Dr. Katie Sagal
@aksagal.bsky.social
Associate Professor; 18thc Brit Lit & Science. Author of Botanical Entanglements (UVA Press). New project on marine ecology in the works. Super into plants, running, art museums, libraries, cheese, pandas, and video games.
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Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
muse.jhu.edu
I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
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Are you a scholar in Games Studies, Museum Studies and/or Digital Humanities and want to help NMS develop research in Collecting Video Game Heritage? Come and apply to be an IASH Fellow at the University of Edinburgh!
Applications
Opens - Dec 25
Closes - April 26
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
Applications
Opens - Dec 25
Closes - April 26
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship | IASH
www.iash.ed.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Are you a scholar in Games Studies, Museum Studies and/or Digital Humanities and want to help NMS develop research in Collecting Video Game Heritage? Come and apply to be an IASH Fellow at the University of Edinburgh!
Applications
Opens - Dec 25
Closes - April 26
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
Applications
Opens - Dec 25
Closes - April 26
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
"Much like the nascent fascism that it has quickly grown to be the representative aesthetic of, it feels like...the goal is to bombard you with its horrors & its excesses so frequently that you become numb to it." aftermath.site/the-alters-a...
I'm Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn't Have AI Crap In It - Aftermath
It sucks that players are having to scour every asset and line of dialogue
aftermath.site
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Much like the nascent fascism that it has quickly grown to be the representative aesthetic of, it feels like...the goal is to bombard you with its horrors & its excesses so frequently that you become numb to it." aftermath.site/the-alters-a...
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Steak ’N Shake Employee Screams After Nude RFK Jr. Climbs Out Of Beef Tallow Fryer
Steak ’N Shake Employee Screams After Nude RFK Jr. Climbs Out Of Beef Tallow Fryer
SOUTH BEND, IN—Expressing horror at the sight of the health secretary’s bare torso emerging from the vat of grease, a local Steak ’n Shake employee reportedly screamed Friday after a nude Robert F. Ke...
theonion.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Steak ’N Shake Employee Screams After Nude RFK Jr. Climbs Out Of Beef Tallow Fryer
McSweeney's rarely misses: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
McSweeney's rarely misses: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
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Shore-ly you didn't miss our most recent Linnean Lens talk?
It's time to shell-ebrate as it's now available to watch on our YouTube channel-three guesses what it's about!
Join Job Ablett as he uses his 22+ years of experience to show and tell about the amazing specimens in the Linnean's collection
It's time to shell-ebrate as it's now available to watch on our YouTube channel-three guesses what it's about!
Join Job Ablett as he uses his 22+ years of experience to show and tell about the amazing specimens in the Linnean's collection
Linnean Lens | Treasures of the Linnean Shells collection
Linnaeus (1707-1778) described and named over 800 molluscan species, including many of the most familiar and widespread species. Through his many correspondents, he obtained shells from collectors,…
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Shore-ly you didn't miss our most recent Linnean Lens talk?
It's time to shell-ebrate as it's now available to watch on our YouTube channel-three guesses what it's about!
Join Job Ablett as he uses his 22+ years of experience to show and tell about the amazing specimens in the Linnean's collection
It's time to shell-ebrate as it's now available to watch on our YouTube channel-three guesses what it's about!
Join Job Ablett as he uses his 22+ years of experience to show and tell about the amazing specimens in the Linnean's collection
Reposted by Dr. Katie Sagal
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Eliza Haywood 😁
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Eliza Haywood 😁
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I'm talking about Anna Laetitia Barbauld again tomorrow! 🗣️🗣️🗣️York Georgian Society lecture: more details here: www.georgianyork.org.uk/events-1/ann...
Anna Laetita Barbauld, eighteenth-century polymath, two-hundred years on | My Site
www.georgianyork.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I'm talking about Anna Laetitia Barbauld again tomorrow! 🗣️🗣️🗣️York Georgian Society lecture: more details here: www.georgianyork.org.uk/events-1/ann...
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It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
Reposted by Dr. Katie Sagal
speaking of sci-fi, also very intrigued by WHAT WE ARE SEEKING by Cameron Reed- queer scifi marketed as for fans of Ann Leckie. seeing really good reviews and buzz. #ewgc
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
speaking of sci-fi, also very intrigued by WHAT WE ARE SEEKING by Cameron Reed- queer scifi marketed as for fans of Ann Leckie. seeing really good reviews and buzz. #ewgc
Reposted by Dr. Katie Sagal
The White House looks like a Hobby Lobby threw up on it
November 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The White House looks like a Hobby Lobby threw up on it
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Do you appreciate that we provide space for public history on topics underserved topics in Canadian and environmental history?
Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Do you appreciate that we provide space for public history on topics underserved topics in Canadian and environmental history?
Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
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Too many apps! Too many damn apps
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Too many apps! Too many damn apps
A friendly reminder that our cfp for "Naming & Classifying in the Eighteenth Century" has an extended deadline to Nov. 30. Send us your brilliant ideas! Please share, too. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
docs.google.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A friendly reminder that our cfp for "Naming & Classifying in the Eighteenth Century" has an extended deadline to Nov. 30. Send us your brilliant ideas! Please share, too. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reposted by Dr. Katie Sagal
Great Barrier Reef Anemones (1893) by William Saville-Kent, from The Great Barrier Reef of Australia.
Source: RawPixel / Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cb31c75a-4597-4175-aaa3-bb1e925bb3e0
#biodiversity #fish #invertebrates #australia #art #publicdomain
Source: RawPixel / Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cb31c75a-4597-4175-aaa3-bb1e925bb3e0
#biodiversity #fish #invertebrates #australia #art #publicdomain
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Great Barrier Reef Anemones (1893) by William Saville-Kent, from The Great Barrier Reef of Australia.
Source: RawPixel / Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cb31c75a-4597-4175-aaa3-bb1e925bb3e0
#biodiversity #fish #invertebrates #australia #art #publicdomain
Source: RawPixel / Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cb31c75a-4597-4175-aaa3-bb1e925bb3e0
#biodiversity #fish #invertebrates #australia #art #publicdomain
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hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
muse.jhu.edu
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Reposted by Dr. Katie Sagal
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
Reposted by Dr. Katie Sagal
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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Check out this advertised professorship in Bern with my colleagues at the Institute of Plant Sciences! Please share widely to reach candidates from across the world and beyond our local academic bubbles. 🫧
#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Check out this advertised professorship in Bern with my colleagues at the Institute of Plant Sciences! Please share widely to reach candidates from across the world and beyond our local academic bubbles. 🫧
#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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for my seminar "Cultures of the Environment" I am working towards student spending a session mapping an #environment of their choice, as a way to kickstart discussion about selective #representation and #mapping as #environing. Does anybody have suggestions for a reading to assign to students […]
Original post on hcommons.social
hcommons.social
November 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
for my seminar "Cultures of the Environment" I am working towards student spending a session mapping an #environment of their choice, as a way to kickstart discussion about selective #representation and #mapping as #environing. Does anybody have suggestions for a reading to assign to students […]
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One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
November 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
Reposted by Dr. Katie Sagal
The world's 10 richest people (nearly all from the U.S.) are collectively $500 billion richer this year thanks to growth in stocks tied to AI.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The world's 10 richest people (nearly all from the U.S.) are collectively $500 billion richer this year thanks to growth in stocks tied to AI.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.