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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Meowby Dick

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh my god, this is the best! 🤩

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Like they're all hotbeds of theoretical chatter. Guys! It's all meetings! And emails! All the time! Everyone's too busy desperately baling out the water as every single institution threatens to go down with all hands. All the talk is narrow mutiny, not wide revolution. (3/?)

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Here is this thing that people seem to be doing!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Ooh, that sounds like a great thing to do!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My little Reading Journal Rubric in case anyone finds it useful. (Can you tell I just got a Canva account and am very enthused by making docs pretty? 🤩 😅)

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Here we go! Feel free to adopt/adapt/share!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just saw an intriguing new article about digital enclosure, planned obsolescence, and extractive big tech… in a Springer journal. Please, academics, stop publishing in journals controlled by commercial publishers that embody the worst of Silicon Valley! Think abt the means of knowledge production!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

2/2 discuss their reading journal each week. Happy to share my little rubric if it might help!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I do a simple one for MPhil students where they write a reflection on each book ahead of class and then everyone in class summarises their reflection to get class going. It’s remarkably effective and students love it. Trickier with bigger groups, but I think then you’d just have a few people 1/2

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It’s one of my all time faves although it’s maybe c.10 years since I last read it. I must pick it up again, particularly because I need a Seinfeld/Gissing crossover in my life.

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Exciting news! @bavs-uk.bsky.social are hiring an ECR/Postgrad Rep to work alongside me to develop early career professional development and networking opportunities. 10th Sept deadline, details below ⬇️ DM me with any queries 🎉

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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Still plugging the short survey on the future of the Curran Index. Interestingly, have had almost as many retweets of my original post as there have been actual completions of the survey. Closes on the 10th, so if your work touches at all on nineteenth century periodicals please have your say!

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 01/08/2026

Applications are now open for Round 3 of our Microgrants! We’re funding innovative research in #19thC periodicals by providing seed grants for archival travel, digital access to subscriptions or repositories, or digital tools to support your research. Apply by 1 September here: buff.ly/7r9cM50

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Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

All fiction titles from the English Catalogue, Volume 4 have now been added! That means 1862–1889 are complete. Next up: the 1890s... • 27,471 title entries • 6,770 author entries (most with bios) Big thank you to my students from last semester who assisted me to this milestone.

A graph of the number of titles published per year, 1837 to 1901, showing an increasingly steep increase up to the 1890s

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The 2026 @bavs-uk.bsky.social-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a second monograph goes to @sorourke25.bsky.social! 👏 The monograph started as a book about time so—don't worry—you can change topics midway through a project! Also, if the book you wanna cite doesn't exist, maybe 🫵 should ✍️ it! #BAVS2026

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Book Prize – BAVS

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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

DVPP is already the most amazing resource for anyone interested in Victorian authorship, but the Beta version in development will clearly take things to a whole new level. Can't wait to see it live! Thanks to Alison Chapman for a fantastic opening keynote to #BAVS2026.

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Or follow this link: bit.ly/4wCyuvE

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 31/07/2026

How has it already been a week since #RSVP2026? If you're feeling some serious conference withdrawal (as we are), why not revisit the experience by taking our conference survey? The survey should take only 5-7 min. and will stay open until Aug. 12. Scan the QR code below to access the survey!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Unfortunately that’s well outside my area, but I’m sure there are many here that will be able to help

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 24/07/2026

I think about this a lot -- it sounds arrogant as hell to imagine someone might be nervous to talk to you! AND YET. It's not-unlike the relapsing-remitting impact of niche fame, EXCEPT it's a little easier to name (& dispel?) because you can blame something outside you (seniority, usually)

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

In my sabbatical haze, I forgot to widely publicize the availability of the Katherine D. Harris Collection of literary annuals on @archive.org w/complete & searchable table of contents, authors, engravers, literary genre, pg ## 😎 IT's ready!! archive.org/details/kath... #rsvp2026 @rs4vp.org

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Katherine D. Harris Collection

About this Collection The Katherine D. Harris Collection consists of approximately 90 nineteenth-century British literary annuals. The most popular titles, including Forget Me Not, The ...

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Really nice! You look like the kind and interesting human that you are!

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I cannot stop laughing at this

The Odyssey and other top sellers in the Amazon Men's Adventure Fiction category. The other top sellers all feature fake ladies with huge tits.

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

24-26 June! Mark your calendars!

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Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Good news. @rs4vp.org in Canada next year. Ottawa!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

❤️ And here are her successors Jerry and Bear!

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 25/07/2026

And #RSVP2027 will be hosted next year at…the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre of Carleton University in downtown Ottawa! 🇨🇦

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’m so sorry Deirdre. Cats are family and I hope you allow yourself time to grieve and to heal. Here’s my dear departed Jaffa who took it upon herself to demand to have tuna fed to her in the bookcase one night for no apparent reason.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/07/2026

"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."

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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actua...

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David Kenny @dkennytcd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

One of the most fun things that has happened to me: @edcaesar.bsky.social, one of my favourite writers, wrote for the @newyorker.com about my long-running quest to find a hidden meaning in Jonathan Swift’s epitaph. Thanks to Ed’s narrative skills, it’s a great read! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Jonathan Swift Wrote His Own Epitaph. Was It a Joke?

A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s finally cracked it.

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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It’s alive!

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Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

JOBS! We’re currently looking for two people to join us in the School of English @universityofleeds.bsky.social: Lecturer in Creative Writing jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1086; Lecturer in English Language (with interests in DH) jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1087 Both are FT ongoing appointments

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Delighted to see Chan in the Top 5 no less.

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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We're running a short online survey to inform development of the Curran Index. If you're interested in Victorian periodicals, whether or not you've used the Curran recently, please complete the survey! Survey closes 10th August. Please retweet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Curran Index User Survey

Thanks for being willing to complete this short survey. Whether or not you have used the Curran Index recently (or at all) we are looking for opinions on how the Curran can best be improved and develo...

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Who can forget this scene from The Hound of the Baskervilles? I can, and did. With thanks to the amazing @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social for another pulp take on a Victorian classic!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

David, I am frightened on your behalf of massive spiders.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 28/07/2026

We only rate dogs. This is a very fast tater tot. Please stay out of the way as he clearly has places to be, and only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: choppertp)

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Indeed you all are. And, gentle Bluesky readers, check out the news projected behind this team: a British Newspaper Archive discount for RSVP members that saves serious money on that subscription. Negotiated by the inexhaustible Mary. Even more reason for all C19 scholars to join @rs4vp.org!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’m sorry! Am I becoming a bore? 😅 (I did, though)

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