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Clíona Ó Gallchoir @clionaog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This article was very much a labour of love, and it took even longer than usual to be published, so I really mean it when I say I am DELIGHTED to see it in print. I have free prints if anyone needs one! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VXW3P...

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Growing up as a Girl in Edgeworthstown House, c.1782–1807: the Experiences of Elizabeth and Charlotte Edgeworth

Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth are hailed as educational pioneers whose jointly-authored work, Practical Education (1798), outlines methods that are grounded in and illustrated by accounts of t...

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is Michaelmas, a quarter day in the Irish calendar, and traditionally when rents were paid & contracts signed. It's also the last day to eat blackberries - after today, they belong to the Devil and will make you sick!

Detail of a page showing text in Spanish and a woodcut of blackberries. From Dioscorides' Materia Medica, 1555

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Season of mists and mellow proofingness. #proofs #typos

a title page of proofs for a book entitled KILLJOY COMEDY.

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CSECS/SCEDHS @csecsscedhs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Announcing the 2027 CSECS Conference, in Trois-Rivières, Québec (October 20-23, 2027), on "Pleasures and Social Life in the 18th Century". Deadline for submissions is January 11, 2027. tr2027.csecs.ca

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/2 We have vastly improved data now on British slave-owners (www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/) and slave-traders (britishslavetraders.org). Wonderful that this research has persisted despite all the fury of the nationalist right wing backlash.

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The Register of British Slave-Traders

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A point @annakornbluh.bsky.social has frequently made about labor intensification is that colleges cut support staff, offload essential work that support staff did onto faculty, then wonder why faculty aren’t being as “productive.” What once took our Asst. Dir. an hour, easily takes me twice that.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"what can be the value of a degree earned under these conditions, what happens to the qualification's authority, prestige, psychological significance and door-unlocking capacities, not just into jobs but into communities, reading worlds, lives of thought?"

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Excited to be in London on October 9th to read/ chat with one of my favourite living writers, Daniela Cascella. We'll be talking about our new books from @erratumpress.bsky.social and @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Free tickets at link below 💙 www.eventbrite.ie/e/little-boo...

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Little Books, Long Titles: Daniela Cascella + Ellen Dillon

In this celebration of the joys of little books, Daniela and Ellen will read from and discuss the writing of their latest publications.

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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's happening! 'Killjoy Comedy: Willful Women and 1750s Fiction' is coming out with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2027. @sinsleyh.bsky.social says it is 'a ROMP'. I am *floored* @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thcentury #c18th www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10256/

A dour looking elite woman is sitting side-saddle on a horse, followed by a ridiculous supercilious little dog. The title of the book, in hot pink, is KILLJOY COMEDY.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I and many college teachers have seen this IRL and it is astonishing actually — the vacant look, the shifting eyes, the final attempt to start saying something & then it just stops. “I have trouble remembering things after I write them down,” the most memorable guy told me— and then stared at me

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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This headline sounds like it's from The Onion.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A book should NOT be req'd for tenure--esp now w/ the inordinate pressures on peer review. It puts untenable demands on scholars & publishers AND enables tenure committees to shirk their duty & blame presses for killing jobs/careers instead of actually engaging scholars' work. It's infuriating.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am a middle-aged childless female academic in need of a 2026-7 pocket diary and HELL will FREEZE OVER before I give in and purchase something called a 'Mum's Diary'...🤬😱😭

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Membership in Club White is not guaranteed especially for recent entrants

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'll be reading at UCC library on Culture Night with some of my favourite poets (including Maggie O'Sullivan, Randolph Healy and Aodán McCardle) at the SoundEye Cabaret organised by Fergal Gaynor. Sign up at the link libcal.ucc.ie/event/4574625

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Culture Night at UCC Library: SoundEye Cabaret

Expect the unexpected at the SoundEye Cabaret, an eclectic evening of poetry, performance, music, video, and artistic experimentation. Originally a cornerstone of Cork's SoundEye...

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ is published today! Seven years in the writing, many more in the planning, and - here it is!

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Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Superb news - an exciting project to create a digital edition of the Correspondence Networks of James Murray and the OED. The largest collection of these letters is at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Congratulations @stephenturton.bsky.social! #archives #libraries

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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

starting my day by shredding a box of love letters from the last century. Cathartic.

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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Really sad to hear Rachel Blau DuPlessis has passed — can’t overstate her importance to modernist studies, while at the same time being one of the best poets in America. The Drafts sequence is beautiful and rewarding and intimidating, and I’d encourage starting with Draft 85: Hard Copy

an excerpt from Draft 85: Hard Copy, maybe the best part of her Life Poem entitled Drafts: https://jacket2.org/podcasts/fierce-storehouses-articulation-poemtalk-69

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

in the span of one middle-aged person’s lifetime the entire underlying organization of the planet has changed forever. very intense to contemplate

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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Looking forward to speaking this coming Thursday (10th) on Cosmopolitan United Irishman David Bailie Warden at the North Down Museum, Bangor. This is part of a 2 day conference on the 1798 Rising held in Bangor (10th) and Downpatrick (11th). Tickets here: www.newrymournedown.org/conference-e...

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Conference Exploring the Untold Stories of 1798 Taking Place in Down

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council has partnered with Ards and North Down Borough Council for a special two-day conference dealing with new perspectives on the people and events that shaped the 1

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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at the compulsively-eating-bags-of-Haribo bit of drafting.

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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Does anyone have a copy of Rachel Berdach's 'The Emperor, The Sages, and Death'? Jaqueline Rose has an intriguing brief discussion of it in @lrb.co.uk article from 2020, but there doesn't seem to be a copy in @theul.bsky.social or @britishlibrary.bsky.social...

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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Calling all independent and early career scholars working on nineteenth-century Ireland! Submit your essay for the SSNCI essay prize! Deadline 30 Sept 2026

A document providing details of the SSNCI essay prize

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In "Materia Medica," Nicole N. Ivy @nicotron3000.bsky.social traces the lives of the enslaved women conscripted into the development of US gynecology, exposing the representational labor imposed on black female bodies in both medical and creative works. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/YQSWs0T

Cover of Materia Medica: Black Women, White Doctors, and Spectacular Gynecology by Nicole N. Ivy. The cover has a museum-like installation with red lighting and a seated, elongated sculpture made of woven fibers on a rug. Pink fabric is draped in front of the figure. The title appears vertically in large red text with the author's name and subtitle in white adjacent to the title.

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Book of Improvement is available for preorder! Please consider asking your librarians to purchase a copy. Cover still TK. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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The Book of Improvement

How the concept of improvement came to dominate and direct British thinking about social change during the eighteenth centuryImprovement had a specific envir...

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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Always nerve-wracking to read a review, but am very very grateful to Prof. Elizabeth Kraft for her kind, thorough and positive reading of 'Revisiting Richardson' in the recent issue of The Scriblerian. muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/articl... @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thcentury

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Me, to a roomful of science majors: why are you in college Them: to get jobs Me: Francis Bacon says lucre and profession are the wrong reasons to do science Them: Me: Them: Me: then again he was imprisoned for debt at one point

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny

Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As well as the damage to artists, the tidal wave of AI is totally drowning out educational and good travel accounts. We are being buried alive by it. For me to do one post for @tuatha.ie I have to visit the site, edit the images, research info and write a post balanced to a general audience...

An AI post of Poulnabrone Dolmen, though this one is reasonably realistic and not as obvious, you can tell it's AI as Poulnabrone does not have a sea view, also the gentians dont flower there like in the image. But this shows how difficult it is becoming to tell the real from fake

Another AI image, this time I think it is supposed to be Knowth in the Boyne Valley, this is more obviously fake but only if you know the real site

Another AI image supposedly representing the Grianán, this is pretty rubbish

A truly terrible AI representation of Newgrange

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Interestingly, recent multispectral analysis of this painting revealed that the original version of the portrait more prominently highlighted the couple's wealth and status but was later modified to de-emphasize some high fashion and add the scientific equipment: www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...

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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

i’ve never once judged anyone for needing an extension except when that person is me, and then i’m unbelievably harsh

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Good stuff awaiting me in my inbox and awaiting YOU literary critters and genre heads (that’s a thing, right?) come next year— @jillgal.bsky.social’s new wide-ranging account of the “fiction of love trouble” from @sunypress.bsky.social 🥰

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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Excellent thread that will leave you weeping.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Really appreciate this from Molly Hardy. She's now using her depth of knowledge, scholarly acumen, and public service values to shepherd 710 TB of data from the Smithsonian into the public realm. Outside of govt. Always true blue for public service, it's a pity Molly's job wasn't true blue back.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940): August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

RESOURCE: @postcarbon.org Great Unraveling report amplifies a favorite Joanna Macy frame for this dramatic time of civilizational choice & change. From 2023 but sadly is getting more relevant all the time... How is YOUR work addressing polycrisis? #ClimateSky 🔌💡 www.postcarbon.org/publications...

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Welcome to the Great Unraveling: Navigating the Polycrisis of Environmental and Social Breakdown

This report seeks to build a coherent narrative about the roots of the polycrisis, the signs of its arrival and evolution, and why we should be thinking differently about the future.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways.

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