Lucy Randall
@lucyrandall802.bsky.social
Senior Editor, Philosophy books and Very Short Introductions, Oxford University Press USA she/ her 📚🏃♀️
So glad Vox went to @shannonvallor.bsky.social to make the case for believing in humanity in the face of AI-inspired doom 🤖🚒
Vox@vox.com · 3mo agoTech culture has made contempt for humanity feel enlightened. We can do better. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Why does baseball matter? Because it holds more than box scores—it carries memory, myth, and quiet ritual. Explore the brilliance of the game and the stories that shine beyond the diamond. For fans and newcomers alike. 📖⚾♦️ oxford.ly/4sG3mc9 #Skystorians #BallparkReads #BaseballLife
Discover another way of looking at the ultimate question with Rivka Weinberg's "The Meaning of It All" 💡: oxford.ly/4bgQkMC
An arresting excerpt from Rivka Weinberg's THE MEANING OF IT ALL in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy today
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 5mo ago“It doesn’t help that by the time we figure anything out, we are already losing our minds.” Why life’s brevity is a beautiful, human thing.
⚾️ Batter up. Spring Training is officially on deck, so let’s celebrate with something special… 'Out of the Ballpark' is about to change the way you see the game forever. Want to snag your own copy before publication day? Enter on Goodreads for a chance to win! oxford.ly/4qPf0Ai
Baseball is more than a game; it’s a global language. 🌏⚾ Historian David M. Henkin discusses baseball's global history, labor struggles, rituals, media, and community, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Listen 🎧 oxford.ly/4s27lj0
Consider this a book publisher's very important contribution to the ongoing font discourse #FontDebate
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...
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🚨 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
“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.
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.
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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!
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/...
Web Clipping Print View | Choice Connect
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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
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.
If you're at the #APAPacific25, please stop by the Oxford table tomorrow morning through Saturday morning and explore our new offerings! (1/2)
"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...
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.”
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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!
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”:
America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.
theatlantic.com
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...
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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...
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.
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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.
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...
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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...
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.
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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...
In the Age of A.I., What Makes People Unique?
More than ever, we’re challenged to define what’s valuable about being human.
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