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October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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How‘s your #TBR stack? (Mine’s getting tall.) But good news #book friends - we have a podcast episode or newsletter feature for you on everything pictured here. Find the Academic Life everywhere you get #podcasts and
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October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Dr. @eramalam.bsky.social unpacks 60 years of US medical care history & physician recruitment policies, in 📚 In The Care of Foreigners.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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How to help:
October 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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From the White House Historical Association ⬇️:
October 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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How are the micro-wild, elections, old diaries and America’s founding fathers entwined with the history of apples?

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October 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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What is development editing? How does it improve your work? Laura Portwood-Stacer explains⬇️.

📚Make Your Manuscript Work
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October 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🎧 Dr Annmarie Cano shares wisdom from her timely and urgent new book
Leading Toward Liberation: How to Build Cultures of Thriving in Higher Education

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October 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Tuesday newsletters for 2025 focus on moments of inspiration; Thursdays we offer writing tips and curated playlists. Find & follow at ChristinaGessler.Substack.com for free or pay-what-you-can.

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October 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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New issue of the newsletter is out—find it at ChristinaGessler.Substack.Com

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September 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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The latest edition of the newsletter is out! Find and follow it for free at ChristinaGessler.Substack.Com
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September 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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@juliagaffield.bsky.social joins us to share her new book I Have Avenged America ⬇️
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September 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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🎧 Listen to our newest episode featuring insights from the book Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality by Dr. Noah ⬇️
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September 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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How’s your #TBR stack? We can help with that! 🎧 Academic Life released 42 episodes this year—with a dozen more ready to drop by year‘s end. And the full catalog of 300+ episodes remains in free open access through the archival sponsorship of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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September 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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🎧 Go inside the world of 19th women circus performers in this episode featuring 📚 Jumping Through Hoops:
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September 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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🎧 Prof. Amanda Frost unpacks the #history of citizenship stripping. What is it, and what can be done? ⬇️

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August 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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🎧 Dr John King, Former US Secretary of Education, and current chancellor of @sunyofficial.bsky.social joins us to share the journey recounted in Teacher By Teacher, a tribute to the key role teachers play in our lives. ⬇️
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August 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Academic Life has a newsletter w/bonus material. Please follow ⬇️. (Free and paid offers all the same content!) This week we consider why we need to cultivate whimsy in times of austerity - and what that might look like.
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July 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Whether you’re leaving #academia or staying, adopting an entrepreneurial mindset is essential. Learn more ⬇️
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July 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Morning harvest (from the farming squirrel’s plants):
July 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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🎧 Dr. Greta Uehling joins us to talk about the 2014 invasion of Crimea, the many forms of #resistance to Russian aggression, and her new book Decolonizing Ukraine ⬇️
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The cover of the book Decolonizing Ukraine by Dr Greta Lynn Uehling
July 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Found out that the squirrel (who was THE main character in all winter bird feeder stories) wasn’t just digging random holes - she was planting 3 varietals of tomatoes and a few stalks of corn.
July 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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🎧 Dr Erica Armstrong Dunbar joins us to share from her award-winning book Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge ⬇️
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July 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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🎧 Dr. Laura Chavez Moreno shares from her award-winning new book How Schools Make Race ⬇️
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June 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM