iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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On the 20th anniversary of Zotero's 1.0 release on October 5, 2006, I wrote a history of the collaboration and years it took to create the popular research tool now used by over 20 million people: newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

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The Slow Formation of Durable Software

How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10h

The realization we had in the field years ago was that it was less important to have deep knowledge about one specific subject than it was to know how to organize, maintain, collect, conserve, and provide access to that subject material.

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cover reveal! The keywords I sent the press were “historical,” “natural,” and “multimedia” and I’d say they nailed it. Featuring my (book’s) main man Humphry Repton on the left there. Coming from Yale University Press this fall.

Image of a book cover with the title The Book of Improvement, subtitle Media Landscapes in the Global Enlightenment, and author Rachael King. The cover features a tree in the center with two men with surveying equipment to the left of the trunk and two men reclining under an umbrella to the right of the trunk. There are a river and rolling hills in the background.

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Victoria a reçu un lifting à la Elizabeth II... c'est grostesque...

Detail from a poster in the city of Eu in France, in which an AI produced Queen Victoria has the face of Elizabeth II... the whole poster is grosteque and so so ugly.

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Talking with @ciarab.bsky.social about archives, silences and the limits of digital solutions @universitypress.cambridge.org @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/absence-in-t...

The mostly orange, multi-coloured cover of Ciara Breathnach's book "Absence in the Archives"

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Bibliothèque Sorbonne Nouvelle @bibliothequebsn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nous sommes ouverts ! ·🏃‍♀️‍➡️🤝📖· L'ouverture de la BSN les samedis reprend dès aujourd'hui. Nous vous accueillons avec plaisir, de 9h à 19h. A très vite ! ☺️ #BSN📚 #bibliothequesorbonnenouvelle #ouverture

Quatre photos de la BSN : postes informatiques, entrée, banquettes du A1 et une table de travail. Au centre, un cercle où est indiqué "Nous sommes ouverts le samedi".

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I like my eighteenth-century long, but not that long!

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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This isn’t an argument for one policy or another but rather something I think everyone should be aware of. Please don’t assume that all of your students with documented learning disabilities have been able to get accommodations. This goes triple for first years.

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Alain Colas @macechis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#Strasbourg, 2024

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At the Richard Dadd exhibition. Mesmerizing. I loved the distribution of historical documents, given as a small leaflet accompanying the ticket, for further reading! #RA

Portrait of a young man, 1853. Seated young man with folded hands and sheepish gaze, on a wooden bench made of interweaving root-like branches, in a garden, with slightly disturbing foliage all around, as well as a threatening looking lawn roller in the back. Bright red Turkish hat on the left hand side of bench

Booklet of texts to accompany the exhibition . Pink booklet on a bright yellow bench for visitors

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g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There’s a Rocque London map (1746) for sale. WITH THE 8 SHEET DETAIL VIEW - first to come to market this century. With Forum Auctions on 24/11 at an estimate of £30-50k which is comic lowballing if ever I saw it. www.forumauctions.co.uk/bidding/1200... Once again, I am regretting my life choices.

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Sim Elliott @sim-elliott.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

At @royalacademyarts.bsky.social Richard Dadd; Beyond Bedlam. Fantastic. Sketch of A Curiosity Shop 1854. Male Gaze (Laura Mulvey, 1975) avant la lettre

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The loss of search structure is devastating for knowledge retrieval. I teach basic lit searching and it's always felt like a really core transferable skill for students to know boolean operators and "exact phrase searching" and now google, microsoft etc have just killed it to force us to use slopAI.

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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hello la team profs d'histoire! La reprise approche et pour nourrir vos cours, vos évals ou vos curiosités n'oubliez pas de faire un tour sur la page "L'HISTOIRE PAR LES TEXTES" sur le site @aphg.fr Des centaines de documents à consulter et à partager. Ajouts bienvenus ! www.aphg.fr/lhistoire-pa...

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Delighted to announce that the Handbook is coming out in paperback!

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Genuinely chuffed to discover my book is being stocked by Waterstones and Foyles! Preorder now - only £43 and released 8th December: www.waterstones.com/book/the-tra... or www.foyles.co.uk/book/the-tra...

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Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

📣 GALE-ANZSECS FELLOWSHIP 2026-27 📣 ANZSECS is excited to announce three non-residential Digital Humanities fellowships for postgrads and ECRs to support research or teaching projects that rely on Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) and use digital humanities methodologies.

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CSMBR Pisa @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Forthcoming Open Access with PSMEMM: 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰: link.springer.com/book/9783032... #CSMBR #PSMEMM #MedicalHistory #Quantification #SantorioSanctorius #BritishMedicine #EarlyModern #Consilia #Advises

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I am so grateful for my writing group. Most answers below include a version of this tip: a writing group or regularity that safeguards time for writing. Protect it, and flex that writing muscle everyday.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Academics who write during term (i.e. while teaching): 1. How many classes do you teach per term? 2. How often do you write (e.g. once/wk, when you can, etc.)? 3. When do you write (e.g. weekend, morning, at night, etc.)? 4. What's the biggest barrier(s) to you writing? 5. Do you have any tips?

A scribe in a ruby tunic with a dark purple cloak over top is seated on a wooden chair, and focusing on the task of writing in a manuscript that is resting on a lectern. The scribe appears inside a large, illuminated letter E that is blue. Within the E the background is made up of small dark blue squares with a circle in each square, almost like the wall behind the clerk is a quilt. The background outside the letter E is similar to the background in the letter E, only it is made up of red squares instead of blue ones.
Reference: Durham Cathedral Library MS A.II.3 f.279v

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This 404 Media report is interesting - but the focus on the destruction of the "rare" but not unique books is slightly misguided. I am more worried by the contamination of AI by 19th century texts...

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Lois Burke —formerly at Tilburg University, now at the University of Stirling— is making her pitch for the usefulness of manuscript magazines. There is for instance "The Sunbeam Magazine" (1866), edited by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)... collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/1067... #BAVS2026

*The Sunbeam Magazine* front wrapper

Source: https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/digital_objects/251120

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Drew Thomas @drewbthomas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

For my digital history exam, students receive a research topic and must design a DH pipeline. It’s inspiring to see the range of tools they choose, the results they imagine, and the ways their backgrounds, interests, and creativity shape each answer. Their personalities really shine through.

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Robert Poole @robertjrp.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A new Peterloo jug is news, because all known examples are printed over a leftover batch commemorating an admiral. This one is part of a new batch on a purpose-made jug, indicating sustained demand. On display soon at the People’s History Museum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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People's History Museum to display rare Peterloo massacre jug

The jug commemorating the 1819 Peterloo massacre will be displayed at the People's History Museum.

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The time has come to learn more about eighteenth-century (pre-industrial) book binding — especially as a vocation (book binders, training, workshops, income, overlapping trades, etc). Any leads welcome! #bookhistory

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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.

A map of Europe with many points shown in blue and red of varying opacity representing historical way-stations

A map of Europe with lines in blue and red of varying opacity representing historical travel routes

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-record…

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EThOS records restored

We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My alma mater for one year - but a decisive year, the year I discovered I loved teaching. I was a lectrice for French (2001-02) and Trent Building has a special place in my heart.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

this is universally applicable

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Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It is not unusual to find home remedies written in places like commonplace books such as John Gwin’s or in recipe books such as Caroline Peirce’s. However, this particular remedy can be found in the first register of St Peter’s Church, Blaenavon.

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Sarah Aitchison @saraha73.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I will accept 'discovered' on this occasion! Great story.

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

this! "Bias against non-native English speakers in peer review persists even when authors use large LLM to improve their writing. Reviewers use language as a proxy for identity, and when AI erases one set of linguistic cues, they shift to another. The discrimination does not disappear. It adapts."

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Espooky Hispanic Pixie Dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Today we have schism discourse, sex vs gender discourse, 4th of July discourse, and probably some other things I've missed. I feel like I'm back in grad school (derogatory).

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

if congo pull this off i want the british museum empty by midnight

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Anna @superteadrinker.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Love the irony of the complete unavailability of The Routledge handbook of information history in any publicly accessible library.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Jesus H Christ. Why stop there, though? Let’s get members of the public judging on tax arbitration and caring for premature babies. How hard can any of this stuff be?

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“Who was copying the texts that survived Jill??? Fucking Aquaman???”

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"We need historians because evidence neither finds nor explains itself"

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Zachary Brookman @zbrookman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Happy to share a new chapter, out now as part of the volume 'Multilingual Print in Early Modern Europe', discussing the multilingual multimedia reaction to the horrors of the 1620 Valtellina Massacre! #bookhistory cc @universalstc.bsky.social

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ISECS/SIEDS @isecs-sieds.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

La Revue Dix-Huitième Siècle (@sfeds-bs.bsky.social) lance un appel à propositions de Dossier thématique, pour un numéro à paraître en 2029. La date limite pour soumettre une proposition est le 15 septembre 2026. oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw...

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Tfw you are an Indian national paying the British Library the moneys for permission to reproduce images of desi prisoners and debt-bonded laborers in your book about South Asian history.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 17/06/2026

Guys, to put this into context: this is at the internationally-renowned home of a TON of continuing education in the digital humanities. It’s not just an “event,” it’s a site where students & faculty come from all over to learn new techniques in week-long intensive classes.

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