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Borthwick Institute for Archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Today we've launched our digitised Probate Registers and Bishops' Transcripts collections onto Ancestry. Together that's 16 million records covering 1389-1858 - these can be accessed via a subscription to Ancestry or for free here at the Borthwick! www.ancestry.co.uk/search/colle...

A manuscript page with a large initial R formed to two intertwined dragons

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Julianna Bratt @bjulianna.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Look at how pretty this manuscript damage is. Any cross disciplinary scholars want to explain why iron gall ink would repel (water? who knows) in this way? A chemistry friend of a friend provided the structural formula. #earlymodern #skystorians #histsci

16th century Iron gall ink on paper, top corner of legal proceedings with a brown stain that follows the edges of the written words

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

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The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Submit your proposal today for financial support for upcoming events in your community! 📖✨ 📅 Deadline: 1 April (7 weeks away!) Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

Pink background with white text about applying for funding from the BSA for a book-related events by 1 April.

White background with dark pink text providing some details about the types of events BSA can fund

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A highlight: Cressida has been traded to the Greeks, who literally pass her around to each covetously kiss her. Her fear & the danger of her position, then her defiant turn to rhetoric as protection, came through strongly with great acting from all. Visceral. Thank you @shakesbashd.bsky.social!

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Silvia Killingsworth @silviakillings.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I'm going to a production of "Troilus and Cressida" tonight! I've read this one (long ago) but never seen it. Tempted to make a list of less-performed Shax plays I've been lucky enough to attend.

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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Wondering if anyone knows about work on interactions btwn #earlymodern elites and the people--stewards, bailiffs, etc--who managed their estates and property. I'm curious about these relationships, which would have required conversation, some level of mutual trust, etc.

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

It is such a joy to be researching along and see a friend or colleague's work pop up in the database. What an honour to know someone both personally and professionally! You're all out here with such brilliant ideas!

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I always enjoy the Toronto Fringe, but "Iris (says goodbye)" truly deserves the title of Fringe magic -- a wonderfully dynamic musical, polished to a high shine. Not to be missed! #TheaTO #Theatre #Fringe #TorontoFringe

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Hi folks! Would any early modern journal editors be interested in a review of the Kenneth Branaugh "King Lear" or the Kit Connor/Rachel Ziegler "Romeo and Juliet"? Two fascinating interpretations!

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

What a wonderful reading from Red Bull Theatre -- Barabas came to life as a sympathetic scapegoat before he descended into being a cartoonish villain, and that gave him a nice complexity.

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I'm sitting in the one-night-only Red Bull Theater reading of #JewofMalta, wondering how many familiar faces from #SAA2025 I'm about to see!

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

What a joy to take part in the "Intimate Knowledges" #RenSA2025 roundtable and the "Personation" #SAA2025 seminar -- such rich conversations. Very grateful to the organizers and my fellow participants (& our auditors!) for their intellectual generosity

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The #NextGenPlen was such a wonderful panel of speakers; four brilliant papers!

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Friends, does anyone have access to Shakespeare Studies 52 and would be willing to send me a pdf of my article? They published my NextGenPlen paper on "personation" from two years ago and I'm keen to relive those glory days! #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 #RSA2025

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Feeling absolutely run off my feet by #Shax2025 #RenSA2025, but in the best possible way. What an amazing set of papers and conversations!

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Hi folks! I'm rejoining this app just in time for #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 🎭 Looking forward to seeing everyone!

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/03/2025

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

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AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

Friends! Who's coming to SAA and wants to get lunch/coffee/etc? 😎

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Bees are coming out of winter hibernation all across the Northern hemisphere. Which ones are visiting YOUR backyard?

SPRING BEE GUIDe

Bee: bzz
Bumblebee

Bee: hmmrzZozm...
... bzzmrmhmm...
mmBZzhmhm.
bzzrm.

Mumblebee

Bee: Meet me behind the wisteria
in 20 miNuTes foR an ASS-KICKING

Rumbleblee

Bee: I owe it all to my Lord and savior, Beezus CHRiSt

Humblebee

Bee falling out of a flower: Ope!

Fumblebee

Bee: DaffodiLs aRe FUCKiN' BULLSHIT
PLANT SomeTHING eLse, KAREN
ugh

GRUMBLe Bee

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 22/02/2024

Like RIGHT NOW. Vice employees have received an anonymous tip that the whole site might be nuked today. From the same tweet, their email is locked.

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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Just saw someone on tumblr wryly note that pop sci has made dopamine, serotonin cortisol and adrenaline into the four humors. Ouch But not unfair

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

This brings me so much joy -- the Topsell is wonderful and the artistry of these animals is amazing

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Stunning development in scholarly publishing. NYPL will be digitizing "entire out-of-print backlists" of multiple academic presses and making them available. The Scholarly Press Backlist Revival project shows a striking thoughtfulness in overcoming perceived and real IP and contractual barriers.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

For all the Shakespeareans looking for a poem with which to begin their classes:

Fuck / Shakespeare
BY INUA ELLAMS
And another thing / the grace you brought Othello / how you forged that moor / got him talking down his eloquence as if his tongue wasn’t part swan feather / part molasses / how you wrote a church of darkness steepled by Iago / and Ol’ Thello its soul / beacon of honor and light / Bruh / that shit literary fire / race-theory brimstone / middle-passage gold

but /

how you played Caliban / his tongue as Othello’s / and just as wronged / How you imbibed him with / emblemed him of colonized peoples / got me all riled up / imagining my ancestor’s vengeance / a rough blade thrust through Prospero’s proud heart / but you didn’t / Play ends / Cali still enslaved / Bruh / that shit fucked

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Thanks @kenlowery.bsky.social for a copy of the cool VOID 1680 AM, a solo RPG about hosting a radio station, played by making an actual playlist! It’s almost certainly going to make it onto my Fall syllabus! Here’s the playlist I created through play! open.spotify.com/playlist/39T...

A copy of the VOID 1680 zine, and a notebook with notes from my playthrough

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Canadians please weigh in on behalf of writers and artists everywhere!

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Over the holidays, a friend in another field asked me whether I thought "Coriolanus" or "Titus Andronicus" was more obscure. Of course, the questions abound -- obscure to whom, when? -- but I'm curious what you all think.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

for folks outside Canada: this is a huge higher ed story Queen's is one of Canada's leading R1 universities and today boasts the fifth largest endowment amongst Canadian universities it's as if Penn suddenly announced it was on the brink of bankruptcy www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Hey if you’re, say, an author who has a shit ton of recorded interview and video material online, you should warn your parents/partners/etc about this.

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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Hi Medievalsky! Arthuriana & Arthurian Literature are offering a FREE workshop on academic publishing Jan 29, 1pm Eastern. All welcome, especially grad students & ECRs. Please share widely. Zoom registration is required: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join Arthuriana and Arthurian Literature for a free workshop on academic publishing and get behind-the-scenes glimpse of the publishing process. This workshop will be on January 29 at 1:00 pm eastern time.

Topics

Poster with the following info:
What is an academic journal?
What journal/publisher is right for you?
What is the submission process like?
What steps do journals take when editing?
What does the production process look like?
What is a reader’s report?
.....and more!

Join us to also learn about an exciting opportunity with Arthuriana coming summer 2024!

All are welcome, especially graduate students and early career folks. Please share widely. Zoom registration is required.

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Come be my colleague at the Huntington! (Please share widely.) huntingtonlibrary.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Huntin...

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Calling all those fascinated by palaeography or fans of @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social (so most of you on here). The next London Palaeography Seminar will be online only on 30th Jan, 5:30pm GMT when Sonja will be talking on colophons. Will be advertised soon but if you can't wait, email me for link.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

as always, do this even if you haven’t run out yet and don’t think you need them, because high demand for free tests is one of the few tools we have to scream at the government about how many people still care about this

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Hello early modern folks! Does anyone have a recommendation for scholarship on Peele's "Edward I"? I'm coming up surprisingly empty!

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Anthony Perillo, Ph.D. @anthonyperillo.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Beyond the transparent bigotry toward trans individuals, I’m thinking of all my Asian & Indigenous students who went by an Americanized name different from their registered name.

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

I had the great pleasure of seeing "Adrift" by Happenstance Theater last night, and it was absolutely wonderful -- the most joyful, profound, deeply silly celebration of mystery, filled with thoughtful medieval references. Go see it, if you can! www.59e59.org/shows/show-d...

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Eating several chocolates from my advent calendar every day because each day feels like a week!

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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 05/12/2023

a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.

docs.google.com

A letter to our readers

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

NYC FloodNet Real time flooding data. Here: dataviz.floodnet.nyc. Map looks like this on left! Click the dot and it drills down! [Thanks for sharing, @jerthorp.bsky.social!]

NYC FloodNet map showing broad geographic outlines of NYC and bright colored dots with flooding locations.

Inset key: Flood Depth

Blue = None or Minimal
Yellow = Minor (4"-12")
Red = Moderate (12"-24")
Purple = Major (> 24")
Gray = No Data or Inactive

Title: FloodNet

Shown as inset picture over map of area

Inset box:
BK - 9th St/Smith St
Gowanus, Brooklyn

Deployed on December 14,
2021 by FloodNet

Graph

Moderate 18"

shows a SHARP SPIKE UP for today

Shows both dates
first 09/27/2023 at 10:24 am
Then now 9/29/2023 at 10:24 am

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Brilliant op ed from incredibly brave teachers whose own jobs are on the chopping block & who have been pressured to remain silent. Please read & share widely. www.bostonreview.net/articles/an-op…

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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

What a busy week! One thing after another. But I made some time, today, to explore something new: a friend offered to show me how to use a table saw and a band saw. (I managed to keep my "I came, I saw" jokes to myself.) My fall goal is to make a box with a secret compartment. 👀

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Lewie Pollis @lewispoll.is · 12/09/2023

As hoped, the CDC just recommended the new COVID boosters to everyone (6 months and up), not just the elderly and immunocompromised. Please sign up to get your shots (and encourage your loved ones to do the same). Appointments available as early as next week!

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Come and join the COOLEST PROJECT at QMUL & Cambridge! #bookhistory! Material culture! #reformazing history! #earlymodern chaos! COOL SCIENCE TOYS! All info & how to apply here: www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...

This is a fixed term three-year position for a postdoctoral researcher in the interdisciplinary team of the AHRC-funded research project Hidden in Plain Sight: Historical and Scientific Analysis of Premodern Sacred Books. The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting textual analysis and providing contextual information. They will work closely with scientists and technicians, under the supervision of PI and Co-Is, to investigate how sacred books were appropriated, mutilated, or used talismanically. They will examine a wide range of premodern books, primarily books transformed and mutilated in the course of religious reform; books transitioning between Jews and Christians in medieval Europe; and talismanic use of Scripture in non-European contexts. They will work alongside the project’s other Postdoctoral Research Associate (a Heritage Scientist) and liaise with the project’s technicians, curators, conservators, advisory board and faith communities. They will contribute to

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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