It's a time of intense and mixed emotions for me: I have had such a wonderful time at Auburn & will miss my colleagues there, & I am very excited to be joining Oklahoma State University later this summer. news.okstate.edu/articles/com...

Pulverized cuttlefish bone. I had no idea that that was a material for ink-blotting.

HERE IT IS: Earlier this month, without any planning, I drove 6 hrs to the desert to capture the last full lunar eclipse until December 2028 Over 3 hours I shot over 3000 stills, but not the stars Last Tuesday I drove 4 hrs to capture the stars After 30+ hrs figuring out editing, this is DONE 🧵

My dog Ruth has been added to the staff list for the Auburn University Honors College. Which, Ruth feels, she deserves. #auburn #auburnhonors honors.auburn.edu/about/staff/...

Mom's weekend schedule for my son's fraternity shows some promising intentionality.

My Dad, hearing I’m going to #ASECS and learning what it is: “well, I guess that century isn’t going anywhere.”

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No words.

What's the current thinking about booking with Lufthansa v. United for flights to Germany?

I absolutely love this ode to John Hodgson and his footnote on Hadrian's wall.

Team Baskerville here!

@auburnhonors.bsky.social is hiring a coordinator for our National Scholarships program. Please help spread the word. We're looking for a great writer who wants to work directly with students in helping them apply for major scholarships. bsky.app/profile/aubu...

That’s some amazing marketing.

Learned today that Auburn has 2 buildings named Smith Hall. In other news, got my 10,000 steps in quite early today. #auburn

More early Transactions of the Royal Society in my Bluesky feed, please.

Auburn University's Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (Gamma of AL) is excited to be welcoming Ed Yong to Auburn tomorrow, to deliver the Anne and David Laband Phi Beta Kappa lecture. The lecture is free and open to the public, and it will be followed by a reception & book signing.

Happy New Year, everyone. Here's a plug for a dear friend's publication. Hilary Wyss's Cambridge Element on the London Foundling Hospital is just out, and you can download a copy for free until Jan. 15, here: doi.org/10.1017/9781.... It's fantastic work!

All set up for the #AuburnHonorsCollege Fall medal ceremony, for our most recent group of graduates.

Who says we don't need the National Union Catalogue anymore? Auburn Libraries turned it into a Christmas tree.

I need more book history trivia in my feed.

I'm so looking forward to welcoming Kevin Hughes to Auburn this week.

For Auburn folk, demo of Spidle Hall is underway -- photo taken today from the library parking deck.

We are all set up for the Auburn Honors College’s induction ceremony. We are prefacing it this year w reception w poster presentations from our research grant awardees.

Auburn Honors tailgate is all set up!

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

I completely agree and love this show. His portrayal of Maximus was brilliant.

Congratulations to this amazing group of 18c scholars. I can't wait to read this issue!

TBH my persistent reaction to AI -- & surrounding discussion of AI -- is gutting disappointment that AI turns out to be insipid, bland, people-pleasing, vapid, when I came of age expecting the utter coolness of Wintermute.

Ruth quietly gearing up for her first class as my teaching assistant for my book club course, “Reading about Dogs, with a Dog.” In her grading she will be tough but fair.

Another new biography posted to The PSIG Project: Annie Isparhecher, a Mvskoke woman born c. 1880, who attended the Nuyaka Mission Boarding School. This is under the tab "Connected Schools," -- for students who attended mission schools in the PSIG orbit. www.psigproject.org/connected-sc...

Drumline after Orioles win last night.

A question for eighteenth-century studies people: has anyone published a comparison of Ghislane Maxwell to the 18c "procuress" figure -- e.g. Richardson's Mrs. Sinclair or Hogarth's Mother Needham? Or, for that matter, 17c Dutch paintings of "The Procuress"? www.rct.uk/collection/8...

Wow, huge news for MCN.

I love this exchange, but it's overlooked an invaluable historical source: the "What did the Romans ever do for us?" scene from The Life of Brian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7H...

I just looked up a text in my university's library, and it is on a MICROCARD. Not fiche or film -- a card! It's been a good decade since I read one of those.

I'm delighted to report that The PSIG Project is in the midst of publishing the latest batch of biographies. Additions as of today include Emma Perryman Drew and Ida Perryman Broyles, first cousins, both citizens of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. More to come soon! www.psigproject.org/home

Just getting a dirt bath in the midst of Camp War Eagle.

The footnote that ate a book.

If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives: #skystorians So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting

Experience a heart attack while working in a herb garden. Wonder what its middle school bully is doing now. Show up to court in a white linen suit. Drape itself face down over an ottoman in a fit of ennui.

Does anyone know when/if Sprout Social will include Bluesky?

Hard day at the office.

Congratulations to Midge Dellinger & Sara Beam for landing a Mellon grant: “Mvskokvlke Hofone Enfulletv Rasvwetv (To Bring the Ways of the Mvskoke Back)”! They've worked so hard on this collaboration between Univ. Tulsa & Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Such fantastic news. utulsa.edu/news/mellon-...

I love this.

Shhhhh…we’re hunting Wabbit

Excellent news.

For like 20 minutes today I was at 0 inbox.

It's of course abominable to write in library books, but I did enjoy finding this snark today, presumably decades after it was written.

Amen to that.

I hope everyone will forgive my fellow Villanova alumni and me for being completely annoying for a while. 😊 #VillanovaPope