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Emily F Brooks
@emilyfbrooks.bsky.social
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Makeademic. PhD English/ Digital Humanities who loves pop culture, paper engineering, physical computing, and digital fabrication. she/her
http://emilyfbrooks.com
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Our enchanted mug workshop was inspired by Kari Kraus’ “The Care of Enchanted Things” in Debates in Digital Humanities 2019 #DHMakes

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August 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Warren displayed how Ocular identified the kinds of typographical features historical bibliographers are trained to recognize: bends, fractures, over-inking, under-inking, etc. (5/7)
Slide shows 20 E's side-by-side, 30+ S's in a grid, and a grid of R's and ornaments. Closed captioning reads: ...computational terms. The kinds of typographical features historical bibliographers are trained to recognize: bends, fractures, over-inking, under-inking. We begin with undamaged..."
July 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Warren highlighted the advantages of using Ocular over traditional OCR in recognizing damaged letterforms, building probabilistic models of fonts, spacing, inking, and spelling variation, to then identify clandestine printers github.com/tberg12/ocular (4/7)
slide with heading: State-of-the-Art: Ocular. 1A) prisoner 1B) unknown fonts, 2A) rode along in silence 2B) uneven inking, 3A) the death 3B) irregular alignment. Closed captioning reads: ...behind. To make sense of all this minced material, we needed a tool capable of helping us sort leg with leg. To unmake the salad, as it were. That tool is ocular, a historical OCR...
July 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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As a book history/digital humanities scholar, I immensely enjoyed this @rarebookschool.bsky.social talk on Warren's term, computational bibliography, as a set of tools to connect the study of artifact (microscopic/Hinman) to ideology (systemic/Darnton). (1/7)
diagram goes from authors to publishers to printers to books to gatherings to sheets to inner/outer forms, to pages, to sorts. Closed captioning reads: "...a method for moving between them. For connecting the microscopic to the systemic, the page to the printer, the sort to the state. It builds a bridge..."
July 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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STS 2025 has been delightful! Today’s glimmers: 1) people interacting with my show-and-tell & 2) visiting the Common Press to use the 1899 Washington Hoe Cast Iron Handpress and the Vandercook to print these conference souvenirs! #WickedTextual #STS2025 #DHMakes
Bookshelf containing 6 books from left to right: special edition Tales of Beedle the Bard with silver skull, gold-foiled Creatures of Chaos, gemstone covered Sleeping Beauty, metallic dragon cover of Mal’s Spell Book, pentagon-shaped Wicked Grimmerie, and sprayed-edge Onyx Storm Paper on bookshelf that reads: “The true novelty would be a new medium that did not refer for its meaning to other media at all. For our culture, such mediation without remediation seems to be impossible. -Jay David Bolter & Richard Grusin Remediation: Understanding New Media” in multiple typefaces Lime green paper with “textual” printed in silver ink in front of two books including a brown leather book with a gold dragon and a green book with the word “Wicked” written in gold foil
May 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Perfect day for walking the Wissahickon Trails
Cute reddish dachshund-pomeranian smiling mid step on a nature trail
May 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Really enjoyed making this shirt with quotes from Pride and Prejudice (2005) for the movie last weekend, thank you for the input, @cynthiaheider.com! I made a few vinyl cutting and screenprinting errors, but I like that it shows the handmade quality that way
White woman smiling wearing a black shirt with gold text that says “Pride and Prejudice” in small caps serif font and “Jane Austen” in handwritten script Hand holding a wooden frame and screen with black vinyl cut out with the text “Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen I love you, most ardently You have bewitched me, Body and soul Completely and perfectly and Incandescently happy” Black v-neck t-shirt with gold text that reads “Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen I love you, most ardently You have bewitched me, Body and soul Completely and perfectly and Incandescently happy”
April 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Grateful to my new colleague, Pamela, for showing me the BioPond on @upenn.edu campus on #EarthDay
Wide-angle lens photo of pond surrounded by stones with trees in the background and a blue sky
April 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The Materials Library at Penn is a treasure trove for #DHMakes research, so many textures and colors to explore! I highly recommend making an appointment to visit if you are a creative researcher in the Philadelphia area! www.library.upenn.edu/finearts/mat...
Photo of 4 bookshelves of papers, books, jars, and other materials categorized by color from pink and violet, to red, to yellow and orange, to green and yellow A plastic container glowing that reads Stuart Semple Lit 50g and a glowing baseball keychain in background A scattered assortment of gelatin sheets with bright primary color food coloring dots, and marble texture blocks lining the back wall An assortment of glitter, holographic, and iridescent cardstock
April 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I want to make something for the 20th anniversary re-release of Pride and Prejudice, and was thinking of screenprinting a shirt. Should I do black text on white background, gold text on white background, or gold text on black background? #PrideAndPrejudice
black text on white background: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen I love you, most ardently You have bewitched me, body and soul Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy gold text on white background: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen I love you, most ardently You have bewitched me, body and soul Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy gold text on black background: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen I love you, most ardently You have bewitched me, body and soul Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy
April 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Sending a Scooter smile
Reddish dachshund Pomeranian dog smiling, wearing an orange harness, in the back seat of a car
April 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Many thanks to @stewartvarner.bsky.social, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, and @jdporter.bsky.social for their warm welcome to the team! I’m so excited to get started!

Farewell Florida 🌺 Hello Philly 🌸
Yellow-orange tulip blooming in focus (foreground), many tulips out of focus in background in shades of yellow, orange, and red
March 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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“When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” Declaration of Independence
Nicolas Cage in National Treasure saying “It means if there’s something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.”
February 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Grateful for the great work at @archive.org in preserving the transition of a nation. An idea popped in my head of this design for an “Internet Archive is greater than artificial intelligence (IA>AI)” button. Feel free to share and use!

blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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Black circle with white text reads: IA>AI (derived from Internet Archive logo and OpenAI logo)
February 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Here Be Dragons 🐉 If you love reading about dragons, you can make this flame-breathing dragon bookmark by following my tutorial on the #Chibitronics blog! chibitronics.com/2025/01/30/l... #DHMakes #BookSky📚
January 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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For all my #booksky friends, I made this light-up “Here Be Dragons” bookmark using #Chibitronics #CircuitStickers. Free printable PDF and tutorial out later this week #DHMakes
Photo: [background: open book with black text] [foreground: black bookmark with metallic gold edge, gold dragon breathing red, orange, and yellow flames with gold text “HC SVNT DRACONES” which translates to “Here Be Dragons”]
January 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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I used Chibitronics circuit stickers to create a paper 7-segment LED display to countdown from 9 to 0 🎇Wishing you a bright New Year 🎆 #DHMakes
January 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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These concepts of strategic presentism and productive anachronism immediately made me think of UVic’s MakerLab Prototyping the Past projects maker.uvic.ca/ptp/
Screenshot of cycle between “The Victorians were already digital” and “We might be digital Victorians” Strategic presentism and productive anachronism
December 12, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Immensely enjoying this afternoon’s SoFCB Book Party, “Digital Victorians: Author @pfyfe.bsky.social in Conversation with @ryancordell.bsky.social on Nineteenth-Century Media and the Digital Humanities.”
Brain meme with 4 stages “1. Digital media and the internet have a C19th history 2. Reactions to C19th media construct of very sense of epochal change, or the ‘new media encounter’ 3. DH is the academy’s new media encounter 4. DH was invented by the Victorians”
December 12, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Watching Pushing Daisies S1E7: Smell of Success, and spotted some familiar pop-up books. “Pop-up books aren’t just for children. My pop-up books are designed for their original audience: mature connoisseurs of art.”
Screenshot of private investigator, Emerson Cod, with closed captioning reading “Pop-up books! I love pop-up books. Screenshot of pie baker, Ned, and PI, Emerson, at a pop-up book store, and pop-up book maker, Chas, says “Pop-ups aren’t just for children.” Screenshot of pie baker, Ned, and PI, Emerson, at pop-up book store with pop-up book maker, Chas, who says “My pop-ups are designed for their original audience.” Screenshot of Chas, pop-up book maker, in his pop-up book store, who says “Mature connoisseurs of art.”
December 12, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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I made a 3-bit binary (kitchen) counter for #LightUpPopUpTober as a quick introduction to binary code #DHMakes
October 17, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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I enjoyed making this Story Time with Deadpool blank book and thought it might be fun to share with the #DHMakes crowd

Maker video on my website: emilyfbrooks.com/videos/Story...
Woman holding black book with Deadpool symbol on cover Cutting mat background with Black book with metallic red circle, two black half circles inside and two glow in the dark eyes
September 6, 2024 at 10:38 PM