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How does the use of emojis in workplace communications influence perceptions of competence and appropriateness? New research from @collabrapsychology.bsky.social takes a look at emojis 👀 in the workplace 👇 @improvingpsych.org doi.org/10.1525/coll...
February 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Thanks to @usatoday.com for the great feature on @mlheggeness.bsky.social and her new book SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy: "If economics were taught in a way that met young women where they were, more would stay": www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
How one author is hoping Taylor Swift will bring more women into economics
Professor Misty Heggeness wrote "Swiftynomics" hoping to encourage more women to become interested in economics.
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February 5, 2026 at 3:21 PM
We’re hiring a Sales Manager! You’ll own key accounts (Amazon, B&N, indie retail), use data to drive smart decisions, and be the go-to sales contact for our authors and teams. careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...
February 5, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Check out the new February issue of "California History" online now. online.ucpress.edu/ch/issue/103/1
Volume 103 Issue 1 | California History | University of California Press
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February 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Lots of interesting articles in the new issue of "Pacific Historical Review," which we publish in partnership with @pcb-aha.bsky.social. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...
Thirty Years of “Pacific Historical Review”: New Articles on Gray Wolves, US-Pacific Expansion, Iberian Transpacific Trade
Preview the new Winter 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."
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February 3, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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12(1) "Intimacies of Scale," guest edited by J. D. Schnepf, Tess Takahashi, and Laliv Melamed, is now live!

"A consideration of histories of intimacy as a matter of mediating scale brings into view different possible futures."

—Editors' Introduction, open access NOW: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
January 24, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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Another open access "note" on historical methods by Srijita Banerjee! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Through scrapbooking, DIY-ing and hand-crafting paper, Jodie Mack creates a kaleidoscopic filmic world that speaks to the marginalized and suppressed nature of feminized labour in 'Dusty Stacks of Mom'.
January 26, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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SAH invites nominations and self-nominations for the following two positions for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians:

- Book Review Editor of Europe, Africa, and Asia to 1750
- Exhibition Review Editor

Submit your nomination by February 28.
Call for JSAH Book and Exhibitions Review Editors, 2026-28 - Society of Architectural Historians
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) invites nominations and self-nominations for the following two positions for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH): The Journal of...
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January 28, 2026 at 3:45 PM
New in @currenthistory1.bsky.social: The Far-Reaching Impacts of Trump’s Anti-Immigration Offensive doi.org/10.1525/curh...
The Far-Reaching Impacts of Trump’s Anti-Immigration Offensive
The second Trump administration’s escalating and violent crackdown is intended to redefine who is allowed to be in the United States.
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February 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM
We’re hiring! UC Press is looking for an Editorial Assistant (hybrid, Oakland) to support acquisitions, work with authors, and help bring scholarly books into the world: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...
January 29, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Coming this Tuesday! Order your copy today! @ucpress.bsky.social @swiftynomics.bsky.social a.co/d/ehud5Tm (also available on bookshop.org and you can listen to it on audible.com) 🙌 🙌 🙌
January 25, 2026 at 6:34 PM
🚨 Call for Editor Applications: UC Press is seeking applications for the position of Editor(s) in Chief of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. CC: @asianstudies.org @historians.org #EuroSEAS online.ucpress.edu/jvs online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
January 27, 2026 at 9:05 PM
UC Press welcomes The Chemical Educator to its portfolio of journals www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/u...
UC Press welcomes The Chemical Educator to its portfolio of journals
The Chemical Educator is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing excellence in chemistry education.
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January 26, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Thanks to @cnn.com for quoting Aldon Morris, author of THE SCHOLAR DENIED: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology in their article "Word of the Week: Who gets called an ‘agitator’?": www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/u...
Word of the Week: Who gets called an ‘agitator’? | CNN
As Americans across the country demonstrate their opposition to Donald Trump’s immigration offensive, the president and his administration aren’t classifying them as protesters. Instead, they’re calli...
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January 26, 2026 at 4:40 PM
A new special issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social features work in cinema and media studies that foregrounds intimacy as a scale, a relation, a force, a structure, and a particular media practice. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/12/1
Volume 12 Issue 1 | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press
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January 22, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Enjoy the January 2026 issue of "Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture" available online now. online.ucpress.edu/lalvc/issue/...
Volume 8 Issue 1 | Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture | University of California Press
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January 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
The new February 2026 issue of "Music Perception" is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/mp/issue/43/3
Volume 43 Issue 3 | Music Perception | University of California Press
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January 14, 2026 at 9:30 PM
The new issue of "Gastronomica" includes a special section on microbes in food studies, in addition to three standalone articles. online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica...
Volume 26 Issue 1 | Gastronomica | University of California Press
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January 14, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Thanks @sah1365.bsky.social for the great tour of your HQ, the historic Charnley-Persky House, designed by #LouisSullivan with assistance from his young draftsman #FrankLloydWright.
January 14, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Great to get a chance to see and catch up with @filmquarterly.bsky.social's editor J. M. Tyree in Chicago at the @historians.org conference. #AHA26 #AHA2026
January 14, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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In our latest issue, Laura McMahon explores an increasingly distinct tendency in Black feminist experimental film and video to turn to dance as a way of reimagining colonial histories, archives, and afterlives.

Open access now! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
January 6, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Thank you to @historians.org and #AHA26 attendees for another great conference to start the new year! Our AHA website will be up for a few weeks so you still have time to save 40% on our latest History books: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

See you next year in NOLA for #AHA27!
American Historical Association 2026
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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January 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
#AHA26 flew by! Last chance to come by and take a look at the latest History books.

If you're already heading home, our AHA website will be up for your chance to save 40% on all books we have on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
January 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
"EMPIRE OF LABOR is a major intervention in global labor history, early modern history, and histories of colonialism in South Asia and the world."

Author Titas Chakraborty on their new book about labor in colonized South Asia: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/s...

#AHA26
University of California Press
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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January 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
"Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) along with many other metropolitan global cities in Southeast Asia, is experiencing a cultural youth renaissance of global mindsets."

BIBLIOTACTICS author Cindy Nguyen speaks with us about reading culture in Vietnam for #AHA26:
University of California Press
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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January 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM