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Announcing the 2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award winners The National Association of Science Writers and its Awards Committee are pleased to announce the winners of the **2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards.** This year, NASW is awarding prizes…

Put your hands together for Jim Morris! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 His book, THE CANCER FACTORY, won @sciencewriters.org’s 2025 Science in Society Journalism Award in the Books category!! 🏆 📖

❤️ Thank you!!

This is a perfect Halloween read (and also #OpenAccess): mitpress.mit.edu/978026253328...

“Having one's book banned is not a prize. It's an assault on the right to read. And, worse, official acts of censorship beget quiet censorship, done in anticipation of criticism. As frequently banned author Malinda Lo writes, "Self-censorship is possibly the most difficult kind of censorship to fight because it is generally not publicly admitted. It's done quietly, in private. If nobody knows it's happening, how can anyone object?"” "Being Banned Is Not an Award" Philip Nel Bookbird A Journal of International Children's Literature Volume 63, Number 3, 2025 Read free thru 31 October 2025 Illustrated with the cover art from the new issue of Bookbird

As Banned Books Week nears, Philip Nel warns against the ways institutional book banning efforts lead to self-censorship

Read "Being Banned Is Not an Award" in the new issue of Bookbird

Free on @projectmuse.bsky.social thru 31 October

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October is LGBTQ History Month, and we're celebrating with a sale! Take 40% off select titles when you use discount code LQHM25 at checkout. Sale ends 10/31: bit.ly/3KT9jll

🎉 Getting closer and closer to pub! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205248...

This is a promotional graphic for the University Press of Florida’s Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium. It features the three sessions that make up the symposium, “Understanding Editors,” “Careers in Publishing,” and “Publishing Career Meetup,” as well as their respective start and end times in multicolored bands against an azure background. University Press of Florida and UF Press logos appear in white in the bottom right corner, while white text in the left corner reads, “Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium.”

Don’t forget to register for our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium!

Please join us for this free virtual event on October 23rd, starting at 1pm EST. It is open to anyone who would like to learn more about book publishing. Register here: upress.ufl.edu

When military recruiters visit, colleges must support trans students The trans ban violates the missions of universities — and their silence is dishonorable

An important piece from Brian Soucek (@brsoucek.bsky.social), author of THE OPINIONATED UNIVERSITY, coming in January 2026.

www.salon.com/2025/10/02/w...

What do we deny young people when we ban books?

This #BannedBooksWeek, join us for a free webinar with authors Gay Ivey and Peter Johnston on the power of free choice reading—and why bans may actually hamper students’ intellectual, emotional, and moral growth.

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Real-life zombies

Just in time for #spookyseason, Mindy Weisberger (@laminda.bsky.social) talks to @vox.com's Unexplainable about the real-life night of the living dead in the invertebrate world. 🧟🕷️🐛
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Therí A. Pickens on “my lover says (my mind)” Poets and translators on their work.

Poet Therí Alyce Pickens shares her poem "my lover says (my mind)" and her thoughts about writing it with @poetrysociety.org: poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...

He's the Godfather of the 50s folk revival movement. Woody Guthrie, died #otd 1967 (did you see a Complete Unknown?) & to celebrate his life, here's a FREE OA book encompassing the role song plays in social movements. #ReadUP -@templeunivpress.bsky.social - bit.ly/woodygfb

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Stack of books on a table with titles redacted by black bars. Headline reads: "The Normalization of Book Banning: What's Happening. What Can Be Done." PEN America logo appears at bottom.

🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.

We are pleased to celebrate Ono-isms as the 20th book in the ISMs series. The ISMs series distills the voices of an exciting range of visual artists and designers into captivating, beautifully-made books of quotations for a new generation of readers. Learn more here: press.princeton.edu/series/isms

2,000 Cambridge Elements and counting! 🎉

“The Elements series is an international treasure. In a way, it’s a whole world. A standing ovation to all those who have made it possible.” - Cass R. Sunstein, author of 'Behavioral Science and Public Policy'.

Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/42NtOGa

A celebratory graphic for the Journal of Experimental Botany's 75th anniversary. Oxford University Press.

Celebrate 75 years of pioneering plant science research! 🪴🎉

@jxbotany.bsky.social marks this important milestone with a collection of new Darwin Reviews from leading plant scientists.

Take a snapshot of plant science today: oxford.ly/4gSKOB1

In anticipation of its 7 October publication date, we captured Virginia Woolf‘s The Life of Violet all around London!

Preorder your copy of Virginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction—published in its final, revised form for the first time:

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A wide angle view of the AUPresses traveling Book, Jacket, and Journal show, currently on display at UW's Memorial Library lobby. Glass cases and display tables contain the winning books and journals

A close-up of two of the glass cases displaying winning book designs

A close-up of two glass-table displays showing winners from the University of Wisconsin Press

A close-up of one glass-table display showing winners from the University of Wisconsin Press

Now on display: the @aupresses.bsky.social Book, Jacket, and Journal Show! If you visit the University of Wisconsin's Memorial Library over the next couple of weeks, please stop by to check out the show. It'll be on display in the lobby until mid-October!

I have published three edited volumes and two monographs with university presses. They are definitely awesome supporters of scholarship.
You get so much better support & service than with those big commercial presses that charge a fortune for their books (you know who I mean!).

Proud to have published three books with university presses, @iupress.bsky.social, @ugapress.bsky.social, & @uchicagopress.bsky.social. University presses are essential for generating & sharing scholarship more broadly, creating public-intellectual works that engage, enrich, & persist. 📚✍️

Worth repeating, and appreciating every day: "More than 100 of North America’s top universities clearly believe that an energetic, outward-facing publishing program is a tremendous asset to, indeed a responsibility of, any university."

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📚 Unlock a century of scholarship
Libraries subscribing to LUP Open Languages receive exclusive access to journal archives dating back as far as 1923 — while supporting Open Access to today’s research.
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Tiles with select book titles cropped surround bright-colored text against black background: Ghosts and Monsters Sale.

October has dawned—and so has our spooky sale. Ghosts and monsters, Mothra and Godzilla, horror theory and horror film, the supernatural and the speculative: 30% off our collection with code MN93980.
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Spooky season is here! 🎃👻

We’ve built a Letterboxd list of 13 Halloween must-watches—from eerie classics to cult slashers. Perfect for your fall movie nights.

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#13NightsOfHalloween #SpookySeason

Our Latin American Studies newsletter is here! This edition highlights studies of #Culture, #Identity, #Folklore, #Populism, #Liberation movements, #Economics and more! #LatinAmerica

Read on to learn about new titles and exclusive #Discounts: https://bit.ly/4nKy8y4

So you’ve written an academic book—what now? It might seem like the hardest part is behind you, but few scholarly writers have the experience in developmental editing that is required to polish a manuscript such that it will connect with publishers and readers. In this video, PUP Speaks speaker and Publishing Consultant Laura Portwood-Stacer takes us through her method for revising a full book manuscript, as laid out in her new book Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers. https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/pup-speaks-laura-portwood-stacer-on-her-editing-framework

So you’ve written an academic book—what now?

PUP Speaks speaker and author Laura Portwood-Stacer takes us through her method for revising a full book manuscript, as laid out in her new book.

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Celebrating the Wolfson Prize - Yale University Press London In celebration of the announcement of the Wolfson Prize 2025 shortlist, we're revisiting some of our prize-winning and shortlisted books.

In celebration of @victoriandetective.bsky.social’s book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective being shortlisted for the @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social 2025, we’re revisiting some of our prize-winning and shortlisted books — with an extract from each.
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🎙Late shows are back!

For a smart look at #faith, #popculture, and #Colbert, read "America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself)" by Stephanie Brehm. It’s featured in “8 Thought-Provoking Books About Late Night Talk Shows.”

👉Link in bio: tr.ee/IY6x_URDms

Vanessa Diaz, co-author of "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance" on his upcoming Super Bowl show:

Finalists announced for 2025 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy | CBC Books The annual award, now in its fifth year, recognizes nonfiction that advances public discourse. The prize purse has been increased from $60,000 to $70,000 to the winner.

Congratulations to Stephen J. A. Ward for being shortlisted for the 2025 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy!

www.cbc.ca/books/finali...

5 Ways to Protect Your Teaching Expertise When Using AI by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn >> hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-mi...
Einhorn is the author of Problem Solver and our upcoming book The Human Edge: Smarter Decisions in the Age of AI