There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com

@podsaveamerica.crooked.com Could you guys do an episode asap about the upcoming April 5 protests? Here in MA, Srn. Markey has called for 100000 people to gather on Boston Common that day! Maybe you could interview him.

TIL that our government thinks the term “cultural heritage” is woke. Wtf

Another great poster from one of our coalition members ✊ #uspolitics #generalstrike

Thank you to DemocracyForward.org for suing in DC court, resulting in a judge putting a hold on the funding freeze. In a moment when it feels like there's nothing I can do, I'm going to send them some money tonight.

Hello everyone! I joined this space last year but only now does it seem to be taking off. Here’s some beauty.

If you value Amtrak, let your Representative know. The House will vote this week on a bill (H.R. 4820) that will significantly slash funding for passenger rail, including a 92 percent reduction in funds to the Northeast Corridor (NEC), the busiest rail corridor in the Western Hemisphere.

Course registrations for the spring semester are over, and there is not a single seat left in all of my department. A department that is squarely an arts & humanities department. Students still want the humanities, and they still want to create.

"Colour lithographs, called chromolithographs or oleographs, were developed in the second half of the 19th century. Although popular, they were of generally poor quality." --Encyclopedia Brittanica online. This is some very outdated classist print connoisseurship baloney. OK, rant over.

Public humanities for the win! Allie Ward of @ologies.bsky.social is one of my fave listens and this brilliant interview with W. Scott Poole about monsters is more than worth a listen. This is how it is done, imo.

Happy 1st work-iversary to me! I've currently got a popular exhibition in the main gallery, a guest lecture next week with a waiting list (!), a fabulous new assistant curator starting in a month, and about three thousand emails in my inbox. Seems about right.😅

Behance (n.) 1. A website that pops up on my Pinterest feed and shows me the most marvelously designed books I've ever seen, none of which appear to actually exist in real life. 2. An internet torture device.

Going to bed late after a ridiculous Wikipedia research session. I blame @typepunchmatrix for their new catalog, which introduced me to illustrator Dora Wheeler (who has a page) and Mary D. Brine, who did not. Improvements welcome. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Do...

An object lesson for our current fascination with arsenic in book covers. But what is the lesson? Which is riskier: the arsenic or the hype? www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/s...

Hey new folks! Periodic reminder that the best way to make it feel not dead around here is to follow people, post, and interact. You also may want to adjust the default setting that only shows replies with 2+ likes, at least for starters.

Fine-tuning my slides for tonight's lightning talk on developing a collecting area in P&GA: print in the digital age. Looking forward to seeing some great friends and making some new ones.⚡ mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/openin...

Thrilled to announce that Julia Miller will be giving the fall Hofer Lecture at Houghton Thursday, 10/26. Suave Mechanicals has had a profound impact on the study of bookbindings. And she's going tell us all about it! libcal.library.harvard.edu/calendar/mai...

TFW you get an email from a colleague at a library across campus saying there's an item on a dealer list they think you might want to buy and you get to write back, "Yes, and in fact, I ordered it already." Day made! 👯

Tomorrow I am going to Brimfield for the first time after having probably twenty people tell me I HAVE TO GO since I moved to MA. They are right because I am an antique/junk hound. I'm making a list of what I "need." Anyone going and up for a coffee?

Contemplating holding a series of #printing workshops for students to create messages about #climatechange to hand out or drop strategically around town. (Until we get wood type I'm embracing #tinyprinting projects). A bit like pamphleteering, but with slips of paper or tear-off fliers. Thoughts?