It's Timeeeeee 🗣️ Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌 Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/

Congratulations to Dr. Marion Orr (@brownupolisci.bsky.social) for his vital new book, "House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs, Jr." #HouseOfDiggs #MarionOrr

Really excited to see Tom Mueller’s new book _The Case for Rural America_. uncpress.org/978146969151... uncpress-us-new.imgix.net/covers/97814...

Historian Mateo Jarquín reframes the Sandinista Revolution in "The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History" (@uncpress), featured in @jstor_daily. Read the piece and explore a free chapter via JSTOR’s Path to Open program: https://bit.ly/47hpErG

Viral posts about how Moms For Liberty had zero wins on election night...aren't true. They're misinformation, even dis-info. M4L did have a number of school board candidates win. You can verify that information pretty easily. They had *A LOT* of losses and their power isn't what it once was.

The inimitable Ashley Howard talks about her new @uncpress.bsky.social book MIDWEST UNREST and her love of books generally in this feature from Iowa Now. Check out that bookish photo gallery! now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/10...

As non-traditional dissertations become more common, are universities keeping up? Glenn Wright of Syracuse University Graduate School explains "We Need Guidelines for Submitting Non-Traditional Dissertations" networks.h-net.org/group/discus... #FeedingTheElephant @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social

I'm new here, but I just had to share! My book, The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory, is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookshop through @uncpress.bsky.social Follow along on my website: www.sharronconrad.com

I’m pleased to announce that my forthcoming book, _Deadly Divide_, will be out in spring 2026 with @uncpress.bsky.social with the help of my fabulous editor Cate Hodorowicz (@catehodorowicz.bsky.social).

Turning your dissertation into a book? Check out this video for expert tips from university press editors @dwcongdon.com, @dawnd.bsky.social & Alyssa Napier, hosted by the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions.

Best bookish weekend: new Reading Rainbow PLUS first visit to @mcintyres.bsky.social books, which was amazing. My TBR list got a workout with everything I just added.

New episode of READING RAINBOW drops todayyyyyyy! 📚🌈📖

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UC Press is looking for a Publicist! Help amplify authors, pitch stories that spark conversation, & champion bold, field-defining books. Apply here. Or spread the word! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucop/EMP...

October 8: Hear from these 3 acquisition editors at Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book: - Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social - Dominique Moore, @illinoispress.bsky.social - Mike Baccam @mikebaccam.bsky.social, @uwapress.bsky.social ideasonfire.net/first-book-p...

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

We published 10 articles about historians' work for, with, and on the National Park Service in #AHAPerspectives this summer. You can find them all here: 🗃️

The stakes have never been higher for peer review, and in keeping with with AI theme for #PeerReviewWeek, #FeedingTheElephant has a post from @alisonsyring.bsky.social and Gabriela Bueno Gibbs on "Artificial Intelligence and Peer Review in Scholarly Publishing." networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

reading a 1979 article in ebony that says "actually, undocumented workers pay more in taxes than they receive in services. what's more, the government's own study bears this out." do you ever think time is a flat circle. the same conversation for almost 50 years and here we are.

It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing. “I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

how @dawnd.bsky.social and @emily-elliott.bsky.social and I are passing the time in between producing #feedingtheelephant posts: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

US Intellectual History Conference Program is out! November 6-8, 2026, in Detroit, MI! s-usih.org/wp-content/u...

Today I overheard someone say “I guess common sense isn’t very common anymore” and yes.

Minding my own business only to come across Netflix’s brutal new category “Hope They Don’t End Up on the Kiss Cam.”

This is exactly what the internet is for.

Among the waste uncovered by ProPublica and @cbsnews.com: Texas reimbursed anti-abortion groups $14 each time they handed out donated goods or materials, regardless of cost. Thus, handing out one pamphlet reaped the same payment as a pack of diapers. (Published July 2024)

MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK is available on @bookshop.org for $1 less than on Amazon plus free shipping if you order by July 11. Once you’ve ordered, fill out the form here to win cool stuff and have me send $ to @trevorproject.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

We know too well the devastating consequences of such action—families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades. #AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow

“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget. Republicans did it. Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate. Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due

Folks have snapped their laptops shut after attending the virtual #aupresses25. @dawnd.bsky.social and @catherinefte.bsky.social share the highlights with #FeedingTheElephant, focusing on librarianship, #OA, advocacy, and the future of academic publishing. ➡️ networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

No One Sure Why Kristi Noem Wearing Firefighter Helmet, Night-Vision Goggles, High Heels, Wet Suit theonion.com/no-one-...

BREAKING: Shootings reported at homes of 2 Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota. At least 3 people shot, suspect at large bnonews.com/index.php/20...

Dr. Carla Hayden may have been fired, but she’s not backing down. In her first local interview since being removed as Librarian of Congress, Hayden reflects on her career, community, and the growing threats facing libraries. bit.ly/45soIBH

In celebration of #PrideMonth, we're offering a 30% discount on dozens of books, from queer literature to poetry to memoir. Use code PRIDE25UWISC on in-stock books and preorders at uwpress.wisc.edu. Learn more about @ajromriell.bsky.social's memoir WOLF ACT here: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/W/Wolf...

Looking forward to our #aupresses25 concluding plenary, "So What Now?" featuring Roy Kaufman, Copyright Clearance Ctr; Rebecca Seger @ithakasr.bsky.social; & John Donatich @yalepress.bsky.social & moderator dawnd.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social‬‬. https://bit.ly/3SA0Zb7#aupresses25

We Need AI Standards for Scholarly Publishing: A NISO Workshop Report scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/12/w...

Universities ARE healthcare “first time when all three missions of academic medicine – research, education and patient care – are threatened. The U.S. will probably face a physician shortage, stagnation in scientific progress +a decline in the quality of medical care." www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/h...

The annual @aupresses.bsky.social meeting is wrapping up today. The closing plenary, which I’ll be moderating, will discuss the current publishing landscape with @rebseger.bsky.social (@ithakasr.bsky.social), John Donatich (@yalepress.bsky.social), and Roy Kaufman (Copyright Clearance Center).

This #aupresses25 panel is a great reminder of just how much University Press publishing relies on the not-always-visible labor of faculty board members. Shoutout to the (esp. more junior) academics out there doing this work! @dawnd.bsky.social @stephanyehunter.bsky.social @doughild.bsky.social

Grateful to @dawnd.bsky.social for this report from PPS. It was a great kick-off for what will be an annual publishing event here in the Southeast.

The @aupresses.bsky.social annual meeting is in full swing, and I look forward to presenting on “Navigating Editorial Board Relationships” on 6/11 (today!) at 1:15 pm with Walter Biggins, @stephanyehunter.bsky.social, and @doughild.bsky.social.

SCOOP: The Trump administration is planning to dramatically ramp up its transfer of undocumented migrants to Guantanamo Bay. Some 9,000 people are being screened, including hundreds from European countries, according to documents. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

We have a theme for Peer Review Week 2025: Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era

Communications lost with Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen after Israeli navy tells it to change course – live

In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)

In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."