Matt McAdam

On a multi colored background of pink, blue, and yellow, there are two female skateboarders performing tricks on this book cover. The text says, Natalie Porter is the author and the title is 'Girls Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: a history of badass women skateboarders.'

Every librarian dreams of being published, and I'm so grateful to @ecwpress.bsky.social for supporting my research and book called 'Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders.' Pre-ordering is now available. tinyurl.com/Girlgangs

#coverreveal #bookssky #newbook

Oh, yeah? Well, do you have a first edition of The Iliad?

This feels like trying to throw away a trash can (which is really hard, I’ve tried).

Columbia University Caves - Daily Nous Door #1: Lose at least $400 million in federal grants. Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy. Not an enviable choice for any university. Columbia University just chose Do...

Door #1: Lose at least $400 million in federal grants.
Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy.
Columbia picks Door #2.
dailynous.com/2025/07/24/c...

Hey look! Tomorrow night (7 pm, Thursday the 24th) I'm talking with Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer about his new book about experts, data, and gay marriage at @redemmas.org

Come early to get a good seat, maybe a falafel salad and a mazagran while you're at it!

Attn nerds: I will be giving these books away FOR FREE tomorrow, 8:30-11. Note that the book exhibit is moving to the FIRST FLOOR of the Omni, so find us there. First come first served, one book per person, and again, FREE. #SHEAR2025

Beyond Argument: The Creative Craft of Philosophy Writing (guest post) - Daily Nous "I want to talk about the part about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument part: the bit where you work on expressing your idea clearly, delicately, even personally. I want to t...

“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument… the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life” — C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) at Daily Nous on the creative craft of writing philosophy.

Congratulations to @hopkinspress.bsky.social author @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social who has won the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize!

You can buy the book anywhere in Europe from your local bookstore or @blackwells.bsky.social.

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Don’t worry about that!

Writing’s very, very hard. Go easy on yourself.

Countdown to August 19, the official release date for my book, Birth Politics, with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. Happy to schedule zoom and in-person talks. If you adopt the book as a required text in your classroom, I definitely owe you a classroom visit. Please let me know.

Deep Vellum announces partnership with The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins — Deep Vellum JULY 2, 2025 — The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins and Deep Vellum are proud to partner in bringing the world’s greatest writers into dialogue across academic and public spheres...

Today, I get to make my first major announcement as Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. I am SO EXCITED that we are, in a small way, able to step in right at the moment when the NEA has left our country’s arts and culture sector high and dry. www.deepvellum.org/news/aghi-dv...

a very tired and disgruntled looking man holding a large coffee with the caption “me at the job I begged god for”

all tenure-track assistant professors in the humanities:

Most important last

UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway Ryan had not fought Trump on DEI and other matters. His forced ouster proves that no capitulation is enough.

I wrote:

“Jefferson dreamed of forging a grand, vibrant Athens on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, in its third century, the United States seems a lot more like Sparta.”

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Vace in Bethesda also has a solid tomato pie.

Friends! We would be so excited to see you for our DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH. I will be in the UK in spirit struggling through the Midwestern heat at 9 am (CDT), but invigorated by the brilliant @elsadevienne.bsky.social and @rebwright.bsky.social.

@uchicagopress.bsky.social
@hopkinspress.bsky.social

Obviously, don’t listen to this colleague.

Also note that official law enforcement versions of SUVs the public can also buy usually don’t have roof rails installed.

The crisis in American science - Kathryn M. Olesko, Anthony Eames, Cyrus C. M. Mody, Ilana Löwy, Thomas Zeller, Mark Walker, Mitchell G. Ash, Donna Haraway, 2025 The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unpr...

I ask my new + old followers to circulate this open access roundtable onAmerican science. Please repost! We in the USA are losing our lead in scientific research due to totalitarian tendencies in the current administration. This loss will affect all of us.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Mini-Heap - Daily Nous Recent links... “The usage of LLMs could actually harm learning, especially for younger users” -- a new study on brain activity and the use of LLMs like ChatGPT “At the microscopic scale, where partic...

Smartphones are not a good example of extended cognition. A social history of philosophy. Videos about causal inference. Enlightenment stand-up. Anti-trans arguments. The math of gas & the direction of time. Your brain on ChatGPT, and more...

It’s the fountain of youth!

A related project would study the phrase “dialed in”

It’s a truly amazing fact.

Habermas is 96 today, and that is because Habermas is still alive.

There is a good project in gender/masculinity studies just waiting to be written that looks at online aviation forums after a major place crash.

It should go without saying, but apparently it needs to be said: if you are peer reviewing a ms for a scholarly press, DO NOT feed that ms into an AI machine to write your reader report for you. DO NOT.

I'm a little surprised at the level of credulity around this.

Do we know that this isn't just a short story?

Who wants free books? These are some of the titles that we at @urbanhistory.bsky.social are looking to review. Let me know if you or a friend want one, or if you have other suggestions. First, @rebwright.bsky.social's fabulous looking history of mid century US energy regimes: