Calling all independent humanities scholars, non-faculty researchers, librarians, anyone struggling to find time for research when it's not in your job description! This Saturday, 11 PDT. Links below for calendar/zoom & timezone conversion #medievalsky #bookhistory #dh #humanities

Calling all independent humanities scholars, non-faculty researchers, librarians, anyone struggling to find time for research when it's not in your job description! This Saturday, 11 PDT. Links below for calendar/zoom & timezone conversion #medievalsky #bookhistory #dh #humanities

Last call (for now!) before I set a schedule! If you'd like to join a monthly (or twice-monthly?) meet up of independent scholars & non-faculty researchers, please fill out this when2meet! www.when2meet.com?32480075-LPIAv #humanities #bookhistory #medievalsky #dh

Why is everything so bloody interesting all of the time? I don't have time for this!

I'm often tempted to skip blocking, but oh what a difference it makes!

Anyone interested in forming a virtual co-working/writing group of humanists without current institutional affiliation/independent scholars? I can't be the only one desperately missing both community and time on my calendar for my "side projects"! #medievalsky #dh #bookhistory #humanities

Anyone interested in forming a virtual co-working/writing group of humanists without current institutional affiliation/independent scholars? I can't be the only one desperately missing both community and time on my calendar for my "side projects"! #medievalsky #dh #bookhistory #humanities

You know Fall is in the air when the country cat starts sleeping inside again ❤️🐱

Call for Contributors! @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social and Cynthia Johnson are co-editing a new Routledge Companion to Book Studies, and are seeking chapter proposals! Deadline: 30 September 2025 More info here 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news/call-co...

I just started reading Cræft by Alex Langlands and holy shit, it's a banger so far! Only in the first chapter but 🔥

Bye bye, caboose!

Oh no, in starting this homework I've discovered that the Wikipedia page for Dishcloth is shocking short? And tea towel redirects there for some reason--glad to see folks on the Talk page also going ?? at that, but I may have just found myself another assignment... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Di...

I've assigned myself a little #weaving syllabus for the next 3 mos & my first task is reading more about what makes a good towel. I'm often struck by what an INCREDIBLE resource Handwoven magazine is. Really unparalleled, imo! I can't think of an equivalent for most of my other hobbies

This is the caboose 25 or so years ago, in the middle of the night, it showed up in the field across from my childhood home. It didn't have the barn next to it back then, or the caution tape

I've taken matters into my own hands and mixed some blue dye to put over the top! Before on the left and after on the right--I feel like the picture is misleading, but in person it feels MUCH closer to what's in my existing squares now 🎉 #dhmakes

AVP is hiring a remote Technical Solutions Consultant! Come work with me on data R&D and migrations/ETL 🤖 👾 We do a LOT of work with GLAM 📚🏛️ so I think #code4lib and #digitalhumanities people would be interested. I've been with AVP since 2022, DM with questions! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Earlier this week I was interviewed by Jen Hoyer for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, talking about my new book! Listening back I realize I almost *immediately* misspoke (said senior when I meant sophomore 🤦) but i think the rest is probably mostly right! 😅 open.spotify.com/episode/3Dw1...

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

I've just updated my #IIIF Download tool to support v3 manifests--I know a fair few folks use this, so I thought I should let everyone know! 🪩 🕺 lizmfischer.com/iiif-tools/d...

This is why it's important to buy all the yarn you need for a project at once 😬 This new dye lot of Malabrigo Rios Lotus has waaay more green and yellow than the previous one I bought from

Okay so like, I know I haven't finished THIS one yet, but hear me out: what if I ALSO started the Persian Tiles blanket 👀 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Author copies arrived today! 😍🥳 #dh #bookhistory #medievalsky

I am no longer certain I'll finish this mosaic crochet throw blanket in my lifetime, but the pattern is so pretttttty😩 #dhmakes

Think tanks have always seemed like pseudo-intellectual orgs made for laundering bad ideas--but I don't actually know that much about them. Am I wrong? What should I read about think tanks?

Any other humanists ever feel like you don't know enough just straight up facts about your area of study? Maybe I just don't have a brain for remembering facts, or maybe I haven't been in this long enough, but I wish I knew more Things offhand

This is one hell of a review. You should stop what you're doing and read it (I promise it's not too long). Writing negative reviews is actually really hard, and this is a great example of how to handle an academic who wanders out of their field and in determined ignorance takes a shit in yours.

(12) Doing skilled work with our hands and bodies is fundamental to what it means to be human. If you do sitting at a computer thinking and typing work for a living, and don’t regularly practice a skilled craft, or a musical instrument, or something similar, you’re missing out.

Oral histories—both the recording and the proper care for them—are so important. And having non-obsolete and stable platforms to make these recordings accessible is equally vital. @loganjaffe.bsky.social with an example of how oral histories demonstrate ways of knowing beyond written records. 🧵

#IMC2025 New book available! 25% off the hardcopy with ARC25, and 50% off the ecopy with ARC50. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268...

I've been putting off mentioning it because I lowkey still need to finish the README on the associated git repo, but my book is out now for real!! You can read it if you want to!

I love when it's time to swap ink colors in one of my pens and I get to do the gradient squiggles 😍 I also love this Monte Verde brown 🤎

Friday I decided I need a little reading & writing corner, separate from my computer desk/office. Saturday I bought this beat up desk off Facebook marketplace and repainted the top. Today, I moved all my pens, ink, and spare notebooks here, and I LOVE it!

People shit on Cats for being "weird", but you can't tell me Elaine Paige singing Memory isn't the most heartbreaking performance in all musical theater

The Crock Pot is one of the only times when real life works like video game crafting. You dump in some powders and the remains of several vile birds and out comes hot delicious food

By the grace of some deity, I haven't had a single meeting today 😍 The amount I can actually get done on days like this is 📈📈📈

Nature + Fiddle

This is something that most people will miss, because they're not in the profession and haven't ever really thought about historical knowledge is produced. But it's an incredibly important point.

From 1:45 pm until 11 pm, we were on the streets of Spokane, documenting and live-streaming peaceful community protests against ICE's detainment of two young men that were escalated by state violence. Here's everything we know: rangemedia.co/everything-w...

More fun notebook finds, and so appropriate for Pride month! 🌈 I was taking down some thoughts while people-watching at SF Pride 2015 when a person came up and asked if they could write in my notebook. I hope Jeremy Marley is somewhere this year celebrating number 35 this year! ❤️

Oh my god indexing is so hard 😭

More fun notebook finds, and so appropriate for Pride month! 🌈 I was taking down some thoughts while people-watching at SF Pride 2015 when a person came up and asked if they could write in my notebook. I hope Jeremy Marley is somewhere this year celebrating number 35 this year! ❤️

Found my notebook from freshman year of college, and it's clear @etreharne.bsky.social's class The Material Book was leaving an impression! "Huh, Material Book has me noticing things. Like that this is the center of a choir [sic 😅] see the stitching?" And what a lasting impression it was! ❤️

This hammock is probably the best thing I've ever purchased 😍

Behind on opening it, but the April Speculum looks 🔥

No because genuinely, how does anyone decide between working in a field you love (for me, that's DH/medieval studies) and being able to live/work *where* you want 😭

it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.

JUST IN: International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."

Trump admin halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.

Absolutely wild moment at the BSU graduation, when the commencement speaker—who is perhaps the most New England business dude to ever exist—announced he was giving $1000 to every graduate & a group of burly mafia-looking dudes in suits started unloading duffel bags of cash-stuffed envelopes on stage

Alright #BookHistory friends, what the heck are the A, B, and C in the gutter on each page doing in this book? This is a translation from Latin to Spanish of Seneca's De Beneficiis, and it has these letters on every opening is not the preliminaries.