@andcleverness
acquiring editor for environmental studies, food studies, and regional books at the University of Pittsburgh Press career in publishing resource doc: tinyurl.com/2jmmharu bluesky list of university and indie presses: tinyurl.com/3y829vxv
“There’s kind of a defeatism, this idea that there’s no stopping technology & that resistance is futile, everything will be crushed in its path. That needs to change … We can decide that we want to be human.”
#AcademicSky
thank you for reporting!
do I know anyone with an i stock photo account who has one or two downloads to spare this month
Universities you work for love to be like:
💖 ✨ YOU ARE INVITED ✨ 💖
🪩 🕺 to give us money 💃🏼 🪩
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Starting to plan my agency’s summer events, our free talks with industry pros.
Just floating it out there, if you work in publishing and would ever want a trip to Philly (on me!) to give a chat, do give me a nudge.
We’re doing lots of good! Come hang. www.neighborhoodliterary.com/neighborhoods
a chart showing that. There's almost no impact on productivity for firms, the vast majority showing either no impact or a very, very small impact, less than 5%,
The impact of "AI" on productivity over for large firms over the past 3 years (US, UK, DE, Aus) according to NBERS
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www.nber.org/system/files...
If anyone is thinking about Page Dairy, the line is wrapped around the building, Becks Run, and Fagel Street. 🤷♂️
Having a better understanding of what editors do and how they do it avoids unrealistic expectations and hurt feelings. The “Working With Your Editor” (WWYE) series from #FeedingTheElephant demystifies the editorial process and provides authors with advice for, well, working with their editors.
Library step stool with the ugly brown color and worn treads...the good stuff
New meditation practice: Unleash a wave of calm by simply staring at one of these babies
If there's not enough time for a person to do a developmental edit of your book, then they are likely not the right editor for you. You deserve an editor who knows your book, who has read every word, who cares about you and your goals.
congratulations, and good luck in your new gig!
holy shit
"Just as we don’t sip an earthy red in order to work our way through the stocks in a cellar, we shouldn’t read just to diminish the pile of books on our desk. There is pleasure in an attentive sip."
4 panel comic: Panel 1: Bruno at the table with a cup of coffee in a blue mug. He says to a character off screen “are you a morning person?” The character we can’t see replies “haha no” Panel 2: now Bruno is in a lounge chair in his living room, in the background is a window through which we see the moon and in the foreground is an old school tv with antenna. Bruno states “ah cool, a night owl” Panel 3: a similar but simplified version of the second panel. The mystery character again off panel says “absolutely not!” And Bruno says “oh?” Panel 4: we finally see that the character Bruno had been talking to is our little green friend Forg. He explains “I’m just a small frog!” And now Bruno replies from off screen simply “ah!”
No labels for Forg 🙅♀️
positive vibes!!! wishing all the best for things to go as smoothly as possible
told the bf about netflix wanting characters to summarize the plot in the dialogue multiple times and he has now invented a character called "Netflix Guy" who pops up and explains what is happening at any given time
I spent my entire workday working on one extremely annoying thing but the good news is that meant I didn't do any scrolling
I've started to say that using ChatGPT or Claude is a bit like smoking cigarettes in that each individual use is worse for you than it is for anyone else, but the social cost is real, and should be evaluated similarly
Moira Rose holding an envelope, captioned "Who put a picture of a ghost on my desk?"
another favorite. and in the same ep as "Simply the Best"! 🥹 incredible range
Don't miss AUGUST WILSON’S AMERICAN CENTURY, newly out from @upittpress.bsky.social!
In this book, Laurence A. Glasco “meticulously chronicles the life of 20th-century playwright August Wilson through the prism of his home city.” —Publishers Weekly #BlackHistoryMonth upittpress.org/books/978082...
We're hiring! Now seeking a Production Coordinator. https://www.myworkday.com/psu/d/inst/15$158872/9925$200234.htmld
😱😱😱 scream into a voicenote for the person who did this
is it too late for me to pitch a conference session titled "Editing Footnotes at the End of the World"?
Armchair radicals of the World Unite!
It's becoming more @upittpress.bsky.social official; tell your book-writing friends.
upittpress.org/staff/mick-g...
"Abandoning progress rhythms…is not a matter of virtuous desire. Progress felt great; there was always something better ahead. … I hardly know how to think about justice without progress. The problem is that progress stopped making sense."
Here's how a radical pamphlet put the challenge: The spectre that many try not to see is a simple realisation—the world will not be "saved." . . . If we don't believe in a global revolutionary future, we must live (as we in fact always had to) in the present
from THE MUSHROOM AT THE END OF THE WORLD, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
A Brown Creeper on the hunt for insects hiding the bark. These birds spiral upwards and then will dive down to start again at the bottom of another tree trunk.
We work by the month, or by the job, or by the profit; not for us to ask the why and wherefore of our work
