based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

brb adding this to tomorrow’s lecture on turning a shitty first draft into a second draft

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters. We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster) #EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

The WPHP had an amazing project team ❤️ Michelle, Kandice @kandicedarcia.bsky.social, and Kate @kkatemoffatt.bsky.social let me work with them because I showed up one day, and I am a much stronger bibliographer and scholar for it.

I really enjoyed reading these really lovely and helpful reflections from Michelle Levy and Kandice Sherran on the Women's Print History Project and its work over the last decade. I always point students to it (and @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social's work) + womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/152

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

Being sincere in public sets off my fight-or-flight response, but adding my favourite meme of all time to the social media posts helps.

Kate's turn!

People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom. This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/

In our next installment of the "Research in Reflection Spotlight Series, join RA Salena Wiener as she recounts how the WPHP helped shape her PhD research on women's labour in the production of manuscripts: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/149.

A while back I saw a blog post linked to on here about the hidden curriculum in humanities grad programs, and I cannot for the life of me find it now! I was planning to assign it! Does this sound familiar to anyone else? (It had tips like "read strategically" iirc).

Sometimes I can't quite believe the WPHP has been going for ten years, and then I see the old pictures with the side parts...

First up, in "Reflections of a Research Assistant: The Multitudes of WPHP Work," Amanda Law discusses the several roles she took on as an RA for the project, and the special place Phillis Wheatley Peters and her book of poetry hold in her memories: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/146.

Clever "title page" design is all Kate!

I had forgotten quite how long I’ve been doing #fembib #bookhistory till this lovely podcast opportunity with @thewphp.bsky.social .

Only one episode left!!!

The name "Edith Wharton" might not be your first thought when it comes to ghost stories and the gothic, but this particular story will stick with you: Let's discuss the haunting events of "Afterward" 👻 reactormag.com/all-the-piec...

This was my redheaded chanteuse era

Psst…the only way to stop climate change is to stop burning fossil fuels. Pass it on.

wild that IQ still gets spoken about as somehow more legit than phrenology or craniometry

Please continue to donate to the Sameer Project. They continue to provide support, risking their own lives to deliver water and food to the most under-served areas of Gaza. They do this work while suffering unbearable losses of their own, as 'humanitarian' orgs retreat. chuffed.org/project/help...

It brings me no joy to share this, but here's an open letter to the leadership of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) on what is to me a very serious issue with it's autonomy and political scope. (Note: I've worked for and with PKP for decades). ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...

Come for the witch trials, stay for the informative chapter about Newcastle architecture.

When I do grad admissions, I wonder how I ever managed to get into an MA program or a PhD program because I didn't know to do aaaaaaany of the things that people who are applying have done.

cis friends, this is how you do it

i will never let men off the hook for making misogynist art because david lynch, an old cornpone white guy from montana, was able to make one of the only television shows that took violence against women seriously and, in fact, framed child sexual abuse as a legitimately apocalpytic evil

It cannot be understand how many times Scott and I have said this to each other on set over the last few months. It never fails to make us giggle.

It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

In Part 8: Towards Inclusive Histories, Kirk Melnikoff examines London women's book-trade wills, @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social and @kandicedarcia.bsky.social explore gendered marketing and authorship, and @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social pioneers queer ways to interact with books (pp. 430, 450, 476)

It is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades. My section is particularly fab (@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social @kandicedarcia.bsky.social). I'm able to send PDFs of our chapter by request! Please let me know if you need access. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

the existence of AI is making actual real student writing resemble AI more and more. in my dark hours I think that equally, probably part of the point of this AI craze is to train human minds to be more like AI: more predictable, simpler, passively accepting bullshit, more easily appeased

in all parts of my job my students are starving, voracious, feral with their need to be perceived and listened to by an actual older adult. personal tutoring is that x10

This was a really special interview, and we're so thrilled it's finally out in the world!

Wow that’s a pretty dirty move from Canada Post. Rather than negotiate with the workers, it’s violating the Canada Labour Code and laying people off during the strike. The strike going on longer is going to be at their feet. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

In which I confess one of my most embarrassing (scholarly) mistakes.

Three of my favourite museums: 1. Soane Museum 2. Chicago Institute of Art 3. Bill Reid Gallery

If you hike with me, you get bahn mi for lunch. Those are the rules. (It’s because I have to bribe most people to run up hills with me. Only @jennybuckley.bsky.social keeps up.)

I am literally a horror.

Extremely proud of this article (now live!); extremely excited to never look at a nineteenth-century library catalogue again. So many thanks to @maryfairclough.bsky.social and Catherine Packham for being my ideal editors.

Walking into my BARS paper like

Meet Serena Spacek! Serena has been part of the team since May of 2023—we finally dragged her away from title checking and social media work to answer some questions. Read about her work on Eliza Haywood, her favourite WPHP facts, and her feline friends: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/137

once again begging people writing trade books to stop it with the "first women's X" for "first woman to" trend. No, they're not and it's not just marketing. In this case, it is the whitest, most Eurocentric definition of "first" that completely ignores enslaved women's resistances in the same period

ME: dramatically announces to class that the turnaround for getting final grades in is very tight this semester so extensions aren’t really possible ALSO ME: grants so many extensions that she loses track

Björk’s new editorial for Vogue Scandinavia (April/May 2024 issue) is simply incredible. Photographed by Vidar Logi. Styled by Edda Gudmundsdottir.

When your sister is a nerd, too (indeed, a featured one!): linguistlist.org/issues/35.10...

Jonesy is currently editing @kandicedarcia.bsky.social 's excellent work with his butt... Reviewer 2 face as well 😾

Damn y'all are incredible. I don't even know what to say, we've never gotten this much support this fast... Thank you to everyone who donated and boosted, let's keep it up!!!

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