Are you using early modern broadside ballads in your work? If so, please fill in this survey for a student's project on broadside ballad databases and the impact of the closure of the Bodleian's Broadside Ballads Online: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/TQrAhSLXkK Thank you!

My new email signature:

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last mo.

11. Was I too mean? Or not mean enough? I went through my first draft and tried to take out the snark. To quote the great poet: "Though much is taken, much remains... That which we are, we are."

From Kathleen Blake Yancey with clearest info about possible actions: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CCCC Kathleen Blake yancey

About CCCC. ****Please share widely.**** It is my understanding that the full NCTE Executive Committee has NOT voted to dissolve CCCC. It is my understanding that the NCTE Executive Committee is meet...

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Dan Libertz@dlib24.bsky.social · last mo.

I still can’t totally understand this. They can just…eliminate us in the middle of summer without any deliberation? This reeks of cowardice. They acted fast bc they feel threatened

Have any other academics experienced the dystopian future of AI copyediting? In a kafkaesque doom spiral with @tandfonline.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social as their bot randomly reassigned authors to texts. Just one example of zillions of errors introduced, impossible to communicate with

The Records of Early English Drama is delighted to announce the open access publication of the tenth digital edition in the REED series. The dramatic records for the Swan Playhouse, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean, are now available on REED Online (ereed.org/collections/...).

Save the date! Early Modern Race and Disability: Intersections and Beyond 9/2/26. A webinar that puts premodern critical race studies and early modern disability studies in conversation. Learn more about the speakers and register here: na.eventscloud.com/race-and-dis...

More of this framing, please. The ability to think and work across multiple domains, professional and otherwise, is the whole point of a liberal arts education. If graduates in any major can build a career in a field they never imagined at 19, that's a strength, not a failure of vocational training.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

“and so it’s almost like a confession – as though the words on the pamphlet are: 'We worship the devil, signed, antifa’.” @reproutopia.bsky.social quoted in @lexmcmenamin.com's incredible new story

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

theguardian.com

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

The writing is the thinking. The time makes the ideas.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fuck this all the way to the lava pit She said: “I really do feel that it’s allowed me to focus more of my time and energy on what really matters, which is the ideas, the thinking … rather than spending a lot of my time writing sentences from scratch.” Full article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

We got two baby kitties and I named them Milton and Marlowe. Also, my honors students got matching tattoos (not pictured, sorry) based on a medieval manuscript. Where does all this go on my CV?

CFP alert: We are thrilled to announce the Call for Presenters for a hybrid event in collaboration with @britishlibrary.bsky.social! This will be taking place on 27th November 2026, with presentations happening both in-person and online. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 31st July 2026! #DisHist

Wait, why can’t I open the Digital Donne Variorum?

this reminds me about how the scam email trainings I have to do like every month at this job always highlight "scammers add in a message of urgency to get you to click the link without thinking about it" as a key element.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Eric Schmidt really said, in his much-booed AI graduation speech, “if someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat, you just get on.” Unbelievable

on the other side of this abstract/paper shell game and also struggling

Sarah Werner@wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 4mo ago

really struggling to write this abstract without actually writing the entire paper first to figure out exactly what I'm doing :(

In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

Trying to make Hildegardplätzchen for my literary history class.

GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY MAN, AVARY. What you did to BEOWULF was UNFORGIVABLE. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

An AI version of Milton’s Paradise Lost is fundamentally unworthy of one of the great works of art

Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary wants to bring the epic poem to the big screen using the power of artificial intelligence. It can’t be any good

theguardian.com

HELP WANTED!! @stemma.bsky.social I am working on Folger MS V.b.370, a self-proclaimed 'Rich Cabinet'. The compiler clearly loved giving their MSS ostentatious titles, my favourite being 'My Merchant Ship Laden with Variety of Wares'. Ever come across these MSS titles below? Please get in touch 1/3

My medieval lit students have started turning in their manuscript projects, and I am SO excited. I made that ink in my kitchen! They (mostly) wrote with quills on parchment!

Peeking in to live vicariously through everyone who went to #shax2026 and to say how happy I am that Literary Form After Matter is out in the world! And open access! Dianne and Katherine have been fabulous to work with, and the whole book is a treat. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literar...

Literary Form After Matter 1550–1700

Literary Form After Matter 1550–1700

edinburghuniversitypress.com

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

This was so fun to read.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

I am running a creative nonfiction workshop in Spring 2026! We’re going to focus on form. *rubs hands together* If you’ve published an essay (or read a recent essay) that mixes academic criticism with another form and/or CNF techniques, please tell me so!

Dreamt I was working on my dissertation and had gone to Atlanta to use the library at Emory. I wrote call numbers for everything, then I tried to go to the stacks. The elevators would go to a couple of floors, but not the floors I needed.

I regret to inform you that we are still not done with finals here, and I am running out of gas.

Well hot damn. Progress. A temp manuscript catalog is back.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Just swept the Alexander Pope category in Jeopardy!, bitches.