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

Happy pub day to Shakespeare in Tongues! www.routledge.com/9781032274492 #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #Shakespeare

Philly, our city workers need a fair contract. Do not cross the picket line. Do not take your trash to the drop off sites. Take care of one another. www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

I remember when Cooking in the Archives was born — I admired it so much, both as I transitioned away from sensory studies & as I immersed myself in manuscripts. I still cook from it for my students. Happy birthday!

The most intriguing recipes here. Eleven years worth!

Cooking in the Archives is 11! 🎉 I still love the first recipe on the site: Maccarony Cheese. rarecooking.com/2014/06/30/m...

In 1671, Rachel (Fane) Bouchier, the Countess of Bath, purchased £200 of books for the library at @tcddublin.bsky.social The books were housed together and known as “The Countess of Bath’s Library.” This week I reconstructed the bequest, with the help of the amazing TCD librarians.

I’m so excited that my book is now out in the world. It pulls together my scholarly training in African American literature with my turn to digital humanities. I’ve also published the complete data dataset of 100 years of AFAM and am lit anthologies that is the backbone of the book.

The JHI’s Board of Editors is delighted to announce a new award for graduate students. The Martin Jay Prize recognizes the best article by a graduate student-author accepted for publication in the journal each year. The editors welcome your submissions!

📢📢📢 We’re looking for scholars who could write pieces on the following topics: RFK and miasma, the potential legislation of asbestos, and the backlash against sunscreen. Preferably for Clio ER. #histmed Please share widely! nursingclio.org/write-for-us...

#HPS scholars of medicine: your work is needed to help contextualize & inform this moment! Consider pitching a story to Nursing Clio, an open access, peer-reviewed, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender & medicine.

Also a little thrill to see “historical futures” used in a cfp — part of my book’s title, a book that was so so long in the making

📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest! More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...