Library tip: If you read a book in the library and place the book on a table and leave, the library can count that as “usage” and when the library workers reshelve books, they’ll know that book has been used

Please don't ever give up on your dream that, one day, you will pull a book from a bookshelf and that secret door will finally open for you.

Preparing to see "Hamnet" this Thanksgiving? We invite you to read @smithsonianmag.bsky.social's fascinating article on what scholars really know about Shakespeare and his family, including thoughts from Folger Director Farah Karim-Cooper.

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

Have been on quite the cinematic journey this holiday week. We’ve watched The Decameron, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, A Young Doctors Notebook, and now The Great.

I had a really good birthday this year.

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Bookmarks of yesteryear. A leaf between the leaves of this manuscript @magdalenoxford.bsky.social

If you care about the future of University of Edinburgh, call or email your local MSP on Monday: Monday, 17 November: Call your MSP. UCU has prepared a briefing here, but you can also simply call and tell your story. These cuts will affect the whole city. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-m...

Anyone want to hire me to teach classes at the intersection of history, technology, and information science? I have so cool ideas but nowhere to put them…

Diving into a new project today and very excited by some of what I’m finding! #medievalsky

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

"The digital landscape for academics is fragmented, tiring, and uncertain.... Email, newsletters, peer networks, and ‘in real life’ events are reclaiming space once ceded to social media."

I wrote a piece for The Scholarly Kitchen about Drexel University Libraries first year of our open access initiative.

This is a really important read about how the current capitalist formations are shaping what books are available to readers and which writers get a chance to publish a book: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi... #BookSky

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Strongly recommend the “Two Georges” exhibition at the Library of Congress. It includes original material on loan from the Royal Archives. Here George III writing in response to the act of association from Congress, September 11, 1774: “The dye is now cast.”

Conference presentation day! #womenshistory

Yeah well whose fault is that??

Can anyone tell what this circled word is? #history #paleography

Can anyone tell what this circled word is? #history #paleography

You know what I thought was a good idea a month ago? To wait until the week I move across the country to write an abstract and an entire paper for a presentation next week.

Our latest podcast episode is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Today we are talking about a very popular, if you can call it that, murder from the 1500s that features a love triangle, a failed poisoning and much more - it's the murder of Thomas Arden!

Last day in Philly ✌️

My department at Princeton is hiring an assistant professor specializing in the study of early Christianity. First round materials are cover letter, cv, and writing sample. Letters will be requested for later stages. Deadline: September 30, 2025.

If you haven't done this yet, the Save SEPTA website linked here makes it incredibly easy. <30 seconds with a provided form letter (customizable if you want, like I did, to add how this disaster personally affects you as a constituent).

Math History is wild, it will just be like: “His ideas were so grotesque that he was disowned by all his friends and colleagues, labeled a disease against humanity and a stain on the face of gods creation. He died an insane pauper. Today his ideas are used in every aspect our existence!”

Today we are talking about the murder of Marguerite Porete, who, while little known to most people, is a fascinating woman whose life ended terribly - featuring the inquisition and the Beguin movement!

Seems like Cambridge UP won't let contributors to edited volumes opt out of LLM training on their work 🧐

Every time someone tells me to use fewer em dashes ⸻ I bring out Big Bertha.

Spent another afternoon in the archives and ended with a wine happy hour. Loving summer Fridays.

We take August off for CWAC but this year we're making an exception - a special one hour Coffee With A Codex on August 14 featuring (a very good facsimile of) the Voynich Manuscript and @lisafdavis.bsky.social !!

AI can't eliminate historians because fun it can't create new knowledge, go to archives (where most sources are) or analyze sources. It can repeat what other historians have already written. History isn't "fact" it understanding the past to understand humanity+ #skystorians

Just as a reminder since this seems to be getting some citations recently. I’ve published this open access piece from my masters dissertation on Crime and Sin in Early Medieval England. doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2021.vol3.no1.08

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. 👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities. Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq

Spent my Friday afternoon in the archives with some lovely 19th century letters.

🗃️ #skystorians: have any of you ever done a commonplace book type of assignment in your courses? I'm thinking of something like @jmadelman.bsky.social 's assignment, detailed here. josephadelman.com/2014/09/04/c... #teaching #pedagogy Thoughts? Advice? Could it be done digitally?

Our latest podcast episode "The Sack of Rome of 1527" is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Listen to us talk about the politics and people surround the attack on Rome, with a special emphasis on the Swiss Guard!

Lovely visit to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia today.

Andrea Gibson is my favorite poet. They are the reason I began writing poetry and their words got me through some truly terrible times. Thank you for your words and letting us see your light ❤️

I'm just going to sit here a moment and meditate on Andrea Gibson and how to love life so much that my heart is covered in stretch marks <3

Filling the last Sunday my wife is in Philly before we move with brunch in the city and going to see Lisa Ann Walters do standup. Not a bad weekend 👍

CfP for 6-6500 word articles for publication in "Shakespeare’s 21C/The 21 Century’s Shakespeare", the first issue of "Shakespeare Quarterly" under editorial leadership of Vanessa I Corredera, Arthur L Little, Jr., & @davidmcinnis.bsky.social Deadline: October 3 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/shakes...

Excited to be participating in the online conference! Come hear me talk about the Ann Preston papers and all the other wonderful presentations.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

Can someone make the life changing decision for me? Thanks