We’ve reached a major milestone: 50% of our journals are now fully open access and 75% of research articles are being published open access. Read how we're working with libraries, consortia and our publishing partners to accelerate a sustainable transition to open. 🔗 https://cup.org/4v5fPH2

Reminder: Check those email addresses if you hear from an agent or editor out of nowhere. A friend of mine nearly hired an “editor” that an “agent” referred them to. It was close. You might be tired of hearing book people talk about these scams but scammers wouldn’t keep at it if they didn’t work.

“. . . it’s not just that most academic writing doesn’t earn you anything—most of the time, it costs you.”

Physical books. You own them. They don't require updates. They don't surveil you or collect and sell your data. They are a genuinely safe hallucinogen that leaves you smarter and more empathetic and with a longer attention span the more you use them. Free from the library. What's not to like?

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Trying to decode the news? These book talks can help 🎧: Fights over citizenship 📚You Are Not American newbooksnetwork.com/you-are-not-... Congress 📚Stuck newbooksnetwork.com/stuck-how-mo... Gender & transphobia 📚He/She/They newbooksnetwork.com/he-she-they @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #EduSky

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Dr. @charactergap.bsky.social joins me to discuss 📚The Honesty Crisis @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social @oxfordunipress.bsky.social #BookSky #AcademicSky #EduSky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Can confirm the math checks out.

I don’t know why every English Department AND library hasn’t adopted this line from “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins” as their motto “Books are brain movies!”

“In a recent study looking at the use of AI in healthcare, researchers from Stanford and Harvard found even top-performing AI models from Anthropic and Google produced 12 to 15 severely harmful errors per 100 cases. The worst-performing models made mistakes in 40 out of 100 cases.”

Scoop with @mercohn.bsky.social: Johns Hopkins University is laying off more than 100 employees in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey Business School and central administration. Hopkins is suffering "debilitating" decreases in federal research funding www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

After nearly 10 yrs at Scientific American, I was laid off yesterday. It's been the honor of my career working w/such brilliant, caring colleagues & writers. I'm proud of all we achieved and will always love this magazine. I'm #opentowork but first I plan to spend time "cultivating [my] own garden."

We have all heard histories of wrongful convictions of women. I spoke about the Salem witch trials on @academiclife.bsky.social with Dr. Christina Gessler and how women have been persecuted and convicted of no-crime offenses for centuries. Listen to the full episode wherever you get podcasts.

Realized I never said "unquote" after reciting a famous poem in 10th grade. Sorry if you thought everything I've said since is Shakespeare

I beg of you all- please remember that we have an excellent block feature here. If something annoys you- just use it.

📚 It’s audio book month! In this issue of the newsletter we go inside the audio books division at @princetonupress.bsky.social christinagessler.substack.com/p/the-other-.... ⬇️ 🎧 Listen to the podcast episode: newbooksnetwork.com/the-other-si... #BookSky #WritingSky #AcademicSky #ReadingSky #EduSky

The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern

Once again, what would life be without artists

Norway is banning generative AI for schoolchildren under 13 starting in September.

+ So here it is, my 281st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Also let me recommend historian Annette Gordon Reed’s “On Juneteenth” for your summer reading list. I felt vindicated reading that Reed, a Texan, always saw Juneteenth as a Texas celebration. Her dive into the complicated history of Texas, slavery, integration & this holiday is riveting.

Thank you, Dr. Christina Gessler, for having me on @academiclife.bsky.social to talk about Pink Crime. Listen through the link below or wherever you get podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

BREAKING: An 8-1 Supreme Court rules criminal defendants *can* challenge their sentences even if they agreed to a plea deal containing an appeal waiver. #SCOTUS Justice Thomas dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Attention academic #LibrarySky from the Southeast! SACS is considering a revision to their standards that reduces libraries to basically an afterthought. They are taking comments on the new standards until June 19. 📚https://sacscoc.welcomesyourfeedback.com/s/omv27f

@valenabeety.bsky.social unpacks the US #history of Pink Crime & the impact on women’s rights. 🎧⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @thenewpress.bsky.social @coriolisco.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social #EduSky #BookSky #legalsky

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Hello! We have a very-off-cycle postdoc fellowship at UC Santa Cruz. Open to any area of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Applications are due July 15th. It is funded by the Moore Foundation. Looking for someone to start Oct 1, 2026 (!, approx), see details below. aas.org/jobregister/...

A source on this: arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740

In spot tests I've done, I see this happen *all of the time*, such as with my own papers. The LLM would often rather hallucinate a male scientist than get my name right. 🤷‍♀️ It's kind of unsurprising that models trained unscrupulously on the entire internet are misogynistic

Media-mergers giving you the ick? The public library loans DVDs (and the players). Want books talks for free 24/7? Try this one: American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy ⬇️ newbooksnetwork.com/the-american... And find more: @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #booksky #edusky

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

Big banner with a Teddy quote about courage on the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, headquarters of OPM. Only discrepancy is that the 26th president never said this.

As a late #18thC historian, I can assure you that this wasn't written in the late 18th C. #Skystorians

Media-mergers giving you the ick? The public library loans DVDs (and the players). Want books talks for free 24/7? Try this one: American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy ⬇️ newbooksnetwork.com/the-american... And find more: @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #booksky #edusky

One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n

Job Opportunity! Lecturer in Early Modern British and European History Newcastle University - School of History, Classics and Archaeology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW166/l...

Now you know! #BookSky

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

Now, I am a PhD and MFA. There's 18 years between the degrees. You are never too old to go back to school.

I love joy.

If you want to let your reps know your feelings about funding the #arts, #museums and #libraries, here are some handy forms to use. ⬇️ #humanities #booksky #edusky #artsky #theatersky #skystorians www.artsactionfund.org/arts-action-...

If you want to let your reps know your feelings about funding the #arts, #museums and #libraries, here are some handy forms to use. ⬇️ #humanities #booksky #edusky #artsky #theatersky #skystorians www.artsactionfund.org/arts-action-...

Thank you to everyone who has shared their AAS story so far! If you haven't done so yet—today's the day! Send us a brief write-up of what AAS has meant to you, your career, and your #AsianStudies community. bit.ly/85AAS

#QuakerHistory folks, there's still time to apply for the Friends Historical Association 2026-27 grants cycle! We're offering support for work undertaken in the broad field of Quaker History in the form of research grants, project grants, and publication subventions. www.quakerhistory.org/grants

Hey #Slystorians and #Alaskasky! Now is a great time to order my book “Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II” for 40% off plus free domestic shipping if you order through the UW Press website with the discount code: WARM26 Woohoo! uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... 🗃️📚🐛❄️

does anyone have a recommendation for a good non-fiction book about mccarthyism?

I’ve been asking where we should put hallucinated citations on our CVs. Surely it’s evidence of “impact!”

Happy World Ocean Day! I am thrilled to announce that my second book, "Why Sustainable Seafood Matters," is available for preorder today! 🧪🌍🦑🐟 #SciComm

Utah has just banned another book from public schools. What’s behind book banning? 🎧📰⬇️ bookriot.com/utah-has-ban... newbooksnetwork.com/that-librarian newbooksnetwork.com/book-banning... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social #BookSky #EduSky @ncacensorship.bsky.social