"O’Connor writes from inside the hotshop rather than above it. That matters. The best passages don’t merely explain glassblowing; they translate its tempo."— Samantha Olsen, Los Angeles Book Review buff.ly/kGF9LgY #GlassBlowing #BookReview #ReadUP

Fire Craft: Art, Body, and World Among Glassblowers - Los Angeles Book Review

Fire Craft arrives with the kind of intellectual ambition that can easily curdle into a theory-heavy performance. Erin E. O'Connor has the better instinct.

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Join Host Ikram Tecle and author Ellen McLarney for a poetry reading by Master Teacher and Minister of Poetry, Marvin X. and a Community Dialogue on the rooftop deck at Rumi at King on Saturday, August 2, at 3:00 PM PDT. RSVP today. buff.ly/z3F3UWM

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At Rumi on the Roof hosted by: Ikram Sunday August 2nd, 2026, 3pm 2099 Martin Luther King Jr Way Berkeley, CA Donations accepted!

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We are pleased to announce that Aarushi Bhandari's ATTENTION AND ALIENATION is the Honorable Mention for the 2026 Paul Sweezy Sociology Book Award from the Marxist Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. buff.ly/K67tzYu #Attention #Technology #ReadUP @sushiaarushi.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce that Emilio J. Castilla's THE MERITOCRACY PARADOX is the Gold winner for the 2026 Nautilus Book Award in Business and Leadership. buff.ly/BWPqDEz #Meritocracy #BusinessStrategies #TalentManagement #ReadUP

Seeing the comments on the White House Correspondents’ dinner here on 🦋, I’m reminded of this book. @jlkucinskas.bsky.social wrote about how civil servants respond to autocratic takeover. But the similarities to criticisms leveled at journalists this week are striking. 1/

The Loyalty Trap | Columbia University Press

Winner, 2026 Best Book Award, Public and Nonprofit Section, Academy of ManagementShortlist, 2026 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Politi... | CUP

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"This volume is beautifully produced in full color and its chapters are short with expansive bibliographies."— Linda R. Gosner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review buff.ly/GXvoxEW #BookReview #ReadUP

Two new episodes of Misguided: The Audio Edition are live! Chapter 1 covers the scope and consequences of misinformation & Chapter 2 goes inside the psychology of identity. Both have updated commentary with my thoughts a year after the book came out. matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/misguided-...

Misguided: The Audio Edition, Chapters 1 and 2

Two new audio chapters: the scope and consequences of misinformation, and the identity machinery that makes us more likely to believe it.

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In this episode of GEEX Talks, Dr. Erin O'Connor discusses her research spanning from furnaces to mines and FIRE CRAFT, an immersive firsthand account of her experiences learning to blow glass with a sensuous ethnography of embodiment and community among glassblowers.

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May 27, 2026 | What is the logic of vitrification? What does it mean to unmoor the glass furnace from the shores of the river Belus to Jamestown? What happens when we shift from a traditional…

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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: A Real Man Would Have a Gun: Poems by Stacey Waite, @unmpress.bsky.social & Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins by Mary Frances Phillips, New York University Press. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta

In this episode of the VoxDev Talk podcast, Martin Williams, author of REFORM AS PROCESS, explains why even well-intentioned reforms so frequently fall short, and what civil service leaders can do about it. buff.ly/2gXvxe5 #ListenUP

Why civil service reform fails – and what actually works

Martin Williams draws on over a decade of research across six African countries to explain why civil service reforms so often fall short, and what leaders should do instead.

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Great to wake up to find that Saving Ourselves is featured on the @nextbigidea.bsky.social Daily Podcast 🤩 Understanding how we can mobilize the masses to save ourselves from a world of increasing climate shocks is key to our survival. Tune in here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This June, we're Publishing with Pride. At NYU Press, we proudly publish books that highlight the experiences of LGBTQIA people. You can save 40% on all select titles throughout this month, and don't forget to browse our hand-picked selection of Pride titles here: buff.ly/zyv6dKJ

As an audio publisher, we're grateful to see @nytimes.com spotlight audiobook piracy on YouTube. As @americanpublish.bsky.social‘s Maria Pallante says, "What we want in the publishing industry is for YouTube to be a partner and not passively let illegal content proliferate."

YouTube Is Crawling with Pirated Audiobooks Made Using A.I.

Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.

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In this Off the Page episode, host Michael Johnston and author Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer discuss BY THE POWER VESTED IN ME. This book sheds new light on the power of experts to influence high-stakes democratic debates. buff.ly/nFjHnPz #ListenUP @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Attention from @publisherswkly.bsky.social on The Religious Left and the legacy of its author, the great sociologist of American religion, Bob Wuthnow. Proud that @nyupress.bsky.social is the publisher of this career statement.

In His Final Book, Robert Wuthnow Looks Left

The Religious Left (NYU Press, June) sees the influential scholar of faith in American public life examine the hits and misses of progressive religious advocacy. It’s his 44th book, and likely his las...

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The renovation of the circulation desk area at the NYU Bobst Library included a prominent display of @nyupress.bsky.social books. They're not behind glass; all the books on the shelves are part of the circulating collection. While books are nice to look at, they are best for reading!

Dana is CECE’s Director. Her research focuses on questions related to democracy, activism, and climate politics. An interesting project Dana is working on with colleagues from across AU focuses on how to turn AI generated predictions about extreme events into accessible information for communities.

In new Washington Post reporting on the Troy, NY uproar over Flock's AI license plate cameras, NYU Press author Andrew Guthrie Ferguson reminds readers what this kind of mass surveillance actually enables: "This inescapable network of surveillance gives police a new power that they didn't have."

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Flock Safety has built a network of automatic license plate readers in more than 6,000 communities across the country in recent years. Its system uses AI-enabled cameras to snap photos of every vehicle that passes, creating a digital “fingerprint.”

Join A. Kayum Ahmed for the book launch of THEORIZING FALLISM on May 16 from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM EDT at The People’s Forum. RSVP today!

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Join us for the launch of Theorizing Fallism: Rhodes Must Fall and the Global Movement to Decolonize the University, by A. Kayum Ahmed, a powerful exploration of the global student movements…

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I absolutely love this updated @chronicle.com feature on who a college thinks its peer institutions are. It's always good for a chuckle (and a sense of status competition). www.chronicle.com/article/who-...

Who Does Your College Think Its Peers Are?

The Chronicle compiled the peer institutions for over 1,500 institutions from the 2023-24 year.

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Excited to be part of this ASA Soc of Culture panel on the culture of democracy and authoritarianism tomorrow and share some insights from my research on civil servants for The Loyalty Trap!

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It’s truly an honor to be among the scholars I admire. Please join us for the important conversation this Thursday! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ccl-cultur...

NYU Press is commissioning and inviting proposals for our new series focused on the creative culture of Downtown, NYC. With Ada Calhoun (author of St Marks is Dead) as our lead editor. @nyupress.bsky.social Read more at the link -> nyupress.org/the-downtown...

What happens when cities step up on climate while national governments stall? In this blog post, @cbrandtner.bsky.social explains why urbanists and organizational scholars need to connect their insights to better understand—and advance—climate action in cities. buff.ly/qDFio9C #ClimateAction

Five Reasons Why Urbanists and Organizational Scholars Should Read Each Other’s Work Christof Brandtner - Columbia University Press Blog

Christof Brandtner explores why urbanists and organizational scholars must connect insights to better understand and advance climate action in cities.

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Now available! A revelatory oral history, I HEAR FREEDOM shows that free jazz is a uniquely Black style shaped by mobility, community, and the struggle for freedom. buff.ly/U4ebeqe

When I type "Anthropic" into an email regarding the Settlement paperwork it autocorrects to "Anthropocene"

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

We're thrilled "42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy " made @bklynlibrary.bsky.social's 250 for 250 Booklist! Brooklyn Public Library marks the nation’s 250th with a librarian-curated, all-ages selection of 250 influential books.

250 for 250 Booklist | Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating our country's 250th anniversary the best way we know how: with a thoughtful, surprising, irresistible booklist.

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The new AI usage policy for @nyupress.bsky.social is available on nyupress.org in the resources section. In short, only OK (1) with transparency, (2) within a gated system, and (3) for ideation, basic editing, and to assist with citation and metadata.

It’s gonna take me a while to process all of the amazing inputs from #TED2026 (I will try for this weekend’s Newsletter). In the meantime, though, I’ll share my big takeaway from the week: