I'm giving a talk for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada on Nov. 12: explora.alliancecan.ca/events/digit.... All welcome to register!

Congratulations to Nikki Hessell, whose essay "Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation," has been selected as the winner of this year's Maximillian E. Novak Essay Prize. Abstract below: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel

advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org @uam-umd.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I still maintain my friendly Bluesky guide (tinyurl.com/DHbluesky) if you want to learn more or help incoming folks be aware of helpful settings like this. 3-step or incredibly detailed versions! Suggested starter packs to follow. Aimed at academics, GLAM, DH folks but broadly useful.

Attention #Defoe scholars! Just under a month to submit your abstracts for our sponsored #ASECS2026 panel, “Weather, Climate, and the Anthropocene in Daniel Defoe." Panel description👇 asecs.org/sessions2026... Please submit and share! Looking forward to reading your brilliant abstracts! #18C #C18

#ICYMI free "Queer Book History" zine is out! Built on the great new LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography (led by @bibliowingate.bsky.social), by me + Alex, @nicolekeller.bsky.social @caitcoker.bsky.social +rest of the LGBTQIA+ #BookHist Bib team. A free, printable 32-page research+teaching resource:+

Print as many as you like (for yr class/library/leave piles wherever?). Highlights fave research+teaching resources; teaching examples by @nicolekeller.bsky.social uses homosaurus.org (@kjrawson.bsky.social et al)+ www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net (@transgenderarchive.bsky.social);[email protected]

I'm really proud of the work of @bibliowingate.bsky.social and the Queer Book History and Bibliography (of which I was a member). This is an invaluable resource. And @literaturegeek.bsky.social's zine is amazing. Everyone should print copies and leave them around their local libraries!

Zine Alert: @literaturegeek.bsky.social has curated and designed such a beautiful, important resource to supplement @sharpnews.bsky.social's LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography!

I also want to thank the seventeen (17!!) volunteer guest bibliographers for collaborating on my last bibliography! This was such a team effort, and it would not have turned out the way it did without our conversations and collective labor!

I'm excited to share that the @sharpnews.bsky.social LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is live! I learned so much from @bibliowingate.bsky.social (and fellow project contributors) throughout the compilation process. Please use and share! (And there's a fab zine, which merits its own post...)

Digital humanities folks: the #DataSittersClub really wants to hear your feelings about AI for our next book. We've got a short, easy survey with a box at the end where you can vent as much as you want. Please share around to DH-adjacent librarians, students, developers, all welcome!

You can contribute to the "Save Our Signs" project by taking photos of signage, markers, and memorials at National Park Service sites and sharing them here: www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...

I was already bummed to miss the Defoe conference, and these pics certainly aren't helping! See y'all in 2027!

Mathematician, astronomer Roger Cotes was born 10 July 1682 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/i...

Excited to see my Margaret Bryan article in "19C Women Writers, Astronomy, & Gender," the latest issue of NCGS. Thanks to editors Noah Comet and Gillian Daw for their generosity and patience (and to those of you who’ve endured these ramblings for nearly a decade). ncgsjournal.com/issue211/ind...

Attention Digital Defoe readers! The 2025 (Vol. 16) issue just dropped! Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading and sharing! cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #danieldefoe #defoe

Attention ABO readers! The Summer 2025 (15.1) issue dropped late last week. Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #reviews #announcements #notesanddiscoveries

Our conference programme is live (overview 👇)! Download the full doc: www.defoesociety.org/wp-content/u... See you all in the UK next month! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Kevin Lower’s “Teaching Margaret Cavendish Through the Lens of Scientific Anti-Realism,” ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #cavendish #margaretcavendish #pedagogy #poetry #philosophy

#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...

Presidential Panel abstract deadline extended to *May 15*! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #C18 #18thC

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

Registration for our biennial conference, "Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740," is open! Please visit our conference page for details, including links to our registration form and payment page. Register by Friday, May 16 to take advantage of our early bird rate! www.defoesociety.org/conference/

Phillis Wheatley Peters event today! Join Mona Narain (ABO’s scholarship editor), Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and Barbara McCaskill for “Historically Speaking: ‘The Feast of Genius and the Play of Art’: The Legacies and Communities of PWP at the NMAAHC.” Register here: nmaahc.si.edu/events/histo...

An exciting #histsci PhD opportunity, with a great supervisory team and fabulous collections to work with

Nice long, illustrated and quite technical history and virtual tour of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, for its 350th anniversary #histsci 📜 www.ft.com/content/c744...

New article by Rebecca Cypess (Yeshiva University) in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇 “Playing Proverbs with Madame de Genlis,” ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons #proverbs #theater #Genlis #France

New publication alert! I've got a chapter called "Walking Away from the Black Box of Social Media" in the forthcoming Feminist Digital Humanities book. Pick up a copy before the book is banned! (I wish I were joking.)

Katherine Ellison is organizing a Presidential Panel at our upcoming conference on the theme of “Endings.” Please email her with your abstracts by April 30. Details in KE’s message 👇 Looking forward to your ideas! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

🚨Internship alert!📷An exciting opportunity for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for EMCO this summer. The EMCO internship programme focuses on transcribing the letters written by Montagu to her friend, Elizabeth Carter.

We’re accepting submissions for the Novak Prize for the best essay on Defoe published in 2022, 2023, or 2024. The deadline is April 1. Winners will be announced at our July conference. For more details, see our awards page: www.defoesociety.org/awards/ #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Our biennial conference is happening at Lichfield Guildhall (UK) on July 3-5, 2025. Check out the CFP: www.defoesociety.org/conference/ Proposals re: “Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740” are due March 17, 2025. Looking forward to your abstracts! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Excited to deliver my paper--based on fresh work for next book Writing’s Maker—"Hester Thrale Piozzi's Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing"--to @oxford18thc.bsky.social next Tuesday. Many thanks to @ballasterros.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social for the invitation

Celebrate Women’s History Month w/access to Women Writer’s Online (WWO) and Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present! wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/ orlando.cambridge.org Project descriptions and access info👇 Screenshot Cr.: TAMU Center of DH Research, Digest #38

✨ Please share ✨ I am giving a talk as part of @brlsi.bsky.social World of Jane Austen talk series! Join in person in Bath or online! I will be discussing the trials and tribulations of navigating the 18th century ballroom. Tickets available here www.brlsi.org/whatson/tria... #skystorians

ICYMI: “Queen Camilla Unveils New Aphra Behn Statue” www.bbc.com/news/article... Statue designer Christine Charlesworth said, "My Aphra is walking but glancing behind her because she is carrying interesting things such as a theatre masks and she has a secret message up her sleeve." #aphrabehn

Hi SHARPists! Check out our Starter Pack, and send us a message via chat if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/KNSyCSb

Excited to hear @theotherkim.bsky.social is continuing to work on Margaret Baker's recipe books! Here's the link to Connor's original research, "Seeking Margaret Baker: Identifying the Author of Three Manuscript Receipt Books," from ABO Vol. 12, Issue 1: digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol12/is...

We ❤️ all the libraries that have been supporting data rescue and their patrons. Our focus is the preservation of access for all. www.datarescueproject.org/libraries-su...

Interested in submitting work for consideration in ABO? Check out submission guidelines for Scholarship, Pedagogy, Digital Humanities, Book Reviews, Conversations, and Notes & Discoveries: digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/policies... Looking forward to reading your manuscripts! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

ALL THE SEXES ARE BELONG TO US #c18

In this time of the Musk-Trump administration, we will need to provide all the truth we can because it will be in short supply from the federal government. These scientists and science educators are also public activists. I will keep curating and updating the list. go.bsky.app/14W5Rdk

I see lots of places (incl NASA etc) have stated that the first photograph of Jupiter was "taken by" Agnes Clerke. In fact she published a photograph, taken by A.A. Common, in her Popular History of Astronomy, & made no claim to a "first" Don't believe the internet... #histsci #astronomy

Worried about how long your favorite art, stories, videos, and other media will remain online? You can do something about it. Archive it, put it on a flash drive, share it. Digital things are fragile, but you don't need serious tech skills to protect the digital things you care about. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Event of interest to ABO readers working on Phillis Wheatley Peters and in the Boston area on Feb. 27: "BeeFound: Washington & Wheatley Write!" Poet Toni Bee and Prof. Nicole Aljoe to discuss the relationship between Washington and Peters. Details / registration: www.nps.gov/long/planyou... Flyer 👇