We're head into external review request season. Make sure your guidance to the reviewers explicitly includes not using LLMs or putting candidates work into them. Speaking from experience on this one. Also if you're asked to review, don't feed it to the plagiarism machine.

Read more about Dr. Wright's new book, No Mother, No Future! @wrightkailin.bsky.social @stfx-university.bsky.social www.stfx.ca/news/Dr-Kail...

It's out! 🎉🎉🎉 "Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" Open access (just click "save pdf" for a formatted version) It was a joy working with Heidi Craig, Kris May, and Dorothy Todd on this Element www.cambridge.org/core/element... ++

Obsessed with this bookplate in the 1936 Kittredge Complete Works of Shakespeare archive.org/details/comp...

You know how websites just seem slower? That's not in your mind. Generative AI uses hordes of bots to crawl webpages, which a) results in websites in going down and b) means that pages are slower to load for humans because the sites are also managing the bot load

This is a fun site (screen-reader friendly) that lets you highlight or display a single character's lines and their cues. www.bardbase.com

Gather round, children, while I tell you a tale. In the olden days, university and academic presses used to have professional copyeditors...

Tim Houston's government has reversed some of their budget cuts, which shows us that they can reverse more of them. Keep the pressure on them. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Internet Archive digitization of the "Shakespeare Book of Lists" by Michael LoMonico has a delightful authorial inscription "I hope this book gives you as much pleasure in reading as I had in writing it." archive.org/details/shak...

More importantly, is this proof that Anne Rice is herself a vampire?

Do you suppose some folks are getting these books so that it will seem like they have engaged deeply with a text when they haven't? Annotated books as props?

DHSI-East early bird ends 15 March Please share! 3 concurrent workshops: "Project Management in the Humanities" - @jenguiliano.bsky.social "Research Data Management for Humanities Researchers" - Khair & Sawchuck "Digital Publishing in the Humanities Classroom" - @andiesilva.bsky.social & montes

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

Nova Scotians: if you want to have your voice heard, write to your MLA and ask for your email to be "read into Hansard" & call 902-424-8941: ask to address committee about the "Financial Measures Act" You don't need to be a politico or budget expert; you can share how cuts affect you #nspoli +

Book launch! 12 March 4pm, Scholars Walk @stfx-university.bsky.social Feat. books by @wrightkailin.bsky.social , Conall Cash, & @lauraestill.bsky.social 4 collections: on Slings & Arrows, French Cinema, early modern digital humanities, & DH writ large & 1 🌟monograph🌟: on reproductive justice

How do you feel about Premier Houston's budgetary cuts? Come to the Antigonish Rally for Arts and Culture outside Minister Thompson's office to have your voice be heard! 4-5:30 Weds 4 March, 325 Main Street

Media Release of the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

PSA We are coming into the time (8-29 March) when North America and Europe are not on the same daylight savings time schedule so any standing meeting time will be messed up

Deadline tomorrow! Submit your abstracts for "Proverbs & Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture" Conference to be held at @uniofhull.bsky.social from 1-3 July Full CFP: earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/events/confe...

A government that claims to supports healthcare and then cuts research funding does not support healthcare #nspoli

Prof. @wrightkailin.bsky.social 's newest monograph arrived today! "No Mother, No Future: Performing Motherhood and Reproductive Loss" ( @routledgebooks.bsky.social , 2026) is set to be a field-defining work. Congratulations! Table of Contents and to order: www.routledge.com/No-Mother-No... +

thanks to @philmoscovitch.bsky.social and @halifaxexaminer.ca for bringing attention to this travesty www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...

I love how awkward the word 'awkward' is

Is the Shakespeare Census down?

Deadline extended for submissions to TEI2026 (Vancouver) this year tei2026.tei-c.org

My mom found this pamphlet on the history of the one-room schoolhouse in Kintore, ON from 1835-1937. Decades later, my Grandma was secretary-treasurer

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

Why does the Nova Scotia government want to cost universities hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars? Why have they spent almost half a million dollars on an American consulting firm? Find out more tonight! Online town hall (zoom link on linked page below) cocogov.org/blog/townhall/

@paulbarrett1.bsky.social and I are thrilled to announce the 2026 DH@Guelph Summer Workshops! We've got an excellent line up this year (UX, Feminist Making, & Soundwalks, oh my!) & will be announcing our keynote next week. Please help us spread the word!! Register here: tinyurl.com/DHGuelphSW26

Look what just arrived! Congratulations @wrightkailin.bsky.social and Don Moore! I'm very proud to have a chapter in this fantastic volume. Full table of contents: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Out now: The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice www.routledge.com/The-Companio... Edited by @lauraestill.bsky.social , @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J Lane, and Constance Crompton And it's open access! @routledgebooks.bsky.social @stfx-university.bsky.social

Tell me your university acts without consulting faculty without telling me your university acts without consulting faculty

TIL about Apache Anubis, which stops AI traffic from overwhelming websites I love the idea that Anubis, the ancient Egyptian psychopomp that guided souls to the afterlife, says "of course I'll usher the dead but I draw the line at AI"

This is an ACENET appreciation post

Townhall at the Halifax Central Library, 23 February (Monday), starting at 6:30 pm: “Protecting Post-Secondary Education in Nova Scotia.” #nspse #nspoli #cdnpse

Hi! Our flow chart for deciding if and when to use AI takes this into account. Oops! sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...

If you think this might apply to you but don't know how to find the paper trail, get in touch. I am a skilled archival researcher and I can be hired to find all the details you need.

Is there a reputable Canadian company (or non-American) like MailChimp or Constant Contact that manages the distribution of large batches of marketing emails? #Canada #Canadianproducts

A former student made and printed this meme for me after coming to a talk I gave this week I'm cackling--it's perfect! (Shared with permission)

Had a great social writing group this morning. It's amazing how much more productive I am when I turn off my email.

We are accepting applications for Nova Scotia Museum Research Grants. Completed application forms must be received by no later than 5 pm AST, March 13, 2026. Visit: museum.novascotia.ca/grants #novascotia

The $400K cost does not take into account the costs that the universities are footing to create thousands of pages of paperwork (hours and hours of labour from faculty, staff, and executives) They are asking for so much paperwork that they will likely not even be able to read it all

Gawking at this 1611 alphabet

The @rsaorg.bsky.social Days of Digital Learning have a fantastic line-up! Online workshops for early modernists seeking digital skills www.rsa.org/general/cust...

AI-hallucinated citations clogging up our mechanisms for search and retrieval

This Thursday! Come hear @lauraestill.bsky.social give the Humanities Colloquium Lecture at @stfx-university.bsky.social on "Words of Wisdom: Sententiae and Proverbs in Early Modern English Plays" Murder! Shakespeare! Oedipus! Typography! This lecture has it all. www.stfx.ca/events/human...

So even if this is a temp glitch due to a botched update rollout (likely I think) it's worth flagging it--Big G has a history of dropping projects (READER) and GBooks seemed too big to drop but in the current landscape idk if we can assume that anymore.

One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...