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Social Service Review @socservreview.bsky.social · 1d

How do housing voucher recipients navigate stigma during their housing search?

Check out Rachel Engel and colleagues' exploration of recipient experiences and potential policy feedback in our September issue!

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“I Don’t Fit the Stereotypes”: Housing Choice Voucher Recipients and the Navigation of a Voucher Identity | Social Service Review: Vol 99, No 3

Abstract This article examines how Housing Choice Voucher Program participants encounter and negotiate stigma during the housing search. The stigmatization of government subsidies is well documented, ...

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 1d

It's National Handbag Day. Celebrate by reading this West 86th interview with Judith Leiber that discusses her background and craftmanship of high quality handbags. ow.ly/sm3o50X7YnI

Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 2d

What role will AI-generated art have in a library context? Art Documentation explores this question through a workshop performed at the University of Mississippi through the production and evaluation of such works. Learn more here: ow.ly/C1pX50X8x0r
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 2d

Signs is seeking submissions for a new special issue: "Crisis," edited by Jih-Fei Cheng, Cati Connell, and Gowri Vijayakumar. For the full CFP go to signsjournal.org/for-authors/...

CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: March 1, 2026

Feminists are no strangers to crisis. In the context of rapidly escalating population-threatening catastrophes—the global rise of fascism; war and genocide; climate crisis and Indigenous dispossession; sharp rises in unhoused, migrant, and refugee populations and their subsequent criminalization; increased normalization and legalization of gendered and sexual violence; lethal threats to public and reproductive health; the upward distribution of resources and wealth; and the crisis of the university—feminist theorizing feels both as urgent and as under threat as it was during the dawning of women’s studies as an academic enterprise.

This special issue invites contributions theorizing and responding to crisis. Where and how do we locate crisis (or crises)? What enables crisis conditions, and how do we—feminists and feminism—survive them? Feminist, queer, and trans theorists are uniquely positioned to offer critical readings of crisis within the longer temporal frame of slow violence and everyday brutality.

Guest Editors: Jih-Fei Cheng (Scripps College), Cati Connell (Boston University), and Gowri Vijayakumar (Brandeis University).

For the full call for papers and submission instructions, visit www.signsjournal.org/cfp

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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 3d

🎂 to our fellow @chicagojournals.bsky.social science journal @qrb.bsky.social. Go check them out!

Quarterly Review of Biology @qrb.bsky.social · 3d

The Quarterly Review of Biology turns 100! We are celebrating our anniversary with free-to-read articles from the archives, through 2026. Learn more: ow.ly/xXli50X7Z5B

The Quarterly Review of Biology: QRB 100th Anniversary

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 3d

Read "Dwarfs, Puns, and Foolish Characters: Satirical Intentions in The Night Watch" from Source and discover a new interpretation of Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' as a satirical commentary on the work's subject: Frans Banning Cocq. Find it here: ow.ly/bl4l50X7orI

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 4d

New from Signs: Nikita Shephard explores “carceral equality” — how lesbian cops became symbols of LGBTQ progress while reinforcing state violence. A critical analysis of feminist politics, representation, and the contradictions of inclusion (sub. req’d): buff.ly/MxJWVvm

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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 4d

📢 Out now in the September 2025 issue of #JAERE! 📢
"Monitoring and Enforcement and Environmental Compliance: Power Plant Emissions During the 2018–19 Federal Government Shutdown" by Ruohao Zhang, Huan Li, and Neha Khanna.
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 4d

Just accepted:

Entanglement Swapping for Entanglement Realists
– Jørn Kløvfjell Mjelva

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ABSTRACT. Delayed-choice entanglement swapping experiments have been argued to undermine realism about entanglement. One response has been to argue that the correlations displayed in delayed-choice entanglement swapping experiments have a different physical interpretation than the correlations in the non-delayed case. This strategy runs into problems when applied to cases of spacelike entanglement swapping, as it would appear to require one to either posit a privileged foliation of spacetime or otherwise accept that whether entanglement obtains is frame dependent. In this article, I present a realist-friendly account of entanglement swapping that circumvents this dilemma, in which entanglement is explicated via the notion of a common ground. The issue of frame dependence is resolved by adopting the past light-cone criterion for property attribution, and the correlations displayed in the spacelike entanglement swapping experiments are attributed to a joint common ground.

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JAERE @jaereaere.bsky.social · 4d

📢 Out now 📢 in the September 2025 issue of #JAERE is now posted at @aereorg.bsky.social!
📍 Follow @aereorg.bsky.social to stay updated on all things REEP and JAERE.
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 5d

Rejected everywhere, staged as a hoax, and finally published in a lesbian sex mag — Sarah Schulman’s “A Short Story About a Penis” has quite a history. Rachel Corbman uncovers its fascinating legacy in Signs’ new issue: check it out here! (sub. req’d):

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 1

This introduction to “Lesbian Studies, Now” reflects on the affective, intellectual, and political stakes of invoking “lesbian” as a generative scholarly category in the present as well as the three…

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Review of Environmental Economics and Policy @reepaere.bsky.social · 5d

📢 What's current in #REEP is now posted at @aereorg.bsky.social!
📍 Follow @aereorg.bsky.social to stay updated on all things #REEP and #JAERE.
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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 5d

📢 What’s current in #REEP? 📢
"Valuing Mortality Risk Reduction Benefits of Federal Regulations: Comments on Circular A-4" by Joseph E. Aldy and W. Kip Viscusi.
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 5d

New from Signs: “Lesbian Studies, Now” traces the figure of the lesbian in feminist theory, history, and politics — confronting nostalgia, critique, and the possibilities of survival. Check it out here (sub. req’d): buff.ly/MxJWVvm

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 5d

Gabriele Marcon has been awarded an honorable mention for the 2025 SIHS Article Prize for the article “The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines.” Read it for FREE in Isis: ow.ly/IVAY50X5NqJ @isisjournal.bsky.social

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 9d

Check out "Kneebone and Lakatos: At the Roots of a Dialectical Philosophy of Mathematics" from HOPOS and learn more about the origins of the dialectical approach to the philosophy of mathematics. Find it here: ow.ly/RuLx50X3mOs

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 9d

New issue of Classical Philology Vol. 120, No. 4 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2025/... @chicagojournals.bsky.social @twhittermarsh.bsky.social

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 9d

"The Affordances of Healing Spaces in Book III of 'The Faerie Queene'" from Spenser Studies explores the ecological features of healing spaces seen in "The Faerie Queene." Find it here: ow.ly/wfWH50X3mNx

Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 10d

It's International Music Day. Celebrate by reading this article from Speculum that examines the idea of the healing power of music in 14th-century Bologna: ow.ly/96BO50X1CKS
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 12d

New issue of Speculum Vol. 100, No. 4 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/spc/2025... @chicagojournals.bsky.social @medievalacademy.bsky.social

Speculum | Vol 100, No 4

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 13d

In the Spring 2025 issue of #HOPOS Anna Bellomo writes on the history of the formalist tradition in mathematics, focusing on the 'principle of permanence of equivalent forms' in George Peacock and Hermann Hankel.

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 13d

Just accepted:

Kinematical Equivalence and Cosmic Conspiracies
– Caspar Jacobs & Eleanor March

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ABSTRACT. Discussions of theoretical equivalence typically only concern a theory's dynamically possible models. Recently, however, March has shown that a theory's kinematically possible models are also relevant to questions of theoretical equivalence. We apply March's notion of kinematic equivalence to the difference between reduced and sophisticated theories introduced by Dewar. Although Dewar claims that these are equivalent, Jacobs has argued that only sophisticated theories can explain what are otherwise `cosmic conspiracies'. We show that this is a consequence of the kinematical inequivalence of reduced and sophisticated theories. Furthermore, we use Caulton's `downwards Hume's dictum' to show that kinematically inequivalent theories are also ontologically inequivalent.

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 13d

This FREE article from The Journal of Clinical Ethics outlines how nurses and physicians can better work together in the face of ethical quandaries. Find "Bridging Impasses Between Nurses and Providers" here: ow.ly/387J50X1cWz

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 13d

New issue of Journal of Near Eastern Studies Vol. 84, No. 2 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jnes/202... @chicagojournals.bsky.social

Journal of Near Eastern Studies | Vol 84, No 2

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 16d

"How, and under what conditions, can democratic backsliding go hand-in-hand with apparently widespread commitments to democracy?" This article from The Journal of Politics studies how autocrats rise to power while championing democracy. Read here: ow.ly/Bj4Y50X1cRn @thejop.bsky.social