BATTLE AWAITS. DO YOUR STRETCHES.

Attention ABO readers! Issue 16.1 (2026) dropped last week. Content screenshots below with individual article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading! digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #bookreviews #digitalhumanities

I loathe the cult of the car.

Feeling really bummed capitalism has ruined all of my favorite sports/teams (😭Jaylen!!!). Venture capital buys things up, then turns them to garbage (RIP Chelsea). MLS goes for profit & paywalls THE ENTIRE LEAGUE. FIFA licks the feet of dictators & fascists, so I can't (won't) even watch the WC.

If you’d read this in a sci-fi novel, it would be perfect. “July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the nation. The capital grounds are empty, the crumbling remains of a despot’s carnival baking under the heat and haze. The toxic air above is shifted by nothing save the passes of military jets.”

Hidden Barriers: The Experience of Academic Librarians and Archivists with Invisible Illnesses and/or Disabilities. A good article with a good list of resources at the end of it. crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr... Learn about this flag. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabil... #DisabilityPride

My book baby has arrived! 🤩 Not for the first time, my wonderful editors @yalebooks.bsky.social have delightfully surprised me: the colours on the jacket catch the light (I'm told it's called 'spot gloss')! It really is a thing of beauty. #books #booksky #histsci #queerhistory 🌈📚🗃️

This is why bsky is great -- I had not heard of this volume, and now have immediately ordered it for my class. (www.bloomsbury.com/us/writing-g...)

It really meant a lot doing this chapter because it was the first time I contributed something to an academic publication (and was approached) as both a historian *and* a game dev. Being both an academic & practitioner/creative are key to my perspectives and it’s amazing to have that appreciated!

Announcement coming soon for three gownmaking workshops I'll be teaching in Scotland in March-April 2027. E-newsletter suscribers will learn all the details first, so head over to timesmith.co.uk and sign up, to hear all about them first. #18thcentury #mantuamaking #workshops

Abortion is a tradition older than the United States, and even Thomas Jefferson supported his daughter when she provided one to a friend. Read the essential @byreginamahone.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

BREAKING: UAW becomes largest Union to divest from Israel. UAW has long stood at the forefront of demanding justice, notably condemning Israel’s genocide on Gaza during the Biden administration. This is a huge step to force Israel to stop its apartheid & genocidal actions—all unions should follow.

Oh so you can fight when you want to.

Our Finding Aid of 18th-century women in the Stationers' Company is LIVE! Here I reflect on some of the pitfalls facing the scholar of female apprentices. Let me know if it's useful! www.amdigital.co.uk/insights/blo...

MASH. Unbelievable the difference in how we treat military/war in the media. No one would ever make anything so resoundingly critical of the armed forces and the entire concept of war (in the modern era, at least). Thanks, 9/11.

Just submitted my book proposal, at long last! 💅🪸🐚

Dear editing me: when I suggested we edit a chapter that was 15k words to cut it down a bit, I didn't mean for your revisions to result in a 15,800+ word chapter. 🙃

📸 #AnnaAtkins, English botanist, photographer, and the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images, #DOTD 9 June 1871. #Art #Photography

Aro find of the day in the Huntington Library: verses to be written on a bracelet to ward off marriage. 💚 #Aromanticism

I can assure you women have noticed.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

putting together a bibliography for a monograph: do you guys have a preference re: separating primary sources from secondary sources?

Flowers in a Terracotta Vase, 1723, by #RachelRuysch (Dutch, 1664-1750). Held by Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum; source, @artukdotorg.bsky.social, artuk.org/discover/art... #womenartists #artherstory

These remote, affordable seminars are a GREAT way to set summers writing goals you'll actually meet because you have end-of-summer accountability (and workshop groups!) to help you meet them. You should definitely apply! midwestvictorian.org/summer-semin...

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

Plus, like, didn't we all just watch the Ken Burns series??? How do you not know this?

Look, if there's one thing that bsky has proven it's that it will List. Some. Books. Someone w/an editor could crowdsource a prelim list right here in October-ish, do some slushing, and run the curated list in the mid-Nov msm?

This is a beautiful piece in @orionmagazine.bsky.social about coral conservation and personal connections to the environment. Well worth your time!

If you've ever thought to yourself, "I wish there were a theorist of ecological communism who also made great wallpaper," then I have an article just for you. doi.org/10.1177/1474...

Wow this looks fantastic!

Our colleagues at the Rachel Carson Center have contributed with a new deliverable for our project: The Cultural Roots of Ecological Justice. Read it to learn about the history ecological justice, its perils, and how to reconcile it with social justice. ec.europa.eu/research/par... #envhum #envhist

She published extensively, and was a highly skilled scientific artist, producing detailed illustrations of sea creatures to accompany her papers, field notes, and correspondence #NaturalHistoryMuseum #MuseumArchives #ExploreYourArchives #MarineBiology #WomenInScience #WomenInStem

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

"The Democratic Party should welcome people who moved away from Trump" cool but I'm not a party and my principle for going on 3 decades now has been to have contempt for fools so you stick to your policies and I'll stick to mine

Same, though.

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

My book has a cover! 😍 Released Dec 26 and a reasonable £43 - please do buy or order for your library. Worth it, I promise. www.amazon.co.uk/Transactione...

In honor of e-publication week, Chris and I have launched a Substack. Follow for more than you ever wanted to know about the ivory sporks, wildly inaccurate maps, and emetic recipes that didn't make it into the book. #earlymodern #frenchhistory #skystorians open.substack.com/pub/frenchat...

The Spring 2026 issue of The Hopper is now live! If you’re interested in environmental lit, be sure to check it out. This is the first issue where I’ve been part of the editorial staff, and I’m very excited about the great work showcased in it! #envlit #envhum

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT DO YOUR STRETCHES.

Our final book talk of the semester is Monday 11 May 2026. Bob McKay will talk to us about his new book Anthropofugal Fictions: Literature, Species Politics and Flight from Humanity (Edinburgh UP 2026). Join us for the live discussion at 4pm in Norway / 3pm in UK: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

For your weekend reading pleasure: Christopher Clarke reviews Science for a Fragile World, by Robert Northcott www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #philsky

Just a note to say if you ever have a question for the archivists / special collections folks at the Rijksmuseum, they are astonishingly speedy and helpful.

the journalists using fandom as a lens on politics talk to a single fan studies scholar challenge is still impossibly difficult, i see.

I think it says a lot about my friend group that I almost guarantee they would all immediately think, "British Library."

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

On fashion’s big night out, we turned the lens onto the garment, retail, warehouse, and delivery workers who make the fashion industry possible. Read the full piece: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

Folks, I've been seeing some negative comments about Giuliani. C'mon, people. Is that really how low we've fallen? "Some negative comments" isn't enough, it should be more. Pick up the pace, team.