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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 24d

Delighted to hold the latest #veryshortintroduction in my hands, and it's a terrific one: Douglas Boyd's ORAL HISTORY. Loads to learn here, drawing on interviews with bourbon makers, WWII soliders-- even Shirley Manson and Steve Zahn, of all people. Enjoy! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Oxford Academic @oxfordacademic.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 Oxford Intersections: Gender Studies invites abstracts for new articles that explore how gender intersects with all aspects of life through interdisciplinary research.

🗓️ Deadline: 11 Aug 2025

📩 Submit: oxford.ly/44JrIYj

Oxford Intersections: Gender Justice invites abstracts for new articles

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · Jul 30

Latest Philosophy Bites. Bob is back!

Robert Talisse @roberttalisse.bsky.social · Jul 30

I'm on the latest Philosophy Bites episode talking about the civic value of solitude
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Robert Talisse on Civic Solitude - Philosophy Bites

Democracy is about acting as a group, but, surprisingly, Robert Talisse argues that what it needs to function well is a degree of solitude for citizens. In-group and out-group dynamics mean that indiv...

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · Jul 17

“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power,” writes Jennifer Frey, a professor of philosophy at the University of Tulsa.

Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators Are Ignoring Them.

Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 15

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

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Erich Hatala Matthes @ehatmat.bsky.social · Jul 3

Fantastic to see What to Save and Why reviewed in the New York Review of Books! #philsky

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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · Jul 1

more like luckiest editor! :)

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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · Jun 13

Can we ban "Quick Question" and "My Book" as subject lines? 🙃

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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · May 20

Happy to see Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage continue to get its flowers. Still "timely" after a few years! choiceconnect.org/webclipping/...

Web Clipping Print View | Choice Connect

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Oxford Academic @oxfordacademic.bsky.social · May 5

Our most enthusiastic congratulations to Edda Fields-Black and everyone who helped bring COMBEE to life!

The 2025 Pulitzer committee called it "a richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion": https://oxford.ly/44XGZX4 #History

Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History! Combee: Harriet Tubman, The Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda Fields-Black

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Oxford Academic @oxfordacademic.bsky.social · Apr 28

Hi Bluesky! 👋

We're the Academic division of Oxford University Press and we're excited to join this vibrant community, full of academics, thinkers, and those that are curious about the world around them.

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Apr 28

#19C women philosophers are touring the world! @dalianassar.bluesky.social and my edited volume is already out in English and Norwegian. The Arab translation is going to print today -

@lucyrandall802.bsky.social
#philsky #booksky #women #feminism

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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · Apr 16

...and if you want to browse and order online please see our conference booklist at www.oup.com/conf/exapap25 and use conference code EXAPAP25 until May 4th (2/2) #APAPacific25

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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · Apr 16

If you're at the #APAPacific25, please stop by the Oxford table tomorrow morning through Saturday morning and explore our new offerings! (1/2)

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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · Apr 4

"Supported projects have included more than 9,000 books (including 20 that went on to win Pulitzer Prizes) and more than 500 film and radio programs, including Ken Burns’s landmark 1990 documentary 'The Civil War'..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...

Groups Are Told That Federal Humanities Grants Are Canceled

Letters informed grant recipients that funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities would be redirected to furthering “the president’s agenda.”

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · Mar 26

Why does my publisher want to change the title of my book? https://bit.ly/3lP8jCO

University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site.

Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Mar 23

Donald Trump doesn’t need to destroy the court system to get his way, Aziz Huq writes. He just needs to create a shadow zone where the law no longer applies. Welcome to America’s “prerogative state”:

America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State

For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.

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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · Mar 18

the hair is also on point

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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · Mar 12

Terrific interview of @shannonvallor.bsky.social by Hawkeye himself! He clearly read and got a lot of out of The AI Mirror podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Society & Culture Podcast · 28 Seasons · Updated weekly

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alex pasternack @pasternack.bsky.social · Dec 11

One of favorite books / metaphors lately is 'The AI Mirror' — thanks to Shannon Vallor for reflecting on it with me for this year's AI20 😬🪞🤖 www.fastcompany.com/91240425/how...

How philosopher Shannon Vallor delivered the year's best critique of AI

The author of 'The AI Mirror' worries about what we're doing to our moral muscles as we grow more reliant on machines.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · Dec 9

Very cool to see the AI Mirror in the Guardian’s authors’ picks for best book gifts for the holidays!

Grateful to Tessa Hadley for the kind words.

The best books to give as gifts this Christmas

From a radical retelling of Huckleberry Finn to Al Pacino’s autobiography, novelists and nonfiction writers reveal the books they will be giving as gifts – and the volumes they would love to find in t...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks to Sigal Samuel for this wonderful @vox.com piece on AI illusions of care; grateful also for the mention of The AI Mirror (and for being given the last word!) www.vox.com/future-perfe...

People are falling in love with — and getting addicted to — AI voices

OpenAI warns that its chatbot can breed “emotional reliance.” It’s not just ChatGPT — look at Replika or Character AI.

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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · Aug 19

The latest Guide to the Good Life be will out in a couple of weeks. Congrats to @carlosasanchez.bsky.social on BLOOMING IN THE RUINS: HOW MEXICAN PHILOSOPHY CAN GUIDE US TOWARD THE GOOD LIFE global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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