Thanks also to @elikaortega.bsky.social for helping us display the cover of her book "Binding Media: Hybrid print-digital literature from across the Americas"! Élika gave a fantastic talk for @scholarslab.bsky.social in '22 on literary & material experimentations via hybrid print-digital books.

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

Such a privilege to have something I made hanging in the @scholarslab.bsky.social, who represent all the good parts of academia to me 😊

You'd think with big corporates obsession with AI they could do something useful with it like, oh I don't know, autogenerate captions for films on streaming services if they don't already have any... *sighs in misunderstood dialogue*

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

looking forward to the fights that break out over this

Can anyone help me identify these schoolgirls who visited Parliament in July 1909? I'm writing about them in my book and would LOVE to be able to say who they are! www.npg.org.uk/collections/... #histed #histchild

🔴How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of Its Billionaire Owners Former Independent columnist @donnachadhmc.bsky.social on how the UK’s billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/h...

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local authorities deny catholic prisoners the Eucharist, bishop arrives, Papal sanction may follow”

Attempted to do some crafting today while still sick. Immediately ruined the fabric because my brain is too slow and I cut it too short. This is very much me right now.

the other new print in my shop is actually a smaller, giclée version of an original linoprint that loads of people have asked me to reprint: "crow steals the sun". Limited to 15 signed copies & hand-finished with gold paint 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #witchsky #crow

It's Halloween! Here's the scariest thing in our archive.

Done and done. Dead simple. You just go to the Restore Trust website, look at their recommended candidates, and vote for literally anyone else.

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

the german word for when you very clearly recognize someone in a movie but when you look them up on IMDB you haven't seen anything they've been in

That's the binding done! Still a lot of quilting to go but now it's useable and I don't have to worry about the edges fraying while I'm working on it.

In September some guy finds a doohickey behind a cabinet and asks "hey is this important?"

Still working on quilting this by hand, by I've got far enough that it's stable and I've decided to add the binding. That way I can use it even if it's not finished 😂 have machine sewn the front half on and now just need to hand stitch the back down.

We’re launching our #handoftheweek series! This week is Dr Hippolyte Baraduc, who tried to photograph the human soul via 'the most perfect organ after the brain', the hand. Baraduc’s photos blend science and occult, showing how hands were seen as windows onto the inner self in the 19th century.

Happy World Menopause Day to all who celebrate - our GOLDEN RAGE comic is 1000% here for it, made with love by @laurenknight.bsky.social @sofiedodgson.bsky.social @beccasee.bsky.social @imagecomics.com

Last year I reimagined the work of 30+ artists to feature Moe Syzslak. Recreating famous painting was a fun challenge! I’m gonna share some of my favourites the rest of this month. Here’s Claude Moe-net.

Cville folks, the @scholarslab.bsky.social makerspace (3rd flr UVA Shannon Library) is open to the public & can consult/teach you how to make what you envision. Everything's free (including 3D prints!) except buttonmaker's too popular=need to buy blank buttons yourself to make more than 2.

One for #DHMakes!

How are my hips and back doing you ask? Well enough that I was enormously relieved I was able to get a seat at a punk gig 😂

2nd free zine=edited by @claudiaeberger.bsky.social: collects a variety of DHy critical making tutorials by the authors from @dhandlib.bsky.social's special issue (dhandlib.org/making-resea...) that they wrote as companion "here's research-making practice you can try" related to their journal essays

These zines are both free to read/print/share! 1st is @claudiaeberger.bsky.social's, on Appalachian Trail history+use re:gender, race, land rights, datasci (eg how to ID proxy data when needed), & data physicalization/art accompanying their data quilt (scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/work/footpat...) +

Another example of 'get in where you can get in' and everyone can do something of use... blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/a...

I love that in my job I get to do a bit of everything in museums and archives, but also I hate that in my job I have to do everything in museums and archives because there's only the two of us 😂

Lasercut wood print blocks of @queermedieval.bsky.social's Portland Frog Protest art (vs my previous acrylic versions), including a divided version w/9" tall frog & 3" agents so I can set type in a column between. Closeups to show how artist Miles' drawn lines look engraved in wood #DHmakes +

Storing my not-at-all-homoerotic fighting manual manuscript in my not-at-all-homoerotic Saint Sebastian book casket.

Keep it up, folks! Together - hope is here! www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Two weeks ago we lost a giant of the movie posters world, Renato Casaro. Today we lost a modern Master of movie posters: DREW STRUZAN. I can guarantee you have at least seen 5 of his posters in your lifetime. The man has put his art on some of the most popular movie franchises (Indiana Jones, 1/4

Calligraphy by Arthur Baker. We’re honored to hold Baker’s archive of hundreds of drawings, paintings, phototype negatives, and other material. letterformarchive.org/collections/...

Oh good, now student work can be both produced and marked by robots, ensuring no human is ever actually involved in the learning process

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

"Last year the Byline Times published an embarrassing story about Conservative party councillors pretending to be ordinary folk during a televised election campaign event. A year later, Bienkov is suddenly off the invite list." www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/free...

We've got some fantastic nature news to brighten your day 🎉 Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line". www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇

Feels a bit early in the day to be posting this, but if I'm spending the morning with 18th-century sex therapist & supposed 'Prince of the Quacks' Dr James Graham then so can you 🍆

Judgement at Nuremberg - David Low's cartoon in the Evening Standard #OnThisDay 1946

Oh no! We forgot to learn from history

The AI companies really want the public to forget that they cannot exist without stealing the efforts of actual creators and the public should always reminded