@librarianchef.bsky.social just informed me that my 2nd book, 'Daisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexafoil, Rosette', is in 169 libraries around the world! And our edited volume is already in 53 libraries, and it only came out 18 days ago! Amazing! 😍🏺

DEATH, COMMEMORATION, AND CULTURAL MEANING: Past and Present, edited by Robert Spinelli @librarianchef.bsky.social and Robyn S. Lacy @graveyardarch.bsky.social has now been published! Find out more here: bit.ly/4oq7xqO #CulturalStudies #History #Archaeology

Thank you to everyone for their hard work!

Coming out Monday, December 1st! @kpalex91.bsky.social

I'm excited to work on this new upcoming volume. If you are interested in conspiracy research please consider submitting an abstract.

Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief (2026) will be released with Bristol University Press. This volume explores the ways in which grief permeates collections, objects and stories within library settings. @kpalex91.bsky.social

The volume that @librarianchef.bsky.social and I have been working on since like 2022, 'Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present', is being published on Dec 1st, 2025! Just in time for Christmas! Thank you to all the wonderful authors!! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...

The stars in the sky don't know we exist and I think that's nice for them

Today is the official release day!

I applaud Dr. Morgan Goheen for her willingness to engage infectious disease skeptics...especially when they are sitting next to you on a flight & you can't get up and leave!!! #MedSky www.huffpost.com/entry/infect...

This is what I came home to after work today. A bit creepy to see those eyes staring, but exciting nonetheless!

For #EAA2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social, browse our #Archaeology titles: bit.ly/4nawpls Sign up to a Publication Alert ahead of a book's publication for an EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNT! authors incl. @cbwolff.bsky.social @graveyardarch.bsky.social @librarianchef.bsky.social @creightonavery.bsky.social

Anyone local should come say hello if you are able to attend.

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The white nationalist ambitions of this regime are just plain as day. Anyone from that world would recognize these images or the Manifest Destiny references employed by DHS as a call to genocide in service of a white nation.

Thank you to everyone who has helped work on and encouraged the creation of this book!

We have been working hard on this volume for the past few years. It has been a great collaboration and it's incredibly rewarding to see a final product emerging!

Please consider submitting a paper to this panel that I will be chairing at the SAMLA conference in November. samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19363

The volume I am putting together with @cultarchaeo.bsky.social has a few more weeks left accepting submissions. If you've been considering sending along an abstract, there's still time! www.robert-spinelli.com/call-for-pap...

"'It will present evidence that suggests ancient serpent or lizard-like aliens came to earth thousands of years ago,' the narrator says." 😐 It won't because there is no evidence for this. Unsurprising, but still disappointing, to see pseudoarchaeology themes taking top spots on this media platform:

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Great to meet @mcfarland.bsky.social at PCA this last week in New Orleans.

Only a few weeks left to submit a proposal for what promises to be a fascinating collection in collaboration with @cultarchaeo.bsky.social! Follow the link for more info: www.robert-spinelli.com/call-for-pap...

This is going to be a great conference!

I grew up on a diet of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark... I swear these vines covering a lamppost in Wroclaw, Poland are straight out of my childhood nightmares.

Begging for the return of the humanities and social sciences to remind the tech bros that "spitballing a few bullet points" into AI does not mean an author will write 1000 books, it means that *AI* will write 1000 books.

This volume is a labor of love that has been long coming. @graveyardarch.bsky.social has been a most astute and incredible individual to help nurture this project to completion.

"Which brings us to the problem obscured by the perpetual denunciations of academic writing:what has been lost is the material support for this kind of work,this kind of reading.We need not romanticize the golden age of the university...to say that things are materially worse now." shorturl.at/B5F6Q

Time for a new project! If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please check out the more detailed information below.

It's pretty much sacrilegious to say that the social sciences and humanities are as important as STEM. But I'll go one further and say they are more important than STEM. You can be a productive member of civic society without ever taking calculus. Good luck doing that without understanding history.

I'm thrilled to announce that my first edited volume is now available for pre-order! Thank you to all of the contributors who have been working on this with me for the past few years. Please consider ordering a copy for yourself or your library. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...

Just sent off the final manuscript for the book that @graveyardarch.bsky.social and I have been working on for a few years now. Come fall Death, Commemoration and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present will be released with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social!

So true! Universities and their boards are filled w/ MBAs. Billionaires and corporate execs, so many MBAs. All talk about leadership. And who’s leading in this moment? None of them. The real leaders now are like @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @alexaronson.bsky.social @dahlialithwick.bsky.social — 1/x

Putting this out there for those of you who might need it - How to Respond to Law Enforcement Requests for Library Records and User Information: Suggested Guidelines

My first book due out next year with McFarland Publishers now has an official title! The Lizard People Don't Want You to Read This: Essays on Conspiracy Theory in Popular Culture.

Because it's always true: "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book" (Samuel Johnson).

@librarianchef.bsky.social & I submitted our edited volume to Berghahn Books tonight! It has been through review & several rounds of edits, & I'm so excited for all the authors! Next stop, production schedule! #archaeology #deathstudies #heritage

I was never very active on Twitter but remember being impressed by the academic community on the platform. If nothing else, it made it possible for me to connect with @graveyardarch.bsky.social and many other #deathstudies people. I look forward to being more participatory here in the future.

It is a great feeling of accomplishment to have sent the final manuscript of your first book to the publisher. Now I suppose it is back to waiting as the process continues!

Is anyone here going to the SAMLA conference in Florida this week?

I'm so glad to see Bluesky beginning to come to life. Although my day job as a librarian and archivist is rewarding, it is my own work in conspiracy theories and death studies that have been most fruitful. Thrilled to make new connections here!

@librarianchef.bsky.social & I have an upcoming edited volume on Death & Memorialization, & we're starting to get contributor chapters sent in!! So excited, thank you to everyone for your hard work! 🏺