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David Eisler
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Publishing Director for Language, Literature, and Culture at De Gruyter Brill; Author of WRITING WARS: Authorship and American War Fiction (Uni. of Iowa Press, 2022)
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emily.space
Call it AI if you somehow make an LLM discover actual new physics (and please not just something it scraped off of the internet.)

This will probably not happen for a few more decades at best... we are probably far from AGI, and anyone telling you otherwise is trying to raise their share price.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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emily.space
My family are useful canaries of what news the public actually sees from astro, and only yesterday did my mum ask me about a study (one article of many linked below) who said they "trained an AI" to simulate the Milky Way.

This was NOT AI as how the public sees "AI", and this is disingenuous.
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
davideisler.bsky.social
Already working on your Christmas shopping? @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social's brand new book "Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy" - the first in our "Pop Culture in Context" series - is on sale now!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Selling Out Santa
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34 th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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gvaughnjoy.bsky.social
🎄🎄 CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY 🎄🎄

My book **Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy** was surprise published yesterday! Here's the book description and Barnes & Noble link if you're interested in gifting it to history and film lovers!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...
About this book Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for American cultural and political attitudes of a given moment. Via a case study on Hollywood Christmas films released between 1946 and 1961, Selling Out Santa offers an examination of political pressures on Hollywood in the post-war period and the cultural ramifications of federal involvement in the motion picture industry. As the House Committee on Un-American Activities opened hearings in 1947 and the FBI gathered reports on potential communist subversion in Frank Capra’s Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Hollywood executives began to bend to the socially conservative pressures of this post-war moment. Using Christmas films as the core of this investigation to identify and analyse changes within the genre as they relate to and reflect changes in the wider cultural and political moment exposes for film scholars, students, and non-specialists how these federal and external pressures on Hollywood moulded these holiday favourites throughout the 1950s and set the social standard for decades of Christmas releases.
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social
Excited to announce the virtual launch of our new book, 'The New Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London' in one week! Join our editors next Tuesday at 10:00-11:30 a.m. ET; 9:00-10:30 a.m. CT; 4:5-30 p.m. CST! @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @andypearce.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
davideisler.bsky.social
Can’t argue with this to be honest.
Picture of me ab Lou Peck on a panel at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
davideisler.bsky.social
What a privilege to take part in this. Thank you to everyone who attended and my fellow panelists!
degruyterbrill.bsky.social De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · Oct 15
We were delighted to contribute to today's thought-provoking panel at @buchmesse.de with David Eisler, Sarah Phibbs, Ilyas Saliba & Lou Peck on how publishers can defend academic freedom, support at-risk scholars, and promote equitable access to knowledge.Thanks to everyone who came! #FBM25
Photo of the three speakers at the Innovation Stage at the Frankfurt Book Fair Photo of the three speakers at the Innovation Stage at the Frankfurt Book Fair Close-up of De Gruyter Brill's David Eisler at the panel discussion Photo of the three speakers + organizer Ingo Rother at the Innovation Stage at the Frankfurt Book Fair
October 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
davideisler.bsky.social
Excited to be with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time! Looking forward to a great panel and discussion later.
The DGB stand at the book fair. List of panels.
October 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
davideisler.bsky.social
Last day at #GSA2025 in Arlington! For those following the adventure at home, I drafted a graphical representation of how many @degruyterbrill.bsky.social books we had on our table over time. See you next year!
A very bad graph of how many books we had at our conference table.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social
*No books? No problem!* Our book boxes have mysteriously disappeared but *we* are totally here! #GSA2025 @Arlington, VA
September 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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judithrauscher.bsky.social
Cover-reveal of the first book in the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series 'Pop Culture in Context' I co-edit with @lizwfab.bsky.social & @hermioneclone.bsky.social! Congrats to Vaughn @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & many thanks to @davideisler.bsky.social,our editorial director,for all your hard work!
gvaughnjoy.bsky.social Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · Aug 28
Everything is terrible right now in general, but in personal good news, my book has a cover and I'm so excited to share it!!!

Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...
A book cover from De Gruyter. A faded American flag's red and white stripes sets the background. In the foreground are three Christmas baubles: a darker red ball is in front coming in from the left, a white ball is behind it, and a light navy blue ball hangs behind that. White text reads the title: Selling out Santa Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy. On the blue ball white text reads Vaughn Joy and the series name pop culture in context
August 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
davideisler.bsky.social
The first volume in the new @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social series “Pop Culture in Context” has a cover!
gvaughnjoy.bsky.social Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · Aug 28
Everything is terrible right now in general, but in personal good news, my book has a cover and I'm so excited to share it!!!

Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...
A book cover from De Gruyter. A faded American flag's red and white stripes sets the background. In the foreground are three Christmas baubles: a darker red ball is in front coming in from the left, a white ball is behind it, and a light navy blue ball hangs behind that. White text reads the title: Selling out Santa Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy. On the blue ball white text reads Vaughn Joy and the series name pop culture in context
August 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
davideisler.bsky.social
Leading up to the “Back to the Beginning” show a few weeks ago, I spent a lot of time listening to Ozzy’s music. It was such a pleasure to remember the joy I got learning his songs as a teenage guitar player. I’m glad he got to perform one last time.
komaniecki.bsky.social Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · Jul 22
Rest in peace, Ozzy. One of heavy metal’s godfathers.
July 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
davideisler.bsky.social
How I pack for basically every trip.
drreznicek.bsky.social Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · Jul 14
I’ve got 300 pages left in this novel but we leave on Friday for ten days so I clearly need to decide what to read next so it can come with me.
July 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
davideisler.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to work with Liz, Emily, and Judith to bring this series to life. More announcements coming soon!
July 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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vrubinobs.bsky.social
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!

Can you guess these regions of sky?

This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪

#RubinFirstLook
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A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black. A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars. A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
davideisler.bsky.social
Damn I was counting on this
natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jun 2
The likelihood of a collision between the Milky Way and its neighbouring galaxy Andromeda may be smaller than previously thought, according to a new simulation described in Nature Astronomy. go.nature.com/454Oagd 🔭 🧪
This is figure 1, showing possible future Milky Way-Andromeda orbits.
June 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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gvaughnjoy.bsky.social
I have proofs 🥹 of a book that I wrote 🥹

Huge thanks to @davideisler.bsky.social and @degruyterbrill.bsky.social for making dreams come true!

MY BOOK on media manipulation of the Christmas holiday for social conservative ends in the post-war period will be out in November (in time for Christmas!)🗃️
Screenshot of a title page, black text against a white background reading: Vaughn Joy Selling Out Santa Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy De Gruyter
June 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
davideisler.bsky.social
Humanities for Humans in Berlin today! This promises to be a fascinating and timely discussion.
degruyterbrill.bsky.social De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · May 15
A reminder that you're cordially invited to this in-person event at our Berlin office next Thursday! Peggy Piesche, Jeff Peck, Timothy Ryback and Irene Kacandes will debate the relevance of public intellectuals amid today's authoritarian shift.

Get your ticket now! www.eventbrite.de/e/the-changi...
Visual with speaker headshots and names set against a pink and orange color gradient. Text: Humanities for Humans. The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual. May 22, 6pm CEST. De Gruyter Brill, Lützowstr. 33, First Floor Studio, 10785 Berlin, Germany. Speakers: Peggy Piesche, Jeff Peck, Timothy W. Ryback, Moderator: Irene Kacandes
May 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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degruyterbrill.bsky.social
After a successful run in New York, the "Humanities for Humans" discussion series comes to Berlin! The Walter de Gruyter Foundation and 1014 are delighted to host these eminent American and German scholars on May 22 to debate how intellectuals can respond to the authoritarian shift of recent years.
Visual with speaker headshots and names set against a pink and orange color gradient. Text: Humanities for Humans. The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual. May 22, 6pm CEST. De Gruyter Brill, Lützowstr. 33, First Floor Studio, 10785 Berlin, Germany. Speakers: Peggy Piesche, Jeff Peck, Timothy W. Ryback, Moderator: Irene Kacandes
May 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social
#OpenAccess 📖📖 | Dieses neue Buch widmet sich der Frage, wie über Kunstmusik auf #Finnisch geschrieben wird. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf Texten zu zentralen Persönlichkeiten der finnischen Musik.

🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

@unigreifswald.bsky.social
Cover of the book "Finnische Musikfachsprache" by Benjamin Schweitzer
April 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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manshel.bsky.social
For @newyorker.com, I wrote about how "The Great Gatsby," which turns 100 this month, went from flop to high school classic, and whether the novel can survive another hundred years
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
How “The Great Gatsby” Took Over High School
The classroom staple turns a hundred.
www.newyorker.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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kumail.bsky.social
Just fucking getting newsed in the face every fucking day
April 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social
Wir freuen uns auf die Lesung aus "Krieg der Narrative" von Christian F. Trippe! Der Band analysiert Kommunikation als Waffe im digitalen Krieg und ihre Auswirkungen.

⌚️ 12.4.25, 19:30
📍 Alte Kachelofenfabrik Neustrelitz, Eintritt frei!

📖 Zum Buch: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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Das Bild zeigt das Cover des Buches und die Überschrift „Buchpräsentation“.
April 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social
Our cultural studies editor Myrto Aspioti is packing her bags🧳 for Lleida, Spain to attend the ENAS and NANAS Conference on #Ageing, Old Age, and Intergenerational Relationships next week! Say hi at [email protected]
@enas-agestudies.bsky.social @nanetworkinaging.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM