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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My advice is to follow the advice you give to other people.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm looking forward to learning some Yiddish with @mlnjournal.bsky.social's new Yiddish & Hebrew issue (edited by @samspinner.bsky.social and launching in January). I'm already getting emails like this from authors 🙂 One of the best parts of my job-- constant contact with many languages!

Screenshot: As we say in Yiddish, di velt iz a shtetl...!

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My crop of strawberry. Talk about season of mellow fruitfulness.

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Homer was a chant bot whose epic language model was built from the uncredited work of thousands of bards.

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Horses getting in to their Ram, Assateague Island.

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Maybe the traffic signs should be in horse?

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The beach read for our times: “Pride and Prejudice and Machine Learning”

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Can anyone recommend a good slide rule?

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm writing a data science murder-mystery called "The Correlation Plot."

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Johns Hopkins doctor recommends eating more Yiddish literature.

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

How do I get my computer to notify me when there are NO new messages?

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Scholars of Jewish literature, thought, and culture: Please share and consider submitting to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

call for papers for Yiddish and Hebrew issue, MLN

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Extended deadline! Please share with scholars writing about Jewish literature, thought, and culture. This inaugural issue will be edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Deadline extended to April 1! Spring break is a perfect time to finish that essay...

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

JSTOR calls it unusual traffic. I call it research.

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Congratulations! Fabulous news.

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Scholars of Jewish languages and literatures: You still have time to submit to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

CFP for MLN's inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue press.jhu.edu/journals/mln

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Happy sesquicentennial! Can’t wait to see what the next 150 years bring.

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Here's my new blog post about Jewish dance cards and a recent UCL bicentennial event where we learned Edwardian ballroom dances from a Jewish dance card in @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social to the same tunes that were performed in 1909. #UCL200 In partnership with @uclhjs.bsky.social and the UCL IJS.

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I’m teaching in 15 minutes. Frantically working on an updated lesson plan.

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

When’s the slow-skating competition coming on?

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Anyone can win a silver medal. You just have to come in second.

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The Winter Olympics starts tomorrow but it started yesterday. It is streaming live now. The technical term for this is mise en abyme ex eventu.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

One of several articles in our new issue that feel especially timely. Through an analysis of literary texts, Barnwell looks at how information is recorded, represented, and trusted (or not).

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Apparently the answer to more artificial intelligence is less natural intelligence.

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Looking forward to tomorrow's 'Come Fill Your Dance Fill Your Dance Card'. Hosted by @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social, @uclhjs.bsky.social and the IJS. We're all booked up, but you can sign up for the waitlist (or let us know if you'd like a similar future event). www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin....

Come Fill Your Dance Card: A Celebration of Jewish Dances Cards in the Library Special Collections
5 February 2026 at 18:00

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Campus map now with interactive live weather updates!

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Yiddish was spoken by 5 million of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Yiddish is an absolutely crucial language for Holocaust research. This Holocaust Memorial Day, you can support Yiddish at universities facing cuts to the Humanities, including UCL. 🧵 1/4

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

After 140 years, MLN will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited! Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I like how AI is totally ambivalent about being right. Here we go from the right answer directly to spectacularly wrong answers.

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Joela Jacobs @joelalala.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.

url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Merry Christmas! Roland Clark's incisive interview of my new book juts dropped. Perfect listening fodder for your digestive run, neat 32 min: newbooksnetwork.com/people-witho...

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Anna Hájková, "People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust" (U Toronto Press, 2025) - New Books Network

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

“Hey Siri, play Yiddish Chaukah carols.” And then—a great miracle happened: music.apple.com/us/album/yid...

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Yiddish Chanukah Carols by Yossi Desser on Apple Music

Album · 2021 · 12 Songs

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It'll be the second year in a row my talk at the @jewishstudies.bsky.social annual conference will be about a writer with fancy rabbinic pedigree. One more time and I'll have to talk about rebbishe eyneklekh forever.

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Just saw Sault Ste. Marie written in Yiddish for the first time. An adventure, but not as exciting as Buenos Aires.

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

They’re now writing biographies of authors I’ve never heard of.

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

📣 The Big Give is now live! This week all donations to support our work made through the Big Give will be matched, meaning they have double the impact on our work. You have until Tuesday 9 December to help us raise £64,000 as part of this important campaign. Donate now:

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Support our vital work in these challenging times – Big Give

We are the world’s oldest and the UK’s largest archive on the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Please help us raise £64,000 so we can continue to be a freely accessible tool to combat Holocaust denial,…

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The candidates for @modernlanguage.bsky.social delegate representing Less Commonly Taught Language Programs are professors of... Italian and Portuguese. 😵‍💫

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Want to get a PhD in Yiddish or Hebrew? Or Yiddish AND Hebrew? We are accepting applications for the PhD in Jewish Languages & Literatures! Please help me get the word out! @jhuartssciences.bsky.social

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Dan Cohen @dancohen.org · 25/11/2025

New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

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The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition

One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

My 6th grader needed someone to peer-review her writing homework. I agreed to do it, but first sat her down and explained Reviewer #1 and Reviewer #2.

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Apparently the constitution was written by a group known as the “Framers.”

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Self-driving books will be the end of higher education.

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