Calling #Skystorians #MedievalSky the 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School (formerly the Keele summer school) is open for bookings. 27-31 July in Birmingham. 👇 palaeography.uk/study/short-...

WTF.

Poets and poetry lovers, do you have a few minutes to complete a survey on line breaks? It’s part of a research project led by one of my graduate students. Please feel free to share. Thanks for considering. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

JOB ALERT! 📜📚 Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin? apply.workable.com/middleburyco...

A reminder that Girl Scouting of America has welcomed trans and nonbinary girls from the first one that asked, has always had lesbian and bi members and adults, never declared bankruptcy to avoid paying for sexual assaults, and never poached the other side to recover from said bankruptcy.

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

CFP: Humanities Methods in Librarianship, Issue 1 • Explorations of concepts re: ‘library’, ‘librarians’, ‘librarianship’ • Disciplinary investigations of LIS • Humanistic analyses of LIS practices/infrastructures • Autoethnographies, oral histories, interviews cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/call-fo...

"In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works . . . These books are slim and ephemeral . . . Most other repositories of rare books in the Muslim world don’t think they’re worth collecting."

Puzzle Binding! Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just... Had One??? And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

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...

I commented on an article about CA property taxes on Facebook and now am being besieged by grouchy, greedy boomers 😢

In New York.

Hello, I wrote this with @ewg118.bsky.social back in 2017. www.forbes.com/sites/drsara... I stand by it. 🗑️

And that was after a decade of cuts

Jack in the box tacos with extra hot sauce. There's no explaining it. Vile yet delicious

On the train home from RenSA26, and what a lovely conference

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

I don't think I've seen a statement like this before: Why Warner University Stands Against Student Use of AI warner.edu/why-warner-u...

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.

Who, exactly, does he think are his voters?

It's been a very hard week, but I'm here in San Francisco in the sunshine and it's still beautiful

Good post about using AI to reformat bibliographies Unsurprisingly, it'll mess it up in ways that are easy to miss!

RBS has been integral to helping librarians Megan Kelly & Rebecca Flore make the medieval collections in their libraries more accessible to researchers. Read about their efforts at rarebookschool.org/impact-story-cataloging-fragments-in-chicago @lisafdavis.bsky.social @newberrylibrary.bsky.social

A.C. Gilbert, the American inventor who created the Erector Set & other educational toys, was born #OnThisDay in 1884. Perhaps the most (in)famous of Gilbert's creations was the Atomic Energy Lab, which let kids perform over 150 exciting experiments w/radioactivity! #histSTM #histsci #physics ⚛️🗃️📜

‪Job! Technician for the Book Arts & Letterpress Lab with Karen Zimmerman and the School of Art's 2D Print Studio at the University of Arizona arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

𝗨𝗩𝗔 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱 & 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: Take an RBS course 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 this summer! RBS-UVA Fellows receive free tuition plus a $𝟮𝟱𝟬 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱. The program also awards a $𝟱𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 to the most distinguished project each year. Fellowship apps due 𝟵 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/rbs-uva

An excellent thread if you're ready to break out of the monolingual world of English. You can also learn some great tricks we know in area studies, like how to get something out of a talk that's about something in a language you don't speak. Come join us! #MultilingualDH

Portrait of Mattheo Lopes, Ambassador of the King of Ardra [now southern Benin] to Louis XIV, made c. 1670-1680 (British Museum)

Perched on the edge of the mudflow, Biblioteca Marsiano, a public library in the Sicilian town of Niscemi, hangs over the void. Its basement holds more than 4,000 rare and valuable books. The library lies in the “black zone”, off-limits even to firefighters. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

If yours in Santa Clara County in District CA-17, there are some resources being provided tomorrow afternoon by @rokhanna.bsky.social’s office during the Super Bowl in light of increased ICE presence.

School garden flower report #CaliforniaNativePlants

"If you haven't washed your hands, the bathrooms are by the elevator"

I am very excited to report that a project I have been working on for 3+ years is finally seeing the light of day! Along with @byzcapp.bsky.social and Jesse Torgerson, we debut a new annual section in Digital Philology that proposes the dataset as a new genre of publication. odfms.hcommons.org

Mark Kelly voting for Trump's judicial nominees remains truly insane.

The Frankish monk Rabanus Maurus died #OTD in 856. His ‘De laudibus sanctae crucis’ (a series of poems on the cross) involves complex imagery, the letters within it making new texts. Here’s the first printed edition of the text, produced at Pforzheim in 1503. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Tb.51.57.

Supreme Court refuses to block new California congressional districts that favor Democrats trib.al/vlPxlD0

Altadena Library to Help Lead $1.2 Million Countywide Effort to Preserve Wildfire Memories 📚 pasadenanow.com/main/altaden...

Always great to dig in the collection: small 1588 book by Bonaventure Bertram bound in 11th century gospel of Matthew. 😍😍

ICE is no longer an immigration enforcement agency. It has become Trump’s domestic army. If my “conservative” colleagues truly believe in small government, they should join us in demanding an end to masked federal agents terrorizing communities across this country.

For decades, students at the Ecole Philippe Gaulier have been paying to bomb onstage. The goal isn't laughs — it's learning how to take the humiliation and keep going.

FAO current UK PhD students: Check out the PhD placement scheme by @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Applications for the 2026-27 scheme are open until 27 February 2026: www.bl.uk/services/res... Something for everyone but especially #medievalsky #bookhistory #digitalhumanities

I think it's no coincidence that my school, which uses electronic devices very sparingly, is full of kids who carry around novels, enthuse about their favorite assigned readings, recommend books from my study hall bookcase to each other, and sneak manga-reading under their desk during class.

Announcing the Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars for 2026 Regular registration is open until 26 April 2026. Numbers are limited so please register early to guarantee a place. EXCUSE CROSS-POSTINGS – PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

In today’s cataloging pile, a small group of handbills and posters relating to an 1888 US railroad strike. These were posted in Superior, Nebraska.