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✩ astra ☕️🐺🌟 ✩ @astralouve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today is Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada. We remember those we have lost. We honor those taken from us by the residential school system and we honor those who survived, their families and communities. We will never forget and we will carry them with us.

illustration for truth and reconciliation day. the illustration features a wolf looking forward, standing with its pup who is also looking forward. there is a circle behind them with an eight point star dreamcatcher and three feathers. the words "EVERY CHILD MATTERS" are featured on the side of the circle

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Think I asked this a while back but it anyone has any reading on auctioning the goods of the dead in 16th- and 17th-century London, and/or the role of bellmen and criers around deaths and auctions, I'd be very grateful for recommendations!

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Melissa S. Williams @melissa1008.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Department of Political Science is searching for a tenure track position (Assistant Professor) in Indigenous Politics, and the ad is now live: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share widely! And please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.

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Assistant Professor - Indigenous Politics

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Eighteenth-Century Studies 59.4, Summer 2026 tiny.one/2frt6avc CONTRIBUTORS Lynn Festa Susan S. Lanser Amy S. Wyngaard Joan DeJean Kimberly S. Manganelli Laura Mason Peter P. Reed Stephanie Diehl Jonathan Conlin Seth Rudy Manuel Covo Matthew Alexander Randolph and more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Eighteenth-Century Studies
59.4, Summer 2026

CONTRIBUTORS
Lynn Festa
Susan S. Lanser
Amy S. Wyngaard
Joan DeJean
Kimberly S. Manganelli
Laura Mason
Peter P. Reed
Stephanie Diehl
Jonathan Conlin
Seth Rudy
Manuel Covo
Matthew Alexander Randolph
Julian Whitney
Timothy D. Walker
Willow White
Anita Guerrini
Rebecca Marks
Katie Lanning
Dwight Codr
Louise Curran
John Knapp

HOPKINS PRESS JOURNALS
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century-studies

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN! Only 4 days left to submit your abstract for #BSECS2027 We'd love to see you @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social in January! #skystorians #cfp #ecr #phd 🗃️

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

It's really this simple.

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Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Had fun working in a new genre for my first reading wrap-up video. Stats, fantasy reads, and an academic twist. #booktube #readingwrapup www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXSb...

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My Summer Term Reading Wrap-up #booktube #readingwrapup

YouTube video by Dr. Erinnerung

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“That the university is under attack and that the university is complicit with the very terms of engagement that place it under attack should not be seen as a contradiction.” well goddamn, this is an essay.

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The university is the crisis

The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What gets me is the woman who wasn’t able to finish her degree. The one who isn’t sure if she can. The one who started a stable job and had to leave because of this behavior. How many brilliant women are stifled by the men coddled by their institutions?

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026

Look, guys, the data centers really need that water to make more csam

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hey fam, do we have a historian of 18th/early 19thc Canada hereabouts? I've got an archival question.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 19/08/2026

Finally! You have no idea how long I’ve had to pretend I didn’t know all this! #murderbot #murderbotseason2 #booksky

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Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Newest instalment of the GGGKR is up. This time we're talking about Last Light of the Sun, which, sadly, will be my last guest appearance (though I'll be following along in the audience for future vids): www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O62...

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Guy Gavriel Kay's The Last Light of the Sun with Evan, Erin, and Johanna

YouTube video by Philip Chase

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 17/08/2026

I've said it before and I'll say it again: mine are small batch artisanal em-dashes—people who are using AI tools to accuse people of using AI can pull them from my cold dead hands

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Have you checked out the newest issue of Restoration yet? Restoration 49.2 is available open access on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55568

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Project MUSE - Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700-Volume 49, Number 2, Fall 2025

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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Oh My, how many cuties….

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Permanent lecturer position for a forensic anthropologist at our department!

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📣 Call for Papers - Special issue of Early Popular Visual Culture Theme: Digital Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and the Study of Silent Cinema Guest editors: Adelheid Hefberger and Mario Slugan 🗓️ Deadlines for abstracts: Monday, 3 August 2026

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Campbell X - Stud Life, (Untitled)2025, SMOKE @campbellx.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Brilliant. "Queerness is also an emphatic no to the cisgender, male-centric, ableist, White, inflexible way we've been taught that we "must" live from a young age." www.advocate.com/opinion/quee...

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I’m queer, not gay. It matters.

Responding to a recent New York Times guest essay, child and adolescent psychiatrist Chase T. M. Anderson explains why "queer" better reflects their identity, politics, and vision for LGBTQ+ liberatio...

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15/07/2026

🚨We’re seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. Deadline for applications: 7 August 2026. Please share in your networks!👇

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McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com · 09/07/2026

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad / The Nickel Boys) is coming to Winnipeg! The bestselling author will speak at the Winnipeg Art Gallery before a conversation with host @davidarobertson.bsky.social. New tickets available! - mailchi.mp/grant/colson...

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Colson Whitehead's visit is just a month away!

Get your tickets now for a very special evening with #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead as he visits Winnipeg in support of COOL MACHINE. Hosted by Davi...

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Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII @siglo18.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS) 2027 Conference in Portland, Oregon, April 1-3. For those considering submitting a panel proposal (just a title and a description) this has to be done before July 18th, 2026 #C18

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Powerlessnessmaxxing: watching the country careen toward unfettered oil and gas production as the country burns and drowns simultaneously, while people scream “yeah well he’s better than Poilievre” in your ear

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 02/07/2026

While I don't have children, my sister shared how harrowing it is, indeed, to watch your child injected with multiple shots early in life, but reminding oneself that the reason we do this is because otherwise, most children will die, can be a helpful motivator. www.propublica.org/article/vita...

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What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot

Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

With alt text, for those of us with disabilities, and also those trying to read this on their phones: Please like this reply to make it come near the top, but don't follow me for it, that's not what I'm trying to achieve.

To all the readers out there:
My deep love for Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, the subjects of my 2014 biography Charity and Sylvia, has kept me silent, up to this point, about Tillie Walden's new graphic novel by the same title. Charity and Sylvia's story has been so deeply meaningful to so many people-their story has, without exaggeration, saved lives-that I've tried to be happy that Walden's book is making their story more widely known, even it she chose to take my title and my cover design as well as my narrative and my research with only a single sentence of acknowledgement at the end of her book in her notes section. Walden's illustrations and storytelling are wonderful, as I told her when she reached out to me during the writing process. It would take nothing away from her hard work to be honest about how it is built on my hard work. But in Walden's publicity tour, she has repeatedly made the claim to have based her book on her extensive research in the archive without acknowledging that her book is, in fact, based on my book. This false representation demands response not only for my sake, but for the sake of all the hard-working historians out there whose work has similarly been taken without credit. No, Walden has not "uncovered a chapter of queer history" in the archives, as her media interviews have claimed. She has adapted my book without credit or compensation, and claimed my research for her own. I don't doubt that Walden spent time looking at letters at the Henry Sheldon Museum, but the story that Walden tells is not to be found there. It is a story that I pieced together from years of visits to at least twenty different archives and locations across the United States, not only in Vermont but in Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and Washington State, as well. This is not just a question of facts but of story: the story of how Charity and Sylvia built a life together based in tailoring, struggled with their faith, and maintained relationships with t…

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 30/06/2026

This is one of the reasons I hate the framing of “discovery” — a beautiful graphic novel doesn’t need to erase the academic work it draws from. Now more than ever we should remember scholarship is human-made — & academic books often cost FAR more to research/write/publish than they will EVER make.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/06/2026

“In a recent study looking at the use of AI in healthcare, researchers from Stanford and Harvard found even top-performing AI models from Anthropic and Google produced 12 to 15 severely harmful errors per 100 cases. The worst-performing models made mistakes in 40 out of 100 cases.”

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Why nurses' unions are fighting for AI guardrails

Nurses' unions in Michigan and New York City are winning contract language that gives them oversight of how AI tools are deployed in their hospitals.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I co-edit a book series for Boydell & Brewer on "The Urban World in the Middle Ages." Open to *BOOK* proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, or Islamic world. For more info, email me, CuencaE@tamuv.edu. Happy to hear from 1st-time book authors.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

What the fuck is it good for? Im asking sincerely. Medical people say its shit for diagnosing, its utter garbage for creative fields, it cannot teach and hallucinates false answers, programmers have to fix its code half the time, businesses find it doesn't help productivity and it causes psychosis.

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

We're starting a journal! We're looking for ideas for pieces that we can fold into the proposal that will go to an interested press, with the hope that if the press take the journal on we'll starting publishing in 2028. #smellstudies #sensorystudies #smellhistory #smells

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I also recently saw some stats on the gender divide re ai. I can’t help but think that women and people of color have had to fight so hard to be in academia that we are more resistant to the lure of ai.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Reading this thread I simply cannot fathom the speed with which some scholars *resign* their vocation the moment the option to defer to AI arises. I fought many years for the privilege to write and teach. Even if AI *could* do my job (it can’t) they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands

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Alun Withey @dralun.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Can anyone suggest any articles relating to the importance of writing in the 18th century, relating to travel. I don’t mean actual travel writing in the sense of narratives and guidebook, but rather the physical act of writing, and the importance of writing equipment for travellers.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.

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Anna Fancett @annafancett.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Romanticism folks, I am looking for new contributors for The Year's Work in English Studies (YWES). YWES is an annual review of scholarly work. It's the largest & most comprehensive work of its kind. I am looking for two people to join the poetry team and one person to take over drama.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/06/2026

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Hey, Pony people, I find myself with the sudden need to find a (lightly) damaged Red Roses, the Perfume Puff unicorn from G1, for customization purposes. The only one on eBay is too nice to use as a custom base.

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Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Just in time for pride, my latest video explores the possibility of an asexual gothic through @seananmcguire.bsky.social's Wayward Children. 🖤🩶🤍💜 youtu.be/bImiFPekMco

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Is There an Asexual Gothic? A Look at McGuire's Wayward Children Series *Spoilers begin 17*

YouTube video by Dr. Erinnerung

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Today we're thinking about something special – our Special Issue on Eliza Haywood! As its editor Manushag N. Powell wrote, these essays "show the unique vitality of Haywood scholarship."

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I understand that trade presses take different approaches in acknowledging the research that goes into history books, but I picked up a new book that contains no footnotes or endnotes, no bibliography or further reading, and no index. The publisher is asking me to engage in an act of faith. No thnx.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

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