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Catherine Cocks @catherinefte.bsky.social · 14h

Humanities scholars, ever thought about getting an ORCID? Here's why you should: networks.h-net.org/group/discus... #feedingtheelephant @acls1919.bsky.social @smckee-acls.bsky.social

ORCID iDs for the Humanities | H-Net

A guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 20h

No matter how many books we've published, it's always *the most exciting thing* getting an advance copy from the printers. Especially when the cover looks so good!

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 23h

“Speak English or die.” Wow. This #BannedBooksWeek let’s also think about linguistic hegemony—what languages don’t get published & read. Lingít is an endangered language of the Tlingit people of the Pacific NW Coast. What does it sound like? Give these recordings a listen! tinyurl.com/4h4xkvwp

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 1d

Get 'Posterity Is Now: Practicing Museum Anthropology, Collections Care, and Collaborative Research with Indigenous Peoples' for 405 off with promo code SHAN25!
tinyurl.com/dwmsum84
#museumstudies #museumcollection #anthropolgy #AcademicSky #BookSky #ATALM #ATALM25

“An exemplar of how everyone should be doing this work.”
—Laura Elliff Cruz, School for Advanced Research

“This is especially needed guidance; there is nothing comparable.”
—Laura Peers, Americas Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #OAWeek! Did you know we have a full collection of books that are completely FREE to read? Open Books = Open Minds. Check out the full list here and spread the word! read.upcolorado.com #readUP #OAWeek2025

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 1d

All are invited to this #OAWeek webinar, "Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective," featuring Nwachukwu Egbunike, Head of Pan-Atlantic University Press in Lagos, on Tues 10/21 4pm ET. Read more & register: events.umich.edu/event/139485

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just about what stories are banned, but what stories don't get told. I'm glad someone told this one. If not this book, there are countless other accounts of Indigenous communities existentially threatened by climate change. Go forth and read up! #BannedBooksWeek @upcolorado.bsky.social

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 2d

Today we've got BLACK OR RIGHT which explores ideas of Blackness in white institutional spaces. It's theory; it's rhetoric studies; it's autoethnography. It's got it all. Including some truly haunting personal accounts of what it practically means to be a Black man on campus.

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 6d

"I asked Chat GPT"

Well we asked an expert and then we asked other experts in that field to review the first expert's work.

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 8d

It's officially spooky season! Time for some supernatural #folklore. Have you heard of Uji no hashihime, the spurned Japanese oni (demon) who exacts Medea-like revenge on her enemies? I get it, girl. Loving this gendered critique from Noriko Reider.

PS this book is free: tinyurl.com/4d4cc29f

Book cover photo of JAPANESE DEMON LORE and quote "That living women can turn irreversibly into hideous oni stands as an imperative for women to rein in their unruly emotions and passively accept the status quo... Indeed, when a female becomes an oni, stereotypical feminine decorum goes out the window."

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 8d

This small book is a controversial prompt for further exploration: The Radical Case for Teaching Skim Reading in First-Year Writing by Ellen Carillo. 40% off with promo code CARI25 (that's only $8.37!!!)
#AcademicSky #BookSky #TeachingReading #TeachingWriting #CompRhet #undergrad #collegewriting

"A solid, well-reasoned and valuable contribution. Skim reading is underappreciated by teachers by widely used by students and others." —Alice Horning, Oakland University

USUPress Current arguments in Composition series

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 9d

Be right back: buying this shirt for all of our freelance copyeditors

Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 9d

It’s citation day in Composition 1! #whatprofessorswear #citationneeded

A white nonbinary person wearing a red T-shirt that says citation needed in black lettering, a black skirt, and red and white checked sneakers

A selfie of a white non-binary person wearing a red T-shirt that says citation needed in black lettering, big black glasses, and little black-and-white pig earrings

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 13d

Did you know that bats pollinate over 300 species of fruit? But alas, they are being decimated by a fungal disease called White Nose Syndrome, which cave visitors should be extra careful not to spread via infected clothing, etc.

This is TONIGHT Boulder folks! Go get thee some bat learning 🦇

Boulder Bookstore @boulderbookstore.bsky.social · 20d

In this fascinating biology of & guidebook to the bat species of the Rocky Mountain West, Rick Adams exposes the true nature of bats & the roles these fascinating animals play in the natural history & ecology of the region. Join us next week for this cool event! Tix: AdamsBBS.eventbrite.com

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 14d

🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
Rick Adams is at @boulderbookstore.bsky.social tonight!
#bats #batsbatsbats
www.eventbrite.com/e/rick-adams...
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Rick Adams
Bats of the Rocky Mountain West
Boulder Bookstore
Thursday, Sept. 25 at 6:30 pm
AdamsBBS.eventbrite.com

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 19d

🦇🦇🦇 Leave any preconceived notions behind and learn about the real-life biology of bats—which eclipses the fabled tales of the crypt and macabre— with Rick Adams at @boulderbookstore.bsky.social next Thursday, Sept. 25th at 6:30! It's going to be so cool 🦇🦇🦇
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 19d

"The spectacle of overt repression serves as a warning to others. Equally powerful, though, are economic carrots and sticks that have been used to discipline the media."

An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship

Modern authoritarian regimes don’t attempt total, absolute control. Their censorship is more selective and calibrated — and thus more resilient.

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 19d

Wow-and what a great cover!

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 21d

FYI really important new book JUST out from @upcolorado.bsky.social for #museum administrators and collections managers on how to practice ethical collaboration with Indigenous communities.

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Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 22d

@audun-kjus.bsky.social and I have been kindly invited by Jakob Löfgren to Uppsala University to present our ever-ongoing work on the Play-Ritual Continuum. Such a wonderful place to visit 🥰 #academicsky #folklore

A collage of impressions: Kristina Öhmans office door with teenage magazine posters, the sign to the institute of cultural anthropology and ethnology, our book!! on the shelf with other cool publications, and a map of national minorities in Sweden.

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 23d

Join #ualaskapress author Marybeth Holleman and cover artist Kristin Link, Thursday September 18, at 5:30 for the launch of BLOOM AGAIN at Organic Oasis in Anchorage. Hosted by Trustees for Alaska, come enjoy a reading, conversation, and celebration with food and drinks.

trustees.org/bloom-again/

Bloom Again

Join us for the official launch of Bloom Again – a celebration...

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 23d

Apparently today is "National Dot Day" which gives us an opportunity to share some of the fun things our cover designers have done with dots. Book designers really do not get enough credit. Give them some love!

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 27d

It's a beautiful day to crack open a book and learn something new 📖

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 27d

Thinking about this book today and how horrifying it is that violence is so often used as the "ultimate rhetorical act." If only we could all better use our words. @upcolorado.bsky.social #teamrhetoric

Photo of cover for "Rhetoric and Guns" with quote from book "We exist in a moment when it is easy to see that violence facilitated by guns is sometimes itself a rhetorical act—rhetoric with guns that is also rhetoric about them... acts of violence are, in addition to everything else that they might be, also rhetorical acts—perhaps the ultimate rhetorical acts.”

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 27d

Check out Dean Arnold's Cambridge Core Blog post about his work, and learn more in his #UPColorado title MAYA BLUE:
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Rhapsody in Maya Blue « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog

Visitors to many of the archaeological sites in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras are often struck by the bright blue paint on architectural sculptures and frescoed murals at these sites. This re...

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join #ualaskapress author Marybeth Holleman and cover artist Kristin Link, Thursday September 18, at 5:30 for the launch of BLOOM AGAIN at Organic Oasis in Anchorage. Hosted by Trustees for Alaska, come enjoy a reading, conversation, and celebration with food and drinks.
trustees.org/bloom-again/

Bloom Again

Join us for the official launch of Bloom Again – a celebration...

trustees.org

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