if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

Peter Coviello with another dynamite piece. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Get out and vote today, Philly & everywhere!

Election day is here! Don't know who to vote for? Our procrastinator's guide can help. billypenn.com/2025/10/29/p...

I had a lovely time writing about sometimes icky possets for Jessica Rosenberg & Jen Jahner's special issue of @postmedieval.bsky.social on technique! Open access essay published today: doi.org/10.1057/s412...

This fellowship changed the trajectory of my career and my time on its committees is the most worthwhile professional service I have ever done. Please apply and help us spread the word

🗳️ Pennsylvania’s general election is Nov. 4. For details on important dates and who’s on your ballot, from Philadelphia district attorney to the state Supreme Court, check out our Voters Guide 👇

Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,

Previous talks from this semester and earlier can be accessed on our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@pennsworksh...

they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them

And join us for the virtual launch on October 30th at 6:30pm with luminaries Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan!!! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...

Check whether the AI dumb-dumbs stole your book & if they did, submit a claim! secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/?_gl=...

Two years & one day ago & I am still so proud of this book ❤️ (Zine precis & discount codes in thread below. Generous reviews in pinned thread.)

advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org @uam-umd.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

WPSU is set to be the first in the country to go dark after the Trump administration stripped away federal funding for NPR and PBS. “The news devastated me, it devastated all the employees,” said Jeff Hughes, WPSU’s former program director.

I had a lovely conversation with Sarah Kernan for The Recipes Project: Around the Table Podcast! recipes.hypotheses.org/26388

All truths wait in all things,

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

To break this down, you are a member of this class as an author if: (A) you are the legal copyright owner, and (B) the work is in LibGen or PiLiMi and was downloaded by Anthropic, and (C) the work possesses either an ISBN or an ASIN, and (D) the work was registered with the US copyright office.

apparently my book comes out in September, wow, preorder it for all your library and intellectual history needs, stay for the section on Paradise Lost and John Ray's herbals, or the story of George Psalmanazar, my favourite early modern scammer www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

So to bed.

He and I by water to Deptford, and there found Sir G. Carteret and my Lady at dinner, and so we sat down and eat another dinner of venison with them.

Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵

“Community colleges, along with regional public universities, are the workhorses of higher education in the United States, which has roughly 4,000 degree-granting schools. Some nine million students are enrolled at community colleges, accounting for 43 percent of America’s undergraduates.”

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

Today on Gone Medieval, I only got my girl Dr Carissa Harris to come talk about medieval obscenity. I hope you like dick chat, because boy oh boy do we ever have it. open.spotify.com/episode/49Up...

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906... ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

"Listen here, my good bitch. Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI."

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Here's a great web tool based on that data!

Public radio donation strategy question - Is there a “divide this lump sum between X stations” tool out there? Or is the move to donate to NPR central?

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire Gift 🔗

Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release

can’t believe this has been the #1 piece on @mcsweeneys.net for a week now. not to be tender on main but i’m un petit speechless!!! ty for reading and sharing—LONG—LIVE—THE—EM—DASH!!!! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

“Faculty senate resolutions are positions taken by a university’s elected faculty body ... They typically carry no force and normally attract little notice beyond the campus newspaper. But these are not normal times for higher education.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

At home at dinner, where I was highly angry with my wife for her keys being out of the way, but they were found at last, and so friends again.

Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always

We've gotten a ton of fascinating submissions so far from people who research the past outside of the discipline of history, but we're looking for more! Share widely to help us get this project off the ground.

The printing press is not responsible for launching Europe into modernity, nor did it transform society overnight. Folks like Sam Altman & other tech boosters are obsessed w this misperception bc it provides a precedent for AI. A recent article I wrote touches on this. Abstract & links in replies.

Link to the paywalled version. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reminder! Send in your proposals for RSA 2026 by the end of the day on 7/15!!

Reminder! Send in your proposals for RSA 2026 by the end of the day on 7/15!!

Lightning Panel (organized by the discipline representatives for Book History & Digital Humanities) www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... We invite proposals for brief position papers and provocations that consider the past and future of digital book history in Renaissance studies across disciplines.

Digital Book History & Renaissance Studies Now (3 paper sessions) www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... Book history and the digital humanities have been engaged in a productive dialogue for over a decade. Send proposals for papers grounded in detailed, material case-studies.

Reminder! Send in your proposals for RSA 2026 by the end of the day on 7/15!!

This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n