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Bellee Jones-Pierce

@eelleb.bsky.social
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teacher, writer, mom, scholar // medieval & early modern, lyric, disability // she/her // virgo sun, ADHD rising

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? @nannainie.bsky.social and I have got you covered: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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How to talk about
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Are you using early modern broadside ballads in your work? If so, please fill in this survey for a student's project on broadside ballad databases and the impact of the closure of the Bodleian's Broadside Ballads Online: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/TQrAhSLXkK Thank you!
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Microsoft Forms
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My new email signature:
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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
From Kathleen Blake Yancey with clearest info about possible actions: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CCCC Kathleen Blake yancey
About CCCC. ****Please share widely.**** It is my understanding that the full NCTE Executive Committee has NOT voted to dissolve CCCC. It is my understanding that the NCTE Executive Committee is meet...
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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Have any other academics experienced the dystopian future of AI copyediting? In a kafkaesque doom spiral with @tandfonline.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social as their bot randomly reassigned authors to texts. Just one example of zillions of errors introduced, impossible to communicate with
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reedproject.bsky.social @reedproject.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Records of Early English Drama is delighted to announce the open access publication of the tenth digital edition in the REED series. The dramatic records for the Swan Playhouse, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean, are now available on REED Online (ereed.org/collections/...).
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Save the date! Early Modern Race and Disability: Intersections and Beyond 9/2/26. A webinar that puts premodern critical race studies and early modern disability studies in conversation. Learn more about the speakers and register here: na.eventscloud.com/race-and-dis...
An image of Prospero and Caliban pointing at one another with the text Early modern race and disability intersections and beyond over the image
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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
More of this framing, please. The ability to think and work across multiple domains, professional and otherwise, is the whole point of a liberal arts education. If graduates in any major can build a career in a field they never imagined at 19, that's a strength, not a failure of vocational training.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/06/2026
“and so it’s almost like a confession – as though the words on the pamphlet are: 'We worship the devil, signed, antifa’.” @reproutopia.bsky.social quoted in @lexmcmenamin.com's incredible new story
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026
A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
A photo of  Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada, who looks like a cuddly and rad dude, smiling while holding a sketchbook full of drawings of baby hippos.
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The writing is the thinking. The time makes the ideas.
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We got two baby kitties and I named them Milton and Marlowe. Also, my honors students got matching tattoos (not pictured, sorry) based on a medieval manuscript. Where does all this go on my CV?
Two adorable tabby kittens, approx 3 months old, sitting on a chifforobe in front of a bouquet of Lego flowers and next to the OED.  On the left is a white and gray kitty named Milton. He is curious and leaning toward the camera. Between him and the OED is a fully gray tabby named Marlowe. He is skeptical, maybe.
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UK Disability History and Heritage Hub @ukdishisthub.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
CFP alert: We are thrilled to announce the Call for Presenters for a hybrid event in collaboration with @britishlibrary.bsky.social! This will be taking place on 27th November 2026, with presentations happening both in-person and online. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 31st July 2026! #DisHist
Poster for the Call for Presenters for "Collections Uncovered: Disability at the British Library." All text is black typed on cream, yellow and light blue backgrounds (descending down the page in that order). The text reads:
Collections Uncovered: Disability at the British Library
27th November 2026, 10am-4:30pm, hybrid

Call for Presenters

Join the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub to explore disability stories in the collections of the British Library. The day will begin with academic, artistic, or community presentations on all things disability
history. Presentations will be online and in-person.

The afternoon will be a hands-on, in-person workshop with
selected material from the British Library collections.

Topic ideas:
. cataloguing disability
. activist publications
. access
. disability histories in the British Library collections

Presentations may be 5 or 15 minutes.
These can be standard papers or something more
creative, like an interview or performance!
Please submit by text or video:
. Summary (max 200 words)
· Personal or organisation bio (max 100 words)
. Videos may be up to 3 minutes
Email ukdishistheritagehub@gmail.com by 31st July 2026
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Wait, why can’t I open the Digital Donne Variorum?
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
this reminds me about how the scam email trainings I have to do like every month at this job always highlight "scammers add in a message of urgency to get you to click the link without thinking about it" as a key element.
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
on the other side of this abstract/paper shell game and also struggling
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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
“In a time when it is increasingly urgent to provide a human context for decisions in science, tech, health, and more, we now have a confirmation that the work our members do is essential.” Paula M. Krebs
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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” bit.ly/4wmbFg8
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Trying to make Hildegardplätzchen for my literary history class.
Illumination from Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias—Hildegard receiving a vision, dictating to Volmar, and sketching on a wax tablet—that has been altered with speech bubbles and labels. 

Hildegard con Bingen (good at everything) says: 
Diese Plätzchen sind einfach zuzubereiten. Man nehme etwas Muskatnuss, die gleiche Menge Zimt und ein paar Nelken und zerstoße sie. Dann forme man daraus mit Mehl und Wasser kleine Küchlein.

Volmar, labeled as “English Professor (unskilled otherwise)” says:

Oh sure, Hildegard, yes, that sounds easy...
You're going to write more detailed instructions, right?
And, um, when you say
"Plätzchen" you definitely mean "cookie," right?Illumination from Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias—Hildegard receiving a vision, dictating to Volmar, and sketching on a wax tablet—that has been altered with speech bubbles and labels. 

Hildegard con Bingen (good at everything) says: 

Diese Plätzchen vertreiben alle Bitternis deines Herzens und geben deiner Gesinnung Ruhe und öffnen dein Herz und deine fünf Sinne.

Volmar, labeled as “English Professor (unskilled otherwise)” thinks:

It doesn't matter what cookies LOOK like if they drive away the bitterness from your heart, right?
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY MAN, AVARY. What you did to BEOWULF was UNFORGIVABLE. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
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An AI version of Milton’s Paradise Lost is fundamentally unworthy of one of the great works of art
Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary wants to bring the epic poem to the big screen using the power of artificial intelligence. It can’t be any good
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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
HELP WANTED!! @stemma.bsky.social I am working on Folger MS V.b.370, a self-proclaimed 'Rich Cabinet'. The compiler clearly loved giving their MSS ostentatious titles, my favourite being 'My Merchant Ship Laden with Variety of Wares'. Ever come across these MSS titles below? Please get in touch 1/3
Photo of the title of Folger MS V.b.370 written in large italic and framed by two squiggling lines

TEXT: 'a Rich Cabinet or Common Place Book
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
My medieval lit students have started turning in their manuscript projects, and I am SO excited. I made that ink in my kitchen! They (mostly) wrote with quills on parchment!
Student-designed manuscripts in a scattered pile. They are made of parchment and mostly written with black ink. Some feature illuminations—one from The Decameron has a wolf and a lamb, others have knights, etc.
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Peeking in to live vicariously through everyone who went to #shax2026 and to say how happy I am that Literary Form After Matter is out in the world! And open access! Dianne and Katherine have been fabulous to work with, and the whole book is a treat. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literar...
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Literary Form After Matter 1550–1700
Literary Form After Matter 1550–1700
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This was so fun to read.
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I am running a creative nonfiction workshop in Spring 2026! We’re going to focus on form. *rubs hands together* If you’ve published an essay (or read a recent essay) that mixes academic criticism with another form and/or CNF techniques, please tell me so!
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Dreamt I was working on my dissertation and had gone to Atlanta to use the library at Emory. I wrote call numbers for everything, then I tried to go to the stacks. The elevators would go to a couple of floors, but not the floors I needed.
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I regret to inform you that we are still not done with finals here, and I am running out of gas.
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Well hot damn. Progress. A temp manuscript catalog is back.
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British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Just swept the Alexander Pope category in Jeopardy!, bitches.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article. Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 19/11/2025
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Tons of poets are on this list! secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
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Submit a Claim
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
lithub.com/remembering-.... read this achingly beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social I keep thinking, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was irreplaceable but she nurtured a whole-ass huge forest (or series of forests). No one can replace her, except for all of us doing the work she nurtured in us.
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Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I  was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
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Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New byline!! Got to shout out some of the disabled movies worth watching for @letterboxd.social!! letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
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Disability Visibility: a starter pack of twenty depictions of disability on film • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
With her book Popcorn Disabilities soon to hit shelves, author Kristen Lopez offers a starter pack of twenty films about disability—from the good (The Best Years of Our Lives) to the not-so-good (Rain...
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org
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BASIRA • Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 13/11/2025
As someone who's been a freelancer for 10 years, I thank the stars for the Editorial Freelancers Association rates. I am by nature a doormat, and I tend to work with organizations I believe in, and often the one thing preventing me from torpedoing my ability to feed my child is that cold hard table.
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Editorial Rates
About these rates The median rate ranges in the 2024 rate chart below are based on data from a survey administered to EFA members from November 2023 through mid-January 2024. One thousand respondent...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Let me fix that for you: Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
WHAT PROFESSORS CAN SAY
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms amid statewide debates over academic freedom.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/11/2025
Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This is horrifying.
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Pls. repost and share: #OA #OER free scholar-produced resource for teachinge and readinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the Universitye level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
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The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books
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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
www.raceandregency.org/podcast We have a podcast!
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Podcast — The Race & Regency Lab
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
—several decades-long friendships that began via chat rooms and LiveJournal —community in my field and subfields (and across fields) that wouldn’t be possible otherwise —contact with my dad’s biological family (And more)
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
One of my students just had a poem published, and it’s fantastic, and I’m so proud of him, and here’s a link: carminamagazine.com/ode-to-nephi...
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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The nudge I needed to (finally) delete my account.
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