Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The world is on fire but this week I learned the word "quodlibet." 020
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"Adam Cureton’s Respecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships is the inaugural title in OUP’s new book series, Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, and Society, and it sets the bar high for all future books in the series." ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/resp...ndpr.nd.eduRespecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and RelationshipsAdam Cureton’s Respecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships is the inaugural title in OUP’s new book series, Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethic… 031
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 20/05/2026So glad Vox went to @shannonvallor.bsky.social to make the case for believing in humanity in the face of AI-inspired doom 🤖🚒 093
Reposted by Lucy RandallOxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 13/03/2026Why 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 162
Reposted by Lucy RandallOxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 17/03/2026Discover another way of looking at the ultimate question with Rivka Weinberg's "The Meaning of It All" 💡: oxford.ly/4bgQkMC 021
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 18/03/2026An arresting excerpt from Rivka Weinberg's THE MEANING OF IT ALL in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy today 020
Reposted by Lucy RandallOxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 20/02/2026⚾️ 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 022
Reposted by Lucy RandallOxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 24/02/2026Baseball 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 034
Reposted by Lucy RandallUPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Consider this a book publisher's very important contribution to the ongoing font discourse #FontDebate 065
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Delighted 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...global.oup.com 081
Reposted by Lucy RandallOxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 16/07/2025🚨 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 064
Reposted by Lucy RandallDavid Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Latest Philosophy Bites. Bob is back! 0135
Reposted by Lucy RandallNew York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 17/07/2025“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.nyti.msOpinion | 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. 1103
Reposted by Lucy RandallLydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Weighing 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! 25620151
Reposted by Lucy RandallErich Hatala Matthes @ehatmat.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Fantastic to see What to Save and Why reviewed in the New York Review of Books! #philsky 181
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Can we ban "Quick Question" and "My Book" as subject lines? 🙃 020
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Happy to see Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage continue to get its flowers. Still "timely" after a few years! choiceconnect.org/webclipping/...choiceconnect.orgWeb Clipping Print View | Choice Connect 020
Reposted by Lucy RandallOxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 05/05/2025Our 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": oxford.ly/44XGZX4 #History 03718
Reposted by Lucy RandallOxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 28/04/2025Hi 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. 312421
Reposted by Lucy RandallKristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · 28/04/2025#19C women philosophers are touring the world! @dalianassar.bluesky.social and my edited volume is already out in English and Norwegian. The Arab translation is going to print today - @lucyrandall802.bsky.social #philsky #booksky #women #feminism 1141
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 16/04/2025If you're at the #APAPacific25, please stop by the Oxford table tomorrow morning through Saturday morning and explore our new offerings! (1/2) 1101
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 04/04/2025"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...nytimes.comGroups Are Told That Federal Humanities Grants Are CanceledLetters informed grant recipients that funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities would be redirected to furthering “the president’s agenda.” 030
Reposted by Lucy RandallAssociation of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Why does my publisher want to change the title of my book? 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! 095
Reposted by Lucy RandallThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/03/2025Donald 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”:theatlantic.comAmerica Is Watching the Rise of a Dual StateFor most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t. 13323127
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Terrific 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...podcasts.apple.comClear+Vivid with Alan AldaSociety & Culture Podcast · 28 Seasons · Updated weekly 0122
Reposted by Lucy Randallalex pasternack @pasternack.bsky.social · 11/12/2024One 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...fastcompany.comHow philosopher Shannon Vallor delivered the year's best critique of AIThe author of 'The AI Mirror' worries about what we're doing to our moral muscles as we grow more reliant on machines. 2144
Reposted by Lucy RandallShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Very 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.theguardian.comThe best books to give as gifts this ChristmasFrom 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... 0182
Reposted by Lucy RandallShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 19/08/2024Thanks 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...vox.comPeople are falling in love with — and getting addicted to — AI voicesOpenAI warns that its chatbot can breed “emotional reliance.” It’s not just ChatGPT — look at Replika or Character AI. 0116
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 19/08/2024The 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... 0122
Reposted by Lucy RandallShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 06/08/2024A 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...newyorker.comIn the Age of A.I., What Makes People Unique?More than ever, we’re challenged to define what’s valuable about being human. 0172
Reposted by Lucy RandallShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 29/05/2024The first major review of The AI Mirror came in today from the Financial Times, and I’m really happy the reviewer engaged so fully with the narrative. www.ft.com/content/67d3...ft.comThe AI Mirror — how technology blocks human potentialShannon Vallor argues that the more power we cede to ‘giant mirrors of code’, the less we use our own practical wisdom 0195
Reposted by Lucy RandallShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 08/04/2024Nice to hear The AI Mirror briefly mentioned in this episode of the Ezra Klein show with Nilay Patel, which was an interesting conversation about whether generative AI will destroy the informational seed corn of the web, and what might happen next.youtu.beWill A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It?The internet is in decay. Do a Google search, and there are so many websites now filled with slapdash content contorted just to rank highly in the algorithm.... 031
Reposted by Lucy RandallShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 22/03/2024My publisher sent me this first photo of my book as a real object in the world and I am unreasonably happy 5573
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Heather Stewart and Lauren Freeman on philosophical collaboration blog.apaonline.org/2024/02/07/d... 011
Reposted by Lucy RandallCameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 12/12/2023#booklaunch day! Surrounded by family, friends, and colleagues who want to understand AI, but struggle to put the last ten years of furious progress into a systematic, philosophically-grounded framework? I have the perfect stocking-stuffer for you! global.oup.com/academic/pro... 65614
Reposted by Lucy RandallKrista K. Thomason @kkthomason.bsky.social · 17/12/2023MY BOOK IS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TODAY!!!! 0141
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 12/12/2023Make sure to keep this in mind as you're making your #APAEastern24 plans, philosophy friends 020
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 08/12/2023This is awesome www.thecut.com/article/anth... 021
Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 08/12/2023New book alert (we can do this here, right?!): Cameron Buckner's From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence is out now. Long title, long book, but not to be missed! #ai #philosophy global.oup.com/academic/pro... 080
Reposted by Lucy RandallMatthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 02/12/2023very good to see you both today! @rebeccaroache.bsky.social @nigelwarburton.bsky.social 152