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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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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 7h

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

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 18h

Congratulations @georginaemw.bsky.social!

Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 17h

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 · 20h

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 · 1d

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

Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 1d

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 · 1d

A helpful thread! I wish my bookstore would bring coursepacks back — thinking of making my own somehow for next semester.

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

I teach a course with a lot of broadview texts already and would love to get a reader with the shorter readings... thank you!

Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

Whaaat?! Thank you for mentioning this — I didn't know!

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

My university stopped making print coursepacks during the pandemic :(

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

It's the only way, whew.

Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, this is harder than it looks:

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

You really have the eager follow-up questions nailed!

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

Very grateful for the suggestions in this thread, though, including yours!

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

I've definitely seen evidence and talk of systems involving PO boxes and similar (from the 1860s) — it seems to have slowed down but not stopped some investigations. I think I've been hoping to find a dedicated study of this kind of thing, but it sounds like that's not the way it played out. +

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

this good thing is three weeks from today!

heisting student debt

with Kashana Cauley and The Debt Collective

interccect.com/2025/09/26/w...

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to read this!!

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 1d

Really excited to see these proofs for @lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of Studies in the Novel on Disease and Disability in the Novel

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much, Lesley! I really appreciate it. Yes, I feel like I've seen quite a bit about language in these kinds of ads, but less about tracking or trying to evade tracking efforts. I've read the McClaren book, but ages ago, so I'll check both out. Thanks!

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, very cool — thank you!

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 2d

LISTEN: Author Katherine J. Parkin discusses her new book THE ABORTION MARKET, a compelling and revealing look at how the buying and selling of abortion access impacted millions of women between 1962 and 1972, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's podcast!

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, good idea! I'm currently waiting for it to come in the mail, but will check it out immediately.