Mick Gusinde-Duffy
@mickodopolous.bsky.social
Bookish armchair radical.
"Well, that's just, like, my opinion, man. . . ."
I acquire phenomenal books for @ugapress in my spare time.
"Well, that's just, like, my opinion, man. . . ."
I acquire phenomenal books for @ugapress in my spare time.
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Really pleased to learn that one of our students, Kristen Waddell, has won a national award for her NSF-funded research on local water quality. Congratulations to Kristen and to my teaching colleague, Dr. Daisy Zhang.
Folks, we're a community college.
www.kiiitv.com/article/news...
Folks, we're a community college.
www.kiiitv.com/article/news...
DMC student’s water-quality research earns national recognition
Kristen Waddell has spent more than a year using new techniques to study water quality in South Texas, using samples collected directly from Baffin Bay.
www.kiiitv.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Really pleased to learn that one of our students, Kristen Waddell, has won a national award for her NSF-funded research on local water quality. Congratulations to Kristen and to my teaching colleague, Dr. Daisy Zhang.
Folks, we're a community college.
www.kiiitv.com/article/news...
Folks, we're a community college.
www.kiiitv.com/article/news...
Not many Fort Collins, CO folks in my network, but just in case (come and spend 6 months in the Choice City to see why I'm here?):
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www.trulia.com/home/826-jer...
www.trulia.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Not many Fort Collins, CO folks in my network, but just in case (come and spend 6 months in the Choice City to see why I'm here?):
www.trulia.com/home/826-jer...
www.trulia.com/home/826-jer...
"‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school". ---Guardian Headline
Leader of right wing, jingoistic, dozy (as in unwoke) party is <checks notes> a toxic racist.
hold the front page!
Leader of right wing, jingoistic, dozy (as in unwoke) party is <checks notes> a toxic racist.
hold the front page!
November 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school". ---Guardian Headline
Leader of right wing, jingoistic, dozy (as in unwoke) party is <checks notes> a toxic racist.
hold the front page!
Leader of right wing, jingoistic, dozy (as in unwoke) party is <checks notes> a toxic racist.
hold the front page!
McTominay
bloody hell
bloody hell
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
McTominay
bloody hell
bloody hell
Oh Ireland . . . well done.
"The hallowed heights of Troy"
"The hallowed heights of Troy"
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Oh Ireland . . . well done.
"The hallowed heights of Troy"
"The hallowed heights of Troy"
My books are priceless.
Well, as good as at this steep discount.
Athens region friends, find some fiscally frugal folios. . .
Well, as good as at this steep discount.
Athens region friends, find some fiscally frugal folios. . .
Just dropped📚🎉: Today ONLY all books will be sold at 75% off! Come by between 9-3pm at the Main Library for the last day of our Dirty Book Sale.
#booksale #ugapress #SpotlightOnTheArts
#booksale #ugapress #SpotlightOnTheArts
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
My books are priceless.
Well, as good as at this steep discount.
Athens region friends, find some fiscally frugal folios. . .
Well, as good as at this steep discount.
Athens region friends, find some fiscally frugal folios. . .
Get
a load
of this . . .
Formal publication date May 1, 2026 (mayday, mayday)
Festivities will launch at OAH (Philadelphia, where else?) in March.
@ugapress.bsky.social @jimdowns.bsky.social @agordonreed.bsky.social @nhannahjones.bsky.social and more
a load
of this . . .
Formal publication date May 1, 2026 (mayday, mayday)
Festivities will launch at OAH (Philadelphia, where else?) in March.
@ugapress.bsky.social @jimdowns.bsky.social @agordonreed.bsky.social @nhannahjones.bsky.social and more
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Get
a load
of this . . .
Formal publication date May 1, 2026 (mayday, mayday)
Festivities will launch at OAH (Philadelphia, where else?) in March.
@ugapress.bsky.social @jimdowns.bsky.social @agordonreed.bsky.social @nhannahjones.bsky.social and more
a load
of this . . .
Formal publication date May 1, 2026 (mayday, mayday)
Festivities will launch at OAH (Philadelphia, where else?) in March.
@ugapress.bsky.social @jimdowns.bsky.social @agordonreed.bsky.social @nhannahjones.bsky.social and more
Why have I not heard more reminders of Trump's dismal debate last year where he promised better healthcare with his "concepts of a plan."?
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Why have I not heard more reminders of Trump's dismal debate last year where he promised better healthcare with his "concepts of a plan."?
And funny, to boot. I steal his lines shamelessly.
We are losing a true publishing genius, someone who could stay focused on the thinking and writing that is our purpose, while innovating in forms and the university press break-even form of business.
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
And funny, to boot. I steal his lines shamelessly.
Reposted by Mick Gusinde-Duffy
📣🌟 Come work with us! We're looking for a highly organized individual with strong communication skills and an enthusiastic mindset to serve as our next Publicity Manager! Learn more here ➡️ ou.taleo.net/careersectio...
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
📣🌟 Come work with us! We're looking for a highly organized individual with strong communication skills and an enthusiastic mindset to serve as our next Publicity Manager! Learn more here ➡️ ou.taleo.net/careersectio...
Reposted by Mick Gusinde-Duffy
Don’t believe it that faculty members are the problem. Many of them with the most to lose are they very ones putting themselves on the line to directly speak truth to power.
youtu.be/xqLsgqOwNBM?...
youtu.be/xqLsgqOwNBM?...
Leslie Harris, Northwestern University Faculty Assembly, Oct. 15, 2025
YouTube video by Michael Peshkin
youtu.be
October 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Don’t believe it that faculty members are the problem. Many of them with the most to lose are they very ones putting themselves on the line to directly speak truth to power.
youtu.be/xqLsgqOwNBM?...
youtu.be/xqLsgqOwNBM?...
2021; still eminently quotable:
"With more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital infrastructure of knowledge and career advancement is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits."
"With more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital infrastructure of knowledge and career advancement is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits."
Worth repeating: "University presses are essential infrastructure for the humanities & should be financially supported in the same way that other higher education inter-institutional infrastructure is." Some powerful examples here:
Institutions and funders must recognize the contributions of university presses to the humanities infrastructure (opinion)
Recognizing the university press community’s essential contributions to that infrastructure will be crucial as institutions and funders plan for the future, write Charles Watkinson and Melissa Pitts.
bit.ly
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
2021; still eminently quotable:
"With more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital infrastructure of knowledge and career advancement is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits."
"With more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital infrastructure of knowledge and career advancement is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits."
Reposted by Mick Gusinde-Duffy
This is an important point.
Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.
Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.
Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)
Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president
Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is an important point.
Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.
Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.
Reposted by Mick Gusinde-Duffy
We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.
Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.
Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
October 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.
Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.
Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.
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"I want to encourage a sense of solidarity in my relationships with my authors, and in the ways that we recognize all sorts of disruptions are happening for people right now and how we have to accommodate the work that we do to account for that."
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/alyssa...
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/alyssa...
Meet an acquiring editor at Columbia University Press
An interview with editor Alyssa M. Napier of Columbia University Press by Laura Portwood-Stacer of Manuscript Works
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"I want to encourage a sense of solidarity in my relationships with my authors, and in the ways that we recognize all sorts of disruptions are happening for people right now and how we have to accommodate the work that we do to account for that."
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/alyssa...
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/alyssa...
World Champions, and in front of 82K spectators. Good work England Women's rugger.
September 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
World Champions, and in front of 82K spectators. Good work England Women's rugger.
Grumpy old man post: AI tools, and their insidious, uninvited encroachment on my digital spaces (searching, writing, browsing, reading) are turning me into a grumpy old man.
Get
Off
My
Fucking
Laptop, Jawn.
Get
Off
My
Fucking
Laptop, Jawn.
September 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Grumpy old man post: AI tools, and their insidious, uninvited encroachment on my digital spaces (searching, writing, browsing, reading) are turning me into a grumpy old man.
Get
Off
My
Fucking
Laptop, Jawn.
Get
Off
My
Fucking
Laptop, Jawn.
Time to pack your waterproof manuscripts for #SHA2025 with @thesouthernsha.bsky.social
Come and see Mick and share bookish thoughts for @ugapress.bsky.social publication.
Appointment calendar here: bit.ly/4gNubqk
Come and see Mick and share bookish thoughts for @ugapress.bsky.social publication.
Appointment calendar here: bit.ly/4gNubqk
UGA Press at Southern Historical Association (SHA) - Mick Gusinde-Duffy
If you want to publish a book and would like it well published, chat with UGA Press editor, Mick Gusinde-Duffy.
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September 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Time to pack your waterproof manuscripts for #SHA2025 with @thesouthernsha.bsky.social
Come and see Mick and share bookish thoughts for @ugapress.bsky.social publication.
Appointment calendar here: bit.ly/4gNubqk
Come and see Mick and share bookish thoughts for @ugapress.bsky.social publication.
Appointment calendar here: bit.ly/4gNubqk
Reposted by Mick Gusinde-Duffy
Are you interested in a publishing career? 💼 Check out the new Publishing certificate offered by the UGA English Dept., featuring classes taught by our own staff and @georgiareview!
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September 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Are you interested in a publishing career? 💼 Check out the new Publishing certificate offered by the UGA English Dept., featuring classes taught by our own staff and @georgiareview!
https://loom.ly/12UNuT0
https://loom.ly/12UNuT0
Taking place in the student center that I cleaned on Saturday mornings, many years ago . . .
Looking forward to listening, learning and sharing with these great professionals and participants.
Looking forward to listening, learning and sharing with these great professionals and participants.
If you are at Colorado State University—I am going to join some savvy university press editors - @bridgetrbarry.bsky.social, @mickodopolous.bsky.social, @mallums.bsky.social, and Nicole Solano - for a day of publishing panels and 1-on-1 author/editor sessions this Thursday, 9/18.
Link below w/info!
Link below w/info!
September 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Taking place in the student center that I cleaned on Saturday mornings, many years ago . . .
Looking forward to listening, learning and sharing with these great professionals and participants.
Looking forward to listening, learning and sharing with these great professionals and participants.
Is there any more ear-wormy ear-worm than Johnny Flynn's theme song for "Detectorists"?
open.spotify.com/track/22HK7F...
You're welcome
open.spotify.com/track/22HK7F...
You're welcome
Detectorists (Original Soundtrack from the TV Series)
open.spotify.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Is there any more ear-wormy ear-worm than Johnny Flynn's theme song for "Detectorists"?
open.spotify.com/track/22HK7F...
You're welcome
open.spotify.com/track/22HK7F...
You're welcome
I'd buy that t-shirt.
"NUMBERS ALWAYS TEND TO BENEFIT THE LEFT"
CNN: When the jobs report comes out, are you going to believe the numbers?
REP. RANDY FINE: Um, I'm going to look at the numbers. Look, the people who put these numbers together are human & fallible and make mistakes
C: It wasn't that they make mistakes
F: Numbers always tend to benefit the left
REP. RANDY FINE: Um, I'm going to look at the numbers. Look, the people who put these numbers together are human & fallible and make mistakes
C: It wasn't that they make mistakes
F: Numbers always tend to benefit the left
September 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I'd buy that t-shirt.
Why does Donald Trump keep trying, and failing, to call me? Does he not know how to use a phone beyond texting? Is the phone too big for his little hands?
August 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Why does Donald Trump keep trying, and failing, to call me? Does he not know how to use a phone beyond texting? Is the phone too big for his little hands?