Valerie Wayne
@valeriewayne.bsky.social
Professor Emerita, U of Hawaii. Early modern literature and book history. Editor, Cymbeline for Arden and Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Also a grandma who sings.
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Our Board member Prof. Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social has written an introduction to the ODNB’s new set of entries on female stationers:
Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
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August 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Our Board member Prof. Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social has written an introduction to the ODNB’s new set of entries on female stationers:
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Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
www.oxforddnb.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
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A plethora of new ODNB entries on early modern women stationers! Entries from Heidi Craig, Andrea Silva, Kirk Melnikoff, @mgyarn.bsky.social, Andreas P. Bassett, @tarallyons.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social, me, and of course from @valeriewayne.bsky.social who cooked up the whole cluster.
August 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A plethora of new ODNB entries on early modern women stationers! Entries from Heidi Craig, Andrea Silva, Kirk Melnikoff, @mgyarn.bsky.social, Andreas P. Bassett, @tarallyons.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social, me, and of course from @valeriewayne.bsky.social who cooked up the whole cluster.
Guest, Host, Ghost
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Guest, Host, Ghost
A Dinner Party in Kyiv
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July 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Guest, Host, Ghost
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Concentration Camp Labor
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Concentration Camp Labor
Cannot Become Normal
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July 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Concentration Camp Labor
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
Canada’s Trump-Fueled Brain Gain
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June 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
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VIDEO | In Hungary, the fascist Orban government tried to ban the Pride Parade🏳️🌈and threatened to punish those who joined.
The response was clear: a massive march with hundreds of thousands of people.
The response was clear: a massive march with hundreds of thousands of people.
June 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
VIDEO | In Hungary, the fascist Orban government tried to ban the Pride Parade🏳️🌈and threatened to punish those who joined.
The response was clear: a massive march with hundreds of thousands of people.
The response was clear: a massive march with hundreds of thousands of people.
Protest in Honolulu estimated at 7-10 thousand—which is really big for us!
June 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Protest in Honolulu estimated at 7-10 thousand—which is really big for us!
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One of the worst crimes of Russia’s war is the abduction of children. This Yale lab tracked the kids. Trump and Rubio cut the funding. You can help. Urge Rubio to reinstate the funding — and donate here.
medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
Help the Humanitarian Research Lab Keep Finding Ukraine’s Abducted Children
The Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale helps to locate and bring back Ukraine’s children who have been abducted by Russia. But without additional funding,
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June 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
One of the worst crimes of Russia’s war is the abduction of children. This Yale lab tracked the kids. Trump and Rubio cut the funding. You can help. Urge Rubio to reinstate the funding — and donate here.
medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
See you there for this important demonstration!
June 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
See you there for this important demonstration!
Last Year's Move to Toronto
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Last Year's Move to Toronto
And This Year's Politics (video and commentary)
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June 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Last Year's Move to Toronto
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Steven Pinker’s nuanced take on Harvard and its contributions. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
Opinion | Harvard Derangement Syndrome
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May 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Steven Pinker’s nuanced take on Harvard and its contributions. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
‘An autoimmune disorder’: how Trump is turning American democracy against itself
May 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
‘An autoimmune disorder’: how Trump is turning American democracy against itself
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If you missed my sniffly @nvshakespeare.bsky.social talk on author attribution in early English playbooks—both print and manuscript!—last month, a recording is available online:
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You can find it by scrolling down to the April 2, 2025 news item about my visit.
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You can find it by scrolling down to the April 2, 2025 news item about my visit.
May 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you missed my sniffly @nvshakespeare.bsky.social talk on author attribution in early English playbooks—both print and manuscript!—last month, a recording is available online:
newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
You can find it by scrolling down to the April 2, 2025 news item about my visit.
newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
You can find it by scrolling down to the April 2, 2025 news item about my visit.
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ACLS, AHA, and MLA sue over the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read it:
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May 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
ACLS, AHA, and MLA sue over the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read it:
www.mla.org/content/down...
www.mla.org/content/down...
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In the short run, loss of America’s appeal to scientists around the world. In the medium term, economic depression. In the long term, the US reverses its development.
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NIH grant terminations under Trump have totaled at least $1.8 billion, analysis finds
Researchers calculated that $1.8 billion in National Institutes of Health grants were terminated in just over one month
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May 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In the short run, loss of America’s appeal to scientists around the world. In the medium term, economic depression. In the long term, the US reverses its development.
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Terrific news. “…the court ordered the administration to immediately take steps to restore the agency’s employees and grant funding activities.”
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Report: “In a Major Win for Libraries, Federal Judge Orders IMLS to Be Restored”
From Words and Money: Finally, some good news for the library community. On May 13, federal judge John G. McConnell in Rhode Island issued a sweeping preliminary injunction blocking Trump administrati...
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May 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Terrific news. “…the court ordered the administration to immediately take steps to restore the agency’s employees and grant funding activities.”
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NEW: Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Trump’s attempted takeover of the Library of Congress after a brief standoff with DOJ officials this morning.
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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/12/congress/donald-trump-library-of-congress-fight-00342326
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May 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
NEW: Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Trump’s attempted takeover of the Library of Congress after a brief standoff with DOJ officials this morning.
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Republicans are deploying every trick in the book to gut Medicaid while claiming they’re not cutting it.
The CBO estimates the latest GOP plan would kick nearly 9 million people off Medicaid.
Why?
To fund tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit corporations and the rich.
The CBO estimates the latest GOP plan would kick nearly 9 million people off Medicaid.
Why?
To fund tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit corporations and the rich.
May 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Republicans are deploying every trick in the book to gut Medicaid while claiming they’re not cutting it.
The CBO estimates the latest GOP plan would kick nearly 9 million people off Medicaid.
Why?
To fund tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit corporations and the rich.
The CBO estimates the latest GOP plan would kick nearly 9 million people off Medicaid.
Why?
To fund tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit corporations and the rich.
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‘The Library’
1960, Jacob Lawrence
1960, Jacob Lawrence
May 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
‘The Library’
1960, Jacob Lawrence
1960, Jacob Lawrence
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So if I am getting this right:
Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired.
Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal.
Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired.
Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal.
Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
“President Donald Trump continued a firing spree at the Library of Congress on Saturday when he dismissed the top copyright official in the nation” bit.ly/43amMei
Trump fires top U.S. copyright official
Democrats are alleging foul play.
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May 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
So if I am getting this right:
Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired.
Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal.
Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired.
Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal.
Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
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Dr Carla Hayden was a truly great Librarian of Congress. It is an outrage that she has been sacked - a national shame on the United States. I had the pleasure of knowing her and working with her - she’ll continue to do good in the next phase of her career whatever that is.
May 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Dr Carla Hayden was a truly great Librarian of Congress. It is an outrage that she has been sacked - a national shame on the United States. I had the pleasure of knowing her and working with her - she’ll continue to do good in the next phase of her career whatever that is.
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This German broadside from 1605—by Heinrich Ulrich— illustrates the papal conclave that elected Camillo Borghese that May. He became Pope Paul V.
(@ransomcenter.bsky.social Popular Imagery Collection 285)
(@ransomcenter.bsky.social Popular Imagery Collection 285)
May 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This German broadside from 1605—by Heinrich Ulrich— illustrates the papal conclave that elected Camillo Borghese that May. He became Pope Paul V.
(@ransomcenter.bsky.social Popular Imagery Collection 285)
(@ransomcenter.bsky.social Popular Imagery Collection 285)