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We help academics find bigger ideas, reach larger audiences, get more done. https://scholarsandwriters.com Posts by Anne (early modern lit + food studies) & Daniela (20th c. history). Here to talk about all things #academicsky #writing #publicscholars
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Lined notebook paper with the words: "It's hard to write in this time of chaos, when there is so much pain, anger, and overwhelm. But it's also not the time to deprive the world of new ideas, difficult histories, and fresh perspectives." The Editorial Ally
I created this image last February, never imagining it would be just as--if not more--relevant a year later.
Onward, friends. Ever onward. Somehow. Together.
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As someone who was once asked by a major US academic philanthropist to sign one, yes. NDA's in academia are controlling tools to silence good people from speaking out about abuses. Since I didn't sign, I still look forward to telling the story someday. 👋 #academicsky
I'm sure this will start a trend of MacArthur awardees, NIH grant winners, and Fulbright holders sharing them with their worst students who never even showed up to class. #academicsky #nobelprize
Intellectual and cultural history folks still looking for a position? Excellent opportunity @cam.ac.uk www.emma.cam.ac.uk/people/job-v... #academicsky
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Thanks for the memories! I was 12 and returned this album to buy Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind instead. Totally f'kd off by the male clerk chastising "not quite the music for such a young lady." Formative experience. Hope it was a wild, wild, wild research day for you.
Daniela's headshot and 2 paragraphs: I love helping writers figure out what their book is all about––and shape those arguments into a compelling book proposal. But I like the fine-grained work too: sharpening ideas, clarifying structure, and polishing language. Favourite services: Book Proposals, Book Development, Developmental Editing. “Read good fiction. It sounds obvious, but for overextended people, the case for it isn't self-evident. Reading fiction retrains our besieged attention. It reminds us to orient the reader before launching into interpretation. In good fiction, information arrives when it can be absorbed and when it matters.”
Everyone on our team is sharing their favourite habit for a better academic writing life. In case you need help with a book this year, Stanford-trained historian Daniela is bilingual & works with both English- and Spanish-speaking scholars. scholarsandwriters.com/bio/daniela-... #academicsky
Welcome to that time of year when academics eager for a clean slate at the start of next semester clear their inboxes by filling yours. May the emails be more acceptances, opportunities, and promises for better connections in 2026 than simply hot potatoes tossed into your lap. #academicsky
This is a good start. We need more presses to do this but then to offer amounts that actually cover editorial help with a full manuscript. www.thebookseller.com/news/cambrid...
Apologies for saying the obvious, but especially this year the 3 best gifts for #academicsky:
1. great book that boosts a colleague's sales
2. editing, coaching, etc. to help knowledgeable people publish smart things
3. regular coffee to chat about WIP -- or another offer of solidarity & support
I have faith that highly educated, high-achieving people can do that part too.
Totally with you. I'm sorry the post triggered a bad experience.The whole publishing racket is soul-killing & heart-wrenching. I get it. I am wishing you better experiences in the future because you'd got great work to share.
2005? Maybe sign by 1995? (US and UK being not dissimilar, it was 60-40 men-women across top-tier US unis when I entered in 1989)
I'm so sorry that you had a bad experience with agents. I love your work & am grateful you were on my podcast on meat pies (Eat Feed, ages ago). Excited to see there's an audio version coming next month! Agents are definitely a mixed bag and it's so hard to find a good fit - why we help folks do it.
If you write just 300 words per day, 5 days per week, for 50 weeks, you will have a 75,000-word book plus a life with weekends and a 2-week vacation. 🤯 Increase to 350 words per day and you can choose: 9 weeks off or 87,500 words drafted. (This post is 52 words.) #academicsky
Another great example of how academic writers attract agents with short public pieces. "My advice would be to let your creative voice sing in your scholarly writing." #academicsky scholarsandwriters.com/what-works-p...
A very tiny percentage of humans on this planet ever publish a book. Fewer still an academic book built from years of research, conversations, presentations, (sometimes painful) feedback, and more. Remember to celebrate this rare, accomplished place to which you've brought yourself. #academicsky
Delighted to see Kevin Morgan's 'Serving the public' in the BBC's The Food Programme's Food Books for 2025, listen back to the programme on BBC Sounds here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
'Serving the public' is out now, available from all good bookshops. #booksky #foodbooks
It varies widely depending on what your particular indexer already has in the pipeline. Sometimes they'll also have an unexpected opening if another writer wasn't able to deliver on the expected date. @bookishjulia.bsky.social might be able to help
Science suppliers are just a tiny piece of the story. Universities fuel so many other businesses from editors to restaurants. So much more needs to be written about ALL the small businesses taking a hit from ill-conceived policies and what it will do to "college towns." #academicsky
"It took me eight years to write four chapters, but once I decided to aim for readers beyond the academic world, I was able to quickly churn out four better chapters and three new ones, plus a new book proposal, which I sent to five publishers." #academicsky
Ever wished your lab, committee, or department could be more "emotionally intelligent"? Or wondered why the forward to your book actually matters? #psychology #academicsky scholarsandwriters.com/what-works-p...
Whaaaat! How can it be 2025 and I still can't connect with my people as quickly as I need to? Thank you for sharing this.
Part of the same group or their own thing? I'd love to know more!
Who are my fellow #foodstudies peeps and #foodhistorians out there in #academicsky? If you published a book in 2025, enter it www.facebook.com/KitchenArtsa...
Winners of the 2025 Best Personal Academic Websites Contest. There's a tiny mockup of each of the 12 award winning websites. View the link in the post description for larger mockups and links each of the websites.
Need ideas and inspiration for your academic website?
We celebrated 12 award winning websites in this years contest. I still get messages from people sharing it's motivated them to create a website space of your own online #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #EduSky
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Just attended my first event at what is exactly what we need right now. If you lean public scholar and are in a target city, take your research to the people with @profsandpints.bsky.social #academicsky www.profsandpints.com
This recent one by regular NYT columnist: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o.... This other, by academics, makes for good conversation because it is shaped well but didn't take abuse into consideration and was rather middle-class focused without acknowledging it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...