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Laura Estill
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Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
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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! 🎉
a handsome book cover: The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice ; blue at top and bottom and with ethereal black and white and rainbow edged dots evoking information transfer (shaped like a long fish's tail, perhaps). Edited by Constance Crompton, Laura Estill, Richard J. Lane, and Ray Siemens
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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And another laugh, this one from "Cindy Commissioning Editor"
Email opening "Dear Dr.Estill, Laura， I hope you’re doing well. I'm Cindy Commissioning Editor. "
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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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....
Email from predatory journal Text: Dear Dr. Estill, Laura, Wishing you all the best! After reviewing your work online, the Editorial Office found your paper titled "Thomas Higgons's The Dismal Tempest: an unpublished seventeenth-century play fragment" to be exceptional. Given your profound insights in this field, we would like to extend a sincere invitation for you to publish an article (Research, Review, or Short Communication) free of charge, with a submission deadline of December 15th for the upcoming issue. Journal of Atmospheric Science Research is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes advanced research in atmospheric sciences, covering areas such as atmospheric dynamics, climate change, extreme weather, atmospheric chemistry, remote sensing, and ocean–atmosphere interactions.
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Storm on an antique chair my Grandma refinished
A gray and sandy orange cat curled up into a ball on an antique chair that is black with stencils and a tan seat.
October 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Not even close, Novanet...or maybe super close?
A search of the novanet library discovery layer for "the reception of German mysticism in early modern england" with a single result for a book called "the history of mathematics"
September 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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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
An image of two knights in full armour, one with two swords having just vanquished the other. stark black and white line drawing. a striking black and white image of a man kneeling with hands praying, crown falling off. A hand clutching a dagger comes in from the frame on the left.
September 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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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...
From the Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social website: From Commonplaces to Databases: The Social Memory of Proverbs (Virtual Session 🌐) Laura Estill, St. Francis Xavier University Richard J. Meek, University of Hull Proverbs offer fertile ways of thinking about questions of shared history and cross-cultural understanding; the relationship between classical and popular culture; rhetoric and pedagogy; authorship, style, and creativity; and adaptation, appropriation, and afterlives. We welcome papers that consider proverbs, sayings, and/or commonplaces in works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, their nature and transmission, and how to undertake effective research on early modern proverbs today. * Preference will be given to international members facing travel restrictions.
August 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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There are still lots of spots to donate blood in Antigonish today! At St Ninian's (on StFX campus)

Book your appointment here: myaccount.blood.ca/en/donate/se...
A grid of available appointment times to donate blood, from 2:25 to 7:50pm
June 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Predatory journal invitation in Comic Sans. Are they even trying anymore?
Screenshot from an email client Outlook warning: This message appears to be Junk. Links and Other functionality will not work. (Mark as not Junk button) You don't often get emails from noreply@luketechnocraft.com Learn why this is important email body, in comic sans: Dear sir Please go through IOSR Journals Impact Factor announcements: Submit Article
June 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Had a great info session on the Canadian Certificate for Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques at DHSI today! If you missed it or want to learn, check out our website and/or email for more info. ccdhhn.ca
Opening slide with logo: cc:DH/HN (small cc: then large DH and an N positioned below the H" - The Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques website on bottom right: ccdhhn.ca credits on bottom left: DHSI 2025 Info session by Parham Aledavood (week 1) and Laura Estill (week 2) with Lina Harper
June 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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DHSI week 2 opening remarks @umontreal.ca
keynote by Marcello Vitali-Rosati, "A formal definition of creativity: LLM, softmax, and temperature"
June 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Congratulations to Jacopo Parodi, who also won this year, and to the winners of the Bowers Prize and Finneran Awards, too!
Award notice: "The Society for Textual Scholarship GREETHAM PRIZE 2025 honoring the author of the best article published in the Society of Textual Scholarship's journal, Textual Cultures, is hereby award to Jacopo Parodi, for "Il Teatro del Rimorso: Intorno a una lettera di Gadda a Bollati sull'etica 'tragica' di Alessandro Manzoni" (16.1-Spring 2023) - John Young / President | Society for Textual Scholarship May 30, 2025 logo: Society for Textual Scholarship
May 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Honoured to receive the Greetham Prize w/ co-authors Heidi Craig & Kris May, for "the best article published in the Society’s journal, Textual Cultures, during the two calendar years since the previous award"

"A Rationale of Trans-inclusive Bibliography" scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...
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Award notice: "The Society for Textual Scholarship GREETHAM PRIZE 2025 honoring the author of the best article published in the Society of Textual Scholarship's journal, Textual Cultures, is hereby award to Heidi Craig, Laura Estill, and Kris L. May, for "A Rationale of Trans-Inclusive Bibliography" (16.2-Fall 2023) - John Young / President | Society for Textual Scholarship May 30, 2025 logo: Society for Textual Scholarship
May 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Look at these gorgeous ligatures

(Link to article if you're interested:
doi.org/10.1080/1745... )
a journal download front page from the journal Shakespeare with beautiful st ligatures in the title main text: The Duke of Gloucester’s Sword: Prosthetic Props in the Repertory of Edmund Kean Emily MacLeod To cite this article: Emily MacLeod (2023) The Duke of Gloucester’s Sword: Prosthetic Props in the Repertory of Edmund Kean, Shakespeare, 19:1, 54-64, DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2023.2183089 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2023.2183089 detail of serifed type: ce{st ligature}er's
May 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Ludwig Tieck's copy of Friar Bacon at the Austrian National Library viewer.onb.ac.at/105F97F4
horizontal printer's ornament with a horned devil's head, flanked by two squirrels and surrounded by leaves Printed text: THE HONORABLE HISTORY OF FRYER BACON Enter Edward the first male contented with Lacy Earle of Lin- colne, lohn Warren Earle of Sussex, ard Ermsby Gen- tleman: Raph Simnell the Kings foole. Lacie. MS addition: Writ by Rob: Green Acted by ye Prince Palatines Servts MS addition: Sc. 1.
May 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Grateful today for the Endings Project @dhquarterly.bsky.social 2023 special issue:

www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/1...

ed. @jmhuculak.bsky.social @janellejenstad.bsky.social @martindholmes.bsky.social

Chock full of fantastic articles that are more relevant than ever
DHQ table of contents: [en] Introduction to Special Issue: Project Resiliency in the Digital Humanities Martin Holmes, University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre; Janelle Jenstad, University of Victoria Department of English; J. Matthew Huculak, University of Victoria Advanced Research Services & Digital Scholarship Librarian Abstract [en] Articles [en] The Stories We Tell: Project Narratives, Project Endings, and the Affective Value of Collaboration Claire Battershill, University of Toronto Abstract [en] [en] “No Boutique or Fashionable Technologies”: Project Development, Mentorship, and Sustainability in an Innovation-First World Constance Crompton, Department of Communication, University of Ottawa Abstract [en] [en] Academics Retire and Servers Die: Adventures in the Hosting and Storage of Digital Humanities Projects James Cummings, Newcastle University Abstract [en] [en] The Dangers of Disappearance, the Opportunities of Recovery Sara Diamond, OCAD University Faculty of Arts & Science Abstract [en] [en] Doing it for Ourselves: The New Archive Built by and Responsive to the Researcher Nick Thieberger, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia Abstract [en] [en] “Follow the Money?”: Funding and Digital Sustainability Jessica Otis, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University Abstract [en] [en] From Tamagotchis to Pet Rocks: On Learning to Love Simplicity through the Endings Principles Martin Holmes, University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre; Joey Takeda, Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, Simon Fraser University Abstract [en] [en] Reference Rot in the Digital Humanities Literature: An Analysis of Citations Containing Website Links in DHQ Zach Coble, New York University Libraries; Jojo Karlin, New York University Libraries Abstract [en] [en] The Project Endings Interviews: A Summary of Methodological Foundations Emily Comeau, University of British Columbia Abstract [en]
May 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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3. Create a StoryGraphs account

4. Click the avatar button in the top right corner and choose manage account. Scroll down "Goodreads Import" (see screenshot and alt-text). Import the .csv file you downloaded

5. Et voilà! Click "Stats" in StoryGraph to admire beautiful charts about your reading
Screenshot from @thestorygraph Text: Goodreads Import Import all of your shelves and reviews from Goodreads! Where a book is marked on both Goodreads and The StoryGraph, the category the book is set under on The StoryGraph takes priority. Please note: The Goodreads import is only designed to be done once as an onboarding step. If you do it multiple times, you risk introducing book and review duplicates to your StoryGraph account. We cannot undo any individual Goodreads imports. If you're not happy with the final state of your account after multiple Goodreads imports, you can choose to manually adjust all of your records or delete all of your books and reviews and start again from a blank slate. Button Text: Import Goodreads Library
March 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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In Canada, 1 in 2 students will graduate with debt that will take them an average of 10 years to pay off.

Saddling young Canadians with debt isn’t sustainable. We need affordable post-secondary education.

education2025.ca
Image of coins with "Unlock Education" beneath it. Text reads "50% of students will graduate with debt"
March 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Do you have a Digital Humanities (by any name) program at the BA, MA, PhD level? Add your program to the Digital Humanities Course Registry!

For Canada: be in touch w/me (email/dm) or sign up at website

For the rest of the world: find your national moderator

dhcr.clarin-dariah.eu
Logo: Digital Humanities Course Registry Text with a world map peeking through: Put yourself on the map!
February 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Ownership marks on @gallicabnf.bsky.social copy of Bodin's Demonomanie

gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
top part of the title page of Jean Bodin's De la demonomanie des sorciers with ownership marks ("Ex Libris") in two hands and two inks
February 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Accidental early emoticon in F1 Measure for Measure, giving "adding LOL to the end of a serious text message" vibes
Screenshot of a page from the first folio: With Angelo tonight shall lye His old betroathed (but despised :) So disguise shall by th'disguised Pay with falshood, false exacting, And performe an old contracting. (Note: long S, italics for Angelo's name, and c-t ligatures not captured in this transcription)
February 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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I was happy to see Stargate trending because I thought it was going to be about an upcoming reboot for the franchise. Sigggh
Stargate movie poster posted by Forbidden Futures on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/forbiddenfutures/p/DBraH80yZyX/?img_index=1 A drawing of the main characters, with James Spader and Kurt Russell at the top, in front of the round stargate with hieroglyphs on it.
January 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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TIL about Grizelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge (1803–1825), "a Nova Scotian poet who has been called the 'highly-gifted songstress of Acadia.'"

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizeld...

"Lines composed at midnight" - archives.novascotia.ca/howe/archive...

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Lines composed at midnight on my passage to the West Indies, occasioned by the recollection of my sisters. Date: 11 April 1825 Reference: Sydenham Howe Nova Scotia Archives 1994-272 page 55 https://archives.novascotia.ca/howe/archives/?ID=135
January 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Just got my contributor copy! Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities, ed. @gabrielh.bsky.social , Anouk Lang, and @sjappleford.bsky.social
The front cover of a book that is orange with an abstract Network. Title: graduate study and humanities. Edited by Gabriel Hankins, Anouk Lang, and Simon appleford
December 20, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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Fantastic day at "From Imitatio to Inventio: Towards a Poetics of Diachronic Co-Creativity" workshop today, organized by Angelika Zirker and Matthias Bauer
Flyer for "From Imitatio to Inventio" 13 December 2024 Workshop Project C5: The Aesthetics of Co-Creativity in Early Modern English Literature, featuring an engraving of painters working in a workshop
December 13, 2024 at 4:20 PM