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Elizabeth Giardina, PhD
@elizagiardina.bsky.social
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Writing about 18th & 19th c. British poetry, environmental humanities, and the histories of science & design. Doing her best. she/her

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Began hosting weekly Macaroni Mondays. Wanted to get better at homemade pasta, and to host more casually and more often, and it’s been going well!
Flyer describing Macaroni Mondays with image of spaghetti. Flyer reads, “Pasta Every Monday, Are You Free?, Come Eat Pasta, Come at 6:30pm, Eat at 7:00pm-ish, Scott and Liz’s House, Cats Too” Chopped onions and garlic on a wooden chopping board, plus bottle of olive oil Tomatoes concassé Homemade linguine and marinara with ripped basil on top
November 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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drbibliomane.bsky.social
Look at this excellent handkerchief from 1769 at the V & A museum: a showcase for #18thc practices of remediation. Made to imitate a quodlibet/medley print, a genre that itself aims to simulate, in a trompe l'oeil idiom, a scatter of small printed papers.
Imagine blowing your nose on that!
#scraps
Red and white printed square handkerchief, designed to make you think you are looking at an untidy heap of printed papers: a playing card, a receipt, portrait engravings, a play, sheet music, positioned every which way.
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
The Tragedy of the Seas (1841) — a colourful compendium of thirty-seven nautical catastrophes that took place in bodies of water around the world between 1803 and 1840: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-tragedy-of-the-seas-1841
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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propublica.org
The forever chemical PFNA is so hazardous that the EPA struck an agreement with 8 companies to phase it out nearly two decades ago.

Now an EPA report on its harms sits in limbo, and the Trump administration won’t say when it will be released.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...
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October 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
A small pamphlet (in the Roycroft series “Little journeys to the homes of great musicians”) on the life of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, who was born #onthisday in 1813. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-pamphlet-on-verdi-1901 #otd
October 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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aupresses.bsky.social
Worth repeating, and appreciating every day: "More than 100 of North America’s top universities clearly believe that an energetic, outward-facing publishing program is a tremendous asset to, indeed a responsibility of, any university."
Why institutions should continue to support their university presses (opinion)
Institutions can be unfamiliar with what their university presses do or with their own integral role in supporting scholarly publishing, argue Kathryn Conrad and Jennifer Crewe, which can lead to hasty or inaccurate judgments.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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vsawc.bsky.social
Issue 50.2 of Victorian Review is out on Project Muse! First up in this issue is a forum edited by Doreen Thierauf, "Thinking Reproductive and Sexual Justice with the Victorians after Dobbs: Future Paths Previously Trod"

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
Project MUSE - Victorian Review-Volume 50, Number 2, Fall 2024
muse.jhu.edu
October 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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aksagal.bsky.social
Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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londonmikmaq.bsky.social
Manuscript notes and character sketches written by Maria Edgeworth in planning her novels; some pages are extended by sewn-on scraps of paper. Amazing to see these, and the original case she stored them in!
Small notebooks with fine handwriting
September 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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archive.org
🎧 lo-fi microfiche digitization (to study/relax/preserve gov docs to)
Back online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUj...
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
YouTube video by Internet Archive
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September 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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joshsternberg.com
NJ PBS shutting down next summer.

“15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.”

newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...
New Jersey PBS shutting down in July - New Jersey Globe
New Jersey PBS is expected to cease operations in July 2026 following WNET's decision not to renew its agreement, the New Jersey Globe has learned. The
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September 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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easlce.bsky.social
#newpublication: Ecokritike, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025)

Free access: journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/i...

#envhum #ecocriticism #ecolit #environment @nikzam.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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nytimes.com
If the planet continues to warm at its current rate, exposure to wildfire smoke will kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each year by 2050, according to new research. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...
A firefighter, shown from behind, looking out toward smoldering trees in a mountain valley. A headline reads: "Wildfire Smoke Will Kill Thousands More by 2050, Study Finds." Photo by Loren Elliott for The New York Times
September 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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msainato.bsky.social
At a time where federal worker unions are under attack by the Trump administration, 600 workers at Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks have unionized
Workers at Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks Organize a Union Under NFFE-IAM
August 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
"There are more than 19 million college students in the US. Most are well removed from corridors of wealth+power..43% of undergrads attend community college. 25% live with their parents."

a listicle for everyone, especially for the NYT editors themselves to learn

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think It Is
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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zugenia.bsky.social
Calling all astrologers! I’m the editor of a top academic journal in 18th-century cultural studies and I have been listening to all of your podcasts! You have knowledge that #c18th studies needs to hear! Call me!
zugenia.bsky.social 祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · Jun 28
I want to do a special issue of @ecfjournal.bsky.social on astrological resonances between the long 18th century and now.

I’ll include peer reviewed scholarship and essays by practicing astrologers who don’t necessarily have a PhD.

Consider this the initial call for papers! Message me!
June 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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katalves18c.bsky.social
Still feels incredibly surreal. Page proofs day!
May 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
elizagiardina.bsky.social
Have recently begun roasting veggies without looking up a temperature and cooking time suggestion🏅
May 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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sjjphd.bsky.social
My primary professional organization, which alternates annual meeting locations each year, has moved its 2027 conference out of the U.S. - where it was already booked - saying it will hold no more meetings during the current admin after this year in the U.S. This is unprecedented to my knowledge.
May 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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nplusonemag.com
Our NEA grant was canceled.

Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.
On Friday night, n+1—alongside many of our peer nonprofit arts organizations—received notice that our 2025 NEA grant has been terminated due to the Trump administration’s “shifting funding priorities.” We knew this might be coming, but receiving the official notice was still jarring, as was some of the messaging itself. It’s unclear to us whether we’ll still be able to recover the money we’ve been promised this year—a $12,500 grant meant to help us pay our authors, our editors, and to have the magazine printed and distributed to our readers. We’ve requested the funds we’ve already spent, and now we’re waiting to see if the money will come through. We’re trying to stay optimistic, but with the administration’s other announcement this week that the NEA might be shut down in its entirety, it’s hard to do so. I’m writing to ask for two things—first, for short-term, immediate assistance to help us replace these funds. You can make a donation through our website, or—if you’re in New York and free on June 10—you can buy a ticket to our annual benefit, the N Plus Ultra. Second, we ask for your ongoing support amid the challenges that we, and other small magazines, are already beginning to face. You can do that by subscribing, of course, convincing your friends to subscribe (or simply sending them a gift subscription), or by buying a bit of merch from our shop. And maybe most meaningfully, you can share the n+1 pieces you’re reading and stay engaged with (and be vocal in your support of) the independent media you care about most. We’ll need all the help we can get. With gratitude, Dani Oliver Development Director, n+1
May 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM