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Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social · 20h

Anyone know what's going on with the Blake Archive? Looks like UNC Chapel Hill remapped their website but the Blake Archive itself seems to have been down for at least a day... and I am concerned. #19thC #18thC www.blakearchive.org

blakearchive.org

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's still time to submit to #ASECS! Please consider submitting to my roundtable on #18c weaponized misinformation, a topic which is sadly relevant right now.

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And now this. Going great, new semester.

"This is the CUNY alert emergency notification system. The City University of New York is experiencing an emergency that threatens the safety of students, faculty, and staff. Please listen to the following important announcement for more information. Please be advised that police activity has been reported in the vicinity of
24 Cathedral PI. Please avoid the area...."

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm dying. My ESL students have the AI bug. If I read one more paper about how "language is a bridge between cultures" I'm going to explode.

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For the first time in 25 years I have fewer than 3+ cats. My beloved Isidore died two weeks ago and I have no cute tummy to hug at night or lap sitter. The two left are rambunctious and standoffish. I miss him so much and would love to see cute photos of past pets and hear a story about them.

Beautiful elderly gray and white tuxedo cat sitting in a basket of scarves

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Good Shabbos, avoid doing anything you'll have to repent!

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@callalily57.bsky.social and @pymundgenealogy.com for some reason my family wasn't big on telling stories about "The Old Country" and those who were left behind. But we had to have had people left who were killed in the Holocaust, I assume?

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also please do not confuse us with The Professor Is In. That is apparently not good at all.

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hi and good afternoon, @dlspratt.bsky.social and @vivzp.bsky.social are meeting with me today to discuss The Doctor In In for ASECS in Portland. Here's some topics we discussed with people in 2026. Feel free to add and request:

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boonque @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@rebeccashapiro.bsky.social didn't you ask about this some time ago?

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Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So this is happening… We’re more than halfway there and I’m in awe of the other contributors here.

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My book group is reading A Confederacy of Dunces. I hate it so much. Please tell me it gets better after p. 85.

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Does anyone do anything specific or particular during the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur? I'd like to hear about your personal thoughts and practices.

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Does anyone do anything specific or particular during the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur? I'd like to hear about your personal thoughts and practices.

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Fat, Bald Dabus @thebleats.by86400.link · 11/09/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend

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Rabbi Becky Silverstein @rabbibecky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

May all of us strive for world where everyone has the possibility to live and to thrive. May we have peace. L'shana tova u'metukah Blessings for a sweet new year.

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Rabbi Megan Doherty @rabbimegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיה תָּחֵל שָׁנָה וּבִרְכוֹתֶיהָ Let this year end, together with its curses Let the new year and its blessings begin. May 5787 be filled with joy and justice, healing and hope, peace and prosperity for us all.

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Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@elizagiardina.bsky.social & I are co-chairing an #asecs27 roundtable about "Spheres: Then and Now," very broadly construed. Some #c18th ideas: Étienne-Louis Boullée’s cenotaph for Isaac Newton Hot air balloons London’s time ball Globes in Milton, maritime history Habermas public vs private

Spheres: Then and Now, a call for papers for a roundtable at American Society of #18thC Studies 2027

Description: Étienne-Louis Boullée’s proposed cenotaph for Isaac Newton. Hot air balloons. London’s time ball. Globes—poetic and terrestrial—in Milton and maritime history. Habermas’s idea of public vs private social space. Expansive and holistic by their very nature, spheres appeared across the long and deep eighteenth century. Both literal and physical, spheres and circles theorized material, philosophical, spatial, artistic, and social interactions in the period, containerizing concepts in ways we often take for granted in the twenty-first century.

This roundtable (emphasis on round) seeks to bring together the eighteenth century’s variety of spheres from around the world, exploring their wider uses and multimedia appearances. We invite interdisciplinary contributions that consider spheres, balls, circles, and other roundness as a way to explore everything from transatlantic exchanges to coterie publishing circles, from circuits of meteorology and ocean currents to masquerade balls. How did/do spheres shape our ideas of the eighteenth century, its people and discourses? What makes the sphere particularly suited for discussions of anchored social spaces, then and now? How do spheres impact maritime exploration, Greenwich Mean Time, and other nautical orientation methods? What do spheres construct and why do we keep coming back to them, over and over, even as building physical spheres is famously a difficult task? Where do spheres show up and surprise us? Where do they feel so obvious as to be not worth notice? Together we hope to circle around these questions—metaphorical, spiritual, physical—approaching but never quite reaching a center.

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The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions @wisdompedlars.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Marbled endpapers in some of our books for auction this week. Auctions end Sunday, from 8pm (UK time) #antiquarian #bibliophile #history #endpapers #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #18thcentury #rarebooks #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nothing. Literally nothing. And I wouldn’t call it campaigns against extremism. I would call it islamophobic mass murder.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#18thc and Novel people, what work of secondary criticism or work of novel theory would you pair with Eliza Haywood's Fantomina? (this for a hastily pulled together grad seminar, not necessarily populated by people with an interest in the period, but definitely interested in the genre). Thank you!

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hello again! If you've been considering joining my online Gothic course with the University of Liverpool... there are still places and we need three more sign ups to run the course. Come join us for a deep dive in the 18th and early 19th century Gothic! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

liverpool.ac.uk

The Rise of the Gothic: 1764-1820 | Continuing Education | University of Liverpool

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WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today on WFMU: On Techtonic with Mark Hurst: AI voices are infiltrating more and more aspects of daily life. Interviewing for a job? Have a "conversation" with an AI voice. Mark plays examples of AI voices trying, and failing, to make any sense (6 p.m. ET). www.wfmu.org/upcoming

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Isidore my learned cat getting the hell off my boring lap

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trying to be better at setting boundaries and I sent the message. It's hard, this adulting!

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Rob Michlowitz @arvrrob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So, your time has no value...to him.

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How early did you have to start calling pharmacirs for estradiol? Just checking that one month out is only a little too late.

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tomorrow I get to set some boundaries with a college president who wants me to edit his book. For free because I know him.

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Isidore my learned cat getting the hell off my boring lap

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Publication date moved up to October 20 💕

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Isidore proved that there can be more than one soul mate. He was a very good boy and I'll miss him so. If you want to add a photo or story of one of your non human friends it would be nice.

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Feeling like I need to be more intentional re feelings so I'll start a random list of people I've seen here lately/today who I appreciate: @bethanyblack.bsky.social and @apearlma.bsky.social I'll keep adding but without that edit button . . .

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

School starts tomorrow! I'm laying my clothes out today, making my lunch, and putting everything in my bag tonight. What to wear? Some black as it *is* NYC, but not too much as don't want to seem mean. What are you all wearing?

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Waiting for the Washington Post to revise its website on @karenattiah.bsky.social

Search of WaPo site re "Karen Attiah" yields only that she was a columnist and has not been ordered to be reinstated.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Two kitchen workers were kidnapped by ICE this week out of a diner I frequent with my kids. Both men were taken to Delaney Hall, where three people have died in recent weeks. If you are not yet organizing against ICE where you live, you need to start now.

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My book group is discussing Lolita this week. I'd forgotten how utterly bonkers that book is.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You know when you are weeks away from your cat dying? Trying to game the system, fuck Gd up, and make your own plans because he might decide that butter is what he'll get fat and happy on?. . . I'm going to miss Isidore so fucking much.

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