Matt McAdam
@mxmcadam.bsky.social
Executive Editor for Humanities and History of STM at Johns Hopkins University Press
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Every librarian dreams of being published, and I'm so grateful to @ecwpress.bsky.social for supporting my research and book called 'Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders.' Pre-ordering is now available. tinyurl.com/Girlgangs
#coverreveal #bookssky #newbook
#coverreveal #bookssky #newbook
June 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Every librarian dreams of being published, and I'm so grateful to @ecwpress.bsky.social for supporting my research and book called 'Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders.' Pre-ordering is now available. tinyurl.com/Girlgangs
#coverreveal #bookssky #newbook
#coverreveal #bookssky #newbook
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Door #1: Lose at least $400 million in federal grants.
Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy.
Columbia picks Door #2.
dailynous.com/2025/07/24/c...
Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy.
Columbia picks Door #2.
dailynous.com/2025/07/24/c...
Columbia University Caves - Daily Nous
Door #1: Lose at least $400 million in federal grants. Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy. Not an enviable choice for any university. Columbia University just chose Do...
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July 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Door #1: Lose at least $400 million in federal grants.
Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy.
Columbia picks Door #2.
dailynous.com/2025/07/24/c...
Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy.
Columbia picks Door #2.
dailynous.com/2025/07/24/c...
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Hey look! Tomorrow night (7 pm, Thursday the 24th) I'm talking with Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer about his new book about experts, data, and gay marriage at @redemmas.org
Come early to get a good seat, maybe a falafel salad and a mazagran while you're at it!
Come early to get a good seat, maybe a falafel salad and a mazagran while you're at it!
Join Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer present for a conversation with Rahne Alexander about BY THE POWER VESTED IN ME at Red Emma's Thursday, July 24th 2025 at 7:00 pm. RSVP today.
Book Launch: Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer presents "By the Power Vested in Me" in conversation w/ Rahne Alexander
Through the story of the fight over gay rights, Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer reveals how and why certain experts—but not others—obtain the authority to shape public opinion and policy. At a time of…
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July 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Hey look! Tomorrow night (7 pm, Thursday the 24th) I'm talking with Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer about his new book about experts, data, and gay marriage at @redemmas.org
Come early to get a good seat, maybe a falafel salad and a mazagran while you're at it!
Come early to get a good seat, maybe a falafel salad and a mazagran while you're at it!
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Attn nerds: I will be giving these books away FOR FREE tomorrow, 8:30-11. Note that the book exhibit is moving to the FIRST FLOOR of the Omni, so find us there. First come first served, one book per person, and again, FREE. #SHEAR2025
July 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Attn nerds: I will be giving these books away FOR FREE tomorrow, 8:30-11. Note that the book exhibit is moving to the FIRST FLOOR of the Omni, so find us there. First come first served, one book per person, and again, FREE. #SHEAR2025
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“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument… the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life” — C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) at Daily Nous on the creative craft of writing philosophy.
Beyond Argument: The Creative Craft of Philosophy Writing (guest post) - Daily Nous
"I want to talk about the part about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument part: the bit where you work on expressing your idea clearly, delicately, even personally. I want to t...
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July 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument… the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life” — C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) at Daily Nous on the creative craft of writing philosophy.
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Congratulations to @hopkinspress.bsky.social author @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social who has won the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize!
You can buy the book anywhere in Europe from your local bookstore or @blackwells.bsky.social.
royalhistsoc.org/prizes/royal...
You can buy the book anywhere in Europe from your local bookstore or @blackwells.bsky.social.
royalhistsoc.org/prizes/royal...
July 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Congratulations to @hopkinspress.bsky.social author @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social who has won the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize!
You can buy the book anywhere in Europe from your local bookstore or @blackwells.bsky.social.
royalhistsoc.org/prizes/royal...
You can buy the book anywhere in Europe from your local bookstore or @blackwells.bsky.social.
royalhistsoc.org/prizes/royal...
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Countdown to August 19, the official release date for my book, Birth Politics, with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. Happy to schedule zoom and in-person talks. If you adopt the book as a required text in your classroom, I definitely owe you a classroom visit. Please let me know.
July 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Countdown to August 19, the official release date for my book, Birth Politics, with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. Happy to schedule zoom and in-person talks. If you adopt the book as a required text in your classroom, I definitely owe you a classroom visit. Please let me know.
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Today, I get to make my first major announcement as Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. I am SO EXCITED that we are, in a small way, able to step in right at the moment when the NEA has left our country’s arts and culture sector high and dry. www.deepvellum.org/news/aghi-dv...
Deep Vellum announces partnership with The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins — Deep Vellum
JULY 2, 2025 — The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins and Deep Vellum are proud to partner in bringing the world’s greatest writers into dialogue across academic and public spheres...
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July 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Today, I get to make my first major announcement as Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. I am SO EXCITED that we are, in a small way, able to step in right at the moment when the NEA has left our country’s arts and culture sector high and dry. www.deepvellum.org/news/aghi-dv...
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all tenure-track assistant professors in the humanities:
July 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
all tenure-track assistant professors in the humanities:
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I wrote:
“Jefferson dreamed of forging a grand, vibrant Athens on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, in its third century, the United States seems a lot more like Sparta.”
newrepublic.com/article/1973...
“Jefferson dreamed of forging a grand, vibrant Athens on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, in its third century, the United States seems a lot more like Sparta.”
newrepublic.com/article/1973...
UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway
Ryan had not fought Trump on DEI and other matters. His forced ouster proves that no capitulation is enough.
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June 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I wrote:
“Jefferson dreamed of forging a grand, vibrant Athens on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, in its third century, the United States seems a lot more like Sparta.”
newrepublic.com/article/1973...
“Jefferson dreamed of forging a grand, vibrant Athens on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, in its third century, the United States seems a lot more like Sparta.”
newrepublic.com/article/1973...
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Friends! We would be so excited to see you for our DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH. I will be in the UK in spirit struggling through the Midwestern heat at 9 am (CDT), but invigorated by the brilliant @elsadevienne.bsky.social and @rebwright.bsky.social.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
Environmental historians of the US: don't miss this *DOUBLE book launch* celebrating recent publications in the field.
This is happening this Thursday 3pm BST; 10am EDT; 7am PDT on zoom
Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@rebwright.bsky.social @parhee.bsky.social @aseh.bsky.social please rt🙏
This is happening this Thursday 3pm BST; 10am EDT; 7am PDT on zoom
Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@rebwright.bsky.social @parhee.bsky.social @aseh.bsky.social please rt🙏
June 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Friends! We would be so excited to see you for our DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH. I will be in the UK in spirit struggling through the Midwestern heat at 9 am (CDT), but invigorated by the brilliant @elsadevienne.bsky.social and @rebwright.bsky.social.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
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I ask my new + old followers to circulate this open access roundtable onAmerican science. Please repost! We in the USA are losing our lead in scientific research due to totalitarian tendencies in the current administration. This loss will affect all of us.
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The crisis in American science - Kathryn M. Olesko, Anthony Eames, Cyrus C. M. Mody, Ilana Löwy, Thomas Zeller, Mark Walker, Mitchell G. Ash, Donna Haraway, 2025
The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unpr...
journals.sagepub.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I ask my new + old followers to circulate this open access roundtable onAmerican science. Please repost! We in the USA are losing our lead in scientific research due to totalitarian tendencies in the current administration. This loss will affect all of us.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Smartphones are not a good example of extended cognition. A social history of philosophy. Videos about causal inference. Enlightenment stand-up. Anti-trans arguments. The math of gas & the direction of time. Your brain on ChatGPT, and more...
Mini-Heap - Daily Nous
Recent links... “The usage of LLMs could actually harm learning, especially for younger users” -- a new study on brain activity and the use of LLMs like ChatGPT “At the microscopic scale, where partic...
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June 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Smartphones are not a good example of extended cognition. A social history of philosophy. Videos about causal inference. Enlightenment stand-up. Anti-trans arguments. The math of gas & the direction of time. Your brain on ChatGPT, and more...
A related project would study the phrase “dialed in”
There is a good project in gender/masculinity studies just waiting to be written that looks at online aviation forums after a major place crash.
June 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A related project would study the phrase “dialed in”
Habermas is 96 today, and that is because Habermas is still alive.
The death of Alastair MacIntyre prompts my semi-annual reminder of this incredible fact: Habermas is still alive.
June 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Habermas is 96 today, and that is because Habermas is still alive.
There is a good project in gender/masculinity studies just waiting to be written that looks at online aviation forums after a major place crash.
June 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
There is a good project in gender/masculinity studies just waiting to be written that looks at online aviation forums after a major place crash.
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It should go without saying, but apparently it needs to be said: if you are peer reviewing a ms for a scholarly press, DO NOT feed that ms into an AI machine to write your reader report for you. DO NOT.
June 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It should go without saying, but apparently it needs to be said: if you are peer reviewing a ms for a scholarly press, DO NOT feed that ms into an AI machine to write your reader report for you. DO NOT.
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Who wants free books? These are some of the titles that we at @urbanhistory.bsky.social are looking to review. Let me know if you or a friend want one, or if you have other suggestions. First, @rebwright.bsky.social's fabulous looking history of mid century US energy regimes:
June 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Who wants free books? These are some of the titles that we at @urbanhistory.bsky.social are looking to review. Let me know if you or a friend want one, or if you have other suggestions. First, @rebwright.bsky.social's fabulous looking history of mid century US energy regimes:
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If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
May 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
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Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/
Remember to register!
Ken Wissoker in conversation with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET via Zoom
bit.ly/impossibleti...
Ken Wissoker in conversation with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET via Zoom
bit.ly/impossibleti...
June 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/
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Given this week’s events re: COVID vaccines, there’s lots of new interest in ‘shared clinical decision-making’ recommendations—what they are, what they mean, etc. Wrote about them in @jlme-journal.bsky.social several years back. (Message me if you can’t access it) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Shared Decision-Making and Prevention Recommendations: Evolution, Implications, and Challenges for Public Health | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core
Shared Decision-Making and Prevention Recommendations: Evolution, Implications, and Challenges for Public Health - Volume 49 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
May 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Given this week’s events re: COVID vaccines, there’s lots of new interest in ‘shared clinical decision-making’ recommendations—what they are, what they mean, etc. Wrote about them in @jlme-journal.bsky.social several years back. (Message me if you can’t access it) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Harvard is offering 558 free classes, including but not limited to "We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy", "American Government: Constitutional Foundations", and "U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy."
Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏
Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏
Catalog of Courses
Browse the latest courses from Harvard University
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May 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Harvard is offering 558 free classes, including but not limited to "We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy", "American Government: Constitutional Foundations", and "U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy."
Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏
Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏
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"Like my cat, Derek did simply what he wanted to do." A new collection of essays about philosopher Derek Parfit by people who were close to him.
An Affectionate but Clear-Eyed Close-Up of Parfit - Daily Nous
Derek Parfit: His Life and Thought, a collection of essays by people who knew him, edited by Jeff McMahan, was published a couple of days ago. There is an online (gated) version at Oxford Academic. (I...
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May 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Like my cat, Derek did simply what he wanted to do." A new collection of essays about philosopher Derek Parfit by people who were close to him.
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Good morning, this is my more-or-less annual reminder/plea to make sure your faculty page is reasonably up to date. Helps me find you AND helps me know not to bug you to peer review stuff if your interests have changed significantly.
May 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Good morning, this is my more-or-less annual reminder/plea to make sure your faculty page is reasonably up to date. Helps me find you AND helps me know not to bug you to peer review stuff if your interests have changed significantly.
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Coming next week, the story of the Third Reich's efforts to influence hearts and minds at American universities with exchange students -- by Aaron Gillette @uh.edu @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
May 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Coming next week, the story of the Third Reich's efforts to influence hearts and minds at American universities with exchange students -- by Aaron Gillette @uh.edu @hopkinspress.bsky.social
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...