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Maria Damkjær

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Dr.Dr. (no, really!) Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 11h
Do my #18thc & #BookHistory mutuals know about Compositor, the Univ of Birmingham's database for the history of printers' ornaments? I and the undergrads in When Novels Were New were delighting in some of these at the Houghton this a.m., & that made me recall this site: compositor.bham.ac.uk/about/
compositor.bham.ac.uk
Compositor
Compositor research project at the University of Birmingham
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 18h
Me, walking into @illinoisrbml.bsky.social to inspect the spread @caitcoker.bsky.social has out for my class’ visit Me: Wow a 1st American edition of *Moby Dick* in which someone pasted newspaper articles about whaling & reviews of the book Me: do we know who pasted these? CC: um, Herman Me: 🤯
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Mccallan @mccallan.bsky.social · 10h
I can’t 💗 this enough 😍
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 16h
I swear to you that in 1775, Isaac and Ruth Wedg named their newborn son Orronge. It's right here in the record.
Clip from a birth record saying "Orronge Wedg son to Isaac Wedg & Ruth his wife Born Octo 2d AD 1775"
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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 20h
Applications are now open for two online-only RBS courses to be offered in January 2027. The first-round application deadline for both courses is 𝟭 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. After that date, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until each course fills. Details at rarebookschool.org/courses
A blue, white, and tan graphic has an image of a laptop on the screen of which is a photo of a man in glasses holding up a page of the Nuremburg Chronicle, while a large book is laid open on foam rests beside him. Behind him images from a rare book are projected on a screen. The text on the graphic reads, “Take a course online with RBS this winter! The first-round application deadline for both courses is 1 November 2026. After this date, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until each course fills. See course descriptions on our website for meeting times. G-20v Printed Books to 1800: Description & Analysis. Instructor: David R. Whitesell. Dates: 6–15 January 2027. L-140v Building a Book Lab. Instructors: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum & Kari Kraus. Dates: 12, 14, and 19 January 2027. rarebookschool.org.courses.”
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
of course the other reminder is that in halloween month no one can ask you to reduce the “scare quotes” you “use” in your “writing” because it’s the spirit of the season
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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
As always, The Fifth Season is a hit on the theory & SFF course ❤️
A copy of NK Jemisin’s novel The Fifth Season in a classroom
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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
omg there are university press books in the Murderbot future
a paragraph from the book System Collapse, by Martha Wells

Not all Pre-Corporation Rim sites are alien-contaminated, obviously. A lot of them became long-term occupation sites, the nucleus of what are now independent polities or Corporation Rim-owned planets (page 57, paragraph 6, Introduction to the History of Human Expansion, Volume I, eds. Bartheme, de la Vega, Shanmugam, et al, Cloud Sun Harbor University Press). But abandoned sites are sometimes abandoned for a good reason, and humans didn't understand back then how careful they needed to be with alien remnants. (Or maybe they did and they just didn't care. I mean, let's be honest, which one is more likely? I'm just making an observation here.)
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Heated Rivalry News @hrnews.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Season 2 of “Heated Rivalry” will see “a much more expanded universe” of the world Jacob Tierney helped create for the series’ viral first season, while still focusing on his “North Star”: Shane and Ilya’s relationship. via CBSMornings
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 12/10/2026
GESAMTTREATWERK
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Behold!! On this Indigenous People’s Day, the first page of the first number of THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX (1828)- featuring the Cherokee Constitution in English & Cherokee, in the syllabary created by Sequoyah. An epic milestone in Native American history and the history of print
Picture of the newspaper - with an engraving of a great Phoenix at the top, and double columns of type below, with English and Cherokee juxtaposed
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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So my book now has a cover, featuring one of my favorite archival images. Forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2027!
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Robynn @robynn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I can't actually claim this, because I had to try it out for work, once. But never again.
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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Me too - exactly this
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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Also we have stickers of our 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle
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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Excellent reminder of my plan to write “Studying Early Printed Books: An Impractical Guide” to accompany my Practical Guide
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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do?
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 09/10/2026
by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word: Middlemarch Madness
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Worth a look if it’s clear,
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
BREAKING Professor Peter Hallward has just been arrested on the National March for Palestine for holding a banner with a factually accurate legal statement on it. “In the UK it’s a crime to say I support Palestine Action” Help end the absurdity: www.wedonotcomply.org
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 10/10/2026
The people holding up the internet sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Suck it, other book collectors.
ABEBooks listing for a copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet for $43.33, labeled “hardcover, signed.”
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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Being an academic be like: "hey we met for 20 seconds at this thing three years ago and haven't talked since... Want to spend a week together in a foreign country looking at things with me and 37 strangers?"
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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hmmm. Unless I’m forgetting something, the only river cruise in George Eliot’s work does not go well.
A river cruise ship named The George Eliot.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I scraped ~7000 web pages from the fossil fuel industry and extracted almost the entirety of Gerard Manley Hopkin's sonnet "God's Grandeur."
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God’s Grandeur, Extracted
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “God’s Grandeur” (1877), extracted from the fossil fuel industry’s own words. Every phrase is cut from one of 6,924 oil industry web pages.
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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Announcement of next year's Rosemary Mitchell Book Prize for a second monograph in Victorian Studies now live! Please note the slight change in eligibility window for next year, and the accelerated timetable for nominations and supply of copies to the judges. If you are eligible, please apply!
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THE BAVS-ROSEMARY MITCHELL PRIZE FOR A SECOND MONOGRAPH 2027 (for books published in 2026)
Each year BAVS awards the Rosemary Mitchell Book Prize to the best second monograph published the previous year in Victorian studies. The prize is named after the late Professor/Reverend Rosemary M…
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.
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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
one of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Welcome to our twelfth cohort of MLitt students in Fantasy Literature! 2015-16 Canaries 2016-17 Phoenixes 2017-18 Ravens 2018-19 Merlins 2019-20 Owls 2020-21 Nightingales 2021-22 Sparrowhawks 2022-23 Nightjars 2023-24 Peregrines 2024-25 Starlings 2025-26 Magpies 2026-27 Crows!
Bird pictures for the twelve University of Glasgow Fantasy MLitt cohorts, each of which chooses a bird name.

2015-16 Canaries
2016-17 Phoenixes
2017-18 Ravens
2018-19 Merlins
2019-20 Owls
2020-21 Nightingales
2021-22 Sparrowhawks
2022-23 Nightjars
2023-24 Peregrines
2024-25 Starlings
2025-26 Magpies
2026-27 Crows
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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
SO well deserved, this is an amazing project and resource for anyone interested in the Beetons
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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wives and Daughters has a great scene where Molly just wants to read Lucia de Lammemoor and people won’t leave her alone
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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Help! I am looking for places in C18-19 literature where women are characterised via. their appreciation of novels, a la Austen's Northanger Abbey, chapter 6. Google no longer works and all of my ideas have left me. Any thoughts?
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This sounds fantastic:
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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
👀🎉
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 06/10/2026
Just a friendly reminder that Curran Fellowship applications are due next week on 15 October! Open to all researchers, Curran awards offer up to $6,000 USD to support #19thC periodical research that makes use of print and archival sources. Application guidance here: rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026
You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I hate English department Halloween. What do you mean, you're the hermeneutics of suspicion
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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goodness. It's really nice when smart people like your book. And astonishing when they teach you new things about it in their review. Thank you @mmvty.bsky.social
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 23/09/2026
Our next #RSVPDigiEvent is on the horizon! Come feel some regional feels and get a sneak peak of the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (2028) from some of its editors and contributors! Join us Friday, 16 October at the usual time: rs4vp.org/preview-edin...
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Off Centre: A Preview of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (2028) – RSVP
Join us on 16 October for a sneak peak of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (forthcoming for Edinburgh UP, 2028)!
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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great episode, and I hate to ding a relatively short conversation for not covering every aspect of a complicated thing, but: I'm fascinated, slash bugged, by how SFF-genre conversations often wind up defining "literary" in a way that is not, properly speaking, generic:
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 29/09/2026
This former golf course has been turned into a nature reserve 💚 Sandilands is designed to help nature thrive. The reserve is expected to provide important habitat for birds and forms part of the internationally important East Coast Flyway, one of Europe's major migration routes.
Two long-legged avocets with white chests and black heads and beaks at the edge of water, with four tiny white fluffy chicks following in their wakeAn aerial view of a former golf course at the edge of the coast, with a strip of beige sand on one side, and many ponds, pathways, wetland and marshes within it under a cloudy skyA view of long thistley grass under a hazy blue sky surrounding a vast pondAn adult avocet with long legs, a white body, black head and beak leading three fluffy grey chicks behind it along the water's edge with a scrubby bank rising behind them
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Link to original research: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Evaluating land productivity with semi-transparent colored CdTe thin-film PV and broccoli cultivation in agrivoltaic systems
Wavelength-selective agrivoltaics can improve light sharing between solar panels and crops by selectively transmitting specific wavelengths. Ma Lu et al. investigate full-cycle broccoli cultivation un...
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