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CSHL Press names David Crotty executive director | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has named David Crotty executive director of its publishing house, CSHL Press. He takes over for John Inglis, who founded the modern-day incarnation of CSHL Press ...

CSHL welcomes David Crotty (@dacrotty.bsky.social), new executive director of @cshlpress.bsky.social! Crotty, a 20+ year veteran of scientific publishing, succeeds founder John Inglis (@johninglis.bsky.social), who has led the Press since 1987. Read more at the link: www.cshl.edu/cshl-press-n...

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Are you a humanities faculty member who has worked with your campus government realtions office? If so, let me know--I could use you on a panel at #mla26

Open Peer Review Models: Partial, Full, and Collaborative Reviewing In our final installment for Peer Review Week, we describe partially, fully, and collaborative peer review models, including a look at how Kairos uses ALL of these.

In our final post for #peerreviewweek, Doug Eyman and I treat you to some juicy goodness about partially and fully open and collaborative forms of peer review! This is how @kairosrtp.bsky.social has done it for THIRTY YEARS. Check it out! #openreview digital-scholarship.ghost.io/open-peer-re...

📣 #PeerReviewWeek kicks off today!

And what better time to share that CELJ will soon launch the @mellon.org -funded survey examining peer review in humanities & HSS journal publishing.

The survey will go live in October—after being peer reviewed, of course.

📝 Sign up for updates below

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Instructions for Having a Soul Take it out in the rain sometimes. It has vast, invisible wings that gather dirt and need rinsing. When it tries to kill you that is because you've forgotten to let it look into someone's eyes for longer than a minute. It needs that the way a bee needs nectar in the early morning dew. Every so often, take it on a journey. Let it read long, hard books and let it stare into the depths of the sea. Yes, you can give it chips and whiskey but from time to time let it kneel in a place that is holy like the simple cathedral of the willows. All it wants is to live, to keep becoming. Nourish it, and it puts down roots, it opens. But starve it, and the mind, the flesh is empty; the world breaks down; symphonies go unwritten; the rockets fall; the children die in flames. Listen. It is not too late to wake it. Say the names of the wild, the forgotten things: bluebird, red wolf, robin; violet, child, clover. You cannot save the world but you can open the window for the trapped wren in the cellar. Read a book to a blind man, to your father. Tell a child you do believe her anger. Make your life the first life that you save. —Joseph Fasano

Instructions for Having a Soul

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Introducing Our University’s New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure Since the founding of our august institution, we have awarded promotion and tenure based on how many pages of your research we could read before fa...

"These guidelines were written by almost-retired professors who never could have met these standards back in the 1980s, when all you needed for tenure was 1.5 publications and a bottle of scotch in your desk."
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If every person who thinks this is a good idea contributed $10 to the legal costs, we’d be able to cover them right now. MLA’s link is here: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

Zero Minus Six | Clarke & Esposito The NIH accelerates the Nelson Memo, letters sent to journals, and China moves forward

The NIH *accelerates* the Nelson Memo while the US government sends vaguely threatening letters to several journals. Meanwhile, China enters phase II of its journals Excellence Action Plan. All in the latest issue of The Brief www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ze...

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The pushback against Trump's lawlessness is real — and making a difference Sen. Van Hollen from Maryland met with Abrego Garcia, while Judge Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, explained how wrong the Trump admin is here.

On Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, and Sen. Chris Van Hollen.

C&E is supporting our friends at the 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 to recruit the next 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 for 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙚. This is a superb opportunity at a top press for the right editor! careers-rockefelleruniversity.icims.com/jobs/1743/ex...

The MLA is joining with a couple other humanities associations to mount a legal challenge to the attack on the NEH. If you'd like to help with the expenses of suing the government, you can do so here:

We’re launching a series of virtual MLA Strategy Sessions offering community for members grappling with the current higher education environment. Join us on 22 April to hear from members who have devised strategies to respond to the challenges facing their institutions.

If you're a department chair or program leader, or if you're just trying to make some change on your campus, come to the MLA's Summer Seminar in New York 28-31 May. You'll get together for plenaries, workshops, and discussion groups to address curriculum, structures, student needs, and more.

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Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS Shuttering IMLS would be "an act of monumental neglect, violating the very foundation of America and what it stands for as a country," the publishers assert.

Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
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A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.

2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

IMLS Interactive Map

An interactive map shows where IMLS funding is / was by state. I found this info very helpful for sharing locally about what such "invisible" support infrastructure provides for our communities. 2// www.imls.gov/map

Excellent webinar from MLA today. Not only should we not obey in advance, we should not "over-comply." Very much looking forward to the next one.

Americans are in denial about the implications here because they wish it wasn't happening. But this is the behavior of a dictator. It's the sort of thing that warrants secession or revolution. The Republic is over the second federal funding is withheld pending a governor's personal apology.

Here's the working paper on AI literacy I helped with from the MLA Task Force on Writing and AI. aiandwriting.hcommons.org/working-pape...