iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cover 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.

Image of a book cover with the title The Book of Improvement, subtitle Media Landscapes in the Global Enlightenment, and author Rachael King. The cover features a tree in the center with two men with surveying equipment to the left of the trunk and two men reclining under an umbrella to the right of the trunk. There are a river and rolling hills in the background.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 6h

Over 150 yrs ago, George Perkins Marsh urged his readers to consider the disastrous environmental effects of deforestation, over-mining, and other human actions. Read more about this remarkable thinker and his extraordinary book, Man and Nature (1864) publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

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Anne Ishii @ill-iterate.com · 7h

This free event is tomorrow: a talk with Sosena Solomon, Omar Tate, and Jonathan Gonzalez (2025 Pew Fellowz)! www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/tal...

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On Practice: Pew Fellows in Conversation

Join us for an intimate talk about artistic process, influences, and ideas with three of the 2025 Pew Fellows in the Arts. October 6, 2026

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 19h

I loved Labyrinth so much but my mom had to put regular moratoriums on me making it my movie selection at the video rental store because of my consistent nightmares featuring these dudes

the fire gang, a group of maniac jim henson creatures that are a mixture of bird skulls, red feathers, eyes that have seen great horror, and in this case, conga line dancing

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

JOB POSTING: SJSU Dept of Humanities is hiring Asst Prof of #DH . H&A has grt grp of #digitalhumanists thinking broadly & creatively about our world + new DH Center + incredible student groups + funding for convos re ethical tech, speaker series, etc. Due: 12/1/26 jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

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San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities - Digital Humanities

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NO, NYC PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE NOT "FULLY FUNDED" despite what the influencers on social media are regurgitating. Our libraries remain UNDER-FUNDED. Library workers need to be paid MORE MONEY, we need more funds for collections, we need more funds for programming & for capital expenses.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ebenezer Millions is the antagonist of an ill-reviewed c19 instructional/moral novel. His cruelty towards Goodman Gentleheart and corruption of Chasity Almsgive was perceived by some as too on the nose. Also, yes, there are some questions about the amount of space given to describing EM's nose

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have made people big mad by questioning who defines minimum viability in the context of functional research environments- my minimum is very rarely the dev's minimum

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Emma Molls @emmamolls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you love the Little Brown Jug, please remind the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota leaders that pottery (and all arts and humanities!) play an important role in campus and should be invested in! Art classes for all!

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is a snapshot from Charley Harper’s studio as he left it (and the origin of the title of my essay) 🐞

A hand painted sign leaning on a wooden garden chair in an art studio with the phrase LADYBUGS WILL SAVE THE WORLD in red paint on an ivory background

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'll never understand how "a lot of mostly/potentially/probably incorrect metadata is better for digital discovery than accurate but sparse metadata" became a popular idea than "we will put things online more slowly, but we will do it with accuracy"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rewatching "Betty Tells Her Story." A couple years ago I was invited to do a workshop for students at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, about archives for these amazing artists. I had them watch this to invite thought about what it means when you look for sources in an archive.

A large woman in a dark dress with a silver brooch sitting in a cane-back chair. There are closed captions at the bottom that read "I felt suddenly luxurious"

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

my mom found the papers I wrote in 8th grade when i was allowed to pick the subjects: fra angelico, voltaire, and p.t. barnum

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, which leads … you get the idea.”

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Uploaded a dataset of 98,877 historical newspaper pages (1700s–1940s) to the Hub, each with its original OCR text, word boxes and confidence scores. huggingface.co/datasets/big...

Sample grid of newspapers in the dataset

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So glad for Pat's leadership in the field and to see so many respected/trusted colleagues on the project team here- the nebulousness of "community-[?] archives" is made a little more solid here, but the report also makes me think about all the benefits and losses of honing memory into archive

Excerpt for the Mellon Foundation report on community-based archives, that says among other things that 61% of the survey participants do not call themselves community-based archives, and many don't identify as doing archival work

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Patricia Hswe @pmhswe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Friends, please check out this new report on community-based archives, "Powerful But Precarious," linked from the Mellon website. A participatory action research study, it provides a rich portrait of these organizations—their aspirations, wants, and resilience. Enjoy! www.mellon.org/features/com...

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Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is always interesting to me as a very bright mixed race Black person who has never been perceived as passing/passable. I don't think we talk enough about the levels of wild race science that go into the thinking behind passing- we talk about skin color, but there are so many elements at play

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Four cover photos by Kwame Brathwaite (credited as Ronnie Brathwaite)

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i'm glad that i was warned in advance that the competency and self-advocacy i would develop going to women's college would be forever interpreted as aggression outside those hallowed grounds, but also it is wild as someone who draws so many cats in little outfits

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 30/09/2026

Amplifying this bat signal—the Beef & Sheep Lab has skins for us we can use to make inking balls & we need help from folks who know how to work with animal skins

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This feels somehow related to the amount of time I spend explaining that something not being in a certain archival collection is not the same as there being an absence in said collection

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aj-boston.neocities.org @aj-boston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[*a horrifying Eldritch creature ushers me into a literal Borgesian library*] Me: "This cannot be." Creature: "You find this unfathomable, don't you?" Me: "Was this built before 1990?" Creature: "It is timeless." Me: "I don't think it's exempt. You're gonna have to make this ADA accessible."

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"and I said, I said- hey, these days? what ISN'T an archive?" - cocktail party erupts into clapping and laughter

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 28/09/2026

Gonna put on my "finishing my dissertation" hat to say @walshbr.bsky.social "Embedded Pedagogies"! It's open access but I've ordered a print copy as a Fan Edition where other folks who love this book too will mail it around and annotate things and then we send it to Brandon. Also it's open access!

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An eternal bummer correlation to the necessary truth that there is no level of cultural milquetoast you can make yourself that will make you respectable enough to be heard in your profession, is that there is also no level of competency that will get you there either

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“The idea that preparing students to succeed in an AI-saturated world requires reimagining college as an AI incubator is not a sign of technological acumen, but of tech illiteracy. An LLM is not an aircraft requiring years of training to operate.” www.chronicle.com/article/harv...

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Opinion | The Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is Insane

When college leaders drink the corporate Kool-Aid, the liberal arts die.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hire seventy biz profs and put them in a new building with a cafe and working doors and at the same time I hire two historians and make them share an outhouse I hire a contractor to nail shut. a year later, there are more biz students than history students. Q. has the market spoken

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Individualization like this has led me to this recurring issue - highly educated academics [phd students etc] confusing crit fabulation with imaginary extrapolation when interacting with primary sources- " I can extract affect and intent from looking at a single image" MY interpretation/instinct MY

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If 1 professional legacy I hope it'll be people knowing I will frown when they continue to host "archives" events without archivists. If 2 I hope it'll be professors knowing that archivists are often their intellectual equals. If I have 3 I hope it will be all the drawings I've made at conferences.

A drawing of me a small woman with glasses and an afro-bun, trapped in a jail of hollinger metal edge boxes. I have a powerful fist raised, and above me is written "solidarity from archives jail!" I drew this at SAA when they wouldn't let me sit with my friends because I was getting an award

This is a drawing of me, a woman with glasses and arms in the air, a face of pure mania. Above me is written "I HAD TWO LATTES AHHHHH!" I drew this during a technical meeting where a bunch of men were ignoring my expertise for 8 hours

A drawing of a dog in a top hat and bow tie. He has a talk bubble that reads "I Love to Learn" and below him is written "history hounds." I do not remember what conference this was, but I know someone presenting said history hounds and I imagined a really smart dog

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Academic Dean” increasingly synonymous with mortuary science

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm as goof a ball as the next fellow, but I think we should bring back the concept of some things being serious. The rigorous historical essay will never be as engaging as the Tiktok that makes up a time when Jane Austen wrote a secret abolitionist novel and sent it to Phillis Wheatley to proof

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Developing microfilm in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., in June 1942 (photo by Royden Dixon, Library of Congress) 🗃️

b&w photo of a man standing side-on to camera, wearing a long apron and touching a large frame from which long strips of film negatives are hanging

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow is the USA premiere of my film BLACK PACIFIC, CHINESE ATLANTIC @ ICA in Philadelphia. Part of a group exhibition on #AfroAsian ecologies that will be on till Feb 21, 2027. An Afro-Chinese Jamaican cinematic odyssey, it follows my grandad’s errant itineraries from Asia to the Americas.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In two weeks! If you're nearby, come on out!

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...

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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 22/09/2026

Welcome to the Public Domain AUTUMN (1930)! 🍂🪾🌾🌰🥮 This 3rd entry in the seasonal Silly Symphonies 🎶 cycle was released in February, but the #AutumnEquinox is the time to enjoy it. 👀 Watch the full fall 🍁 short ⤵️ archive.org/details/autu... #FallEquinox #SeptemberEquinox #Disney #Animation

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

1) Thank you, Karin. I’m happy that both the 1998 and 2026 DNA tests results jibe with the historical evidence compiled in my first book. I also think the historical information alone should be enough. But I know the world we live in & why DNA was brought into the picture.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 13/02/2024

Also

Screenshot of 2 tweets by Chris Marks:
Steven Pinker's books are like "people say that life is unjust and intolerable under neoliberal capitalism. But in fact, mean global consumption of fruit-by-the-foot is up 300x when compared to our 19th century counterparts"

But fruit by the foot didn't exist in the 1800s?

Steven Pinker: Not as we currently think of it, no. But if you consider fruit that had dropped from trees and was literally by people's feet, the picture starts to become much clearer

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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*bangs pots and pans* NEW SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CATALOGING JOB JUST DROPPED (and it's at the University of Rochester, which is pretty great) rochester.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UR_Sta...

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Special Collections Metadata Librarian

As a community, the University of Rochester is defined by a deep commitment to Meliora - Ever Better. Embedded in that ideal are the values we share: equity, leadership, integrity, openness, respect, ...

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