Don't be fooled by the appearances! At first glance, these look like early printed books, but it is an ingenious chest of drawers. Has anyone seen this elsewhere?
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Don't be fooled by the appearances! At first glance, these look like early printed books, but it is an ingenious chest of drawers. Has anyone seen this elsewhere?
My dog may confuse close-reading a paper with close-eating it, but I bet you don't. Please consider applying to this guaranteed MLA27 session, and help us spread the word!
(Official, 35-word CFP on MLA page linked below; more detailed CFP in alt-text with side-eye dog.)
What is ‘Great Dogge’? 🤔 A printed waste fragment used in the binding of a book printed in the German city of Hanau in 1613 & now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social (N*.5.16(E)).
Dad: "If they have internet there, just send me an internet telling me you've arrived."
the computer is NOT conscious. until you put googly eyes on it
A video of snow falling. The person who posted the video wrote as a caption, "bro check it out, check it out, bro, the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead"
blue and black ink painting of a black hole
I was gonna show you anyway. This is most of my new body of work, called Forces of Nature, going on exhibit soon at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social #sciart
Black Hole, Ink on Yupo, 2026
A selection of books form the Fagel Collection
TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies
New Morgan Exhibition Explores the History of Storytelling
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
There's a donkey on the loose in town, and it's the first time with community Facebook page has been a delight.
JOB ALERT 📜📚
Librarian & executive director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington, CT)
•Research center for 18th-century Britain
•You’d report to the fabulous Michelle Light
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
Steal the keys from snoring Destiny
And make the prophets lie.
"Well, I've got to go downstairs and write another chapter and you've got to write another chapter. But I'm done on Thursday and you're not."—my father
JOB ALERT! 📜📚
Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin?
apply.workable.com/middleburyco...
Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.
thehill.com/policy/defen...
Bury me with my rejected pitches, that I may see them realized in Heaven.
A picture of the Mona Lisa, together with a headline from the satirical newspaper The Onion: "Interpol Admits 89% of Its Cases Involve Finding, Recovering the 'Mona Lisa'"
The Onion
The best joke conference presentation titles that I've heard over the years are "Moving in the General Direction of a New Consideration of Stuff" and "Analyzing Music that Sucks."
SIMS / Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Collaborative Fellowship. Take advantage of the expertise and manuscript resources at Penn Libraries and CSMC’s expertise in the Humanities, material analysis and/or Computer Science. Apply by Friday, May 1, 2026.
🔗: https://bit.ly/4aE3wec
Here's 15 minutes of an extraordinary new opera-in-progress based on (my version of) the Odyssey, composed by Tom Smail, libretto by Isabella Bywater - performed and discussed (with Alicia Stallings) at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. www.ascsa.edu.gr/events/detai...
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"
HELL. YES.
Kathryn Murphy reads a stimulating account of art made in extremis – in Reformation Europe, Weimar and Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa – by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Lumpy algae floating and a bullfrog face emerged
Bullfrog of the day!
Thursday, 26 Feb 2026
Thanks for upping this, John. #BurningtheBooks keeps being an authoritarian priority across the globe ...
Dad: "I'm taking a course on how to use iPhones. So you'll be getting messages from me, because I'm supposed to practice. Did you get the photo of [my sister's son] looking down the sewer to see if he could see Ninja Turtles?"
drawing of figure skater Alysa Liu, with the outfit she wore to win olympic gold in 2026, filled with joy, skating
bliss
The following text, from a 19th century American newspaper: ANOTHER GIRL IN PANTS. A young girl named Harriet French, belonging in New Bedford, dressed in male attire and company with the notorious Emma Snodgrass, was arrested at the Providence Railroad Depot yesterday, and in the afternoon was taken before the Police Court and convicted as a vagrant. The Court sentenced her to two months imprisonment in the House of Industry, but suspended the issuing of the warrant for a day, to give her a chance to leave the city. The "Snodgrass" was also taken in charge by an officer, yesterday afternoon, vi et armis, and carried to New York, where it is said her father has determined to restrain her from further continuance of her late ridiculous improprieties.
Requesting more information about the notorious Emma Snodgrass
Know just how she feels: The New Novel, 1877, by Winslow Homer. Born on this day in 1836.
