When you try to get a "tiebreaker" third peer reviewer. Happy #PeerReviewWeek to everyone (even Weird Barbie)!

My boss: Let's have a lazy morning and chill before our meetings. Me: Of course! I am chill. I can be so chill. Chill is my middle name. So I'm thinking we leave at 9:20am on the dot to allow 40 full minutes for unexpected delays, just because I'm so chill.

Ahh yes, all the normal amenities you'd get in a hotel. (Hi from Anchorage!)

I’m starting to see a theme here #alaska

Diamond Open Access aka setting this Google Doc to "anyone with link can view"

Well guys, I’ve made it to Alaska. Greetings from the University of Alaska Fairbanks! This is my new friend FYI.

Yes! And the misconception that author copyright = all rights. A typical License to Publish agreement is just as restrictive as one where the author keeps copyright. What you actually want is to grant nonexclusive rights to publish, but no book publisher would agree to that (for valid reasons).

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · last wk.

I am struck again by how many people seem to believe that if something is published, but isn't published open access, the author can 100% control who can use it.

The horrors persist and one of them is trying to print an excel spreadsheet

Me reading a proposal that says the book "has no competing titles"

But then what else do you feed the people-pleasing monster that lives inside your brain asking for a friend

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · last wk.

Folks if it’s only taken you three days to respond to an email you do not have to “apologize for the delay”

Me as a reader: Anthologies are awesome! Nothing beats a really good anthology. There should be more anthologies. Me as an editor: Anthologies are evil. Anthologies drink the blood of their enemies. Anthologies killed my entire family.

British people will just be like "let's touch base 27/9/26!" as if their dating system is not absolutely insane

"Frozen grapes are a great substitute for ice cream" LIES. They taste like grapes that have been frozen. Do yourself a favor and just eat ice cream.

What's hilarious about this is that the venn diagram of people who know about Gayatri Spivak and people who have money to be scammed out of = two distinct circles

Caleb Ward@calebw.bsky.social · 2w ago

Look out continental philosophers, there's a Gayatri Spivak phishing bot out there and it's coming for you!

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In defense of (small) publishers re. this Anthropic rights reversion debacle, the spreadsheet the lawyers gave us to fill out on ridiculously short deadline was so large it froze my computer multiple times. Mistakes are inevitable. Get your $ but plz don't assume ALL pubs have malicious intent.

Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · 2w ago

I know I already posted about this...but to reiterate: Anthropic copyright settlement authors, PLEASE contact me (Writer Beware) if your publisher is making a claim on a book whose rights have reverted, or claiming anything other than a 50/50 split on an in-contract book. beware@sfwa.org

Excuse me WHERE do people say this? As a Chinese person I am simultaneously offended and delighted to be ~noticed~

Fall is the perfect season except for everything having to taste like pumpkin spice (I said what I said)

"Figuring out a book’s core thesis is often the most intellectually challenging step of the process...it’s in the writing that we figure out what we really want to say." THIS. Rewriting an MS is a totally valid part of the process. Kill 👏 Your 👏 Darlings @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social

The H-Net Book Channel@hnetbookchannel.bsky.social · 2w ago

Will budgetary concerns make scholarly publishers more selective? @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social writes for #FeedingTheElephant about the importance of a strong argument and how to make sure your manuscript has one. 🔗 networks.h-net.org/group/discus... P.S. We are back to weekly publishing!

Doing a libel / defamation read of a manuscript i.e. the author has helpfully highlighted ALL THE TEA and I'm scrolling through like 👀

Just casually setting a manuscript delivery date for 2032 as if I'm not hoarding expired amoxicillin for the end days

Pssst classical music lovers: check out this new collection of Michael Steinberg's writings which I had the very good fortune of acquiring at @oxunipress.bsky.social (NGL pretty excited to see it get the media coverage it deserves)

From the Kindertransport to The Boston Globe: Remembering a Master Music Critic (Gift Article)

“The eloquence and depth of his prose remain for me the gold standard,” John Adams writes of Michael Steinberg, who excelled at his craft in the 1960s and ’70s.

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It Happened To Me [my partner started reading Dungeon Crawler Carl]

Gratuitous extra AND a permissions liability. Every time you use an epigraph a scholarly editor somewhere sheds a single tear.

Robin James@robinjames.bsky.social · 3w ago

scholarly writers: you probably don't need that epigraph! (seriously, if you aren't analyzing the quote in the body of the text, it's just a gratuitous extra.)

Just left a very hip coffee shop where they were unironically playing the entirety of Avril Lavigne's "Let Go." Are the early 2000s now cool?

I'm getting ready for a whirlwind campus tour of Alaska this fall and excited to be giving a talk at the Alaska State Museum on September 19th in Juneau! So if you're in the area, come learn about the University of Alaska Press and what we're ~up to~ these days

Taking this opportunity to share my favorite cover of Jolene (but make it kinda metal)

Jolene

YouTube video by Lingua Ignota - Topic

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Making all my cold emails just a little bit awkward so people don't think I used AI

Wait but actually blaming my everyday woes on Robert Moses is in fact my favorite pastime

Eric Vilas-Boas@ericvb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Zohran #ReleaseTheMosesCut

Liquid Death apparently has a pop-tart flavored seltzer call the police