Ay Ay Ron

A quick ao3 fic or two can be good for the soul

Slungus

the ao3 of your nightmares 😂

You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵

Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.

CFP: The Data of Post45 Literature and Culture (Online Graduate Workshop) How has encroaching climate disaster impacted how the future is imagined in science fiction novels? What can a century of NYT bestsellers lists tell us about trends in mainstream publishing? And how c...

DEAR GRAD STUDENTS,

This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture.

More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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It's a unicorn job for this printer-scholar and I am beyond excited to be continuing the work I did at @skeuomorphpress.org with @ryancordell.org! I'd love it if folks helped me celebrate by making a donation to support KLP's programing: give.uky.edu/campaigns/47...

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A poster reading: MIDWEST YIDDISHFEST YIDDISH BLOCK PARTY NOVEMBER 14 | 2:30-4:00 PM SKEUOMORPH PRESS AT THE UIUC FABLAB REGISTRATION REQUIRED WWW.CUJF.ORG/YIDDISHFEST

Two weeks from now at Skeuomorph. Come learn more about the history of Yiddish print in the US & make some cool prints!

@gem-gem.bsky.social Times like this I really miss being at @skeuomorphpress.org .

a screenshot with a Microsoft Word icon and the file name "Ass Director Academic Affairs_Oct25 Report.docx"

Add a colon smack in the middle of the first four words in this very real filename in the folder for today’s faculty meeting & you’ve got a very spicy romance novel

Ass Director: Academic Affairs

Turned on 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴 and was disappointed to learn that it was not a sequel to Carl Sagan’s 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘴.

Dr. Jane Goodall Interview: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

She taught the world so much, including teaching John how to eat a banana. Rest In Peace, Dr. Jane Goodall. Thank you for spending some time with us. youtu.be/izUzqUrhbh0

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

The United States of Violence: The Bad Old Days of 1978- Read This First! This substack is a book-length study of the many types, meanings, and results of violence in America, chronicling one exceptionally traumatic year in an almanac format.

I might be biased since Professor Newcomb was my mentor, but this is certainly a substack to look out for

The United States of Violence: The Bad Old Days of 1978- Read This First!
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Literary Forensics as Method: Chemical Analysis, Food Stains, and Readerly Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks Abstract. Much of the study of cookbooks relies on guesswork and reading between the lines that are written down—the type of guesswork that requires cookbooks be read alongside other types of texts ra...

Excited that longtime Viral Texts collaborator Avery Blankenship’s *American Literature* article is out—stemming from a chapter of her diss, it outlines her research using infrared spectroscopy to analyze food stains in C19 cookbooks—interesting for DH, book history, bibliography, and foodies alike

We’re back tonight at 11pm on HBO Max/11:10pm on HBO! Prompt streaming for our square fans, late cable for our freaky fans! Cause we’re a well-rounded program with a little somethin’ for everyone in terms of time management! And in terms of content? We’re exclusively serving “guy at a desk.”

Climate people, did the fossil fuel industry seed and propagate the idea that renewables (specifically batteries) require materials, which require mining, which is bad (so implicitly we should just run on fossil fuels forever)? It's just striking to me how devoutly people repeat it unexamined....

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Just deleted all my socials except bluesky and red note which means I now have to fill the void by being one of the many annoying english majors asking you to subscribe to my substack <3

i love when ao3 author notes have more lore than the average book (i hope OP is okay and thriving)

#kaveh #alhaitham #haikaveh #kavetham #genshin #genshinimpact

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#kaveh #aino #nodkrai

OMG I JUST REALIZED. I have all the Fics I sent to my ereader for camping! They're still on there. I added so many. I will be okay when AO3 is down!

Virginia Woolf’s childhood summers in St. Ives shaped her. Join our 4-day deep dive into The Waves in Cornwall. 28 Sept–1 Oct. Book your place for this immersive literary study HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #TheWaves #ModernistLiterature #LiteraryFiction #StIves

Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue: "Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Lands: Transcorporeality in Eco-narratives"

Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. A Journal of Criticism and Theory

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Deadline: until 30th of November 2025

🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 5th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, May 28-29, 2026, in #Potsdam, #Germany! #CCLS26 #CfP

Submit your article by January 8, 2026, and be part of our big 5-year jubilee edition! 🥳🥳🥳

I just know this would send Hobbes into a tirade where he argues that the blue whale consented to this by being born

Department of Communication - Mediated Interpersonal Communication University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

We’re hiring @ucdavis.bsky.social Comm! TT Asst Prof in Mediated Interpersonal Communication. Our dept blends behavioral, biological & computational strengths at one of the most interdisciplinary campuses anywhere. Apps due Oct 15. Glad to chat recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07289

If we’re going to insist that course descriptions include every possible topic a class might cover, we’d better be reengineering course registration systems to accommodate 20,000 word course descriptions