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As April and the academic year draw to a close, the #FeedingTheElephant team bring you the latest takes on AI, labor movements in the academy, and more. Give it a look!
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"Herding wet cats" is how @dawnd has heard authors describe working on edited collections. Today for #FeedingTheElephant, she provides tips for corralling those cats into a successful publication.
This week, #FeedingTheElephant returns to publishing business models. @lmansley and @SarahWeicksel provide a behind-the-scenes look at publications, services, and other media provided by the @AHAhistorians.
Today, #FeedingTheElephant features an interview with @sarahbelle721 of @nursingclio about the origins of the blog and more recently, its Reproduction History Syllabus in the wake of the US Supreme Court's Dobbs decision.
Social media posts provide scholars with a trove of data for their research, but using posts in published work can be tricky. @e_maselli explains fair use, copyright, and using social media for #FeedingTheElephant.
"Ultimately, Russ is not without hope and neither am I," writes Alex Gupta in a review of Joanna Russ’s How to Suppress Women’s Writing. As Russ recounts how scholarship by women has been discredited, Gupta finds hope in those who persisted and wrote.
For 50 years @REEEC_UIUC and Slavic Services at @IllinoisLibrary have facilitated scholarly research related to Eastern Europe. Their work is as important as ever as scholars consider new ways to conduct research a year into Russia's war in Ukraine.