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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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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 3h

Get even more
content at Christinagessler.substack.com for free, or pay-what-you-like.
#BookSky #AcademicSky #5amwriters

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 16h

After 158 years of publication.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

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Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 18h

We can be.

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Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 1d

A man named Nicky Crawford transformed a school bus into a mobile laundry service for the homeless called “Flowing with Blessings” He teamed up with Georgia Tech engineering students and created the bus, which provides free laundry, showers, haircuts & meals for the homelessness

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, it’s yet another good moment to ask Blue Sky for an edit button.

Also: 🤷🏻‍♀️ annoying typos increase post engagement. So, hello!!

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 1d

What is development editing? How does it improve your work? Laura Portwood-Stacer explains⬇️.

📚Make Your Manuscript Work
#nonfiction #AcademicLife @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-academic-life/id1539341620?i=1000730954206

The cover of the book Make Your Manuscript Work by Laura Portwood-Stacer

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 2d

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d

When people tell you that founders as enslavers was something we should see "in the context of their time." Great piece fr @katytelling.bsky.social abt a wealthy 18hc Virginian (and there were others) who thought Washington and co. risked their honor and more. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic

By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 10d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh, that sounds really interesting! 📚📚

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 6d

This is your every now and then reminder that if you got to @uncpress.bsky.social website and enter 01HATM30 you’ll get 30% off of any title. I don’t get anything for it, but it’s a nice thing for my readers and the #HATM community.

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Home - The University of North Carolina Press

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d

Happy publication day! 📚 Can’t wait to read this!

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Writing Africa @writingafrica.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday Times Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
#LiteraryAwards #Fiction #Nonfiction #SouthAfrica #NoDNAJustRSA
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Sunday Times Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced

The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2025 shortlists were announced in Johannesburg, South Africa on Sunday, October 5, 2025.

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d

Have tried that with a few books (and movies) (and a tv series).

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · Aug 3

PBS gave us Mister Rogers and Officer Clemmons in the 1960’s.
PBS showed the world what love & equality looks like, during a time when people were actually dumping acid into pools where Black kids were swimming...

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d

Once is a lot.

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d

Intriguing. Sample idea please?

Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d

Not unhinged, fact.

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d

Sure they saw it all…but do we trust their pov?

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d

Fact.

Also: would like to see the other unhinged takes as Muppet adaptations before we all finish our final votes please.

Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d

Not unhinged.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

People have no idea how many homeless people in this area are serving their fast food or checking them out at the grocery store lane.

Want to solve homelessness? Build a lot more affordable housing and pay living wages.

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 4d

Can we have more tidbits while we wait?