iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Another medievalist: Of course. This lacuna is characteristic of the β-family of manuscripts, likely deriving from a damaged exemplar.

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The only solution, as I've said for years, is for Speculum to be renamed Prostate Exam for the next century, then we can change it to something normal.

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Ships Might Be Very Important"

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hahaha, thank you! That's such a good summary of my career!

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love that I've created a professorial brand such that a student who took a class with me last semester and did a summer internship at a publisher has just left in my pigeonhole a YA steampunk/urban fantasy Sherlock Holmes-esque mystery novel for me to check out.

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was startled today looking at reviews of 1980s productions of medieval drama to come across a photo of a young Mark Heap. Who knew he started out in a theatre troup run by his brother Carl Heap, specializing in medieval drama & pageantry?!

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Jonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Page proofs have arrived! East Asian Medievalisms: Poetry, Media, Manga (Cambridge UP), coming soon. So excited to contribute to the Cambridge Elements series in the #GlobalMiddleAges and to create more dialogue across #AsianAmericanStudies and #AsianStudies. #MedievalSky

ID: Printout of proofs of a book cover with a separate printout of a title page.

The book cover is solid black with a partial image of a medieval Arabic astrolabe, and the text reads Cambridge Elements: The Global Middle Ages. East Asian Medievalisms, Jonathan Hsy.

The title page reads: Cambridge Elements, Elements in the Global Middle Ages, edited by Geraldine Heng, University of Texas at Austin; Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University.

East Asian Medievalisms: Poetry, Media, Manga. Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University. Cambridge University Press.

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today I learned a delightful fact about a 14th century English case in which two officious bailiffs tried to compel a man to enter into a service position under new labor laws, and the local vicar asked them what the hell they were doing and then excommunicated them.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I reviewed @profdarryljones.bsky.social's new biography of M. R. James. Long-awaited by fans, and surely the most important book about MRJ yet to appear this century: drfrancisyoung.com/2026/09/28/r... 📚👻📜

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Review: ‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ by Darryl Jones

Darryl Jones, For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James (Oxford University Press, 2026), 437pp. M. R. James did not make it easy for anyone to write his biography. He introduced this difficult…

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is bisexual visibility day! I am bisexual and while I usually prefer 'queer' as a label for a variety of reasons, bisexual visibility is important to me, not least because its invisibility to modern scholars has been used to erase the history of queer people!

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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So excited to get this one out in the world! 💞 @destinationtoast.bsky.social has been such a fantastic collaborator over the years. I was really pleased we got the ORIGIN STORY here alongside comparisons between 2013 AO3 and 2026 AO3. (Plus interesting thoughts about fandom stats as fanworks!)

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Crunching the Fandom Numbers

In 2013, curiosity about Johnlock fic led me to pull my first fandom stats. Today, the world of fandom data analysis is thriving.

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Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Toronto friends, this lecture is not to be missed ⬇️🔥

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Join us for “Hashtag Humanities: Scholars, Social Media, and Knowledge for the Public Good,” an ACLS Zoom event on 10/1, 2-3 PM ET. Learn how humanities PhDs are shaping cultural discourse by sharing and demystifying scholarly knowledge on social media. Register now bit.ly/4AciCCo

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Hashtag Humanities - A Live Zoom Event 10/1/26

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Really delighted to see the fruition of this NCS project to get early Chaucer editor Edith Rickert a gravestone, catalyzed (iirc) by a paper by Bridget Whearty a while back about communal care for the dead. newchaucersociety.org/page/EdithRi...

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Edith Rickert Fund complete - New Chaucer Society

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I appreciate that some people do get interrupted in their offices more than I do. But thankfully my corridor has some kind of forcefield that means that casual drop-ins can't find it, and I love my office.

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I appreciate that my colleagues want me (on leave) to feel unobligated but the "WHY ARE YOU HERE?" reactions are beginning to make me self-conscious. Sorry I didn't get any other fellowships, I live in a tiny apartment, my wife works from home and coffee costs $14, where else am I supposed to work?!

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Being on leave is great except my whole being resonates to the academic calendar, and my subconscious absolutely cannot figure out why I haven't done class prep and keeps treating me to dreams where e.g. I realize 30min before the Latin final that I haven't written the exam.

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also, side note, but the chess set that Peter plays Harriet makes a cameo in a Mercedes Lackey urban fantasy novel in such a way that it reveals that one of the wizards in that novel is entirely based on Peter Wimsey. Iirc it's this one (he's on the cover!) - www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...

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The Wizard of London (Elemental Masters, Book 4)

The Wizard of London (Elemental Masters, Book 4) [Lackey, Mercedes] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Wizard of London (Elemental Masters, Book 4)

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The research project headed out to his first day of first grade today! Hard to believe he's so big. Six and 3/4, and immensely tall and perfect.

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ok I've listened and a) I was totally fascinated by the point you made about how it resonates with an awful recent case, and b) I can't believe you talked about the crossdressing (which I never noticed) and not about the VERY formative dog collar scene.

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I laughed out loud in recognition

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In conversation w/ minority scholars over the past days, we have asked ourselves what our university would do if the media storm comes for us. Would it even know where to begin? Would it make us do even more labour by asking us what action we require? Would it make backlash an impact case study?

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Very good post and thread. If you've any interest in this case at all - academic accuses comic artist of plagiarizing her book about queer history - this is worth reading.

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

To me, allowing the idea that AI itself is a 'worker' of any kind continues to obscure the real exploitation that is happening. Even if AIs DO gain sentience (which I don't believe is either possible or the goal of AI companies) that will still be true.

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Of COURSE the stated goal is a lie. The goal is to conceal very cheap labor (low-level AI trainers in developing nations and the people whose work supports data centers, water, and power) beneath vastly expensive computer labor (money for which goes to AI companies).

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

(and, what i think is most useful, a summary of the key issues across different facets of media studies, like labor, copyright, (post)production, etc.)

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It is hard to imagine a rollout plan for administrative changes that could cause more chaos than the one my august institution has chosen.

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I use "Jessie's girl" as an example of the fine line between homosociality and homoeroticism when teaching Eve Sedgwick to undergrads and without fail only 10% have heard the song and they judge me. (I use other examples too.)

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I signed this petition to protest sweeping cuts at the University of Exeter which threaten to devastate its world-renowned humanities departments. c.org/9GXdxQzL7X

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A student notified me that I was quoted in this youtube short on RPF ethics. Straight in the tenure file? (The quote is from an article in Teen Vogue I was interviewed for) www.youtube.com/shorts/P3OTS...

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Is HudCon actually "problematic"?

YouTube video by Jessica Kellgren-Fozard

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