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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

I don't have a printing press, but I do have access to a laser cutter and supplies for pendants and keychains. #DHmakes 🐸

A row of Miles's Frog of Portland images cut in a circle out of plywood on a laser cutter.

A keychain and pendant of the Frog of Portland image.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Philip Nel @philnel.bsky.social · 1d

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a manifesto for human creativity disguised as a children's book. I wrote about it.
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Turn off AI. Pick up a crayon.

Google Gemini offers “a new way to bring your imagination to life.” Adobe Firefly promises “The ultimate creative AI solution.” And Craiyon invites you to “Create AI Art.” Don't believe the tech hype.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI we will be hosting @kairosdoug.bsky.social and @cynthiaheider.com at the next #ByteSizedPedagogy session on October 23, 2025 at 1PM ET. Free, open to the public, virtual. Come for your regular dose of fascinating work in digital pedagogy in a discussion-based and informal setting.

Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 3d

Save the date for the next #ByteSizedPedagogy on Thursday October 23, 2025 from 1:00PM to 2:00PM ET. Will be featuring @kairosdoug.bsky.social and @cynthiaheider.com.

cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15495666

#ByteSizedPedagogy: Douglas Eyman and Cynthia Heider

It’s important to maintain a balanced teaching diet! This free and open-to-the-public zoom series organized by Seanna Viechweg and Brandon Walsh is sponsored by the Scholars' Lab...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 4d

We're settling in for @aelang.bsky.social's @scholarslab.bsky.social talk connecting literary studies w/explorations in 3D making to visualize, explore, inspire new approaches to interpreting & appreciating poetry. Lovely to see colleagues from the west coast & UK time zones! Livetweeting 🧵: +

aelang @aelang.bsky.social · 5d

For people wanting a distraction from the end of the world who are into critical making/literary DH/info viz/Dickinson, I'm giving a talk on 7 Oct (12pm EST/5pm GMT) at @scholarslab.bsky.social on plotspaces, a thing I invented to think about spatial imaginaries cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

a clear resin cube with text on one face and a curved design extending from another face in front of a window

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 5d

A delightful copy of the Seven Penitential Psalms (Les sept pseaumes penitentiaux) written in France in 1681. The binding is embroidered silk, interior decoration includes vignettes and illuminated initials. (UPenn Ms. Codex 1564)

🔗: https://bit.ly/4c0KGg5

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 9d

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:

"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 10d

Der IGEL!

Lothar Meggendorfer really knew how to evoke lifelike movement! This book from the Olin Library special collections at Wash U is only one spectacular example! #movablebooksociety
#Hedgehog #paperengineering

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 10d

The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at RBS invites applicants to its 2025 cohort of Junior Fellows.

Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.

For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025

A vertically oriented rectangular graphic is split into an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper half shows a photo of a woman with pulled-back dark brown hair wearing a dark dress jacket and scarf. To her left, bold black text reads “I feel no hesitation saying that joining the SoFCB fully transformed my academic life and research.” Below the woman, smaller text in white reads, “Elizaveta Strakhov, Past President, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB)”. The lower portion of the graphic has a mostly white background with a couple of horizontal bars in gray and black. Text in white, black, red, and yellow reads, “Apply now! The SoFCB Junior Fellows Program. Application Deadline: Wednesday, 19 November 2025. Learn more & apply at tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025.”

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 12d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13d

Bibliographical Mysteries! "Share your successes and failures, cold cases, breakthroughs, speculative practices, novel uses of technology, collaborative momentum, and other stories."
CFP *by 10.7* for a special session of @bibsocamer.bsky.social annual meeting. bibsocamer.org/news/cfp-bsa26

The Bibliographical Society of America

The website of the Bibliographical Society of America, a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization and learned Society devoted to the study of the material text.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15d

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.

🚨 Center for Coalfield Justice v. Washington County Board of Elections

Learn more.

www.democracydocket.com

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Emily F Brooks @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social · 15d

It seems that the way to combat genAI slop will be to refocus on clarity and elegance in writing and coding (4/4)

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Emily F Brooks @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social · 15d

I was introduced to Taper: an online literary magazine for small computational pieces by @zachwhalen.bsky.social and there are many pieces from the contributors in OUTPUT taper.badquar.to (3/4)

Taper

A twice-yearly journal for tiny computational poems, published by Bad Quarto

taper.badquar.to

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Emily F Brooks @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social · 15d

I also appreciated James Carpenter's note about @docmofo.bsky.social's elegance in the code, which I think is a sharp contrast to the bloat of vibe coding that @fredbenenson.com mentions in "The perverse incentives of vibe coding" uxdesign.cc/the-perverse... (2/4)

The perverse incentives of Vibe Coding

I’ve been using AI coding assistants like Claude Code for a while now, and I’m here to say (with all due respect to people who have…

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Emily F Brooks @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social · 15d

Really enjoyed last night's readings from OUTPUT at Kelly Writers House @upenn.edu and the conversation afterwards. Someone in the audience asked why use computers to generate poetry, and I appreciated Steve McLaughlin's point that creating poetry is a great way to teach yourself programming (1/4)

Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · Dec 2

OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 (co-edited w/ Lillian-Yvonne Bertram) is out from @mitpress.bsky.social & Counterpath!

mitpress.mit.edu/978026254981...

It’s been awesome to encounter texts & many author/programmers over the years. Glad to share this joy via this book!

Output

An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created lon...

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 16d

Artworks.

Boston Athenaeum Library.

Historical book at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

Description of a historical book at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

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Emily F Brooks @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations!

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 15d

Join us on Monday 9/29 as we discuss A.I. policies in the classroom at Penn and beyond. We’ll meet in person (Williams 623) with an online option (Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25). See you there!

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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 15d

Applications are open through December 15th for Folger Institute Long-Term Fellowships -- $70,000 for the 2026-2027 academic year

Apply for a Fellowship | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 16d

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 16d

Spent last night playing with UV resin and different materials. Yarn was weirder than I expected. Embroidery practice bits turned out kinda cool. Cut up machine embroidery on dissolved interfacing was really neat. And the button mold worked great! #DHmakes

Assorted pendants and buttons made with UV resin including a Team VHS sticker, hand embroidery, glitter and yarn, and ibuprofen

The backs of some of the pendants including yarn and hand embroidery

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The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social · 17d

🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Check out this funding opportunity to support events in your community! 📖✨

📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

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Emily F Brooks @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social · 17d

Really enjoyed hearing from the curators of the "Paper Engineering in Art, Science, and Education" exhibit at the University of Iowa this afternoon, wanted to share a link for anyone interested
www.lib.uiowa.edu/gallery/exhi...

University Libraries | The University of Iowa

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