Carlisle Yingst
@ceyingst.bsky.social
researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently in Edinburgh
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Carlisle Yingst
@ceyingst.bsky.social
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ceyingst.org
my institutional email address imploded this morning - before it happened, i tried to broadcast more stable contact details to anyone who might not have them, but if for whatever reason you're here trying to figure out where to reach me, you can find that on my website: ceyingst.org/contact/
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Check out this job posted *three* days ago, with review of applications starting Feb. 9th. If you caught this on day 1, you would have about two weeks to do this AND get three people to write you a letter. I can't help but feel it is designed to weed people out preemptively. Also, no salary listed
January 30, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Check out this job posted *three* days ago, with review of applications starting Feb. 9th. If you caught this on day 1, you would have about two weeks to do this AND get three people to write you a letter. I can't help but feel it is designed to weed people out preemptively. Also, no salary listed
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The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:22 AM
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
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They are executing unarmed people in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors with the full support of the federal government.
January 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM
They are executing unarmed people in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors with the full support of the federal government.
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Come work with me! We have really cool collections that are still growing! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/614... #SpecialCollectionsJobs #RareBookCataloging
Special Collections and Rare Books Cataloging Librarian
The University of Kentucky Libraries is vital to fulfilling the goals of enhancing and expanding the university’s research enterprise, and we are looking for an experienced, collaborative, proactive, ...
ukjobs.uky.edu
January 16, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Come work with me! We have really cool collections that are still growing! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/614... #SpecialCollectionsJobs #RareBookCataloging
dear bluesky, i don't need to go live on twitch directly from bluesky, but i do need to be able to set my profile to private
January 15, 2026 at 8:52 PM
dear bluesky, i don't need to go live on twitch directly from bluesky, but i do need to be able to set my profile to private
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I have a fantastic student who wrote a great paper on knitting patterns from a book/media history/history of documents point of view recently and wants to do more research... this is a bit outside my wheelhouse — friends, do any of you have readings you'd suggest?
January 14, 2026 at 1:59 PM
I have a fantastic student who wrote a great paper on knitting patterns from a book/media history/history of documents point of view recently and wants to do more research... this is a bit outside my wheelhouse — friends, do any of you have readings you'd suggest?
a long-preoccupying question of mine is, why does Shelley have the recovered prophecies very specifically written on "piles of leaves, fragments of bark, and a white filmy substance, resembling the inner part of the green hood which shelters the grain of the unripe Indian corn"?
Good morning, friends.
It is such a complex comfort, discussing Mary Shelley’s deeply political, eerily prescient climate/pandemic apocalypse novel with you at this time. #LastMan200
Today, we’ll be discussing Shelley’s fascinating Introduction.
It is such a complex comfort, discussing Mary Shelley’s deeply political, eerily prescient climate/pandemic apocalypse novel with you at this time. #LastMan200
Today, we’ll be discussing Shelley’s fascinating Introduction.
January 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
a long-preoccupying question of mine is, why does Shelley have the recovered prophecies very specifically written on "piles of leaves, fragments of bark, and a white filmy substance, resembling the inner part of the green hood which shelters the grain of the unripe Indian corn"?
new in: 1957 Riverside Emma, formerly owned by novelist and critic David Lodge (editor of Emma: A Casebook)
January 4, 2026 at 11:27 AM
new in: 1957 Riverside Emma, formerly owned by novelist and critic David Lodge (editor of Emma: A Casebook)
i usually try to start on december 1st the previous year, so that by january 1st i know whether or not i want to continue or not
Don’t worry gang, no one actually starts their New Year’s resolutions on the 1st. And you’d be silly to begin on a Friday, best save it for Monday. But Monday is the 5th so you’ve kind of missed the boat anyway and can safely put it off for next year.
January 1, 2026 at 11:58 AM
i usually try to start on december 1st the previous year, so that by january 1st i know whether or not i want to continue or not
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Did you read a book by a transfemme in a language other than English this year?
Comment them on this post!
The Foreign Language category for the TFR Awards only has two votes total and I need more crowdsourcing.
Comment them on this post!
The Foreign Language category for the TFR Awards only has two votes total and I need more crowdsourcing.
December 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Did you read a book by a transfemme in a language other than English this year?
Comment them on this post!
The Foreign Language category for the TFR Awards only has two votes total and I need more crowdsourcing.
Comment them on this post!
The Foreign Language category for the TFR Awards only has two votes total and I need more crowdsourcing.
best writing method i've found for finishing a piece with a bunch of loose threads:
1. write unfinished tasks on index cards, one per card; 2. draw a random card, work on that task for 15 mins.; 3. discard the card if the task is done, shuffle it back in if its not; 4. draw another card and repeat
1. write unfinished tasks on index cards, one per card; 2. draw a random card, work on that task for 15 mins.; 3. discard the card if the task is done, shuffle it back in if its not; 4. draw another card and repeat
December 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
best writing method i've found for finishing a piece with a bunch of loose threads:
1. write unfinished tasks on index cards, one per card; 2. draw a random card, work on that task for 15 mins.; 3. discard the card if the task is done, shuffle it back in if its not; 4. draw another card and repeat
1. write unfinished tasks on index cards, one per card; 2. draw a random card, work on that task for 15 mins.; 3. discard the card if the task is done, shuffle it back in if its not; 4. draw another card and repeat
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We are excited to announce the 2024 Hennig Cohen Prize winner: Geoffrey R. Kirsch, for his article “Piercing the Corporate Whale: Agents, Principals, and the Personified Impersonal in Moby-Dick,” published in Leviathan, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 55-68. www.melvillesociety.org/news/2024-he...
2024 Hennig Cohen Prize Award — The Melville Society
The Hennig Cohen Prize for 2024 is awarded to Geoffrey R. Kirsch for his essay “Piercing the Corporate Whale: Agents, Principals, and the Personified Impersonal in Moby-Dick ,” published in Leviatha...
www.melvillesociety.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We are excited to announce the 2024 Hennig Cohen Prize winner: Geoffrey R. Kirsch, for his article “Piercing the Corporate Whale: Agents, Principals, and the Personified Impersonal in Moby-Dick,” published in Leviathan, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 55-68. www.melvillesociety.org/news/2024-he...
"These are not, primarily, stories about artificial intelligence. They are stories about institutions optimized for volume."
this is a very good piece
this is a very good piece
Nature would do well to publish more content like this thoughtful piece from @kevinbaker.bsky.social and fewer Buzzfeed listicles gussied up as career advice "Five productivity hacks for using AI in your scientific workflow"
Context Widows
or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
artificialbureaucracy.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"These are not, primarily, stories about artificial intelligence. They are stories about institutions optimized for volume."
this is a very good piece
this is a very good piece
2025 has been a year of picking up or reviving lost hobbies abandoned when i was a kid
December 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
2025 has been a year of picking up or reviving lost hobbies abandoned when i was a kid
check out those adorable rooks
Bookish Holiday Fun and Games For... YOU!
Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling...
What's up first?
CHESS!
December 1 (1/24)
Here's last year's extra-shiny offering:
bsky.app/profile/drka...
Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling...
What's up first?
CHESS!
December 1 (1/24)
Here's last year's extra-shiny offering:
bsky.app/profile/drka...
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
check out those adorable rooks
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Some news: UCLA CMRS is taking over Manuscripta (www.brepols.net/series/mss), and I am going to be the general editor. The new blurb is below.
To wit, the journal is going to now focus on GLOBAL premodern manuscripts. Still, I am going to keep the focus. This is your nerd shit: codicology, single ms
To wit, the journal is going to now focus on GLOBAL premodern manuscripts. Still, I am going to keep the focus. This is your nerd shit: codicology, single ms
December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Some news: UCLA CMRS is taking over Manuscripta (www.brepols.net/series/mss), and I am going to be the general editor. The new blurb is below.
To wit, the journal is going to now focus on GLOBAL premodern manuscripts. Still, I am going to keep the focus. This is your nerd shit: codicology, single ms
To wit, the journal is going to now focus on GLOBAL premodern manuscripts. Still, I am going to keep the focus. This is your nerd shit: codicology, single ms
dear Penguin, hire more proofreaders
December 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
dear Penguin, hire more proofreaders
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🪡🧵: As a part of the Robinson special collections bequest scheme, I’m working on the diaries of Hilda Runciman, one of the first women members of parliament.
In 1938, her husband, Walter, was sent to Prague to help negotiate between the Nazis and the Czech government. She went along. (1/?)
In 1938, her husband, Walter, was sent to Prague to help negotiate between the Nazis and the Czech government. She went along. (1/?)
December 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🪡🧵: As a part of the Robinson special collections bequest scheme, I’m working on the diaries of Hilda Runciman, one of the first women members of parliament.
In 1938, her husband, Walter, was sent to Prague to help negotiate between the Nazis and the Czech government. She went along. (1/?)
In 1938, her husband, Walter, was sent to Prague to help negotiate between the Nazis and the Czech government. She went along. (1/?)
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
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I am grateful for any help to get closer to completeness, even if this is an impossible task. Do please send any and all suggestions!
Good News! The Old Edinburgh Club’s Bibliography site is being updated. It's an online ‘must visit’ to explore Edinburgh’s history, with works from the late 16th century to today. Check it out and tell us if anything else should be included.https://buff.ly/8gAkNs6
OEC Bibliography of Edinburgh History - The Old Edinburgh Club
Explore the OEC Bibliography of Edinburgh History, covering social, cultural, economic and architectural heritage in books, articles and dissertations
oldedinburghclub.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I am grateful for any help to get closer to completeness, even if this is an impossible task. Do please send any and all suggestions!
just a slice* of my reading for the c18 novel section of the Year's Work in English Studies
(*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)
(*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
just a slice* of my reading for the c18 novel section of the Year's Work in English Studies
(*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)
(*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)
i feel it, Francis
![from the Wikipedia for Francis Douce:
In 1811 Douce resigned from the British Museum citing a series of reasons that have become legendary in institutional circles. The letter is preserved in the Bodleian Library.[5] His list of complaints runs as follows:
The Nature of the constitution of the M[useum] altogether objectionable.
The coldness, even danger, in the frequenting the great house in winter.
The vastness of the business remaining to be done & continually flowing in.
The total impossibility of my individual efforts, limited, restrained & controlled as they are, to do any real, or at least much, good.
An apparent, & I believe real, system of espionage throughout the place & certainly a want of due respect towards and confidence in the officers.
The total absence of all aid in my department.
The apartments I reside in are dangerously cold in winter & like an oven in summer. The whole damp, especially the lower room where my books are in great jeopardy & which I never entered, even in summer time, without being sensibly affected with some kind of pain or unpleasant sensation.
The general unwholesomeness of the air from sinks, drains, the ill-contrived & filthy water closet; & most of all the large & excessively cold bed chamber with an opening to the back kitchen & all its damp & cellar like smells.
The want of society with the members, their habits wholly different & their manners far from fascinating & sometimes repulsive.
The want of power to do any good, & the difficulty to make the motley & often trifling committees sensible that they could do any.
The general pride & affected consequence of these committees.
Their assumption of power, that I think not vested in them.
The fiddle faddle requisition of incessant reports, the greatest part of which can inform them of nothing, or, when they do, of what they are generally incapable of understanding or fairly judging of.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hja5k4b3sr74s2yw63uddcfk/bafkreigvm46kmtdzmjupfghy52rrqxuwoniby5e3vji3jztj635itxomhi@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
i feel it, Francis
when does sex/gender a supposedly self-evident, "mere" "historical fact" to be recorded on documents, indeed
I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
when does sex/gender a supposedly self-evident, "mere" "historical fact" to be recorded on documents, indeed
its the dust mites that add the flavor
I'm sorry what? I was born with these bay leaves and so help me god I'll die with these bay leaves
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
its the dust mites that add the flavor