Sports but make it cats

Job Alert! Tenure-track, Creative Non-Fiction (broadly conceived), Grinnell College. joblist.mla.org/job/2000443/...

This is absurd enough on its own, but it is also not answering the question I searched for (most consecutive one-run games).

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. Before Sunrises

Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians

I have observed for a while the steady switch from "comfort" to "comfortability" and "discomfort" to "uncomfortability." This morning, a new age dawned: I heard a podcaster say "comfortabilityness."

Hotel fitness centers are one thing. PHL hotel fitness center during Penn Relays is another thing.

“A 400-year-old institution should be making decisions with a time horizon of centuries, not news cycles. Making a principled stand now … is the single best thing Harvard could do to earn its continued place as a symbol of genuine excellence, free inquiry, and commitment to the public good.”

My first Blue Bot: @dallowayaside.bsky.social, Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis. Thank you, @bluebotsdonequick.com!

Hi and welcome new followers! We've migrated over from the Other Place. Follow us for announcements of upcoming sessions of the workshop, and other interesting book history news.

I wonder whether I am about to become the first person to teach Charles Baxter and “Baxter’s Procrustes” on the same day, in different classes. #baxterfest

Remember when there was bipartisan agreement that TikTok should be banned because it could hypothetically give sensitive information to a foreign power?

Calls and text messages have flooded me in the last 72 hours from friends and colleagues in Sierra Leone and elsewhere: Are my meds going to be cut off? Am I going to die? I don't know what to tell them. I don't know what to tell anyone. Hope is my whole jam, but I feel very distant from it.

I just learned that “The Tide Is High,” the first pop song I really loved, was first recorded by the Jamaican band The Paragons, and it is fantastic. With surprise violin solo! m.youtube.com/watch?v=2SwK...

Author copies are here! What a weird wonderful feeling to get your 1st book in print! Binding Media. Hybrid Print Digital Literature from across the Americas can be preordered now and will be officially out in March from @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/bindin...

AI-fabricated 'junk science' floods Google scholar, researchers warn phys.org/news/2025-01...

I can't think of another technology that has been deployed and promoted to emphasize what it does worst. It's like they invented the world's best ice-making machine, jammed it into everybody's ovens, and wondered why people started complaining that their bread doesn't taste as good as it used to.

The Man on the Inside necklace is the Vertigo necklace, right? There are great Vertigo references all over the place if you want to follow that trail.

Yes. This is the work now.

I've been playing around with AI tools. This week, I saw that the latest version of Claude can handle literary quotations in a way I haven't seen before. I'm going to keep exploring and start writing--thinking about practical, everyday humanities teaching. eriksimpson.net/ai/colleague...

There’s a woman at the Huntington whose boots, on the wooden floor of the art gallery, make the exact sound my cat makes when she is about to throw up. I thought you’d want to know.

If these are to exist at all, there should be a setting that prevents you from ever being shown or sent anything that comes from them. Anything else demonstrates bad faith to me.

That is what we call a high-variance outlook

In retrospect, maybe should have left it off

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

Dinner for the Romanticism seminar means it's time for Frankenstein's creature cookies.

Oh dang

What unique knowledge and insight is lost when a 24 year NASA librarian is let go and the job "moved online to a chat service"?

This is a delightful story of lots of people acting decently and creating a happy result for all involved.

Lots of fun stuff being made lately using the Jetstream, the firehose of all Bluesky posts. Here’s a growing thread of my favorites. (Send me more!)

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

This is also, subtly, the plot of Frankenstein.

Rare Book School is accepting applications for the Lang Fellowship. If you work at an institution with <5,000 undergrads and do #bookhistory, check it out. I'd be happy to talk about my experience if you're interested. Applications due December 9. See rarebookschool.org/admissions-a....

This post and the "coda" reply are my new favorite demonstration of how GPT is a machine for generating the *kind* of thing people write in a given situation.

Folks in book history, book arts, and paper engineering: you can support a new and supremely creative book about the alphabet and typesetting from Kelli Anderson. Highly recommended! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kel... #bookhistory #bookarts #letterpress #booklab #paperengineering #typography

DH people may want to know that @fraistat.bsky.social, @msenseney.bsky.social, @katelelkins.bsky.social and @miguelev.bsky.social have recently joined bsky.

One of my students just wondered why we can read Snoopy's thoughts in English but not Woodstock's, and now I have to reconstruct my whole reading life from age 4 to the present.

Pre-pandemic me had such a good idea about how to teach tomorrow's class! I remembered nothing about it, but it turns out that writing can transport teaching ideas through time! Thanks, pre-pandemic me.