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Catherine Cocks
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Co-editor of Feeding the Elephant, scholarly publishing nerd, fan of the Heidelberg Project (look it up).
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queeribbean.bsky.social
“This isnt the America I know!”

Black People:
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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projectmuse.bsky.social
#ReadUP on how @hopkinspress.bsky.social & @projectmuse.bsky.social collaborated & personified the idea of #TeamUP w/ @jhu.edu on #DemocracyDay

www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/hop...

Thanks @aupresses.bsky.social !
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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pennpress.bsky.social
So excited to see GREATER PHILADELPHIA: A NEW HISTORY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY highlighted today on @nbcphiladelphia.com's Philly Live, featuring a conversation with one of the project's editors Howard Gillette Jr. and our Director Mary Francis!

Watch now: bit.ly/4i1MNn9
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
catherinefte.bsky.social
I did know! Have eaten bagels in Montreal and NYC. Mmmmm!
nyupress.bsky.social NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 1d
In honor of #UPWeek, we've partnered with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social to explore how food shapes identity across borders.

Nothing says NYC like pastrami on rye from Katz's, but did you know Montreal has its own take on the Jewish deli tradition?

Learn about that here:
TeamUP! NYU and McGill-Queen’s Savor Food Studies in NYC and Montréal
Read McGill-Queen’s University Press’s post about Eating the Urban Wild: Food and Foraging in Montréal here.
buff.ly
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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osupress.bsky.social
The #SouthSoundBirdAlliance welcomes Gretchen Newberry to present "The Hidden Lives of Common Nighthawks" on Zoom tonight, November 13, at 7:00 pm PT! Registration is required. Visit beav.es/ooP to learn more.
#BirdBooks #Nighthawks #ReadLocal
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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lsupress.bsky.social
LSU Press poet and cli-fi author Olivia Clare Friedman talked art, parenting, caregiving, and inspiration with the Postpartum Production Podcast! Check it out here: https://bit.ly/43WV6KY
Finding Art in Life with Olivia Clare Friedman
On Cli-Fi and more
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November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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uminnpress.bsky.social
🎧 Fantastic new conversation on our podcast! Featuring Danny Snelson, Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) / @vickiwfmu.bsky.social , Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra on the digitized afterlives of cultural objects. share.transistor.fm/s/d0afdbc0
​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I'm really interested in this double-edged sword of access to digital materials . . . which feels different in 2025." —Danny Snelson ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "A lot of the friction that can happen in chains of information . . . it's not really about the tools being used, it's about our agency." —Vicki Bennett ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I never would have dreamed of 'language not equal.' So the absence of metadata is one of the things I'm most proud of on (Eclipse)." —Craig Dworkin ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "(This book) excavates that tradition of sharing that later generations weren't necessarily exposed to." —Luca Messarra
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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wlupress.bsky.social
In a new episode of Community of Praxis, Brenna interviews Maha Bali about her edited collection Open at the Margins and the ways open education is not always already equitable. @brennacgray.bsky.social @mahabali.bsky.social On your favourite platform or at
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Alt Text: A woman with glasses wearing a hijab within the Community of Praxis multicoloured abstract image. The text reads New Episode! Open at the margins with guest Maha Bali, co-founder of virtuallyconnecting.org and co-faciliator of Equity Unbound.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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gallaudetpress.bsky.social
GU Press's mission to advance awareness and recognition of deaf people, deaf communities, and signed languages would not be possible without these crucial partners.

Visit @aupresses.bsky.social site to learn more about #UPWeek!

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University Press Week 2025 – University Press Week
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November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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aupresses.bsky.social
Monash University Publishing, @upcolorado.bsky.social & @cornellupress.bsky.social really #StepUP in science & the environment! Check out these thought-provoking works & many more in the #UPWeek Gallery: https://bit.ly/4eQUlpM #ReadUP
Step Up in Science & Environment, University Press Week 2024 Displaying covers of 3 books: What The Trees See, Flourishing in the Age of Climate Change, The Colorado Trail in Crisis: A Naturalist's Field Report on Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems
November 14, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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syracuseup.bsky.social
For #UPWeek, LitHub features "The Man of Middling Height" as one of the great new works in translation. lithub.com/reading-arou...
Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation From University Presses
Want to travel around the world without leaving your house? Just pick up a book that was translated from another language. Whether you are reading a novel originally written in French, a memoir ori…
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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scholasticahq.bsky.social
This #UPWeek, we're reflecting on the many ways university presses have been working to align with and further the UN SDGs. bit.ly/3g5wGbW

What new developments would you add?

#StepUP #SDGs
3 Ways journal publishers are supporting the UN SDGs
The launch of the SDG Publishers Compact was a timely call-to-action to fast-track scholarly communication efforts to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This blog post highlights some of th...
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November 13, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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ualbertapress.bsky.social
University Press Week 2025 is about collaboration. Canadian university presses came together in this two-page ad in the Literary Review of Canada. Take a look!

More info about #UPWeek: https://bit.ly/497lEN1
##TeamUP #ReadUP @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social @ubcpress.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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michellechn.bsky.social
University Press week seems a good time to remind everyone that UPs are nonprofits, and many take donations. So if you want to support our mission, consider contributing to a small press this #UPWeek. And yes, modest amounts DO matter (you'd probably be surprised by our shoestring budgets) #TeamUP
aupresses.bsky.social Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 3d
With higher ed funding under threat, university presses are tuning out the noise & sticking to their values, reports @publisherswkly.bsky.social. University presses remain committed to publishing works that will build a better society. Read more: https://bit.ly/43pEj33
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November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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sholleykline.bsky.social
A quick shout-out to the @univnebpress.bsky.social for #UPWeek! I had the benefit of a stellar team for my book—thanks to @bridgetrbarry.bsky.social and @emilykcasillas.bsky.social (editorial), Sara Springsteen (project management), Lindsey Welch (design), and Madison Wigley (marketing).
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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bucknellupress.bsky.social
Congratulations to Linda Zionkowski, Mimi Hart, and all contributors to "Women and Music in the Age of Austen," winner of the American Musicological Society's Ruth A. Solie Award for an outstanding essay collection of exceptional scholarly merit.

For more: lnkd.in/dNa_gmK9
#ReadUP #TeamUP #UPWeek
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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aupresses.bsky.social
Thanks for the #UPWeek love, @literaryhub.bsky.social! Many university presses are dedicated to Teaming UP with translators to advance knowledge & understanding. Discover 17 outstanding examples to #ReadUP in “ Reading Around the World” https://bit.ly/43S4pf8 ...
Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation From University Presses
Want to travel around the world without leaving your house? Just pick up a book that was translated from another language. Whether you are reading a novel originally written in French, a memoir ori…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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upcolorado.bsky.social
"For-profit publishers publish books to make money, whereas university presses try to make money so that they can publish books"

Louder for the people in the back please

#UPWeek #TeamUP
aupresses.bsky.social Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 3d
Happy to #TeamUP with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social once again to celebrate #UPWeek: listen in on a podcast interview with AUPresses President @dlbookman.bsky.social, director @uwiscpress.bsky.social.

https://bit.ly/4hSbLF6
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November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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aupresses.bsky.social
How do university presses #TeamUP to advance knowledge? A baker’s dozen inspiring examples in the #UPWeek Gallery include work by @ucpress.bsky.social, @dukepress.bsky.social, @mitpress.bsky.social, @uofupress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social & @ualbertapress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/43CrodY
TeamUP with Collaborative Projects, University Press Week 2025, featuring logos of press projects mentioned in the post: The W. Hodding Carter III and Transregional Middle Easts series, Direct to Open (D2O), First Gen scholars program, and Centre for Literatures in Canada lecture series.
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Washington DC!

I will be doing an event next Weds (11/19) for Lessons in Magic and Disaster. It's at As You Are, a wonderful queer space, and hosted by Little District Books. I would consider it a huge personal kindness if you spread the word.

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Photo of Charlie Jane Anders with pink hair and pink sunglasses, wearing a pink dress and pink sparkly shawl, with a fancy necklace. Plus the cover of Lessons in Magic and Disaster with purple cracked earth with daisies pushing thru
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list ., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Ever wondered how a book gets from a warehouse to your hands? @leekinginc.bsky.social explains it all on #feedingthelephant another way we #TeamUP for #upweek: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Book Distribution, but Were Afraid to Ask | H-Net
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November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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peoplesparity.bsky.social
Recent history has shown that attorneys and jurists can play a big role in bringing their nations back from the brink of autocracy. That day is coming for us as well. The Lawyers March for Democracy kicks off on Nov 15 @1pm: @skennedy2504.myatproto.social in @newrepublic.com
The Legal Professionals Planning to March Against Trump
Recent history has shown that attorneys and jurists can play a big role in bringing their nations back from the brink of autocracy. That day is coming for us as well.
newrepublic.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM