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Where people who care about how we share knowledge share knowledge. https://outsidetheline.pub Pitch us: tiny.cc/pitchotl. A publication by @radishpress.bsky.social.
All the cool kids have newsletters, so we do too! 😎 The first few will be posted to tease you, then you'll need to subscribe (for free or not-free) for the rest. The format might vary but you can expect some cool links, news and a meme or two. Issue #1 is out now: outsidethelines.pub/newsletter-1/
All the cool kids have newsletters, so we do too! 😎 The first few will be posted to tease you, then you'll need to subscribe (for free or not-free) for the rest. The format might vary but you can expect some cool links, news and a meme or two. Issue #1 is out now: outsidethelines.pub/newsletter-1/
New from @radishpress.bsky.social 🗯️✨ An Attempt Is Made: Publishing a Zine Through Scholarly Channels. Follow along with an experiment in sneaking non-traditional scholarly formats into The System outsidethelines.pub/publishing-a...
An Attempt Is Made: Publishing a Zine Through Scholarly Channels
As far as I’m concerned, pretty much anything can be considered scholarship. I like books, journals are fine, but if someone wants to use a podcast or a zine or a meme to communicate about their area…
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New from @radishpress.bsky.social 🗯️✨ An Attempt Is Made: Publishing a Zine Through Scholarly Channels. Follow along with an experiment in sneaking non-traditional scholarly formats into The System outsidethelines.pub/publishing-a...
An Attempt Is Made: Publishing a Zine Through Scholarly Channels
As far as I’m concerned, pretty much anything can be considered scholarship. I like books, journals are fine, but if someone wants to use a podcast or a zine or a meme to communicate about their area…
outsidethelines.pub
IT'S ALIVE!! Life happens, right? We're still trying to figure out a rhythm with this thing, but we're back with a few great pieces over the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
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OTL is a ✨celebration✨ of knowledge justice. We're still in our soft launch & looking for contributors to help us show what an independent publication can do for our collective work. No tone policing, both-sides-ism, or justifying the fact that we can and should do better. What do you have to say?
Outside The Lines@outsidethelinespub.bsky.social · 2y agoAre you looking for more ways to connect and share your work with people who *get it*? (it being why and how we exchange knowledge in ways that serve the collective good). We're here to help! Here's how to get published:
50% off all @dukepress.bsky.social books today and tomorrow, including Putting the Humanities PhD to Work! Use the code FLASH50 https://www.dukeupress.edu/putting-the-humanities-phd-to-work
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WeekNotes for 2025 Week 13: Watching RuPaul in the Makerspace and the Value of Earnestly and Unabashedly Believing in the Value of What You Do
We’ve been watching a lot of RuPaul lately, and it’s reminded me that people who are very good at doing a thing that requires other people be vulnerable often share an important quality: they are able...
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Franklin Sayre@franklinsayre.bsky.social · 2y agoWe’ve been watching a lot of RuPaul (for comfort in our current hell) and it’s been reminding me how people who are very good at some thing that requires that others be vulnerable are able to earnestly and unselfconsciously show they believe in the value of that thing.
It's early days, but we're hard at work growing our reach, and setting up things like DOIs to make your work count in the ways you want it to. It all comes back to people and stories. You're our people, let's tell your stories.
OTL is a ✨celebration✨ of knowledge justice. We're still in our soft launch & looking for contributors to help us show what an independent publication can do for our collective work. No tone policing, both-sides-ism, or justifying the fact that we can and should do better. What do you have to say?
Outside The Lines@outsidethelinespub.bsky.social · 2y agoAre you looking for more ways to connect and share your work with people who *get it*? (it being why and how we exchange knowledge in ways that serve the collective good). We're here to help! Here's how to get published:
I talk about working with @libraryfutures.bsky.social #NewsFutures and @samhelmick.bsky.social 📚 + share some love for Jem & The Misfits and apple cider doughnuts 🍎 in this piece. Thanks to @outsidethelinespub.bsky.social for the feature! 💝
Outside The Lines@outsidethelinespub.bsky.social · 2y ago"As information professionals, open advocates, and communities who just give a damn, it’s important to educate ourselves on the tactics pro-censorship advocates have used to push their agenda forward so we can effectively fight against it" @librariansreed.bsky.social in our latest:
It’s our own @librariansreed.bsky.social in an interview with @outsidethelinespub.bsky.social that you definitely want to read!
Outside The Lines@outsidethelinespub.bsky.social · 2y ago"As information professionals, open advocates, and communities who just give a damn, it’s important to educate ourselves on the tactics pro-censorship advocates have used to push their agenda forward so we can effectively fight against it" @librariansreed.bsky.social in our latest:
"As information professionals, open advocates, and communities who just give a damn, it’s important to educate ourselves on the tactics pro-censorship advocates have used to push their agenda forward so we can effectively fight against it" @librariansreed.bsky.social in our latest:
In Profile: Neo-Censorship in U.S. Libraries, with Michelle Reed
Neo-Censorship in U.S. Libraries: An Investigation Into Digital Content Suppression is a painfully timely report into digital censorship in the United States, released by Library Futures in February…
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Looking for inspiration? Motivation? Validation? Distraction? Introducing the Don't Overthink It Writing Club, from OTL. Every month, we'll share a prompt to get the gears turning, then you have 2 weeks to submit something short and sweet, and we'll publish them. Read all about it:
Introducing the Don't Overthink It Writing Club
I know we're all usually very cool and chill about what we put out into the world, but maybe sometimes it can feel a bit overwhelming. But there are good things in your head and you don't have to go…
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Looking for inspiration? Motivation? Validation? Distraction? Introducing the Don't Overthink It Writing Club, from OTL. Every month, we'll share a prompt to get the gears turning, then you have 2 weeks to submit something short and sweet, and we'll publish them. Read all about it:
Introducing the Don't Overthink It Writing Club
I know we're all usually very cool and chill about what we put out into the world, but maybe sometimes it can feel a bit overwhelming. But there are good things in your head and you don't have to go…
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📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
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Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
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Resist the assault on research and education! Sign the open Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Gov Censorship! Sign now! Share everywhere! Help make this action go viral! #scholcomm #academisky #academichatter #sciencesky #openscience #resist tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f
Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship
This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...
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How can we respond to the onslaught of attacks on higher ed? Feb 13 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT: workers & allies from around the US will come together in a national strategy call. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...
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Tired: Reading footnotes. Wired: Reading for the footnotes. Inspired: Reading them for filthnotes.
I saved this one in my camera roll like 7 years before I met my gf and when I went to her place for the first time she had it on her wall. fate and so on
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Outside The Lines@outsidethelinespub.bsky.social · 2y agoThere's a fungus among us and we couldn't be happier about it. Inkcap Collective's @katinalynn.bsky.social shares the story of how she brings communities together, in this instance to publish a special edition of @jepub.bsky.social . Gather 'round, friends: outsidethelines.pub/in-profile-o...
Delighted to share this profile of my work and the special issue of @jepub.bsky.social I recently edited! I'm SO excited about @outsidethelinespub.bsky.social, so it's really fun to be able to contribute in this way. Thank you @radishpress.bsky.social & @threethings.bsky.social for making it happen!
Outside The Lines@outsidethelinespub.bsky.social · 2y agoThere's a fungus among us and we couldn't be happier about it. Inkcap Collective's @katinalynn.bsky.social shares the story of how she brings communities together, in this instance to publish a special edition of @jepub.bsky.social . Gather 'round, friends: outsidethelines.pub/in-profile-o...
There's a fungus among us and we couldn't be happier about it. Inkcap Collective's @katinalynn.bsky.social shares the story of how she brings communities together, in this instance to publish a special edition of @jepub.bsky.social . Gather 'round, friends: outsidethelines.pub/in-profile-o...
In Profile: On Gathering, with Katina Rogers
On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing is a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP), released in January 2025. The process ...
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Are you looking for more ways to connect and share your work with people who *get it*? (it being why and how we exchange knowledge in ways that serve the collective good). We're here to help! Here's how to get published:
If you are feeling the impulse to capture the moment, or just need to say something out loud to a crowd who understand, we've set up a little spot to collect and share our stories: airtable.com/appSvcFynLWa...
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Outside The Lines@outsidethelinespub.bsky.social · 2y agoFebruary has been a wild time for a project about sharing knowledge, with HQ in Canada and many friends in the US. But these aren't new issues, even if they're particularly acute right now, and we're playing the long game. Here's a small reflection on the moment: outsidethelines.pub/the-horrors-...
February has been a wild time for a project about sharing knowledge, with HQ in Canada and many friends in the US. But these aren't new issues, even if they're particularly acute right now, and we're playing the long game. Here's a small reflection on the moment: outsidethelines.pub/the-horrors-...
The Horrors Persist, And So Do We
It's been a hell of week to launch a project centred on how we share knowledge. Anyone who is paying attention knows exactly why, and the stuff closest to our particular orbit is just one part of a g ...
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Funding cuts are jeopardizing the open knowledge infrastructure we need for everything from climate research to global health preparedness. Sign @investinopen.bsky.social's statement and join us as part of the movement to support open infrastructure: investinopen.org/blog/stateme...
Why this, why now? Editor-in-Chief @radishpress.bsky.social shares why publishing matters, despite it's bad rap: outsidethelines.pub/publishing-o...
Publishing Outside the Lines: The Rallying Cry
I love publishing, but it has such a terrible reputation. Alongside the many grudges we all hold against most academic publishers– too big, too extractive, too rigid, too much gatekeeping etc.– I have...
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