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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Do your PhD in Manuscript Cultures with us! Our Grad School invites applications for full PhD scholarships (3 years, 1300 EUR/month + allowances) in the Scholarship Programme of the German Academic Exchange Service @daadworldwide.bsky.social Apply by 30 Sep! More info here👉 uhh.de/csmc-scholar...

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This is so exciting!! Omw to add to my department’s library wishlist

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International Medieval Conference 2025 @isseme2025.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A peek into a special session of the seminar “Doing Things with Manuscripts: An Introduction to Working with the Material Text” by @bookgremlin.bsky.social If you are interested in checking out our Collection you can take a look here! digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/nav/classifi...

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 22/04/2025

We are now offering free displaced scholar memberships for the rest of the 2025 membership year. Please circulate to SHARPists you think could benefit from this program! sharpweb.org/membership/

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Membership – SHARPweb

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1

A faint writing, the text is in Latin and it reads: Domina magistra felhin date mihi licenciam in hac nocte vigilare cum magistra adalu et ego vobis ambabus manibus confirmo atque iuro ut per totam noctem declinare volo aut legere aut pro seniore nostro cantare Valete et ut peto facite. (Abbreviations have been resolved in this transcription).

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

why is Adam scryveyne on Genius

A modern translation of Chaucer’s Adam scryveyn on Genius.com

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Not to be that person who posts about being in the Jameson reading group but the next selection needs to drop ASAP before I have to return the library’s copy of Postmodernism. please

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I love my digital research tools as much as the next person, but I think a more uncomfortable discussion is also to be had regarding the way the digital turn facilitates exploitation like this by putting the humanities in contact with an extractive tech industry. Much to think about as they say.

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

One of the kids who helped decode the Herculaneum papyri is now part of Musk’s treasury oversight team apparently? Seems like a discussion is to be had about how those who are actively unravelling the humanities in the US are happy to use the humanities as a boost to their own careers

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

I just want to say thank you for doing this for your students! One of the most stress-inducing parts of my MLIS program was trying to find different people willing to do interviews within a week’s notice multiple times a quarter

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

Reminds me of when I was making a bunch of collation diagrams for my MLIS capstone and got to one fairly large codex. The catalog entry said it had only 1 quire and I remember thinking “how’d they manage that, did they pamphlet bind it with rope or something?” And yeah, that’s exactly what they did

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

I haven’t taken a course there yet sadly but as someone coming from the bookbinding world I’ve heard nothing but glowing reviews, and everyone I’ve spoken to from there has been incredibly nice and knowledgable!

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

Jesus really????? That’s horrid

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

just as I’ve known many leaders in the field who were educated through apprenticeships that have long since disappeared. We can’t just let these pathways into the field continue to evaporate.

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

Obviously, this is not solely a book arts issue, but two branches of right wing policy intersecting in a way that is putting the survival of our field at risk. I’ve known so many brilliant conservators, librarians, scholars, educators, and artists whose insights from their mfas were invaluable,

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

Unless I’m missing or forgetting one, there is now one (1) option in a state that at least has a fair score on the Movement Advancement Project map (www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps). We can write about DEI in the field all we want but it doesn’t fix this very material issue

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

Should have clarified, a degree, not an education. But this is really important. If you want to get an MFA in book arts and can’t live in Iowa, Utah, or Alabama, your option is now UArts.

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

The loss of programs is already extremely distressing. Looking at this list, it’s staggering how many of these just don’t exist anymore. www.philobiblon.com/programs.shtml. That’s on top of the fact that apprenticeships are basically nonexistent

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

It’s hard to overstate just how tragic this is. If you’re an LGBTQ+ person or have immediate family that is, the opportunities to receive an education in book arts in a state where your rights are protected are dwindling.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/04/2024

“HB 777 not only would fine libraries and librarians, but it would possibly require hard labor by those found guilty. Read that again: librarians would be sentenced to hard labor for daring to join their largest professional organization.” bookriot.com/louisiana-hb...

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Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association

Louisiana Library workers or libraries who seek membership in the largest professional organization would be criminalized for doing so.

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Realizing that my first time lecturing is less than a week from today. Feels like one of very few things that would feel less scary in the US, where I have at least some idea of what Gen Z is up to. All I have gleaned about youth culture here is the guy on IG who beatboxes about Kaufland

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

I recently got back from the first research trip of my PhD (!) and the manuscripts and librarians were amazing but what I truly cannot stop thinking about are the Victorian fire grenades the library had around

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

When I got my MLIS I tried explaining to my family why I couldn’t apply to jobs near them. They thought I was being overly dramatic about the state’s hostility towards the field/queer people like myself. I hate that my fears are slowly being proven correct.

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Absolutely sickening to see these initiatives anywhere, but this especially feels like a gut punch because it’s my home state.

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Right now I’m looking at both and trying to determine where exactly we draw the line between an interesting change to the book object vs. harmful damage and what that determination means for users. We’ll see how things develop though!

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Right now I’m looking at both with an eye to areas where the modern user encounters traces of the medieval user’s interaction with the manuscript. Still very early in the project though, so we shall see how things take shape!

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

I’ve done a good bit of both! I was pursuing conservation as a career pretty seriously, but a bunch of factors led me down the research/writing path instead (for now, at least). So at the moment I just bind new ones for fun when I can

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Lindsey Jackson @bookgremlin.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

I just remembered I have this account and suppose I should finally post something, so to introduce myself: I’m Lindsey and I’m a bookbinder, former library worker, and current PhD researcher working on theorizing how people interact(ed) with medieval manuscripts!

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