@cobblehillpuzzles.bsky.social Cobble Hill, you are my favourite puzzle company. Please stop using artificial intelligence for your images. I am so disappointed.

Did you publish a book about or adjacent to #Shakespeare since the 2024 meeting of @saaupdates.bsky.social? Please fill out this Google form to provide information about your book and join us for a celebration at #Shax2026 in Denver on Friday, 4/3, from 10:30-11am. forms.gle/aTKJdQZniypr...

ACH 2026 welcomes proposals on all aspects of digital humanities work. Share your research, tools, pedagogy, or community projects with our vibrant DH community. Virtual conference June 24-26. Deadline: Feb 2 🔗 buff.ly/O7y3KaD

Classes start tomorrow! I have the most important part done: choosing the image for the course website (Moodle) Source: www.weplayers.org/news/2020/4/...

Just found what might be a photocopy of a Rorschach test in a used copy of Marlowe's Tamburlaine Make of that what you will

For @sharonhoward.bsky.social --and everyone I present: Phoenix in our tree

Well hot damn. Progress. A temp manuscript catalog is back.

Also: Google Scholar does a bad job at capturing citations in book chapters and monographs. This is a problem, particularly for disciplines (like English and other humanities) where these publication outputs are valued and can be quite prestigious.

Here’s a folder with the key assignments I use to get my students using Zotero. Along with this, they produce an annotated bibliography for a research prospectus and have to put all the annotations in Zotero. I introduce the platform in an in class workshop. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

CFP: Proverbs and Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture, 1-3 July, Hull @proverbialculture.bsky.social earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/events/confe...

I'm on Day 6! (on air tomorrow; posted online today) www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Come be my Dean at @stfx-university.bsky.social in Antigonish, Nova Scotia Job posting: Dean of Arts, StFX www.kbrs.ca/Career/17600...

Out now! The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself And better yet? It's #openaccess! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi... Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio... Thanks to all contributors! 🎉

Hey Antigonish! There's a blood donor clinic at St Ninian's! It's on this afternoon, tomorrow, and Thursday and there are still lots of open spots. Pssst, students: free snacks Make an appointment here www.blood.ca/en/blood/don...

A good mail day! I loved collaborating with @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social on this chapter. We even snuck a few photos in there. So many great contributors—thank you to editors Constance Crompton, @lauraestill.bsky.social, Richard J. Lane, & @raysiemens.bsky.social for making it possible!

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?