Jennifer McGillan
@ditchlillies.bsky.social
Archivist at Mississippi State University. Interests incl: digital humanities, the 19th c., legal history, women's work, zines, and pirates. Opinions are all my own.
The Southeastern Archives Association (SEAA) and Society of Georgia Archivists are hosting a free virtual summer symposium on July 10-11, 2025! The theme is "Note to Self - Find Joy."
Registration link: soga.wildapricot.org/event-6170428
Registration link: soga.wildapricot.org/event-6170428
Society of Georgia Archivists - SEAA/SGA Virtual Summer Symposium: Note to Self - Find Joy!
soga.wildapricot.org
June 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The Southeastern Archives Association (SEAA) and Society of Georgia Archivists are hosting a free virtual summer symposium on July 10-11, 2025! The theme is "Note to Self - Find Joy."
Registration link: soga.wildapricot.org/event-6170428
Registration link: soga.wildapricot.org/event-6170428
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My proposals to talk about the Zine Thesaurus have been rejected at multiple conferences, so we're going to create a space for ourselves on the exhibit hall floor. If you're attending #ALAAC25, please join us! 📚
Sometimes tradition just doesn't cut it so Librarians have to make their own. 💫
If you're trying to create a cohesive cataloging system for your Zine Library stop by the Zine Pavilion booth on Monday the 30th at 10:00 am (EDT) to learn about the Zine Thesaurus!
If you're trying to create a cohesive cataloging system for your Zine Library stop by the Zine Pavilion booth on Monday the 30th at 10:00 am (EDT) to learn about the Zine Thesaurus!
June 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
My proposals to talk about the Zine Thesaurus have been rejected at multiple conferences, so we're going to create a space for ourselves on the exhibit hall floor. If you're attending #ALAAC25, please join us! 📚
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archivists: we have no help maintaining the overwhelming pile of digital projects that were funded by one-time grants and have extensive recurring resource costs, this is a huge problem for literally every discipline
venture capitalists: would you like a sexy robot Amelia Bedelia that doesn't work
venture capitalists: would you like a sexy robot Amelia Bedelia that doesn't work
If tech people want to do something useful for historians, one problem that I actually have is that all the links to a less-than-10-year-old digitization project are fucking broken. Maybe get on the whole "making digital humanities last more than the time it takes to write a book" thing.
June 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
archivists: we have no help maintaining the overwhelming pile of digital projects that were funded by one-time grants and have extensive recurring resource costs, this is a huge problem for literally every discipline
venture capitalists: would you like a sexy robot Amelia Bedelia that doesn't work
venture capitalists: would you like a sexy robot Amelia Bedelia that doesn't work
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Patreon is raising the percentage it takes from new creators (again), from 8% to 10%, on August 4. People with existing Patreon pages get grandfathered into the old rate. If you're thinking about making a page, best to do it and publish it now.
June 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Patreon is raising the percentage it takes from new creators (again), from 8% to 10%, on August 4. People with existing Patreon pages get grandfathered into the old rate. If you're thinking about making a page, best to do it and publish it now.
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BIG PRE-ORDER NEWS
From the publisher and writers that brought you Dark Folklore...
DEVON'S FORGOTTEN WITCHES, 1860-1910, a new title from myself and @traceynormanauthor.bsky.social publishes 21 August.
Preorder now for a signed/dedicated first copy at
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/store/p189/D...
From the publisher and writers that brought you Dark Folklore...
DEVON'S FORGOTTEN WITCHES, 1860-1910, a new title from myself and @traceynormanauthor.bsky.social publishes 21 August.
Preorder now for a signed/dedicated first copy at
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/store/p189/D...
June 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
BIG PRE-ORDER NEWS
From the publisher and writers that brought you Dark Folklore...
DEVON'S FORGOTTEN WITCHES, 1860-1910, a new title from myself and @traceynormanauthor.bsky.social publishes 21 August.
Preorder now for a signed/dedicated first copy at
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/store/p189/D...
From the publisher and writers that brought you Dark Folklore...
DEVON'S FORGOTTEN WITCHES, 1860-1910, a new title from myself and @traceynormanauthor.bsky.social publishes 21 August.
Preorder now for a signed/dedicated first copy at
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/store/p189/D...
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is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.
January 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.
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Happy Pride Month! As June kicks off with pride flags galore, we’re showing off some color in our collection.
June 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Happy Pride Month! As June kicks off with pride flags galore, we’re showing off some color in our collection.
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"After sharing the advanced messaging with county emergency personnel and social media pages, the Carter County emergency manager reported the number of people checked into a designated shelter in Van Buren rose from four to 125 well before the tornado arrived."
That part? That is extraordinary.
That part? That is extraordinary.
This literally life-saving advance weather warning program is under attack because it's part of NOAA. When you're calling and writing to your reps, please consider putting a word in for it too.
inside.nssl.noaa.gov/nsslnews/202...
inside.nssl.noaa.gov/nsslnews/202...
The Tornado That Didn’t Surprise: A Story of Preparedness and Partnership – NSSL NewsLock
inside.nssl.noaa.gov
April 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"After sharing the advanced messaging with county emergency personnel and social media pages, the Carter County emergency manager reported the number of people checked into a designated shelter in Van Buren rose from four to 125 well before the tornado arrived."
That part? That is extraordinary.
That part? That is extraordinary.
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Sipping my coffee ☕️ thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!
So modern-looking it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters 3,800 years ago!
Known as Kamares Ware, these luxury ceramics were made in palace workshops. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology 🏺
So modern-looking it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters 3,800 years ago!
Known as Kamares Ware, these luxury ceramics were made in palace workshops. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology 🏺
April 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Sipping my coffee ☕️ thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!
So modern-looking it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters 3,800 years ago!
Known as Kamares Ware, these luxury ceramics were made in palace workshops. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology 🏺
So modern-looking it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters 3,800 years ago!
Known as Kamares Ware, these luxury ceramics were made in palace workshops. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology 🏺
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We are now offering free displaced scholar memberships for the rest of the 2025 membership year. Please circulate to SHARPists you think could benefit from this program!
sharpweb.org/membership/
sharpweb.org/membership/
Membership – SHARPweb
sharpweb.org
April 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We are now offering free displaced scholar memberships for the rest of the 2025 membership year. Please circulate to SHARPists you think could benefit from this program!
sharpweb.org/membership/
sharpweb.org/membership/
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Papal Tiara, in Triplicate?
Found a couple of bishop's miters doodled into this 16th c. book of Lutheran sermons too... #NewberryLibrary (Case C 43 .526) #RIP #PopeFrancis
Found a couple of bishop's miters doodled into this 16th c. book of Lutheran sermons too... #NewberryLibrary (Case C 43 .526) #RIP #PopeFrancis
April 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Papal Tiara, in Triplicate?
Found a couple of bishop's miters doodled into this 16th c. book of Lutheran sermons too... #NewberryLibrary (Case C 43 .526) #RIP #PopeFrancis
Found a couple of bishop's miters doodled into this 16th c. book of Lutheran sermons too... #NewberryLibrary (Case C 43 .526) #RIP #PopeFrancis
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Tomorrow's symposium is hybrid and yes...free.
(I'll have to cover at the library. At the same time, if you have intrest, please register!)
(I'll have to cover at the library. At the same time, if you have intrest, please register!)
The Sigur Center at GWU has organized this FREE hybrid symposium on Friday April 11th on " #Disability Rights in #EastAsia 's Democracies" -- featuring scholars of #Japan, #Korea, & #Taiwan! RSVP for in-person attendance or register for Zoom link. #DisabilitySky
nrc.elliott.gwu.edu/2025/03/31/d...
nrc.elliott.gwu.edu/2025/03/31/d...
Disability Rights in East Asia’s Democracies 2025
At the Elliott School of International Affairs
nrc.elliott.gwu.edu
April 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Tomorrow's symposium is hybrid and yes...free.
(I'll have to cover at the library. At the same time, if you have intrest, please register!)
(I'll have to cover at the library. At the same time, if you have intrest, please register!)
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Another important Mississippi State program lost to the NEH purge. Here's an article about the Field School's work from @heatherharrison.bsky.social a couple of years ago: www.mississippifreepress.org/the-work-of-...
April 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Another important Mississippi State program lost to the NEH purge. Here's an article about the Field School's work from @heatherharrison.bsky.social a couple of years ago: www.mississippifreepress.org/the-work-of-...
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Long shot, but a) does anyone's church follow the once prevalent custom of using pussy willow branches on Palm Sunday and b) have a picture of this they could share with me? ✝️
April 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Long shot, but a) does anyone's church follow the once prevalent custom of using pussy willow branches on Palm Sunday and b) have a picture of this they could share with me? ✝️
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For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research.
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
Toulouse Welcomes U.S. Researchers Facing Unprecedented Challenges | Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse
In response to the targeted and drastic budget cuts threatening scientific research in the United States, the Toulouse academic community is launching an initiative to host researchers whose work is a...
en.univ-toulouse.fr
April 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research.
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
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Don't trust anyone who follows the word 'permanent' with the word 'digital'.
April 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Don't trust anyone who follows the word 'permanent' with the word 'digital'.
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Boundary stones and the old township boundaries. The outliers in Wooldale and Hepworth hint at the complex sub-boundaries that once existed and also the ghost of the former township of Scholes.
March 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Boundary stones and the old township boundaries. The outliers in Wooldale and Hepworth hint at the complex sub-boundaries that once existed and also the ghost of the former township of Scholes.
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Do you live near a women's suffrage memorial? Help researchers at Aix-Marseille uni to map it alongside hundreds of others.
Celebrate and value global histories of democracy and feminist activism - a powerful message given ebbing support in the twenty-first century
framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...
Celebrate and value global histories of democracy and feminist activism - a powerful message given ebbing support in the twenty-first century
framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...
Sites of Suffrage Memory: a HerStory Maps project
This map seeks to **geolocate the memorials to the Women's Suffrage Movement ** all over the world.
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It is a small contribution to the decades-long effort by activists and scholars to raise publi...
framacarte.org
March 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Do you live near a women's suffrage memorial? Help researchers at Aix-Marseille uni to map it alongside hundreds of others.
Celebrate and value global histories of democracy and feminist activism - a powerful message given ebbing support in the twenty-first century
framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...
Celebrate and value global histories of democracy and feminist activism - a powerful message given ebbing support in the twenty-first century
framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...
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This looks like a very special job, working with great people. www.higheredjobs.com/admin/detail...
Center for Black Digital Research Data Scientist - HigherEdJobs
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www.higheredjobs.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This looks like a very special job, working with great people. www.higheredjobs.com/admin/detail...
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I am also in the market for recommendations for the following: a hipster coffee shop, bookstores, an immersive Rule Of Four escape room experience
February 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I am also in the market for recommendations for the following: a hipster coffee shop, bookstores, an immersive Rule Of Four escape room experience
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A very specific query for Princeton, NJ people: where should I go for a casual solo dinner on arrival? Not fancy — a bar/brewery with food always appeals. And, same breakfast question as whenever I'm in the US: is there a diner where I can drink drip coffee and someone will reliably call me 'hon'?
February 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A very specific query for Princeton, NJ people: where should I go for a casual solo dinner on arrival? Not fancy — a bar/brewery with food always appeals. And, same breakfast question as whenever I'm in the US: is there a diner where I can drink drip coffee and someone will reliably call me 'hon'?
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💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
February 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
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