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Matt McAdam

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Executive Editor for Humanities and History of STM at Johns Hopkins University Press

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Natalie Porter @natalieporter.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Every librarian dreams of being published, and I'm so grateful to @ecwpress.bsky.social for supporting my research and book called 'Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders.' Pre-ordering is now available. tinyurl.com/Girlgangs #coverreveal #bookssky #newbook
On a multi colored background of pink, blue, and yellow, there are two female skateboarders performing tricks on this book cover. The text says, Natalie Porter is the author and the title is 'Girls Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: a history of badass women skateboarders.'
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 24/07/2025
Door #1: Lose at least $400 million in federal grants. Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy. Columbia picks Door #2. dailynous.com/2025/07/24/c...
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Columbia University Caves - Daily Nous
Door #1: Lose at least $400 million in federal grants. Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy. Not an enviable choice for any university. Columbia University just chose Do...
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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 23/07/2025
Hey look! Tomorrow night (7 pm, Thursday the 24th) I'm talking with Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer about his new book about experts, data, and gay marriage at @redemmas.org Come early to get a good seat, maybe a falafel salad and a mazagran while you're at it!
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Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Attn nerds: I will be giving these books away FOR FREE tomorrow, 8:30-11. Note that the book exhibit is moving to the FIRST FLOOR of the Omni, so find us there. First come first served, one book per person, and again, FREE. #SHEAR2025
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 15/07/2025
“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument… the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life” — C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) at Daily Nous on the creative craft of writing philosophy.
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Beyond Argument: The Creative Craft of Philosophy Writing (guest post) - Daily Nous
"I want to talk about the part about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument part: the bit where you work on expressing your idea clearly, delicately, even personally. I want to t...
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The Oxford Publicity Partnership Ltd (OPP) @oxfordpublicity.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Congratulations to @hopkinspress.bsky.social author @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social who has won the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize! You can buy the book anywhere in Europe from your local bookstore or @blackwells.bsky.social. royalhistsoc.org/prizes/royal...
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Ogechukwu Williams @ogewilliams.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Countdown to August 19, the official release date for my book, Birth Politics, with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. Happy to schedule zoom and in-person talks. If you adopt the book as a required text in your classroom, I definitely owe you a classroom visit. Please let me know.
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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
all tenure-track assistant professors in the humanities:
a very tired and disgruntled looking man holding a large coffee with the caption “me at the job I begged god for”
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I wrote: “Jefferson dreamed of forging a grand, vibrant Athens on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, in its third century, the United States seems a lot more like Sparta.” newrepublic.com/article/1973...
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UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway
Ryan had not fought Trump on DEI and other matters. His forced ouster proves that no capitulation is enough.
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Friends! We would be so excited to see you for our DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH. I will be in the UK in spirit struggling through the Midwestern heat at 9 am (CDT), but invigorated by the brilliant @elsadevienne.bsky.social and @rebwright.bsky.social. @uchicagopress.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I ask my new + old followers to circulate this open access roundtable onAmerican science. Please repost! We in the USA are losing our lead in scientific research due to totalitarian tendencies in the current administration. This loss will affect all of us. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The crisis in American science - Kathryn M. Olesko, Anthony Eames, Cyrus C. M. Mody, Ilana Löwy, Thomas Zeller, Mark Walker, Mitchell G. Ash, Donna Haraway, 2025
The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unpr...
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 19/06/2025
Smartphones are not a good example of extended cognition. A social history of philosophy. Videos about causal inference. Enlightenment stand-up. Anti-trans arguments. The math of gas & the direction of time. Your brain on ChatGPT, and more...
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Mini-Heap - Daily Nous
Recent links... “The usage of LLMs could actually harm learning, especially for younger users” -- a new study on brain activity and the use of LLMs like ChatGPT “At the microscopic scale, where partic...
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Matt McAdam @mxmcadam.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
A related project would study the phrase “dialed in”
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Matt McAdam @mxmcadam.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Habermas is 96 today, and that is because Habermas is still alive.
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Matt McAdam @mxmcadam.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
There is a good project in gender/masculinity studies just waiting to be written that looks at online aviation forums after a major place crash.
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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
It should go without saying, but apparently it needs to be said: if you are peer reviewing a ms for a scholarly press, DO NOT feed that ms into an AI machine to write your reader report for you. DO NOT.
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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Who wants free books? These are some of the titles that we at @urbanhistory.bsky.social are looking to review. Let me know if you or a friend want one, or if you have other suggestions. First, @rebwright.bsky.social's fabulous looking history of mid century US energy regimes:
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
OECS thematic collections.
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/
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Jason L. Schwartz @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Given this week’s events re: COVID vaccines, there’s lots of new interest in ‘shared clinical decision-making’ recommendations—what they are, what they mean, etc. Wrote about them in @jlme-journal.bsky.social several years back. (Message me if you can’t access it) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Shared Decision-Making and Prevention Recommendations: Evolution, Implications, and Challenges for Public Health | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core
Shared Decision-Making and Prevention Recommendations: Evolution, Implications, and Challenges for Public Health - Volume 49 Issue 3
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Meidas_SocietysChild @societyschild.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Harvard is offering 558 free classes, including but not limited to "We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy", "American Government: Constitutional Foundations", and "U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy." Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏
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Catalog of Courses
Browse the latest courses from Harvard University
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 21/05/2025
"Like my cat, Derek did simply what he wanted to do." A new collection of essays about philosopher Derek Parfit by people who were close to him.
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An Affectionate but Clear-Eyed Close-Up of Parfit - Daily Nous
Derek Parfit: His Life and Thought, a collection of essays by people who knew him, edited by Jeff McMahan, was published a couple of days ago. There is an online (gated) version at Oxford Academic. (I...
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Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Good morning, this is my more-or-less annual reminder/plea to make sure your faculty page is reasonably up to date. Helps me find you AND helps me know not to bug you to peer review stuff if your interests have changed significantly.
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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Coming next week, the story of the Third Reich's efforts to influence hearts and minds at American universities with exchange students -- by Aaron Gillette @uh.edu @hopkinspress.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Brian Leiter @brianleiter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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In Memoriam: Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
Professor MacIntyre, who was emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, wrote widely and influentialy in ethics and the history of ethics over his long career, which also included teaching posts at Bos...
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Matt McAdam @mxmcadam.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The death of Alastair MacIntyre prompts my semi-annual reminder of this incredible fact: Habermas is still alive.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Came into the office to find our #dolessharm postcards have arrived just in time for #aahm2025! You can pre order from @hopkinspress.bsky.social now!
A stack of blue postcards with the words Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians edited by Courtney Thompson and Kylie Smith printed on them
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
many thanks to @patrickmccray.bsky.social & Michael Gordin for editing, & @mxmcadam.bsky.social @ JHUP for publishing Greedy Science, an edited volume on science in the go-go '80s 1/x www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Greedy Science
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Matt McAdam @mxmcadam.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Shout out to archaeologists! I emailed 4 yesterday about reviewing a project and all responded within 24 hours! That never happens.
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Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A lost essay by HLA Hart published for the first time the American Journal of Jurisprudence. “Policy, Principles, and Adjudication.” academic.oup.com/ajj/advance-...
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Policies, Principles, and Adjudication: (c. 1977-82)
Abstract. A previously unpublished paper by H.L.A. Hart responding to some of the work of Ronald Dworkin and found among Dworkin’s papers. For commentary o
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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Another Philosophy Bites interviewee L.A. Paul gets the New Yorker treatment… www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Philosopher L. A. Paul Wants Us to Think About Our Selves
To whom should we have allegiance—the version of ourself making choices, or the version of ourself who will be affected by them?
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Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
50% off my book and everything else @columbiaup.bsky.social for the rest of today, including all of the titles in the Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past/Present/Future series!
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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New blog post: Philosophy of mind has changed a lot, with a truly massive shift toward empirically-informed work — but we still have in place various norms and institutions that were created decades ago and don’t make sense for the field as it is now xphi.net/2024/12/02/p...
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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Interested in the role of university presses and the @aupresses.bsky.social community? Thank you to @juliadolinger.bsky.social of the @scholarlypub.bsky.social Early Career Subcommittee for the opportunity to speak with SSP Early Career Development Podcast hosts Meredith Adinolfi and Sara Grimme.
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SSP's Early Career Development Podcast Episode 20: Industry Primer - University Presses and Their Unique Role in Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen
This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast serves as a primer on university presses: how the university press model and structure can differ or align from the traditional for-profit model,...
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Really excited that @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social made my new book the book of the day! Check out the podcast I recorded with @drsusanliebell.bsky.social - lots of good conversation and some serious depth to the questions she asked! newbooksnetwork.com/tackle-footb... #PHLaw #PHEthx
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Daniel S. Goldberg, "Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Law, Ethics, and Public Health" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
77. Philosophy as a profession is weirdly bad at reflecting on what it is that we do. It's something I think about a lot, and last summer had a wonderful time reflecting on these questions with students and staff in Florianopolis. Some notes here: diaryofdoctorlogic.wordpress.com/2023/08/10/w...
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What We Do When We Do Philosophy
Today I had the great pleasure to be hosted by the Núcleo de Epistemologica e Lógica at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis to give a masterclass on What We Do Whe…
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/11/2024
New from me in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences: "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process." [54 (5): 625–629. doi.org/10.1525/hsns... A discussion of the way that LLM's & other "AI" have shaped the expectations, norms, & disciplinary practices of contemporary academia. Check it out:
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Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process
Since the beginning of this age of “generative AI,” members of fields and disciplines ranging across commerce, food service, medicine, and education have sought to find at least one use case fit to th...
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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It’s #WorldPhilosophyDay today, so why not listen to a few episodes of the Philosophy Bites podcast - over 300 to choose from on Spotify, Apple Podcasts etc podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Philosophy Bites
Philosophy Podcast · 379 Episodes · Monthly
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Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Fordham University Press is having a sale right now. Here's the details: Save 25% on print and eBooks during our Winter Sale! Plus, get free domestic shipping on all print books. Use the promo code WINTER24-FI at checkout.
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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Friends of the pod! I need your help to make the end-of-year episode. The assignment is easy: tell me about a great history book you read this year.
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Charlotte Abney @abney.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Applications are now open for 2025-26 fellowships at @scihistoryorg.bsky.social! We offer postdoc, dissertation, distinguished & short-term fellowships for researchers from anywhere in any fields w/ projects that can make use of our collections. Questions? Ask here!
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Science History Institute Fellowships
The Institute is home to the largest private fellowship program in the historical study of science, medicine, and technology in the United States.
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Matt McAdam @mxmcadam.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I’m tempted to get Twitter again just to read Baltimore fans drag the Ravens, who manage to lose every big game they play.
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Colleen Derkatch @colleenderkatch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I haven't yet shared here that @sharrona.bsky.social and I have a new book series in health humanities at @hopkinspress.bsky.social. This thread gives a brief overview of the series. ⬇️ (The link below is correct despite the unrelated image from my website.) www.colleenderkatch.com/health-human...
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Health Humanities Series
Questions of health are more urgent than ever. The new Hopkins Health Humanities Series at Johns Hopkins University Press aims to set a research agenda for the health humanities through innovative …
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Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Here's a new discovery: *3* brothers of #JaneAusten participated in public anti-slavery activism, as my research has uncovered. My piece in Conversation US describes Frank Austen's previously unknown abolitionist activities in Gosport in 1826. theconversation.com/3-of-jane-au...
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3 of Jane Austen’s 6 brothers engaged in antislavery activism − new research offers more clues about her own views
The author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and other classic novels used the words ‘slave’ and ‘slavery’ nearly a dozen times in her books.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We're in Baltimore for #2024ASA! Check out the blog today for all the details. #AmericanStudies ow.ly/Ms7250U4AeJ
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Save on New Titles in American Studies
Courtney Berger, Elizabeth Ault, and Ken Wissoker are joining you in Baltimore for the 2024 ASA conference! Browse books and journals in American studies in booth 101/103 or on our conference landi…
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Alan Thomas @agthomas.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Attending the American Studies meeting in Baltimore? I’ll be there and eager to see you at the UChicago Press booth. Check out our featured titles here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi... @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
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The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
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Derek Krissoff @derekkrissoff.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Kent State University Press, where I help out doing at-large work, now has a presence on this site, and they kick things off with a post about publishing, place, and the celebration of different kinds of success.
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