Andrea Reyes E (she/her)

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Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· 24d

Would be great if scientists and scientific institutes were not on substack. Like come on, where are your values? You want reach? Get someone to manage your SM accounts like the Museum of English Rural Life or some archives/libraries do. Honest and funny vs nazis/rapists platform.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· 25d

Hanging out in Bsky while this volume of Bullarum privilegiorum ac diplomatum Romanorum Pontificum amplissima collectio is being optimised... Page 13 of 499 🫠

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· 26d

All transcriptions (for this article) done, 6 analysed, 1 half-way. Time for a refreshing beverage.

A cockatoo drinking from a cup shaped like the head of a cockatoo. The head of the real cockatoo not visible.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· 29d

Close up of a Western honey bee (worker) on top of a yellow center of a flower

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· 29d

What kind of animal-fruit is that? #BookHistory

An illustrated initial of a V (woodcut I think). Behind the V we see a woman behind a spider with human head on top of a tomato/peach?, she is covering the head with a veil, behind her a landscape.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· 29d

Just a normal rabbit-hole research day, going over my transcriptions for an article, ending at the Decretales because why not. #skystorians Copy form Bayerische Staatsbibliothek www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb1048...

Two pages of a book, left page is blank, on the right:
Decretales D. Gregorii Papae IX.: Svae Integritati Vna Cvm Glossis Restitvtæ. Ad exemplar Romanvm diligenter recognitæ
Editio Vltima
[an image of a boat with three sails)
Parisiis
MDCXII
Cvm Licentia

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jul 11

#WhatIAmReading Trojan Horse Exit Strategies. A Compendium, Inside the Belly of Contemporary Art Institutions by ATI published by #SetMargins. It is not about academia but can relate to many things.

The book on top of papers and next to other books which are partially visible. The title of the book is in red, with a font that looks like hand written. In the background many mini trojan horses in black

Partial view of a page:
to authorise ir, you have
a report, and pay offfi
BEEP⬆️ BEEP⬆️ BEEP⬆️
Ow, that hurts.
BEEP⬇️⬇️ Sorry, should

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jul 10

Thanks to the attendees & to @sharpweb.org for inviting me! My 2 suggestions: Colofones by Juan Francisco Turrientes @editoriallaurel.bsky.social (a biutiful gift from @rodrigocostas.bsky.social) & The Chameleon by Samuel Fisher @saltpublishing.com. We will share the full list later 📚 #SHARPIES2026

Two books against a laptop.
Colofones, la marca del oficio by Juan Francisco Turrientes has a red cover with white letters and a big heart typographical mark (a heart with a stem and leaf).
The Chameleon by Samuel Fisher has a cover with the background of a 70s wallpaper (diamond figures in browns, orange, and beige), and an image in a circular frame, it is part of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Landscape With the Fall of Icarus, focusing only on the peasant working the land.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jul 10

Terugkeerhub is een euphemisme voor kampen waar mensen zonder rechten worden opgesloten. Daarom vind ik uw zorg voor kinderen voor de bühne. www.vluchtelingenwerk.nl/nieuws-en-ke...

Screenshot van motie-Westerveld over vanuit Nederland geen gezinnen met kinderen naar terugkeerhubs sturen (32417, nr. 1011). Verworpen, CU heeft tegen gestemd.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jul 10

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jul 9

Drawing of a blond girl with pigtails. She has a forced smile, a la wtf.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jul 7

It is uncheked (I restarted) and the annoying functionality is still there.

An checkbox with the text "Show "Send to WhatsApp" shortcut"

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jul 7

Why, why, WHY @adobe.com would you add such a useless and annoying thing to Acrobat? Who the H wants to share that text via whatsapp? Has anybody figured out how to disable this? My search only showed ppl are annoyed with it and a pseudofix for Mac.

Screenshot of text being selected in Acrobat. The options are to highlight, comment, underline, cross, etc plus "Share text to WhatsApp."

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jul 3

Are you attending the #SHARPIES festival? On Thurs 9 Jul, 21:30-22:30 CEST I will be hosting the 'All-Languages Book Recommendation Fika Social Hour.' Bring your bookish book recommendation (fiction & non-fic) & tell us why you liked it. @sharpweb.org #BookHistory 1/

Two girls holding schoolbooks, reading. They are dressed in blue uniforms, with light blue puffy jackets.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jul 2

It's on! #BookHistory

A slide with images of a devotional book with a clasp in the shape of a skull, and an illumination from a book.
The text: How lay book owners handled devotional manuscripts in Europe, 1309-1550.
Kate Rudy

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jul 2

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jul 1

#Bookworm announcement: 2 cool places you can visit this weekend in Zuid Holland. 📚 The Eriskay Connection (Breda) has their summer sale on Fri 3 July. 📚 PrintRoom will host the Books are Bridges Art Book Fest on Sun 5 July at the clubhouse of Volkstuinvereniging SNV (R'dam).

A flyer:
Summer sale
Artbooks, Photobooks + drinks
Friday 3 juli 13-19h
The Eriskay Connection
Kloosterlaan - Breda - nabij nr 172
ingang opslag uitgeverij

Flyer
Books are Bridges Art Book fest
Sunday
PrintRoom
5th july
at the clubhouse of SNV
Rotterdam

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 28

Second-hand #bookshop fun finds: an edition of 5 stories from Joyce's Dubliners for the German market. The pupil has filled all the Os in many of the pages & underlined "My eyes were often full of tears" & "I thought little of the future." All of us, German student from the past. 📚 #marginalia

A close-up of the page with two sentences underlined: "My eyes were often full of tears" & "I thought little of the future."

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 26

#WhatIAmReading De Dichter en De Duivel bij #LiekeMarsman 💔 Een aanrader 📚

Het boek op een boekenplank. De cover van het boek met een tekening van een paarse duivel met lange nagels, tong, een baard, en 4 hoorns.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 25

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Screenshot of a webpage with the article mentioned in the quoted tweet (Color Me Confounded: A Critical Analysis of Media Comparisons on ChatGPT in Education), with Elsevier's stupid 'Reading Assistant' that claims can summarise the article and its experiments. Which it cannot because it is genAI and has no cognition.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 24

I talked about Reclaiming Our #Reading & #Writing Skills at the Critical AI Literacies summer school w @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social, on how literacy is related to liberation & empowerment for example w publications from autonomous #presses. 📚 So nice to connect w lovely ppl 🥰

Several publications from autonomous presses: Like Mushrooms After a Rain, The Jewish Anarchists of Bialystok (Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness); El Todo Que Surca La Nada (Eloísa Cartonera); Finding Your Purpose (Hannah Alpert-Abrams); Franz Fanon Lucha de Liberación y Cultura (El Rebozo, Palapa Editorial); Poems from Palestine (Publishers from Palestin); Lo Lingüístico es Político, Yásnaya Aguilar, Gloria Anzaldúa, Ruperta Bautista (OnA Ediciones); Rewording Ramallah, Short Science Fiction Stories From Palestine (Disarming Design from Palestine).

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 23

Today in the agenda: townhall discussion on academic collaborations with defense ministry/the military, plus institute discussions about 'AI.' I'd rather be in a coma, but ready to fulfill my duty 🫡

Drawing of a piglet wearing a hello kitty costume, the text says: I'm being myself regardless of the consequences

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 22

Star Wars Meme of Anakin and Padme, four panels.
Anakin: We're using AI instead of biased humans
Padme: what did you train the AI on?
Anakin: silent
Padme: what did you train the AI on?

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 20

This is all of us, trying to stay afloat in this shitty timeline of the long century of colonialism. Next Monday in Leiden, talk with Martha Luisa Fernández Cadenas at the Challenged & Banned Books Club 📚

Te contaré de mi felicidad. Te contare de mi dieta francesa. Te contare de mis ahorros y de los planes para irnos a un 《todo incluido》.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 19

Flowers are not only outside the library but also inside Special Collections. I found this pretty dried flower when consulting a volume from Dulcet i Palau's Manual. #BookHistory

A dried flower in between the pages of a book. The visible entries are Salamanca, Salamó, Salanio, Salanoba.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 12

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 10

A photo of Grumpy Cat with the text GOOD

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 9

22 June, 1st session of the 'Challenged & Banned Books Club' with Cuban writer Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas. Her book La puta y el hurón exists in 3 editions: a short run from #LibriProhibiti, in Spanish by Caballo de Troya, & in English by #HéloïsePress. 📚 #BannedBooks #ChallengedBooks

A poster announcing the event. The background is brown crumpled paper, at the bottom an illustration of flames and a drawn book case, at the top a hand holding a book with a red crossed circle on top of it.
Challenged & Banned Books Club
Organised by Nike van Helden, Svetlana Kharchenkova, Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Dorine Schellens, & Nanne Timmer.
Supported by a Leiden University JEDI grant
Session 1
Talk with Cuban writer Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas
Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas (Martica Minipunto) is a playwright, writer, and performer. Her debut novel La puta y el hurón, won in 2020 the Premio Novela de Gaveta Franz Kafka, an award organized by the
platform Incubadora and the samizdat collection Libri Prohibiti, from the Czech Republic, which aims to make visible a series of novels that for political and/or civic reasons were (and are) unpublishable in Cuba.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 7

#WhatIAmReading An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand. 📚

The cover of the book. On the background a texture that resembles a tree but in white and greys with some pink highlights, title of the book in white and black.

A narratively constituted imaginary and existence are repeated, reinforced politically and socially, rewritten in every novel either as embedded or as dug up to examine difference or those outside the narrative. If blackness is one of the categories of this narrative schema, then it appears as immutable. This narratively constituted imaginary is a code that considers itself ever changing but is in fact ever elaborating itself as primary--reconstituting the same materials in which it is primary, from which it deals out violence as empathy, violence as love, violence
as the dailv enactment of itself. Code and algorithms after all, are not neutral or value-free--thev are embedded

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel· Jun 5

Best way to close this horrible week: a day at special collections @ubleiden.bsky.social & kataifi for dessert. A copy of this book was in possession of one of my dudes, a commander of the royal customs in #NewSpain. AFAIK there was no edition in Spanish, only French & Dutch. #BookHistory