Helena Brantley

Beautiful cover!

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Just got the beautiful cover design of @alisonhopealkon.bsky.social and my companion to our 2011 'Cultivating Food Justice' published by @mitpress.bsky.social It's due out in February next year. Mark your calendars!

Hands holding a copy of Dr. Tom Frieden's book "The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives - Including Your Own" against a plain background.

"Hope is what 'The Formula For Better Health' is best at giving us with its message that public health still has a place—and an important one—in creating a better world… Exactly what is needed at this moment in time." — @thelancet.com

Out now: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205096...

Litquake: Hair on Fire event in San Francisco

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 11 @ 7 pm at Telegraph Hill Books to celebrate the release of HAIR ON FIRE. This collection of 5 female Afghan Poets is a blazing tribute and a reminder of what we lose when voices are silenced. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

This is worth a few minutes of your time.
youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A?...

From Apartheid to Democracy by Michael Omer-Man, Sarah Whitson - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

“The Blueprint argues that the best way to resolve differing views on the future governance of Israel-Palestine should be through a democratic process in which every person in the Territory can participate.” —Michael Schaeffer-Omer Man and Sarah Leah Whiston #fromapartheidtodemocracy #ucpress

Logistics and Power by Susan Zieger - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

“I am offering something more valuable: a view of logistical power that is rooted in history, connected to the present, and aimed at improving the life of human communities and environments.” — Susan Zieger, PhD
#LogisticsandPower #UCPress

Logistics and Power by Susan Zieger - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

“Another kind of writer might give the topic a self-help spin, explaining how you could improve your life by thinking like a logistician.” #LogistcsandPower #UCPress

Logistics and Power by Susan Zieger - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

“The flow of goods, people, and information along supply chains and the logistics that manages it are subtly altering ways of being human.” — Susan Zieger, PhD #LogisticsandPower #UCPress

Logistics and Power by Susan Zieger - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

How we arrived at our everyday lives in a supply chain world. #LogisticsandPower

Ugh. Feel you. Keep some almonds in your bag!

"The Oakland Review of Books is coming!" it says on our website, and if you haven't noticed, we've started publishing ever-so-slightly-more ambitious things as we ramp up towards really cutting loose.

If you'd like to follow along, for the low price of $0 (American), you can get it in your inbox:

"We read, in short, because books aren’t software that we download into our brains, Matrix-style, and they aren’t intellectual property, either, to be absorbed into large language models." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/about/ #BookSky 📚

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

Frog and Toad went out to fly a kite. They went to a large meadow where the wind was strong.

First, they come for the comedians But, try as strongmen might, the jokes always get away

Humour thrives on pretence and delusion—and strongmen are always pretending. Prickly and narcissistic, they can rarely take jokes, which makes them risky but funnier

Logistics and Power by Susan Zieger - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

“And across demographics, women traditionally supply, coordinate, and manage households and communities as unpaid logisticians.”
—Susan Zieger, PhD #LogisticsandPower

Logistics and Power by Susan Zieger - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

“When traditionally advantaged people find it harder to bounce back from adversity or pay their way out, “logistics” gets real for them.”
—Susan Zieger,PhD #LogisticsandPower

Logistics and Power by Susan Zieger - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

“Much research and writing has examined the stresses of modernity, but very little has studied their logistical nature.” - Susan Zieger,PhD #LogisticsandPower

Opinion | We Are Going to Have to Live Here With One Another

“talking to one another about our disagreements isn’t only something we should do in grief or in horror. It’s just something we should be doing.” This is how to model the way forward, as hard as this listen is at times….🎧

Delays, uncertainty plague NSF fellowship for graduate students After an unusual award process this year, applicants for next year are waiting for overdue guidelines

"We are so very late that many students will not be able to apply this year."

My latest story—about frustration over delays for NSF's graduate research fellowship program. #NSFGRFP #GradSchool @science.org

www.science.org/content/arti...

Confusion, Anger, Relief: Korean Engineer Tells of Week in U.S. ICE Detention More than 300 employees at a Hyundai battery plant returned home after being detained in a Georgia immigration raid.

It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage.
Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

This is a gift of reason and perspective in the midst of madness. I will share it with our HS senior who came home on Tue shocked and frightened and wanting to talk about Charlie Kirk, who she know about from social and the reactions in her feed from people she knows. Eager to share this with her.

Logistics and Power by Susan Zieger - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

“When I claim that capital inveigles us into complicity with its priorities, I am
inviting you to entertain moral nuance.” —Susan Zieger, PhD
Happy Publication Day @susanzieger.bsky.social!🎊#logisticsandpower #ucpress

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Statement from Alan Garber about ruling affirming "core principles of American higher education."

Statement tonight from Alan Garber, 31st president of Harvard.

Good for him. Good for Harvard. Good for standing up to defend "core values of American higher education."

And (again) what about all those "Harvard about to cave" stories?

Main point: Worth reading what Garber says.

Influencer Creep by Sophie Bishop - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

The artists I spoke to in my research felt this push towards more traditional art works that possess a kind of 'aura' - but also struggled to represent the material quality of this work via social media. A conundrum explored in the forthcoming book Influencer Creep www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...

Human After All: Art in the Digital World Explore how artists in 2025 are balancing technology and tradition. From digital tools to handmade revival, the future of art remains deeply human.

Really love this piece in Art Plugged by Eva Zhang about the ways that artists are returning to craft and care in an increasingly messy digital landscape artplugged.co.uk/art-digital-...