Julie Sorge Way
@sorgeway.bsky.social
PhD, teacher, researcher in DH & 19c women’s periodicals, general lover of in-between spaces 💙
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Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.
tomlehrersongs.com
tomlehrersongs.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.
tomlehrersongs.com
tomlehrersongs.com
Since the index expansion was supported by a Patrick Leary Field Development Grant in 2024 it was especially heartwarming to share it in person at #RSVP2025 among many colleagues whose work helped me in development, including @patrickleary.bsky.social himself of course. Great conference all around!
July 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Since the index expansion was supported by a Patrick Leary Field Development Grant in 2024 it was especially heartwarming to share it in person at #RSVP2025 among many colleagues whose work helped me in development, including @patrickleary.bsky.social himself of course. Great conference all around!
Of use to those working on 1852-1879, it includes a chronological index of open-access copies of the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, a widely read (affordable) secular early women’s monthly miscellany. jmsw.github.io/edm-index/
Now updated with a searchable spreadsheet of contents by category!
Now updated with a searchable spreadsheet of contents by category!
The EDM - Open Access Chronological and Searchable Indexes, 1852-1879
jmsw.github.io
July 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Of use to those working on 1852-1879, it includes a chronological index of open-access copies of the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, a widely read (affordable) secular early women’s monthly miscellany. jmsw.github.io/edm-index/
Now updated with a searchable spreadsheet of contents by category!
Now updated with a searchable spreadsheet of contents by category!
The project as a whole is available open access via @olddominionu.bsky.social repository at digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds... and there are some OER teaching tools and github data sets shared in the appendixes.
Inviting Submission: Isabella Beeton at the <i>Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine</i>, 1856-1865
Isabella Beeton, creator of the iconic domestic manual Beeton’s Book of Household Management, died suddenly in 1865, just before her twenty-ninth birthday. Her popular book survived to codify stereoty...
digitalcommons.odu.edu
July 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The project as a whole is available open access via @olddominionu.bsky.social repository at digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds... and there are some OER teaching tools and github data sets shared in the appendixes.
Grateful to share that my PhD dissertation project was awarded the 2025 Sally Mitchell Prize from @rs4vp.org Just back from their conference in Chicago, where I learned so much, presented some of my own work, and most magically, met several of the folks whose work has influenced me most-a real joy.
The Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize – RSVP
The Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize is awarded annually to the best Ph.D. dissertation, defended in the previous calendar year, that explores the British periodical press of the long nineteenth cent...
rs4vp.org
July 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Grateful to share that my PhD dissertation project was awarded the 2025 Sally Mitchell Prize from @rs4vp.org Just back from their conference in Chicago, where I learned so much, presented some of my own work, and most magically, met several of the folks whose work has influenced me most-a real joy.
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"So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.
[...]
It means once in a lifetime
That justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme."
—Seamus Heaney
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.
[...]
It means once in a lifetime
That justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme."
—Seamus Heaney
March 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.
[...]
It means once in a lifetime
That justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme."
—Seamus Heaney
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.
[...]
It means once in a lifetime
That justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme."
—Seamus Heaney
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Like other forms of care work, library workers are always asked to extend care (through services, programs, collections, and so much more) to their communities without ever receiving care themselves. Material support is necessary to make this work sustainable in any way.
Librarians aren't going to save us. Librarians aren't superheroes.
They're just people trying to keep largely underfunded and overwhelmed public services going.
Praise is nice; realistic expectations are better; material support is best.
They're just people trying to keep largely underfunded and overwhelmed public services going.
Praise is nice; realistic expectations are better; material support is best.
February 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Like other forms of care work, library workers are always asked to extend care (through services, programs, collections, and so much more) to their communities without ever receiving care themselves. Material support is necessary to make this work sustainable in any way.
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The (U.K.) National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations 📜
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...
The National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations - The National Archives
Today The National Archives has launched new guidance for archivists about rapid response collecting. It’s designed to support archivists collecting material in situations like the aftermath of accide...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
February 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The (U.K.) National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations 📜
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...
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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
January 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
Absolutely in for this 100%. Joy matters and always has.
1 like = 1 thing I love. And I’d love to hear yours, too.
1 like = 1 thing I love. And I’d love to hear yours, too.
Ok me too. Adding positivity and gratitude right now seems worthwhile. [Wow that is not the sort of thing I normally say or write.]
I will talk about nice things and invite everyone else to, too.
1 like = 1 thing I love (or otherwise feel very positively about).
I will talk about nice things and invite everyone else to, too.
1 like = 1 thing I love (or otherwise feel very positively about).
[Happy to take part]
This is a pleasing meme. I will talk about nice things and I'd love to hear about yours.
1 like = 1 thing I love
This is a pleasing meme. I will talk about nice things and I'd love to hear about yours.
1 like = 1 thing I love
January 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Absolutely in for this 100%. Joy matters and always has.
1 like = 1 thing I love. And I’d love to hear yours, too.
1 like = 1 thing I love. And I’d love to hear yours, too.
Favorite audiobooks for falling asleep? Narrator recs also welcome! I’ve relistened to Lucy Worsley’s Jane Austen at Home about 8 times now. Before that was Juliet Stevenson reading Middlemarch, also several times over!
January 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Favorite audiobooks for falling asleep? Narrator recs also welcome! I’ve relistened to Lucy Worsley’s Jane Austen at Home about 8 times now. Before that was Juliet Stevenson reading Middlemarch, also several times over!
Archival joy moment of the day - the linen-embroidered autographs of some 1897 Colorado college students.
January 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Archival joy moment of the day - the linen-embroidered autographs of some 1897 Colorado college students.
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I can't think of a better way to articulate how to approach the present moment than this: "Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality--whatever it may be." --Hannah Arendt, 1950
January 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I can't think of a better way to articulate how to approach the present moment than this: "Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality--whatever it may be." --Hannah Arendt, 1950
Clearing out a drawer today I ran across this ancient iphone 3gs I last used in 2012. Have to admit that curved back and small size felt great compared to my current phone somehow.
January 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Clearing out a drawer today I ran across this ancient iphone 3gs I last used in 2012. Have to admit that curved back and small size felt great compared to my current phone somehow.
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Mister Rogers never misses
January 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Mister Rogers never misses
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I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.
January 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.
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For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
January 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
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I love the wild randomness of public domain day. This is still not a pipe but you can reproduce it like crazy now.
January 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I love the wild randomness of public domain day. This is still not a pipe but you can reproduce it like crazy now.
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You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.
December 31, 2024 at 4:54 AM
You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.
There it is again that best worst feeling: closing up shop on a class full of amazing students that really put in the work and care. I’ll remember this semester forever, yes partly for the election, but mostly for them.
December 6, 2024 at 4:20 AM
There it is again that best worst feeling: closing up shop on a class full of amazing students that really put in the work and care. I’ll remember this semester forever, yes partly for the election, but mostly for them.
And he just won Goodreads Choice for the History/Biography genre! Here’s to academic folks being able to write popularly readable, beautiful books about their special subjects. A fav concept every time.
JMU history professor and @nytimes.com best-selling author Evan Friss, combined his passion for history and reading to create a nonfiction work detailing the history of American bookstores.
#JMU #GoDukes
#JMU #GoDukes
December 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM
And he just won Goodreads Choice for the History/Biography genre! Here’s to academic folks being able to write popularly readable, beautiful books about their special subjects. A fav concept every time.
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Every academic right now
November 29, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Every academic right now
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Note to Americans who travel to the UK: after January 8 you will need an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA). You apply once, it’s about $13 USD, & it is good for 2 years.
It opened for applications today & mine was approved in minutes, FWIW.
www.gov.uk/guidance/app...
It opened for applications today & mine was approved in minutes, FWIW.
www.gov.uk/guidance/app...
November 28, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Note to Americans who travel to the UK: after January 8 you will need an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA). You apply once, it’s about $13 USD, & it is good for 2 years.
It opened for applications today & mine was approved in minutes, FWIW.
www.gov.uk/guidance/app...
It opened for applications today & mine was approved in minutes, FWIW.
www.gov.uk/guidance/app...
10 DIY public domain print-and-fold books for holiday crafting if you’re that kind of person: sayeth.itch.io/minibooks
Short Story Minibooks by Sayeth
Make your own 16 page books with great public domain stories.
sayeth.itch.io
November 27, 2024 at 2:14 AM
10 DIY public domain print-and-fold books for holiday crafting if you’re that kind of person: sayeth.itch.io/minibooks
The tweet I have framed on my desk is from Lucie Britsch who I don’t see on this platform yet but what a gem it was 5 years ago this week. “Write like the ghosts of all the women who weren’t allowed to write are standing next to you wondering what a laptop is and why you’re still in your pajamas.”
November 22, 2024 at 3:05 AM
The tweet I have framed on my desk is from Lucie Britsch who I don’t see on this platform yet but what a gem it was 5 years ago this week. “Write like the ghosts of all the women who weren’t allowed to write are standing next to you wondering what a laptop is and why you’re still in your pajamas.”