Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

You can volunteer to be a citizen historian at the Smithsonian.

Hold up

me when I see your aurora borealis pics

My dog sulking and giving me an accusing look when I leave for work.

Why does Clarissa, the largest Penguin, not simply eat the other Penguins?

So cute!!! I love it!! Thank you for drawing Uni 😭

I, as I have done for three or four nights, studying something of Arithmetique, which do please me well to see myself come forward.

We probably all need this right now: Japanese surrealist Tohukiro Kawai’s saintly cats. 🐈 🐱 www.gyokuei.tokyo/globalstore?...

The Bruce Peel special collections library at UAlberta recently acquired a Bible in moon, and I'm so excited—you might even say that I'm over the moon about it. It's a 1960s reproduction of a mid-1800s volume (moon was invented in the 1840s). Unfortunately. It's only volume 1 (of 3).

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

Pizza, Pretzel, Donut, Dog

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰

"What the hell do you think spies are?...They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me." Born today, Richard Burton. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965).

A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect maps.nls.uk/view/218516888

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

10/10 NO NOTES

New news!

ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express

Job alert! @ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Long Island friends! I'm heading back to where I grew up for 3 great book tour events this weekend! Sat 11-1pm Barnes & Noble Stony Brook book signing 4-6pm Northport Books w/ bookstore owner Jenn McAuliffe Sun 2pm Emma S. Clark Library event "Scholars & Spies" w/ Elyse Graham (Book & Dagger)

Tag yourself, I'm Twelfth Night.

Excited to reveal the cover of my book, MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION, which is available for pre-order now!

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

Very pleased that I was able, while at the copyediting stage for an article, to use my college notebooks to confirm an anecdote from college.

“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”

The kids made bar graphs of their remaining Halloween candy, which look like unusually delicious data visualizations. http://t.co/ugcfi0KOiJ

'Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.' Tennyson was a great fan of William Webbe who painted this exquisite picture in 1856. Though Webbe is included in Percy Bate's early study of the Pre Raphaelite movement, he remains a mysterious figure.

Arthur Sze, "Library of Congress," 2025. (Reblogged from the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies)

Delighted to share that "Book and Dagger" is Barnes & Noble's monthly nonfiction pick! www.barnesandnoble.com/b/books/awar...

Teaching the classics @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social

Happy Halloween! Every year I draw on pumpkins. Here are this year’s batch, including a few picked from my own garden.

View of Delft, 1661. Sunlight splashes through soft clouds onto weathered hardness of brick & stone. Breathtaking. Vermeer, born OTD 1632.

"I shall never forget the weekend Laura died." This year's classic film-themed Halloween costume is the painting of Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt in the film noir LAURA (1944), directed by Otto Preminger.

a wee bit 'o Burns for Halloween

Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today Coming next month (oh hey @maproomblog.com !) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

One day until Halloween 🧪☠️🔩⚡️🧟‍♂️

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

You can't go to a WWII spy training camp, but this quiz will help you to find the type of WWII spycraft you're best suited for: www.instagram.com/p/DQZtoyoj7ud/

Distinguished Professor etc. etc., to me: "Once I accidentally said, 'Come at me, bro' at an academic conference."

truly the worst thing about being 39 is that the odds of me ever being referred to as “the enfant terrible of George Herbert studies” are asymptotically approaching zero

Nothing beats this badass gambling monk with glasses #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast

How I saw my professors | How professors see each other

How are my four black socks four different shades of black?

Victor on a trip to New Haven