Bénédicte Miyamoto
@miyamotoben.bsky.social
Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & Artists. Currently resident scholar at CNRS (délégation)
She/her/Dr
Book history, Art World, Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & Artists. Currently resident scholar at CNRS (délégation)
She/her/Dr
An RQ&R should be a moral obligation to review the resubmit paper. Take less reviews, do it better.
I'm both an author & an associate editor & in both roles a hill on which I will die is that attaching a new reviewer at R&R is bad practice at best & often unfair.
That said, given how often original reviewers refuse to review a R&R (no shade), editors are often stuck with how to evaluate a R&R.
That said, given how often original reviewers refuse to review a R&R (no shade), editors are often stuck with how to evaluate a R&R.
Paper gets 2 positive reviews & 1 very critical one
Authors work very very hard on R&R
Journal sends it back to critical reviewer (only) and 1 new reviewer
Critical reviewer is quite positive about revision
New reviewer is negative
Editor sits on reviews for 1 month, then rejects
Authors sad
Authors work very very hard on R&R
Journal sends it back to critical reviewer (only) and 1 new reviewer
Critical reviewer is quite positive about revision
New reviewer is negative
Editor sits on reviews for 1 month, then rejects
Authors sad
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
An RQ&R should be a moral obligation to review the resubmit paper. Take less reviews, do it better.
Reposted by Bénédicte Miyamoto
I'm both an author & an associate editor & in both roles a hill on which I will die is that attaching a new reviewer at R&R is bad practice at best & often unfair.
That said, given how often original reviewers refuse to review a R&R (no shade), editors are often stuck with how to evaluate a R&R.
That said, given how often original reviewers refuse to review a R&R (no shade), editors are often stuck with how to evaluate a R&R.
Paper gets 2 positive reviews & 1 very critical one
Authors work very very hard on R&R
Journal sends it back to critical reviewer (only) and 1 new reviewer
Critical reviewer is quite positive about revision
New reviewer is negative
Editor sits on reviews for 1 month, then rejects
Authors sad
Authors work very very hard on R&R
Journal sends it back to critical reviewer (only) and 1 new reviewer
Critical reviewer is quite positive about revision
New reviewer is negative
Editor sits on reviews for 1 month, then rejects
Authors sad
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I'm both an author & an associate editor & in both roles a hill on which I will die is that attaching a new reviewer at R&R is bad practice at best & often unfair.
That said, given how often original reviewers refuse to review a R&R (no shade), editors are often stuck with how to evaluate a R&R.
That said, given how often original reviewers refuse to review a R&R (no shade), editors are often stuck with how to evaluate a R&R.
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New acquisition for the Cromwell Museum… this ‘pocket’ road map of Huntingdonshire by Thomas Jenner. In 1643 Jenner republished Matthew Simmon's book 'A Direction for the English Traveller' which had 37 county maps accompanied by a distance table.
November 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
New acquisition for the Cromwell Museum… this ‘pocket’ road map of Huntingdonshire by Thomas Jenner. In 1643 Jenner republished Matthew Simmon's book 'A Direction for the English Traveller' which had 37 county maps accompanied by a distance table.
Link to the students' petition: c.org/CqGHZq6tbW
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Link to the students' petition: c.org/CqGHZq6tbW
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Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia.
Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.
Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia.
Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer".
www.bbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia.
Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.
Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia.
Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia.
Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.
Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia.
Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer".
www.bbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia.
Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.
Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia.
Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.
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The great collective rebellions of nineteenth-century Wales.
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
![In October, Spencer, Carry and I went to Llanover to Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall for the Eisteddfod at Abergavenny … just as Carry and I were putting on our things to go to Abergavenny, there was a knock at the door and Lady Hall’s maid entered carrying two frightful linstey [sic –linsey] petticoats and bodices, two Welsh chimney-pot black hats with coarse mob caps and said, ‘If you please, her Ladyship wishes you and Miss Lucy to wear the Welsh costumes today at the Eisteddfod’ … Tizzard exclaimed, ‘Oh Ma’am you will surely never put on such ugly things and take off your own beautiful dress and pretty new bonnet! And Miss Lucy, Oh! She must not make herself such a guy. ‘No’ I cried, ‘we will not’, But Carry … said ‘Never mind Mamma, we had better do as Lady Hall wishes and perhaps all the other ladies will be dressed in these costumes.’ … Tizzard … came back saying all the ladies were furious but were putting on the Welsh dresses which Lady Hall had sent to each of them. So Carry and I took off our pretty dresses and put on the frights. The hat was much too large for me and was so heavy it did nothing but come down half over my nose, and the linstey so hot, I never was more uncomfortable and I vowed I would never wear such horrible things again to please any Lady Hall, nor did I and all the other ladies agreed with me and we returned our linsteys and hats etc to her Ladyship that same evening and made her very angry.
Mrs Lucy of Charlecote (1803 – 1889) Mistress of Charlecote, The Memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy, (London, 1985), pp. 95-97](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lp27scbhcz4sl5eidxkq2l7f/bafkreigwqrwmleb5makrtfixyrfeyadpfvxh6kqf6kf2t4c4juuttmbccm@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The great collective rebellions of nineteenth-century Wales.
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
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Une tribune importante de @monniauxd.bsky.social :
Que se passerait-il si Trump ordonnait aux GAFAM de cesser leurs services cloud à l'égard de nos gouvernements ?
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
Que se passerait-il si Trump ordonnait aux GAFAM de cesser leurs services cloud à l'égard de nos gouvernements ?
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
David Monniaux, directeur de recherche au CNRS : « Que se passerait-il si Trump ordonnait aux Gafam de cesser leurs services cloud à l’égard de nos gouvernements ? »
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », le chercheur souligne les dangers de la dépendance numérique européenne à l’égard des géants du Web, soumis à la législation américaine.
www.lemonde.fr
October 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Une tribune importante de @monniauxd.bsky.social :
Que se passerait-il si Trump ordonnait aux GAFAM de cesser leurs services cloud à l'égard de nos gouvernements ?
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
Que se passerait-il si Trump ordonnait aux GAFAM de cesser leurs services cloud à l'égard de nos gouvernements ?
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
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[🎆 !!! BIG REVEAL !!! 🎆]
Aliénor l'a décrété : le 65e congrès de la SAES aura lieu à #Poitiers, ville aux 100 clochers ⛪ (et bientôt aux 1000 spécialistes d'études anglophones).
✨ Le thème de l'année 2026 est l'ÉMANCIPATION. ✨
Aliénor l'a décrété : le 65e congrès de la SAES aura lieu à #Poitiers, ville aux 100 clochers ⛪ (et bientôt aux 1000 spécialistes d'études anglophones).
✨ Le thème de l'année 2026 est l'ÉMANCIPATION. ✨
October 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
[🎆 !!! BIG REVEAL !!! 🎆]
Aliénor l'a décrété : le 65e congrès de la SAES aura lieu à #Poitiers, ville aux 100 clochers ⛪ (et bientôt aux 1000 spécialistes d'études anglophones).
✨ Le thème de l'année 2026 est l'ÉMANCIPATION. ✨
Aliénor l'a décrété : le 65e congrès de la SAES aura lieu à #Poitiers, ville aux 100 clochers ⛪ (et bientôt aux 1000 spécialistes d'études anglophones).
✨ Le thème de l'année 2026 est l'ÉMANCIPATION. ✨
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November 29th, I take part in this very promising seminar at ENS in Paris on the intersections of plant and cultural studies in the early modern time. #plantstudies #17thcentury #histsci #materialhistory
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
November 29th, I take part in this very promising seminar at ENS in Paris on the intersections of plant and cultural studies in the early modern time. #plantstudies #17thcentury #histsci #materialhistory
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
Great thread for my course on museum, labels and public access!
I don't normally like dumping on honest pros doing their job but I've just been round the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz and am disappointed to the point of fury.
October 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Great thread for my course on museum, labels and public access!
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hot take: the social norm that "cool" people don’t talk about their jobs is bad for labour organizing because it perpetuates the idea that our work selves are severed from and unrelated to our true selves and it prevents the deepening of community relationships around labour
October 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
hot take: the social norm that "cool" people don’t talk about their jobs is bad for labour organizing because it perpetuates the idea that our work selves are severed from and unrelated to our true selves and it prevents the deepening of community relationships around labour
How your email finds me.
Alexander Browne, compendious Drawing Book, London : Austin Holdisworth 1677
Alexander Browne, compendious Drawing Book, London : Austin Holdisworth 1677
September 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
How your email finds me.
Alexander Browne, compendious Drawing Book, London : Austin Holdisworth 1677
Alexander Browne, compendious Drawing Book, London : Austin Holdisworth 1677
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Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
Welcome to Early Modern Resources – EMR
earlymodernweb.org
September 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
Dealer networks/rings and fragment strategy 👇
Manhattan DA has announced the recent return of looted antiquities to several countries:
- 31 antiquities to the people of Italy;
- two 6th century C.E. Visigoth pendants to Spain;
- and a 17th century C.E. Jesuit manuscript to Hungary.
manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-an...
- 31 antiquities to the people of Italy;
- two 6th century C.E. Visigoth pendants to Spain;
- and a 17th century C.E. Jesuit manuscript to Hungary.
manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-an...
D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of Antiquities To Spain, Italy And Hungary
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced the recent repatriation of antiquities to three countries, including 31 antiquities, some dating to the 6th century B.C.E., to the people of Italy; t...
manhattanda.org
August 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Dealer networks/rings and fragment strategy 👇
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French Revolution document rifle continues! Let’s just not think too much about what these personal papers might be stained with eh 😬😬😬
August 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
French Revolution document rifle continues! Let’s just not think too much about what these personal papers might be stained with eh 😬😬😬
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Me whenever I watch a piece of media where people have archival materials or records and there's nary an #archivist nor records manager to be seen. 📜 #GLAMS #archives
July 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Me whenever I watch a piece of media where people have archival materials or records and there's nary an #archivist nor records manager to be seen. 📜 #GLAMS #archives
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CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden)
memorients.com/events/cfp-b...
#CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology
memorients.com/events/cfp-b...
#CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology
CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden) | MEMOs
Bringing together researchers working on books that were used in any form of prayer practice in the late medieval and early modern era (up to the 18th Century)
https://memorients.com/events/cfp-bound-for-devotion-the-prayer-book-as-object-and-practice-1300–1800-1-3-july-2026-leiden
July 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden)
memorients.com/events/cfp-b...
#CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology
memorients.com/events/cfp-b...
#CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology
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I love chairing panels at academic conferences and I Have Thoughts about it!
I think it’s a really important service role AND you can create the conditions for everyone in the panel to have a good time AND it can be fun!
A 🧵👇 1/9
I think it’s a really important service role AND you can create the conditions for everyone in the panel to have a good time AND it can be fun!
A 🧵👇 1/9
July 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I love chairing panels at academic conferences and I Have Thoughts about it!
I think it’s a really important service role AND you can create the conditions for everyone in the panel to have a good time AND it can be fun!
A 🧵👇 1/9
I think it’s a really important service role AND you can create the conditions for everyone in the panel to have a good time AND it can be fun!
A 🧵👇 1/9
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Officially endorsed by me on behalf of #linguistics
Only missing tip in @hormiga.bsky.social 's post: Please, never write in your review "This paper should be edited by a native English speaker." You mean, "This paper needs edits for [grammar/style/voice/insert specific problem here]."
Only missing tip in @hormiga.bsky.social 's post: Please, never write in your review "This paper should be edited by a native English speaker." You mean, "This paper needs edits for [grammar/style/voice/insert specific problem here]."
"Correct" spelling and "proper" grammar aren't worth fussing about. Just let people be.
scienceforeveryone.science/p/grammar-do...
scienceforeveryone.science/p/grammar-do...
Grammar does not matter
Please stop being a grammar pedant.
scienceforeveryone.science
July 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Officially endorsed by me on behalf of #linguistics
Only missing tip in @hormiga.bsky.social 's post: Please, never write in your review "This paper should be edited by a native English speaker." You mean, "This paper needs edits for [grammar/style/voice/insert specific problem here]."
Only missing tip in @hormiga.bsky.social 's post: Please, never write in your review "This paper should be edited by a native English speaker." You mean, "This paper needs edits for [grammar/style/voice/insert specific problem here]."
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A good archivist is an archivist who knows what to keep. An excellent archivist knows what to discard.
Is #Deaccession still controversial?
Is #Deaccession still controversial?
July 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A good archivist is an archivist who knows what to keep. An excellent archivist knows what to discard.
Is #Deaccession still controversial?
Is #Deaccession still controversial?
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[Accompagnement de la #Recherche]
💡Découvrez les entrepôts de données #SHS et comment y valoriser vos recherches, avec un focus sur Nakala d'@huma-num.bsky.social
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#FAIRdata #nakala #PDLD2025 #openscience
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July 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
[Accompagnement de la #Recherche]
💡Découvrez les entrepôts de données #SHS et comment y valoriser vos recherches, avec un focus sur Nakala d'@huma-num.bsky.social
📅 webinaire lundi 7/07 11h
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#FAIRdata #nakala #PDLD2025 #openscience
💡Découvrez les entrepôts de données #SHS et comment y valoriser vos recherches, avec un focus sur Nakala d'@huma-num.bsky.social
📅 webinaire lundi 7/07 11h
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#FAIRdata #nakala #PDLD2025 #openscience
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Thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18
June 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18