She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy. n.pr/4bfTTCp

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

Omg @13thgravegypt.bsky.social I told Mr E that Finland got the bronze in men's hockey, and he immediately replied, "...You might call that a third-place Finnish, ja?"

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

oh my god

lol I just got three TripIt notifications that DHS has reversed the global entry pre-check nonsense.

It’s so common to come across the assertion that books were luxury objects exclusively for the elite in the Middle Ages that I want to guest curate a massive exhibition called “Meh-nuscripts: Books for the Many,” which features just workaday or unremarkable objects.

Well. This should be fun today as I try to get home. At the very least, I’m not trying to get to VA home, thus combining political and weather fuckery

People do in fact remember that they kept TSA Pre and Global Entry running during the last shutdown

Short circuiting the learning process is the whole point of #AI. Users offload the "simple" or "mundane" thinking that nurtures growth. Students borrow its "understanding" and think that understanding is thiers. Use at the risk of stupidity. #academicsky phys.org/news/2026-02...

I could really start a fight in my PhD program’s group chat over rice cookers. East Asia vs. South Asia vs. West Africa 😂 (I am team rice cooker even if I can do it on the stove)

PAPA LEONE YES

If anyone at #rensa26 found a coat with a print of red flowers on a white background, it's mine and I miss it dearly.

look if a Democrat wants me to be really fired up about voting for them, they will promulgate the Crimes Against Humanity Reparations Act which gives US citizenship to everyone targeted by the Trump administration.

Books acquired during this jaunt to San Francisco for #RSA2026 from Green Apple Books!

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Hero

this is the soundbite and we can make it stick

I was lamenting not having a portable project for RSA sessions, but then we went to Japan Town yesterday in SF and I found sashiko materials!

Happy first day of #RSA2026! @ehxlibris.bsky.social, @undomielise.bsky.social, and Tamara Mahadin, and I have made a new bingo card! Your prize is early modern bragging rights.

Features me, commenting: no one "is choosing to build infrastructure that will support the information needs of future generations... we should pour our scant resources into fixing the aftermath of the cyber-attacks on the British Library" instead of this... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Wow, San Francisco is worse than Boston for the feeling that you’re gonna land in the water!!

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

And every time libraries "step in" to do things, it's added load to library workers who too often are seen as "no one."

⭐NEW⭐ SHARP Reports! Hear from Jodie Lea Martire and Guillermo Pupo Pernet about how SHARP’s 25th Anniversary Fellowships supported their work! @sharpweb.org Jodie Lea Martire: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... Guillermo Pupo Pernet: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #SHARPat25

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

How are your shoulders? I hope they haven't got too friendly with your ears. You might want to stand up and do a few gentle shoulder rolls. Maybe a couple of side stretches. Refill your water glass while you're up.

#DHmakes folks with a few dollars to spare: here's a way to share the joy of craft. I sent them 528 self-adhesive googly eyes because, c'mon, everything is better with self-adhesive googly eyes. And I've got ꙮꙮ tattoos. 😅

PSA to everyone going to San Francisco for #RSA2026 next week! You should check out Green Apple Books because it is *such* a good bookstore. Probably my favorite bookstore, which is saying something for a book historian! And then you should go across the street to Schubert's Bakery & get some cake!

read that first paragraph if nothing else:

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

Attn book history/pedagogy/DH peeps! I'll be teaching a course on digital pedagogy and publishing/book history and you have two opportunities to catch it: 1) At DHSI-East (with zelda montes), May 5-8: www.stfx.ca/research/dig...

Nordic combined is the only Olympic sport that doesn't allow women to compete, despite athletes' efforts to change that. They say their odds for 2030 hinge on people watching men's events this week. n.pr/3MHquaZ

These are the squirrels (fox squirrels!) that live on the IU campus, and you can see why I call them cheeto squirrels! I genuinely thought they had rolled in cheeto/dorito garbage or something when I first got here. Now the gray squirrels in VA look like the squirrel printer lost toner to me!

Faith Ringgold (African American, 1930–2024). American Collection #1: We Came To America (1997, quilt). #BlackHistoryMonth

Shared by a friend from attending the Folsom Quilt Show Embiggen to see the words on the stripes 🙂‍↕️😢

Followers will know that my views on AI are nuanced, but it does seem to me that this should be given a higher profile. Related: AI companies keep knocking library, archive and museum catalogues offline by their relentless and inconsiderate automated scraping of content.

A greater honor for William & Mary than being a public ivy (Also but the irony of “Alma mater of the nation” being on this list)

PSA: Frederick Douglass was indeed born in February (1818), the record is at MSA, and it is likely (c.f. context clues) that he really was born on Feb. 14th

Someone at my dissertation coffee shop left a little origami crane in one of the divots in the brick

I have no partner, but I love my parents' first date. They met at a party my grandma *made* my mother go to, and my mom invited him to my grandparents' 25th wedding anniversary party that she was throwing. Dad went and was the good helpful dude he is, & all the neighborhood/church ladies loved him

I love the thought of a Jacquard loom (mentioned in the article) rising up to thwart its punch card progeny like this.

Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel. One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.

Friends: @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @sharpweb.org are teaming up for a non-guaranteed panel on “Modernism in Ephemeral Print” at MLA 2027, in LA. Consider submitting!

There are 70,000 people in DHS concentration camps. 3000 are children. Close the camps. Being our neighbors home.

El V Congreso Internacional Patrimonio Escrito en Circulación: Geografías del Libro en la Edad Moderna se celebrará en la Universidad Federal de Pernambuco (Brasil), del 3 al 4 diciembre de 2026. Envío de las propuestas hasta el 31 de mayo a [email protected] Idiomas: portugués, español e inglés

We are thrilled to announce that applications for our 1st round of Microgrant funding are now open! These small seed grants of up to $300 USD support exploratory research or new projects in periodical studies. Applications for this first round of funds are due March 1!

Shout out to the student journalists that have tirelessly covered their professors' ties to Epstein. My job would be much harder without them. See thread for some of my favorite recent student news pieces. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Heather Bamford's new book uses unpublished manuscripts to explore the practice of reading emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/n...