Meaghan Brown
@meaghanbrown.bsky.social
Biblionerd; interested in what books do to people, what people do to books. Early modernist by training, chaser of waterfalls and nurturer of plants by passion. All opinions my own and quite capricious.
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Reposting in the new year—applications now open!
Applications are now open for “Law and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Toolkit for the Humanities Scholar,” a two week NEH summer seminar taking place at Emory next July. Check it out! lawandreligionsummerinstitute2026.ecdsomeka.org/home
An NEH Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty · Law and Religion Summer Institute 2026
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January 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Reposting in the new year—applications now open!
The one thing I had scheduled to make myself do today, the last day of winter vacation, was schedule a physical to find a new doctor. But the health insurance website is down, so now I will get nothing done all day. I don't make the rules.
January 5, 2026 at 3:55 PM
The one thing I had scheduled to make myself do today, the last day of winter vacation, was schedule a physical to find a new doctor. But the health insurance website is down, so now I will get nothing done all day. I don't make the rules.
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I don’t want 2025 end-of-year round-ups. Let it go. Let it flee into the dark woods, never to be seen again
December 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I don’t want 2025 end-of-year round-ups. Let it go. Let it flee into the dark woods, never to be seen again
Dramatic skies for my last night visiting the folks this trip.
December 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Dramatic skies for my last night visiting the folks this trip.
Doing some last minute shopping around my home town with the parents. After overhearing a conversation about some conference travel, the teenager managing the cash register told me I looked like I could be an Archeologist. I took that for the glowing compliment it was.
December 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Doing some last minute shopping around my home town with the parents. After overhearing a conversation about some conference travel, the teenager managing the cash register told me I looked like I could be an Archeologist. I took that for the glowing compliment it was.
Well, except for needing to drive a half hour outside the state capitol to even find a DMV, the experience of getting a license in RI was relatively smooth. Got called an over achiever for bringing back up paperwork in case one of mine got rejected. My burns from the DC DMV are still showing.
December 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Well, except for needing to drive a half hour outside the state capitol to even find a DMV, the experience of getting a license in RI was relatively smooth. Got called an over achiever for bringing back up paperwork in case one of mine got rejected. My burns from the DC DMV are still showing.
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Please be advised that the John Carter Brown Library
will be closed to the public on Monday, December 15, 2025
and will remain closed until Tuesday, January 20, 2026.
will be closed to the public on Monday, December 15, 2025
and will remain closed until Tuesday, January 20, 2026.
December 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Please be advised that the John Carter Brown Library
will be closed to the public on Monday, December 15, 2025
and will remain closed until Tuesday, January 20, 2026.
will be closed to the public on Monday, December 15, 2025
and will remain closed until Tuesday, January 20, 2026.
If I have pumpkin pie for breakfast, I’ve already had a vegetable today. Winning.
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If I have pumpkin pie for breakfast, I’ve already had a vegetable today. Winning.
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Teaching post-doc position in UVa’s College, renewable for up to three years total. Apply!
Post-doctoral Research Associate and Lecturer - Engagements, College of Arts & Sciences in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
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November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Teaching post-doc position in UVa’s College, renewable for up to three years total. Apply!
Might have tanked productivity at work this afternoon by introducing the idea that any of our digitized images could be jigsaw puzzles... jigex.com/mVCRY
It's an oldie but goodie for remixing cultural heritage.
It's an oldie but goodie for remixing cultural heritage.
A Jigsaw Explorer Jigsaw Puzzle
This jigsaw puzzle is presented within Jigsaw Explorer's premium
jigsaw puzzle web app. Anyone can use this web app to play their own photos as jigsaw puzzles, or
choose from the thous...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Might have tanked productivity at work this afternoon by introducing the idea that any of our digitized images could be jigsaw puzzles... jigex.com/mVCRY
It's an oldie but goodie for remixing cultural heritage.
It's an oldie but goodie for remixing cultural heritage.
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Join us on Monday, December 1, 2025 at noon for a JCB Reads virtual discussion of The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by Casey Schmitt.
This event is online only. All are welcome!
Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This event is online only. All are welcome!
Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Join us on Monday, December 1, 2025 at noon for a JCB Reads virtual discussion of The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by Casey Schmitt.
This event is online only. All are welcome!
Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This event is online only. All are welcome!
Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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<walks into the ocean>
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
<walks into the ocean>
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THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL
I had things to do this evening, but apparently I'm required to hold her head.
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I had things to do this evening, but apparently I'm required to hold her head.
Finally getting around to decorating my new office
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Finally getting around to decorating my new office
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Work with us at UVA School of Data Science!
@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
Join Our Team — School of Data Science
We are hiring faculty and staff to build a forward-thinking community with a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas centered around data science.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Work with us at UVA School of Data Science!
@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
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Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
About | Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
Cleaning up old scratch pads in prep for my move, and I come across one that says "API is currently in alpha. ... Ability to save search, iterative... next six months is prioritizing user input...." and I can think of at least three different projects this could be. lol.
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Cleaning up old scratch pads in prep for my move, and I come across one that says "API is currently in alpha. ... Ability to save search, iterative... next six months is prioritizing user input...." and I can think of at least three different projects this could be. lol.
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
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Happy National Coffee Day. A morning without coffee is like a striking analogy I’ll probably come up with after I’ve had more coffee.
September 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Happy National Coffee Day. A morning without coffee is like a striking analogy I’ll probably come up with after I’ve had more coffee.
Last night, while playing games w/ friends, one casually asked, "hey, is your cat supposed to be wearing something around his middle?" No. No he was not. It was the twisted paper handle of a paper shopping bag he had destroyed by running through it and getting stuck. Orange cat in a tuxedo cat body.
September 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Last night, while playing games w/ friends, one casually asked, "hey, is your cat supposed to be wearing something around his middle?" No. No he was not. It was the twisted paper handle of a paper shopping bag he had destroyed by running through it and getting stuck. Orange cat in a tuxedo cat body.
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🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜
Manuscript Data Curation Fellow
University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜
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Do any lovely medievalists know of good medieval descriptions of hangovers? Thank you!
September 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Do any lovely medievalists know of good medieval descriptions of hangovers? Thank you!
Love when I'm spraying down a mirror to clean it and my cat just looks horrified, as if she's wondering what my reflection did to earn the spray bottle.
August 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Love when I'm spraying down a mirror to clean it and my cat just looks horrified, as if she's wondering what my reflection did to earn the spray bottle.