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jroberson.bsky.social
Associate professor of English @ MSMU Los Angeles - Romanticism, book history, maker culture, literary tourism & disability. Views my own.
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In 1626, a Cambridge fishwife sliced open a cod, only to find a gelatinous, half-dissolved manuscript inside. It was published the next year under the name "Vox Piscis or, the Bookfish." At this point, why not get your news from inside a dead fish? #earlymodern #bookfish archive.org/details/bim_...

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CalRBS is happy to share our Summer 2025 course listings are published! We are dedicated to providing the knowledge and skills required by collectors and professionals studying for and working in all aspects of GLAM fields. #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraries #bibliograophy

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Second snack-sized digital pedagogy event coming up! Mark calendars for Friday, April 4th from 1:00-2:00PM EST for a session "On Making" featuring @amandalicastro.bsky.social and @jajrk.bsky.social. Free and open to the public. Registration and more info here - cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/14229798

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

This is just the beginning. Cis people, contact your reps. Do not fucking reply to my trans ass right now to tell me why you can't or won't do this one goddamned thing for trans people, just contact your Representative.

submitted 103 days ago • 77 comments

When insulin was first patented in 1923, the discoverers declined to put their names on it as they felt that insulin belonged to the public. 101 years later, insulin is inaccessible to thousands of Americans because of price gouging by near-monopoly private insurance corporations and their PBMs.

submitted 103 days ago • 57 comments

As a person who can be forgetful but who also wants to uphold disability justice whenever I can, I wanted to share how you can change your settings so that Bluesky won’t allow you to post until all your images have alt text. Alt text doesn’t have to be a big ordeal!

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

A new open-access journal, Public Humanities, has launched. I'm proud to have a piece in the inaugural "Manifesto" issue, on "The Necessity of Public Writing." I hope academo-friends will read, circulate, propose, and submit. doi.org/10.1017/pub....

submitted 108 days ago • 9 comments

Set up an impromptu 'Little Free Zine Library' using my office door's defunct old-school mailbox. If anyone has resources for diverse printable zines to stock it with I would love links!

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Hey new users— we’ve been trying to build a strong culture of expecting alt text. Take it from me, because I’ve heard from them: there are blind people on this app and they appreciate being included. You can also turn on a setting that prevents you from posting images without it, if you forget

submitted 113 days ago • 224 comments

Call for submissions! *Embodied Knowledge and Making Texts: A Handbook* Send your research proposals and creative responses to Helen Smith and me by 13th Jan www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments

Welcome all. Life in academia is particularly hard right now. Toward a modest improvement, consider sending Kudos Emails. Reach out to a stranger and say you liked their paper. This small mitzvah can make a world of difference. I’ve seen it happen. michaelkaspari.org/2016/05/23/o...

submitted 115 days ago • 9 comments

Please share this CFP! We’re hosting a symposium 20-21 May 2025 @skeuomorph.bsky.social on "Building Book Labs: Hands-On Research & Teaching in Book History"—we’re looking for talks, discussion topics, & hands-on activities—& we especially welcome novel formats or session ideas. More at the link!

submitted 130 days ago • 2 comments

go.bsky.app/CtyRqgj Please share widely & reply below if you'd like to be added📚!

submitted 114 days ago • 73 comments

am delighted to announce the cfp for Queer Bibliography: In the Making is now open. Please see the attached full cfp: bit.ly/QueerBib2025 and the submission form: bit.ly/QB2025Propos.... I look forward to seeing many of you next year!

submitted 117 days ago • 2 comments

I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592

submitted 115 days ago • 137 comments

Thinking long term one thing we will need is archives, analog archives. The instability and malliability of digital media and digital culture means that we need to document queer, trans, black, indigenous, asian, latinx, & disabled lives in ways that leave a record for those that come after us.

submitted 117 days ago • 3 comments

If I could make a plea for BlueSky, it’s this: Please make a point of sharing links to articles, essays and more that you LOVE, that you enjoyed, that expanded you in some way. I’m always surprised by the dominance of hate-shares, complaint shares on here. And I think it has a riptide effect.

submitted 198 days ago • 115 comments

Why Majoring in the Humanities Can Be A Great Career Move | U.S. News www.usnews.com/education/ar...

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Trying to think of a word while teaching

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