Jonathan

Hello bluesky! I am a book historian trained in literature (early&c19 American) who’s worked in a library/info studies dept for 13 years. I wrote a book abt what rag paper makes present & how writers thought abt that from 1650-1900. Im an editor of PBSA, thinking abt what bibliography is in the C21.

Here is the gift 🎁 article for others to read. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

Reupping for the new week!

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Listened to the Brewer game on AM radio last night while driving home home from Chicago. Long live AM radio! “Brewers are making mess for the Rays here in the 6th. When YOU’VE got a mess reach for north shore adult diapers…”

JOB(S): My dept has an open rank open specialties (w/in Information Science / Library & Archival Science & closely related) search out of which we hope to make multiple hires! Im not on the committee but can say we'll have new teaching needs in social impacts of information technology & also ethics!

Yes and we’re going to have to (re)build the other vision ourselves, amid opposition from college boards and presidents. There’s Natalia R Alexander’s “Growing People,” my chapter with Aashish Mehta in “Limits of the Nunerical” et al, lots to build on but so much work to do!

Here's one with women leading a strike: #Buffalo scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/curce/2019/o...

a very talented RA helped me map the individual & organizational connections between Cornell's "Higher Ed Report" and the forces destroying higher education in Texas. Worth a look: right-wing-network-map.netlify.app @asheeshks.org @cantb.bsky.social @victorerikray.bsky.social @aaup.org

Musk’s wealth is a threat to democracy—not just in the U.S. but everywhere. He’s probably the greatest threat to the free world today.

Quite sobering filling out the annual call for names to be remembered at my high school’s annual alumni memorial mass and realizing how many classmates and teachers have already departed this earth.

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Maybe universities shouldn‘t be tying which departments and programs they decide to invest in based on projected job trends they have no actual clue about. Why not just invest proportionally in every field of inquiry rather than underfund some disciplines and overfund others?

For #MosaicMonday, this framed Nilotic scene is actually a surviving fragment of the famous Asàrotos òikos (Unswept Floor) from the Aventine. It formed the high-art centrepiece of the dining room, admired by guests looking past the trompe-l'œil food debris at their feet. #AncientBluesky 🏺

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

somehow I am now the chair of the Academic Planning Council for the College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence.

AI researchers warn technology 'months away' from being able to get reimbursement using Concur

Every gun death in America is a preventable death. Especially children. Every single one. Our nation has made a choice.

Bauers, man.

This is straight up, plain and simple authoritarianism. This is the canonical impeachable offense

Announcement!!! Big news!!! 📢📢📢 My book, The Racialization of Print, has a cover (!!), and a webpage, and pre-orders are now available! Coming in Spring, 2027, from @uncpress.bsky.social and @oieahc.bsky.social Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30% uncpress.org/979889313492...

Bad day for Los Angeles sports! 🍻 🦬

Indigenous language revitalization print, created with my colleague Megan Sekulich & commissioned by @filsonhistorical.bsky.social - 100% of proceeds go to the Myaamia Center at Miami University: www.etsy.com/listing/4593... #indigenouspeoplesday

Buffalo 🤝 Milwaukee Rust belt cities beating LA today

One of the hallmarks of middle age for me is now when I read some bit of news my first thought is often “oh man I bet [insert name of this or that friend] had to go to soooooo many stupid meetings about this.”

Beyond a Reasonable Doubtfire.

I recorded a half hour lecture for a class. My usual tool for this is to record a meeting on zoom in which I'm the only attendee. When I tried to upload it today I realized: I was on mute the entire time. If you need me I'll be curled up in a ball on the floor for a while.

Is there going to be peer review on this stuff, or can I just do a website and some tweets saying that I solved a bunch of major problems too?

Honestly instead of learning new techniques to hack my nervous system I'd like to live in a equitable life-affirming society that didn't push me into fight or flight hour after hour. You?

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

“A-Z Foods,” an abecedarian by Fall 2026 LIS 350: History and Future of Books at UW-Madison. In 4 quarto sheets pamphlet bound in press ephemera.

It's me, i am darwin

“A-Z Foods,” an abecedarian by Fall 2026 LIS 350: History and Future of Books at UW-Madison. In 4 quarto sheets pamphlet bound in press ephemera.

With capitalism (and later with bureaucracy), this process has been called “alienation”

This is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels.

it's almost as if poststructuralists were on to something

The amount of time I spend each day going to removepaywall dot com in order to read something is dispiriting. I understand writing & websites cost $! I dont know how to solve this problem! But I know having all the good info & well thought perspectives locked up while the worst shit is free is bad!

One reason I’m resistant to the suggestion that “we” (humanists? academics? The Left?) bracket out the political and economic contexts of this or that tech to think about its boundless potential is that that selective forgetting and abstraction from power is just what underwrites this kind of pablum

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

"Eventually, all our graves go unattended." A great Conan O'Brien and Martin Hagglund mashup.