Reposted by Maria SnyderRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 5hMe, walking into @illinoisrbml.bsky.social to inspect the spread @caitcoker.bsky.social has out for my class’ visit Me: Wow a 1st American edition of *Moby Dick* in which someone pasted newspaper articles about whaling & reviews of the book Me: do we know who pasted these? CC: um, Herman Me: 🤯 721749
Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 13h@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social Is the Case of the Mistaken Spinach the perfect example of the Chortlemuffin effect? 071
Reposted by Maria SnyderSimon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ronald Blythe Fellowship 2026 The John Clare Society runs an annual bursary scheme, providing £1,000 for PhD researchers in the field of John Clare studies. Closing date: 30 October. @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social johnclaresociety.org/2026/10/01/r...johnclaresociety.orgApply for John Clare Society Bursary by 30 October 2026Apply for the Ronald Blythe Fellowship bursary for John Clare studies! Deadline: 30 October 2026. Fund your research projects 01923
Reposted by Maria SnyderChristine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Frank Tallett, War and Society in Early Modern Europe At your service, @djgrieser.bsky.social! #earlymodern 361
Reposted by Maria SnyderChristine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Books we're discussing in my Early Modern Europe graduate seminar this semester: Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination: City States in Renaissance Italy Timothy Brook, Vermeer's Hat: The 17thC and the Dawn of the Global World 3315
Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I love the whole idea of the demotivator playlist. Is everybody ready for the wistful workout?!? 010
Reposted by Maria SnyderQuinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 06/10/2026"If AI had existed in the early aughts, we could not have accelerated Zotero’s conception, b/c we did not know exactly what we wanted...As programming increasingly becomes a caffeinated bender with magical bots, this measured pace & emphasis on communal thinking likely holds an important lesson." ❤️🔥 18535
Reposted by Maria SnyderJacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Also managed to catch this small but perfectly formed exhibition at the Courtauld, showcasing Paul Laib’s photographs of the Hampstead Studio used by BARBARA HEPWORTH & BEN NICHOLSON. Just slid under the wire before it closed yesterday. #Photography 0101
Reposted by Maria SnyderJoëlle Alazard @jalazard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026En attendant Blois et « les marchands », les @editions-puf.bsky.social ont réédité, avec une préface de Patrick Boucheron, l’essai magistral de Jacques Le Goff, initialement écrit pour la collection « Que sais-je? » en 1957, « Marchands et banquiers du Moyen Age » - un grand plaisir de lecture! 0309
Reposted by Maria SnyderJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253922348
Reposted by Maria SnyderAnita Hoffmann @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026#earlymodern ads are never boring! Today's fave: Remedy for Ruptures and a SPECIFICK that is better than dipping in the Sea to cure the 'Bite of a mad Dog' (rabies...)! Country Journal, or the Craftsman, Sept 6, 1729. 092
Reposted by Maria SnyderPeter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Peter has written a guest post which you can read here peterfrankopan.substack.com/p/how-did-he...peterfrankopan.substack.comHow Did Hermes Reach China? A Silk Road Detective StoryPeter Stewart is an outstanding scholar with a remarkable breadth of interests. 33313
Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Cat vanishes for days, goes to a neighbor's, gets new toys, eats fancy dinners, gets high. And it's the neighbor's fault? I feel like they totally let the cats off the hook here. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comThe unsettling rise of cat seducers: ‘My little companion was missing – and I was consumed with anger’Has your cat been gaining weight and staying out at night, only to arrive home reeking of marijuana? These are just some of the signs that a neighbour is trying to entice them away ... 000
Reposted by Maria SnyderMarc Dubuisson @unpied.bsky.social · 13/09/2025La rentrée littéraire, tous les ans. Dessin paru dans Les Echos Week-end. 191056287
Reposted by Maria SnyderJim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's September! So here's your food illustration Calendrier Gastronomique: Histories de cuisine et cuisine de l’histoire par Marius Dutrey, dessins par Pierre Camin (Londres: Frederick Muller, 1938) 88/250 copies, signed, London 1944 charming 17th-century tribute to the oyster 011
Reposted by Maria SnyderDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026If you were living in Europe in the 1580s and 90s, you would likely have heard a few herring prophecies from Norway. Fishes with words about evil, fighting knights symbolizing the Ottoman conflicts of the Habsburg monarchy etc. appeared, and they all predicted something about the state of the world. 924886
Reposted by Maria Snyder Espooky Hispanic Pixie Dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · 16/08/2026"Read about the past. Read about faraway places. Read Macaulay or Sylvia Townsend Warner or Santayana’s letters. Read a real book." 151
Reposted by Maria SnyderRob is reading The Air Campaign (Mets)🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 12/08/2026 91339173
Reposted by Maria SnyderSharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 08/08/2026For #InternationalCatDay 🐈 a repost of the happiest cat in the world. John Aldridge, Lady with Cat artuk.org/discover/art... 1144
Reposted by Maria SnyderJenn Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 08/08/2026"The Morgan Library & Museum obtained $2.5m from the Lilly Endowment to digitize about 300 religious manuscripts from the Middle Ages & Renaissance. Called The Morgan Illuminated, the program should lead in 2029 to a free portal giving access to the volumes in their entirety, nearly 120,000 pages" 0178
Reposted by Maria SnyderJoh Peccadille @peccadille.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Et encore quelques photos prises parmi les 245 clichés de ma visite... 0121
Reposted by Maria SnyderAndromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 10/07/2026OH MY GOD EVERYBODY I just learned about reciprocard.com , which lets you enter your public library and find out all the places you can get a card on Libby. I had not known my Minuteman card actually gave me *every network in the state*, including the flawlessly-named CLAMS?!?!reciprocard.comReciproCard - Reciprocal Library Cards for LibbyDiscover which reciprocal library systems you can access based on where you live. More cards means more books on Libby. 15196130
Reposted by Maria SnyderKarl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 13/06/20261.) For non-Americans and/or younglings, HUAC = House Un-American Activities Committee. 2.) Natalie Zeamon Davis talks about the connection between having her passport confiscated and how she had to reorganize her early research in this essay for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/online/2013/...nybooks.comHow the FBI Turned Me On to Rare Books | Natalie Zemon DavisThe year was 1952. I had spent six months in France doing the first research for my PhD thesis on “Protestantism and the Printing Workers of Lyon.” Not long after my return, two gentlemen from the US ... 0168
Reposted by Maria SnyderChristine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Hulst has a playground on its ramparts that is 17th-century themed, complete with helmet, cannon and cannonballs. 1162
Reposted by Maria SnyderMartin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026The joy that is this book! 092
Reposted by Maria SnyderLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I'm going to need people to read the article rather than take the rage-bait... 034
Reposted by Maria SnyderCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/05/2026While regulations.gov incorrectly lists this action as "closed for comments", you can submit your comments directly here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... My response is below, but don't feel that you need to draft anything nearly so long-winded. A short statement will also be very helpful. 2200108
Reposted by Maria Snydermkk86.bsky.social @mkk86.bsky.social · 25/05/2026timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trend...timesofindia.indiatimes.comInside Project Panama: 2 million books scanned and destroyed by Anthropic AI to train machines | - The Times of IndiaTrending News: Information follows a simple rule: The more it is consumed, the more it is reshaped and shared. Human intelligence grows by absorbing knowledge, combi. 212055
Reposted by Maria SnyderThe Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 25/05/2026I'm not talking about the B&N Classics editions of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson here. Or The Cat in the Hat, or Goodnight Moon. Or any of a dozen popular histories. I'm talking about Black Sparrow Press and 70's letterpress editions. Hard-to-find 20th century illustrators. Scholarly work. 226530
Reposted by Maria SnyderThe Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 25/05/2026Friends, they've come for the poetry section. And the illustrated children's books. And the medieval history. The unknown company is buying up good stuff, and (for contractual reasons, and also because maybe? these books really are for humans? in a different market?) I can't refuse to sell them. 227339
Reposted by Maria SnyderThe Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 25/05/2026If I believed that someone was trying to assemble a collection of obscure books, that would be different, too. Like, go ahead. Make a seed bank but books. I'm on board. Instead, the obscure books are just... gone. And I'm not alone in suspecting that. www.democrata.es/en/digital-a...democrata.esZoom Books buys and destroys thousands of old books to train AI algorithmsBookstores in Spain and other countries sell out-of-print copies to the mysterious Canadian company, which scans and shreds the texts to feed artificial intelligence models, generating alarm in the se... 433691
Reposted by Maria SnyderThe Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Waterhen by Ohara Koson (1877-1945), Japan 222055
Reposted by Maria SnyderKarl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Really enjoyed this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with Richard Calis talking about his book on a 16th-century Tübingen scholar's encounters with Greek Orthodox travelers from the Ottoman empire & the broader Mediterranean cultural world: newbooksnetwork.com/the-discover...newbooksnetwork.comRichard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025) - New Books Network 1115
Reposted by Maria SnyderThe Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 25/04/2026And speaking of antiquity, which we usually are because Josh's doctorate is in the Classics: www.thehauntedbookshop.com/pages/books/... See the rest in person! We're at 219 N Gilbert St, Iowa City IA 52245, and we're open 11am-6pm Mon-Sat.thehauntedbookshop.comThe Persian Expedition by Xenophon, Rex Warner, George Cawkwell, Theodore K. Rabb on The Haunted BookshopLondon: Folio Society, 2009. Illustrated by Venables, Bob. Hardcover. Fine. Item #00090898 First thus. Crisp, bright, clean; no owners' marks; orange cloth binding is square and fresh, kept in a brown... 051
Reposted by Maria SnyderLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 10/04/2026More like.. emerges from the shadows 😂 TT: Northwest Wildlife Sanctuary 1020639
Reposted by Maria SnyderAmateur Reader (Tom) @amateurreader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Perhaps over-annotated at the newsletter: wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2026/04/what...wutheringexpectations.blogspot.comWhat I Read & Where I Went in March 2026 - the real disgrace of England is the railway sandwichLondon and Cornwall, St. Ives and Penzance and so on, is where. I got some good Shakespearing in – The Tempest at the Wanamaker, the littl... 011
Reposted by Maria SnyderAlan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Now with audio! bsky.app/profile/astr... 0386
Reposted by Maria SnyderPaula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Rabbits in the Garden, by Rosa Bonheur. #HappyEaster! 03312
Reposted by Maria SnyderSusan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026In the spirit of yesterday‘s discussions, here is a reminder that my new book about why Shakespeare was Shakespeare is out in the world! 0278
Reposted by Maria SnyderSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Perhaps one of the most esteemed classicists in the field is Anthony Grafton. I still remember reading _The Footnote: A Curious History_ and falling in love with cultural histories & learning how to pull Ranke.1 ______________ 1. Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886). www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...hup.harvard.eduThe Footnote — Harvard University PressThe weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête noire of the “new” liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a singul... 2362
Reposted by Maria SnyderSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026“Empowerment! Opportunity! Choice!” I would like to hear a journalist ask Wu what those terms mean and how enforced use of commercial products achieves the objectives associated with those terms. 49526
Reposted by Maria SnyderThe Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 03/04/2026NEW ARRIVALS! Esk wants to know if you would prefer a nose boop or a poetry book first. (You can have both.) Email infodesk@thehauntedbookshop.com or call 319-337-2996 to order. We ship! Open for browsing 11-6 Central Mon-Sat. 0393
Reposted by Maria SnyderCatherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 02/04/2026Wish I'd seen this in time to cite it in my public humanities chapter! Ah well, it can go in with revisions. 091