cursed medieval andalite stede @ghostalservice.bsky.social (walters museum MS w.88 folio 115v)

This is a very specific request for y’all. Does anyone have a current photo of a ginkgo tree that has changed color to yellow for fall? When I lived in Cambridge and Boston there were so many pretty ones. Now that I live in Phoenix, I don’t get to see this transformation. I miss those trees!

Looks at the camera in English professor…

Art school problems

When Scott Enderle <https://pricelab.sas.upenn.edu/news/jonathan-scott-enderle-1979-2021> and I were building the Shakespeare Census, one of the first things he insisted on was making it open and easily adaptable for others. I'm so pleased to his hard work on that part of the project bearing fruit.

I wonder if these folks are using classical scholars and readers much in the way early modern aristocracy could employ scholars. See ‘How Gabriel Harvey read his Livy’ by Jardine and Grafton. Prometheus was eventually freed by Heracles in Hesiod’s Theogony, y’all.

ON STRIKE AGAIN BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH REFUSES TO RULE OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!

Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free” the library bought it. which in turn means that the community bought it. In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.

Sonja’s so right. Which printing press? What kind of knowledge? For which people? Also, do people understand how much labor was involved in a printing books?

bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken

happy bday Mexican nun/writer Juana Inés de la Cruz, b1648, nicknamed Phoenix of America "I don't study to know more, but to ignore less." I do not set store by treasures or riches; and therefore it always brings me more joy only to fix riches in my intellect and never my intellect fix on riches.

Keep the college essay. You don't have to fulfill the prophecy that the college essay is dead because some jaded dudes in the Atlantic, New Yorker, and NYT told you so two years ago. It's OK. You can keep the essay.

Does anyone out there visit the Clark library and if so would you be prepared to take a single photo for me ( of an almanac title page) ? #earlymodern

I studied abroad at Lancaster and it was an absolutely fantastic experience. The cuts happening all over the world in higher education are just awful.

What is race or gender ideology in this case? (It’s so weird when people try to ban things using words they don’t understand. )

Looks directly into the camera. COME ON.

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

The pun timer was activated and you only had six minutes to get in

I so appreciate the opportunity to write about the legacies of Marxist feminism in this special cluster in PMLA. Thanks to James, Charlotte and Donna for inviting me. It's a theory essay that ends with a poem. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

i'm a very biased party here but pretty much everything about the Mamdani campaign and the discourse around it thus far is a pretty thorough vindication of Africana Studies

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

I cannot effing wait to read this, @lbmcgrath.bsky.social

This team reported on politics bravely and brilliantly.

Amazing discovery at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social A vaccine for peanut allergy 4 shots! #HamOnt

In late 80s I was social worker in Houston working in Verification unit for food stamps. Made unannounced home visits to verify applicants were qualified &had reported all income etc. Unit was dismantled because cost more to run than were recovering. Very little fraud.So many myths/lies about SNAP

What

If you have a bit of time right now, please tune into Kim F. Hall's (@profkfh.bsky.social) book The Sweet Taste of Empire launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Np...

Meta Fuller, sculptor. Her English grandfather had married her grandmother, a free Black woman, in VA. She challenged racial mores: "I was told the American Girls' Club was here for the American girl students who came to Paris to study. I felt that I, as an American girl, was entitled to come here."

Best thing I heard today: “Macbeth’s decisions are absolutely terrible. Look at his meltdown/crashout at the banquet that HE planned…” I am having so much fun teaching Shakespeare. This ENG 321 class is funny and insightful and they bring annotated books to class! 😍

“Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.” -- Wole Soyinka, The Man Died

We are offering one time payments to disabled folks in the South who will not receive their SNAP benefits this month. If you need help, please find more information and details at ndsdj.org/snaphelp. If you’d like to donate to the fund, go to ndsdj.org/snapdonate We take care of each other ❤️

Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos. By @eltragon.bsky.social

Basil is very smart and very kind so you should read their work

It’s so weird when people use the ablative absolute like they are translating Caesar. 🫥

Flemish painter Catarina Ykens II, mostly known for still her lifes, puts the EEK in Ykens in this memento mori. Signed and dated: "Catharina ykens. filia Devota f. 1688" (Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp).

This week at ASU was our annual Humanities Week, which means a ton of events: I hosted a Q&A with Jesmyn Ward and a Worldbuilding Initiative lecture with Erika Swyler, and then was in conversation with Nnedi Okorafor to celebrate the 125th anniversary of our English department. Amazing days!

The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues. The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

this is just to say i’ve eaten the fun sized snickers you were saving for costumed children

In “Indigenous Archives,” Floridalma Boj Lopez examines how Mayas in diaspora forge Indigenous belonging in the face of displacement from their ancestral homelands. Read the intro for free now, and pre-order the book for 50% off with coupon FALL25: buff.ly/7JwP8jl

Hey friends! Sweet 30% discount on my book!! www.pennpress.org/978151282786...

the correct grammar on “more pissed than she” made my heart flutter

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔 On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.” truthout.org/articles/a-m...