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The Role of Education in Taming Authoritarian Attitudes - CEW Georgetown Postsecondary education can play a critical role in protecting democratic republics against the threat of authoritarianism.

American #highered is known to play a valuable role in instilling the general skills necessary to sustain democracy. But does more education really offer protection against #authoritarian ideas? bit.ly/32tzWon

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Amplifying voices New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish

More of this, please. One week left to apply for @universitypress.cambridge.org new grants. #academicsky bit.ly/4t09KM8

Yes! Please write this for THE or IHE. We need to have more conversations about what happens when first-get students beat the odds and become first-gen faculty.

Wondering how higher level university admin salaries have kept up in comparison.

For the researcher whose work has commercial value, how should they begin the journey from academic to CEO? Our latest spotlight guide takes you through the steps involved in #commercialisation from protecting #IP to securing #investment and more. ow.ly/sKSu50YBF97 #academicsky #techtransfer

The Delightful Kitsch of Easter Lamb Cake The comic essayist David Sedaris perfectly captures the absurdity of ritual in his famous French-class skit. Sedaris, an American, attempts to describe in broken French how “the rabbit of Easter … he bring of the chocolate … he come in the night when one sleep on a bed.” His Polish and Italian classmates scoff at the idea of a small, long-eared mammal that sneaks into children’s homes each spring to lavish them with sweets.

Many years ago I blended my Ph.D. work in Reformation food with my Midwestern life -- in part to show just how much fun you can have with #publicscholarship. What fun things have you done to bring your research to the people? www.thekitchn.com/the-delightf... #academicsky

Profs & Pints Baltimore: A Feast of Fat Tuesday Knowledge Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “A Feast of Fat Tuesday Knowledge,” on the origins and evolution of a winter holiday, with K. Anne Amienne, former instructor of courses on Reformation and Renaissa...

Join us for riots, brothels, #mardigras, and food history conundrums next week in #baltimore. Or check out @profsandpints.bsky.social for more public scholarship opportunities #academicsky events.ticketleap.com/tickets/prof...

Lined notebook paper with the words: "It's hard to write in this time of chaos, when there is so much pain, anger, and overwhelm. But it's also not the time to deprive the world of new ideas, difficult histories, and fresh perspectives." The Editorial Ally

I created this image last February, never imagining it would be just as--if not more--relevant a year later.

Onward, friends. Ever onward. Somehow. Together.

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As someone who was once asked by a major US academic philanthropist to sign one, yes. NDA's in academia are controlling tools to silence good people from speaking out about abuses. Since I didn't sign, I still look forward to telling the story someday. 👋 #academicsky

I'm sure this will start a trend of MacArthur awardees, NIH grant winners, and Fulbright holders sharing them with their worst students who never even showed up to class. #academicsky #nobelprize

Intellectual and cultural history folks still looking for a position? Excellent opportunity @cam.ac.uk www.emma.cam.ac.uk/people/job-v... #academicsky

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Thanks for the memories! I was 12 and returned this album to buy Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind instead. Totally f'kd off by the male clerk chastising "not quite the music for such a young lady." Formative experience. Hope it was a wild, wild, wild research day for you.

Daniela's headshot and 2 paragraphs: I love helping writers figure out what their book is all about––and shape those arguments into a compelling book proposal. But I like the fine-grained work too: sharpening ideas, clarifying structure, and polishing language. Favourite services: Book Proposals, Book Development, Developmental Editing. “Read good fiction. It sounds obvious, but for overextended people, the case for it isn't self-evident. Reading fiction retrains our besieged attention. It reminds us to orient the reader before launching into interpretation. In good fiction, information arrives when it can be absorbed and when it matters.”

Everyone on our team is sharing their favourite habit for a better academic writing life. In case you need help with a book this year, Stanford-trained historian Daniela is bilingual & works with both English- and Spanish-speaking scholars. scholarsandwriters.com/bio/daniela-... #academicsky

Welcome to that time of year when academics eager for a clean slate at the start of next semester clear their inboxes by filling yours. May the emails be more acceptances, opportunities, and promises for better connections in 2026 than simply hot potatoes tossed into your lap. #academicsky

Cambridge University Press opens funding scheme for under-represented early career scholars Cambridge University Press has launched a new grant to support under-represented early career scholars from diverse backgrounds and geographic locations, including first generation scholars.

This is a good start. We need more presses to do this but then to offer amounts that actually cover editorial help with a full manuscript. www.thebookseller.com/news/cambrid...

Apologies for saying the obvious, but especially this year the 3 best gifts for #academicsky:
1. great book that boosts a colleague's sales
2. editing, coaching, etc. to help knowledgeable people publish smart things
3. regular coffee to chat about WIP -- or another offer of solidarity & support

I have faith that highly educated, high-achieving people can do that part too.

Totally with you. I'm sorry the post triggered a bad experience.The whole publishing racket is soul-killing & heart-wrenching. I get it. I am wishing you better experiences in the future because you'd got great work to share.

2005? Maybe sign by 1995? (US and UK being not dissimilar, it was 60-40 men-women across top-tier US unis when I entered in 1989)

I'm so sorry that you had a bad experience with agents. I love your work & am grateful you were on my podcast on meat pies (Eat Feed, ages ago). Excited to see there's an audio version coming next month! Agents are definitely a mixed bag and it's so hard to find a good fit - why we help folks do it.

a woman is sitting at a table with a candle and the words what is a weekend ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with a candle and the words what is a weekend

If you write just 300 words per day, 5 days per week, for 50 weeks, you will have a 75,000-word book plus a life with weekends and a 2-week vacation. 🤯 Increase to 350 words per day and you can choose: 9 weeks off or 87,500 words drafted. (This post is 52 words.) #academicsky

Get an agent & reach More Readers with fredara hadley — Scholars & Writers Fredara is an ethnomusicologist at Julliard where she specializes in African American music. Here she talks about how just one of her many public-facing projects led to a agented book.

Another great example of how academic writers attract agents with short public pieces. "My advice would be to let your creative voice sing in your scholarly writing." #academicsky scholarsandwriters.com/what-works-p...

A very tiny percentage of humans on this planet ever publish a book. Fewer still an academic book built from years of research, conversations, presentations, (sometimes painful) feedback, and more. Remember to celebrate this rare, accomplished place to which you've brought yourself. #academicsky

The Food Programme - The Food Books of 2025 - BBC Sounds Leyla Kazim discusses some of the year's best food writing with Ruby Tandoh and guests.

Delighted to see Kevin Morgan's 'Serving the public' in the BBC's The Food Programme's Food Books for 2025, listen back to the programme on BBC Sounds here:
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'Serving the public' is out now, available from all good bookshops. #booksky #foodbooks

It varies widely depending on what your particular indexer already has in the pipeline. Sometimes they'll also have an unexpected opening if another writer wasn't able to deliver on the expected date. @bookishjulia.bsky.social might be able to help

Science suppliers are just a tiny piece of the story. Universities fuel so many other businesses from editors to restaurants. So much more needs to be written about ALL the small businesses taking a hit from ill-conceived policies and what it will do to "college towns." #academicsky