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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Climate change good for beer sales, but nothing else.

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A really good sign about my life that I can't remember what half the bluesky buttons do

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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This chapter break in the middle of a conversation is an absolutely inscrutable stylistic decision.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's audacious capitalism for his Seattle museum to be right next to the Space Needle. Relevancy can be maintained by simply bundling tickets to both "attractions."

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The other secret is that when these spaces do exist, they're where the now-laid-off department staff had their offices.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Absolutely loving Francesca Colonnese's paper on media reports of Robert Browning's wax cylinder reporting, in which periodicals promoted both Browning's poetic legacy and the new technology of Edison's phonograph. @rs4vp.org #RSVP2026 #MovementsAndMigrations #PrintInMotion

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Attending @aupresses.bsky.social? Join @femmediahist.bsky.social's @jmbean.bsky.social, @dukepress.bsky.social's @fauxneem.bsky.social, @celj.bsky.social's @cherylball.bsky.social, & @francescac.bsky.social for a Journals Assembly panel discussion about jrnl eds + UPs. Sat 6/13, 1-4:30pm.

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf

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House & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

the hungry observatory

black and white photo of domed observatory beneath a full moon; opened at the top resembling the pac man video game about to eat an energy dot

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is why some prioritize the western conference, where the real whales play in the american midlands

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 18/05/2026

The Seattle Times published a full obituary for Juniper Blessing. It's a moving tribute to a life well-lived. May she rest in peace, and may UW honour and carry on her legacy. Scholarships named for her might be a good start.

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UW student Juniper Blessing, 19, remembered as ‘full of life’

Those who knew Juniper Blessing, the 19-year-old trans woman killed in her off-campus housing building, said she had a powerful, moving voice.

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Leave it off! Let’s never give grades again.

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

No more than novels! But, Arthur Hallam’s ghost >>> Marty Supreme

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Ha! You can read it in less time than it takes to watch an A24 movie.

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The novels people are at it again

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

*coughs* and this is where you went wrong… (will be over here playing games with how to historicize lyric poetry)

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for HistoryExtra , but here's an excerpt! 🗃️🧪

Table showing cost of items in the 14th C., and the equivalent value in eels. The table has 3 columns: "You want to buy", "It Costs", and "But in eels?" The table shows you that:

2 doz. eggs costs 1d, or 6 eels
A gallon of the best ale costs 1.25d or 8 eels
1 sheep costs 1s 5d, or 106 eels
1 cow costs 9s 5d, or 706 eels
A 2-story cottage costs £2, or 3,000 eels

The d. here means penny, from the latin "denarius." There were 12 d. to a shilling (s), and 20 shillings to a pound (£).

As far as I know, no one was buying cottages with eels. This is more to give you a sense of relative costs. But wouldn't it be interesting if you could buy a house with eels?

This chart leaves unanswered the question: "What about the next-best ale?" and suggests and entire spectrum of ale gradations. Which makes good sense, of course. But also, you certainly wouldn't want to spend your eels on inferior ale!

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Your parents were singing you the wrong lullabies

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Imagine needing childhood books to be radicalized

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Yes, absolutely, imagine the things we’d commission if we took more joy in puzzling future generations (and actually funded the arts!!).

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A 1920s oddity and joy! It always reminds me how may decades of people have enjoyed the music concourse

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/04/2026

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

For those in the @aupresses.bsky.social community: this is my attempt to make a case for appreciating, fighting for, & studying university presses & UP workers as investors--literally! even as other supports have been withdrawn--& collaborators in the production of scholarly knowledge. Solidarity! 💪

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Hilary J. Allen @profhilaryallen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

When I present my academic work on the political economy of Silicon Valley, I can't tell you how many times I've heard the response "they wouldn't do that - it would lose them money." But @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has it in a nutshell here - "control, power, impunity" are the real goals.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

Montage showing pressed plant specimens from an 18th-century bound herbarium.

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

When bleak humor is all you've got left

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

WM wouldn’t approve of the nylon material but the foldable totes are particularly good ones.

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The Jungle, just so a new generation of undergrads can share my experience of being unable to eat meat for months afterwards

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

And you will only have an umbrella on sunny days

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This guy gets it.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Hey Chuck, I know the Baileys. They are solidly on board with abolishing ICE at this point. Eileen is driving her friend Luisa's mom to chemo and calls me up to say she's just aghast at how scared she is.

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Today’s the best American holiday. Overly larger rodents predicting the weather is perfection. It just needs a traditional dessert choice to go with—snow cones, perhaps?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/01/2026

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Every month, the most optimistic email I get is my credit union inviting me to a home buying webinar.

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Even from way over on the US west coast, I’m looking forward to eating at this place again

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I thought Asta solved all these mysteries?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/12/2025

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, took the midnight train going anywhere

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Happy Birthday to Jane Austen—you would have loved reading the latest tabs from The Cut, and its British equivalents.

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Been wondering who to send the ad to... At minimum, would commission a Public Books essay of anyone using the class to finagle a meeting with the man himself

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Is adjuncting a Springsteen class your chance at fomenting a general strike? njit.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Part Time Instructor - SPRINGSTEEN!!

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

the comments on reddit for this video were like “this squid isn’t that giant” and discussion about how a 40 foot squid is not that crazy or scary and I spent all morning upset about the lack of respect

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Guess some of you learned solidarity while finding out about singularities from Kip… at least until someone plays a certain bit of Wagner.

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

What does is it mean that the Seattle tech 4 housing group picked Caltech colors rather than MIT or UW? The least engineering oriented of all the schools…

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Pardoned turkeys are Gobble and Waddle this year. Our finest American tradition. Maybe the East Wing can become a turkey petting zoo.

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Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Listening to the Shoot Out the Lights album while reading Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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