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Laura Estill
@lauraestill.bsky.social
Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
Come be my Dean at @stfx-university.bsky.social in Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Job posting: Dean of Arts, StFX

www.kbrs.ca/Career/17600...
Dean of Arts
Dean of Arts, St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, Nova Scotia
www.kbrs.ca
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Out now!

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself

And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...

Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Hey Antigonish! There's a blood donor clinic at St Ninian's! It's on this afternoon, tomorrow, and Thursday and there are still lots of open spots.

Pssst, students: free snacks

Make an appointment here www.blood.ca/en/blood/don...
Donating blood or plasma for the first time
Donating blood or plasma is a real action that has a big, positive effect for people across Canada who need your help, and for you.
www.blood.ca
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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A good mail day! I loved collaborating with @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social on this chapter. We even snuck a few photos in there. So many great contributors—thank you to editors Constance Crompton, @lauraestill.bsky.social, Richard J. Lane, & @raysiemens.bsky.social for making it possible!
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Predatory journal laugh: I wrote about a 17th-century manuscript play fragment I called "The Dismal Tempest" and was invited to submit to "The Journal of Atmospheric Science Research"

For more on the play fragment: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Me, scanning something that the printer will email to me

Me, thirty seconds later: I wonder who emailed me?
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Out now: "Digital Text Analysis and Early Shakespeare Bibliography: Using Voyant Tools with Bad OCR"
www.digitalstudies.org/article/id/1...
Digital Text Analysis and Early Shakespeare Bibliography: Using Voyant Tools with Bad OCR
Enumerative bibliographies are lists of scholarship that capture the state of a field. This article first evaluates digital texts of one such bibliography, Franz Thimm’s Shakspeariana from 1564–1864 (...
www.digitalstudies.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Check out the @proverbialculture.bsky.social website!
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk

Coming up next week (10 Nov): Materials workshop, Univeristy of Leeds
Shakespeare & Early Modern Proverbial Culture
The site offers information about the Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture research project, building an international network to reassess the forms, functions, and dissemination of earl…
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.

So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!

bit.ly/ach-anthology
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Join us for an after-show talk about Zomblet!

With
Dan Bray, playwright
Prof. @wrightkailin.bsky.social , Canadian Theatre specialist
Prof. @crushton.bsky.social , zombie specialist
and Prof. @lauraestill.bsky.social , Shakespeare scholar

Weds 29 Oct
Show starts at 7:30 and runs ~90 mins
Theatre Antigonish knows how to celebrate Hallowe'en!
Zomblet (a Zombie Hamlet!) by Dan Bray
28 October - 1 November, 2025

Tickets: www.festivalantigonish.ca
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Storm on an antique chair my Grandma refinished
October 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The Newfoundland and Labrador public libraries continue to make the absolute best free pins that you can just have if you go to borrow a book
October 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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RBS is happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for:

𝗥𝗕𝗦-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 (apply by 𝟮 𝗡𝗼𝘃.)

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 (apply by 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰.)

Details: rarebookschool.org/2025-scholarships-fellowships/
September 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy

www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...
011345 - University of Galway
www.universityofgalway.ie
September 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Not even close, Novanet...or maybe super close?
September 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Some gorgeous illustrations of Ukrainian Shakespeare by Sergia Yakutovych

(volume here: chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Will..., warning: dubious site)

L: 1 Henry VI; R 3 Henry VI
September 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Would you like to be on the Digital Humanities Course Registry? Map here: dhcr.clarin-dariah.eu

Canadian programs/institutions: contact @lauraestill.bsky.social

International: contact your national moderator: dhcr.clarin-dariah.eu/national-mod...
September 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I'm fairly certain that the thermostat controls in my office are part of some psychological experiment. (And how did it pass research ethics?)
August 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Registration is open for SAA 2026!
@saaupdates.bsky.social

"From Commonplaces to Databases: The Social Memory of Proverbs" is a virtual session w/ asynchronous components leading up to a virtual meeting sometime during the conference (1-4 April)

shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti...
August 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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New moon (of Uranus) just dropped, and I have a very important question: given that the naming scheme for Uranian moons is (mostly) Shakespeare characters, what's the funniest possible Shakespeare character name for this new moon? science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2...
New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA’s Webb Telescope - NASA Science
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus,
science.nasa.gov
August 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
looking for some fun literary datasets for the upcoming semester? check these out!
Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here.

We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org

Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!
August 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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My niece has finished her Duolingo Dutch lessons, but she'd like to keep praciticing. Does anyone know of a similar series on another app or podcast on practicing Dutch for Anglophones?
August 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My kid's the one at baseball yelling "a hit! a palpable hit!"
August 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Introducing: Shakespeare & Early Modern Proverbial Culture. We explore how proverbs of EM England shaped social values, media, & playwriting—including Shakespeare’s works. Our team is building new frameworks, tools, & resources to better understand how proverbs functioned then & endure still today
Shakespeare & Early Modern Proverbial Culture
The site offers information about the Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture research project, building an international network to reassess the forms, functions, and dissemination of earl…
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM