Book history and mummies! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/s...

Are these poop smears going down the side of that building? 🤭 (Nuremberg, 1548; VD16 D 1632)

Nice to see some book history on Jeopardy!

Three great postdocs are available in Trento as part of the "Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy" project. Deadline 8 May: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs...

Just beautiful elephants of the past, printed by (European) humans who likely have rarely seen an elephant before or were just bad printers. A short 🧵

Excited to begin the new semester as Assistant Professor of Modern History (Digital History) at @unisalzburg.bsky.social. Looking forward to strengthening Digital History within Salzburg’s DH community and continuing my work on AI and Reformation print culture.

We all need our emotional support Mesopotamian tablet.

langextract: A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization. github.com/google/lange...

I just noticed that today is the final day to download "How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research" for free from Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Interior designers in 2025: “Arrange your books by color, it’s chic ✨” Lady Bindloss in 1671: “Been there, done that.” 📚🎨 earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l...

Vandalism! At some stage in its nearly 500 year history, someone cut out the printer's ornament from the title page of our 1544 copy of Aesop's Fables.

Does stamping butter predate the Gutenberg press?

Bookworms in the news! 📖🐛(ok, in this case, beetles) wapo.st/44FIveA

When did libraries realize their Luther pamphlets were fakes? My new Open Access article, "Provenance and Deception: Tracking Counterfeit Luther Pamphlets in Wittenberg", traces how centuries of provenance work slowly brought them to light. 📚 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1357...

I had a great time in Saint-Étienne recently, speaking about multi-modal computer vision and Iconclass. Got to see a bit of Lyon too.

Excited to present this week at "Computer Vision for the Investigation of Ornaments and Ancient Documents" @ Université Jean Monnet! My talk: Captions, Codes & Clusters—on using multimodal AI to map visual culture & religious messaging in the Reformation.

Among the many characteristics of being the Catholic King of #France in seventeenth-century Europe was to burn and ban Protestant books. In this image from 1691 you see Louis le Grand banning, burning and condeming books by Luther and Calvin. A symbolic #bookburning event and a religious #bookban 📚

What a fantastic find! In Harvard’s archives, British scholars find a lost Magna Carta www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Exciting that my book "The Industry of Evangelism" just got a great review in the latest Renaissance Quarterly: “Definitive... a major contribution to early modern European print culture that cannot be overlooked.” 📖 Review: doi.org/10.1017/rqx.... 📘 Book info: doi.org/10.1163/9789...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Giving a talk in 2 weeks on how AI is transforming historical image analysis. Illustrations, iconography, and algorithms collide. Join me! 📍From Text to Image 📅 29 April | 11:00-12:30 📡 Hybrid event at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento 🔗 RSVP: isig.fbk.eu/en/events/de...

"Tell your students you will be giving the same essay question to a tool such as ChatGPT. They will be marked on how much better their version is than the machine’s: how much more original, creative, perceptive or accurate..."

"Divine or not, mom's going to be mad about the footprints." (Augsburg, 1476)