Greg Britton
@gmbritton.bsky.social
Editorial Director of the Johns Hopkins University Press and acquiring editor for our Higher Ed. program.
“Oh, I used to be disgusted. And now I try to be amused….”
“Oh, I used to be disgusted. And now I try to be amused….”
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Reposted by Greg Britton
A lot of writers talk about their greatest fear being the empty page but to me that’s nothing compared to mummies
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
A lot of writers talk about their greatest fear being the empty page but to me that’s nothing compared to mummies
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🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
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"When public health succeeds, we don't notice—water, air, and food don’t make us sick, and our kids don’t get hit by cars, start smoking or get preventable infections. But when public health fails, we suffer."
Partisanship Is Poisoning Public Health
States and universities must step up to preserve data, and Congress must act to preserve our nation’s health
www.scientificamerican.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
"When public health succeeds, we don't notice—water, air, and food don’t make us sick, and our kids don’t get hit by cars, start smoking or get preventable infections. But when public health fails, we suffer."
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Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥
everyone is talking about getting copies of University Keywords (or other JHU Press books) for all their friends, students, and comrades for the holidays, especially when it is 40% off with the code HHOL25.
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥
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This time it is different. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This time it is different. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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I am disappointed in myself that it's taken me so long to get round to watching THE THIN MAN. that's an instant favourite right there. Two charming people drink too many cocktails, make out, crack terrible jokes at each other, and solve crimes? Honestly a perfect movie.
a man in a suit and tie is holding a cup of coffee in his hand .
Alt: Nick Charles, charming alcoholic detective and general clown, pulling a face.
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I am disappointed in myself that it's taken me so long to get round to watching THE THIN MAN. that's an instant favourite right there. Two charming people drink too many cocktails, make out, crack terrible jokes at each other, and solve crimes? Honestly a perfect movie.
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Home Depot could implement a policy requiring ICE to present a judicial warrant before operating on its property. Businesses are fully within their rights to decide who is allowed on their premises.
November 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Home Depot could implement a policy requiring ICE to present a judicial warrant before operating on its property. Businesses are fully within their rights to decide who is allowed on their premises.
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“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown
Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...
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Not that anyone asked, but the country with the World's lowest life expectancy (Chad) has a higher life expectancy than the country with the highest life expectancy 120 yrs ago (Sweden).
Think Science and especially Medicine has somehow failed you? Think again.
#ScienceMatters
Think Science and especially Medicine has somehow failed you? Think again.
#ScienceMatters
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Not that anyone asked, but the country with the World's lowest life expectancy (Chad) has a higher life expectancy than the country with the highest life expectancy 120 yrs ago (Sweden).
Think Science and especially Medicine has somehow failed you? Think again.
#ScienceMatters
Think Science and especially Medicine has somehow failed you? Think again.
#ScienceMatters
New Epstein-related drinking game: "____ did not immediately responded to a request for comment." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
The Professors Who Stayed Close With Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
New Epstein-related drinking game: "____ did not immediately responded to a request for comment." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Late-stage capitalism.
Why Are Young Men Embracing the Quarter-Zip Lifestyle?
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Late-stage capitalism.
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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Reposted by Greg Britton
Reposted by Greg Britton
🚨HOLY SHIT: Mamdani just called Trump a fascist standing right next to him:
Reporter: “Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist?”
Trump: “That’s ok, you can just say it.”
Mamdani: Yes.
This is how it’s done!!
Reporter: “Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist?”
Trump: “That’s ok, you can just say it.”
Mamdani: Yes.
This is how it’s done!!
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
🚨HOLY SHIT: Mamdani just called Trump a fascist standing right next to him:
Reporter: “Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist?”
Trump: “That’s ok, you can just say it.”
Mamdani: Yes.
This is how it’s done!!
Reporter: “Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist?”
Trump: “That’s ok, you can just say it.”
Mamdani: Yes.
This is how it’s done!!
Book title favorites: Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences
The Pornographic Delicatessen triumphs in the tightest race in Diagram Prize history
A look at Montréal’s erotic art scene becomes the second Canadian book to win the annual odd-title crown.
www.thebookseller.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Book title favorites: Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“I woke up this morning, I’m in bed, my wife comes out of the bathroom – she’s got her phone. She goes, ‘Um, Trump tweeted you should be fired again.’ I was like, ‘Oh,’ and then I went downstairs and made bagels for the kids. Trump is a snowflake.”
“I woke up this morning, I’m in bed, my wife comes out of the bathroom – she’s got her phone. She goes, ‘Um, Trump tweeted you should be fired again.’ I was like, ‘Oh,’ and then I went downstairs and made bagels for the kids. Trump is a snowflake.”
Jimmy Kimmel accuses Trump of trying to get him fired and tells him: ‘Quiet, piggy’
‘You’ve done this before,’ comedian told president, who ranted about Kimmel online and demanded his firing
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“I woke up this morning, I’m in bed, my wife comes out of the bathroom – she’s got her phone. She goes, ‘Um, Trump tweeted you should be fired again.’ I was like, ‘Oh,’ and then I went downstairs and made bagels for the kids. Trump is a snowflake.”
“I woke up this morning, I’m in bed, my wife comes out of the bathroom – she’s got her phone. She goes, ‘Um, Trump tweeted you should be fired again.’ I was like, ‘Oh,’ and then I went downstairs and made bagels for the kids. Trump is a snowflake.”
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I've workshopped my language for tenure letters to talk about the delays in publication review times in order to share why my assessment is what it is. This is one time when me mentioning the 500 editorial boards I sit on matters.
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I've workshopped my language for tenure letters to talk about the delays in publication review times in order to share why my assessment is what it is. This is one time when me mentioning the 500 editorial boards I sit on matters.
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One thing I keep asking is: have universities' promotion standards adjusted to the increasingly difficult realities of academic publishing?
Is it even realistic for fields to require a book for tenure?
Is it even realistic for fields to require a book for tenure?
Yet another one. Sigh.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Under Pressure to Prove ROI, a University Closes Its Press
Bucknell University says it’s closing its storied academic press to focus more resources on undergraduate students. But faculty and other scholars say the press has long been a part of the value propo...
www.insidehighered.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
One thing I keep asking is: have universities' promotion standards adjusted to the increasingly difficult realities of academic publishing?
Is it even realistic for fields to require a book for tenure?
Is it even realistic for fields to require a book for tenure?
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