Predatory journal laugh: I wrote about a 17th-century manuscript play fragment I called "The Dismal Tempest" and was invited to submit to "The Journal of Atmospheric Science Research" For more on the play fragment: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Me, scanning something that the printer will email to me Me, thirty seconds later: I wonder who emailed me?

Out now: "Digital Text Analysis and Early Shakespeare Bibliography: Using Voyant Tools with Bad OCR" www.digitalstudies.org/article/id/1...

Check out the @proverbialculture.bsky.social website! earlymodernproverbs.co.uk Coming up next week (10 Nov): Materials workshop, Univeristy of Leeds

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

Join us for an after-show talk about Zomblet! With Dan Bray, playwright Prof. @wrightkailin.bsky.social , Canadian Theatre specialist Prof. @crushton.bsky.social , zombie specialist and Prof. @lauraestill.bsky.social , Shakespeare scholar Weds 29 Oct Show starts at 7:30 and runs ~90 mins

Storm on an antique chair my Grandma refinished

The Newfoundland and Labrador public libraries continue to make the absolute best free pins that you can just have if you go to borrow a book

RBS is happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for: 𝗥𝗕𝗦-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 (apply by 𝟮 𝗡𝗼𝘃.) 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 (apply by 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰.) Details: rarebookschool.org/2025-scholarships-fellowships/

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...

Not even close, Novanet...or maybe super close?

Some gorgeous illustrations of Ukrainian Shakespeare by Sergia Yakutovych (volume here: chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Will..., warning: dubious site) L: 1 Henry VI; R 3 Henry VI

Would you like to be on the Digital Humanities Course Registry? Map here: dhcr.clarin-dariah.eu Canadian programs/institutions: contact @lauraestill.bsky.social International: contact your national moderator: dhcr.clarin-dariah.eu/national-mod...

I'm fairly certain that the thermostat controls in my office are part of some psychological experiment. (And how did it pass research ethics?)

Registration is open for SAA 2026! @saaupdates.bsky.social "From Commonplaces to Databases: The Social Memory of Proverbs" is a virtual session w/ asynchronous components leading up to a virtual meeting sometime during the conference (1-4 April) shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti...

New moon (of Uranus) just dropped, and I have a very important question: given that the naming scheme for Uranian moons is (mostly) Shakespeare characters, what's the funniest possible Shakespeare character name for this new moon? science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2...

looking for some fun literary datasets for the upcoming semester? check these out!

My niece has finished her Duolingo Dutch lessons, but she'd like to keep praciticing. Does anyone know of a similar series on another app or podcast on practicing Dutch for Anglophones?

My kid's the one at baseball yelling "a hit! a palpable hit!"

Introducing: Shakespeare & Early Modern Proverbial Culture. We explore how proverbs of EM England shaped social values, media, & playwriting—including Shakespeare’s works. Our team is building new frameworks, tools, & resources to better understand how proverbs functioned then & endure still today

'Extra-Illustrations and Annotated Illustrations in Early Modern Books', a new digital exhibition, curated by Hannah Yip and @thejohnrylands.bsky.social #EarlyModernVirtualEvents #Skystorians www.rensoc.org.uk/event/extra-...

There are still lots of spots to donate blood in Antigonish today! At St Ninian's (on StFX campus) Book your appointment here: myaccount.blood.ca/en/donate/se...

Anyone know what 'Dutch paper books' are?

Fall is ages away, right? Right?? Anyway, here are some fall deadline reminders.

This is a fascinating dataset by @simonvbellen.bsky.social @erudit.org about Canadian Scholarly journals, including those that are defunct, with details on open access borealisdata.ca/dataset.xhtm...

Predatory journal invitation in Comic Sans. Are they even trying anymore?

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

One of our Associate Digital Editors Dr. Kris May has won the David Greetham Prize (alongside former @tamu.bsky.social professors Heidi Craig and @lauraestill.bsky.social) for an article about trans-inclusive bibliography. Congratulations! newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

Had a great info session on the Canadian Certificate for Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques at DHSI today! If you missed it or want to learn, check out our website and/or email for more info. ccdhhn.ca

BlueSky has the juice — we’ve been able to connect this mss with @josephhone.bsky.social who has been hunting for it for years. Happy tears this morning.

DHSI week 2 opening remarks @umontreal.ca keynote by Marcello Vitali-Rosati, "A formal definition of creativity: LLM, softmax, and temperature"

Honoured to receive the Greetham Prize w/ co-authors Heidi Craig & Kris May, for "the best article published in the Society’s journal, Textual Cultures, during the two calendar years since the previous award" "A Rationale of Trans-inclusive Bibliography" scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind... +

Excited for day 1 of @csdhschn.bsky.social at #congressh @gbcollege.bsky.social @federationhss.ca Thanks to all the organizers! amethyst-sidewalk-6b3.notion.site/Schedule-1f3...

TTRPG folks: if you have worked on games involving the Early Modern period or Shakespeare, could you let me know?

Look at these gorgeous ligatures (Link to article if you're interested: doi.org/10.1080/1745... )

Ah, a new Minister for AI. Presumably cast to be the bad guy in a climactic movie battle against the Minister for the Environment and Climate Change?

Ludwig Tieck's copy of Friar Bacon at the Austrian National Library viewer.onb.ac.at/105F97F4

I emailed the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek | Austrian National Library and got an incredibly helpful answer in less than twelve hours. Amazing!

Grateful today for the Endings Project @dhquarterly.bsky.social 2023 special issue: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/1... ed. @jmhuculak.bsky.social @janellejenstad.bsky.social @martindholmes.bsky.social Chock full of fantastic articles that are more relevant than ever

Check out the latest issue of Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, edited by me and Joseph Khoury (also of @stfxenglish.bsky.social ) Let's see what's in the issue! (DM or email for access to any or all) Intro w/longer summaries: doi.org/10.33137/rr....

Is the British Universities Film and Video Council site down for good? Do we think it will come back? I haven't been able to get in for a couple of weeks bufvc.ac.uk It's still linked from: film.britishcouncil.org/resources/su...

You're too kind, @heatherfro.bsky.social ! I'm so happy to see this piece getting out there!

I know I'm late to the party, but I just learned about "Shakespeare in Canada: a Cultural Map" omeka.uottawa.ca/shakespearec... Including this very cool "Shakespeare in Ottawa: 1867-2017" omeka.uottawa.ca/shakespearec... (h/t Amanda Montague at INKE 2025 at Acadia U )

After our Gaelic Song and Digital Archives Workshop, come to a Céilidh! www.stfx.ca/events/gaeli...

So glad to learn a term for this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Ma...

Call for submissions: Pan-Atlantic Emerging Playwrights Unit! Wanted: 4 early-career playwrights from across Atlantic Canada to write one-act play. Includes: dramaturgical support, workshop with professional actors, public reading, honorarium DEADLINE: April 30, 2025 playwrightsatlantic.ca

Join us for the 2025 Department of English Honours Thesis Colloquium, where our talented students will present their research. This is a fantastic opportunity to engage with critical discussions and support student research. Whether you're a student or professor, we’d love to see you there!

Spring Cleaning? ... have some yarn to share?🧶 The #Stellarton Library's Crafting Circle is in need of yarn (our supplies of donations are running low). We are currently making Lap Quilts for comfort, for the QEII Cancer Care clinic. +info: pls call Stellarton Library at (902) 755-1638 Thank you 💗

✨📖OUT NOW!📖✨ This new Element by Anupam Basu discusses and demonstrates computational techniques for studying the corpus of early English print at scale. DOWNLOAD NOW* FOR FREE: doi.org/10.1017/9781... *until 04.15.25 cc @loughnrv.bsky.social