Meaghan Brown
@meaghanbrown.bsky.social
Biblionerd; interested in what books do to people, what people do to books. Early modernist by training, chaser of waterfalls and nurturer of plants by passion. All opinions my own and quite capricious.
Finally getting around to decorating my new office
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Finally getting around to decorating my new office
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Work with us at UVA School of Data Science!
@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)
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@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
Join Our Team — School of Data Science
We are hiring faculty and staff to build a forward-thinking community with a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas centered around data science.
datascience.virginia.edu
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Work with us at UVA School of Data Science!
@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
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Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
About | Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
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Just two more weeks to apply for this sweet job 🗃️
Once again, please tell your friends who want to study the modern US but not live in it about this job
Applications close on Oct 27
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Applications close on Oct 27
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
www.cam.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Just two more weeks to apply for this sweet job 🗃️
Cleaning up old scratch pads in prep for my move, and I come across one that says "API is currently in alpha. ... Ability to save search, iterative... next six months is prioritizing user input...." and I can think of at least three different projects this could be. lol.
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Cleaning up old scratch pads in prep for my move, and I come across one that says "API is currently in alpha. ... Ability to save search, iterative... next six months is prioritizing user input...." and I can think of at least three different projects this could be. lol.
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
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Happy National Coffee Day. A morning without coffee is like a striking analogy I’ll probably come up with after I’ve had more coffee.
September 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Happy National Coffee Day. A morning without coffee is like a striking analogy I’ll probably come up with after I’ve had more coffee.
Last night, while playing games w/ friends, one casually asked, "hey, is your cat supposed to be wearing something around his middle?" No. No he was not. It was the twisted paper handle of a paper shopping bag he had destroyed by running through it and getting stuck. Orange cat in a tuxedo cat body.
September 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Last night, while playing games w/ friends, one casually asked, "hey, is your cat supposed to be wearing something around his middle?" No. No he was not. It was the twisted paper handle of a paper shopping bag he had destroyed by running through it and getting stuck. Orange cat in a tuxedo cat body.
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🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜
Manuscript Data Curation Fellow
University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜
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Do any lovely medievalists know of good medieval descriptions of hangovers? Thank you!
September 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Do any lovely medievalists know of good medieval descriptions of hangovers? Thank you!
Love when I'm spraying down a mirror to clean it and my cat just looks horrified, as if she's wondering what my reflection did to earn the spray bottle.
August 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Love when I'm spraying down a mirror to clean it and my cat just looks horrified, as if she's wondering what my reflection did to earn the spray bottle.
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Romona Youngquist (Californian, born 1960)
"Farm Flowers", 2015.
Oil on Panel,
"Farm Flowers", 2015.
Oil on Panel,
August 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Romona Youngquist (Californian, born 1960)
"Farm Flowers", 2015.
Oil on Panel,
"Farm Flowers", 2015.
Oil on Panel,
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📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
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The Curran Fellowships – RSVP
The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...
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August 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
Hey friends and friends of friends who have done technical writing: I'm widening my career perspectives and would like to hear more about what you do. Could we chat? Message me! I want to hear about your work life.
August 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Hey friends and friends of friends who have done technical writing: I'm widening my career perspectives and would like to hear more about what you do. Could we chat? Message me! I want to hear about your work life.
lol: I've witnessed many of these crimes, except I don't have kids and I don't buy from any vendors on the Mall. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cri...
Crimes I Have Witnessed as a Resident of Washington, DC
“President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city’s police depar...
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August 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
lol: I've witnessed many of these crimes, except I don't have kids and I don't buy from any vendors on the Mall. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cri...
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Oh so it does have phd level intelligence
Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."
www.businessinsider.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Oh so it does have phd level intelligence
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We're looking for an Associate Professor/Professor who can
contribute to research and teaching at Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
This is a permanent role with a closing date of 21 September.
Apply now: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...
contribute to research and teaching at Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
This is a permanent role with a closing date of 21 September.
Apply now: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...
August 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We're looking for an Associate Professor/Professor who can
contribute to research and teaching at Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
This is a permanent role with a closing date of 21 September.
Apply now: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...
contribute to research and teaching at Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
This is a permanent role with a closing date of 21 September.
Apply now: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...
I'm going to take a wild guess that I probably know the people at Penn involved in this: careers.insidehighered.com/job/3382142/... -- can someone please explain? This IS book history and not material science, right? The complete lack of details in this job ad leaves so many questions.
Papermaking and Printing Consultant - Philadelphia, PA job with University of Pennsylvania | 3382142
University OverviewThe University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, an
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August 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm going to take a wild guess that I probably know the people at Penn involved in this: careers.insidehighered.com/job/3382142/... -- can someone please explain? This IS book history and not material science, right? The complete lack of details in this job ad leaves so many questions.
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Linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle who is inspired by her local countryside #womensart
#summer #sunday
#summer #sunday
July 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle who is inspired by her local countryside #womensart
#summer #sunday
#summer #sunday
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Any archivists impacted by government agency cuts who want to share their story: 👇👇
We seek to gather and amplify the stories of archives and archival workers on our blog to spread the word on how these actions are impacting our field.
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Impacts of Trump Admin – Archival Workers Emergency Fund
Posts about Impacts of Trump Admin written by Lydia Tang
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July 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Any archivists impacted by government agency cuts who want to share their story: 👇👇
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Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions — theonion.com/historians-p...
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems at home and abroad, leading historians courteously reminded the nation Thursday that when making tough choices, it never hurts to ...
theonion.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions — theonion.com/historians-p...
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In 2022, we received an NEH grant to advance our mission to amplify and assist scholars working to digitally recover neglected texts by women writers of the Americas. What did we do with it? A lot! Read all about the Recovery Hub's work in our NEW white paper: recoveryhub.siue.edu/wp-content/u...
July 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
In 2022, we received an NEH grant to advance our mission to amplify and assist scholars working to digitally recover neglected texts by women writers of the Americas. What did we do with it? A lot! Read all about the Recovery Hub's work in our NEW white paper: recoveryhub.siue.edu/wp-content/u...
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Dearest humanities friends, I’m sending up the humanities bat signal. Heard a NEH colleague that orgs aren’t submitting requests for close out costs on terminated awards—which they are entitled to!! Here’s what to do: 1/
June 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Dearest humanities friends, I’m sending up the humanities bat signal. Heard a NEH colleague that orgs aren’t submitting requests for close out costs on terminated awards—which they are entitled to!! Here’s what to do: 1/
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"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
June 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
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The Little Engine That Might Later Today We'll Have To Wait And See
June 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Little Engine That Might Later Today We'll Have To Wait And See