Reposted by Daniel BellingradtDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026*I am not going to be distracted or disturbed by this earthly nonsense you call reality* 3585
Reposted by Daniel BellingradtSimon Kasper @attribot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Flooding the zone with shit 2.0: wissenschaftliche Literatur. Für die universitäre Lehre und Forschung ist das eine Katastrophe, weil die institutionellen und praktischen Barrieren zwischen seriöser Erkenntnisarbeit und ihrer technischen Simulation durchlässig werden, s. Unibibliotheken.faz.netKI-Verleger packt aus: So entstehen meine BücherIm Schnitt zwei Bücher pro Tag: Eine Leipziger Minifirma hat bislang 1500 Sachbücher und Ratgeber veröffentlicht. Die KI schreibt alles. So schafft man es sogar in wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken. Was ... 1113
Reposted by Daniel Bellingradtgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026and on the third day, he was reassembled 1420326
Reposted by Daniel BellingradtMrNelson007 Belongs in a Museum @mrnelson007.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I solved the Voynich Manuscript. 1213
Reposted by Daniel BellingradtDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 7070131918
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Passing 3700 and aiming for 4000 reposts of fictitious last words 2240
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Still going strong, passing 3100 reposts. People, touch some grass, breathe. 1380
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026In accordance with good tradition, I hereby have to highlight my regular topics posted to the blue skies: #bookhistory news, #skystorians stuff, and a few jokes about using AI from private companies that stole it all. 1420
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Funnily enough, while this thing goes viral, I am finishing my chapter on early modern news echoes and media events. Virality is a concept my book deals with. #newshistory 1994
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think we can hardly imagine what will happen on social media the day this important someone else of recent politics will die ... 102213
Reposted by Daniel BellingradtJocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026PUBLICATION DAY! So excited that my reflective piece, 'Reimagining Book History Creatively for Twenty‐First‐Century Publishing Students', has been published open access today in 'History: The Journal of the Historical Society'. #bookhistory #publishing #pedagogy doi.org/10.1111/1468...doi.orgReimagining Book History Creatively for Twenty‐First‐Century Publishing StudentsTeaching book history to twenty-first-century publishing students often proves a delightful challenge as some grapple with appreciating how this history is relevant to not only their pursuit of a car... 2113
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026oh my, the final diary entry is going viral 32570
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wrong answers only. My bet: thanks for all the fish. 14692752273
Reposted by Daniel BellingradtRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 07/10/2026So pleased to see @djevans.bsky.social’s new article, “Speculative Bibliography as Infrastructure: Building the Viral Texts Search Index,” out in the Victorian Institutes Journal scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/victori...scholarlypublishingcollective.orgSpeculative Bibliography as Infrastructure: Building the Viral Texts Search IndexAbstract. This article gives a history of developing a search index for the Viral Texts Project (https://clusters.viraltexts.org/). It takes up the challenge of representing speculative bibliographies... 1258
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Being a Saint brings a few bonus features like using your halo to lighten up the room in the night 1285
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026well, you know how this turns out in the morning, when you read your god-like important notes: "brabant bubble drinking fun with basketball" 1181
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026your brain was on fire, the idea or wording or sentence was the best thing ever, and you write it down with a pleased smile on your face, and you sleep afterwards like a baby ... 2130
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026this one perfect idea for your next book came in the middle of the night and you had to jump out of bed and write it down ... #writingsky 4485
Reposted by Daniel BellingradtSchoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Say hello to BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art): basiraproject.org #medievalsky --------------- Video by Emily Brooks Music by J.D. Porter Narration by Iris Péron-Ames 13523
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Traveling with Uber was simple and save for owls back then. 1140
Reposted by Daniel BellingradtLisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In today's @theguardian.com, an article about the #Voynich work Colin Layfield and I have been doing: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...theguardian.comA medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text 1018960
Reposted by Daniel BellingradtDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026A tiny man shooting a word nearby, within a printed text of the European past. Welcome to another #rebus broadside of the later so-called #ThirtyYearsWar. A shootin' short 🧵 for #skystorians 618640
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I just spotted a flying owl in a court dress with a wig in an eighteenth century print... Let's go, #SuperbOwl 1432
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It is not about getting a degree. It is about learning something that helps you tackle the world after university. And learning to think, to argue, to research, is a thing that helps tackling the reality. 240
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you are that bored with your discipline’s knowledge, do something else. 1100
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And I still remind them that their choice of education includes managing lots of information. Reading is the key. And if you don’t like that - it is your choice to do something else. 190
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I also experiment with podcasts as reading tasks, and then working with a source about the topic in class. But I am unsure how this will turn out as no one takes notes anymore. 191
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Reading the texts aloud with them together in class helps a bit, but this changes the way we used to teach. 3253
Reposted by Daniel BellingradtRachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Cover reveal! The keywords I sent the press were “historical,” “natural,” and “multimedia” and I’d say they nailed it. Featuring my (book’s) main man Humphry Repton on the left there. Coming from Yale University Press this fall. 813224
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Catalogue mistake. The engraving is from 1839. bsky.app/profile/jona... 010
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This lecture series was organized by Prof. LetsGo. 020
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026All PhD defenses should have an invitation paper card. 030
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Prof. DontGo and Dr. GoWentGone are talking next week, and Prof. GoFundMe is likely talking before Christmas - when the fundraising to pay him was successful. 130
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Bonus detail: "Professor Nogo" is speaking. Listeners are entering a no-go zone! 150