Jason W. Dean
@jasonwdean.com
Librarian + bibliographer.
Associate Librarian, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.
Website: https://www.jasonwdean.com/
Faculty Page: https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/people/jason-dean
Newsletter: https://twohalfsheets.substack.com/
Associate Librarian, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.
Website: https://www.jasonwdean.com/
Faculty Page: https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/people/jason-dean
Newsletter: https://twohalfsheets.substack.com/
Do you enjoy my periodic rantings on Isaac Newton's alchemical citations? If so, take a look at my shiny new article on our improved #TEI encoding system of Newton's citations & what we can learn from some preliminary analyses of the data!
#BookHistory #histsci (tldr in 🧵)
doi.org/10.14434/tc....
#BookHistory #histsci (tldr in 🧵)
doi.org/10.14434/tc....
A Bibliographical Framework for Citation Analysis of Isaac Newton’s Alchemical Manuscripts: Alexandra E. Wingate
| Textual Cultures
doi.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just me hanging out with a windmill Heidelberg, as one does (at an open house at a local letterpress shop)
December 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Just me hanging out with a windmill Heidelberg, as one does (at an open house at a local letterpress shop)
The new issue of Half Sheets is out - really enjoyed @sibyllacumae.bsky.social 's book and utopian thoughts in this issue! Read here, share, and subscribe if you haven't already - it's free! 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks open.substack.com/pub/twohalfs...
On Utopia(s)
or cults by another name?
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The new issue of Half Sheets is out - really enjoyed @sibyllacumae.bsky.social 's book and utopian thoughts in this issue! Read here, share, and subscribe if you haven't already - it's free! 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks open.substack.com/pub/twohalfs...
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I think books are cool
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I think books are cool
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Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities. It opens new frontiers for scientific research and collaboration with the humanities.
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
Seeing Old Science
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities
foundhistory.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
The documentary about Gehry (Sketches of Frank Gehry) has a scene where a colleague presents him with a model and asks him what he thinks. His (paraphrased) answer is still one of my favorites: "Let me look at it for a while and see if it pisses me off."
Gehry transformed modern architecture with exuberant buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. "I've always been for optimism and architecture not being sad," he said. n.pr/44TlUw2
Frank Gehry, whose designs defied gravity and convention, dies at 96
Gehry transformed modern architecture with exuberant buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. "I've always been for optimism and architecture not being sad," he said.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The documentary about Gehry (Sketches of Frank Gehry) has a scene where a colleague presents him with a model and asks him what he thinks. His (paraphrased) answer is still one of my favorites: "Let me look at it for a while and see if it pisses me off."
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Yes the place is a disaster. Senior 'management' again. The failings of institutional management is a constant theme at the moment...
www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...
www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Yes the place is a disaster. Senior 'management' again. The failings of institutional management is a constant theme at the moment...
www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...
www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...
My new(ish) colleague, Kate Stewart is SO GOOD with zines and the Wilcox stuff!
Newly ordered zines - self-published, specialized, mini magazines - for the Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Movements have arrived at Spencer Research Library and will soon be available to encounter among the rare and unique items in Spencer's collections.
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My new(ish) colleague, Kate Stewart is SO GOOD with zines and the Wilcox stuff!
CLARK W GRISWOLD of course
December 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
CLARK W GRISWOLD of course
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Congrats everyone, we are officially at “circle back in the new year” o clock, we have survived the year, good work team
December 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Congrats everyone, we are officially at “circle back in the new year” o clock, we have survived the year, good work team
Why, yes break is treating me well, thank you.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Why, yes break is treating me well, thank you.
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When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, you may be entitled to compensation. Have YOU been involved in a food-related lunar gravitational mishap that wasn’t your fault? You could be in line for a big payout from the estate of Sir Isaac Newton. Call the hotline now.
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, you may be entitled to compensation. Have YOU been involved in a food-related lunar gravitational mishap that wasn’t your fault? You could be in line for a big payout from the estate of Sir Isaac Newton. Call the hotline now.
First session learning about our new ILS, and I am low key feeling like Hank Hill:
a cartoon of a man asking another man what a jay peg is
ALT: a cartoon of a man asking another man what a jay peg is
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
First session learning about our new ILS, and I am low key feeling like Hank Hill:
This is really meaningful for me as we bargain for a fair contract for UAKU! www.kansan.com/news/student...
Student Senate passes resolution in support of UAKU's contract negotiations
The University of Kansas Student Senate passed a resolution that calls on Chancellor Doug Girod to end delays in the bargaining process.
www.kansan.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is really meaningful for me as we bargain for a fair contract for UAKU! www.kansan.com/news/student...
LOVING THIS THREAD
With the Boston International Antiquarian book fair fully in the rear view, here are two early books BPL acquired over the course of that week. We of course added a bunch of other amazing stuff to the collections as well, which I'll detail a bit later . . . 1/7
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
LOVING THIS THREAD
Ok, gang, my former priest, Bertie Pearson is DROPPING THE JAMS in this collab video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tlv...
Yoyaku Instore Session with Bertie
YouTube video by Yoyaku Record Store
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ok, gang, my former priest, Bertie Pearson is DROPPING THE JAMS in this collab video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tlv...
Working on a some fun stuff for a post next week with @needrain.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Working on a some fun stuff for a post next week with @needrain.bsky.social
Can confirm - this is Very Good to listen to.
✨Introducing the world premiere recording of seven choral works from the Arundel Choirbook, one of the most significant collections of English polyphony from the early 16th century.
The full album will be available 28th November but you can listen to a single now on Spotify ✨
The full album will be available 28th November but you can listen to a single now on Spotify ✨
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Can confirm - this is Very Good to listen to.
Friends, @sibyllacumae.bsky.social just sent the latest issue of Two Half Sheets, our newsletter. This issue: an interview with Falk Eisermann, incunable expert and leader of the GW. Enjoy his kind, thoughtful interview! 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks open.substack.com/pub/twohalfs...
On Incunables 1.5: Falk Eisermann
For our second interview issue, we're joined by Falk Eisermann! He talks incunables, the GW, and shares some lovely books too.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Friends, @sibyllacumae.bsky.social just sent the latest issue of Two Half Sheets, our newsletter. This issue: an interview with Falk Eisermann, incunable expert and leader of the GW. Enjoy his kind, thoughtful interview! 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks open.substack.com/pub/twohalfs...
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It’s never too early to see Angela Merkel ironing her Christmas gift wrap.
www.granger.com/0188584-ange...
www.granger.com/0188584-ange...
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
It’s never too early to see Angela Merkel ironing her Christmas gift wrap.
www.granger.com/0188584-ange...
www.granger.com/0188584-ange...
So pleased that Paul Needham's recent talk @illinoisrbml.bsky.social is up! Interested to learn more about the progression of his work on the Catholicon... 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYa5...
Paul Needham talk, 10/23/25 - "Gutenberg's Second Invention: The 1460 Mainz Catholicon"
YouTube video by IllinoisRBML
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November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
So pleased that Paul Needham's recent talk @illinoisrbml.bsky.social is up! Interested to learn more about the progression of his work on the Catholicon... 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYa5...
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I love books and I love looking at them with people. That’s the skeet.
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I love books and I love looking at them with people. That’s the skeet.
😁 goes the elephant
Time for another ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 12th century, Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.4.26, f. 7v
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
😁 goes the elephant
Y'all, this new Bach recording from Chris Thile is really a gift. Amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dair...
Chris Thile - Bach: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: V. Ciaccona (Official Audio)
YouTube video by ChrisThile
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November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Y'all, this new Bach recording from Chris Thile is really a gift. Amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dair...