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Shannon K. Supple

@mazarine.bsky.social
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Imaginaria, libraries, archives, book history, history of science, social/environmental justice, music, birds, plants, funny things Water creature | she/her | Californian in northeastern US

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hello People Who Teach! If you have ever assigned The House Archives Built [in essay or book format] in a class, could you share with me the department/class title/class type if the title is very mysterious? I'd appreciate it! Less than I appreciate the actual teaching but still a hearty amount!
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I got my COVID and flu shots yesterday. Remember to get yours too!
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m still thinking about the bumble bee who flew up my pant leg. What was being sought? The whole thing really tickled my knee.
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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trying to conjure a future where “start up” is no longer a thing
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Universities must stop falling in love with every new piece of software … that the tech industry pitches as essential. Administrators spend on software as if it is a durable investment, when all of the evidence shows that it … makes bloat worse.” globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...
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College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators
Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings on Banjo Stage right now! 🎶
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 03/10/2026
the NEH is a ghost of an organization. the NEA's budget is $29 million. I'm not saying this to be pissy, but simply to say that when we rebuild - and we will rebuild - I expect solidarity from my STEM colleagues as we robustly expand research in the arts and humanities as well.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026
It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today through Sunday is the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco). If you can’t be there is person, you can listen to the live feed here: hardlystrictlybluegrass.vhx.tv/browse
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HSB TV is the home of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass productions in your living room. Join us here to experience twelve episodes of our 2021 production
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/10/2026
‘These are experiments in pushing poetry to the boundaries of legibility, into new forms, and even off the page entirely.’ Gill Partington on the re-emergence of the little magazine: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Gill Partington · Boxed into Our Language: Mimeo-Revolutionaries
More so than letterpress, mimeograph printing is a visceral snapshot of an instant in time, preserving the flux and mess...
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Garden Club of America’s Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany is now taking applications and provides at least one grant award of $4,500 annually to support a one-year research project related to medicinal plants. Deadline: January 31, 2027 Learn more here: botany.org/news/display...
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Anne S. Chatham Fellowship
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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s that time of year: Meet the delightful winners of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize!! I love this prize and always look forward to learning about these collections. Congrats to all the winners and bless Heather and Rebecca for creating this prize 📜 📚
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Meet the Winners of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize - The Millions
In 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged 30 years and younger. Our goal, at the time, was to expand the popular perception of who book coll...
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5
Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!
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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the 1860s, chess player Howard Staunton produced a photo-facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio. It was one of the earliest attempts to use new technology to reproduce an old book. @folger.edu has Staunton’s proof sheets. I looked at them last week. If you like media/books/history, they're fun.
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“How on earth came the t turned into s?!!!!”
On Howard Staunton’s photozincographic facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I love meeting with Elaine’s classes!
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
10 years of ‘unvarnished truth’: DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture marks anniversary wtop.com/dc/2026/09/1...
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10 years of ‘unvarnished truth’: DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture marks anniversary – WTOP News
On Sept. 24, 2016, the new National Museum of African American History and Culture opened on the National Mall. A curator describes the crowd's mood that day as "supernatural."
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's a storm outside and the gap between crack and thunder, crack and thunder, is closing in, is closing in. The rain floods gutters and makes a great sound on concrete. On a flat roof, there's a boy leaning against the wall of rain, aerial held high, calling, "Come on thunder, come on thunder"
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Got to listen to this today and it was so good to hear @ewatson.bsky.social talk about her research within and inspired by her fellowship. Great work, Elise!
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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reminder: one more week to apply for the Nottebohm fellowship for #BookHistory research in Antwerp! For an idea of some of the research conducted using this travel fund, check out the recording of last week's Nottebohm Talks on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA2L...
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Online Nottebohm Talks September 15 2016
YouTube video by Museum Plantin-Moretus
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy autumnal equinox to all the northern hemispherians! And happy spring equinox to those in the south!
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Charismatic microfauna delayed report from a deliciously cool morning includes chirpy but unseen songbirds in the trees, copious squirrels, a shuffling groundhog, and an actual murder of crowd flying ahead of me. 🪶
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am very tired of people saying “inevitable” about problems that are entirely avoidable. drilled.ghost.io/the-unbearab...
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The Unbearable Bleakness of "Inevitability"
My entire adult life people who are supposedly sensible have been telling me some catastrophe or another is “inevitable.” Nuclear war, climate change, and now the AI takeover. Apparently the “end of r...
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape
According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I like working onsite in the library but I have to tell you: Working from home on Fridays, when I can drink coffee at my desk and play music, is a special thing.
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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I love this new journal---https://journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jls/index
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The Journal of Lost Species
A peer-reviewed record of the contemporary biodiversity crisis.
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Went for a run as the torrential rain ebbed and was nearly the only human out, with the frogs and worms. One section of trail was flooded to my ankles so I marched through it and decided it was flun.
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In an interview on NPR about her latest novel, Emily St. John Mandel said “I'm interested in the way art moves through time.” I think about this a lot. I’m drawn to archives and material texts because of the ways texts and objects move through time. www.npr.org/2026/09/12/n...
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Emily St. John Mandel's latest novel 'Exit Party' explores identity in a near-future world
NPR's Scott Simon talks with Emily St. John Mandel about her new novel, "Exit Party." Set in the near future, it's an exploration of identity involving doppelgangers and a mysterious painting.
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You know what always goes well? Allowing corporations to dictate the terms of what they do and to regulate themselves. Super strong strategy.
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The idea that preparing students to succeed in an AI-saturated world requires reimagining college as an AI incubator is not a sign of technological acumen, but of tech illiteracy." This is so good.
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It is absolutely pouring rain here and I love it. Oooh, thunder!
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/
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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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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The existence of billionaires is a policy failure.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'The whole beach is gone': Big waves, flooding bring destruction to SoCal coast. It's a warning www.latimes.com/california/s... 🧪🦑🌎
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'The whole beach is gone': Big waves, flooding bring destruction to SoCal coast. It's a warning
Strong surf across Southern California this weekend blasted through a seawall in Long Beach, caused a massive sinkhole at a celebrity’s Malibu home and damaged several Dana Point homes, among other…
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New Book OLD Bookmark! Yesterday, I noticed this wonderful use of recycling in an 18th c. moral theology text! A much earlier, disused Latin manuscript is now one of my favorite bookmarks @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! 📖♥️ #ThingsInBooks #bookmark @fragmentarium.bsky.social #ManuscriptWaste #newacq
Vellum manuscript bookmark on page it was left in. Book open with a surprise in the gutter. Other side of heart shaped bookmark made from manuscript waste!
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I don’t get quite as many opportunities to work closely with students at my current job as I did in my previous role. But when I do, it remains magic. I don’t know if students know how rich their work makes mine. (Maybe @sophie-rose-reads.bsky.social can tell me I’m wrong!)
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This Tuesday, Sept 15 at 12pm PT, I'm talking with climate journo @amywestervelt.bsky.social, author of the must-read new book, "Brought to You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy." Register for the Zoom and come chat with us! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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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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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fossilized feathers and fish scales preserved in dinosaur scat! Amazing. (Ignore the scientist hot takes toward the end.) www.npr.org/2026/09/10/n...
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A fossil feather from the age of dinosaurs may explain why only some birds survived
An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did not.
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Unrelatedly, my work calendar tasks now read “ketchup” whenever I’m scheduling myself to deal with my unruly email inbox.
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My colleagues told me that recent phrases I said during meetings inspired her to sketch! I don’t have permission to share her sketches but I’ll share the phrases: •“The handshake between war and science” •“I will not buy a book made of sausages” We really should have compendia of meeting phrases!
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Exhibition at Princeton University Library — with online content too! The Art of Japanese Publishing A Selection of Japanese Illustrated Books from the Marquand Library Collection, 1660-1960 dpul.princeton.edu/japanese2026
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We have to stop passively shrugging and accepting this kind of shit.
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