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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh man, I was SO scared of them.

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Seo-Young J. Chu (she/they) @seoyoungjchu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In 2000, after ______, I began to write a lyric memoir. 26 years later A REFUGE FOR JAE-IN DOE & OTHER FUGUES is unfinished by design; but it is finally a book (published by punctum books). I hope you’ll consider reading REFUGE and even teaching it. #AsianAmLit #disability #NorthKorea #Stanford

The book cover for A REFUGE FOR JAE-IN DOE AND OTHER FUGUES by Seo-Young Chu features white letters against a black background. There are no images.

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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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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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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I would love to talk with you about this course. We’re revising FYE and thinking about models.

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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I almost just wrote “Back in MY day,” but I was afraid you’d forget that I was talking about Pietenpol and think I was just being mean. Those GTAs are lucky to have you.

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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I just preordered three copies (one for myself and two for fabulous colleagues).

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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Oh hey, you will probably like this art exhibit connected to La Raza (which includes some work by my friend Nicole Marroquin).

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La Raza Art and Media Collective – University of Michigan Museum of Art

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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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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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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It looks like the Mad Men wallpaper!

A still from Mad Men. Don Draper and Roger Sterling sit on an orange couch. Behind them is cream wallpaper with nested orange and purple rounded diamonds.

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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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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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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It’s our idiom for anything fatphobic now.

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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Once, upon entering a store divided down the middle into plus and straight sizes, I was greeted by a sales associates who hollered “YOU’RE A PLUS” and pointed me aggressively to the left-hand side of the store. My now-husband (also fat) still giggles about it.

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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?

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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

My piece is on Shakespeare’s Sonnets and disability poetics. Thanks to @matthewharrison.bsky.social for allowing me to try this idea out at MLA a couple of years ago and to Dianne for bringing me into dazzling LFAM galaxy.

A screenshot of the first page of “Forming Beauty in Shake-speares Sonnets” by Bellee Jones-Pierce.

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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

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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 · 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

On my way out of the building, I ran into someone from my cohort who finished his dissertation three years before I did—and that’s how I knew it was a dream.

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Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I found a librarian, and she pointed to a sign that said the library closed at 6 PM. I asked when the hours had changed, and told her that I live ten hours away and couldn’t just come back, etc. etc. I was so sad!

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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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