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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 12h

Petty footnotes are load bearing. I realize academia is being destroyed from the outside, but we also need petty footnotes to make sure academia is motivated enough to get out of bed in the morning

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 4h

Librarian work buddy told me about an XML dataset she was trying to work with. The file is *4.5GB compressed & 157GB when extracted.* So ginormous data set + friend is a Python person = not fun time. I asked her to send me the file for fun to play with (bc I'm still a twisted #DH person deep down)

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 11h

There are reasons other than net take-home pay that generations of American parents steered their kids toward college. I don't see how "go into construction!" is helpful unless paired with more robust worker protections and a true safety net, especially in right to work states.

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 8h

📢 OPPORTUNITY WITH SHARP NEWS We are looking for TWO PEOPLE to take responsibility of the SHARP News Book Reviews section for a 3-year term starting in 2027. See the full call for applicants: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #BookReviews

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 17h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 15h

I wasn’t fucking nervous before, BUT I AM NOW

A trade card for Carter’s Little Nerve Pills, featuring a huge bipedal frog managing a baby

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Becca 🇵🇸 NYCC K34 @rfarrowster.bsky.social · 12h

bringing her back

The Legolas and gimli “never thought I’d die fighting side by side with an elf” scene from the two towers except the quote has been altered to read “never thought I’d die fighting side by side with Catholics/what about side by side with a Pope Against AI!/Aye, I could do that”

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 17h

Weekly coffee shop editing with librarian PhD buddy this morning!

Warmly lit coffee shop with white tea set on a table, a dissertation chapter draft, my pencil case, and a fountain pen on a table

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 02/10/2026

Really classy to end with Dr. Hayden, and with that quote specifically.

A lady came in, and as you know, in public libraries, there are a lot of people who are homeless, so they just need a place to be. She comes into the central library and goes up to the information desk.

She has very interesting attire, and this big bag. She asks to see the head of the library. I was the head of the library. The librarian — and this is what they do — tried to get more information from the person. They said, “Well, what would you like to see her for?” She opens the bag and she puts out on the table an injured bird.

And the librarian says, “Oh, what would you like her to do?” And the woman said, “Somebody’s got to care.”
Carla Hayden, Washington, D.C.
14th Librarian of Congress

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think I found ultimate girl dinner: picking up Coldstone on the way home Also, v nostalgic for me, because this was my good report card treat 3rd grade through high school 😂🍦 I presented in our dept meeting today and it was received well, so treat!

A coldstone creamery waffle cone bowl with the German chocolate cake ice cream creation (chocolate ice cream, brownie, pecans, coconut, and caramel sauce)

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is 61F and I saw a monarch butterfly (I think) this morning! It’s a good Wednesday in Tucson 😎

Monarch butterfly (I hope) in a palo verde tree

Looking west down the mall of University of Arizona. Brick pathway, palm trees, and nice blue sky

Looking west down the mall at University of Arizona with concrete leading to the road, the green mall with palm trees and foreboding clouds

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Then they have all the transcripts (and the ai token bill) but no sensemaking. so they make another app — a layer that will make sense of all the useless transcripts. But of course sensemaking isnt just pattern spotting. It’s interpretation. AI cannot do either because AI cannot be curious

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H-Net @h-net-humanities.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FEATURED JOB: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of the History of Science and Technology, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States networks.h-net.org/jobs/70470/u... #history #phd #humanities #highered #scholarship

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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I do continue to be surprised at how naive researchers can be about this, even when they are incredibly aggressive (sometimes to the point of real nonsense thinking) about humans scooping them.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The computer/data science students FAFO’d when they decided to take ILS courses as “easy” electives (Some of them were delightful to have in class, but many had this arrogance and inability to analyze)

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 28/09/2026

This post is justifiably ratio’ed there’s nothing I love more than when engineering students come into @skeuomorphpress.org—they’re fascinated by our collections in ways distinct from history/humanities students & their responses enrich learning for everyone Education should be broad, not narrow

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The University of Colorado at Boulder has its own humanities program for engineers because they can’t hack the classes for the rest of the student body. Lots of engineers arrogantly think they can waltz into an upper level philosophy class and breeze through.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026

straight up Gestapo shit

DHS: Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE.

If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your departure using DHS.GOV/CBPHOME.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 27/09/2026

Dad: “Lots of money came in nationally and to us. We added 1,000 children just to our little group.”

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Saunieindiego @saunieindiego.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Comments due TODAY! Please Speak out for fishies that USFWS wants to delist. There's probably a mine or other awful thing the orange turd wants to grant permission to, that wants to open up, and they can't grant lease while endangered species exist!

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We're gonna discover new skills, MF, what are you talking about? #resistAI

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16/09/2026

less corruption, more spoonbill. 🪶

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026

Porco Rosso mural, Mexico City

Porco in the cockpit of his plane smoking a cigarette and giving a thumbs up

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't have the energy to process pika photos tonight but please enjoy this small criminal who was trying to figure out how to conduct a trail mix heist while I was taking pictures.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#BookHistory / #Bibliography wins of the day. My mom grabbed some books at our local library sale, and she genuinely asked me over the phone this morning how a book could be a 1st edition, 4th impression. It felt like the "calling for a doctor on a plane & they need a PhD and not an MD" meme 😂

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Stolen Neighbors Quilt has 11,000 squares. Each represents someone stolen by ICE in Minnesota. But the original post is here, on Instagram, by the MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee. What an unthinkably heinous administration. Prosecute them all. www.instagram.com/p/DdnPas4jr1v/

A photo of the shockingly long quilt leading up to the MN state building:

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This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt.
It has 11,000 squares.
Each represents a person taken by ICE in MN.
100 people labored for 6 months to create it.
The care behind it gives me hope.
Each square makes me weep.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/09/2026

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today an art history class came to SpecColl that was ostensibly about the Enlightenment, but since we had pulled an *Encyclopedie* vol with plates showing chemical/chymical things, I ended up explaining all the alchemical symbols and imagery! Yay for useful esoteric knowledge!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow: “To be a librarian is to dance along the cracks of the institution, engaged in a thousand small teaching acts.” Good thing this is OA or I’ll soon be in violation of copyright.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's hoping that if I virtuously try to go to bed at a decent hour tonight (i.e. in the next 15 min), I will actually fall asleep at that decent hour. I would like full brain cells to write in the morning!!! Bonus if my neck un-friggin-cricks itself from whatever it decided to do last night

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

EARLY MODERN ENGLISH

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Working on a small piece of research/writing at the moment which is critical of AI in history/humanities research/writing/teaching. Keen to hear of any experience/knowledge which might feed in and of any place where the output might be welcomed. 🗃️

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some people don’t have regard or respect for children on par with what they have for adults and it shows. Children are worthy the same type of honor and care you give to adults because they are people.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨📚📜🚨 "With a chirograph, Pope Leo has granted the Vatican Apostolic Archive and Vatican Apostolic Library an additional area within the Vatican City State, and asked that a new building be constructed."❗️ www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

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Pope orders expansion of Vatican Apostolic Archive and Library - Vatican News

Given the increase in the Holy See’s bibliographic holdings and documentary production, the Pope expands the Vatican’s archive and library, and asks ...

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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A big thanks to everyone who came out to my talk about my braille character recognition model at the @transkribus.bsky.social conference in Passau today! (And thanks to @melissaterras.bsky.social for the photo!)

Ellen presenting in a lecture hall. The slide above them reads Training Braille Character Recognition Using Transkribus.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great news, and looking forward to a book historian becoming Chief Exec of the UK Space Agency sometime soon in this brave new world!

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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just over one week until the October 1 due date for abstracts for this CFP on Accessibility in Digital Publishing! Please submit if you work in this space, and please share. Click the quoted post for a short wishlist I put together for this issue.

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy to see this go live today! “Computational Approaches to Latin American Literary Production” is now available in the Palgrave Handbook of Digital Latin American Studies. The editors were a joy to work with, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute ✨ link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I will be so happy when I am free of IU PhD paperwork. Like people sending a form that is needed for graduation on the day that it is apparently due. 🙄

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Jessica Minieri @jessicaminieri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My first article is out!! 🥳🥳 This article explores the role of relics in Alfonso V’s conquest of Naples. It’s OA and can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epub/10....

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Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is it for people with no background in economics, defence, education, social and foreign policy, or law to be asking politicians questions about these very, very controversial, difficult, complicated issues every Sunday, Laura?

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