Brenna McLaughlin

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Research & Communications Director for the Association of University Presses
Brenna McLaughlinDec 18, 2023
Deb ChachraDec 16, 2023

Today is the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. I only learned *this year* that the Great Bengali Famine of 1770 was a precipitating factor in the protest, and so I collaborated with my historian colleague, Dr. Robert Martello, to share the globe-spanning story of colonialism and corporate power that we think should be much more widely known.

https://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-80-tea-and-famine

Metafoundry 80: Tea and Famine

*Today is the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party>, generally known as 'the time that patriots dumped tea into the harbor to protest taxes and ...

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Show threadBrenna McLaughlinNov 6, 2023
Second column from Rebecca, on how to consider the question of dissertation-into-book. Again, worth reading and sharing!
https://www.chronicle.com/article/should-you-turn-your-dissertation-into-a-book
Brenna McLaughlinOct 24, 2023
Brenna McLaughlinOct 19, 2023
Join AUPresses during #OAWeek23 for "Unpacking the Open Access Impact on Print Book Sales." Co-authors will discuss and answer questions about the NEH-funded study of print sales of OA monographs.
Tuesday, 10/24, from 10-11AM ET.
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dI6VzpxUQ-uzhZDEElUhEQ
Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Brenna McLaughlinOct 19, 2023
Join AUPresses during #OAWeek23 for "Unpacking the Open Access Impact on Print Book Sales." Co-authors will discuss and answer questions about the NEH-funded study of print sales of OA monographs.
Tuesday, 10/24, from 10-11AM ET.
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dI6VzpxUQ-uzhZDEElUhEQ
Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done. Zoom is a publicly traded company headquartered in San Jose, CA.

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Brenna McLaughlinOct 10, 2023
The new Slack and Thunderbird interfaces were designed purposely to drive me to despair and migraine. Who thinks that these undifferentiated expanses of content and tools and gunk plus lightweight typeface makes anything for anyone easier?
Also someone in this dang mechanics weighting room is watching Youtube on their phone without headphones so can we please retire the entire idea of the Internet? It was a bad one, on balance.
Show threadBrenna McLaughlinSep 28, 2023
The caution about using naturalizing language —like "ecosystem" and "landscape" —for an ECONOMY that exists within the systems of today's capitalism is a salutary one for this marketing/communications person.
Brenna McLaughlinSep 28, 2023
Brenna McLaughlinSep 28, 2023
Another actually essential read from Rebecca Colesworthy:
https://www.publicbooks.org/publishers-and-scholars-unite/
"Scholars and publishers have our own unique areas of expertise, responsibilities, and experiences of the manifold crises into which higher education is perpetually forced. But at base, scholars’ working conditions are publishers’ working conditions."
https://www.publicbooks.org/publishers-and-scholars-unite/
Publishers and Scholars, Unite! - Public Books

Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their humanities departments and libraries. Will working together stop it?

Public Books
Brenna McLaughlinSep 28, 2023
Another actually essential read from Rebecca Colesworthy:
https://www.publicbooks.org/publishers-and-scholars-unite/
"Scholars and publishers have our own unique areas of expertise, responsibilities, and experiences of the manifold crises into which higher education is perpetually forced. But at base, scholars’ working conditions are publishers’ working conditions."
https://www.publicbooks.org/publishers-and-scholars-unite/
Publishers and Scholars, Unite! - Public Books

Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their humanities departments and libraries. Will working together stop it?

Public Books
Brenna McLaughlinSep 27, 2023
Yesterday's news was like deja vu; one of the first publishing industry first amendment issues I recall discussing in my professional life was that jackass suing a writer for being like, uh, guys? This one ain't a billionaire, here's some receipts... (year, author's name, etc. all faded into the mists of time and horrors.)
Brenna McLaughlinSep 26, 2023
"Books don't expire"
on the connection between reading and power,
Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom at Mellon Foundation virtual discussion today
https://events.mellon.org/readingpowerfreedom