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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · Nov 8
How’s your TBR stack? We have episodes featuring the authors of all of these books, sharing their work. 🎧 📚💙⬇️

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The threat of "I'm going to be homeless and starve if this doesn't work out" kills so much potential in art and innovation.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I've noticed that most of my students have bought the physical books for my classes and are marking them up more than in the past. Perhaps what they're craving is an experience that a machine can't replicate...the human experience of pleasure, confusion, illumination, etc. that comes w/ reading.
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Hello! Boycotting Black Friday? Looking for something inexpensive and meaningful to support instead? If you drop a few dollars in the coffee cup ⬇️, it helps me to keep the show free for listeners and on the air. buymeacoffee.com/AcademicLife
Does $5 help? Yes.
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Academic Life is A free information and knowledge sharing platform.
Your contributions cover the overhead costs of producing this weekly podcast, heard in 160 countries. Donations of any size help keep it on the air, and in free open access. Thank you for supporting t
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November 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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We can all have this.

Go to a shelter.
fishtopher.bsky.social Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 4d
how it started vs how its going! 3 years ago today, fish dad and i got the best black friday deal of all
Fishtopher 3 years ago, when he was first adopted. He is a brown tabby cat with green eyes and a wide head. He lays in the arms of the camera person and looks a little anxious. Fishtopher today. He is a brown tabby cat with green eyes, and is sitting very confidently and expectantly for treats.
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Why is it "AI" in education is being treated to completely different evidentiary standards than other resources allowed in schools? ...
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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bookshopghost.bsky.social
Communities need used-book shops.

As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...

We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
On the left, a narrow, glass-fronted display case with a mix of letterpress, hand-bound, antiquarian, and collectors' books; stretching off to the right, 8-foot bookcases laden with literary and contemporary commercial fiction, about one thousand books out of the 6-7 thousand in that section. LED lighting and light-colored wood cases and flooring keep the room feeling relatively spacious despite the sheer quantity of books.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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@drernestocast.bsky.social joins us to unpack 📚Immigration Realities. 🎧⬇️
#AcademicSky #booksky
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Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
Podcast Episode · The Academic Life · 09/19/2024 · 1h 9m
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November 19, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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🎙️Dr. Stephanie Canizales shares 📚 Sin Padres, Sin Papeles & takes us inside her research with unaccompanied undocumented children, and life in a sanctuary city. 🎧⬇️
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #AcademicSky @ucpress.bsky.social
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Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales
The Academic Life · Episode
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November 21, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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🎙️Who was Frances Perkins, and how did she become Madam Secretary? Dr Rebecca Brenner Graham shares her research on this architect of the New Deal and her efforts to aid refugees.🎧⬇️
📚 Dear Miss Perkins
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social #AcademicSky #BookSky #AcWriters

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The cover of the book Dear Miss Perkins, on a bookshelf.
January 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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🎧 Dr Jennifer Cobbina joins us to explain the history of policing, why protests matter, and what was behind the call to defund the police. ⬇️
📚Hands Up, Don’t Shoot
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #BookTok #BookSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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The cover of the book Hands Up, Don’t Shoot by Dr Jennifer E. Cobbina
February 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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🎧 Prof. Amanda Frost unpacks the #history of citizenship stripping. What is it, and what can be done? ⬇️

@womenknowhistory.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #EduSky #LawSky #BookSky

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The cover of the book You Are Not American by Amanda Frost
August 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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🎧 Dr. Greta Uehling joins us to talk about the 2014 invasion of Crimea, the many forms of #resistance to Russian aggression, and her new book Decolonizing Ukraine ⬇️
#BookSky #SkyStorians @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

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The cover of the book Decolonizing Ukraine by Dr Greta Lynn Uehling
July 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
academiclife.bsky.social
Hello! Boycotting Black Friday? Looking for something inexpensive and meaningful to support instead? If you drop a few dollars in the coffee cup ⬇️, it helps me to keep the show free for listeners and on the air. buymeacoffee.com/AcademicLife
Does $5 help? Yes.
buymeacoffee.com/AcademicLife
Academic Life is A free information and knowledge sharing platform.
Your contributions cover the overhead costs of producing this weekly podcast, heard in 160 countries. Donations of any size help keep it on the air, and in free open access. Thank you for supporting t
buymeacoffee.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Love this interview that I did a few years back about my first book - it's worth a listen.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Hello historians 🗃️! Planning on attending #AHA26 and have book ideas in mind?

Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
Meeting with an editor at a conference * Identify likely publishers. They are ones who * have published in similar fields recently (in the last 5 years) * are attending the conference * Find the editor’s contact info (usually on the publisher’s website) * Email the editor a query letter * Introduce yourself * Describe your project briefly (1 paragraph) * Attach a book proposal if you have one * Ask if the editor is available to meet * Prepare for the meeting * It will be an informal 1/2 hour conversation * Be ready to describe your project without going deep into the weeds * Ask questions * Enjoy the conversation - this book may or may not be a good fit for that publisher, but treat this as professional networking because your next book might be
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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audrajwolfe.bsky.social
My best advice to aspiring authors of scholarly books is to read other scholarly books recently published by your target press. This may seem obvious and yet is not!
October 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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kevin-gallant.bsky.social
Balancing music work and writing feels like switching brain modes every five minutes, but somehow it keeps me going. If you’re juggling creative stuff too, you’re not alone. Keep at it.

#BookSky #Music #Business
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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"Talking to Writers" author Dean Nelson shares his best writing advice for #AcWriMo.

📚 How do you get writing inspiration? 💙

#Writers #WritingCommunity
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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🗺️ Discover @ucl.ac.uk’s Map Library!

Professor James Cheshire reveals stories of empire, climate change, and science in The Library of Lost Maps. History unfolds one drawer at a time.

Read more: tinyurl.com/ucl-portico

#UCLGeography #Maps #PorticoMagazine
October 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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🆕 #TNOCEssay
How We Miss Half of Wildlife
by Sophia Kimmig — Leipzig

At night, cities transform. Wild boars at bus stops. Raccoons in trees. We miss half of nature by living in daylight.

🔗 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2025/06...

#UrbanNature #LivingNight #NocturnalWildlife #TheNatureOfCities
June 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
ARTISTS!
I need your help!

In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.

Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM