📢 Calling all special collections oomfs! I’m doing a very informal survey of how different American universities staff their special collections reading rooms. If you’re willing to answer a few questions, please DM me! (You don’t need to work in the RR, you just need to know how the RR is run)

you can go to a rare book library and learn anything (please come visit me! we have amazing LGBTQ+ collections)

We're all cheering that Pam Bondi was fired because she was a corrupt and incompetent attorney general. But Trump fired her to install an AG who will be worse ... who will use DOJ to bring meritless prosecutions based on Trump retribution. Todd Blanche is a disaster. www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/p...

Both Pam Bondi (AG) and Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence) appear to be about to lose their jobs, in potentially a sign of a deeper scandal. My bet is both.

Let’s remember that Trump's first pick for attorney general was Matt Gaetz, who paid a 17-year-old for sex. Trump settled for Pam Bondi, who covered up the Epstein files and used the Justice Dept. for political retribution – but not enough for Trump. The next AG is likely to be even worse.

The singular "they" has been around longer than English has had codified grammar, so really, anyone who fumes about it can go fuck themself www.oed.com/discover/a-b...

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

Who cares about Tiger Woods?

In my PhD I worked in a book arts makerspace and we would often joke “is [something that isn’t a book] a book?!” now I’m a rare book librarian and can say, yes, unfortunately [something that isn’t a book] is, in fact, a book.

I'm now rereading this presentation from Dr. Bridget Whearty, for the first time in a few years, and it's still so timely and thoughtful. Between Dr. Whearty and the folks she's citing/quoting throughout, all bangers. My favorite playlist.

So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409 🎉🎉🎉 To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...

While we wage war against countless nations, for some reason I cannot imagine that I deserve, I am receiving nonstop news updates on an individual named Taylor Frankie Paul, who, sorry to this woman, I have never heard of. I do not wish her well, despite her disruption to Disney company operations.

It is lovely that the Art Gallery of Ontario can now name the Black woman in the gorgeous #18thc portrait they acquired 6 yrs ago & also date the painting. It's from 1775. She is Eleonora Susette, enslaved by the Dutch governor of Guyana, accompanying his widow on her return to the Netherlands.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

full time job & service positions & extra committee work & undergrad and grad student supervision & book chapter proposal & research & conference organization & grant money paperwork & world is on fire & planning a 7-person trip to Germany and France & dental surgery 😵‍💫

Books by the pound! Printer’s device of Claude Carteron of Lyon (1644-1716). “The Carterons make the books”.

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had a truly great time in Athens, GA this week for #QueerBib2026. I’m so happy to be part of this space and community! Thank you to everyone who made it possible, not least @jdsargan.bsky.social, @elizott.bsky.social, @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social, Kathryn Manis, Channette Romero and Eileen Wallace 🍑

I completely forgot I made this... a big list of English judicial records, 1500 to 1800, published and often online!

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! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 📖

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Queer Bibliography was so wonderful and generative today

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

Wearing my book slut socks at Queer Bibliography today (my bf bought them for me)

The President is a pedophile, the Pentagon spent 20+ million on lobster and crab in one month, we bombed a school in Iran, economy and job market is shit, and we’re just sitting here and doing nothing

The thing people don’t tell you about being in a 3+ year long-distance relationship is that USPS will lose roughly 1/3 of your birthday, Valentine’s, anniversary, etc. cards/packages each year and by year 3 it is just so exhausting and maddening

EPA Unveils Plan To Make Water Chunkier https://theonion.com/epa-unveils-plan-to-make-water-chunkier/

it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor

Tuesday, Wednesday, and today all felt like Friday when I woke up, which says a lot about where my energy level is at. Almost there. Almost there…

Our excellent & fun social media person joined the “this is who […]” trend with people’s childhood pictures, and this was mine 🤣

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

📚 VOLUNTEER WANTED 📚 Are you passionate about #VideoGames and #Books❓ The Video Game Library is seeking A COMMITTED VOLUNTEER who can dedicate time each week to help organize and catalogue the growing collection of gaming literature. 👉 If interested, email: [email protected]

🔎 Rare 18th-century punches used to create the original Baskerville typeface have been digitised and released online. Designers, historians and the wider public now have the opportunity to study the physical tools that shaped modern typography. 🔗https://loom.ly/1ulLaFI

I know there's a lot going on right now, but don't forget to apply to @calrbs.bsky.social -- priority applications close in April! I'm teaching Pop Bibliography there again, and would love to have you in my class: www.calrbs.org/english-pale...

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people over 40 here, i beg: STOP w the AI photos. it’s never funny - not when you make trump a baby, or make him gay with putin, or dress MAGA in costumes, or any of it. you look as stupid as him when he does it, and everyone younger than you is cringing very, very hard. thx bye !!

The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

It is an act of domestic terrorism to talk to me about WORK while I’m eating lunch, especially because I can’t eat in the privacy of my office since I work with rare books 🥲 Talk to me about fun things or not at all!

I always feel weird about stuff like this because while I have four degrees and nothing but respect for learning, intellectual curiosity, training, etc, neither of my parents have college degrees and they are not MAGA or idiots. There is so much you can contribute to society w/out a college degree

"Which country poses the greatest threat to Canada's security right now?" USA: 55% China: 15% Russia: 14% India: 4% Iran: 2% Nanos / Feb 4, 2026

Talking to students this week about physically making zines & sharing some masters & printed zines of Nancy's Magazine so they can see the process of creation for this pub. Love the use of graph paper, white out, & glued bits of paper.

swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

screaming crying throwing up!! this @wired.com digital cover is TOOO GOOD 🫡

The UK arrested Prince Andrew. Hakeem Jeffries is telling Democrats not to boo Trump at the State of the Union.

📄 New paper: Pre-Editorial Normalization for Automatically Transcribed Medieval Manuscripts in Old French and Latin Thibault Clérice, @rachelbawden.bsky.social , Anthony Glaise, Ariane Pinche, @dasmiq.bsky.social (2026) arxiv.org/abs/2602.13905 We introduce Pre-Editorial Normalization (PEN). 🧵⬇️

FTing with the bf on our fourth long-distance Valentine’s Day

This Monday, Feb 16, 5:15pm EST 📚 We welcome John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society) @jgarc.bsky.social for “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.” Join us for a rich conversation on race, labor, and the history of print. Details: pennmaterialtexts.org Hope to see you there!

Oh this is very sad news. He was a real hero. -gave evidence in the trials of Milosevic and Mladic at the Hague - he faced the monsters. He showed us how libraries are of crucial importance for their communities - esp when they are deliberately targetted. I celebrated his work in #Burningthebooks