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Again, if you don’t like their model, don’t contribute. Or don’t give them clicks. But I do reject the premise that they provide nothing of value to contributors.
3. Publishing with them has led directly to other opportunities that have paid, as well as other academic/media contacts I wouldn’t have easily made.
4. Working with their editors has improved my writing; I’ve picked up a lot of tips for making my scholarship more accessible. That’s worth something.
2. Whenever I’ve published with them, a couple copies of my books have sold on Amazon. I can’t prove causation, but it’s happened enough to note a pattern. Those sales aren’t making me rich either, but it’s something.
Since we’re discoursing about The Conversation again today, some thoughts from me as someone who’s written for them a bunch, continues to do so, and has had positive experiences virtually every time:
1. If being paid is important to you, then don’t write for them. It’s that simple.
However….
I’m embarking today on what will hopefully be a one- or two-week project running through some digitized periodicals from the 1910s and 1920s. It’s giving horrible flashbacks to researching my dissertation, when I spent years staring at these things.
Send thoughts and prayers.
Such great news! Congrats!
A mix of both, probably, combined with a lot of journalists still thinking Twitter/X is real life and mistaking some prominent (and loud) accounts for a wider societal phenomenon.
It’s remarkable how resilient the revival script has been given that the evidence for the rest of the vibe shift has evaporated.
Fantastic news!
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Credit to Cook for making these moves, though, even if they are warranted. Inside Elections still has just about every single race one category more favorable to the GOP than feels warranted.
You guys totally sold me on Roy with a mustache. In fact, given all the other people who randomly showed up in the script, I was half convinced that Roy was gonna show up running Macronesia before the episode was done.
Of the major election prognosticators, Cook wouldn’t have been the one I’d have pegged to move NC-SEN to Leans D first. Good for them, though. It seems like the right call.
“What does God think of this church…when Communion is served to the 34 members and visitors to Presbytery the wine gives out, as though there were not enough blood of the covenant to take care of this poor decaying church.”
-Clergy journal (1937). I’m gonna miss my current project when it’s done.
Hire more religion reporters.
When PA (and with it the election) was finally called in 2020, my neighbors all gathered in the street and bottles of champagne appeared. I still remember the feeling.
I imagine that’s how a lot of people in Hungary are feeling tonight, and I look forward to experiencing that feeling again here.
It’s short notice with a 4/15 deadline, but anybody interested in putting together a panel for ASCH 2027 (New Orleans!) on historical Christian responses to/reactions to/reckonings with crime?
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It’s short notice with a 4/15 deadline, but anybody interested in putting together a panel for ASCH 2027 (New Orleans!) on historical Christian responses to/reactions to/reckonings with crime?
This is probably my opinion most likely to get me canceled by 95% of academia, but I actually do think AI has some very legit uses for historians! (Alas, I can’t help with specifics though.)
I was gonna make the Fawlty Towers joke, but I see that about ten thousand other people had the same thought
There’s nothing as magical as discovering an amazing artist/song by hearing them on the radio. Thanks, @wyep.bsky.social and @morningjoey.bsky.social.
And you all should check this out.
Okay, it’s time to finally finish The Expanse. I binge-watched seasons 1-4 back in 2021, took a break, and have taken way too long to get back to it.
Having once had an indexer not be very selective in their choices of names/terms to include, I’ve become very appreciative of the selectivity of a good index!
I would add: even if you don’t call yourself a legal historian but study history involving law-ish stuff, you’ll find a welcoming, friendly and brilliant group of scholars at ASLH!
Cook moves PA-GOV to Solid Dem. Shapiro is definitely strong, Garrity is beyond weak, but their willingness to take the race off the board speaks volumes about the overall state of play this fall.
And I suspect that’s a district that Ds are likely to keep once they win it, à la PA-17.
See also Janelle Stelson in PA-10, who I think is finally gonna unseat Scott Perry this year.