Laura Davulis
@davulis.bsky.social
History editor, JHU Press. Got a book idea? Get in touch: [email protected]. No DMs, please. (I do not speak for my employer here, etc etc.)
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my understanding is I’m not the only one receiving extremely long linkedin messages from a Benjamin Franklin Impersonator???
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
my understanding is I’m not the only one receiving extremely long linkedin messages from a Benjamin Franklin Impersonator???
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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! 👇
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! 👇
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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! 👇
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! 👇
I am going to tell you a very important secret. You can just not celebrate holidays if you don’t want to. You can skip them for any reason that feels right to you or no reason at all. You won’t go to jail; the world won’t end. It’s fine.
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I am going to tell you a very important secret. You can just not celebrate holidays if you don’t want to. You can skip them for any reason that feels right to you or no reason at all. You won’t go to jail; the world won’t end. It’s fine.
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
Today’s local celebrity sighting
November 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Today’s local celebrity sighting
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I think my state-school students deserve to learn how to think and analyze for themselves. Will my administrators agree or just tell students they should let a computer think for them?
Who invests in critical thinking and who invests in an AI chatbot to help you think will be really telling.
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I think my state-school students deserve to learn how to think and analyze for themselves. Will my administrators agree or just tell students they should let a computer think for them?
Every day is like watching a hundred very weird political science dissertations being born.
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Every day is like watching a hundred very weird political science dissertations being born.
Wait, what?
Baker & Taylor Publisher Services Acquired By Lakeside
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Baker & Taylor Publisher Services Acquired By Lakeside - Publishers Lunch
Lakeside Book Company announced Friday afternoon that it has acquired Baker & Taylor Publisher Services. The company notes, “Lakeside Book expands its service offering to include distribution and orde...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Wait, what?
Today in Heavy-Handed Metaphors
Fort McHenry shuts down after crews unearth historic explosive device
Crews renovating Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine dug up an old explosive device, possibly from over a century ago, police said.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Today in Heavy-Handed Metaphors
A reminder that writing books is hard, and if you find it difficult, it’s not because you’re bad at it, it’s because it’s hard.
November 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A reminder that writing books is hard, and if you find it difficult, it’s not because you’re bad at it, it’s because it’s hard.
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After 20 years in the Navy, Buzz Grambo thought he'd spend his retirement playing video games and watching baseball. Instead, he patrols the streets of Baltimore to protect his neighbors from ICE. He even upgraded his scooter to a Segway that reaches 26 mph to keep up with the agents. My latest:
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
After 20 years in the Navy, Buzz Grambo thought he'd spend his retirement playing video games and watching baseball. Instead, he patrols the streets of Baltimore to protect his neighbors from ICE. He even upgraded his scooter to a Segway that reaches 26 mph to keep up with the agents. My latest:
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
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Some people on here know that I run a dog walking/sitting business on the side of my academic stuff. Anyway, here are some of the dogs I look after, starting with Luna...
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Some people on here know that I run a dog walking/sitting business on the side of my academic stuff. Anyway, here are some of the dogs I look after, starting with Luna...
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
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Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
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A generous donor will match $5 for each copy of the new “Ora” issue sold, $10 per subscription and $15 per 2-year subscription to help Jamaica rebuild after Hurricane Melissa thru 31 December
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November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Subscribe to Callaloo today and support Jamaica disaster relief!
A generous donor will match $5 for each copy of the new “Ora” issue sold, $10 per subscription and $15 per 2-year subscription to help Jamaica rebuild after Hurricane Melissa thru 31 December
Info here: www.callalooliterary...
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A generous donor will match $5 for each copy of the new “Ora” issue sold, $10 per subscription and $15 per 2-year subscription to help Jamaica rebuild after Hurricane Melissa thru 31 December
Info here: www.callalooliterary...
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I would super love it if every time I google a female historian (a daily if not hourly task), google didn’t offer “Is [female historian name] married?” as a “people also ask” option. 🤬
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I would super love it if every time I google a female historian (a daily if not hourly task), google didn’t offer “Is [female historian name] married?” as a “people also ask” option. 🤬
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Please note: none of these are university presses. Thank you.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Please note: none of these are university presses. Thank you.
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Are you an artist? Do you work with artists or cultural organizations? Do you want to learn about how to approach media outlets about such work? Well well well, my colleagues at Broad Street Review and I have a virtual training for you on December 10! www.eventbrite.com/e/help-us-he...
HELP US HELP YOU 2025: The PR webinar for artists with the editors at BSR
Join the editors at Broad Street Review and an expert panel for an updated session of our popular webinar on arts & culture PR.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Are you an artist? Do you work with artists or cultural organizations? Do you want to learn about how to approach media outlets about such work? Well well well, my colleagues at Broad Street Review and I have a virtual training for you on December 10! www.eventbrite.com/e/help-us-he...
Special thanks this evening to my ninth grade English teacher Chris McAskill, who made us read Oedipus Rex, as a direct result of which I nailed (pun very much intended) the final question at trivia tonight, securing the win and thus free movie passes to the priciest theater in town for my team
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Special thanks this evening to my ninth grade English teacher Chris McAskill, who made us read Oedipus Rex, as a direct result of which I nailed (pun very much intended) the final question at trivia tonight, securing the win and thus free movie passes to the priciest theater in town for my team
I have long said that I do not maintain a blacklist of authors/potential authors. If I’ve rejected you before, you’re always welcome to try again. If we had a conflict, you’re always welcome to work it out with me. But this… this is blacklist worthy, I’m sorry.
Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Here is a thread of my feelings
a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I have long said that I do not maintain a blacklist of authors/potential authors. If I’ve rejected you before, you’re always welcome to try again. If we had a conflict, you’re always welcome to work it out with me. But this… this is blacklist worthy, I’m sorry.
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As an acquisitions editor, this is my personal nightmare.
Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Here is a thread of my feelings
a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
As an acquisitions editor, this is my personal nightmare.
Whoever this woman is, I hope she is living her best life as a corner-office CEO or gentlewoman farmer or punk-rock band frontwoman or CFO of the women’s commune or whatever, floating through life blissfully unconcerned with the Opinions of Men
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Whoever this woman is, I hope she is living her best life as a corner-office CEO or gentlewoman farmer or punk-rock band frontwoman or CFO of the women’s commune or whatever, floating through life blissfully unconcerned with the Opinions of Men
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A huge honor to receive the latest review of our book from one of my free speech heroes.
November 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A huge honor to receive the latest review of our book from one of my free speech heroes.