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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 20h

2021; still eminently quotable:

"With more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital infrastructure of knowledge and career advancement is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits."

Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 20h

Worth repeating: "University presses are essential infrastructure for the humanities & should be financially supported in the same way that other higher education inter-institutional infrastructure is." Some powerful examples here:

Institutions and funders must recognize the contributions of university presses to the humanities infrastructure (opinion)

Recognizing the university press community’s essential contributions to that infrastructure will be crucial as institutions and funders plan for the future, write Charles Watkinson and Melissa Pitts.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

This is an important point.

Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 2d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.

Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 4d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · 14d

"I want to encourage a sense of solidarity in my relationships with my authors, and in the ways that we recognize all sorts of disruptions are happening for people right now and how we have to accommodate the work that we do to account for that."

newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/alyssa...

Meet an acquiring editor at Columbia University Press

An interview with editor Alyssa M. Napier of Columbia University Press by Laura Portwood-Stacer of Manuscript Works

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 12d

World Champions, and in front of 82K spectators. Good work England Women's rugger.

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 13d

Grumpy(er)

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 13d

Grumpy old man post: AI tools, and their insidious, uninvited encroachment on my digital spaces (searching, writing, browsing, reading) are turning me into a grumpy old man.

Get
Off
My
Fucking
Laptop, Jawn.

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 15d

Time to pack your waterproof manuscripts for #SHA2025 with @thesouthernsha.bsky.social

Come and see Mick and share bookish thoughts for @ugapress.bsky.social publication.

Appointment calendar here: bit.ly/4gNubqk

UGA Press at Southern Historical Association (SHA) - Mick Gusinde-Duffy

If you want to publish a book and would like it well published, chat with UGA Press editor, Mick Gusinde-Duffy.

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 22d

Are you interested in a publishing career? 💼 Check out the new Publishing certificate offered by the UGA English Dept., featuring classes taught by our own staff and @georgiareview!
https://loom.ly/12UNuT0

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 22d

PS. Is Charlie wearing black, *sneakers*?

Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 22d

"No, sir, when a man
is tired of London,
he is tired of life;"
---Samuel Johnson

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Thousands of anti-Trump protesters march in London as king and senior royals host US president in Windsor – UK politics live

Anti-Trump protesters march in London as US president attend events in Windsor before a state banquet

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 23d

Taking place in the student center that I cleaned on Saturday mornings, many years ago . . .

Looking forward to listening, learning and sharing with these great professionals and participants.

Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 23d

If you are at Colorado State University—I am going to join some savvy university press editors - @bridgetrbarry.bsky.social, @mickodopolous.bsky.social, @mallums.bsky.social, and Nicole Solano - for a day of publishing panels and 1-on-1 author/editor sessions this Thursday, 9/18.

Link below w/info!

A poster: Academic Book Publishing Information Day. See link in following post that includes all the details for those at Colorado State University that are interested in participating.

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 28d

Is there any more ear-wormy ear-worm than Johnny Flynn's theme song for "Detectorists"?

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You're welcome

Detectorists (Original Soundtrack from the TV Series)

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'd buy that t-shirt.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 5

"NUMBERS ALWAYS TEND TO BENEFIT THE LEFT"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

CNN: When the jobs report comes out, are you going to believe the numbers?

REP. RANDY FINE: Um, I'm going to look at the numbers. Look, the people who put these numbers together are human & fallible and make mistakes

C: It wasn't that they make mistakes

F: Numbers always tend to benefit the left

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Aug 28

Why does Donald Trump keep trying, and failing, to call me? Does he not know how to use a phone beyond texting? Is the phone too big for his little hands?

Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Defend Remote Work in the University System of Georgia!

Hello fellow campus worker in Georgia! Have you, or someone you know, been impacted by the recent USG return-to-office mandate? United Campus Workers, Georgia's higher-ed labor union, is collecting si...

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Aug 19

Someone has his number.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 19

Seems notable that Trump is OBSESSED with hatefully talking about the <3% of people currently in the US who are undocumented and the <1% of the US population that identifies as transgender, while his administration wants to entirely ignore the 20% of people in the colonies who were enslaved.

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Aug 13

Just got home from #ASA2025 and these two @ugapress.bsky.social beauties were waiting for me. You can still order them with the 40% discount PLUS (yes, PLUS, I say) free shipping at our virtual exhibit through September 12th:
www.ugapress.org/exhibits/ame...

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Aug 12

Not sure I like this video ending at the trash can but here we are.

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Aug 12

#ASA2025 . . .

Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Aug 12

Final ASA day.
Join our @ugapress.bsky.social mailing list and get a free book. (Grad students or Contingent faculty get first dibs).

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Aug 12

Final ASA day.
Join our @ugapress.bsky.social mailing list and get a free book. (Grad students or Contingent faculty get first dibs).

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is fascinating on several levels (even allowing for "grew up in 60s and 70s UK" bias). Early children's programming, Women in leadership, the value of archiving . . . and elephant scat. I did not know the Monty Python line originated with Blue Peter.
tinyurl.com/58dw2bpc

Here’s one she made earlier! Biddy Baxter, the TV genius who made Blue Peter matter

Baxter was the sharp – if tough – TV brain behind the beloved children’s show’s most celebrated parts, from the studio pets to the coveted badges

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Aug 10

Experiencing pint envy here.

Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Aug 10

Oh, ouch! No, Chicago. Is there a "shitty US pints" account?

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · Aug 10

"Nobody,
he said,
could call me a fussy man,

but . . . "

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