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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · Jun 18

Find & follow your favorite university presses on this platform with this handy starter pack of our members: go.bsky.app/7p95p7B

And if you're looking for university presses that publish in a certain field, consult our Subject Area Grid: https://bit.ly/3C7ASUc.

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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 17h

Two of our marvellous poets have been recognized on the Nelson Ball Prize longlist:
Margaret Christakos, THAT AUDIBLE SLIPPAGE
Dawn Macdonald, NORTHERNY
Congratulations to all!
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Nelson Ball Prize 2025 Long List

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 19h

Post-Israel Palestine, 2048. The new streets’ names not only reflected the joy of liberation but also celebrated living in dignity, equality, and without fear. 🍉 #FreePalestine @literaryhub.bsky.social

Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine

A proper imagining of liberation cannot rest content with describing the end game: the day of liberation itself and the hard work the day after. This is only the starting point. No less important i…

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 18h

All are invited to this #OAWeek webinar, "Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective," featuring Nwachukwu Egbunike, Head of Pan-Atlantic University Press in Lagos, on Tues 10/21 4pm ET. Read more & register: events.umich.edu/eve...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Joel Mokyr and Philippe Aghion, who have been recognized with the #NobelPrize2025 in Economics for their work on “innovation-driven economic growth.”

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Author Joel Mokyr and volume editor Philippe Aghion are honored with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics

Princeton University Press congratulates author Joel Mokyr and volume editor Philippe Aghion, both of whom have been recognized with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics – officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – for their work on “innovation-driven economic growth.”

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 1d

"There is something refreshingly nostalgic and transformative about public school boards."

Scott Levy, the author of "Why School Boards Matter," writes for @time.com on how school boards are emerging as one of the most vital and overlooked arenas in American democracy:

Can School Boards Save Our Democracy?

School boards, not Washington, are our best hope for civil discourse, writes Scott Levy.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 2d

From a history of goth to Egyptian mummies, and the science behind that eerie feeling that we aren’t alone, shop our Spooky Season reading list w 25% OFF books by @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social & @odavies9.bsky.social, @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social & more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10...

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine @nationalacademies.org · 2d

The National Academies Press publishes more than 200 publications per year on a wide range of topics, providing authoritative, independently-researched information on important matters in science, engineering, and medicine.

Explore our work: https://ow.ly/Xuzr50Xa1T1

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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · 1d

Margaret Thatcher would have turned 100 today.

Explore her legacy in Jon Agar's Science Policy under Thatcher. A compelling account of how science shaped and was shaped by her government.

📖 Read it free: bit.ly/3J8K12b
#OpenAccess #SciencePolicy

Cover of the book 'Science Policy Under Thatcher' by Jon Agar, featuring an image of Margaret Thatcher with arms outstretched.

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 1d

In the new issue of Bookbird, a survey of four publishers devoted to preserving art, language and storytelling traditions for young Indigenous people: Magabala, Theytus, Inhabit Media, and Black Bears and Blueberries

Read free thru 31 October at Project MUSE

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Amplifying Indigenous Voices
Four Indigenous Publishing Houses
Maria Scaletti, Julie Barbour, Nicola Daly,
and Nicholas Vanderschantz
“Symbolically, Indigenous picturebooks communicate the importance of Indigenous knowledge and ways of being in the world.

(T)here has been a plethora of Indigenous stories retold by non-Indigenous authors, but in recent times Indigenous publishing houses that nurture Indigenous writers and illustrators have been growing in number.”

Bookbird
A Journal of International Children's Literature
Volume 63, Number 3, 2025

Read free thru 31 October 2025

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · 1d

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and resilience.

Monani discusses how Indigenous cinema’s ecological entanglements are a crucial aspect of its agenda of decolonialism.

We celebrate the power of film to sustain cultural memory and imagine more just futures.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a good day to read some contemporary accounts of Columbus's voyages to the Americas & their consequences, such as those of Bartolomé de Las Casas & Fray Ramón Pané, who both condemned the treatment of Indigenous peoples.
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Cover of Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism by Daniel Castro

Cover of An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians
A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by José Juan Arrom

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Syracuse University Press @syracuseup.bsky.social · 1d

Syracuse University Press is celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day with a 40% off Sale on all of our Native American and Indigenous studies titles. press.syr.edu/supressbook-...

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, read an article in Journal of American Ethnic History 44.4 about US v. Pearson, how the US used citizenship+ taxation as settler-colonial tools, and how an Indigenous community fought back.
cc: @iehs.bsky.social
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Cover of Journal of American Ethnic History, Summer 2025, Volume 44, Number 4
Yellow and Black color-blocked background with image of North America on a globe, includes list of authors

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Rutgers University Press @rutgersupress.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Save 30% (plus free U.S. shipping)
Use discount code RUP30

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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 1d

Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, who have been jointly awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 👏

Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/3JanmT8

📷 Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 1d

Phillip H. Round reviews three new studies of Indigenous print culture, asking "How do we disclose and explicate the many different Indigenous epistemologies at work in 19th-century Native textual production?"

Free in the new J19 thru 31 Oct at @ProjectMUSE

tinyurl.com/y238tcc9

Indigenous Book History Today:Paper Language, Compilation, Paratexts, and Printscapes

Phillip H. Round reviews
Amy Gore, Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023)

Kathryn Walkiewicz, Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State (University of North Carolina Press, 2023)

Kelly Wisecup, Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early American Native Literatures (Yale University Press, 2021)

J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2025

Read free thru 31 October

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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 1d

"Love and Loss After Wounded Knee" author Julie Dobrow pens this in time for Indigenous Peoples Day about Elaine Goodale & Charles Eastman—star-crossed lovers torn apart by racism and forced assimilation, as they struggled to honor Native identity in a nation determined to erase it.

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 1d

A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee in 1890. Their unlikely marriage reveals complex tensions around race, identity and assimilation in late 19th century America. buff.ly/OHOp0kd
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A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apart

Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman’s 19th-century interracial marriage made them a media sensation. But tensions over gender, race and identity ultimately proved too hard to overcome.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! This year, we commemorate the holiday with a selection of works from the MIT Press Reader that honor the rich history, culture, and contributions of Native communities: mitpress.mit.edu/articles-for...

Illustrations of various native plants in greyscale. At the center of the image are two hands sketched cupping a plant.

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Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, author of The Enlightened Economy, who has been awarded The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences!

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress" and the other half jointly to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt "for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction"

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University Press of Florida @floridapress.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium on Thursday, Oct. 23, beginning at 1:00 pm! This free, virtual event is open to anyone who would like to learn more about book publishing. To register, click here: bit.ly/2025PublishingSymposium

This is a promotional graphic for the University Press of Florida’s Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium. It features the three sessions that make up the symposium, “Understanding Editors,” “Careers in Publishing,” and “Publishing Career Meetup,” as well as their respective start and end times in multicolored bands against an azure background. University Press of Florida and UF Press logos appear in white in the bottom right corner, while white text in the left corner reads, “Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium.”

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 1d

Welcoming @hopkinspress.bsky.social as #AskUP site host this quarter. Dedicated publishing professionals from the press are standing by to curate & answer new questions about university press publishing.

Got a question about how university presses work? #ReadUP & #AskUP! https://bit.ly/3p9iE9M

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 3d

5 minutes. That's all it takes to start fighting book bans.

It's #LetFreedomReadDay. We're asking you to do at least one thing today to fight censorship. Then keep doing it!

bit.ly/LetFreedomReadDay

We're stronger TOGETHER.

#CensorshipIsSo1984 #BannedBooksWeek

The freedom to read is under attack. Let's do something about it. bit.ly/LetFreedomReadDay

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 4d

“Americans are curious, inquisitive, learning, and enriching themselves…”

Banned Books Week honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social knows we need the right to read to understand each other.

Full interview: youtu.be/Gm4-SOEwEYk

#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984

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University Press of Mississippi @upmississippi.bsky.social · 4d

C-SPAN Book TV airs panels from the Mississippi Book Festival this Sunday!
📚 From World War II to First Americans, explore stories that shaped our shared history.
🕐 12:30 PM CST start
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#MSBookFestival #CSPAN #UPMississippi

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BucknellUPress.bsky.social @bucknellupress.bsky.social · 4d

To wrap up #BannedBooksWeek, we’d like to spotlight a BUP title recently added to the list of books banned across the country; “Cigar Smoke and Violet Water” by Joyce Tolliver was number 307 on April’s list of purged books.

To learn more: tinyurl.com/2etuxzzd

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