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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 · 7h

Congratulations on the recognition for your book! 🎉🎉

Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 14h

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.

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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 · 19h

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.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 7d

🧵 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.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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 · 1d

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.

apnews.com

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 17h

Thank you so much for listening and amplifying!

Enjoy the read! #BookSky #EduSky

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been hard to recreate the community.

Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 1d

Same!

Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much for being a guest!

Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 1d

Done.

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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 2d

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.

cover of convenience store woman by sayaka murata

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 1d

🎧 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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CLAH @clahistorians.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to Yanna Yannakakis for winning the Howard F. Cline Prize for her book, Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico (@dukepress.bsky.social).

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 4d

Research fellowships at the Rhode Island Historical Society! Come spend some time in Providence in 2026. Applications due 12/23/25

Fellowships – The Rhode Island Historical Society

www.rihs.org

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 4d

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Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions

Podcast Episode · The Academic Life · 09/19/2024 · 1h 7m

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Krys⸆⸉ (she/her) @becomingkrys.bsky.social · Dec 13

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · Dec 16

Need to write a grant? Feeling stuck or stressed about that? 🎧⬇️ 📚The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map for Scholars

@princetonupress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #HigherEducation

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 4d

It's Banned Books Week!

Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 5d

I'm proud to have contributed to the first year of the new open access journal #PublicHumanities. Here's a link to the "how to" for this journal daring to be different: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How to Write for Public Humanities

www.cambridge.org

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 5d

What do you rec for an Eleanor Roosevelt bio? 📚 Preferably trade audience friendly and meticulously researched? TIA.
#Skystorians #histsky #booksky #academicsky
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social

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Stephan A. Glienke @glienkestephan.bsky.social · 7d

#librarians #archivists #skystorians

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