We believe these data “demonstrate that UC Merced has actively divested from instruction, showing a pattern of deprivation of the instructional budget relative to ourselves and other campuses.”

We WILL keep going! “UCLA faculty are honored to stand with this coalition, which continues to show that when faced with an administration targeting the very heart of higher education, fighting back is the only option,” Markowitz said. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Here at UCLA you can and should join @uclafa.bsky.social, which is an AAUP affiliate and one of the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA). If you want to fight, this is how you do it and who you do it with.

Apply for CalRBS 2025: Priority Deadine Extended to 4/15/2025! You have 2 weeks to submit your application! After 4/15, the scholarship deadline will close, though we will continue accepting applications on a rolling basis. We are offering in-person courses in Oaxaca (Mexico), Los Angeles, & online!

The class is filling up, but there are still a couple of spaces open for @calrbs.bsky.social copyright this summer! The priority application window is closing, so get em in: bit.ly/3E1nG40 Feel free to shoot me a message if you have questions

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California Historical Society to Dissolve and Transfer Collections to Stanford (NY Times coverage) (Gift link) 📜 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/a...

I’m really looking forward to teaching an introduction to European manuscripts at Cal RBS this summer. Please apply, circulate, encourage others to apply! www.calrbs.org/introduction...

This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein. Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars. Link in comments.

Check out @calrbs.bsky.social courses, which just went live! Come spend a week (or more) with me on the UCLA campus talking books, bibliography, libraries, and so many other things!

All roads lead to Rome. Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through #earlymodern German speaking Europe. A 🧵 for #skystorians with an interest in hand-coloured maps. 1/5

Deadline extended 'til Tuesday 15th Feb: weekend writing goals!

Our job posting for TT position in cultural heritage informatics is back up!! We're reviewing apps now but will continue to review those rcvd by Mar 1. Happy to chat about this position/the iSchool/UA. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Queer Bibliography conference, hosted this year by UCLA CalRBS, has extended its deadline to February 15, 2024! Submit!

A summer class at UCLa where I condense 10+ years of archival research and bibliographical training. Rolling applications and scholarships available. Link to description in comments.

Submissions for the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) annual Essay Prize are now open for 2024. Submit your work! Our committee this year spans disciplines (East Asia, Latin Am, EM Europe), and so there should be good fights. rarebookschool.org/sofcb-essay-...

We all accidentally fill out forms by mistake, after all!

Angling to be more attentive to movies/cinema this coming year. Do I have colleagues on here in Letterboxd? If so, message me your username! Help me find the good stuff!

UCLA California Rare Book School is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the second annual Queer Bibliography conference to be held between July 24-27, 2024, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. Full call for papers can be found at: www.calrbs.org/events/queer....

The Bibliography Lab is getting installed into its new space at UCLA/ @calrbs.bsky.social ! It’s messy, equipment is being reassembled and refurbished, more equipment is set to arrive, and I’ve got more cuts on my hands than in recent memory, but soon this space will be ready for serious printing!

We are pleased to announce that CalRBS is now accepting applications for the Summer 2024 season. Our listings of in-person and online courses can be found on our website: www.calrbs.org/2024-courses...

If you are near one of the libraries on this list, would you get in touch? You can help with the Shakespeare Census by verifying copies! It's fun and easy. And you get to look at old books! shakespearecensus.org/search/?fiel...

Hey, let’s try this again. This August I will be teaching "Hands-On Book History Pedagogy" at @calrbs.bsky.social - looking forward to hanging out with my favorite fellow book nerds, talking teaching & experimenting in UCLA’s new community print lab—come join us! www.calrbs.org/program/cour...

Exciting professional news: I’ll be teaching a course at California Rare Book School in August about Pop Bibliography!Pop Bibliography encompasses the production and reception of bibliography through a popular media lens, and is an important part of the modern history of old books. Apply now! 📜

ummm I get to teach at the same time as @aarontpratt.bsky.social @book-historia.bsky.social @edrabinski.bsky.social and Erin McGuirl and next after is @ryancordell.bsky.social, @jgarc.bsky.social, and Jesse Erickson. Wow. @robdmontoya.bsky.social put together an AMAZING line up for CalRBS this year!

Unabashedly: this is why I think it’s funny to say “by the year 300 the codex was the dominant form for recording information in the area around the Mediterranean.”

Tomorrow I'll be on the picket line with the CSU Teamsters. The Teamsters are 1,100 skilled workers who are holding an Unfair Labor Practices strike due to management not bargaining in good faith. Teamsters have worked for the CSU for decades without moving up the salary scale. They deserve better.

All the support for this! Let’s keep these strikes going. Systems ain’t gonna fix themselves—they’re designed that way!

UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships Program: The Library provides funding for on-site graduate-level, post-doctoral or independent research with Library Special Collections materials. 📚 📜 #libraries #bookhistory #bibliography

Early morning rise to depart from NYC. Fabulous time with Grolier Club and book history colleagues.

I love this. Everyone in our Methods class is invited to contribute to our collaborative Methods Toolkit. This inspires me to encourage everyone to think about clean-up / tune-up / maintenance, too :)

"British Library suffering major technology outage after cyber-attack" www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

For the medievalists (and others) interested in medieval art: tinyurl.com/5n6cjf2y #Medievalsky #DH

Great opportunity to work with an amazing set of scholars!

📜 www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/a...

Hey library folks! I'm co-editing a special issue on Libraries and/as Extraction, and the CFP is available. Proposals are due 12/18. Questions? Email the journal email in the CFP or me. cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

New from me! First piece in almost a year! time.com/6323387/misi...

📜 newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

I’ve always wanted to print concert posters for trans and queer musicians at Meanwhile…Letterpress. As luck would have it I got to do just that in collaboration with @skeuomorph.bsky.social and the CU Folk and Roots festival for Adeem the Artist and benefitting CU’s LGBT+ Center.

This is exactly it. The future that the administrative and consultant class wants is research departments where there is money because research products have markets (& IP) & then service departments w non-research (non tenured) faculty to do the teaching of almost everything we thought college was.

Applications are now open for long-term fellowships at the Newberry Library, deadline November 1st, a range of areas and collection holdings of potential interest to #histsci #medievalsky and #earlymodern historians: www.newberry.org/research/fel...

It’s far too ingrained to ever change, but I’d argue that "service" is a damaging misnomer in academic jobs—"service" makes it sound like 1/3 of our work is vocational benevolence rather than providing core administrative support without which our institutions—local and beyond—would not function

Bluesky is offering journalists and newsrooms direct access to this platform. Spread the word. 🗞

Come work with me! My department is hiring an assistant professor of Comparative Chinese Literature at Cal Poly Pomona. The CSU has a strong union, and we are an AAPI-serving institution. As search chair, I am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/873/po/en-us...

Some @edrabinski.bsky.social goodness There’s a press response, but then there’s the material response-how are we supporting library workers in Montana & Wyoming & other parts of the country where they have gov'ts that are hostile to their institutions? www.libraryjournal.com/story/lj-tal... 📚

hey blooski! I'm looking forward to giving this talk tomorrow at Princeton and please do admire the amazing poster they made for it.

Book history people! I'm organising an ECR seminar on diasporic networks in the long eighteenth century. We need to recruit 5-6 senior scholars to take part over 5 days, and deliver a lecture. I would like *one* of them to be a #bookhistory scholar active in #18thC research. Who would you invite?

Attention book history folks! Join us in Reading! research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

Don’t forget, the deadline for Dangers and Opportunities of Technology is one week from today, Oct 11: www.neh.gov/program/dang...