do less policing of homelessness, and set up publicly funded eviction legal defense. Last summer, the movement scored a significant win.

Kevin Curry, a food influencer and a former SNAP recipient, explains where SNAP recipients can get the most up-to-date information on their benefits, and how anyone can find free or affordable food. n.pr/47Awavd

Today is the 4th anniversary of the @cftchange.bsky.social . To celebrate, we are launching our framework, "Narrative Infrastructure for Narrative Power."

11/13 @ 6:30pm at IFA, NYU: *Love, Desire, and Death: Charms from Islamicate Southeast Asia* with Teren Sevea, Harvard University & Faizah Zakaria, National University of Singapore. Come thru!

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

Outstanding rebuttal.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn" Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?

ACLS welcomes the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) to our federation of member societies. ASWAD brings together hundreds of scholars from around the world to advance understanding of Africa & the African Diaspora: https://bit.ly/4qR6q5f

Free Sarah Kendzior.

My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...

#tdih 1898 in Wilmington, NC: -- massacre of African Americans by white supremacists -- Black press & businesses burned -- coup d’etat of elected, interracial Reconstruction era government #terrorism 💔 🧵including Reconstruction lessons & @pbs.org doc ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wi...

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

All hail the curators! (HT to @walterdgreason.bsky.social for lifting this up...)

So Democrats get: 1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays 2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail 3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts Those all seem like wins for the GOP.

VALID.

Simon Says 🔥🔥🔥 I stuck to 4 so I could stick some images on but THIS track??? 😮‍💨 1st time I heard this I was in a club with my bf at the time, in Harare, on a Saturday night, on the dance floor, wearing a bespoke White & Gold fit & my beloved Reignman IIs! The intro, the WTF 😳 expressions 🤣 🔊🔊🔊🔊

Circulating on Threads as to who’s in favor (for what it is worth) @senjackyrosen - NV @senatorbaldwin -WI @senfettermanpa - PA @senatorhassan - NH @senossoff - GA @anguskingmaine -ME @sengarypeters - MI @senatordurbin - IL @senatorshaheen - NH @senmarkkelly - AZ @senslotkin - MI

Glad this appeared in @chicagotribune.com today. Includes signatures of CEOs of Chicago & Illinois Chambers of Commerce & other business folks, & from faith & philanthropic sectors. But worth noting how few business types actually signed, & that some of these business orgs helped get us here.

Simon Says, Pharoahe Monch Haters’ Anthem, Jean Grae Industrial Revolution, Immortal Technique Battle Cry, Army of the Pharoahs Guillotinz, Raekwon f. Rebel INS The Abduction, Tony Touch f. Wu-Tang Nat Turner, Reef the Lost Cauze Just Begun, Black Star f. Electronica, Cole

Martha Rich, a commercial and fine artist based in Philadelphia #WomensArt

Welcome to November! Do you love indie fiction? Love supporting it? We hope you'll see our work. (And tell people about it!) 💜 #Booksky

From Afrofuturism to ecotopia: A climate-fiction glossary Find the climate-fiction genre that inspires you. grist.org/fix/climate-... #Teachers #Teacher #Professor #Fiction #Librarian #Solarpunk #Afrofuturism

🌞 sun ra ✨ space is the place the music is different here the vibrations are different not like planet earth ☁️ #sunra #spaceistheplace 🌐 #futurejazz #afrofuturism

Got my advance copy of @mkn.bsky.social’s latest book today and I’m geeked to read it. On presale now and available in March. Stay tuned! #booksky #HATM 📚💙

Albert Camus (1913-60) Born in Algeria, he moved to Paris in 1940 and finished 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 as tanks rolled into the city. "A writer cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it." #booksky #writingcommunity #authors

I'm good with that!! #booksky #AI

“When you erase history, you make it easier to repeat…It’s about shaping what people believe about America itself…if the struggles of Black Americans are scrubbed…then it becomes easier to claim that systemic racism never existed in the first place. And that’s the real goal.” - Julian Vasquez Heili

PS. For next week’s 250th #ScholarSunday thread I plan to share a second meta-thread on why I do what I do here & why & how you all should be contributing, sharing, &, yes, subscribing to this site! See you then! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/newsletter/

Important new work from BLACK WHITE AND READ! #booksky

“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”

“Love isn’t often a loud expression, a big gesture, or a showy offering. It’s felt more than seen. ‘Love by the way you walk, the way you sit, the way you eat. This world very much needs love.’” Thich Nhat Hanh #kindness

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, - they prefer suffering that is familiar." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh from the book: "Fragrant Palm Leaves" Via "Just Dharma Quotes" 🙏❤️

“The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh Rise and shine my friends. You are what love looks like ❤️

Learn more ancient history this weekend. It will put the present issues in perspective. Every past was once a future. #afrofuturism

For Steve McQueen's 3rd Norton Lecture, during Meshell Ndegeocello's performance (more like musical remarks)— after her presentation on the evolution of bass in Black music with sample clips and audience participation— she played a few seconds of the bass riff from this song and I almost hollered! 🎶