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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 3d

Arnoud S. Q. Visser ( @arnoudvisser.bsky.social), On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

On Pedantry

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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Economic thought @economicthought.bsky.social · 6d

Interview: The economic style of reasoning is not value-neutral! An interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman, by Ditte Andersen
doi.org/10.1177/0001...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 6d

"It was about relationships, shared labour, and refusal. It was about making space – for each other, for alternative forms of scholarship, and for survival."

Write-up by Rebekka Kiesewetter of the recent Radical Open Access conference.

Reflections on Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism – Radical Open Access Collective

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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 6d

Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&

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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 7d

I'm so disappointed my book (funded by public money) was purchased by a rentier capitalist plattform registered in a tax haven. Open access file is not available anymore since today, but I uploaded it here:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 7d

Do human animals have a sense of a difference between natural and artificial elements of their environment? How do they manifest the difference, which they can then input to sense?

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 7d

Do non human animals have a sense of a difference between natural and artificial elements of their environment? If so, which ones, and how does that manifest?

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 7d

Finally officially published! "Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010" with @rhacodactylus.bsky.social (who needs a job btw) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 🧵

#histsci #sts #philsci #metascience

Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010

Abstract. Anthropologists and human geneticists have long rejected efforts to purportedly scientifically justify racial inequality and colonialism. But race science has persisted, at least on the marg...

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 7d

1/ Open Book Collective is proud to be supporting next week's conference in Abuja on 'Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty: Nigeria’s National Summit on Open Access Book Publishing', with OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social speaking alongside a number of @copim.bsky.social colleagues
oa-summit.bookhub.ng

Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty — OAConference 2025

Nigeria’s National Open Access Stakeholders Conference — Oct 6–7, 2025 at NOUN, Abuja.

oa-summit.bookhub.ng

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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 7d

All happening while I’m trying to read JD Peters on the sea as a medium.

JD Peters’s *The Marvelous Clouds* turned to chapter 2, “Of Cretaceans and Ships; or, The Mooring of Our Being,” with the beach and cruise ships of Philipsburg in the background.

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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 7d

Saint Martin notes: #8

In Philipsburg this morning on an unsuccessful trip to get car insurance. Now sitting at a beach-side coffee shop, watching the tourists streaming off the recently arrived cruise ship. The merchants & tour guides prepare for the day’s catch.

View across a beach filled with lounge chairs and umbrellas to two giant cruise ships. If you zoom into the photo, you can see the line of passengers on the dock, like ants marching.

Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 8d

Saint Martin notes: #7

A rock outcrop on the shore pointing towards Saba.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 9d

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

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Hum @humworks.bsky.social · 9d

"The research community doesn’t necessarily want ‘peer review’ — it wants quality assurance, fraud detection, constructive feedback, ethical oversight, and credible validation." @innovationideas.bsky.social / @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

Peer Review in Transition: Helen King and Christopher Leonard on AI and the Future of Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today, we talk to thought leaders Helen King and Chris Leonard, who offer a nuanced look at how peer review might adapt, fracture, or reinvent itself in the AI era.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 9d

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · Aug 22

Check out the seven articles in our latest journal issue! Each one a guaranteed banger, each one open access. Give them a read here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

Waste Donations: Shopkeeper–Waste Picker Relations in Istanbul and the Limits of Hospitable Giving
https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.01

Kevin Yildirim

Morally Immunizing Debts: Wage Bank, Gendered Credit Access, and Intimacy in the Soma Coal Basin
https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.02

Ferda Nur Demirci

Green Involution: Mediating Plant Times and Lifetimes in a Chinese Rice Genetics Laboratory
https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.03

Lyle Fearnley Chen Sun

Touched by Deep Time: Earthquake Sickness in Mexico City
https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.04

Lachlan Summers

Officer Safety Time: Police Scenario Training and Thinking Threat First
https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.05

Jessica Katzenstein

On Exile and Postcolonial Nationhood in Rwanda and Burundi
https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.06

Natacha Nsabimana

“Do they do our thozhil?”: Toxic Industrialization, Uncertainty, and Refusal in North Chennai
https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.07

Rishabh Raghavan

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 10d

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech

This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...

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Invest in Open Infrastructure @investinopen.bsky.social · 10d

How do you build resilient scholarly infrastructure when individual institutions are stretched thin?

Our new report examines concrete pathways where US library consortia are becoming critical connectors in #OpenInfrastructure.

investinopen.org/blog/how-lib...

How library consortia are building resilient open infrastructure in times of crisis

New research reveals how US library consortia are evolving from service providers to critical bulwarks, using collective action and open infrastructure to help members navigate unprecedented financial...

investinopen.org

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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 10d

Saint Martin notes: #6

Menu item:

“Make Your Morning

Bloody Mary

‘Probably the best on the island!’ “

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12d

Cuts to and closures of university presses are 100% part of the separation (or as @mattseybold.bsky.social has called it "unbundling") of research and teaching in the humanities and the devaluation of both quite frankly--in this case at the expense of the career training admin claims to care about.

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12d

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net

A post from Feeding the

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12d

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net

A post from Feeding the

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Tomás Criado @tscriado.bsky.social · 12d

"Drawing on decades of ethnographic experience…and engaging with material semiotics, Blaser recasts the fundamental political question of how to live together well as a cosmopolitical one: how to become emplaced with others, in divergence"

www.dukeupress.edu/for-emplacem...

For Emplacement: Political Ontology in Two Acts

www.dukeupress.edu

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 12d

"We remain committed to the open access movement and reject the commercial model of the big five publishers that has been strangling libraries with costly licenses and authors with unfair publication fees. But the current funding model for open access journals is untenable in the long term."

Publish First, Finance Later / Publiez d'abord, financez ensuite

Building an open access journal on a shoestring budget / Créer une revue en libre accès avec un budget très limité

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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 12d

This looks amazing Shannon. Thanks, as always, for the excellent documentation for us poor souls who don’t get to participate directly.

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