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Jeremy Dibbell

@jbd1.bsky.social
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Librarian, historian of early America, biblio-human, birder. Upstate NY. Opinions here my own.

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Toad in the Hole Studio @lauriembrooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.adirondackexplorer.org/communities/... For something extra lovely and uplifting read this article and watch the video of my amazing daughter and her wonderful partner as they share a bit of their beautiful farm! You’ll be glad you did! #sustainabledairy #farmsteadcheese #sugarhousecreamery #ADKS
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Aged to perfection: Inside Sugar House Creamery
Sugar House Creamery offers the perfect cheeses for the perfect time of year. Inside, the cows work and live like family.
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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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Haven Hawley @ehhawley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just keeps getting better for book history folks! A Perfect Machine: The Adams Power Press now on sale at Oak Knoll Books -- 20% off through Tuesday, Oct. 6. Browse The Legacy Press catalog on your way to Oak Knoll to add this history of the industrial book volume to your library. TheLegacyPress.com
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Graduate students! You have four more days to apply for a fellowship at Yale’s Beinecke Library!
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Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Auction catalog I'm working on has a title listed as "State of Breat Gritain" instead of "Great Britain" and whether or not it was on purpose, it definitely gave me a chuckle.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've been tasked to cover data center issues at work recently and I've learned some interesting things about data centers' environmental impacts that I thought I'd share Some really unexpected stuff beyond the energy/water stuff most people know about at this point
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Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Found the "60 Minutes" interview with Dolly Parton from 2009 that has stuck with me all these years. Worth a watch! www.cbsnews.com/video/dolly-...
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Dolly Parton | 60 Minutes Archive
"Five feet tall, larger than life." That's how 60 Minutes' Morley Safer described Dolly Parton when he spoke to her in 2009, calling her "the savviest woman in show business." Parton has died at 80, h...
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 25/08/2026
A Life of Many Colors - a cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 25/08/2026
I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I couldn't do it.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton on funding education and childhood literacy programs: My daddy was the smartest man I have ever known, but I knew his inability to read probably kept him from seeing all of his dreams come true. Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Submit your proposal today for financial support for an event in your community! 📖✨ 📅 Deadline: 2 November for events between February and May 2027 Learn more & apply 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
fantastic, thorough piece by a rare books dealer on AI companies & scanning
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All the Books in the World
Five Fallacies about AI and Book Scanning
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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Help @librarything.com hire a Boston book lover! blog.librarything.com/2026/08/bost...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It’s our last day at #AOS26, hosted by the @amornith.bsky.social but you still have time to stop by our table! Not only do we have fascinating new ornithology titles for you to check out, but we’re also giving out code EXH30 for 30% off (in the US & Canada) through Aug 31!
Princeton University Press at the American Ornithological Meeting 2026
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Last year, the BHL community helped us take flight into a new independent future. Now we need reliable monthly support to sustain the people, systems & infrastructure that keep BHL’s 64+ million pages freely available to everyone. 🧪 Become a #BHLSustainer 🔗 ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLSust...
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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This Tuesday I am discussing money as part of the JCB's excellent The Revolution Is News virtual series. Details about registering and watching remotely at jcblibrary.org. As a bonus I will be showing all sorts of cool images of 18th century money, so you don't have to watch me speak into a camera.
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Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The William and Mary Quarterly forum on the recently discovered John Dickinson documents, revealing his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution, is now available online! The WMQ has generously made the issue open access for the next month. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168
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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sad news I've only just heard: Albert Derolez has left us. He was 91, and one of the foremost palaeographers and codicologists in the world.
Albert Derolez last year, holding his latest publication on the Liber Floridus, a Dutch popular science book.
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Matthew Gyamtso (Jee) @freedomforall.net · 17/07/2026
You deny global warming, or just like pointlessly feeding it? Or are you ignorant of the consequences of your choices?
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Google AI Search Uses 10x More Energy Than Standard Searches
With 55% of Google searches generating AI summaries, the tech giant's emissions have risen 48% since 2019 as billions of automated responses strain data
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
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Megan Peiser @meganpeiser.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Just a reminder that my book, British Women Writers and the Review Periodical talks about what discoveries we can make when HUMANS compile data about history, and HUMANS evaluate the messy parts of that data instead of rejecting them. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical
How did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fict...
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Read the first edition pamphlet of Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” speech. After he finished speaking there was “a universal burst of applause” and 700 copies of the pamphlet were subscribed to on the spot: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #July4th
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I’m glad this video of me talking about the 250th is up today, even just for me. I’m as pensive and angry as anyone today- and also hopeful. I have been teaching the Declaration for 20 years. All of those conversations with my students are embedded in the history and lessons I talk about here.
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Megan Peiser @meganpeiser.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If you're an up-and-coming bibliographer, I hope you'll apply for @bibsocamer.bsky.social New Scholars Program. Apps due Sept 16. As a former New Scholar myself, I can attest to how great this program was for supporting my research! bibsocamer.org/fellowships-...
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The Bibliographical Society of America
The website of the Bibliographical Society of America, a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization and learned Society devoted to the study of the material text.
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Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If you’re in Boston on July 2, stop by BPL for Special Collections’ open house/pop-up exhibition with items relating to revolutions, declarations, and liberation. 12-4pm in the BPL exhibition hall. My colleagues have worked so hard on this & have chosen some truly fantastic items to share!
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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m so sad to share that yesterday was my last day at Scientific American. It was an honor to work alongside my incredible colleagues and to speak with researchers across the sciences. If you’re looking to hire staff or freelance, please consider me and my other laid off coworkers (🧵)
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Hey friends! @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social’s @rarebookschool.bsky.social talk is posted! 📚📜🗃️ Heather O'Donnell, “Bookish Solidarity in a Time of Institutional Crisis": m.youtube.com/watch?v=zJav...
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Heather O'Donnell: "Bookish Solidarity in a Time of Institutional Crisis" (2026 Sue Allen Lecture)
YouTube video by Rare Book School
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Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is a very perceptive, insightful essay. There are a couple of historiographical points I might quibble with—but so what? It also conveys the terrible juxtaposition of Gordon’s death with the moral gravity of the 250th, something we are finding it difficult to grasp.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My essay “New Antiquities” & @laurenfklein.bsky.social’s “Why Literary Studies Must Embrace Computing” don’t EXIST yet are cited in this “peer reviewed” essay on AI and DH . Guess we didn’t lead the “cultural turn” in DH either! 🤬https://knowledgeableresearch.com/index.php/1/article/download/697/614
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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 07/06/2026
How does a student get something to say? By reading and playing and experimenting and talking and imagining and observing and questioning and listening. By being in the world. By feeling. By being wrong. By being right.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Yep yep yep. You should want to know the foundation for the history you’re being sold. Might just be a story. Footnotes and etc are about accountability, transparency and information integrity! #footnotesfordemocracy
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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A promotional post for cebeme.manchester.ac.uk/en, a platform for searching and visualising data across PLRE, Renaissance Cultural Crossroads, Plantin sales and provincial booksellers' inventories, c. 1500–1640. So, ownership, sales, and translations of books in #earlyModern England. #bookHistory
A screenshot of the Items perspective of https://cebeme.manchester.ac.uk, filtered by French language of publication and book owner social status of "middle class"
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Our 50% Off Sale is underway! 🎉 Enjoy 50% off nearly all PUP books (print, ebooks & audiobooks), with code SPRING50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu Some exclusions apply. What's first on your #TBR list? 📚
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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Frisket Fragment Find Friday 🎉 
Fragment of a frisket reused in a 17th-c. religious binding. Red printed text meant to be excluded remains visible, pointing to a liturgical context. The frisket itself is recycled from a liturgical manuscript. Also present: other fragments of printed binder’s waste.
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Giving a lecture on some ideas about provenance and (un)writing names in books at the @obs1922.bsky.social next Thursday. Zoom link also available for anyone keen!
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Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Hey, Boston-area peeps! Upcoming lecture at Boston Public Library (Central branch): David Walker's Declaration of Independence (with Dr. Leon Jackson). (I do not know if it will be live-streamed or recorded.)
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David Walker's Declaration of Independence (with Dr. Leon Jackson)
Join the Boston Public Library's Special Collections Department for a talk from scholar Dr. Leon Jackson entitled David Walker’s Declaration of Independence: Building Community and Fighting Racism in ...
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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Here begins a little thread about all the chapters in my new book Shakespeare in the Kitchen! (to be updated sorta daily until I make it all the way through)
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Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Hey folks, you know how I’m always telling you that the most cost effective way to buy a UP book is almost always direct from the publisher with a discount code? Well here you go (good through 5/31)
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Good decision and statement! 👏👏 "(...) preserving the integrity and reliability of the ACL proceedings is our responsibility and these measures are necessary to uphold the standards of our community and to ensure that the work published remains a credible resource for future scientific inquiry."
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ACL Statement on Desk Rejecting Papers with Hallucinated References
Official website for the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Look at the copyright violations and identity theft. Look at the energy wasted to generate this slop. Look at the violations of trust and cultivation of a generalized hermetics of suspicion. Look at the disregard for editors’ labor. Consider what is basically a DDOS on peer review.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
An academic reports on multiple AI-generated papers being submitted to various journals in her name, and some science guy’s response is: NBD, as long as you don’t get blacklisted by the publishers. People’s selfish responses to these ecological crises continue to floor me.
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Only two days until #BHLDay2026. Join us for a glimpse of what BHL can become and how biodiversity literature can be transformed into data, connections, and something that can be built upon in entirely new ways. 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏 🔗 Full program and registration: about.biodiversitylibrary.org/get-involved...
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
By acquiescing to demands that we cede class time to tutorials in the use of commercial products we are stealing from our students the opportunity for advanced intellectual development in the subjects we were hired to teach and destroying the future of our fields embodied by those students.
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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Today we launch Read More Books, a semi-regular Commonplace series featuring @kawulf.bsky.social asking authors five questions about their new book. We kick off with @johngmarks.com and his fascinating study of the long fight over Washington's legacy of slavery.🗄️ commonplace.online/article/read...
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Read More Books: John Garrison Marks, Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory (UNC Press, 2026) - Commonplace
If there are two rules about early American history, one is that, no matter how vast, George Washington will always be instructive.
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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Hey, #Boston friends! I'll be giving a talk on David Walker at Boston Public Library on 21 May, and I'd love it if you were able to join me! The talk is free, and you can sign up at the link below! 🗃️
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David Walker's Declaration of Independence
Join the Boston Public Library's Special Collections for a talk from scholar Dr. Leon Jackson entitled David Walker’s Declaration of Independence: Building Community and Fighting Racism in Antebellum ...
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