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Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now

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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · Jan 6

My book, Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines, is out now with Oxford University Press!

academic.oup.com/book/58989

It’s a book about page fillers, product placement, and strange hybrid fiction. It asks how the page of the magazine became a spur for new, odd genres.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 20h

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 20h

!!!!!! — www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

Israeli ceasefire means it will massacre the emaciated maimed shell of a body they left you in for entering your own home, then claim Israeli terrorists were feeling unsafe near your house while they were destroying what was left of your life and family.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

My academic #ShadowCV includes,
* unsuccessfully applying for way too many permanent jobs,
* working at 5 universities, and nowhere tenure-tracks were available, or installed after me, or for others only,
* too much time spent on trains working the laptop,
* never had a contract longer then 3 years

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 1d

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 1d

An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...

Mapping Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin's maps go on display at the Architectural Association

An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 1d

We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social

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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 1d

I mean this so seriously, John Jarndyce is the villain of Bleak House. Skimpole was right!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jan 28

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 1d

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 1d

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
 CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
 But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications

The Art of Learning from Rejection

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 1d

We’re excited in Liverpool to hear that LJMU will be hosting the fab @bavs-uk.bsky.social conf in July. I can’t wait to see Victorian scholars treading the corridors of my historic c19th building. Well done to @drhorrocks.bsky.social for getting this off the ground! Now to dust of my organisers hat…

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 29d

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great example of ‘type bite,’ where the handpress operator has pulled the bar with such force that the type ‘bites’ the paper, leaving a raised impression on the verso. This example is from an 1824 court writ. I find this more often on job printed broadsheets than in codices 🗃️ #bookhistory

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

mine are all very hinged, thank you, as when I insist that it makes so much sense that Ladislaw would have been at the premiere of Beethoven's Ninth

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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 1d

I mean this so seriously, John Jarndyce is the villain of Bleak House. Skimpole was right!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 2d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 1d

Time for your daily Danish word.

Two flies.

FLUEKNEPPER. Literally l: fly fucker

Meaning: a person who is very fussy and pays excessive attention to small details.

Variation: FLUEKNEPPERI. The act of.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 2d

Based on these prints I found after last night’s open hours @skeuomorphpress.org, I’d say things are happening in the cornfields of central Illinois

Two posters, one on orange paper and one on yellow, reading “LUDDITE SOCIETY” in large wood type. underneath the letters is an illustration of a flame printed from a linocut

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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the ghost of pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · Aug 17

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 2d

That was my reaction

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 2d

"Checking gauge isn't important."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 2d

Omg three people in my knitting circle saw me make a gauge swatch and asked: ‘what is that?’ They had all knitted for years and just… chanced it every time? 😨

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 15d

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜

The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces.

They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading.
#bookhistory 💙📚📜

Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve

A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment

A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment

A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment

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