Hannah Doherty Hudson
@hdhudson.bsky.social
C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. M.C. Lang Fellow at RBS. Book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
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Okay #romancelandia, #austen fans, and #c18 #c19 folks: what are our FAVORITE Austen novel adaptations? trying to pick a fun new one to add to my spring course! current list in 🧵below.
I've started reading my way through these adaptations this week. Starting a new 🧵 here for my thoughts as I go!
#austen #romancelandia
#austen #romancelandia
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A family has handed over a 13th century book to the National Library of Norway. Conservator Chiara Palandri says its pages were made of calfskin parchment and that the cover appears to be hairy sealskin. The strap to hold the book together is thought to have been made from reindeer hide.
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Sunday plans:
🖼️ Franco Matticchio
🖼️ Franco Matticchio
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Sunday plans:
🖼️ Franco Matticchio
🖼️ Franco Matticchio
Wow!
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
Nature - A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
go.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Wow!
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“Turns out that AI is very bad at most jobs, and this pivot to leisure is likely indicative of the industry’s mounting desperation, … now that it has failed to ‘outperform humans at most economically valuable work.’”
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
The People Using ChatGPT to Cheat at Their Hobbies
Why are so many of us letting AI have all the fun?
www.thecut.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“Turns out that AI is very bad at most jobs, and this pivot to leisure is likely indicative of the industry’s mounting desperation, … now that it has failed to ‘outperform humans at most economically valuable work.’”
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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LLMs specialize in a particular kind of bad writing: vapid, emotionally presumptuous, lacking in formal discipline. Many people seem to read these features as authenticity. For me (and I suspect for most humanities-trained folks) they produce instant revulsion. This makes me wonder (1/2)
A really good piece. I especially appreciated this paragraph, on how the maudlin discourse around LLM art repackages clichés as universals
November 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
LLMs specialize in a particular kind of bad writing: vapid, emotionally presumptuous, lacking in formal discipline. Many people seem to read these features as authenticity. For me (and I suspect for most humanities-trained folks) they produce instant revulsion. This makes me wonder (1/2)
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“I am not hungry now,” said the Dark Frog. “I have eaten too many tasty frog children. But after I jump rope one hundred times, I will be hungry again. Then I will eat YOU!”
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“I am not hungry now,” said the Dark Frog. “I have eaten too many tasty frog children. But after I jump rope one hundred times, I will be hungry again. Then I will eat YOU!”
My longstanding commitment to the field of Gothic Potato studies: vindicated! 😂
tonight, the people at one house where my daughter trick or treated asked each kid “would you like candy…or a potato?”
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
My longstanding commitment to the field of Gothic Potato studies: vindicated! 😂
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I simply cannot with serious experts presenting "I asked [insert AI] for a quick analysis/summary/calculation of [insert topic/dataset]" as evidence in an argument
please stop, please please please
it's not persuasive for those know the probs w/ these tools, and it's misleading for those who don't
please stop, please please please
it's not persuasive for those know the probs w/ these tools, and it's misleading for those who don't
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I simply cannot with serious experts presenting "I asked [insert AI] for a quick analysis/summary/calculation of [insert topic/dataset]" as evidence in an argument
please stop, please please please
it's not persuasive for those know the probs w/ these tools, and it's misleading for those who don't
please stop, please please please
it's not persuasive for those know the probs w/ these tools, and it's misleading for those who don't
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New preprint alert! 🚨
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New preprint alert! 🚨
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
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So many people are trying to figure out what's happening with kids and schools.
I don't know any big-picture answers. But from my n=2 sample, one big problem is the constant jankiness of doing schoolwork on Chromebooks and Google Classroom.
Math apps where you can't see the diagram and the
I don't know any big-picture answers. But from my n=2 sample, one big problem is the constant jankiness of doing schoolwork on Chromebooks and Google Classroom.
Math apps where you can't see the diagram and the
October 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
So many people are trying to figure out what's happening with kids and schools.
I don't know any big-picture answers. But from my n=2 sample, one big problem is the constant jankiness of doing schoolwork on Chromebooks and Google Classroom.
Math apps where you can't see the diagram and the
I don't know any big-picture answers. But from my n=2 sample, one big problem is the constant jankiness of doing schoolwork on Chromebooks and Google Classroom.
Math apps where you can't see the diagram and the
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GASP
GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
GASP
My birthday is coming up soon. I mention this for no particular reason!
October 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
My birthday is coming up soon. I mention this for no particular reason!
Hmm.
“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”
@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
October 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Hmm.
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Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
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Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.
September 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.
Support local bookstores!
And if you'd like to order it from an indie bookstore that tries to promote #closereading here's the link: portersquarebooks.com/book/9780691...
September 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Support local bookstores!
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It ys the seasoun of decoratif gourdes, O knaves
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It ys the seasoun of decoratif gourdes, O knaves
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Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…
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September 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!
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Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us.
www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...
www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...
How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers - Public Books
A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.
www.publicbooks.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us.
www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...
www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...
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Literature student: Hey, chat, will you please summarize ULYSSES for me and identify its themes?
Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.
Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.
The imagined consumer on the landing page for Google's NotebookLM is a student in an upper-division literature course who has been assigned James Joyce's "Ulysses," and asks the software to summarize the novel and identify its themes.
Who is this advertising for?
Who is this advertising for?
September 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Literature student: Hey, chat, will you please summarize ULYSSES for me and identify its themes?
Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.
Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.
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Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself!
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical
How did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fict...
www.press.jhu.edu
September 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself!
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Started/Going in Louisiana
368 cases of whooping cough
63 hospitalized, of whom
75% vaccines not up to date, and
41 were infants
368 cases of whooping cough
63 hospitalized, of whom
75% vaccines not up to date, and
41 were infants
September 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Started/Going in Louisiana
368 cases of whooping cough
63 hospitalized, of whom
75% vaccines not up to date, and
41 were infants
368 cases of whooping cough
63 hospitalized, of whom
75% vaccines not up to date, and
41 were infants
Happy to hear of this ruling, but also frustrated that my book, published with @universitypress.cambridge.org and used by Anthropic, does not appear to have been registered for US copyright, and is thus not eligible. Live and learn -- I think I always assumed registration was automatic!
"The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases. Anthropic will pay $3,000 per work to 500,000 authors."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...
Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
www.nytimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Happy to hear of this ruling, but also frustrated that my book, published with @universitypress.cambridge.org and used by Anthropic, does not appear to have been registered for US copyright, and is thus not eligible. Live and learn -- I think I always assumed registration was automatic!
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Also important this week: A trustworthy guide to childhood vaccine schedules, from actual pediatricians (many of whom saw these diseases before they could be vaccinated against).
* pin it & share it *
Ps: no, pediatricians are not pharma shills, don’t @ me
www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...
* pin it & share it *
Ps: no, pediatricians are not pharma shills, don’t @ me
www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...
All About the AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule
Here's what to know about the recommended immunization schedule for children and teens. The schedule is approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics and based on ongoing review of the most recent sc...
www.healthychildren.org
August 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Also important this week: A trustworthy guide to childhood vaccine schedules, from actual pediatricians (many of whom saw these diseases before they could be vaccinated against).
* pin it & share it *
Ps: no, pediatricians are not pharma shills, don’t @ me
www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...
* pin it & share it *
Ps: no, pediatricians are not pharma shills, don’t @ me
www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...