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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 8d

hot take: the social norm that "cool" people don’t talk about their jobs is bad for labour organizing because it perpetuates the idea that our work selves are severed from and unrelated to our true selves and it prevents the deepening of community relationships around labour

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · Sep 11

How your email finds me.

Alexander Browne, compendious Drawing Book, London : Austin Holdisworth 1677

Two full standing figures, their hand coming to their mouths, one a skeleton, the other a fleshed out nude - part of an anatomy drawing exercise, but looking uncannily like they are stifling a yawn
Engraving on yellowed paper, detail of a larger plate

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · Sep 1

I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.

(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)

Welcome to Early Modern Resources – EMR

earlymodernweb.org

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · Aug 9

Dealer networks/rings and fragment strategy 👇

MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · Aug 7

Manhattan DA has announced the recent return of looted antiquities to several countries:

- 31 antiquities to the people of Italy;
- two 6th century C.E. Visigoth pendants to Spain;
- and a 17th century C.E. Jesuit manuscript to Hungary.

manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-an...

D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of Antiquities To Spain, Italy And Hungary

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced the recent repatriation of antiquities to three countries, including 31 antiquities, some dating to the 6th century B.C.E., to the people of Italy; t...

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · Aug 2

French Revolution document rifle continues! Let’s just not think too much about what these personal papers might be stained with eh 😬😬😬

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Sam Cross (she/her) @poparchives.bsky.social · Jul 21

Me whenever I watch a piece of media where people have archival materials or records and there's nary an #archivist nor records manager to be seen. 📜 #GLAMS #archives

Milhouse talking to Bart with text beneath them that reads: "But where'd they get the records, Bart? Where did they get the records?"

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · Jul 16

CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden)
memorients.com/events/cfp-b...
#CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology

CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden) | MEMOs

Bringing together researchers working on books that were used in any form of prayer practice in the late medieval and early modern era (up to the 18th Century)

https://memorients.com/events/cfp-bound-for-devotion-the-prayer-book-as-object-and-practice-1300–1800-1-3-july-2026-leiden

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Jul 13

I love chairing panels at academic conferences and I Have Thoughts about it!

I think it’s a really important service role AND you can create the conditions for everyone in the panel to have a good time AND it can be fun!

A 🧵👇 1/9

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · Jul 11

The preacher's daughter in Footloose opening her jacket to reveal a "dance your ass off" tshirt during the church council debate on whether the town should have a prom

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Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social · Jul 11

Officially endorsed by me on behalf of #linguistics

Only missing tip in @hormiga.bsky.social 's post: Please, never write in your review "This paper should be edited by a native English speaker." You mean, "This paper needs edits for [grammar/style/voice/insert specific problem here]."

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · Jul 10

"Correct" spelling and "proper" grammar aren't worth fussing about. Just let people be.

scienceforeveryone.science/p/grammar-do...

Grammar does not matter

Please stop being a grammar pedant.

scienceforeveryone.science

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Cécile Archives @cecilearchives.bsky.social · Jul 10

A good archivist is an archivist who knows what to keep. An excellent archivist knows what to discard.
Is #Deaccession still controversial?

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Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon (BDL) @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social · Jul 1

[Accompagnement de la #Recherche]
💡Découvrez les entrepôts de données #SHS et comment y valoriser vos recherches, avec un focus sur Nakala d'@huma-num.bsky.social
📅 webinaire lundi 7/07 11h
Inscription ➡️ tinyurl.com/yywfj3c4
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#FAIRdata #nakala #PDLD2025 #openscience

Webinaire Entrepôts de données SHS le 7 juillet 2025 10h focus nakala - MSH-LSE, Bibliothèque Diderot de lyon, ENS de lyon

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Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · Jun 26

*sounds the "that was probably AI generated information, that's why you can't find it and now at least 2 library staff have had to do first an initial and then a cross check of that information to confirm it doesn't exist so yes, we've had double time wasted by your time saving efforts" klaxon*

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jun 26

“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”

Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 1945 | Critical Inquiry: Vol 51, No 4

Abstract The devastation of World War II left German libraries partly in ruins, collections and catalogs lost or destroyed, prompting a need to reconstruct and reimagine the library system. This artic...

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Jun 23

Has anyone written on the auctioning of goods (especially of the dead) in London in the first half of the seventeenth century? Interested in the work of criers, how estates are sold off etc.

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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Jun 20

📢 REGISTRATION OPEN!
Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library
9–10 Sep UCL @livesandletters.bsky.social
This symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives & methodologies.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library

This 2-day symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies to open up existing narratives and bodies of evidence...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Joe Harley @joeharleyhistory.bsky.social · Jun 20

It’s here! Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/objects-o...

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · Jun 19

"Enlightenment roots" sounds like a bad hair day... #18thc

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · Jun 17

Opinion | Higher Ed Must Recommit to Its Enlightenment Roots

Universities’ own mistakes helped pave the way for government attacks on academic freedom, Emily Chamlee-Wright writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4l9dfLH

Higher Ed Must Recommit to Its Enlightenment Roots (opinion)

Universities’ own mistakes helped pave the way for government attacks on academic freedom, Emily Chamlee-Wright writes.

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thank you!

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · Jun 19

Interesting ! I was expecting a French price since this was in the Bibliothèque royale... but that would have been too straightforward, of course!

Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · Jun 19

Send help #earlymodern #paleography wizards! This inked out annotations seems to be a price - but it doesn't look English trade to me?

#BNF Profitable Boke 1583

Photo of Profitable Boke, 1583, from BNF collection - top of title page bears an undecipherable black ink (price?) point, with grey wash to cover it. The paper is thick and the print is slight, and the smell of early modern books in the morning is delightful!

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · Jun 14

Yes, i think so too - thank you for the help!

Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · Jun 12

Being ableist about audiobooks on... radio... is such a lazy take!
Especially when more authors themselves choose to voice or get closely involved in the choice of (fabulous!) voice actors... #disability
#18thc #sociability reading experts, please weigh in on reading as "being read to"!

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