Caelyn Cobb
@caelyncobb.bsky.social
she/her | editor for global history & politics at Columbia UP 📚 writer and nerdy feminist 🤓 extremely online 📱 https://linktr.ee/caelyncobb
This is a very good, fascinating piece on a phenomenon every single author I work with is experiencing right now. Some of the numbers in here of how much money some authors have been scammed out of are truly mind-boggling.
Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · last wk.turns out these AI email scams directed at writers are ubiquitous because...they work www.thedial.world/articles/new...
New from @columbiaup.bsky.social author Mansoor Moaddel in @foreignaffairs.com: "The Middle East’s Quiet Liberal Revolution" www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/middle-...
The Middle East’s Quiet Liberal Revolution
What people in the region actually believe.
foreignaffairs.com
You won’t see me quote Ted Cruz often. Not a fan. But the right does have a large neo-Nazi/white nationalist problem. “The Groyper problem is real,” Cruz told WSJ. “I’ve seen more antisemitism on the right in the last two years than at any point in my lifetime.”
Opinion | Republicans Have a ‘Groyper’ Problem
A cohort of disturbed young men is playing an ever bigger role in GOP politics. Some in the party want to pretend it isn’t happening.
wsj.com
Come be my boss (cool applicants only.) Also, this role possibly will be responsible for literature in translation and Asian cultural studies if that’s your thing
Columbia University Press@columbiaup.bsky.social · 4w agoWe’re hiring! Columbia University Press is seeking an Editorial Director to lead our acquisitions department and help shape the future of our publishing program. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/HpkWWQK @aupresses.bsky.social #PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress #Hiring
This is so dystopian but also a thing people would pitch as a value-add to advertisers that actually turns off customers…like would this not freak someone out and make them have negative feelings about the brand? Why would I want to use the bank that creepily steals my friends’ faces?
Check out all our great books at APSA!
Columbia University Press@columbiaup.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe’re proud to publish award-winning books in Political Science. #APSA2026 attendees, stop by booth 409 to browse these books and more—and take advantage of our conference discount. buff.ly/0oyiGpe @apsa.bsky.social
Missing from popular understanding of fascism is that the secret police are always composed of men who are so dumb and mean that they're otherwise unemployable. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
ICE officer left his gun in SFO bathroom stall
An ICE officer left a gun inside a bathroom at San Francisco International Airport. The officer soon came to retrieve the weapon after staff closed the bathroom and police arrived on the scene.
sfchronicle.com
Lovely to see this review in @jacobinmag.bsky.social of one of my recent favorites to work on at @columbiaup.bsky.social, Jie-hyun Lim's VICTIMHOOD NATIONALISM jacobin.com/2026/08/lim-...
The Dangerous Rise of Victimhood Nationalism
From Israel and Russia to Germany and Japan, we can find nationalists laying claim to a state of perpetual victimhood to justify present-day chauvinism. This brand of “victimhood nationalism” is becom...
jacobin.com
Wild that a high-ranking Patriot Front member, a professed antisemite, owns an apartment in a part of my neighborhood known for having like five synagogues and only kosher restaurants!
Unicorn Riot@unicornriot.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Hate in the World’s Borough: How the Far-Right Has Flourished in Queens, New York unicornriot.ninja/2026/hate-in... Queens has seen a range of far-right groups & individuals, from the Ku Klux Klan to neo-Nazis to ultra-nationalist organizations, along w. incidents of shocking racist brutality
We're hiring for an entry-level position in our Rights & Contracts department. A great opportunity to get publishing experience, especially for people interested in translation and foreign publishing markets! opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/subsidi...
Subsidiary Rights Assistant - Other NYC Locations, New York, United States
Job Type: Support Staff - Non-Union Regular/Temporary: Regular Hours Per Week: 35 Standard Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 9-5 Building: Off campus near Lincoln Center Salary Range: 47,792.00-47,792.00 ...
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I think the next president should finish the ballroom and name it after themselves. The work so far is a sunk cost and also it would make Trump so mad
It was great fun to be part of this conversation w/ @mpershan.bsky.social, @caelyncobb.bsky.social, @mrscavedowrites.bsky.social, and others! Be careful though: your TBR pile will grow after you read this... Thanks, @aaronburch.bsky.social! ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/behind-the...
"Behind the Scenes": summer check-in with SSL authors
a "roundtable-style" conversation with the writers Short Story, Long published this last year
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New whiteness level unlocked: I can now trace my ancestry back to the Massachusetts Bay colony
Widow’s Bay should just market itself as a haunted island. People would be lining up to be attacked by the sea hag
given the general levels of organizational skill in the admin I assume there's a guy desperately driving round Missouri in a van right now stopping at every roadside stall he sees
Celeste Headlee@celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.
I tried Googling these keywords and instead of returning actual search results Google started writing me the worst vampire short story I’ve seen in my entire life
Caelyn Cobb@caelyncobb.bsky.social · 4mo agoLooking for a short story I found here like a year ago and forgot to bookmark. It's in first person, about a man who becomes one of a vampire's wives, and his ex-wife is looking for him. I think it was in a paid SFF magazine like Nightmare or Uncanny, but I can't find it via search on their sites!
Looking for a short story I found here like a year ago and forgot to bookmark. It's in first person, about a man who becomes one of a vampire's wives, and his ex-wife is looking for him. I think it was in a paid SFF magazine like Nightmare or Uncanny, but I can't find it via search on their sites!
I’m almost done with this chapter I’m writing so naturally I decided to make a snack and then post about it on the website that requires alt-text. Ricotta, nectarines, olive oil, sea salt & pepper
"It’s no longer far-fetched or hyperbolic to say that at any given moment...individual works of fiction—including fanworks—could be criminalized for being queer, or pornographic, or generally deviant." In our latest, @bookshop.bsky.social goes deep on growing creative censorship around the world:
The Global Crackdown on Creativity
Governments around the world are censoring—and criminalizing—the currents in which fanworks flow.
fansplaining.com
Multiple kinds of protein water for sale at Target. You people need to be stopped
First World Cup in a decade where I’m not living at the intersection of Brazilian, Middle Eastern, and Balkan neighborhoods. Too quiet 😢
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Columbia University Press@columbiaup.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe're delighted to announce the appointment of Gita Manaktala as our executive director. For more than three decades, Gita has championed authors, advanced scholarship, and expanded access to knowledge. buff.ly/Eq9xeF8 We welcome her leadership. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
The Fall 2026 @columbiaup.bsky.social catalog is now live: cup.columbia.edu/columbia-uni...
Columbia University Press Announces the Fall 2026 Catalog | Columbia University Press
Dear Readers, I am proud to announce the Fall 2026 Columbia catalog, which features books that go from New York City to the world. Starting here in Manhattan, this catalog transports us to far-flung t...
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Ok, Knicks…I need you to win this one so we can avoid a sports polycrisis in my apartment (Yankees star player out and they just lost their game)
