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Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · 1d

"Spotted Ponies: The Collected Zines" is now available! Start reading this collection today: buff.ly/hnfStvI

Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to the hundreds of UM students who submitted their final master's and doctoral theses & dissertations this past semester! All of this impressive scholarship is now safely stored in our very own Deep Blue Docs repository: deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.... #AcademicSky

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · 4d

ADAPTIVE FORMS by Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley is now available to read online! This new edition to our Videographic series examines media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film through 14 video essays. Start reading and watching here: buff.ly/1K6d7Z0

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University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social · 12d

Pre-order Nina's book here: press.umich.edu/Books/A/Arti...

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 15d

10 years after the initial idea, Artificial Humanities is here! Thanks so much to all who have preordered it. I hope you enjoy reading it and find this research approach as generative as I do. More to come!

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Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · 15d

The Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, vol. 12, issue 1 is now available from @abdnunipress.bsky.social! Start reading: jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/38/info/

Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(12) (2025)

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Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations to researchers from the U-M Museum of Paleontology on the publication of their new dataset about projection stratigraphy at the Wadi Al-Hitan World Heritage Site in Egypt! Funded by the National Science Foundation. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/m6et... #AcademicSky

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Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · 17d

We’re hiring a Data Curation Specialist for Health Sciences to join the Deep Blue Repository & Research Data Services team within Michigan Publishing. The salary range for this role is $76-87k. Posting closes on 10/19/25. Learn more and apply today! #publishingjobs careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 22d

Out now, 'Constructed Latinx(s) Identities' examines how media like film, literature, and TV shape Latinx identity. Through case studies, essays challenge colonial power, recover suppressed knowledge, and reimagine Latinx as diverse and evolving. @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 22d

📺'Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s' explores the creativity & contradictions of post-Soviet media, from glasnost to Putin. Essays show how TV & the internet shaped civil society before independence gave way to authoritarianism.

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Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · 29d

Michigan readers love @uofmpress.bsky.social books! The "Read Michigan" Program impacts every county in the state. Launched in collaboration with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social, "Read Michigan" features works of 3 MI university presses, incl. MSU and Wayne State's. ebc.press.umich.edu/stories/2025...

Michigan Press, Michigan Impact. Where are the State's most serious bookworms? A new map answers the question

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · Sep 9

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN by @shanedenson.bsky.social is now available! As the inaugural volume of the film|minutes series, this book offers a minute-by-minute analysis of James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein. Start reading here: buff.ly/U96DFVI

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Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 4

Check out this impact story and webinar recording about @uofmpress.bsky.social digitally converting its entire backlist of ~3500 monographs! Learn more about how UMP made their older scholarly works digitally available, high-quality, accessible ebooks on Fulcrum:

Back(list) to the Future: Making Older University Press Monographs Digitally Available

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Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 4

The newest issue of the Michigan Journal of Medicine is now available! Start reading here:

Michigan Journal of Medicine | Issue: Issue: 0(8) 2025 (2025)

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Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 3

The newest issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing is now available! Start reading this collection exploring the challenges the climate emergency poses to the publishing sphere:

The Journal of Electronic Publishing | Issue: Issue: 2(28) Publishing and Climate Justice (2025)

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Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 3

Unbe-leaf-able! 🍁 Funded by ForestGEO, USDA, and the Edwin S. George Reserve Fund, researchers explored the role of leaves and wood density in characterizing tree species' growth rates. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/s7hm... #AcademicSky

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Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social · Sep 2

So great to see this in the world. Thank you to editor Janneke Adema, all of the authors, reviewers, and fine folks at @michiganpublishing.bsky.social for creating this timely special issue!

Journal of Electronic Publishing @jepub.bsky.social · Sep 2

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Publishing and Climate Justice, edited by Janneke Adema! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/38... [1/n]

The Journal of Electronic Publishing | Issue: Issue: 2(28) Publishing and Climate Justice (2025)

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Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · Aug 29

Check out this new #DeepBlueData deposit from the U-M Climate and Space Department! Funded by the Department of Energy, researchers collected data as part of an effort to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas flaring. View the dataset here: doi.org/10.7302/dhw8... #AcademicSky

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Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · Aug 28

TILT / BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE are now available to read online! These unique poetry collaborations explore love, mortality, sadness, gender identity, and national politics. Read both here: buff.ly/pti0SEI

Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · Aug 27

Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Yugoslav-United States Joint Fund for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, the U-M Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the U-M Museum of Anthropology, and the U-M Ann Arbor Office of the Vice-President for Research.

Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · Aug 27

Congratulations to researchers from the U-M Department on Anthropology on the publication of their most recent dataset that covers the lithic tools, debitage, and fauna from the 1986–1987 excavations at the site of Badanj! View the #DeepBlueData here:
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Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congratulations to researchers from the U-M Physics Department (with funding from the Department of Energy) on the publication of their most recent dataset on singlet-doublet dark matter! View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/27j9... #AcademicSky

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · Aug 25

A new week means a brilliant selection of new titles from our distributed presses. First up, "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" from Lever Press's ASIANetwork Books collection.

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Promotional graphic for "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue". The graphic shows the book's forest green cover on the far left, flanked on the right by a summarising paragraph which says: "A comparative study showing how early modern China and Spain built and balanced their empires through parallel systems of local knowledge, governance, and global exchange."

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · Aug 22

Exploring our political, cultural, and technological contexts, on and off the screen, this new edition of SCREEN CAPTURES by @riffsandmeaning.bsky.social is out March 2026! Read more and pre-order your copy here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/S/Scre...

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Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · Aug 22

Funded by the U-M Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the Institute for Global Change Biology, and @geosociety.bsky.social, researchers studied changes in the carbon and nitrogen chemistry of sediments in the Middle Island Sinkhole in Lake Huron. View the #DeepBlueData: doi.org/10.7302/atpb...