Attending @aupresses.bsky.social? Join @femmediahist.bsky.social's @jmbean.bsky.social, @dukepress.bsky.social's @fauxneem.bsky.social, @celj.bsky.social's @cherylball.bsky.social, & @francescac.bsky.social for a Journals Assembly panel discussion about jrnl eds + UPs. Sat 6/13, 1-4:30pm.

website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf

the hungry observatory

This is why some prioritize the western conference, where the real whales play in the american midlands

The Seattle Times published a full obituary for Juniper Blessing. It's a moving tribute to a life well-lived. May she rest in peace, and may UW honour and carry on her legacy. Scholarships named for her might be a good start.

Leave it off! Let’s never give grades again.

The novels people are at it again

You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for HistoryExtra , but here's an excerpt! 🗃️🧪

Imagine needing childhood books to be radicalized

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

For those in the @aupresses.bsky.social community: this is my attempt to make a case for appreciating, fighting for, & studying university presses & UP workers as investors--literally! even as other supports have been withdrawn--& collaborators in the production of scholarly knowledge. Solidarity! 💪

When I present my academic work on the political economy of Silicon Valley, I can't tell you how many times I've heard the response "they wouldn't do that - it would lose them money." But @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has it in a nutshell here - "control, power, impunity" are the real goals.

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

When bleak humor is all you've got left

WM wouldn’t approve of the nylon material but the foldable totes are particularly good ones.

And you will only have an umbrella on sunny days

This guy gets it.

Hey Chuck, I know the Baileys. They are solidly on board with abolishing ICE at this point. Eileen is driving her friend Luisa's mom to chemo and calls me up to say she's just aghast at how scared she is.

Today’s the best American holiday. Overly larger rodents predicting the weather is perfection. It just needs a traditional dessert choice to go with—snow cones, perhaps?

Hope, not optimism.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Every month, the most optimistic email I get is my credit union inviting me to a home buying webinar.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, took the midnight train going anywhere

Argus had it easy.

Happy Birthday to Jane Austen—you would have loved reading the latest tabs from The Cut, and its British equivalents.

Is adjuncting a Springsteen class your chance at fomenting a general strike? njit.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

the comments on reddit for this video were like “this squid isn’t that giant” and discussion about how a 40 foot squid is not that crazy or scary and I spent all morning upset about the lack of respect

What does is it mean that the Seattle tech 4 housing group picked Caltech colors rather than MIT or UW? The least engineering oriented of all the schools…

Pardoned turkeys are Gobble and Waddle this year. Our finest American tradition. Maybe the East Wing can become a turkey petting zoo.

Listening to the Shoot Out the Lights album while reading Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Priti is always right.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Come be dazzled by all the cool approaches to poetics! I promise to weird you out about the nature of time.

It feels like maybe if we embraced baseball we could also find our way to a parliamentary system somehow.

the dumbest person you know is being affirmed by Chat-GPT right now

Photos in ProPublica. A mail service that helps people regain their footing—hard to get a job, hard to deal with the gov, hard to pay your bills without a stable address. Many of the folks we spoke to _used_ to be unhoused & attributed part of their current situation to the aid they got from K2C.

In the middle of all this the inflatable costume crowd has arrived and is throwing a rave? Mosh? At the end of the free speech zone closest to the ICE facility.

Working on job materials when I could be sitting in the sun reading Susan Stewart and thinking about birdsong and poetry

life is better in a union! celebrate and organize today "68% of U.S. adults approve of labor unions. This is the fifth consecutive year that approval of organized labor has been in the 67% to 71% range, a level last reached in the late 1950s and early 1960s." news.gallup.com/poll/694472/...

This is too easy engagement bait. However, I bet very few of you close the term by telling students, “If you take a class that’s weirder than this has been, please come tell me.”

Seattle: You are an ignorant worm for requesting a bag, even one made of recycled paper. Where are your 10 zillion organic cotton totes? Texas: We only have the big plastic bags.

I came to a place where there was lots of chips.

We've been posting CfPs on our website again! Check it out for links to exciting 2026 conferences on Tennyson and Hopkins. victorianpoetrycau.wixsite.com/poetrycaucus...

🚨 JOB ALERT-The Curran Index is hiring! Editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social + Lars Atkin seek a Research Assistant to conduct archival research on /Fun/ housed at the Huntington Library. Stipend available, with applications accepted through Aug. 20! More details on our website: rs4vp.org/curran-index...

I’ll never forget all the times I saw the Quilt throughout my childhood, and volunteered to send out panels so others could too. An exposure to collective grief, love, and action that all should experience.

There’s a certain press imprint out there getting academics to write forewords to books while having some of the worst book design I’ve seen lately, including absolutely no room for notes in the margins

As usual, a fabulous time was had much learned at #RSVP2025. Next year can soak it all up (the “knowledge”) with brown bread and butter everyday.

@francescac.bsky.social found (imagined?) over 90 reprints of Christina Rossetti's "Song" (starting with "When I am dead, my dearest") in American newspapers. She zoomed in her presentation on the Colon Starlet printed in Panama, "The oldest paper in Colon printed in two languages." #RSVP2025