Sarah Bull

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English professor, book historian. 19th c. medical books, erotic books, + ways print and knowledge moved around. SELLING SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE forthcoming from Cambridge UP. Next: project on text reuse in books.

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Not happy with ending their Queer history MA, Goldsmith’s uni want to make the leader of the MA in Black British History redundant. Again. There’s a petition chng.it/Yjwsjp972V 🗃️

Save Black British History at Goldsmithschng.it Dear Warden, Senior Management, and Members of Council, We, as students of Goldsmith’s MA Black British History (past and present), are writing to express our outrage and deep concern regarding the pr...

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Surely Woolf is being far too kind here. This sounds like it has to be one of the worst novels ever written.

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In Florida, the Department of Education has declared it a month for patriotism--"Freedom Summer"-- & said that to impart to students "a sense of American pride," you should have them read Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I'm not making this up. I wish I were. www.fldoe.org/newsroom/lat...

Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. Announces July Books of the Month to Celebrate American Pride MonthCommissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. Announces July Books of the Month to Celebratewww.fldoe.org Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. Announces July Books of the Month to Celebrate American Pride Month

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The latest cover of the New Yorker:

Can anyone recommend any good resources/essays/lists of advice on running a (small) research team and designing projects with this in mind, especially from a humanities perspective? I’d like to get better at this for the sake of student RAs and for the sake of my research.

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academics! teachers! what's the most recent guidebook to academic writing (conference papers, dissertations, etc.) for the arts/humanities you'd recommend?

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no cover yet, hardly any info— but the book has a web page 🌿🫣

Action without Hopepress.uchicago.edu A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

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It was uncanny to spend Walter Benjamin's birthday in the Leopold Museum's exhibit on the New Objectivity in German art of the 20s & 30s. Most of the artists shown were declared "degenerate" & ended up in exile or murdered in the camps. Here is the wonderfully queer Kate Diehin-Bitt, who survived.

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

I finally deactivated my account.

I’ve said this a million times, but I’m genuinely frightened about what Musk’s fascist propaganda network is doing to do to our politics. I really wish someone, anyone, would come up with a collective strategy to get journalists, organizers and elected officials off the platform.

I've never felt as Canadian as I felt this afternoon, when I said to a group of parents who had come over to pick up their kids "oh, you don't need to take your shoes off!" — and they all did exactly what I would do: look deeply uncomfortable, say "oh, no!" and proceed to remove the shoes.

What can a household of people who don't like drinking coconut water do with several litres of coconut water?

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Congratulations to @bookscribbler.bsky.social Matthew Daniel Eddy for winning the 2024 Pickstone Prize with his new book "Media and the Mind"! 🎉🍾 Check out this fantastic work on notebooks as extraordinary paper machines between 1700 and 1830.

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Princeton's new Humanities Initiative is looking for an Executive Director. Apply here: main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/19340/e...

Careers | Human Resourcesmain-princeton.icims.com A career at Princeton provides the opportunity to make meaningful impact. We invite you to imagine the difference you can make being a part of our community.

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Postdoctoral positions and postdocs in the Human-Centered Computing Lab at the Technische Universität München, led by Jana Diesner, who is simply the best. www.gov.sot.tum.de/hcc/jobs/?fb...

Jobswww.gov.sot.tum.de

CFP for papers on population + production, ie Population Bomb, C19 ed (super excited to see this!):

CFP: Political Ecology in Romantic and Victorian Textual Material (Submission Deadline: 9/30/24) bit.ly/3Lg8gce

CFP: Political Ecology in Romantic and Victorian Textual Material (Submission Deadline: 9/30/24) | NAVSAbit.ly

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Fant ut at jeg når jeg driver med forskning er jeg en informasjonsflanør.💅

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Next week! I will be talking about how geneticists have long recognised a multiplicity of sexes but how eugenics muted the queer potentialities of sexological genomics through the 20th century. 🏳️‍🌈🧬🏳️‍⚧️ #histsci #histbio #hpbio #philsci 🗃️ Info and registration: www.genome.gov/event-calend...

'Exploring the Many Dimensions of Sex and Gender in the Genomics Era' 🏳️‍🌈🧬🏳️‍⚧️ I'm delighted to be speaking as part of this phenomenal Zoom Webinar organised by the National Human Genome Research Institute. July 17 & 18 Registration now open . . . www.genome.gov/event-calend...

Exploring the many dimensions of sex and gender in the genomics erawww.genome.gov A public two-day National Institutes of Health (NIH) symposium that brings together experts from the biological and social sciences to clarify and contextualize – but not resolve - the complexities ar...

My son and I were in the hospital for an extra week being treated for sepsis after his birth and came out fine. Grateful for quick action by Addenbrookes Hospital surgery staff — I had never even thought of sepsis as a possibility in that context. Learn about the symptoms below:

Just ask: could it be sepsis? I was “lucky” w/my sepsis experience: 3xIV antibiotics,8 days in hospital,6 weeks off work, 6 months until I felt “normal”. But no ICU, no permanent injury: because I called 999 & was treated under the sepsis protocol. Learn the symptoms: sepsistrust.org/about/about-...

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Highlights from the history of scientific book illustration, from the first two days of my RBS course! 📚📜 #histsci

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Luckily I have air conditioning. Recently in British Columbia (my province) BC Hydro implemented a free air conditioner program for certain income levels. Find it here www.bchydro.com/powersmart/r...

Free portable air conditionerswww.bchydro.com

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Super excited for Queer Bibliography 2024 in two weeks hosted by @calrbs.bsky.social . Registration is now open and we'll be hybrid! forms.gle/SKuYJwkgbHYq...

Queer Bibliography 2024 Conference Registrationforms.gle To be hosted by UCLA California Rare Book School online and in person at the University of California, Los Angeles - July 25th–27th, 2024 Program (draft) link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LDe...

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In advance of the Queer Bibliography conference later this month, we’ve made @sarahpyke.bsky.social & @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social’s PBSA article free to access through Sept 8. Read and enjoy!!

Queer Bibliography: A Rationale | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 118, No 2doi.org Abstract The advent of critical bibliography has seen critical theory put to work to reappraise the field’s foundations, methods, and practices in response, in part, to categories of oppression. Recen...

Apparently the British Museum Reading Room is open again for visitors! Kind of disappointed that I didn't know this when I was in London last week. The reading room is known as a place where Karl Marx wrote (though apparently not as frequently as often suggested), but it also crops up frequently +

British Museum reopens Reading Room - Museums Associationwww.museumsassociation.org Space had previously only been accessible on ticketed tours

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As I turn my attention to planning a fall graduate “Introduction to Digital Humanities” class, what DH scholarship published in the past 3-4 years would you insist should be included on such a syllabus?

Excellent list of ground truths, should be at every one of these events.

This Wednesday, July 10, you are cordially invited to join me and @ach.bsky.social in a discussion that we probably could have called "What to expect if you're expecting to be on the academic job market". Here are some ground truths we will begin with. Register: members.ach.org/civicrm/even...

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Who is writing about the Harlem Renaissance re-revival? Nice to see the stuff in the NYT etc. (and film of Passing, although unfortunately it was not good) but also weird lack of reflection. Zora is out and Nella is in, all the heavy lifts by Hazel Carby, Deborah McDowell et al. seemingly forgotten

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BRAIN: don't say history of medicine don't say history of medicine don't say history of medicine don't say history of medicine DOCTOR: So what kind of history do you teach? ME: History of medicine. [long pause] DOCTOR: I see. BRAIN: [slow clap]

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Every generation must learn for themselves to think backwards when printing 📚 🖼️ 🎨

So relieved. The only remotely positive thing about the Tory reign is that the press coverage introduced me to the excellent British simile "fighting like rats in a sack"