Update! 📣🎙️📚 We’ve recorded a few episodes that still need to go to production. We are continuing our book ban series with a discussion about @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social, followed by an episode about H.B. 7661 - for handy postcards to send your reps check out @authorsabb.bsky.social! See ya soon!

Hey! 🎙️ We never promoted our episode with the eloquent and amazing @altibel.bsky.social! We take a deep dive into her dissertation topic and discuss reading in New Spain during the Inquisition. Our favorite episode! 💜 Also on YouTube and wherever you listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Who doesn’t? 😍

As we slide towards the New Year, the Codex Machina team wish everyone the very best in 2026. We still have a couple of episodes in the can, but releasing at a slower pace over the next couple of months so we can catch our breath.

making #bookhistory

Some of our favorite book-to-movie adaptations. Don’t forget the popcorn! 🍿 🎬

A wonderful page from a Parisian Book of Hours (Horae Beatae Mariae Virgine, 1490-1510) with and unusual floral border in the style of Bruges-Ghent. I love it! 😍 #bookhistory

Gift link: Ivan Nechepurenko with visuals by Nanna Heitmann, "Bookstores on Edge as Kremlin Sets Sights on Policing Books" (New York Times; #bookhistory) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

Something else for us to talk about on the podcast!

I think I’m in love.

Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)

🎙️ New episode! We discuss The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami, and boy, what a discussion. Like Piranesi, it’s a book that keeps you thinking. 📖

My British Abolition Literature students made zines for the Castellani Dignity exhibit

One blurb to rule them all.

Woot, woot! The interview with Dr. Gouck is super interesting. 💜 Fight evil, read banned books! #BannedBooksWeek #bookhistory

It's Banned Books Week! And we are so happy to hear that @georgetakei.bsky.social is the honorary chair this year! We'll have to read his book for Strange Land Book Club! The Codex Machina team has a couple of episodes out right now that focus on banned books and scholarship of banned books.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

On This Day in History: October 7, 1955 Allen Ginsberg gave the first public reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. Kenneth Rexroth emceed while Jack Kerouac worked the crowd with a wine jug and shouts of encouragement. The reading helped ignite the Beat scene.

🎙️Coming soon, just in time for Banned Books Week (October 5-11) we have a series of episodes about book bans/challenges and censorship. Our next episode will be a Strange Land Book Club episode about Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume. 💪

In our fourth Strange Land Books episode, we discuss the Ted Chiang short story "Tower of Babylon". Link is for Apple podcasts, but available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Great thread about the mistakes that academic orgs + institutions make on AI. They centre AI because they think it is inevitable. This is a betrayal of their mission to provide critical skills. We should think what we want to achieve & then look for tools, not assume everything is a nail. #resistAI

We’ve been remiss in posting about our latest episodes as they come out, so it’s time to catch up. In our 7th episode, join us as Bethany and Laura discuss their experiences at the Thessaloniki Book Fair.

Do you dog-ear or think that’s too…. ruff on your #books? view.nl.npr.org/?qs=...#books? On the psychology & cultural history of our attitudes toward the physical book. NB features fellow @sharpweb.org member & friend Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social

The Booker Prize 2025 longlist is almost here. Pull up a seat. See you on Tuesday 29 July, 2pm BST.

For #CoffeeWithACodex on July 31, @leoba.bsky.social‬ will bring out LJS 188 and LJS 191, astronomical texts in Middle English, in two portions of an original manuscript that is now in four parts. The original manuscript was written in England circa 1496. Register here: https://bit.ly/40kD6sd

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

A little counterpoint here, hope you don’t mind :) Chinese movable type printing started to take off in the 19th century, and it was due to a mix of factors. 1. There was the growing need for bilingual dictionaries, especially ones mixing Chinese with Latin letters.

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

My slides on The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums doi.org/10.5281/zeno... from our #DH2025 panel on Openness in GLAM: Analysing, Reflecting, and Discussing Global Case Studies Thanks again to all the speakers for your fantastic contributions! And the audience for questions

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Back to the live-posting! @owenmonroe.bsky.social is training an AI model to find scientific articles in Victorian political periodicals based on the half-page chunks of the *Penny Magazines* he has labelled as being about science #SHARP2025 #BookHistory

Printers’ devices on the doors of Rush Rhees Library ✨ #SHARP2025

It's a special week at @strangehorizons.bsky.social Reviews: we're putting the focus on small US presses publishing speculative fiction in translation. We have five reviews this week *and* the return of our podcast, Critical Friends. The goal: to note the amazing work done by these houses.

such an honor to announce that lucky day has been named an august INDIE NEXT pick. this is decided by independent booksellers who pluck beautiful chords across timelines with their recommendations in such an important way. thank you buckaroos

From Merlin to mansions…the CEXM crew discusses Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier on the latest installment of Strange Land Book Club. In Making Book History, we discuss the discovery of a fragment of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin in the binding of a 16th century archival registry. #booksky #bookhistory

ICYMI: What Unbound’s demise has shown, to a quite alarming degree, is how little tangible, active advocacy is available to authors in this situation, say the authors affected by the collapse of Unbound in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

When your professional body quotes the incomparable @chucktingle.bsky.social *beams with pride*

We're THRILLED to announce we're partnering with @possumcreekgames.com and @stevejacksongames.bsky.social for a mini-season of Last Train to Bremen! Our quartet of doomed musicians is: @brianflaherty.bsky.social @moreblueberries.bsky.social @shenuque.bsky.social @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social

Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.

Hello, a little reminder that @jenniegouck.bsky.social and I wrote a long CFP for a conference we're organising, online, next February. Do you have thoughts about book banning and censorship in children's and YA literature? Send 'em in!

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This is one of my favourite letters to The Bookseller mag in the 19th century from a very disgruntled bookseller 🤣 📚 I remember clearly I had been going through pages and pages for a good couple of hours and this just made me giggle 🤭

Episodes 5 & 6 feature our first guest - Swara Shukla, a PhD candidate at the University of Münster. In episode 5 we talk to her about what she’s reading, in 6 she discusses her research on serialization and readers in the Wattpad book publishing ecosystem. #books #bookhistory #publishing #podcast

Episode 4: Left on the side of a cliff? Unfinished book series and author/reader relationships. In Making Book History, we discuss content bans in research databases for students and the Library Futures study on whether or not kids are actually accessing challenged material.

the world needs more horror bookstores. TWISTED SPINE looks very fun and ill be DANGED if youre gonna put BURY YOUR GAYS front and center in your main photo and think im not gonna repost. good luck buckaroos www.kickstarter.com/projects/twi...

medievalists, this is our moment to scream into the abyss

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A call-out on behalf of a student who is researching textile art and craft as environmental activism/action - looking for readings please!