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  1. Highly recommend *not* listening to the #NewBooksNetwork podcasts. Your bank account will be drained and your bookshelves will overflow. You have been warned! 📖 👀 🤑 #Books #Literature #NonFiction #History #USHistory #Culture #Immigration newbooksnetwork.com/opening-do

  2. Highly recommend *not* listening to the #NewBooksNetwork podcasts. Your bank account will be drained and your bookshelves will overflow. You have been warned! 📖 👀 🤑 #Books #Literature #NonFiction #History #USHistory #Culture #Immigration newbooksnetwork.com/opening-do

  3. Kashmir Crisis #newbooksnetwork

    features Nitasha Kaul, Professor of Politics, International Relations, and Critical Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), University of Westminster, London, UK.

    newbooksnetwork.com/nias-podca

  4. 2024 Wrap-Up: Podcasts

    Thanks to all of the #podcasts that invited me on this year!

    My "Looking Back on Genre History" #ScienceFiction segment ran each month on #StarShipSofa.

    I talked to #Potterversity about my book chapter "Dark Arts & Secret Histories: Investigating #DarkAcademia"; to #TrashCompactor & #NewBooksNetwork about my book #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away; & to #NewBooksNetwork about my book #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier.

    I also talked #Tocqueville with the #VitalRemnants podcast & #MaryShelley twice with #TheMcConnellCenter podcast.

    Links to all of these: amyhsturgis.com/?page_id=9

  5. 2024 Wrap-Up: Podcasts

    Thanks to all of the #podcasts that invited me on this year!

    My "Looking Back on Genre History" #ScienceFiction segment ran each month on #StarShipSofa.

    I talked to #Potterversity about my book chapter "Dark Arts & Secret Histories: Investigating #DarkAcademia"; to #TrashCompactor & #NewBooksNetwork about my book #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away; & to #NewBooksNetwork about my book #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier.

    I also talked #Tocqueville with the #VitalRemnants podcast & #MaryShelley twice with #TheMcConnellCenter podcast.

    Links to all of these: amyhsturgis.com/?page_id=9

  6. Congratulations to the New Books Network for reaching a new milestone: 25,000 interviews! It’s been my pleasure to be interviewed twice, each time to talk about a different book of mine.

    FYI, the #NewBooksNetwork is one of the world’s largest public education projects, a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to #PublicEducation. NBN works directly with over twenty university presses including Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, the University of Chicago Press, and the MIT Press. #Books #Bookstodon #Educators #Education #Academics

    youtube.com/@newbooksnetworkbo

  7. Congratulations to the New Books Network for reaching a new milestone: 25,000 interviews! It’s been my pleasure to be interviewed twice, each time to talk about a different book of mine.

    FYI, the #NewBooksNetwork is one of the world’s largest public education projects, a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to #PublicEducation. NBN works directly with over twenty university presses including Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, the University of Chicago Press, and the MIT Press. #Books #Bookstodon #Educators #Education #Academics

    youtube.com/@newbooksnetworkbo

  8. I'm utterly pleased to announce that my interview on the #NewBooksNetwork about 'Sea Level: A History' is now available! #envhist #histsci

    newbooksnetwork.com/sea-level

  9. @ColinTheMathmo Re: (in)numeracy and leaders:

    Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists

    N. J. Enfield, Mar 23, 2022, MIT PRESS 2022

    Nick Enfield’s book, Language vs. Reality: Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists (MIT Press, 2022), argues that language is primarily for social coordination, not precisely transferring thoughts from one person to another. Drawing on empirical research, Enfield shows that human lexicons the world over are far more coarse-grained than our perceptual faculties. Yet, at the same time, languages vary in the structure and sophistication of their representations. This means that, for instance, how different languages carve up the world influences not only how their speakers talk about the world, but also how they think about it. The book explores a range of linguistic phenomena, from lexical diversity to linguistic framing to the effects of narrative. As a result of understanding how language shapes our understanding of reality, Enfield argues that we can make more informed—and more ethical—decisions about our own language use, as individuals and communities.*

    On the New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/language-v

    Audio: traffic.megaphone.fm/NBN279856 (MP3)

    Enfield's key point is that language is useful for social coordination. Numbers ... for quantification.

    Also: A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

    (In numerous variations, more likely Beilby Porteus circa 1759 than Joseph Stalin. See: quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/.)

    Referring to your sadly languishing HN submission here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

    #Numeracy #Innumeracy #HackerNews #NewBooksNetwork #NickJEnfield #Language

  10. @ColinTheMathmo Re: (in)numeracy and leaders:

    Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists

    N. J. Enfield, Mar 23, 2022, MIT PRESS 2022

    Nick Enfield’s book, Language vs. Reality: Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists (MIT Press, 2022), argues that language is primarily for social coordination, not precisely transferring thoughts from one person to another. Drawing on empirical research, Enfield shows that human lexicons the world over are far more coarse-grained than our perceptual faculties. Yet, at the same time, languages vary in the structure and sophistication of their representations. This means that, for instance, how different languages carve up the world influences not only how their speakers talk about the world, but also how they think about it. The book explores a range of linguistic phenomena, from lexical diversity to linguistic framing to the effects of narrative. As a result of understanding how language shapes our understanding of reality, Enfield argues that we can make more informed—and more ethical—decisions about our own language use, as individuals and communities.*

    On the New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/language-v

    Audio: traffic.megaphone.fm/NBN279856 (MP3)

    Enfield's key point is that language is useful for social coordination. Numbers ... for quantification.

    Also: A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

    (In numerous variations, more likely Beilby Porteus circa 1759 than Joseph Stalin. See: quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/.)

    Referring to your sadly languishing HN submission here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

    #Numeracy #Innumeracy #HackerNews #NewBooksNetwork #NickJEnfield #Language

  11. #CurrentlyListening to fab interview with #HeatherAugustyn, author of "#Ska: An Oral History", via #NewBooksNetwork, from 2010. The author has since written three more books on the subject. Got me some catching up to do! 🎵 🎶 🇯🇲 👍 😁 #Books #Music #Jamaica #History #Reggae #Rocksteady cc: @bookstodon newbooksnetwork.com/heather-au

  12. #CurrentlyListening to fab interview with #HeatherAugustyn, author of "#Ska: An Oral History", via #NewBooksNetwork, from 2010. The author has since written three more books on the subject. Got me some catching up to do! 🎵 🎶 🇯🇲 👍 😁 #Books #Music #Jamaica #History #Reggae #Rocksteady cc: @bookstodon newbooksnetwork.com/heather-au

  13. Tomorrow is #WorldGeekDay, and on that note it was a joy to join my co-editor Emily Strand to talk about our anthology #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away with the #NewBooksNetwork! (Link below.)

    #StarWarsBooks #podcast #books #bookstodon #film

    open.spotify.com/episode/24zDI

  14. Tomorrow is #WorldGeekDay, and on that note it was a joy to join my co-editor Emily Strand to talk about our anthology #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away with the #NewBooksNetwork! (Link below.)

    #StarWarsBooks #podcast #books #bookstodon #film

    open.spotify.com/episode/24zDI

  15. It was a joy to join my co-editor Emily Strand to talk about our anthology Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away with the #NewBooksNetwork!

    #StarWars #StarWarsBooks #podcast #books #bookstodon #film
    megaphone.link/NBNK9008235503

  16. Woohoo it's #SocialistSaturday! Why not start your weekend with six hours of conversation (so far) covering 1800 pages (so far) of research about the emergence of #Trotskyism in the #USA? Tons of fun for committed revolutionaries everywhere! Except Stalinists. I mean, y'might wanna hide those icepicks, eh? ;-) #NewBooksNetwork #History #AmericanHistory #Histodon #Socialism #Communism #Politics #USPol

    newbooksnetwork.com/james-p-ca

  17. Woohoo it's #SocialistSaturday! Why not start your weekend with six hours of conversation (so far) covering 1800 pages (so far) of research about the emergence of #Trotskyism in the #USA? Tons of fun for committed revolutionaries everywhere! Except Stalinists. I mean, y'might wanna hide those icepicks, eh? ;-) #NewBooksNetwork #History #AmericanHistory #Histodon #Socialism #Communism #Politics #USPol

    newbooksnetwork.com/james-p-ca

  18. Crossing the Pod Streams is always entertaining.

    This time I'm listening to #YanisVaroufakis heaping high prais on @pluralistic for his books, blogs, and podcasts, on the #NewBooksNetwork:

    newbooksnetwork.com/technofeud

    (Doctorow of course has been turning up all over the place as he book tours, as well as on his own #Craphound podcast, of which I too am a fan.)

  19. Crossing the Pod Streams is always entertaining.

    This time I'm listening to #YanisVaroufakis heaping high prais on @pluralistic for his books, blogs, and podcasts, on the #NewBooksNetwork:

    newbooksnetwork.com/technofeud

    (Doctorow of course has been turning up all over the place as he book tours, as well as on his own #Craphound podcast, of which I too am a fan.)

  20. Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo and I discussed our book Mussolini's Nature (MIT Press) with the excellent Ari Barbalat on the #NewBooksNetwork history podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/mussolinis #histodons #envhist

  21. Listening to @taylorlorenz interviewed about her new book Extremely Online by Michael Vann on the #newbooksnetwork

    newbooksnetwork.com/extremely-

    The bits about how Vine's early pre-algorithmic days posed challenges with creators vs. network makes me wonder about possible similar dynamics on the #Fediverse.

    #Books #Interviews #Podcasts

  22. Listening to @taylorlorenz interviewed about her new book Extremely Online by Michael Vann on the #newbooksnetwork

    newbooksnetwork.com/extremely-

    The bits about how Vine's early pre-algorithmic days posed challenges with creators vs. network makes me wonder about possible similar dynamics on the #Fediverse.

    #Books #Interviews #Podcasts

  23. thought: most of the books I've actually bought for myself the last three or four years (or dropped hints about to gift-buyers, and a couple I've bought as gifts) I learned of in author interviews on the New Books Network. That's the format that makes me think I want to spend time with this book and not just look stuff up. #NewBooksNetwork #Podcast

  24. thought: most of the books I've actually bought for myself the last three or four years (or dropped hints about to gift-buyers, and a couple I've bought as gifts) I learned of in author interviews on the New Books Network. That's the format that makes me think I want to spend time with this book and not just look stuff up. #NewBooksNetwork #Podcast

  25. Just finished recording on the New Books Network with Filippo de Chirico on my academic publication, "The Real Oil Shock". Episode will go live by the end of the month!
    @histodons
    @econhist
    #Podcast
    #NewBooksNetwork
    #Economics

  26. #CurrentlyListening: “The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In ‘Demons in the Details’, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons.” #NewBooksNetwork #Podcast #Judaism #Religion #History 📖 🔊 🤔 newbooksnetwork.com/demons-in-

  27. Peter Baldwin, Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for Al (2023)

    [A]n up-to-date look at the ideals and history behind OA, and unpacks the controversies that arise when the dream of limitless information slams into entrenched interests in favor of the status quo. In addition to providing a clear analysis of the debates, Baldwin focuses on thorny issues such as copyright and ways to pay for “free” knowledge. He also provides a roadmap that would make OA economically viable and, as a result, advance one of humanity’s age-old ambitions. Baldwin addresses the arguments in terms of disseminating scientific research, the history of intellectual property and copyright, and the development of the university and research establishment.

    newbooksnetwork.com/athena-unb

    Audio: traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR203354 (MP3)

    NBN delivers yet again. The interview gets into the scam and misaligned incentives in academic publishing. Big shouts out to #SciHub, #ZLibrary, and #LibraryGenesis.

    Edit: Markdown

    #NewBooksNetwork #Podcasts #PeterBaldwin #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #Academia #copyright #Interviews

  28. It's not often that I get to point out Internet Monopolies being sharecroppers.

    The real dish here is that Reddit was one of the few domains in which the ad-fed #enshittification and #SidamTouch (ad-centric media turns everything to shit, reverse of Midas) wasn't ... overly dominant.

    And now courtesy of mismanagement by #spez, #Reddit, #AdvanceMedia, and the Reddit board, #GeneralWebSearch which as been in a death spiral for years is suddenly getting far, far worse.

    I've commented multiple times that I rely far more on traditional media (mostly books and magazine articles) these days than the Web. Sites/services such as #SciHub, #LibraryGenesis, and #ZLibrary have been absolutely vital for this, and despite much of the online world getting markedly worse, these are bright spots.

    (Internet Archive, Wikipedia / Wikimedia, Project Gutenberg, and a handful of other sites/services are among the other bright spots which happen to operate inside the law, though the fact that useful sites have to violate law says a hell of a lot about how corrupt and societally-failing the law is these days.)

    My #ResearchMethods for #ContentDiscovery now are based strongly on library research techniques I'd learned in the 1980s: research topics of interest, find major works and the authors of those works, read those, and if the same names or works keep turning up then find and read those. I'll also make heavy use of podcasts, especially those reviewing books and/or interviewing authors (particularly on academic topics), most notably the #NewBooksNetwork.

    This may not lead you to truth, but it will virtually always point you to the foundations of present understanding and orthodoxy.

    Truly principled authors will note conflicting / contradictory viewpoints --- #PatrickOphuls is excellent in this regard. Even unprincipled authors will often point out key voices in opposition to them, though usually by trash-talking and belittling them. (I'd found a wonderful example of this in a Reason review on Conway & Oreskes latest book The Big Myth.)

  29. New on UNC Press Presents Podcast via #NewBooksNetwork, Robin James discusses THE FUTURE OF ROCK AND ROLL: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence w/host Bradley Morgan. Stream/subscribe or 🎧 via #ApplePodcasts #spotifypodcasts: newbooksnetwork.com/the-future
    #BAM #woxy

  30. New on the UNC Press Presents podcast via #NewBooksNetwork: Beth Bailey discusses AN ARMY AFIRE: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era. Steam/subscribe, or listen via #ApplePodcasts #spotifypodcasts #Stitcher
    ow.ly/xoR150NUfB4

  31. New on UNC Press Presents podcast via #NewBooksNetwork: Susan Burch discusses COMMITTED: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions.Stream/subscribe, or l🎧via #spotifypodcasts #ApplePodcasts #Stitcher
    ow.ly/xZvR50NJsHq

  32. 🆕 UNC Press Presents Podcast via #NewBooksNetwork: discussion of GAY ON GOD'S CAMPUS: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities by Jonathan S. Coley; stream or listen➡️ #spotifypodcasts #ApplePodcasts #Stitcher ow.ly/8fsf50NCHY4

  33. What a great pleasure to speak with @LAbdelaaty about my book "Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp" in the New Books in Political Science series #NewBooksNetwork. Thank you so much for your invitation and interesting questions, Lamis!

    Interested in listening to the podcast? See here: newbooksnetwork.com/difficult-

    This podcast is just in time for my book to be published in paperback this month doi.org/10.1017/9781108909013

    @migration @migrationresearch @politicalscience