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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 56m

The kids' drive home from school yesterday was much improved by the your decorations! 🎃

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 23h

Exciting developments at @princetonupress.bsky.social!

Island Press @islandpress.bsky.social · 1d

📚 A new chapter begins! Island Press will be joining @princetonupress.bsky.social in 2026 — uniting two mission-driven publishers dedicated to shaping a better planet.

Learn more about this historic collaboration: islandpress.org/PUP

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 1d

I watch and rewatch Felicity with pretty decent regularity and am absolutely convinced that show shaped a significant part of my life. It may well be my favorite show.

Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 1d

My profile of the delightful Keri Russell, the darkly funny, surprisingly introverted former New Mickey Mouse Club member who—even after Felicity, The Americans and The Diplomat!—has never fully embraced the idea of herself as an actress: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV

But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

www.newyorker.com

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 1d

Guy who did not get any of the birthday cake at New York Times named senior editor at CBS News

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 4d

Another incredible opportunity! So many profoundly smart and thoughtful people on this panel (and who doesn't love getting to hear from @dawnd.bsky.social?!?)!

Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 4d

Have your sights set on publishing your first scholarly book? We’re just a few days away from kicking off our free First Book Publishing Series! 💥 Our inaugural webinar topic: Finding the right publisher for your first book. Register: ideasonfire.net/first-book-p...

#IoFFirstBookSeries

Puzzle pieces on a yellow background, with speaker photos. Text reads: Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book, October 8, 12-1 pm, part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 4d

A fantastic opportunity to learn more about publishing!

University Press of Florida @floridapress.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t forget to register for our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium!

Please join us for this free virtual event on October 23rd, starting at 1pm EST. It is open to anyone who would like to learn more about book publishing. Register here: upress.ufl.edu

This is a promotional graphic for the University Press of Florida’s Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium. It features the three sessions that make up the symposium, “Understanding Editors,” “Careers in Publishing,” and “Publishing Career Meetup,” as well as their respective start and end times in multicolored bands against an azure background. University Press of Florida and UF Press logos appear in white in the bottom right corner, while white text in the left corner reads, “Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium.”

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 5d

How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding—and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves.

@lauragarbes.bsky.social's Listeners Like Who? is out now. Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry by Laura Garbes

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 5d

So much wrong this week, but today, before the sun rose, my eleven-year-old and I ran sharing earbuds and listening to the new Taylor album. There was some dancing.

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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely thrilled with the cover @univnebpress.bsky.social has designed for my book, The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics (coming August ‘26)! And special thanks to the wonderful and generous Cole Closser for allowing me to use their art.

Cover of a book titled The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics, by Matthew Levay. The cover features three vertically-arranged panels. The middle features the book’s title against a black background, while the top and bottom feature colorful drawings of a boy with white circles for eyes, done in a style clearly reminiscent of 1920s and 1930s-era newspaper comics and designed to appear as if they are printed on old newsprint.

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 7d

Just like the most unhinged Ted Talk of all time.

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 9d

Did you unexpectedly call me? Was I supposed to unexpectedly call you? If so, I took no further notes and need help.

Blank page of paper with “unexpected call” handwritten in black ink.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 12d

Listen to Laura Vanderkam’s interview with Allison Daminger, author of What’s On Her Mind, for the podcast Before Breakfast, highlighting ways we can share and reduce the mental load in our home lives: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h....

How to lighten the mental load, with Allison Daminger

Podcast Episode · Before Breakfast · 09/24/2025 · 25m

podcasts.apple.com

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 12d

Listen: Allison Daminger, author of What’s On Her Mind, speaks with Jo Piazza about the mental load of family life for Under the Influence:

The Mental Load of Family Life: The Work You Can’t See But Always Feel

Podcast Episode · Under the Influence with Jo Piazza · 09/25/2025 · 41m

podcasts.apple.com

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 14d

Most days I think about an acquaintance who, after the 2016 election, told me, "It's going to be fine, though, because Republicans will provide all the necessary checks and balances. They won't just give up."

Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 14d

Someone said to me the other day "Well, even if they get in, Farage won't be able to enact his plans..." and I really think this line of response is not up to the current reality. We're so desperate for the trouble to be indefinitely delayed, but it's here and has been.

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 14d

This is absolutely the funniest thing I've read in A REALLY LONG TIME. I'm dying.

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 19d

Maybe I just gravitate toward special cats?!

Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 19d

I regret to share that my cat (and another cat I used to have!) actually enjoys getting his nails cut. Like, rests on his back and purrs the whole time with lil flexi paws. So sorry.

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 20d

this made my night, could absolutely see my five year old doing this to me

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 21d

Idaho is really out here like "yeah, we're still all in"

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22d

Net Approval Rating By State
(toggle to see views of 2024 voters)

A sea of red. (a bit different when you toggle)

Where he is not yet below water:
Idaho, Wyoming, West Virginia and Montana.
And, more narrowly in Utah, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama.

Net Approval Rating By State

Toggle: All | 2024 voters

It's a sea of red (disapprovals)

Except for Idaho, Wyoming, West Virginia and Montana.
Approvals narrowly in Utah, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 22d

From a renowned extremism expert, Man Up shows how misogyny drives mass violence, offering strategies that we all—including parents, teachers, counselors—can use to quell this rising tide. @milleridriss.bsky.social

Out now. Learn more about this important book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 24d

what if we didn’t care why people were in poverty or homeless but instead only cared that they weren’t?

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 24d

Most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, according to a new poll, while fewer blame a lack of government support.

Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, a new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds

A new poll finds most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support.

bit.ly

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 27d

we're one week away from our next PAGES meeting! if you haven't signed up yet, here's your reminder

Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · Aug 27

hey all! The next meeting of the PAGES Book Club will be on Thurs., Sept. 18, noon ET.

our book: Write Through It: An Insider's Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life

we're THRILLED to have as our special guest discussant: author Kate McKean!

register here 👉 pupress.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 27d

Who could possibly take the time to do so, when there's so much time available to do 😅

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 27d

I read this and panicked that he’d died. I’ll go into a period of mourning when that happens.

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 29d

So my kid is training some terrible AI edtech, while the class complains (it also kept saying the kids' names out loud and the kids were super creeped out by it) and teachers apologize, and not only does no one learn -- learning is actively resisted by the platform. Cool.

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