Rick Steves from 2014: "The more I travel, the clearer it seems to me: Fear is for people who don't get out much. These people don't see the world firsthand, so their opinions end up being shaped by sensationalistic media coverage geared toward selling ads."

Look just tell Newton you actually made the Philosopher’s Stone and that’s what you used to resurrect him, and that’ll cut things down quite a bit. Then you get to make up what your fake alchemical processes were!

I know I use this more for book history and DH friends, but if there are #GLAM and #ILS / #LIS friends at ASIS&T, I'd love to say hi!

Taxi driver about my 2 heavy suitcases, one full of books: what do you have in there, gold?!? Kudos to him, his second guess was books, and both him and the guy managing the taxi stand nodded knowingly when I said I was a PhD student #BookHistory

This year, HMML’s Systems department completed improvements to the HMML Data Portal (vhmml.org/dataPortal), reducing the runtime from seven hours to 10 minutes. Use Data Portal to create & download a custom dataset from HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org), for research or digital humanities projects.

Also, highly useful for research to figure out who might have published books that would be useful for you (I used it for the SHARP bibliographies in the very beginning)

Where is a copy of Radway to chuck at some ignorant people when you need it? #BookHistory (though we should totally adopt the term "book hangover" in book history)

I'd guess that 85-90% of American scientists would be ineligible for future funding under this law, maybe close to 100% in the R1 universities. So much for funding proposals based on scientific merit. Apart from being sinophobes, the people pushing this have no clue how science or higher ed works.

Newsies, R&H Cinderella, Hello Dolly are great, but my v biased best is Happy Days the Musical No one’s ever heard of it, but the songs are great especially the juxtaposition between Fonzi’s “I’m the best” song (Snap) and the later “You ain’t shit” song (Ayy-mless) sung by a female chorus

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Calling all archaeologists who can help with this project by skyping into a classroom!

Free DHy zine alert! @capnpilot.bsky.social's * "CTRL+S: Preserving Your Work for the Long Haul" (plan, preserve/archive resilient digital projects, so that when time to sunset them, is easy to preserve core attributes) * "Web-Native Cryptids & Creatures: A Spotter’s Guide" (web safety+literacy)

The hosts of CodEX Machina invited me to talk about my crazy research. Curious about reading in New Spain? Literacy? Censorship? The Inquisition? I got you covered (also available in Apple and Pocket Casts). #BookHistory #NewSpain #Reading creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Does anyone in the #bookhistory or #history space know of a good article about the “publishing war” between the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmer’s Almanac?

Come work here at Illinois! We have two Diversity Residency Visiting positions open. I'm chairing one of the two searches: www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs

#BookHistory!

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now. If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine

Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.

Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres

Called Warner and left a message, Kaine’s phone wouldn’t let you leave a message outside of business hours, so I decided to call Walkinshaw and leave a message and his mailbox was full. So perhaps that’s a good sign that people are pissed

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

Wrote about the complex process of building a 7-color print from metal type & ornament. www.starshaped.com/blog/2025/11...

Decided today was a day where I needed Disney movie as the background to working on this bookseller inventory. Robin Hood seemed appropriate (though it's also my favorite. I wore out the VHS...) And now you too have this music in your head :D

#GLAM friends, quite a lot of you went to IU for your undergrad, MLS, and PhD! Those of us still here would appreciate alumni support against the upper administration’s nonsense, especially in regard to academic/intellectual freedom

Hey Indiana Hoosier friends: I signed up.

Here, Rosalind Franklin's colleague Maurice himself argues to the head of their lab in London that their data should not have been leaked to Watson and Crick. You're welcome.

That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating. And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.

It’s funny how your archival notes can take you back: “nasty dirt case with purple mold” 😂 I might have actually been given gloves for this one bc it was gross #BookHistory (This is a will of a scribe who leaves some books to people)

The Pope out here guest lecturing in the iSchools.

#BookHistory! This is a hybrid panel so please do join us even if you’re not in Bloomington!

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

"The people who aren't in charge are keeping the people who are in charge from being in charge because they're not in charge, we are!" says one of the men who is in charge but somehow is not?

Me in my advising meeting this week: Advisor: So how was Spain? Me: I found another bookseller inventory! 😇 Advisor: 🙄(with humor) Me: I knew that was gonna be your reaction....I swear it's the last new data! It's only 200 entries! It's got medicine! And it'll be great for ch 3! Advisor: Fiiinneee 😂

A fun puzzle of "what the heck does the scribe mean by this entry?!?" tonight: "hoposarium hornatun" 👇 Opus aureum ornatum by Antonio Gislandi #BookHistory

And the type form.

So excited to be presenting our paper at VIS tomorrow! I have so many gorgeous examples and pictures to share from so many people. Overwhelming thanks to everyone who took our survey, and looking forward to continuing the project soon so stay tuned! #ieeevis #datatextiles #DHmakes #datavis

This paper was a delightful read this afternoon! In coding survey responses, they've worked out a taxonomy for different aspects of textile dataviz that I think will be helpful for some of the students in the Data Visualization with Textiles class next spring. Go give it a look! #DHmakes

This is book history

This week!!! Friday is Dunmore Day!!! Feat. a bunch of my recent research on Black history in the Revolutionary War in the Chesapeake that very few people have gotten to hear yet. Good stuff imho

I'm reminded of something @anandwrites.bsky.social said in response to conservative claims that NYC isn't the "real America" - he said something along the lines of: "New York is where your kids go when you won't love them for who they are." Cities ARE the nation.

what is full stack feminism? new @dhquarterly.bsky.social piece by Caroline Bassett, Kylie Jarrett & @swebb.bsky.social on intersectional feminist #digitalhumanities ✨ dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000... #dh @fullstackfeminism.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social @sussexdigitalhums.bsky.social

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

Oh, and after all the millions of dollars spent on advertising, the harmful policies and all the demagoguery... Stop. Picking. On. Trans. Kids. The Rs lost to me four times in six years. That should've been a hint. But apparently it wasn't, so the voters made their thoughts crystal clear tonight.

Preliminary results for Governor-elect Spanberger in NOVA: Alexandria: 83% Arlington: 83.61% Fairfax city: 72.18% Fairfax County: 73.49% Falls Church: 84.45% Loudoun: 64.25% Manassas: 65.13% Manassas Park: 70.81% Prince William: 66.71% Reopen the government and make the ACA actually affordable.

4) I'm a lifelong NOVA resident. We have a *lot* of regional squabbles. We have both incredible wealth and major poverty -- and that's just in my district, let alone the rest of the area. Yes, we have our differences. But tonight, we coalesced. We came together as Northern Virginia and turned up.

3) They wrecked NOVA's economy, firing our workers and contractors, and then furloughing those who are left by shutting down the government for the purpose of making sure people can't afford health insurance. Or food for that matter. WTH did they think was going to happen at the ballot box?

2) The 9 localities that make up Northern Virginia -- PWC, Manassas, MP, Loudoun, Fairfax County, Fairfax city, Falls Church, Arlington and Alexandria -- evicted the Republican Party from our delegation to the General Assembly. In 2026, they will have 0 members in the Senate and House of Delegates.