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Sarah Bull
@sarahebull.bsky.social
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English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. Interested in the histories of medicine, sexuality, and print culture, text reuse, IP, letterpress, DH/computational approaches. Book: Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025)
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · Jun 27
The open access version of Selling Sexual Knowledge is out (hardcopies coming shortly)! Reposting this little thread from December where I take a break from chowing down on holiday treats to talk a little about what it's actually about and why I wrote it.
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 7h
Do note this is hybrid!
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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 7h
Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online
Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
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abc @thekitchentapes.bsky.social · 9h
In the early 1990s, scientists began developing genetic tests for hereditary diseases. Huntington's was one of the first, but no one wanted to take it. Carriers have a 100% chance of developing the disease. People didn't want to know, bc it's horrific and untreatable.

So this is a big big deal.
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 12h
Yeah, I feel like my asking this is kind of like an engineer asking how warp drive is supposed to work or something, but I've been curious if it comes up or deliberately doesn't come up... will have to keep reading and chat more when I'm done!
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 14h
locating and accessing and processing so *many* electronic sources? Nerdy minds want to know! (Not with AI, apparently)
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 14h
Curious about what people are thinking of Ian McEwan's What We Can Know in terms of how it imagines historians might try to reconstruct the events of the 2010s in the future. I'm only on Chapter 8, so maybe this is explained later on (and is, well, beside the point of the novel), but how are they +
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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 22h
Re-upping for the weekend crowd - join us on Wednesday 29th from 6 pm for out first seminar of the year with @drreznicek.bsky.social 🖤
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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 1d
We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.

Free! Online! All welcome!

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This is a sneak preview of our poster image as we finalise details - it’s a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson after G M Woodward from 1801 called ‘The Quack Doctor’s Prayer’ with a kneeling doctor praying over a box with a duck drawn on it. In the background there’s a candelabra and pink hangings.
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d
I really love this short essay from Kate Fisher on sexual knowledge and sexual ignorance: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
Modern Ignorance (Chapter 32) - Reproduction
Reproduction - December 2018
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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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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d
It's looking like I've got several projects that need language detection as part of the workflow. It's been a few years since I've used that and I assume there's been some (possibly vast?) improvements. Anyone have a favorite library / model / etc they'd recommend? #MultilingualDH
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 1d
Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 1d
Short BBC podcast about the history of Tippex, invented by Bette Graham 😍 - will be of interest to history of the book, and history of tech folks... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Witness History - The secretary who made millions from her typos - BBC Sounds
In the 1950s, secretary Bette Graham invented correction fluid to cover up her errors
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 2d
Hao Yichun was a pioneer in the fields of stratigraphy, micropaleontology and paleoceanography. She co-authored Paleontology, China’s first textbook on the subject, and deepened understanding of foraminifera, single-celled organisms found in seawater.
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Prof Hao Yichun, Palaeontologist
Hao Yichun was a Chinese geologist who was a pioneer in the fields of stratigraphy, micropaleontology and paleoceanography, and a co-author of China’s first palaeontology textbooks.
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 2d
Had so much fun discussing this article on medical perspectives on the dangers of reading in class today.
Project MUSE - Two Kinds of “Literary Poison”: Diseases of the Learned and Overstimulating Novels in Georgian Britain
muse.jhu.edu
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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 2d
I just learned that my book Taco is now available as an audiobook across all major platforms! Here is a sampling of options!
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Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social · 2d
Congratulations @georginaemw.bsky.social!
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 11d
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 2d
Artist and teacher Keiji Shinohara demonstrating Japanese woodblock printing
Man at a table with tools, paper, inks. Behind him is a screen showing a close up of the items on the table, including a woodblock with a deep orange-red ink
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 2d
A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 3d
If you work with historical newspaper data, check out @matthewkollmer.com’s tutorial for generating image clippings—sections of the full page—based on text & coordinate data. Matthew’s been doing yeoman’s work figuring this in for a forthcoming exhibit for our Virality of Racial Terror project
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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 3d
If you, like me, sometimes need to generate thousands of clipping images from Chronicling America, then you may find this post helpful.

It provides my pipeline (code and explanatory text) for programmatically generating newspaper clipping images via the Chronicling America API.
How to Create Newspaper Clipping Images in Chronicling America, Programmatically – Matthew Johannes Kollmer
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 3d
A helpful thread! I wish my bookstore would bring coursepacks back — thinking of making my own somehow for next semester.
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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 3d
Does anyone still make coursepacks for students?

Super common when I was in college & grad school, but I imagine putting PDFs on the LMS has mostly (entirely?) replaced it. Anyone just printing out everything for them?
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 3d
I teach a course with a lot of broadview texts already and would love to get a reader with the shorter readings... thank you!
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 3d
Whaaat?! Thank you for mentioning this — I didn't know!
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 3d
My university stopped making print coursepacks during the pandemic :(
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 3d
It's the only way, whew.
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 3d
Ok, this is harder than it looks:
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 3d
You really have the eager follow-up questions nailed!
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