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Ashley Howard

@ashleydhow.bsky.social
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Ecocriticism | early modern | soundscapes 🌻 “I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree” PhD Candidate @ U of British Columbia

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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A rather poignant example of the future we create through micro decisions—whether to use AI, software, etc. This is what Word suggested for my essay about a 16th century poem (Donne’s Twickenham Garden)
Snippet of text from a Word document where the line “the balms are ineffective” has a suggestion to change “balms to “bombs”
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Odysseus to Sinon: “You know, sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just, literally, 20 seconds of just embarrassing bravery”
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
For all the criticism of Nolan’s film, I’d like to see just one review written in dactylic hexameter
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
August is basically one long episode of the sunday scaries 🥲
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The film has issues, but there are parts I genuinely loved from a literary perspective. I have so many conference paper ideas… can’t imagine how a classicist must feel 😅
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The skeletons are so polite!! I love how the woodblock becomes a miniature coffin :-)
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Listening to the Odyssey soundtrack while writing the final pages of my last dissertation chapter. It feels apt. At least I didn’t grow a beard for this
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’m from the depths of frozen Alberta, so I definitely misread that 😂🥂 I’m glad you’re enjoying it!
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Oh wow… the “feels like” temperature is 47. I hope you’re all staying safe
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 10/07/2026
Hidden within the rings of ancient trees is an archive stretching back thousands of years. Today’s Essay explores the exciting discoveries dendrochronologists have made through decoding these rings. buff.ly/rmzOhXq
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Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨ @wolfproofpress.com · 11/07/2026
if u like dog+history, #icymi the "Dogges Names of Olde" print is $5 & uses actual 15th-century dog names from historical records (people named their dogs "best of all" centuries ago 😭 that one in the print is from my cartoon of my best hound Maple) store.wolfproofpress.com/product/dogg...
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
nervously deletes first line of phd thesis
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Thanks for your talk today, I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts! A bit of divine intervention—as you were speaking, my university gave me pre-screen tickets to the movie. Good fortune :-)
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hearing about these poems was the highlight I needed this week! I first came to A.M. Juster through his translations of Milton’s latin poems—such a wonderful poet and person
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Alas, trouble and regrets (am I doing this right?)
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
That captures it perfectly! I’m still getting the hang of bluesky (like saying you’re starting sourdough in 2026), but hoping it’ll feel similar 💛
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m loving the memes! But this also reminds me how much I miss peak twitter 🥲
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The complete bibliography for the course is likely “Many, many people”
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
That pup is the key stake holder :-)
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
🇨🇦💛
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Petition to announce the next papal election via demo derby smoke!
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
There’s always at least one dish that Shakespeare apparently invented!
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The more I think about this, the funnier it gets… grant proposal, birthday card, teletubbies 🥲
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Given how hollow and wooden it is, I half expect a troupe of Greeks to pop out
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m so sorry, but we’ll be rivals on July 4th! Go Canada! 🇨🇦🍁
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Agreed—we need stronger policies about what tech companies can do, not how long kids (and adults) access it. Smartphone Nation talks about how things like medicine and kids’ toys have rigorous safety checks, yet media doesn’t
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Ferris wheel for scale really is the chef’s kiss
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Mine was Sinclair Ross… As for Me and My House. We should at least get breadsticks, with a generous dusting of cheese
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I saw these at Butchart gardens in Victoria, also while escaping the heat. From our island to yours!
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The english muffin is the finest carb. With fresh basil from the garden!
Photo of a toasted english muffin with chive cheese, sliced tomato, and fresh basil, on a white and blue plate.
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Your garden is beautiful! We don’t have tomatoes yet, but here are some little lanterns :-)
Photo of redvein abutilon, with two red flowers hanging down like lanterns.
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is how I feel when people tell me about renaissance fairs. They spark zero joy. (A medieval castle, on the other hand…)
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Maybe a solid musical number could have saved them 🥲
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
He is perfect and I 100% support you adopting this fellow!
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I wasn’t brave enough to venture downtown, but the energy in Vancouver was amazing today too! :’)
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Congratulations on your book launch—I’m really looking forward to it!
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is brilliant! I’m invested in the veggies now. Thanks for sharing :-)
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
AI has made me more self-conscious about using emojis too. For some reason, chatgpt loves a ✨
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Not the crispest shot, but here’s a hummingbird from UBC in return :-)
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The deluge is easier than the drip (a proverb, surely?)
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Must include one (1) plant and a pomodoro timer
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Know you’re getting old when a group of students thanks you when they leave the elevator, like public transit 😅
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
If the new Stephen Greenblatt book (…thriller novel?) gives me more distress than excitement, have I levelled up as a scholar?
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Heywood! If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody?
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We’re in the business of IT, if she means it’s, its, and tis 😅
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
“Loanword” and “borrowed” are so funny. Will the languages one day come knocking, asking for their lexemes back?
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I avoid AI text partly to spare myself future embarrassment. It's like editing photos in the 2000s and thinking no one could tell (harsh vignette, over exposed—so natural). I think we’ll look back and cringe 😬
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Opened a favourite book from my shelf and this guy crawled out. The book is about insects, or “lesser living creatures,” so I’m pretty sure the spider is a paid actor :)
An open book showing the table of contents with a very small spider walking across it.
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Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
By far my favourite food project! I first baked your Lady Chanworth’s jumballs as an undergrad—9 years ago :)
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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Cooking in the Archives is 11! 🎉 I still love the first recipe on the site: Maccarony Cheese. rarecooking.com/2014/06/30/m...
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Maccarony Cheese
For our inaugural recipe, we thought, why not start with an eighteenth-century mac-and-cheese?  It’s a modern-day American classic and perhaps the ultimate comfort food. This recipe co…
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