Each year, MPR News’ freelance and staff photographers capture moments of celebration, protest, grief and resilience. See highlights from the past year and get the perspectives of the visual journalists who captured these images.

Legislator Melissa Hortman, baker Marjorie Johnson and Viking Jim Marshall are among those who made lasting change.

Hello, Bluesky! We want to fund your research! Check out our grants and fellowships! Here: www.hagley.org/research/gra...

I heard him give a (very brief, there was a 2 minute time limit, as per @me3dia.bsky.social) talk about this in early Jan, and it stayed with me all year. Give it a read.

With ICE on our streets, many of our Latino small businesses are seeing noticeably less foot traffic this holiday season. If you can, show up for our neighbors by shopping local at places like Mercado Central - home to dozens of vibrant mom and pop shops.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

This is actually vandalism.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you. Defend the em dash.

Day 8 - Leaving the jazz club after an uproarious evening, Josephine and her merry band of revellers happen upon the most awful snarl up of festive traffic. Motor cars are honking and tempers are fraying. 1/2

Day 9 - Beatrice carefully selects a five iron and swings it lightly. She smiles to herself as she reflects on the Christmas gift that she had received from Gordon. A laundry basket! She muses on the letters that she found in his jacket pocket and swings lightly again. 1/2

The urgent question of our times is, “are people aware of interrobangs?!?!?”

Last call, friends! @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social and I are finishing up our annual list of lit studies publications—articles, books, book chapters—by NTT scholars for @contingent-mag.bsky.social. Please spread the word and send me your pubs by tomorrow/Tues 12/9! 🙏🫡

Once again, in July and August I'm teaching some summer schools at Brasenose College: this time, I'm doing Oxford in detective fiction, Agatha Christie, and on the Gothic imagination from Shelley to Andrew Michael Hurley. Book here: lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/inspir...

19C literary folk - who was Mrs Lawrence? it's all good humour up until this point. she made quite an, erm, impression.

It’s important when you meet a Shakespeare scholar to work your way around to asking which play is their favorite, and then getting them to explain why it’s Twelfth Night

So kid, in your heart you want to study humanities but you worry about your job prospects? Let’s play a game. On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad? WRONG!

Behold the tragicomic catastrophe at Montclair State as their admin tries to replace departments with vacuous corporate pablum, for reasons even they don't understand. Adam Rzepka is blazing on this: academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...

RIP Tom Stoppard, my favorite playwright. I met him, once, in a dark London alley. Ironically, Instagram allows much more text in a single post than this platform, so I’ll just link to the story I’ve posted there: www.instagram.com/p/DRqglhljM3... #tomstoppard @guthrietheater.bsky.social

Once again, I’m on the panel for the Arthur Conan Doyle Society’s award for scholarly writing. Read a good academic piece published this year? Nominate it here by 30 November. acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...

We have a fascinating series on women journalists in the Lady's Pictorial, contributed by Philip Jackson. The second series was published #OnThisDay 1893, and featured a portrait of the prolific journalist, and novelist too, Eliza Lynn-Linton victorianweb.org/periodicals/...

@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993

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...

Study: Average 19th-Century American Spent 93% Of Time Waving At Trains, Boats https://theonion.com/study-average-19th-century-american-spent-93-of-time-waving-at-trains-boats/

Funded PhD opportunities at QUB: 'Our Place: Our Stories: History and Placemaking among Belfast's Underserved Communities' www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

Funded PhD opportunities at QUB: AHRC 'Doctoral Landscape' - 6 awards for candidates proposing their own research topics - closing 13 January 2026 www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...

We are seeing multiple university course closures across a range of arts, humanities & social sciences. I'll be in the East Midlands at De Montfort University on Thurs 27 Nov talking about why these disciplines are essential to the future of the UK. All welcome www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...

Dawnita Brown left her job to become a caregiver for her parents. Brown says it's a gift to care for her parents, but it can also be difficult. That's why respite is an important part of her life. n.pr/4r45RVH

A reminder to our grad student attendees to apply for the Sally Mitchell Prize! 🏆

A terrific opportunity to be at the forefront of periodicals' research (and to develop editorial chops!). Don't miss out.

If you know of a great book that analyzes the periodical press of 19th c Britain/empire (long 19th c), mosey along to the link and nominate it!

No excuse for not sending in a proposal for RSVP 2026!

Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Throughout my career I have sought to promote international dialogue among Victorianists and I have used my DH projects to create a welcoming space for the academy’s most structually-vulnerable scholars. I am deeply honored to have received the President’s Award from @navsa.bsky.social for my work.

We need libraries for so many reasons. www.11alive.com/article/news...

"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise" 🎁 link www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

important new resource on #art, #books, #printing Charles Hart, Lithography: Its Theory and Practice, ed. Georgia B. Barnhill life in a C19 New York printing company, including observations about the lithographic process & commercial printers & artists www.oakknoll.com/pag...

Very excited to launch a new bracket on @literaryhub.bsky.social this morning all about Literary Twitter! Voting’s open! Which social media drama do you think should win?

Reminder that the next @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR Tea Time will take place tomorrow at 5pm - 6pm on Zoom! DM me or @laurenicullen.bsky.social for the Zoom link and join us for an informal chat about all things early career and nineteenth century 🫖 ☕️

That $700 would be really nice at the end of each month

Dictionaries 46:2 (2025), @projectmuse.bsky.social, edited by @lynneguist.bsky.social. Topics: Arabic in China, Wittgenstein and Austrian German, historical dictionaries, Georgian dictionaries and corpora, antedating and linguistics pedagogy, The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary.

Look at this excellent handkerchief from 1769 at the V & A museum: a showcase for #18thc practices of remediation. Made to imitate a quodlibet/medley print, a genre that itself aims to simulate, in a trompe l'oeil idiom, a scatter of small printed papers. Imagine blowing your nose on that! #scraps

The creativity and care in this instructor's COVID online learning choice speaks to a deep pedagogical commitment to student learning and well being. The critical thinking and content knowledge that their students demonstrated during intense trauma is remarkable!

Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Next Tues, MFA alum @kristincollier.bsky.social launches her NF debut What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, & Precarity in a Broken System--with assists from authors Zeke Caligiuri (current MFA student), @sunyungshin.bsky.social @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social and @jenbowen.bsky.social!

I’m pretty pleased by this riff on a @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social / @umdbooklab.bsky.social print I worked up for my “Writing with Robots” class’ visit to @skeuomorphpress.org today

"#November #Sunset on the Thames, Kew," by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944). OK, it was painted in 1919, but never mind: he started off in the Victorian period! This was one of his favourite places... victorianweb.org/painting/pis... #painting

The children’s picture book, “Strega Nona, An OldTale,” celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Author and illustrator Tomie dePaola penned the book about the Italian “grandmother witch.” (via @mprnews.org)

Today on the Hopkins Press Podcast, we have the guest editors of the forthcoming @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social special issue on "Disease and Disability" Lydia Cooper and Matthew L. Reznicek introduce pieces about works by Hawthorne, Maugham, Ling Ma, Toni Morrison & more! tinyurl.com/2t53pmy6

The sky was awash in beauty tonight. We drove about 20m into the suburbs to escape some light pollution.