Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleDorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Hello 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! 51813
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I got my COVID and flu shots yesterday. Remember to get yours too! 1130
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I’m still thinking about the bumble bee who flew up my pant leg. What was being sought? The whole thing really tickled my knee. 030
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleRoxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trying to conjure a future where “start up” is no longer a thing 271
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleBenjamin 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-...globecollegetown.substack.comCollege campuses need to be liberated from their administratorsHigher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students? 219771
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings on Banjo Stage right now! 🎶 040
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Post a vampire 523633
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 03/10/2026the 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. 214942
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026It’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. 5447133
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleDominique 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 31225490
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today 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/browsehardlystrictlybluegrass.vhx.tvHSB TVHSB TV is the home of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass productions in your living room. Join us here to experience twelve episodes of our 2021 production 164
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleLondon 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...lrb.co.ukGill Partington · Boxed into Our Language: Mimeo-RevolutionariesMore so than letterpress, mimeograph printing is a visceral snapshot of an instant in time, preserving the flux and mess... 0176
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleBotanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The 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...missouribotanicalgarden.org Anne S. Chatham Fellowship 065
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleSarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’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 📜 📚themillions.comMeet the Winners of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize - The MillionsIn 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... 02710
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleSuzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026ImPRESSed 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 1526994
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleWhitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In 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.whitneytrettien.substack.com“How on earth came the t turned into s?!!!!”On Howard Staunton’s photozincographic facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio 27424
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleKEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/202610 years of ‘unvarnished truth’: DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture marks anniversary wtop.com/dc/2026/09/1...wtop.com10 years of ‘unvarnished truth’: DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture marks anniversary – WTOP NewsOn 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." 0126
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There'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" 150
Reposted by Shannon K. Supple🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 125123765272
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Got 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! 162
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleSteven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Reminder: 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...youtube.comOnline Nottebohm Talks September 15 2016YouTube video by Museum Plantin-Moretus 02018
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Happy autumnal equinox to all the northern hemispherians! And happy spring equinox to those in the south! 1130
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Charismatic 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. 🪶 190
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I am very tired of people saying “inevitable” about problems that are entirely avoidable. drilled.ghost.io/the-unbearab...drilled.ghost.ioThe 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... 816638
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleJosh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026EXC: 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...heraldscotland.comNinety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shapeAccording to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language. 17111149
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I 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. 1150
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleDr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I love this new journal---https://journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jls/indexjournaloflostspecies.orgThe Journal of Lost SpeciesA peer-reviewed record of the contemporary biodiversity crisis. 25220
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Went 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. 180
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026In 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...npr.orgEmily St. John Mandel's latest novel 'Exit Party' explores identity in a near-future worldNPR'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. 1111
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You know what always goes well? Allowing corporations to dictate the terms of what they do and to regulate themselves. Super strong strategy. 060
Reposted by Shannon K. SupplePhillip 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. 114041
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It is absolutely pouring rain here and I love it. Oooh, thunder! 180
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026After 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/ 10452183
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleSHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Did 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...docs.google.comSHARP Thesis/Dissertation Bibliography Submission Form 2024/2025Use 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, ... 0811
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The existence of billionaires is a policy failure. 0142
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleNaomi 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...theguardian.comNaomi 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... 6639051330
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleDavid 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... 🧪🦑🌎latimes.com'The whole beach is gone': Big waves, flooding bring destruction to SoCal coast. It's a warningStrong 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… 35327
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleSuzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026New 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 1444
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I 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!) 3121
Reposted by Shannon K. SuppleSammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This 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... 23014
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Graduate students! You have four more days to apply for a fellowship at Yale’s Beinecke Library! 0109
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Fossilized feathers and fish scales preserved in dinosaur scat! Amazing. (Ignore the scientist hot takes toward the end.) www.npr.org/2026/09/10/n...npr.orgA fossil feather from the age of dinosaurs may explain why only some birds survivedAn extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did not. 031
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Unrelatedly, my work calendar tasks now read “ketchup” whenever I’m scheduling myself to deal with my unruly email inbox. 180
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My 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! 1130
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Exhibition 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/japanese2026dpul.princeton.edu 0157
Reposted by Shannon K. SupplePrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We have to stop passively shrugging and accepting this kind of shit. 224242