Next Wednesday! Georgina Wilson on 'Paper and the Making of #earlymodern Literature' - join us online or in person, book via the link below.

the “combing through and finding weird little details that interest me” part of research is so crucial

Attention #earlyModern #bookHistory and #earlyMusic types! You have to the end of the week to register for the @dormeme16.bsky.social conference Marking Music: The Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe, at KCL. Registration and the brilliant programme are at www.tickettailor.com/events/aheve...

I do think this is true. I'm often guilty myself of underplaying what the work I do looks like or how much time and effort it takes. Research isn't 'just reading' or a question of sucking up summaries others have created. It's knowledge creation. So let me go through the process with an example 1/

This is a fabulous thread of what research looks like in the humanities.

This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI. I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

📚 Lost, Found… and stuffed up a chimney?! In the 1800s, Librarian John Taylor Allen made an astonishing discovery: Humphrey Chetham’s private papers, hidden up his chimney and nearly lost forever. 🔍 Discover our new exhibition on our blog: library.chethams.com/blog/lost-and-found-in-the-library

Fully-funded #PhD opportunity on the early history of the Public Records Office starting this October phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @universityofleeds.bsky.social Available full or part-time. #archives #skystorians

my kingdom for a single journalist at the BBC, or any other major news org, to push back and point out that 1) settlement is not automatic, and then 2) ask the home office why they have been repeatedly lying about this for months

I added more imprints to a corpus with enough going on, and I found another woman in the London book trades that has been assumed to be a man. Meet Sarah Surman Cliff Cruttenden. She trades as S. Cliff and S. Cruttenden. Sources assume man, so no one caught a woman as the same person with 3 names.

In case you're interested: here is a list of recent accessions in #HistSTM at the @uomlibrary.bsky.social Special Collections blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

they'll be convenient enemies regardless of what they do, that's playing out in the states right now. you can bend over backwards to appease fascists and it will never work, because their whole ideology is irrational and premised on the idea of purging enemies. they need enemies to function

we migrated to alma/primo (barf) and are forced to use consortia records, which means we have to use outdated subject headings and can't use our own 69X local fields. has anyone else dealt with this and found a workaround, or a way to advocate for change? #critcat

Graphic design is my passion, but make it early modern: There's a book called _Principe en la idea_, and someone got new type & wanted to use ALL of it, or the author wanted to have a 22-page title page? & the body has an entire column for footnotes? books.google.com/books?id=EP1... #BookHistory

long story but i just founded an AI education platform. if you want to join the board or contribute to the blog, hit me up. just submitted a conference talk on "surveillance as care" to ELO. wish me luck!!!! puregenius.education

if you were unable to attend Erin McGuirl's Winship Lecture, "No Modern Publishing Without Women" at Houghton Library, the recording is now live! 📜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCs...

Discover how queer studies, book history, and visual culture intersect in this fascinating essay collection, and how a variety of media have helped shape queer community – from zines, to romance novels, to social media. Order your copy today: bit.ly/4kvJE00 University of Pennsylvania #BookHistory

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you missed the recent @uksg.bsky.social webinar on Open Access and AI, the recording, our slides, and our responses to the (many!) questions we did not have time to get to in the session itself, are now available on the UKSG website. 📚 #AcademicSky #OpenAccess

U Kentucky Libraries is hiring a tenure track Electronic Resources Librarian. It's a great place to work! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/622...

By popular demand, here is the full, glorious message from Aberystwyth University Library, on their blog: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/librarian/?p... Hat tip to @walkyouhome.bsky.social for prompting me to realise it was a blog post, and thus available to you all ❤️

When the premise is that _anyone_ can vibe-code a new application--and don't get me wrong, it's a glorious vision in underserved fields--I worry that these sustainability tasks aren't even on the radar.

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

Look at the great poster the U of Connecticut made for me--incorporating the witty trade card of Elizabeth Griffin, mid #18thc London map & printseller. Immodest of me--but I believe my talk (3/26, 4pm) will be live-streamed, so pls let me know, farflung Bsky pals, if you'd like more info'.

OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

Ever wondered how pressmen and compositors at the early-modern Plantin Press structured their careers? 📘🕰️ Join the University of Antwerp as a PhD fellow and dive into the rhythms of labour between 1580–1840 Apply by 1 July 2026 👇 #PhDPosition #EarlyModern #PlantinPress #PrintingHistory #Antwerp

Feeling a bit melancholic now that (my fourth!!) Queer Bibliography is over! But what a great time with so many colleagues, collaborators, and friends— in person in Athens, GA 🍑 and those who joined us on Zoom. Onwards to next year’s! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 📖

Listening to MIKA during a book arts studio shift — is this #queerbibliography ?

If you've enjoyed my posting about #QueerBib26, have no fear--Queer Bibliography will be back in 2027! It will be hybrid. The best way to not miss the CfP is to sign up for the QUEERBIB listserv, which you can do at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/QUEERBIB.

I'm back for Session 10 of #QueerBib26, "Sexology and Intersex Bodies"! First up is bri watson @brimwats.com, presenting "Queerness as Isochronicity."

I'm back for Day 2 of #QueerBib26! Starting my day with session 8, DIY (unfortunately missing session 9, on libraries and archives, held contemporaneously).

Traces of information systems past: interlibrary loan admin infrastructure, and the British National Book Centre rehoming works from Stoke Newington to the @rcpmuseum.bsky.social. #GLAMS #BookHistory #LibraryHistory 📚

It's 9:26 PM here, so I'm logging off from #QueerBib26 tweeting for the night! I'll be at a training during the UK day tomorrow but should return for tweeting Day 2 after lunch.

#QueerBib26 Day 1 concludes (for me at least) with the plenary lecture by Jaime L. Harker, presenting "“Chloe’s Monster Fucker Collection”: Sapphic Print Culture, Queer Bibliography, and Queer Southern Culture." NB: My posting will be intermittent, since I'm making dinner.

No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜 @mmitchell.bsky.social writing on how people dramatically misunderstand the "stochastic parrot" critique. medium.com/@margarmitch...

Submissions (< 10,000 words) invited for 2026 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics. Topic Celebrating 300th anniversary of 3rd ed. Newton’s Principia. www.duchateletprize.org Winner will receive $1000, workshop & SHPS pub Open to grad students & w/in 5 yrs PhD Deadline September 1, 2026 #HPS

This, too, is queer bibliography.

#QueerBib26 Session 5, titled "Lesbian Communities," begins in one minute (after I feed the cat).

Digital humanities grad students & faculty always want to offload the data cleaning drudgery on some undergrad research assistant, until they eventually come to realize that's the part of the process where the stack of qualitative assumptions comes from.

#QueerBib26 Session 3: Community Identity! We're joined by Dalena Hunter, presenting work carried out with Byron Johns. She's discussing the Black LGBTQ+ Legends of Los Angeles Oral History Project.

For those joining #QueerBib26 online: panels will resume at 1:30 pm (that's 5:30 UK time) to accommodate a mild delay in the lunch delivery.

#QueerBib26 Session 2 on Enumerative Bibliography beginning now!

Thanks to their livetweeting efforts (I know at least @emmabooth.bsky.social and @annewelsh.bsky.social have contributed so far), I'm keeping tabs on CILIP MDG #MetaFutures panels relevant to my PhD work while virtually attending #QueerBib26 across the pond. The wonders of the world wide web!

@18thcenturysam.bsky.social: "No queer bookshop has a GALE subscription!" #QueerBib26

I'm definitely completely sure that my university's groundbreaking deal with Microsoft will definitely absolutely be 100% secure and there will be no privacy issues

Good morning from rainy Athens (Georgia not Greece) for the first day of Queer Bibliography 2026! You can still register to join us on Zoom. I've been looking forward to this for so long.

The BSA Events Committee is proud to support Queer Bibliography in the South, a multi-day conference including both panels and workshops. Both in person and virtual attendance is free, but registration is required. 🔗Link to the full program details and registration form in bio

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

The Afterlives of John Dee's Books ✨ Five surviving volumes from the library of John Dee, once part of the largest private collection in Elizabethan England, are now held at Chetham’s Library. Discover the afterlives of John Dee's books in our blog ➡️ library.chethams.com/blog/the-aft...