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Steven Van Impe

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Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 7h

As someone else pointed out, notwithstanding anything else, this hero has at a stroke reclaimed amphibians for progressives from fucking Pepe.

Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 7h

’He is not the hero we deserve, but he is the one that we need right now.’

The Portland Frog, a guy in an inflatable frog costume, facing off against ICE troops in riot gear.

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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 15h

The AI bubble cannot pop fast enough

(I'm a graduate of UNC's library school. This is so disappointing.)

Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 19h

My day is shot bc a colleague just shared this UNC press release about a still to-be-named, to-be-designed, to-be-planned AI school where the only known fact seems to be that it will replace the library school.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

University leadership announces development of new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill

The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...

www.unc.edu

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 15h

Which leads me to an absolutely desperate plea: is there anyone in Japan who can collect this bag (not from Oshima [probably from Kyoto]) for us and send us the contents?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14h

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 20h

i use my skills as a historian who works in source-poor fields to reconstruct whatever weird shit the US government has done from the posts I don't understand in my feed

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 20h

Overlooked female modernist artist Marthe Donas dazzles in Belgium
Antwerp exhibition testifies to growing recognition of woman who took gender-neutral name Tour to get on
by Jennifer Rankin for @theguardian.com

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Overlooked female modernist artist Marthe Donas dazzles in Belgium

Antwerp exhibition testifies to growing recognition of woman who took gender-neutral name Tour to get on

www.theguardian.com

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Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations @georginaemw.bsky.social!

Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 10d

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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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

Because the anglophone world could claim victory and claim they were the Good Guys.

If only there were this many books about the 1920s-1930s that showed how European societies were toxified, and who was trying to resist this rise of fascism and how.

Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 2d

How are there so many WWII books?

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Patricia Stoop @dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social · 1d

Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access.

Looking much forward to your reactions!

www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 23h

byzantinists: does this little cross motif say anything to you?

manuscript with a cross motif at the bottom below the text

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Benthe van Wanrooij @benthevanwanrooij.bsky.social · 23h

Many universities and departments across the Netherlands are starting cut funding for PhD theses whilst still ask for a compulsory number of copies. This week at least heard from Open University and Leiden University, and other universities are cutting back the funding per PhD candidate.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

My first library & LIS conference in a decade! #InfoAanZoo

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

With rubrication in red and... yellow.

Yellow rubrication isn't very rare, but often faded (and nearly invisible in digital surrogates).

Close-up of an initial woodcut letter I, with the background coloured in light yellow.

Detail of the word 'Cella' in the running title, with the capital C coloured in yellow.

Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

Another #NewAcq incunable (permanent loan) 📚💙 📜

Morticellarium aureum ('The golden undertaker'), a manual to contemplate a Christian death, printed in Antwerp by Gerard Leeu in 1488. EHC 913035.

Not sure the guy in the fancy hat is ready to contemplate anything.

Title page of the book, with a woodcut of a monk in a hood showing a guy in a fancy hat that death (a grinning skeleton with a scyte) is already in his house. Details of the black-and-white woodcut are coloured in with red.

The woodcut printer's mark of Gerard Leeu, showing a fantasy representation of the City of Antwerp. Details of the black-and-white image are coloured in red and yellow.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

Tot straks!

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out that when Americans said "If it weren't for us you'd be speaking German now..." their objection was to learning a second language, not fascism.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 1d

I support free speech, but I also think Bluesky should ban anyone that says eating the lower half of a mermaid is not cannibalism

I don’t care if genetically it’s fish flesh not human, in my book it still counts as cannibalism and I expect this platform to uphold that fact

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

And there's always Lille with a nice Beaux-Arts and lots of museums, and the Louvre Lens nearby.

Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

If Nantes, do visit the small but charming printing museum, and try to take a ride on the Elephant.

Aix has great museums too, esp. if you're into Picasso.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

Nantes in November sounds windy and rainy. But from Paris it's only a few hours by TGV to Aix-en-Provence.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

I often tell students that one of the major differences between modernity and pre-modernity is that pre-modernity regarded "innovation" as a very bad thing.

Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 2d

The Innovation Illusion: Most of what’s worth knowing in education isn’t new, and most of what’s new isn’t worth knowing.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy it - it's your party!

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Bieke Purnelle @biekepurnelle.bsky.social · 2d

Mijn boekje/essay is nu ook te beluisteren op de Luisterpuntbibliotheek. Wie goed luistert hoort Walter in de achtergrond snurken.
daisybraille.bibliotheek.be/catalogus/bi...

De geknevelde vrouw : hoe macht en moraal het vrouwenlichaam bepalen

In dit vlijmscherpe esay stelt de auteur dat het vrouwenlichaam nooit neutraal is, maar een strijdtoneel. Achter elke wet over abortus, elk verbod op een hoofddoek en elke norm over hoe een vrouw zich...

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