The new-parent impulse to hold up a full bottle of pumped milk like men hold up fish in dating profiles

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

No email from a library system stirs the imagination like a notice my scan is ready to download through WORLDCAT. The great cat that surrounds the world? That nuzzles the roots of the world-scratching-tree? The great world cat who is and was and shall be? That cat???

This, by @adamwithbooks.bsky.social in the most recent HLQ, is really excellent. "Bibliography tends to drain out affect—­ but it needn’t."

LOVING THIS THREAD

And this is why my spouse and I won’t be crossing the border home for quite some time.

Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...

Motivational!

I‘m doing Noverwhelmedber

My book is now available open access on project muse, with OAPen launch coming soon. Hard copies should start going out this week (if they have not already): you can get yours for 50% off with code SAR50.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

In ALA's recent RIF, ACRL lost Tory Ondrla, the amazing conference manager behind RBMS' conferences for so long. Add to this kudoboard to let Tory know how much we appreciate her.

Got a copy ordered for the SFU library! With how much my undergrads are struggling with a close reading-focused class, I’m looking forward to picking up some tips.

If you need cheering up and/or extreme office/life-choice jealousy, here’s a dreamy photo of Giovanni Mardersteig’s Officina Bodoni in Verona (From: www.tipoteca.it/en/evento/of...)

More dog content for your Sunday.

No kings! no kings! La la la la la la!

Deadline extended! You have until Monday October 20th to put in an abstract! #queerbibliography #transbookhistory @bibsoc.bsky.social @bibsocamer.bsky.social @obs1922.bsky.social @transbookhistory.bsky.social @thetransfemininereview.com @sharpnews.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

What’s your research about? *as a first-year PhD student 😬

Train horns and blustery winds are making for the perfect Spooky™️ evening vibes to grade by 😌

This dog doesn’t have to think about grading or due dates or anything, and you know what, good for her.

How have I only just spotted this fabulous joke in Carter’s ABC?!

The reverse sides (versos) of folded 17th-cent broadsides.

Learning things in this thread! 👉👉👉

Why does this just feel wrong? I literally went to my phone calculator to check 😬

Love you Merriam-Webster 💕

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

#EarlyModern meme! #BookHistory

Online Lecture Fri. Oct. 17, 12:00pm EDT @sims-mss.bsky.social J. D. Sargan on Trans Studies as Book Historical Method @jdsargan.bsky.social

Hey it's my writing!

Take it from someone who got the flu at 14 weeks pregnant: "tough it out" is NOT IT! 🤬

Is there an uncanny valley for fragments? Something that seems to be full of detail but isn't, in the same way that some things appear to be human but are not? This fragment points to yes.

People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.

Underrated materials of the publishing industries of the past: boulders.

Full Professorship in Book History at Rutgers www.higheredjobs.com/search/detai...

Started my assistantship at the Book Arts Studio on campus! It feels pretty darn right to get to keep centering library resources, even while tiptoeing into academia.

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

Also, look at this really wacky Z

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

In the penultimate (!!) episode of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, we’re joined by three scholars whose work has been vital to our research—Isobel Grundy, @lesliehowsam.bsky.social, and Maureen Bell. Listen here: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/147 (1/3)

Opening at Penn for a Special Collections Accessions Librarian, responsible for acquiring and accessioning all special collections materials for the Kislak Center. The salary range for this position is $66,000 - $89,039. Come work with meeeee! wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

Peak email: Hope this finds you well, no worries if not.

I’m sure I’ll keep tinkering—but I’ve drafted a syllabus for "Writing with Robots" This my theme on an upper-level English course fulfilling students’ advanced writing requirement. The course seeks to help students understand what LLMs actually are & situate them in longer & more nuanced histories

When I say "technology" I mean language

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58

Gertrude Stein-ass tweet right here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

—coffee, Smooth, wooden

I Don’t Want To Do This Anymore #art