This morning: after a dr apt, and a dog walk, deep in the periodicals, tracking reception of a 19th century text.

Being online in any/all ways is just crushing now. When I open social media/Google, I get ads trying to sell me things based on my grief, on common illnesses for my dog's breed, on the assumption that I must hate my body. A constant bombardment reminding me of sadness—all for someone else's profit.

This, really.

Mateusz Fafinski@calthalas.bsky.social · last wk.

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

Feed palate cleanser: Burney and my tea tray, featuring Mimi’s china.

Georgian Reprints on periodicals just repurposing materials is a good point in this story github.com/mhbeals/geor...

Mark Sample@samplereality.bsky.social · 3w ago

Has someone written an actual pre-history of AI slop, that is, a pre-history of low-effort, high-volume content? Because the actual pre-history would include things like spam, shovelware, tourist tchotchkes, box scores, horoscopes, Family Circus, etc. & etc.

Is there a panel you’d really love to be on at ASECS 2027? If it existed? Let’s propose the panel! Last days for proposing sessions for Portland!

An achievable request for public transit/spaces: acknowledging that everyone surrounding you should not have to share your very loud music/video/gaming experience.

@bsky.app I’m begging for a “mute RT’s” option. I miss seeing the actual posts of folks I follow.

Book history/bibliography folks—doe anyone know of a bibliography/libguide/anything else where folks have compiled revisions of Robert Darnton’s famous “Communications Circuit" diagram? I’ve seen so many over the years—I kind of want to point students to a whole batch of ‘em for a class exercise

It is embarrassing how often I have to pull my own book off my shelf to reference a point that *I* made when I'm writing something new...

Just a reminder that my book, British Women Writers and the Review Periodical talks about what discoveries we can make when HUMANS compile data about history, and HUMANS evaluate the messy parts of that data instead of rejecting them. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical

How did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fict...

press.jhu.edu

Researchers — submit your public comment. It doesn’t need to be long or fancy. Mine emphasizes the importance of peer review by field experts for humanities work, and my concern for Indigenous communities when politics override treaty rights (eg to fair access to education/healthcare)

Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 4w ago

Public conversation about the OMB proposal has focused on science, but make no mistake: this is about ALL research and humanities are just as vulnerable. I'm back @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social w historian & @historians.org exec director Sarah Weicksel. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/10/t...

I’ve been reading my way through Elizabeth Chadwick novels this summer and they are such a fun escape. Also, beefing up on my knowledge of Angevin genealogy, so that’s a bonus.

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS) 2027 Conference in Portland, Oregon, April 1-3. For those considering submitting a panel proposal (just a title and a description) this has to be done before July 18th, 2026 #C18

Mayo Clinic’s former director of research operations alleges she was sidelined, then terminated, for raising objections over lax standards of studies involving AI.

Former executive accuses Mayo of cutting corners on AI research

Mayo’s former director of research operations alleges she was sidelined, then terminated, for raising objections over lax standards of studies involving AI.

startribune.com

As a TTU alum, I’m so glad that they are getting pushback for this egregious assault on education. TTU students and faculty deserve better.

Lambda Legal@lambdalegal.org · 4w ago

💼 NEW FILING: Today, we filed a lawsuit against Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton and members of the Board of Regents over a system built to police what professors can teach, arguing that it violates the First Amendment and discriminates against Black faculty and students.

Is this entire system how they further silo academics away from each other? And also put out folks who cat afford to pay up front or wait “40 days post event” for funds?

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4w ago

I just turned down an honorarium for an upcoming lecture solely because I didn't want to deal with the endless hassle of registering in their online system as a "university vendor."

This is a brilliant assignment and I can’t wait to adapt it for my classes. Creativity, joy/humor, primary sources, genre knowledge. So much here.

Brodie Waddell@brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 4w ago

In the final week of my Microhistories module at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, I asked students to imagine a microhistory starting with just one primary source. The results were brilliant, so follow along to hear about a bunch of books that definitely need to be written! 🗃️🧵 #Microhistories 1/?

I’ve been working my way though this and reflecting on years of resisting building a website for the NRD data bc… that just isn’t useful in the long term, bibliographically. I rcvd so much push back. Glad to have smart voices to turn to in convo about this.

Heather Froehlich@heatherfro.bsky.social · 4w ago

for the afternoon crowd: If you ever wanted to hear my thoughts on digital project hosting, I am simply delighted to share a whole article of those thoughts with you www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So excited to Zoom in to hear @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social RBS talk “From text to .txt”.

Congrats to the 2026 Kresge Arts Fellows and Gilda Award Recipients! What an amazing cohort! kresgeartsindetroit.org/announcement...

Announcing the 2026 Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Award recipients in Live Arts and Film & Music!

The 18th cohort of artists consists of 3 Kresge Artist Fellows in Live Arts and 7 Kresge Artist Fellows in Film & Music, in addition to 3 Gilda Award recipients in Live Arts and 7 in Film & Music.

kresgeartsindetroit.org

If you're an up-and-coming bibliographer, I hope you'll apply for @bibsocamer.bsky.social New Scholars Program. Apps due Sept 16. As a former New Scholar myself, I can attest to how great this program was for supporting my research! bibsocamer.org/fellowships-...

Unsurprisingly, they have approved moving forward with the project. The fight continues.

Megan Peiser@meganpeiser.bsky.social · last mo.

Here at the Oakland University Board of Trustees meeting today where they’ll vote on whether to move fwd with a planned data center on campus adjacent to the Native American Heritage Site.

Here at the Oakland University Board of Trustees meeting today where they’ll vote on whether to move fwd with a planned data center on campus adjacent to the Native American Heritage Site.

today's "AI in GLAM World" story is asking OCLC if a subject heading on a children's adaptation of Robinson Crusoe that said the book was about "airplane crash survivors" was AI-generated. Reader, it was.

1) archivist using AI to generate a biographical note in the MSS finding aid for the wrong person 2) pushback on completely prohibiting AI usage in metadata/description/processing beyond transcription because "there are multiple steps of human review" 3) both of these things happening the same week

#CFP: RADICAL PRINT CULTURE IN THE LONG 18TH-CENTURY Join us for a day long discussion of the political power of print, featuring keynote lectures by Dr Helen Williams & Dr Esther Chadwick & a handling session inside the Borthwick Archives. More Info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18c #18thC

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York@cecs-york.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're seeking interdisciplinary perspectives on radicalism, protest, and the political power of print, from satirical caricatures and regional newspapers to the "hidden agency" of those working within the trade. Full submission details are included in the poster 5/5

Trying to talk candidly w my honors thesis student about the many "invisible" labors of writing. Creating reading/note-taking systems, re-reading, transcribing quotes, searching for sources, checking citations, writing paragraphs out of which only one sentence is useful. I want them to feel "seen".

I’ve cited this book — or at least @meganpeiser.bsky.social scholarship on this — for eons, & I’m so unbelievably glad it’s finally out in the world — and you can hear all about the rise of novel reviewing in the 18th century in this great conversation with my aca-sib.

New from @hopkinspress.bsky.social, BRITISH WOMEN NOVELISTS AND THE REVIEW PERIODICAL by @meganpeiser.bsky.social explores how book reviews impacted female authors at the height of their literary influence in the nineteenth century. Available throughout UK & Europe from your local bookshop!