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Academic Life 🌎📚
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🌎 The podcast for your academic journey & beyond! 🎙️ Apple, Spotify, Etc 📚 Substack at: https://christinagessler.substack.com 🍵 Donate: buymeacoffee.com/AcademicLife #AcademicSky #BookSky #EduSky
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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 · 4h
And then??

Please serialize the rest of the diary. We are invested.
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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · 1d
Banned Books Week 2025 (@bannedbooksweek.bsky.social) is winding down, but there is still plenty of time to get involved! Read our new blog post for ideas, and learn how you can pre-order Jonna Perrillo's new book, UNCENSORED: https://bit.ly/4nELR9x #BannedBooksWeek
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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 4d
Academic book authors- she’s talking to you too!
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 4d
It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.
AABB Author Sign-Up Form
Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...
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Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 2d
Honestly true. Professional editors aren't your highschool buddy who is trying to highjack your story, they are people who are good at what they do, know what they are talking about, and actually are trying to make sure your work succeed.
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Y. Marie Stout @stoutpotentials.bsky.social · 2d
Good editors do the opposite of watering down the author’s voice. They show it off. Like a house after decluttering, reorganizing and adding some spit and polish.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d
One more thing: people are homeless because they have been deprived of housing.

You solve homelessness with homes.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d
Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 1d
hello to the few academics that follow me. it’s job market time, so here are the materials that got me a tenure-track job in literature at William & Mary.

academic job hunting is like buying a lottery ticket to attend a shit show, but here they are:

www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/yxln6...
Dropbox
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela
Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.
www.theatlantic.com
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations on the recognition for your book! 🎉🎉
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d
Interesting story of how grad students and professors at a publicly funded US uni did such great things for science they impressed the Nobel prize committee.

theconversation.com/nobel-prize-...
Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology
The discovery that superconducting circuits can behave like quantum particles was a revolutionary development in the field of quantum technologies.
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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 2d
New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 9d
🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.
Stack of books on a table with titles redacted by black bars. Headline reads: "The Normalization of Book Banning: What's Happening. What Can Be Done." PEN America logo appears at bottom.
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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 6d
Here are 4+ years worth of tools, techniques, insights, data, and action items for fighting book bans and standing up for libraries–community-focused institutions of democracy–you can dive into this week and the other 51 weeks of the year.
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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · Nov 10
A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.

This is updated regularly!
Image of the tops of books in a herringbone pattern. They are in a rainbow gradient. The center of the image has a green textbox with the words "Resources for fighting book censorship, library challenges, and more."
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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 2d
It was a great night to celebrate books and authors! Huzzah for the 2025 Kirkus Prize winners! apnews.com/article/kirk...
Kirkus Prize winners include a novel on identity, a history of Iran and an ode to belly buttons
Kirkus Prize judges have announced their winners for this year, awarding $50,000 in each of three categories.
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 2d
Remember when I said something nice was coming today? Well: I was asked to write the introduction to the new edition of Toni Morrison’s BELOVED! I’m so honored and happy! Here’s the new cover—that’s my name down at the bottom!!!!
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Beth Morgan @bethmorgan.bsky.social · Aug 20
Can I promote the book of a friend? Karen Woods Weierman wrote about a little-known legal case and the girl at its center, used as a pawn by both sides and forgotten when it was over. www.umasspress.com/978162534476...
The Case of the Slave-Child, Med
In 1836, an enslaved six-year-old girl named Med was brought to Boston by a woman from New Orleans who claimed her as property. Learning of the girl's arriva...
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 2d
I was listening to the @academiclife.bsky.social podcast episode with the inimitable @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social on my way home today, and lo! what was waiting in my mailbox 🤩 Make Your Manuscript Work finally made it from UK warehouse to my house!
Photo of blue and white cover of the book Make Your Manuscript Work by Laura Portwood-Stacer, posed on top of a mac keyboard on a wooden desktop.
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you so much for listening and amplifying!

Enjoy the read! #BookSky #EduSky
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d
It’s been hard to recreate the community.
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d
Same!
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you so much for being a guest!
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 3d
Done.
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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 4d
before the summer two of my students asked me for reading recommendations. I suggested this book & we’re meeting to discuss it today.

sometimes reading literature needs to be divorced from the classroom & grades & be about fun & pleasure. I want to teach my students this.
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 3d
🎧 Dr Annmarie Cano shares wisdom from her timely and urgent new book
Leading Toward Liberation: How to Build Cultures of Thriving in Higher Education

#AcademicSky #EduSky #BookSky
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The cover of the book Leading Toward Liberation: How to Build Cultures of Thriving in Higher Education by Annmarie Cano
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