Laura Estill

Media Release of the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

PSA

We are coming into the time (8-29 March) when North America and Europe are not on the same daylight savings time schedule so any standing meeting time will be messed up

Conference Proverbs & Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture An international and interdisciplinary conference July 1-3, 2026 University of Hull This conference explores the prevalence, fun…

Deadline tomorrow! Submit your abstracts for "Proverbs & Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture"

Conference to be held at @uniofhull.bsky.social from 1-3 July

Full CFP:
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/events/confe...

A government that claims to supports healthcare and then cuts research funding does not support healthcare #nspoli

Prof Kailin Wright, smiling from ear to ear, shelving a copy of No Mother, No Future in her office at @stfx-university.bsky.social

A beautiful book cover with mauve damask background. Series: @routledgebooks Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies. Title: No Mother, No Future: Performing Motherhood and Reproductive Loss Author: Kailin Wright

Prof. @wrightkailin.bsky.social 's newest monograph arrived today!

"No Mother, No Future: Performing Motherhood and Reproductive Loss" ( @routledgebooks.bsky.social , 2026) is set to be a field-defining work.

Congratulations!

Table of Contents and to order:
www.routledge.com/No-Mother-No...

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Arts and culture in Nova Scotia left reeling from 'unprecedented' cuts - Halifax Examiner "It's going to be absolutely devastating."

thanks to @philmoscovitch.bsky.social and @halifaxexaminer.ca for bringing attention to this travesty

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...

I love how awkward the word 'awkward' is

Is the Shakespeare Census down?

Deadline extended for submissions to TEI2026 (Vancouver) this year

tei2026.tei-c.org

happy to share the whole pamphlet if you msg me!

Scanned pamphlet cover, ecru paper with black text. A wiggly border on all four sides. Title, in all caps: A HISTORY OF S. S. No. 6 KINTORE ONTARIO with a printer's ornament of fleurons in an downward pointing triangle Bottom right: 1835-1937

First page of "A History of S. S. No. 6, Kintore, East Nissouri, Oxford County, Ontario, Founded in 1835" Image on page recto of a long, rectangular, log-built one-room schoolhouse with caption "Date of erection of Log School 1835"

My mom found this pamphlet on the history of the one-room schoolhouse in Kintore, ON from 1835-1937.

Decades later, my Grandma was secretary-treasurer

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

Image with purple text in a white box on yellow background Text: Townhall: Protecting Post Secondary Education in Nova Scotia A Conversation about Provincially Mandated Program Reviews and Bill 12

Why does the Nova Scotia government want to cost universities hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars? Why have they spent almost half a million dollars on an American consulting firm?

Find out more tonight! Online town hall (zoom link on linked page below)

cocogov.org/blog/townhall/

Flyer for "dh@guelph summer workshops" with watercolor background. Dates: May 19-22, 2026, at University of Guelph. Includes "Register Here" button and QR code.

@paulbarrett1.bsky.social and I are thrilled to announce the 2026 DH@Guelph Summer Workshops! We've got an excellent line up this year (UX, Feminist Making, & Soundwalks, oh my!) & will be announcing our keynote next week.

Please help us spread the word!!

Register here: tinyurl.com/DHGuelphSW26

A beautiful hardcover book, with the title "Slings & Arrows: Adapting Shakespeare in Theatre and Television," with a picture on the dust jacket of William Hutt on stage; the bottom of the cover is a gorgeous red damask. Edited by @wrightkailin.bsky.social and Don Moore From @uoftpress.bsky.social

The top of a page with text: 6 Chapter title: Actors, Names, and the Cultural Inheritance of Slings & Arrows Author: Laura Estill Epigraph: "When I say 'to be or not to be,' the audience will be hearing every, *every* great actor who ever spoke those words. They'll hear Olivier, Burton, and you." - Jack Crew to Geoffrey Tenant, Slings & Arrows

Look what just arrived!

Congratulations @wrightkailin.bsky.social and Don Moore!

I'm very proud to have a chapter in this fantastic volume.

Full table of contents: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice offers international perspectives on how we teach and research in and with digital humanities today. Building on the foundation of earlier publications ...

Out now:

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice
www.routledge.com/The-Companio...

Edited by @lauraestill.bsky.social , @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J Lane, and Constance Crompton

And it's open access!

@routledgebooks.bsky.social @stfx-university.bsky.social

I'd read that article!

Tell me your university acts without consulting faculty without telling me your university acts without consulting faculty

TIL about Apache Anubis, which stops AI traffic from overwhelming websites

I love the idea that Anubis, the ancient Egyptian psychopomp that guided souls to the afterlife, says "of course I'll usher the dead but I draw the line at AI"

This is an ACENET appreciation post

Poster for the event with the information in the post plus an image of the provincial flag and the notice “hosted by the Coalition for Collegial Governance” and the URL cocogov.org/blog/townhall

Townhall at the Halifax Central Library, 23 February (Monday), starting at 6:30 pm: “Protecting Post-Secondary Education in Nova Scotia.” #nspse #nspoli #cdnpse

Hi! Our flow chart for deciding if and when to use AI takes this into account. Oops!

sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...

If you think this might apply to you but don't know how to find the paper trail, get in touch. I am a skilled archival researcher and I can be hired to find all the details you need.

Is there a reputable Canadian company (or non-American) like MailChimp or Constant Contact that manages the distribution of large batches of marketing emails?

#Canada #Canadianproducts

An image of a hand holding a yellow no name brand bag of bay leafs (also labelled feuilles de laurier) Caption at the bottom: "me when I'm 'bout to become the poet laureate"

A former student made and printed this meme for me after coming to a talk I gave this week

I'm cackling--it's perfect!

(Shared with permission)

Had a great social writing group this morning. It's amazing how much more productive I am when I turn off my email.

Graphic with the text Nova Scotia Museum Research Grants. Now Open https://museum.novascotia.ca/grants

We are accepting applications for Nova Scotia Museum Research Grants. Completed application forms must be received by no later than 5 pm AST, March 13, 2026.

Visit: museum.novascotia.ca/grants

#novascotia

email with text: Hi, I was checking out your website www.stfx.ca and really liked the design. One thing I noticed is that it isn’t ranking well yet for key Google searches.

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