Caelyn Cobb
@caelyncobb.bsky.social
she/her | editor for global history & politics at Columbia UP 📚 writer and nerdy feminist 🤓 extremely online 📱
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It’s been a whirlwind few days at MESA 2025 in DC! Stop by the @columbiaup.bsky.social booth for the final few hours of the book exhibit today at the Westin—50% off on all our titles, and maybe even 75% at the bitter end.
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s been a whirlwind few days at MESA 2025 in DC! Stop by the @columbiaup.bsky.social booth for the final few hours of the book exhibit today at the Westin—50% off on all our titles, and maybe even 75% at the bitter end.
Post a movie where you are from
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Post a movie where you are from
There’s always that One Guy in the workshop
Another candidate whom she had profiled. Another note—a poem, according to Olivia—though this time from the candidate to her.
“Yr open mouth awaiting my 1/
“Yr open mouth awaiting my 1/
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
There’s always that One Guy in the workshop
My fall/winter reading projects:
Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby
Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey (true crime book club)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This (MESA conference reading)
Splinters, Leslie Jamison
Sparks, Ian Johnson (AHA conference reading)
The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr
Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby
Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey (true crime book club)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This (MESA conference reading)
Splinters, Leslie Jamison
Sparks, Ian Johnson (AHA conference reading)
The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr
Winter reading projects:
Rereading The Dark is Rising (with my daughter)
Rereading The Golden Compass (with my daughter)
Rereading Once and Future King
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s biography of T.H. White
The Gormenghast trilogy
Paradise Lost
Vendler’s Dickinson anthology
Wolf Hall books
You?
Rereading The Dark is Rising (with my daughter)
Rereading The Golden Compass (with my daughter)
Rereading Once and Future King
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s biography of T.H. White
The Gormenghast trilogy
Paradise Lost
Vendler’s Dickinson anthology
Wolf Hall books
You?
November 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My fall/winter reading projects:
Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby
Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey (true crime book club)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This (MESA conference reading)
Splinters, Leslie Jamison
Sparks, Ian Johnson (AHA conference reading)
The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr
Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby
Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey (true crime book club)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This (MESA conference reading)
Splinters, Leslie Jamison
Sparks, Ian Johnson (AHA conference reading)
The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr
This hot Chinese grad student asked me to publicly support her dad's Belt and Road initiative because she really likes me, not because I am an easy mark
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This hot Chinese grad student asked me to publicly support her dad's Belt and Road initiative because she really likes me, not because I am an easy mark
Do we think it’s just him queening out on a Friday or is it his team trying to calm him down? Could go either way
Trump blares Phantom of the Opera at the White House with an empty Friday schedule
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Do we think it’s just him queening out on a Friday or is it his team trying to calm him down? Could go either way
We are hiring two editorial assistants at Columbia UP! One for the philosophy/religion/theory editor & @philipleventhal.bsky.social (lit/film), & one for the sociology/Black studies & the editorial director/editor for lit in translation/Asian studies. Apply for both at the link.
Editorial Assistant - Other NYC Locations, New York, United States
Job Type: Support Staff - Non-Union
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Salary Range: $46,400.00-$46,400.00
The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, includi...
opportunities.columbia.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We are hiring two editorial assistants at Columbia UP! One for the philosophy/religion/theory editor & @philipleventhal.bsky.social (lit/film), & one for the sociology/Black studies & the editorial director/editor for lit in translation/Asian studies. Apply for both at the link.
My husband put Fox News on the hotel TV so we can hate watch it. I was annoyed at first but this shit is hilarious. “Rapper Nicki Minaj tweeted her thanks to President Trump,” one anchor breathlessly reports.
November 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My husband put Fox News on the hotel TV so we can hate watch it. I was annoyed at first but this shit is hilarious. “Rapper Nicki Minaj tweeted her thanks to President Trump,” one anchor breathlessly reports.
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yes
we will be doing some variation "everything is gender" discourse until the day we vanish from the earth, won't we?
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
yes
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October 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Consider donating to Columbia UP this giving season! Details in the below ⬇️
Bless them for reading this book so we don't have to
In lieu of turning this thread into a book review, I turned it into a hate-read-book-club conversation with @adambecker.bsky.social.
"Here Lies Humanity, Dead by Fancy Autocomplete"
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"Here Lies Humanity, Dead by Fancy Autocomplete"
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October 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Bless them for reading this book so we don't have to
As @jelaniya.bsky.social said on @chrislhayes.bsky.social last night: these people aren’t asking for free speech—they’re asking for impunity
"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...
Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector
It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...
defector.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
As @jelaniya.bsky.social said on @chrislhayes.bsky.social last night: these people aren’t asking for free speech—they’re asking for impunity
A view from the peer review trenches (pls turn in your reviews)
October 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A view from the peer review trenches (pls turn in your reviews)
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
FYI I can tell when you are using ChatGPT to write your proposals and pitch emails
October 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
FYI I can tell when you are using ChatGPT to write your proposals and pitch emails
For once, excited to NOT see my workplace in the breaking news article!
Breaking News: The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender.
nyti.ms
October 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
For once, excited to NOT see my workplace in the breaking news article!
He’s just doing counter-terrorism, guys
Not even 20 minutes later and I guess we’re doing 50% tariffs on IKEA for some reason. He’s a man with a plan to make life more expensive and he can’t be stopped.
September 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
He’s just doing counter-terrorism, guys
Please check out this excellent interview with my fabulous @columbiaup.bsky.social colleague Alyssa Napier about her new list in sociology and black studies and the challenges of being a university press worker in our current climate
"I want to encourage a sense of solidarity in my relationships with my authors, and in the ways that we recognize all sorts of disruptions are happening for people right now and how we have to accommodate the work that we do to account for that."
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newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/alyssa...
Meet an acquiring editor at Columbia University Press
An interview with editor Alyssa M. Napier of Columbia University Press by Laura Portwood-Stacer of Manuscript Works
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Please check out this excellent interview with my fabulous @columbiaup.bsky.social colleague Alyssa Napier about her new list in sociology and black studies and the challenges of being a university press worker in our current climate
Reposted by Caelyn Cobb
[logging on every day] man what
September 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
[logging on every day] man what
I did have a second where I was like, honestly, this could be true. There could be a couple of guys somewhere who specialize in dental realism. There could be a Dental Realism Studies journal with a circulation of 11.
When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
September 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I did have a second where I was like, honestly, this could be true. There could be a couple of guys somewhere who specialize in dental realism. There could be a Dental Realism Studies journal with a circulation of 11.
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When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
September 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
Lovely event last night at Hunter College to launch the global edition of @manubhagavan.bsky.social’s THE REMARKABLE MADAME PANDIT, the definitive biography of pioneering Indian diplomat Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Out now with @columbiaup.bsky.social!
September 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Lovely event last night at Hunter College to launch the global edition of @manubhagavan.bsky.social’s THE REMARKABLE MADAME PANDIT, the definitive biography of pioneering Indian diplomat Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Out now with @columbiaup.bsky.social!
hotel president thinks fire codes stop wildfires
September 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
hotel president thinks fire codes stop wildfires
A fun thing--a (belated) congrats to Ian Johnson for winning an award for excellence in book reviewing for his NYRB of our @columbiaup.bsky.social biography of Liu Xiaobo by Perry Link & Wu Dazhi washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/20/t...
The 2025 Kukula Award Winners
Annual award celebrates nonfiction book reviewing and honors the memory of Kukula Kapoor Glastris, the magazine’s beloved books editor.
washingtonmonthly.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A fun thing--a (belated) congrats to Ian Johnson for winning an award for excellence in book reviewing for his NYRB of our @columbiaup.bsky.social biography of Liu Xiaobo by Perry Link & Wu Dazhi washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/20/t...