Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 21h🍿 www.askamanager.org/2026/09/the-...askamanager.orgthe cup meltdown, the "Lost" finale, and other tantrums you've witnessed at workRecently we talked about coworkers throwing tantrums at work, and here are 15 of my favorite stories you shared. 1. The cup My office kitchen has a dish drying rack next to the sink. We don’t have off... 000
Reposted by Annie the BookNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22hI've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful: 4253123
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 22hDoes anyone know of a good feed reader that doesn't use/offer AI? I switched to Feedly after Google Reader was nixed and I need to find something that isn't so eager to get me to pay them money for features and AI bullshit. 111
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 22hReason #6512 why I love working at a library: a student just showed me a zoetrope they made. Just sent them upstairs to find books about Eadweard Muybridge. #LibraryLife 3141
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 22hQotD, Watchmen edition. Me: Sometimes a blue peen is just a blue peen. #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems 030
Reposted by Annie the BookChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres 7413116
Reposted by Annie the BookJack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day. 561747364
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I also got to tell them a bit about the British use of radar and how they used the "carrots help our pilots see your planes in the dark" story as a cover: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carr...smithsonianmag.comCarrots Can't Help You See in the Dark. Here's How a World War II Propaganda Campaign Popularized the MythThe British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the Royal Air Force relied on top-secret radar 010
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I just earned a bit of bro cred by talking about WWII-era bombers, tanks, and tactics during this morning's research workshop. Seriously, everything I learn is professional development because that knowledge keeps coming in useful with student topics. #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems 030
Reposted by Annie the BookJoseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Don't Let Them Theory: Hey Knock That Off You Little Shit 05013
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Secrets! Betrayals! Redemption! Nneoma Ike-Njoku's The Water House is utterly gothic: www.abookishtype.com/2026/09/29/t... #BookReview 💙📚abookishtype.comThe Water House, by Nneoma Ike-NjokuCelia has spent most of her life exiled from the Nigerian island where she grew up. She was sent away to a lackluster boarding school after her brother drowned near their home. Even after she gradu… 030
Reposted by Annie the BookDr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every information storage mechanism is a series of trade-offs between portablity, accessibility, maintenance, and durability, and nothing we have created beats ink on paper in a hard binding. 1264
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"‘Big Short’ Investor Expects AI Bubble Burst ‘Sooner Than Later’": gizmodo.com/big-short-in...static.klipy.comSickos Haha YesALT: Sickos Haha Yes 020
Reposted by Annie the BookOliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Uhh pretty mad no one in my MLIS program told me that Vampire Librarian was an option 🩸🧛📚 082
Reposted by Annie the BookMARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026nothing can go wrong if we tell the cataloger to teach a library instruction session for a comparative literature seminar on the Brothers Grimm, they said 010928
Reposted by Annie the BookKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752391423
Reposted by Annie the BookL. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026Periodic reminder that dropping a note telling a writer you liked a thing they wrote takes like 4.5 seconds and recharges our batteries for 27-28 hours a pop 2320102
Reposted by Annie the BookAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026I think students should read full books. 1065376
Reposted by Annie the BookShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This thread is so important because it gets at the AI industry’s central failure of imagination. While I’ve met exceptions to the rule in Silicon Valley, most human beings do not reduce their sense of being alive to a stream of successive task completions, and find it a truly alienating vision. 28832
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Last week on the booksellers: angry booksellers, the ethics of amateur detecting, authors looking under the hoods of classic literature, library closures, and censorship news. www.abookishtype.com/2026/09/27/l... 💙📚abookishtype.comLast week on the bookish internetLivia Gershon researches the experiences of traveling women booksellers in the 1800s. (Daily JSTOR) Ethan Penny and Dan Milmo report on a deal between Oxford University and OpenAI to use materials … 030
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026History! History? History* Rebecca Parry muses on what we can know and not know in May We Feed the King: www.abookishtype.com/2026/09/25/m... #BookReview 💙📚abookishtype.comMay We Feed the King, by Rebecca ParryRebecca Parry’s novel, May We Feed the King, is a meditation on how we create history. In these pages, we follow an unnamed curator who designs scenes to help visitors metaphorically step int… 010
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's a quarter(ish) after 5:00 on a Friday and I just wrapped a long in-person research question at the reference desk, during which two students showed up with questions via chat. Death of reference service, my (tired) ass! #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems 040
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026History trivia can be weirdly important when helping students find copies of things not in the library. Just now: Student: I need [book]. Me: Ooh, we have some similar sounding books. Who's the author? S: Montesquieu? Me: He's been dead for ages. We can find him for free online. S: And ... 220
Reposted by Annie the BookGet To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 25/09/2026They’re trying to close the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philly (or The Dinosaur Museum as it was known in my house when my kid was little.) Here’s a thread with a simple way to help keep it open. It’s been around since 1812 for goodness sake! 05433
Reposted by Annie the BookBethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I was accosted - - on the spot to explain - Emily. The library held but just ourselves - And all her poetry. 011
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Things I love about my job #91245: walking into the library in the morning and getting pulled into some on-the-spot explication of Emily Dickinson. #LibraryLife 130
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today's research help tangent led to the work of Louis Wain and his increasingly abstract (schizophrenic) cat drawings: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_W... #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblemsen.wikipedia.orgLouis Wain - Wikipedia 030
Reposted by Annie the BookJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Get hexed, lovely people 227333
Reposted by Annie the Bookkelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026On the latest episode of Liberating Lit, Dr. Emily Knox talks about why protecting the right to read is social justice work and shares some powerful advice for literary advocates just getting started or starting to feel the weight of burnout: www.liberatinglit.com/episodes/epi...liberatinglit.comEpisode Two: Dr. Emily Knox — Liberating LitFor the second episode of Liberating Lit, get to know the work of Dr. Emily Knox. Knox’s expansive knowledge and experience with book censorship across American history informs so much of the work bei... 22413
Reposted by Annie the BookMatthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I can't get over this. It reminds me of Emma Goldman talking about drinking really good wine for the first time and realizing that working class people should be able to access culture and goods usually reserved only for the wealthy. Good art should belong to everyone! 45516
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Lethal books! Schemes! Hubris! Premee Mohamed and Jonathan Sims make books actually dangerous in From the Library of Jurgen Leitner: www.abookishtype.com/2026/09/23/f... #BookReview 💙📚abookishtype.comFrom the Library of Jurgen Leitner, by Premee Mohamed and Jonathan SimsMost people are speaking metaphorically when they say that books are dangerous. Jurgen Leitner is deadly serious when he talks about the books he’s spent his life collecting. And judging by t… 010
Reposted by Annie the BookCenter for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 24/09/2026ICYMI: Beluga whales need your help! The Cook Inlet, where these sensitive whales live, is being eyed as the new home for an underwater #DataCenter. The noise alone could spell destruction for these precious animals! Don't let Cook Inlet belugas become the latest casualty of the #AI boom.act.biologicaldiversity.orgSave Cook Inlet Belugas From an Underwater Data CenterThe Trump administration is considering a preliminary permit application for an underwater data center in Alaska, right in the middle of critical habitat for endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales. Tell ... 11264212
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Everything I learn about is professional development, #52349: Not sure where I learned about this, but I just helped a student researching the CSI effect & misleading forensic evidence by telling them about the Phantom of Heilbronn. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom... #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblemsen.wikipedia.orgPhantom of Heilbronn - Wikipedia 231
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just attended yet another meeting about AI and, as usual, I'm left thinking that we need to do a better job teaching people how to read, write, and search for/vet information. Because I'm comfortable doing all of these things, I don't see a lot of use for the kinds of tools ... 130
Reposted by Annie the Bookdr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hwæt! We Capūlets in gærdagum þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða Montagūen ellen fremedon 511045
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Heckling from historians and linguists is a big part of why I hang out on bluesky. 050
Reposted by Annie the BookKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Rumors about “rigged elections" are now a fixture of U.S. elections, leading to diminished trust in election results & democracy (broadly). These rumors can sometimes be hard to debunk, esp. in their early stages. Our UW team has identified the 6 common ways that election integrity rumors mislead: 15503223
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Today in the library: * Very briefly explaining the differences between communism, socialism, and capitalism * How to become a librarian (for English majors) * We have books for that! (figure drawing) * You can check out as many books as you can carry #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems 060
Reposted by Annie the BookPhilip Scarecrowgmeier. @flipwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hey y'all! The comment period to defend the Roadless Rule in national forests has been extended until October 6th! action.outdooralliance.org/a/roadless-d...action.outdooralliance.orgDefend The Roadless RuleThe USDA is moving ahead with plans to rescind the Roadless Rule, putting 45 million acres of backcountry forests at risk. Tell the USDA to protect backcountry recreation. 012
Reposted by Annie the BookGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 2821991232
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026New rule: if your nonfiction book is longer than, say, 200 pages of prose text, you are NOT allowed to use end notes. Gah! 010
Reposted by Annie the BookJeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026Okay this jogged loose something I've had half-written for a while now: Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paper denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2026/09/desp...denimandtweed.jbyoder.orgDespite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paperScience is difficult, but not for the reason you think. It’s not that conceiving a research program is difficult. It’s not that planning and performing an experiment or observational st… 523795
Reposted by Annie the BookThe Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Less: ChatGPT More: Researching amidst the flickering lanterns of an old-fashioned library in Prague during a raging thunderstorm with the help of a library ghost. 973787
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Last week on the bookish internet: romance novels as remedial sex ed, censorship news, a book tracking quilt!, Jules Verne, encouraging people to read, and more. www.abookishtype.com/2026/09/20/l... 💙📚abookishtype.comLast week on the bookish internetAndy Weiss discusses the latest scheme by private equity: buying up the rights and properties of dead authors. (The Ankler) Caroline Eubanks explains how romance novels answer important questions l… 040
Reposted by Annie the BookMalevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back" 11568081526
Reposted by Annie the BookGrandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Pyrrhonism [PEER-uh-NIZ-um] (n.) 1. Extreme or universal skepticism; profound doubt. Used in a sentence: “Eudora Dinkle maintained a staunch Pyrrhonism toward medical advice, meteorological forecasts, and anything printed in the Pucklebriar Weekly Newsletter.” 49536
Reposted by Annie the BookMonica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026For those who want to follow along (& I have to say, at this point, I have no idea how many days this will take), I want to give a "deep dive" into how historians of medicine (#histmed) who work on the pre-modern/pre-print era actually go about researching a question. Today, I just discovered this: 413634
![The first part of an entry for a 13th-century English cardinal, Hugh of Evesham, who is said to have died in Rome in 1287 as the result of either "pestilence" or poisoning. Below is both the French text and an English translation.
"Hugues Atratus de Evesham. - Né à Evesham (Angleterre), il fréquenta les Universités de son pays natal, puis celles de France et d'Italie, se livrant surtout à l'étude des mathématiques et de la médecine. Il obtint des prébendes ecclésiastiques en Angleterre et fut appelé à Rome, en 1280, pour donner son avis sur des questions médicales. On a prétendu, à tort selon Marini, qu’il avait été le médecin du pape Martin IV, qui le fit cardinal."
"Hugh (the Black) of Evesham. Born at Evesham (England), he attended the universities of his home country, then those of France and Italy, focusing especially on the study of mathematics and medicine. He secured ecclesiastical prebends [appointments] in England and was called to Rome in 1280 to give his advice on medical matters. It is said (erroneously, according to Marini) that he was the (personal) physician to Pope Martin IV [r. 1281-1285], who made him a cardinal.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twqucin7jqhlteuk37lqltr7/bafkreibhft6retz3lci4no6celltonyojiogbktouakcjrivth5e3hyjjq)
![The latter part of an entry from Wickersheimer's 1936 biographical dictionary of medieval French medical practitioners, for a 13th-century English cardinal, Hugh of Evesham, who is said to have died in Rome in 1287 as the result of either "pestilence" or poisoning. Below is both the French text and an English translation.
"Il mourut à Rome, en 1287, du poison suivant les uns, de la peste suivant d'autres[2] et fut enterré dans l'église Saint-Laurent « in Lucina ». Il composa divers ouvrages dont deux de médecine, Canones medicinales et Super opere febrium Isaac[3]; le seul qui ait été conservé est un Sermo in dominica Septuagesime [4]."
He died in Rome, in 1287, from poisoning according to some, from "pestilence" according to others, and was interred in the church of Saint Laurence in Lucina. He composed various works of which two were on medicine: "Medical Canons" and "On Isaac [Israeli's] Work on Fevers." His only work that survives is a sermon on Septuagint Sunday [the ninth Sunday before Easter].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twqucin7jqhlteuk37lqltr7/bafkreibfavaliqanxfw3imo4xt5qfmgfegg4iu7e5j7hnwp62mztojj5ne)
