Lucy Randall

Delighted to hold the latest #veryshortintroduction in my hands, and it's a terrific one: Douglas Boyd's ORAL HISTORY. Loads to learn here, drawing on interviews with bourbon makers, WWII soliders-- even Shirley Manson and Steve Zahn, of all people. Enjoy! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Oxford Intersections: Gender Justice invites abstracts for new articles

🚨 Oxford Intersections: Gender Studies invites abstracts for new articles that explore how gender intersects with all aspects of life through interdisciplinary research.

🗓️ Deadline: 11 Aug 2025

📩 Submit: oxford.ly/44JrIYj

Latest Philosophy Bites. Bob is back!

Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators Are Ignoring Them. Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.

“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power,” writes Jennifer Frey, a professor of philosophy at the University of Tulsa.

Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century cover

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

Fantastic to see What to Save and Why reviewed in the New York Review of Books! #philsky

more like luckiest editor! :)

Can we ban "Quick Question" and "My Book" as subject lines? 🙃

Happy to see Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage continue to get its flowers. Still "timely" after a few years! choiceconnect.org/webclipping/...

Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History! Combee: Harriet Tubman, The Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda Fields-Black

Our most enthusiastic congratulations to Edda Fields-Black and everyone who helped bring COMBEE to life!

The 2025 Pulitzer committee called it "a richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion": https://oxford.ly/44XGZX4 #History

Oxford Academic is on Bluesky!

Hi Bluesky! 👋

We're the Academic division of Oxford University Press and we're excited to join this vibrant community, full of academics, thinkers, and those that are curious about the world around them.

#19C women philosophers are touring the world! @dalianassar.bluesky.social and my edited volume is already out in English and Norwegian. The Arab translation is going to print today -

 @lucyrandall802.bsky.social
#philsky #booksky #women #feminism

...and if you want to browse and order online please see our conference booklist at www.oup.com/conf/exapap25 and use conference code EXAPAP25 until May 4th (2/2) #APAPacific25

If you're at the #APAPacific25, please stop by the Oxford table tomorrow morning through Saturday morning and explore our new offerings! (1/2)

Groups Are Told That Federal Humanities Grants Are Canceled Letters informed grant recipients that funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities would be redirected to furthering “the president’s agenda.”

"Supported projects have included more than 9,000 books (including 20 that went on to win Pulitzer Prizes) and more than 500 film and radio programs, including Ken Burns’s landmark 1990 documentary 'The Civil War'..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...

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Why does my publisher want to change the title of my book? https://bit.ly/3lP8jCO

University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site.

Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.

Donald Trump doesn’t need to destroy the court system to get his way, Aziz Huq writes. He just needs to create a shadow zone where the law no longer applies. Welcome to America’s “prerogative state”:

the hair is also on point

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda Society & Culture Podcast · 28 Seasons · Updated weekly

Terrific interview of @shannonvallor.bsky.social by Hawkeye himself! He clearly read and got a lot of out of The AI Mirror podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

How philosopher Shannon Vallor delivered the year's best critique of AI The author of 'The AI Mirror' worries about what we're doing to our moral muscles as we grow more reliant on machines.

One of favorite books / metaphors lately is 'The AI Mirror' — thanks to Shannon Vallor for reflecting on it with me for this year's AI20 😬🪞🤖 www.fastcompany.com/91240425/how...

The best books to give as gifts this Christmas From a radical retelling of Huckleberry Finn to Al Pacino’s autobiography, novelists and nonfiction writers reveal the books they will be giving as gifts – and the volumes they would love to find in t...

Very cool to see the AI Mirror in the Guardian’s authors’ picks for best book gifts for the holidays!

Grateful to Tessa Hadley for the kind words.

People are falling in love with — and getting addicted to — AI voices OpenAI warns that its chatbot can breed “emotional reliance.” It’s not just ChatGPT — look at Replika or Character AI.

Thanks to Sigal Samuel for this wonderful @vox.com piece on AI illusions of care; grateful also for the mention of The AI Mirror (and for being given the last word!) www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The latest Guide to the Good Life be will out in a couple of weeks. Congrats to @carlosasanchez.bsky.social on BLOOMING IN THE RUINS: HOW MEXICAN PHILOSOPHY CAN GUIDE US TOWARD THE GOOD LIFE global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A bit over the moon to see The AI Mirror featured in The New Yorker today (alongside the good company of @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social)!

www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

The AI Mirror — how technology blocks human potential Shannon Vallor argues that the more power we cede to ‘giant mirrors of code’, the less we use our own practical wisdom

The first major review of The AI Mirror came in today from the Financial Times, and I’m really happy the reviewer engaged so fully with the narrative. www.ft.com/content/67d3...

The internet is in decay. Do a Google search, and there are so many websites now filled with slapdash content contorted just to rank highly in the algorithm.... Will A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It?

Nice to hear The AI Mirror briefly mentioned in this episode of the Ezra Klein show with Nilay Patel, which was an interesting conversation about whether generative AI will destroy the informational seed corn of the web, and what might happen next.

Book with reflective multicolored cover propped in a sunlit window, with the title The AI Mirror, by Shannon Vallor

My publisher sent me this first photo of my book as a real object in the world and I am unreasonably happy

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