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A forthcoming book from the University of Minnesota Press as well...

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I have this overwhelming urge right now to feed some ducks.

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I read Anne Carson and no matter what the world around me becomes still and brimming.

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The US WWII Sabotage Field Manual does a great job describing academia #AcademicSky

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Claims from Musk of uncovering massive billion dollar frauds all over the government... Fraud is illegal. So, how many cases have they forwarded to Justice for prosecution?

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Working from home means I can have Twitch on in the next room earning me drops :)

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People who reply-all on a listserv with a single emoji... why?

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I'm sorry, but Steve Inskeep is completely unequipped for this current political moment. I could see him doing very well teaching a freshman journalism class.

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I'd like to know his skin care routine because he's come a long way since the first Trump term.

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Anyone with hot gossip on the problematic boys of LOVE IS BLIND: MPLS my dms are open.

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Both Tina Smith's and Ilhan Omar's mailboxes are still full this morning, but I was able to leave a message for Klobuchar (though she won't listen to it, as my last name isn't Cheney).

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All my reps' mailboxes are full.

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Me watching LOVE IS BLIND: MINNEAPOLIS:

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A treat this morning... being one of the first people in the world to read the English translation of THE LUMINOUS FAIRIES AND MOTHRA, the original 1961 story that hatched the beloved kaiju. Forthcoming from U of MN Press in Fall 2025.

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Absolute trash.

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Back to current events after spending a good chunk of time in 1403 Bohemia... KCDII is an amazing game!

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You should buy or borrow David Golumbia's _Cyberlibertarianism_. We lost him too soon but he still rose to the moment.

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What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it

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For those wondering about USAID's role in promoting counterinsurgency as development, we have a really smart book on the topic... www.upress.umn.edu/978151790790...

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Hey upstate New York, have you ever heard of sidewalks?

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Even rockier times ahead for academia. I hope that any scholar serving as a peer reviewer will recognize the headwinds facing writers of serious books right now & feel the urgency to use peer review as an opportunity for solidarity in building things up, not tearing them down.

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Looks directly at Amy Klobuchar

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Recently, UNC Press authors have had their US visas revoked and talks canceled. For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️

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These are authoritarian moves. What was accepted and settled is now up for debate. "I'm no lawyer," but this word doesn't mean what we thought it meant. Is it a law? Or merely a directive? Let the lawyers fight it out.

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The advance budget is an Elder Scroll. The more I stare at it, the more my vision is smeared across space and time.

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My favorite cover on our Fall 24 season

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I've seen this meme circulating lately, speaking to the awkwardness an author might feel promoting a book in these times. I totally get it, but as a book editor, I want to suggest another way of looking at it. Books are going to be really fucking important in the coming years.

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When corporations and academic institutions get rid of programs and support initiatives now without even being told to, you know they never gave a shit about those programs in the first place.

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Me, yawning: I'm having a hard time waking up this morning. My vagus nerve: How about I suddenly make you super nauseous for sixty seconds. Would that help?

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Leftist click-bait accounts on X will be like, "Watch Chuck Schumer absolutely TORCH Trump -- no way Trump survives four years of this! Must see!" And the video will be Schumer saying something like, "Some Golden Age, am I right?"

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In any of these absolutely stupid conversations about buying Greenland from Denmark or fighting them for it or whatever, has anyone mentioned giving sovereign control over Greenland to the actual Indigenous people who live there?

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Just another day in the end times hobnobbing about scholarly publishing with @bethanywasik.bsky.social

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Academic authors up for tenure often labor under confusing and scary deadlines. Last fall, I wrote four tenure file letters on one ms, updating each step of the way. It must feel distrustful and suspicious.

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I've noticed a large uptick in the number of pressing tenure cases tied to book projects, starting last year & continuing into this spring. My sense is the covid pandemic tenure deferrals are now coming due. I can't stress enough how important it is to talk to your editor early about tenure needs.

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Me, a scholarly book editor, when an academic uses the verb "adumbrate."

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A bullet "ripped through his ear" but god saved him to make america great again? This is insane.

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Holy shit this is wild.

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In one of his last official acts before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden released Leonard Peltier from prison. The action is an extraordinary move that ends a decades-long push by Indigenous activists, international religious leaders and human rights organizations.

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