It’s wonderfully liberating to hear somebody present about a worthwhile project that didn’t really go anywhere because she got a better job halfway through and the library was too understaffed to keep it going. It was still interesting and worth hearing about. #relatable #RBMS25

Luckily I was able to escape the punishing heat of Boston for the cooler climes of New Haven today.

I was already mad enough at this article about historians using AI before I got to the line "Why spend a month camped out in some dusty repository not knowing for sure that anything publishable will even turn up, when instead you can follow real, powerful intellectual trails through the seeming infinitude of sources accessible from the comfort of home?" FIRST OF ALL ITS NOT DUSTY HERE GODDAMMIT WE VACUUM.

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell ab...

Apparently I need to be tied to the mast of my ship like Odysseus to stop me checking my work email and answering reference questions on a Friday night. Boundaries, John!

The multiple posts aren't more effective, but they make my timeline feel more full.

I’ve got an idea for what to do with the samples after their scientific value is destroyed.

masslive

Trump cuts threaten ‘irreplaceable’ Harvard stockpile of human feces, urine

More than 1.5 million scientific samples of human feces, urine and blood may have to be thrown out as the Trump admin cuts research funding.

At auction: the only known photographs of Ada Lovelace, estimated at £80,000 - £120,000.

Bonhams : LOVELACE (ADA) The only known photographs of Ada Lovelace (3)

The only known photographs of Ada Lovelace, comprising: CLAUDET (ANTOINE) 2 portraits, eighth-plate daguerreotypes, under oval gold-coloured mounts...

With exquisite delicacy and patience, British Museum conservators removed a rare Michaelangelo drawing from a damaging 19th century mounting.

Hey! Check out this post on marginal manicules. 👉

Special Collections and Archives / Casgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau

The magic of manicules: more pointing fingers from the margins of Cardiff’s rare books

As we continue to explore and catalogue Cardiff University’s extensive collections of rare books, we are encountering more and more manicules...

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“So, how’s everybody holding up at Harvard these days?”

Harvard Magazine

This is How Universities Die | Harvard Magazine

Higher ed thrived in Berlin and Beijing. Then government stepped in.