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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...

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

You'll be missed! Hope you're doing well!

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

You'll be missed! Congrats on the book! 🥳

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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

I'm going to query in the more traditional way too, of course, but I thought this was worth a try!

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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

I have a lead on this now, but thank you so much for spreading the word! I appreciate it very much!

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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 · 23/03/2025

Thank you so much to everyone who helped to boost this!

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

I've got a lead on this, but thank you so much!

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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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Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Wow, this would kick off such an interesting conversation

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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 · 14/01/2024

Ooh, interesting! That seems fair -- I feel like Titus is very polarizing for academics, whereas Coriolanus doesn't summon up the same heat

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

Get yourselves friends who ask you these kinds of questions! :)

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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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