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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

thoughts with everyone at Edinburgh doing the principled thing

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

also should have mentioned, for anyone in the Midlothian vicinity, the exhibition itself is still open until the 24th of October, Wednesday-Sunday, and is free! (info here: nationalminingmuseum.com/whatson/jaso...)

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Jason & The Coal Mining Adventure - Exhibition (FREE) - National Mining Museum

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

things have been a bit chaotic lately, and i've been away from social media for a while, but as the clouds are parting a bit, i'm glad to share this catalogue that i recently worked on for a show at the National Mining Museum Scotland -- i think my first ever publication in the form of a book!

cover of a catalogue booklet for "Jason & The Coal Mining Adventure: New Work by Jason Wilsher-Mills, by Ray Lafferty, Carlisle Yingst, & Bruce Sutherland." The background is a series of neon-bright rings around a stylized image of a coal miner with a bright mining lamp on its helmet

back cover of the catalogue: "Published to accompany the exhibition Jason & the Coal Mining Adventure, this catalogue explores the work of Jason Wilsher-Mills MBE. At its heart is Wish You Were Here, a monumental tapestry inspired by the experiences that shaped the artist's childhood in a Yorkshire mining community. Commissioned, together with the accompanying film, through a major Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant, and presented at the National Mining Museum Scotland with support from Creative Scotland, this tapestry is shown alongside several of Wilsher-Mills' inflatable sculptures, many created through his longstanding engagement with disability communities. Together, these works explore themes of love, humour, family, resilience, memory, and solidarity. Although they extend far beyond mining history, they remain deeply rooted in the people and stories that shaped the artist's imaginitive world--connections that resonate strongly with Scotlands former coalfield communities." With logos of the NMMS, the National Coal Mining Museum (England) and various funders (Arts council England, Creative Scotland).

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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We have officially catalogued ourselves in the digital world. 🧐 There's some rare exciting event unfolding next week! Want to join us?

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

does this mean we can start making more real bibliographies and reference sources again? (and by "making" i mean have them actually valued as a kind of research)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

i have been read by OUP online's recommendation algorithm

"Recommended

Sad Historian
Carolyn Steedman, The American Historical Review, 2023"

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

love that my former employer locks me out of the computer systems that allow access to necessary tax documents

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

does anyone know of any good work on (or anyone working on) the history of English Institute, especially while it was at Columbia? I have early accounts of it and the selected papers, but would love to find some kind of historical account, even something brief as part of something else

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

exciting things afoot at the National Mining Museum of Scotland - stay tuned for some more materials about this 1890s steam winding engine that I've been transcribing and hoping to start getting online next week www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/windingeng...

steam driven winding engine at the National Mining Museum of Scotland/Lady Victoria Colliery, built 1894 by Grant, Ritchie & Co., Kilmarnock. The image shows the central drum with a cylinder on each side. It is painted green with a yellow flag featuring a red lion on it; below the flag is a banner that reads "Lady Victoria"

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

“There used to be a professional layer between most people and raw information. Librarians, researchers, editors, fact-checkers: people whose…job was to understand how information was organized, who produced it, what motivated them, and where the gaps were“ - my ideal job if it still existed 😭

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

i didn't get to really talk about these, but i'm fascinated by them:

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

and lets not even talk about adam matthews databases 😵‍💫

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

its gearing up to be an exciting conversation! but if you can't make it, please feel free be in touch for the pre-circulated paper if you don't have it :)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

descriptive bibliographers won’t admit this, but most of them have a Docudome in their basement. That’s how they get their ideal copy.

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

come listen to and help me work through many complicated thoughts about the relations between (New) Bibliography and Theory! And of course stay for brilliant work by everyone else :)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

hundreds of likes and reposts, but the website on which this article was published is almost certainly an AI-generated content mill.

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Dr Sam Bailey @18thcenturysam.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I'm going to start citing Bowers whenever I'm asked to produce a timeline for a grant application.

'Ideally, time in bibliography is no object, and if a certain task of large dimensions needs doing, it is worth a lifetime.'

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/02/2026

This is it. Way past time for everyone in this country - literally everyone - to find practical ways to support trans people and immigrants, this regime's primary targets. Starting right now, find something practical to do to actually help people.

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

reposting for the EST folks :)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

for anyone who happens to have the Rivkin and Ryan anthology of theory: would you be willing to share an image of the copyright page? i'm trying to get a sense of how frequently it was reprinted (among other things)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

the kid who created this lists stealing his dad's credit card to start a reselling business as his first experience as an entrepreneuer.... which seems right

"2019

Reselling

Memorized my dad's credit card to start a 6 figure reselling business"

next to an image of what i assume are air jordans

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#BookHistory friends, some research help please. A student I'm teaching this term wants to research the intersections of the internet novel and platform capitalism in contemporary China. Who is the @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social of East Asian literary studies? Sarah, do you know anyone?

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

i've been recently trying (not entirely successfully) to apply to 1 job or fellowship every day - and got today's in by 2pm! please clap, as i go off to do some of the real work that's somehow still piling up

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Take the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.

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Jon Dell Isola @medievaljon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Check out this job posted *three* days ago, with review of applications starting Feb. 9th. If you caught this on day 1, you would have about two weeks to do this AND get three people to write you a letter. I can't help but feel it is designed to weed people out preemptively. Also, no salary listed

APPLICATION:
Applicants should supply:
1) a cover letter that includes a statement about the candidate's teaching and research interests, experience relevant to the position, and a discussion of how the candidate proposes to develop as a teacher-scholar;
2) a teaching portfolio, inclusive of teaching philosophy, sample syllabi, and student evaluations for courses taught (if available);
3) a curriculum vitae;
4) transcripts (copies are acceptable for screening);
5) an article-length writing sample; and
6) three letters of recommendation that speak to the candidate's scholarship and teaching. In the cover letter, candidates are encouraged to highlight skills and experiences that demonstrate a commitment to promoting inclusive academic environments and engaging across differences.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

amnesty.org.uk

Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation

We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

They are executing unarmed people in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors with the full support of the federal government.

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

dear bluesky, i don't need to go live on twitch directly from bluesky, but i do need to be able to set my profile to private

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I have a fantastic student who wrote a great paper on knitting patterns from a book/media history/history of documents point of view recently and wants to do more research... this is a bit outside my wheelhouse — friends, do any of you have readings you'd suggest?

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

a long-preoccupying question of mine is, why does Shelley have the recovered prophecies very specifically written on "piles of leaves, fragments of bark, and a white filmy substance, resembling the inner part of the green hood which shelters the grain of the unripe Indian corn"?

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

new in: 1957 Riverside Emma, formerly owned by novelist and critic David Lodge (editor of Emma: A Casebook)

cover of Riverside Emma - blue and white paperback on a table

title page, with David lodge’s name written in green ink

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

i usually try to start on december 1st the previous year, so that by january 1st i know whether or not i want to continue or not

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 24/12/2025

Did you read a book by a transfemme in a language other than English this year? Comment them on this post! The Foreign Language category for the TFR Awards only has two votes total and I need more crowdsourcing.

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

best writing method i've found for finishing a piece with a bunch of loose threads: 1. write unfinished tasks on index cards, one per card; 2. draw a random card, work on that task for 15 mins.; 3. discard the card if the task is done, shuffle it back in if its not; 4. draw another card and repeat

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

We are excited to announce the 2024 Hennig Cohen Prize winner: Geoffrey R. Kirsch, for his article “Piercing the Corporate Whale: Agents, Principals, and the Personified Impersonal in Moby-Dick,” published in Leviathan, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 55-68. www.melvillesociety.org/news/2024-he...

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2024 Hennig Cohen Prize Award — The Melville Society

The Hennig Cohen Prize for 2024 is awarded to Geoffrey R. Kirsch for his essay “Piercing the Corporate Whale: Agents, Principals, and the Personified Impersonal in Moby-Dick ,” published in Leviatha...

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"These are not, primarily, stories about artificial intelligence. They are stories about institutions optimized for volume." this is a very good piece

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

2025 has been a year of picking up or reviving lost hobbies abandoned when i was a kid

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

check out those adorable rooks

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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Some news: UCLA CMRS is taking over Manuscripta (www.brepols.net/series/mss), and I am going to be the general editor. The new blurb is below. To wit, the journal is going to now focus on GLOBAL premodern manuscripts. Still, I am going to keep the focus. This is your nerd shit: codicology, single ms

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

dear Penguin, hire more proofreaders

a paragraph from an intro to a recent Penguin Classic, showing three cross references to the text that follows, none of which have been filled in with the final page number (all three are left as the placeholder “(000)”)

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Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🪡🧵: As a part of the Robinson special collections bequest scheme, I’m working on the diaries of Hilda Runciman, one of the first women members of parliament. In 1938, her husband, Walter, was sent to Prague to help negotiate between the Nazis and the Czech government. She went along. (1/?)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!" *me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*

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Malcolm Noble @handle.invalid · 27/11/2025

I am grateful for any help to get closer to completeness, even if this is an impossible task. Do please send any and all suggestions!

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

just a slice* of my reading for the c18 novel section of the Year's Work in English Studies (*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)

a stack of about 500 sheets worth of printed articles/chapters, with Sophie Coulombeau's Reading with the Burneys on top; theres a mug and a desk in the background

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