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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next.

Twitter screenshot: New: Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Call for Papers: Hogg’s Worlds Now, University of Glasgow, July 2027 Submit your abstracts for this new conference at the University of Glasgow on July 2-4, 2027. Deadline for submission 31 December 2026. More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6619

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Gabriel Mckee @secret-terror.bsky.social · 11h

ONE MONTH TO GO until the submission deadline for next year's meeting of the Popular Culture Association! We're seeking abstracts for a special session series on "UFOs, Cryptids, Conspiracies, & the Paranormal."

Bright pink background with clip-art images of a UFO, ghost, sasquatch, and a pyramid-topping eye. The text reads: One month left! Send us your abstracts on weird culture! Proposals due October 31. (Ooh spooky.) Popular Culture Association 2027 Special Topic: UFOs, Cryptids, Conspiracies, and the Paranormal (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association) Boston, Massachusetts Organization: Popular Culture Association Event: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Categories: Popular Culture, 20th & 21st Century, Anthropology/Sociology, Cultural Studies, Film, TV, & Media, History. Event: March 24-27. Abstract deadline: October 31. Days left: 30.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12h

A new kind of redlining just dropped

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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How do you show a whole digitized book in one thumbnail? Modern books have illustrated covers, but in research collections the cover is often a plain library binding. So I made Flipbook: hover over a book from any #IIIF source and flip through its pages. hadro.github.io/flipbook/ #GLAMsky 📚📜

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The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Deadline extended until 7 October! The Events Planning Committee seeks proposals for sessions centered on the tools and methodologies of bibliographical work, to take place during BSA’s Annual Meeting in January 2027 View the full CfP and submission instructions: 🔗https://bit.ly/cfp-tools-trade-27

Promotional graphic announcing a 7 October deadline and a call for proposals titled “Tools of the Trade at the 2027 Annual Meeting,” with a black-and-white meeting photograph. White text on a copper background.

Copper text on a white background, with more details about submitting a proposal including a link to learn more and a deadline of 7 October

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should aspire to care about things like this, even if that means arguing for Schubert over JSB. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPeL....

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Three Russian Musicologists Debate Schubert and Bach.

YouTube video by Nidhal Selmi

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I both hate and love how I always cry at Bohème. If Puccini favoured any instrument it was surely the heart strings.

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Journal of Co-operative Studies @coopstudiesjournal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

JCS has delineated the ideals & practices of co-operation in theory & practice for many decades. Now we turn to the imagination. Coming soon - our special issue explores cultural imaginaries of co-operation in creative works & within cultural co-operatives themselves. www.ukscs.coop/pages/journa...

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Journal of Co-operative Studies | UK Society for Co-operative Studies

Linking theory and practice

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s against my principles to drink with the man I’ve diddled

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The programme for this looks splendid. Serious FOMO!

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you guys broke watergate

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Toad looked around. He saw that Frog was not there. “I AM ALL ALONE!” screamed Toad.

Toad suddenly realizes that Frog is not on the sled with him.

From "Down the Hill"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There are lots of issues regarding LLMs to discuss, but this is the fundamental one that should have stopped all else in its tracks: they are an unprecedented breach of intellectual property rights, and society cannot be ordered around pretending that LLMs are a special case worthy of exemption

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

me reading your posts

A detail of a painting of St Lucy, showing her eyes on a golden plate. They look like bored clams.

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Who needs endless social media vids, try the dopamine rush of finding a woman hidden in a 1649 imprint!!

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Russian strikes destroy 12 million books in Ukraine ahead of new school year buff.ly/VAR8J3a

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm very excited to be giving the 2026-27 W.J. Alexander Lecture in English Literature on October 15th at University College, University of Toronto! It will be called "Joseph Brant's Unwritten History: Towards an Indigenous Antiquarianism."

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Joseph Brant’s Unwritten History: Towards an Indigenous Antiquarianism | University College U of T

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InfinITO @squirreldad.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Guten Morgen, BSky. Unser Kleinster, Balu, geht auch schon auf Entdeckungsreise. Das ist alles noch etwas beängstigend, aber gleichzeitig auch aufregend. #sqrlpix #eichhörnchen

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Repost: Things you should know but didn't know you needed to know before knowing: A nasothek is a collection of the broken noses of statues and busts. Now you know.

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nytimesguild.bsky.social @nytimesguild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yesterday, this company told our members we have to "dig deeper" to cover the costs of our health care. Today, its executives rang the opening bell at the the NYSE.

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InfinITO @squirreldad.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

Hallo und guten Morgen, BSky. Felix ist schon super aktiv! Was ist mit euch? #sqrlpix #eichhörnchen

Junges Eichhörnchen steht auf Hinterläufen

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kenny mellman @kennymellman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Monsters. Trans Rights Are Human Rights.

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UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The second European Conference on the Fantastic, Fantastic Spaces and Places, will take place at the University of Karlstad in Sweden from June 15th to 17th 2027. CfP here (deadline Nov 1st): www.kau.se/kufo/aktivit... Hope to see many of you there!

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Fantastic Spaces and Places | Karlstads universitet

The second European Conference on the Fantastic Karlstad, Sweden 15-17 June, 2027

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The brutal reality of universities' suppression of wages (in KPMG's report for DfE on cost of undergraduate provision in England) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6aabfa...

Table 1 – Cost increases since the last study by cost type
Actual % increase
between 2016-17 and
2019 study cost groupings
2023-24 weighted
average unit cost
Staff costs 14%
Non-pay costs 46%
Indirect departmental costs -24%
Centrally allocated indirect costs 29%
Estates costs 40%
Sustainability adjustment -2%

Source: Analysis of Data Returns
Table 1 shows that costs have not increased equally in the time between the two costing studies. Non-pay costs have increased slightly ahead of inflation and estates costs have increased in line with inflation. Universities have managed staff costs significantly below inflation, increasing only by 14% compared to the 41.2% increase in RPIX. By contrast, indirect departmental costs have reduced by 24%, but this may be due to differences in the universities participating in the 2019 and this study. The movement in MSI is reflective of changes in financial performance rather than any inflationary impact.

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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Submissions due by Sept 22 (next Tuesday)!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Celtic (UG), Chinese & Russian (UG), Contemporary History, Economics & Statistics (joint degree), Inclusive Education (MSc), Intellectual History, Italian & Classics (joint), Law & Social Policy (joint), Medieval History, Persian Studies (UG), Portuguese (UG), Psychology & Economics (joint)....

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Full list of the 90 programmes earmarked for closure at leading Scottish university

Managers say the cuts are necessary “to protect our world-leading reputation and resilience in research and teaching” but staff members have hit…

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 17/09/2026

Squirrels 🐿️ in a factotum initial from early C17 Urbino.

The printed letter A set within ornate woodcut border including foliage, two squirrels and a crowned bird.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I didn't hold back. These centers are a blight on higher education and we should say so. dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...

“Center for Intellectual Freedom is a really Orwellian name because they’re forcing mandatory classes on students who don’t want it,” Ray said. “Just as a matter of pure consistency, if closing African American Studies was just a financial decision, the center should be closed.” Ray said universities do a better job fostering free thought than any other institution — including churches, workplaces, and the military.

“You can say and do things at universities that you cannot do anywhere else,” he said. “So the notion that universities are a problem when it comes to free speech is just a lie.”

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*shrieks in former adjunct*

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

European Knight, made by a 16thC Japanese student. The Jesuits established a painting school in Nagasaki in the late 16th century. Students were taught to produce these European style oil paintings and engravings. (Tokyo National Museum)

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James A. Hodges @jameshodges.net · 15/09/2026

A “computer glitch” at this data center dumped 5,500 gallons of diesel into local waterways. The company responsible is 11% owned by BlackRock btw newjersey.news12.com/2026/09/14/d...

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Secaucus mayor says 'computer glitch' cause of thousands of gallons of diesel to spill from Secaucus data center

The fuel entered Anderson Creek, which flows into the Hackensack River.

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Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Roses 🌹🥀 from ‘Fragmenta botanica, figuris coloratis illustrata’ by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. Viennae, Austriae: Typis Mathiae Andreae Schmidt, typogr. Universit., 1809. UW-Madison Special Collections. #naturalhistory #botanicalart #flowerillustration #roseart

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Mathieu Duplay 🌈 @mathieuduplay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think I can say without exaggeration that DW was one of the people who saved my life in the late 80s/early 90s. His voice rang loud and clear, it comforted and inspired me, it taught me to live as a fighter and go down as a fighter, if go down I absolutely must (and I didn't, in no small part...

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Secret Panel HERE 🧠 tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/06/14/memory-hole

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Did you or a friend complete a thesis or dissertation on a book history topic between 2024 and 2025? Submit the information here to have it included in our SHARP 2024-2025 Thesis and Dissertation Biliography! #Thesis #Dissertation #Research #BookHistory Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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SHARP Thesis/Dissertation Bibliography Submission Form 2024/2025

Use this form to submit citation information about book history theses and dissertations completed between 2024 and 2025. Guidelines Dissertations and theses about book history (interpreted broadly, ...

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Obvs this would happen (saying it 20 yrs ago no-one wd listen) the plan was 1. coax libraries to throw out hard copy & subscribe to ecopy 2. without hard copies available, pump up price for contd access to ecopy. These people who claim to run universities like businesses have no clue about business

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The details aren't quite up on the website yet, but @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social and I are organizing a subtheme for the 2027 @sewaneemedieval.bsky.social that I'm extremely excited about. Deadline for abstracts is 10/15, give us all your authentic/inauthentic hot takes!

Scandalous In/Authenticity
Megan L. Cook | Colby College | mlcook@colby.edu
Clint Morrison, Jr. | University of Wisconsin - Whitewater | morrisoc@uww.edu

In response to the conference theme, this thread invites panels and papers that consider moments in medieval literature and culture in which authenticity or inauthenticity becomes a site of scandal, concern, or disruption. Such moments of epistemic crisis inevitably raise foundational questions about perception, the nature of truth, and social norms and cohesion.

Recent work on authenticity and inauthenticity has considered the complicated relationship between the concept of the “original” and the “forgery” respectively, emphasizing their mutually constitutive status. What can we learn about structures of meaning-making in and about the Middle Ages by considering instances disputed, ambiguous, or contested authenticity?

Papers might consider these issues within a range of frameworks, including:
the textual (canon, attribution, translation, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha)
the ludic (disguise, performance, impostors)
the religious (discernment, heresy and orthodoxy, relics)
the aesthetic (artifice, imitation, copying)
the moral (forgery, hypocrisy, deceit)
the political (public attitude, accountability, narrative, sovereignty, succession)

We also welcome proposals that consider questions of authenticity and inauthenticity in the Middle Ages diachronically, whether by looking to medieval ideas about the biblical and classical past, or to post-medieval explorations of the Middle Ages through medievalism, historiography, or even hoax.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 11/09/2026

Just in case you ever have impostor syndrome, remember that in 2011, workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory brought six kilograms of plutonium together to take a picture to show their management. The amount was enough to start a chain nuclear reaction if they had been slightly closer.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A webinar about the conservation and stabilisation of Anne Lister's ('Gentleman Jack') diaries, with all proceeds going to Lavender Menace Queer Books in Edinburgh to support their work preserving LGBTQ+ books? What a combination. Book up!! www.icon.org.uk/events/conse...

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Conserving LGBT+ History Webinar: Anne Lister’s Journals

Learn all about the conservation of the diaries of “the first modern lesbian”!

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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This man won his primary by 30 points.

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