Screencap from an email client Yesterday From: Ominiscisent Editorial... Following up: R... You don't often get email fr...
Seems to me like you should already know if I'm going to submit, spam journal solicitation
Also this spelling/pronunciation makes me imagine the priest from the Princess Bride
#oopsie
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...
Thinking about a PMLA "Changing Profession" cluster on "On (Not) Reading Literary Essays after AI": if anyone's interested in writing / editing hmu, have a good central essay on Ishiguro / Cusk already.
A poor-quality black-and-white facsimile of Samuel Johnson's "The Plays of William Shakespeare" frontispiece and title page. the image of Shakespeare on the frontispiece is barely visible except for his white forehead. the rest of the page is mostly black. The title page is legible but not great.
This facsimile of Samuel Johnson's "Plays of William Shakespeare" (1765) really makes that forehead shine
from @archive.org archive.org/details/bim_...
Found the buttons to disable generative AI in Adobe Reader (acrobat>preferences>generative AI) and the Adobe Chrome extension (three dots at top>preferences>generative AI).
Now I no longer have to be annoyed at Adobe asking if it can do my reading and synthesizing for me!
A cartoon bunny, Buster, carries an orange lunch box that says King Lear and has a man with a crown on it, his hand extended. I am not conveying how cartoonish this is. It's a kid's book.
Arthur's friend Buster has a King Lear lunchbox and I have.... questions
My concern is that they will be offloaded to developing nations.
Is there any way to filter my feed so that I am never shown AI art?
Thank you, @saaupdates.bsky.social, for offering some virtual seminars for participants this year.
We're head into external review request season. Make sure your guidance to the reviewers explicitly includes not using LLMs or putting candidates work into them. Speaking from experience on this one.
Also if you're asked to review, don't feed it to the plagiarism machine.
oh noooooo
Read more about Dr. Wright's new book, No Mother, No Future!
@wrightkailin.bsky.social @stfx-university.bsky.social
www.stfx.ca/news/Dr-Kail...
++ thanks to @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social , series editors for "Shakespeare and Text" at @universitypress.cambridge.org for their fantastic support, feedback, and guidance
It's out! 🎉🎉🎉
"Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography"
Open access (just click "save pdf" for a formatted version)
It was a joy working with Heidi Craig, Kris May, and Dorothy Todd on this Element
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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A bookplate of a naked woman, facing away, rising from the opening of a book, with clouds parting and rays of light shining towards her. The book his held open by a hand. Below the image the (typewritten?) text reads "Louise Guinn"
Obsessed with this bookplate in the 1936 Kittredge Complete Works of Shakespeare
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You know how websites just seem slower? That's not in your mind.
Generative AI uses hordes of bots to crawl webpages, which a) results in websites in going down and b) means that pages are slower to load for humans because the sites are also managing the bot load
This is a fun site (screen-reader friendly) that lets you highlight or display a single character's lines and their cues. www.bardbase.com
cropped text from a book: analyses several screen adaptattions of Henry V by Lawrence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh, as
Gather round, children, while I tell you a tale. In the olden days, university and academic presses used to have professional copyeditors...
Tim Houston's government has reversed some of their budget cuts, which shows us that they can reverse more of them. Keep the pressure on them.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
An image of a title page Printed: "The Shakespeare Book of Lists" Handwritten: "September 2001 To Joe + Elaine, I hope this book gives you as much pleasure in reading as I had in writing it. All the best, Mike"
The Internet Archive digitization of the "Shakespeare Book of Lists" by Michael LoMonico has a delightful authorial inscription
"I hope this book gives you as much pleasure in reading as I had in writing it."
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More importantly, is this proof that Anne Rice is herself a vampire?
Do you suppose some folks are getting these books so that it will seem like they have engaged deeply with a text when they haven't? Annotated books as props?
DHSI-East early bird ends 15 March
Please share!
3 concurrent workshops:
"Project Management in the Humanities" - @jenguiliano.bsky.social
"Research Data Management for Humanities Researchers" - Khair & Sawchuck
"Digital Publishing in the Humanities Classroom" - @andiesilva.bsky.social & montes
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
"read into Hansard" means that your words will be included in the official transcript of the proceedings
From Krista Gallagher & @dartmouthsue.bsky.social : www.instagram.com/reel/DVRGbBX...
Nova Scotians: if you want to have your voice heard, write to your MLA and ask for your email to be "read into Hansard"
& call 902-424-8941: ask to address committee about the "Financial Measures Act"
You don't need to be a politico or budget expert; you can share how cuts affect you
#nspoli +
Image: Dr. Kailin Wright next to two book covers Slings & Arrows; No Mother No Future Image: Dr. Conall Cash next to book cover: Far from the Masters Image: Dr. Laura Estill next to two book covers: The Past, Present, and Future of Early Modern Digital Studies and the Routledge companion to Digital Humanities in Practice Text: Book Launch 4:00pm March 12 2026 Scholar's Walk, Mulroney Hall Department of English, StFX University
Book launch!
12 March 4pm, Scholars Walk @stfx-university.bsky.social
Feat. books by @wrightkailin.bsky.social , Conall Cash, & @lauraestill.bsky.social
4 collections: on Slings & Arrows, French Cinema, early modern digital humanities, & DH writ large
& 1 🌟monograph🌟: on reproductive justice
Poster Text: Antigonish Rally for Arts & Culture 4:00-5:30 Wednesday March 4th, 325 Main St. MLA Office For those of us who cannot make it to Halifax, Join this satellite rally in solidarity of speaking out against the proposed budget cuts that will devastate arts & culture programs that bring inclusion, community, & quality of life to so many Image: line drawings of two protesting people on the right, one holding a sign that says "act now" and the other holding a megaphone
How do you feel about Premier Houston's budgetary cuts? Come to the Antigonish Rally for Arts and Culture outside Minister Thompson's office to have your voice be heard!
4-5:30 Weds 4 March, 325 Main Street
Media Release of the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs.
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.