Someone invite me to give a talk on academic book budgets and I will break down the finances of exactly how much money we're not making

I'm a little freak that loves doing my taxes go ahead and ostracize me

Do not cite the deep magic to me witch, for you formatted it in APA style *shudder*

Today my body is constituted of 60% water 40% emails

Working in book publishing requires manic swings between extroversion and introversion, so many, many, many times a day.

raise your hand if you are too gullible and your mental health too fragile for April fools 🖐️

I still think back to that scene where they make a cast out of cement and then the cement expands in the heat with such visceral horror

How many letters? CAN I HELP?

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Actually it turned out I have access through my press, since we license our eBooks to JSTOR 🥳

Gird your loins I just got access to JSTOR and now I am an unstoppable force of humanities research

He's the guy in the community section of the spelling bee that always give hints on the words!

Time to call upon our friend Succinct Steve!

A friend of mine who works for a trade publisher had to go through a massive spreadsheet of authors and mark them as alive or deceased and she went ahead and marked Neil Gaiman as "deceased." Support women's wrongs.

An infographic titled "The Types of Open Access: A Field Guide," styled with Stardew Valley pixel art icons representing different materials. Ten types are listed: Gold Open Access (gold ingot icon): The journal has no paywall, generally paid for by authors through APCs (article processing charges). Diamond Open Access (blue diamond icon): Gold but no APC. Funded by an institution, scholarly society or collective. Hybrid Open Access (brown lump icon): This journal lets you pay a ransom to open individual articles but still charges subscription fees to the community. What a bargain! Green Open Access (grass icon): Author self-archives their own copy on a preprint server or research repository. Can usually be done with paywalled articles under certain conditions. Bronze Open Access (bronze ingot icon): It's freely available on the publisher's website but has no CC license. Is this a mistake? What is this? Silver Open Access (silver ingot icon): I'm giving a runner up prize. Could have been gold but for some reason the author chose a CC BY-NC-ND license. Pyrite "Fool's Gold" Open Access (pyrite nuggets icon): Oops! Predatory publishers will take your APC money, but their services are fake. Beware! Geode Open Access (geode icon): A librarian can break this open for you using the power of interlibrary loan. Black Open Access (skull and crossbones icon): I don't know who started calling it this, but it just means piracy. They'll steal anything, including OA valor. Slime Open Access (grey slime icon): Just slide into the author's DMs and ask for a PDF. You'd be surprised how often this works.

100% accurate guide to the types of Open Access #academicsky 📚

Did you see them at LPR a few years back?

"Indexes are deeply political. A good interdisciplinary index signal-boosts the work of marginalized scholars and fields while making the text accessible across communities."

Louder for the people in the back please.

Laugh cries in small university press books

Pop up notification from an app that says "Your day at a glance: Your rage is valid"

Guys, my rage is valid.

I think so? I had a friend who was told by her male boss that she used too many exclamation points once and that it made people take her less seriously 😡

Fighting the patriarchy by using just a little too many exclamation points in my emails(!)

assigning BISAC codes chaotically--a memoir

I am once again here to tell you that most university presses operate at a loss. Does it make business sense? No. Is the work important? Infinitely.

Get thee friends who will gift you a LOTR themed chef’s knife

Me, a doom metal girl at a hardcore show: hold up I can’t headbang this fas—wait this song is already over? Why is everyone’s hair so short?

Jenn Pelly's book is so good! Really glad I got to work on it back when I was freelancing for Bloomsbury.

We have a longterm love-hate relationship

I still listen to In Rainbows pretty frequently

PSA: Rewriting is NOT editing

God do I love a piano etude