THIS. Call your representatives today. They are counting, and it matters.

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

Everyone who wants to push generative AI in teaching because it allegedly speeds up the learning process, should be forced to eat microwaved steak for a year. Time is often what ensures a good outcome, especially in teaching.

For S5E3 of the WPHP Monthly Mercury, join us as we interview @meganpeiser.bsky.social and @embrarian.bsky.social about their work on the Hicks Collection. This episode has it all—a badass woman book collector, a Boston marriage, and even a heist (!!!): womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/143

Found some radical pubs misfiled as “fliers” in the university archives, including a significant number of feminist/pro-abortion newsletters and manifestos!

To all who are grading AI papers at the end of term, I have made this for us:

Sure! Available free to print or read online at violetbfox.info/against-ai/

Seeking help with some Irish! Can anyone read the inscription?

It really was so sweet of those frat dudes down in Mississippi to restage their grandparents’ college photos

Hey @colleenlovesbks.bsky.social my school out-sported your school last night. Anyhow, back to rare books 😎😎

This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.

The problem with slightly veiled right-wing censorship like this is that people who are into civil disobedience can flood it with fake (and possibly hilarious) reports.

Shitty ai being integrated into everything despite it being ass is like nepotism with a bunch of tech billionaires insisting we have to work with and take seriously their idiot robot son

UCLA California Rare Book School is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the second annual Queer Bibliography conference to be held between July 24-27, 2024, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. Full call for papers can be found at: www.calrbs.org/events/queer....

Friends! Can someone recommend a librarian at the Schlesinger Library? I have a question about their 1970s participation in the History of Women microform project. I’ll submit a query through their webform, but a personal contact would be awesome! Thank you!

Paleography halp, please! It’s an 1830 British will, in which a woman is leaving a painting of the ?!$&!) Can anyone make sense of this?

I’ll be on the picket line tomorrow. I hope you will all support us 🙏🏼 CFA is the 29,000 faculty, librarians, counselors, and coaches in the Cal State system. We have four one-day strikes next week to demand better pay, parental leave, and gender neutral bathrooms. Cal Poly Pomona is going first. ✊🏼

Anyone have access to Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander Street Press // Proquest) via their library? I’d pay for your troubles with a watercolor painting!

If you use your British Library password elsewhere, now would be a good time to stop doing that.

I know we all thought we knew what a hermeneutics of suspicion is, but what if it's actually paranoia that every paper we read was AI generated and what if we fucking hate being here.

Looking for libraries whose holdings aren’t in OCLC who might have an early 19C edition of essays by a woman connected to British Congregationalists. Thoughts?

my favorite part about being a book historian is how many librarians i have gotten to meet and work with. y'all: they know everything and if they don't, they know how to find it. bless them and pay them much more please.

I would once again like to thank the Canvas Test Student for *existing*

OU’s Center for Public Humanities is hosting Rose Hackman, author of *Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power*. Hybrid event! Good book!

Just saw the SHARP 2024 call for papers and 😭🥺🥰 never thought I’d see my name in an international conference CFP! And I’m so so happy more people will be directed to the *fabulous* work in our special issue. Seriously, go read it. research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

So my survey got attacked by some bots, and now I've lost 50% of my data. Please help me get to 1,000 real humans who actually meet my survey criteria? This sad PhD candidate thanks you in advance.

Come work with me! My department is hiring an assistant professor of Comparative Chinese Literature at Cal Poly Pomona. The CSU has a strong union, and we are an AAPI-serving institution. As search chair, I am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/873/po/en-us...

☄️Launching! An old-fashioned listserv for all those interested in #QueerBibliography, book history and queer approaches to printed matter and the material text. Sign up at jiscmail.ac.uk/QUEERBIB or send SUBSCRIBE QUEERBIB Firstname Lastname to listserv at jiscmail dot ac dot uk

UCLA CalRBS is pleased to announce that it will host the second iteration of the #QueerBibliography conference in a hybrid format between July 25-July 27, 2024. A call for papers is forthcoming. Sign up for the CalRBS email list at the link in bio to be the first to know! 📚 📜 #libraries

Digital badges are academic NFTs ?

Interested to see how Michiganders interpret the new HOV lane on I-75. “High octane vehicles,” right??

Me, tryna figure out my syllabus