The AGU Books Program spans nearly 20 book series and comprises more than 750 volumes, published since its inception in 1956.
An anonymous security researcher called “Nightmare Eclipse” has been publishing a series of significant security exploits against Microsoft Windows—including one that breaks BitLocker. Microsoft has threatened legal action against the researcher. Lots of recriminations are being traded back and forth.
The AGU Books Editorial Board was founded in 2020 to drive the strategy of the books portfolio, support authors, and ensure the high quality of published content. Three of the current Editorial Board members: (left to right) Estella Atekwana, Xianzhe Jia, and Jim O’Connor. Background image credit: Krišjānis Kazaks, Unsplash
(left to right) Emille Beller, Stephen Jascourt, Andrew Inglis, McKay Porter, and Nour Rawafi stand in front of the United States Capitol. They spent the day alongside 55 other participants advocating for the growth and protection of the scientific workforce. Credit: Beth Bagley, AGU
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In 2024, a study found that “7–17% of the sentences in the reviews [of computer science manuscripts] were written by LLMs”. It was only a matter of time before this spread, and now it appears to have reached philosophy. Last year, a philosophy PhD student in the US submitted a paper to a well-known philosophy journal. They write: The paper was rejected a few months ago; the first reviewer left…
Well, this has been fun. 1. Start typing. If I exceed 300 characters, I get a color treatment in the editor that tells me so, and a "summary/Bluesky" field opens up....
Some philosophy journals seem friendlier to work in experimental philosophy (x-phi) than others. You may have a sense about this when it comes to some journals, but with others it can be hit-or-miss. Would it be useful to you to have more information handy about whether particular journals tend to publish x-phi? If so, then you can thank Sinéad Cleary (Oxford), Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford), and…
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Historian Laura Beers, who is part of the Bartz v. Anthropic class action settlement, writes in The Conversation about realizing that Claude wasn't just trained on the content of her books — it was trained on her voice. In March 2026, journalist Julia Angwin filed a similar suit against Grammarly, accusing the company of using writers' identities to power an "Expert Review" tool that mimics…
How many publications do early career job applicants in academic philosophy have? How many courses have they taught? How have the answers to these questions changed over the past decade? These are some of the questions addressed by Travis LaCroix in the following guest post. Dr. LaCroix is assistant professor of philosophy at Durham University and co-director of Academic Philosophy Data Analysis…
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JA Westenberg — a writer, commentator, and self-described autistic person — argues that AI writing detection is junk science, and that the writers most harmed by it are often those with autism and other neurodivergent conditions whose natural prose style looks suspicious to the detectors. — Read the rest
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“In the early 1970s, fewer than 10% of articles cited any empirical sources. However, by the 2020s, this grew to over 50%.” That finding is from a new study by Michael Prinzing (Wake Forest University), “The Role of Empirical Evidence in Philosophy,” forthcoming in Synthese. Prinzing used a GPT model to examine the citations in 38,442 articles published across 21 highly-regarded philosophy…
Google has begun testing a new feature in its search engine that rewrites the headlines of published news articles using AI, prompting sharp criticism from media executives who say the company is overstepping its role as a distributor of content.
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The importance of black literature in America has turned on its relation to the canon, and its proximity to political usefulness. The art and biographies of groundbreaking black figures are often turned into blunt tools with which anodyne lessons about equality and acceptance are fashioned. When I first read the works of James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., it was…
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When Politics & Prose hosted a “wake” last month for _The_ _Washington Post_ ’s Book World, the rite of mourning was familiar. The closure of the section and the laying off of the paper’s books editors and critics were just the latest in a series of unkind cuts to serious books in this century. They follow the Trump administration’s gutting of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which…
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Elizabeth Hannon, deputy editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS), has a query about other philosophy journals. She says, “What I’d like to know is how much time journals give referees to return their reports.” She adds that “the BJPS gives one month, though of course plenty of people are far quicker than this and we’re happy to offer deadline extensions to those who…
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Phillip Picardi is returning to publishing. Well, technically. The former Condé Nast wunderkind is the new chief brand officer and…
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According to American publishing mythology, there was a time when giants bestrode Midtown Manhattan. They came from Chicago, from Oregon, from Pennsylvania, from nearby New Jersey, or from the outer reaches of the city itself: Coney Island, the Bronx. Bellow, Kesey, Updike, Roth, Heller, Doctorow. Gardner and Barth, Pynchon and Coover, Mailer and Malamud. They did battle with editors Gottlieb,…
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In 2007, Americans bought 103 million mass market paperbacks — the pocket-sized books crammed into spinner racks at airports, drugstores, and grocery checkouts. Last year the total was 18 million. Now ReaderLink, the largest distributor supplying books to non-bookstore retailers, has told publishers it's dropping the format, Elizabeth A. — Read the rest
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If you’re overseas (from me) and want to avoid the spiraling shipping costs, I’ve added Kingdom, Follow, and In This World to join Microscope on Lulu print-on-demand. I never went all-in on print-on-demand before, because back in the day the print quality I was seeing wasn’t that great, but the tests I did recently looked […]
Live notes from Royal Society conference on scientific publishing challenges including peer review crisis, AI poisoning threats and open access economics.
Substack's business model is unsustainable—unless they lock all their writers in.
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