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Laura Estill
@lauraestill.bsky.social
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Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
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lauraestill.bsky.social
Tell me your university acts without consulting faculty without telling me your university acts without consulting faculty
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d
Nothing to see here other than a university telling its research community that AI can appropriately be used to "generate first drafts."

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How AI Can Support Your Research Efficiency Automate routine or repetitive tasks, freeing up more time for experiments, analysis, and discovery. Creativity Spark new ideas, explore alternative approaches, or generate first drafts to move past the “blank page.” Clarity Translate complex data, technical language, or lengthy findings into clear summaries for colleagues, partners, or broader audiences. Organization Turn research notes, articles, or meeting discussions into structured summaries, action items, or literature maps. Accessibility Develop research outputs that are more inclusive and easier to share with collaborators, students, and the wider UNB community.
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
lauraestill.bsky.social
TIL about Apache Anubis, which stops AI traffic from overwhelming websites

I love the idea that Anubis, the ancient Egyptian psychopomp that guided souls to the afterlife, says "of course I'll usher the dead but I draw the line at AI"
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
lauraestill.bsky.social
This is an ACENET appreciation post
February 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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juliamwright.bsky.social
Townhall at the Halifax Central Library, 23 February (Monday), starting at 6:30 pm: “Protecting Post-Secondary Education in Nova Scotia.” #nspse #nspoli #cdnpse
Poster for the event with the information in the post plus an image of the provincial flag and the notice “hosted by the Coalition for Collegial Governance” and the URL cocogov.org/blog/townhall
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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halperta.bsky.social
Hi! Our flow chart for deciding if and when to use AI takes this into account. Oops!

sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...
February 10, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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nturavrgcistory.bsky.social
If you think this might apply to you but don't know how to find the paper trail, get in touch. I am a skilled archival researcher and I can be hired to find all the details you need.
assignedmale.bsky.social Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 5d
I'm not saying that Canada is perfect, I'm saying that the bar is pretty low right now.
Four frame comic. First frame shows a Canadian flag. Text reads : the new canadian citizenship policy, which was enacted in December 2025, restores citizenship by descent, for ancestors as far as you can prove. 2nd frame shows a locomotive. Text reads : that means that if one of your grandparents, great-grand- parents or even farther was demonstrably born in Canada, you don't even need to apply for citizenship - you are retro- actively granted it. Third frame shows an old dusty register book. Text reads : the process involves linking your CanadA-born ancestor to yourself by digging up a paper trail of birth or wedding certificates, proof of immigration or adoption, etc. thanks to Canadian archive- keeping traditions, this is possible by reaching out to towns, parishes, national archives*... Fourth frame shows old factory chimneys. Text reads : between 1840 and 1930, 925 000 French-Canadians fled persecution and economic oppression by moving to the usa. today, their descendants represent around ten million people, or 3% of the U.s. population. if it's time for you to come back, we haven't forgotten about you.
February 10, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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kathleenogradyca.bsky.social
Is there a reputable Canadian company (or non-American) like MailChimp or Constant Contact that manages the distribution of large batches of marketing emails?

#Canada #Canadianproducts
February 10, 2026 at 11:58 AM
lauraestill.bsky.social
A former student made and printed this meme for me after coming to a talk I gave this week

I'm cackling--it's perfect!

(Shared with permission)
An image of a hand holding a yellow no name brand bag of bay leafs (also labelled feuilles de laurier) Caption at the bottom: "me when I'm 'bout to become the poet laureate"
February 10, 2026 at 12:18 PM
lauraestill.bsky.social
Had a great social writing group this morning. It's amazing how much more productive I am when I turn off my email.
February 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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novascotiamuseum.bsky.social
We are accepting applications for Nova Scotia Museum Research Grants. Completed application forms must be received by no later than 5 pm AST, March 13, 2026.

Visit: museum.novascotia.ca/grants

#novascotia
Graphic with the text Nova Scotia Museum Research Grants. Now Open https://museum.novascotia.ca/grants
February 9, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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scottbot.bsky.social
"the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants."

1965!!!
scottbot.bsky.social scott b. weingart @scottbot.bsky.social · 9d
"Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants."
scottbot.bsky.social scott b. weingart @scottbot.bsky.social · 9d
1965 founding legalistion of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Title 20 U.S. Code. Chapter 26. Section 951.

"The Congress finds and declares the following:

The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States."

(cont'd.)
February 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM
lauraestill.bsky.social
The $400K cost does not take into account the costs that the universities are footing to create thousands of pages of paperwork (hours and hours of labour from faculty, staff, and executives)

They are asking for so much paperwork that they will likely not even be able to read it all
alexusherhesa.bsky.social Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 9d
NS government hired a US company (Huron) to help do a review of university programs. Cost 400K.

It did not bother to check whether Huron's methodology was compatible with local data collection practices (it wasn't).

Now Huron is trying to get unis to pay them to improve their data collection.
February 5, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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18thcenturysam.bsky.social
Gawking at this 1611 alphabet
A printed alphabet of Roman letters, with their proportions in geometric charts.
February 5, 2026 at 5:29 PM
lauraestill.bsky.social
The @rsaorg.bsky.social Days of Digital Learning have a fantastic line-up!

Online workshops for early modernists seeking digital skills
www.rsa.org/general/cust...
RSA Days of Digital Learning - Renaissance Society of America
www.rsa.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:06 PM
lauraestill.bsky.social
AI-hallucinated citations clogging up our mechanisms for search and retrieval
February 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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stfxenglish.bsky.social
This Thursday! Come hear @lauraestill.bsky.social give the Humanities Colloquium Lecture at @stfx-university.bsky.social on "Words of Wisdom: Sententiae and Proverbs in Early Modern English Plays"

Murder! Shakespeare! Oedipus! Typography! This lecture has it all.

www.stfx.ca/events/human...
poster for talk: "Words of Wisdom: Sententiae and Proverbs in Early Modern English Plays" @stfx-university Humanities Colloquium Lecture by Dr. Laura Estill Thursday 5 February 2026 at 7:30pm MULH 3034, open to all. Image: sig. C2 from Q1 Hamlet with Corambis speech with commonplace markers in print echoed by added manuscript commonplace markers
February 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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themedievaldrk.bsky.social
So even if this is a temp glitch due to a botched update rollout (likely I think) it's worth flagging it--Big G has a history of dropping projects (READER) and GBooks seemed too big to drop but in the current landscape idk if we can assume that anymore.
vicmanch.bsky.social Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 11d
@thomasgermain.bsky.social Are you aware that Google Books has effectively stopped working - the material is still there, but all search functions no longer seem to work, making fresh access impossible. Can't find any reportage on this but it seems a major story with huge implications..
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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heatherleslie.bsky.social
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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sarahebull.bsky.social
Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).
January 28, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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paulbarrett1.bsky.social
Guelph's School of Theatre, English, & Creative Writing is hiring! We're looking for (quite) a range of talents, including specialization in any of: Canadian, speculative fiction, poetry, decolonial studies, queer studies... Applications due March 1!
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
Assistant Professor in English
Assistant Professor in English
careers.uoguelph.ca
January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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stfx-dh.bsky.social
Registration now open for DHSI-East!

When: Tues 5 May-Fri 8 May 2026
Where: @stfx-university.bsky.social in Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Link with more info & to register: www.stfx.ca/research/dig...

Grants available!

A short thread w details on workshops and keynote follows
DHSI-East logo: a line drawing of a computer screen with a lobster in pointy brackets (image credit: Hex Images) URL: dhsi-east.stfx.ca
January 8, 2026 at 9:18 PM
lauraestill.bsky.social
Coming soon!

"Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" a minigraph from the Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text series (ed @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social ) by me, Heidi Craig, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd

ANNNNND it will be open access!
Book cover with a row of old books about Shakespeare at the bottom Black background and white text: Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography Heidi Craig, Laura Estill, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd
January 14, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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saaupdates.bsky.social
We’re so excited for our hybrid conference in Denver - have you registered for #Shax2026 yet?

Linktr.ee/saaupdates
Image of dark blue text on a light blue background. The text reads “register today for hashtag shax 2026. See the January member bulletin for details on this year’s conference in Denver. More information at Shakespeare association dot org.” Above the text, colorful confetti is bursting from the top corners of the image. End ID.
January 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
lauraestill.bsky.social
An inlet of the Antigonish landing --an estuary of the harbour
The Antigonish landing at fall: tall grasses in the foreground, evergreens in the background
January 12, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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epyllia.bsky.social
Ready to go for the #MLA26 Session 1 tomorrow morning! I'm part of the DHSI workshop panel, talking about our course for June 2026 Week 2, + WHY we care about processing TEI / XML in the age of AI, too. @teiconsortium.bsky.social @digitalhumanities.bsky.social
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DHSI Processing XML Feature
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January 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM