Wonderful news!
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This is my part of the world Craig!
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Digital Futures and Information Crises
Cory Doctorow, Naomi Alderman and Oliver Moody with Tom Sutcliffe.
Just caught up with the excellent episode of BBC Radio4's Start the week, this one featuring @naomialderman.bsky.social on her new book 'Dont burn anyone at the stake today' & Cory Doctorow, on his 'Enshittification' - wonderfully hosted by @tds153.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Or a library
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Serene Port Meadow
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Apologies about the link. Sometimes Bluesky wont let me paste into a message, so putting a screenshot in here so you can see the URL
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Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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It is really wonderful news - at least for now!
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A golden Weston Library (@bodleian.ox.ac.uk) this morning
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James Hill brilliant last night @orieloxford.bsky.social talking about the ethics of photojournalism - masterful!
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Come and visit her archive @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Modern constellation on Port Meadow
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Delighted to have been given the chance to review โDonโt burn anyone at the stake todayโ the new and thought-provoking book from @naomialderman.bsky.social (published by Penguin/FigTree) in todayโs @theobserveruk.bsky.social
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Extremely saddened to learn of the death of Rachel Cooke. She was a brilliant writer & journalist, great fun to be around. I will miss our emails & dms & occasional get togethers. The world is significantly diminished by her passing. Appreciate this from Tim Adams in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
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Methods and materials
In 1974, David Cornwell visited Hong Kong, just prior to the publication of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the seventh novel he had published as โJohn le
Delighted with this insightful review by @boydtonkin.bsky.social in the new issue of @thetls.bsky.social of our show marking the arrival of the archive of John le Carrรฉ at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk โTradecraftโ curated by Jessica Douthwaite and Federico Varese! www.the-tls.com/arts/visual-...
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There is still time to apply for one of our 50+ Visiting Fellowships @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the 2026-27 academic year! A vibrant interdisciplinary research centre in the heart of one of the worldโs great libraries!
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The @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social looking mighty fine!
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How to survive an information crisis | The Observer
In this weekendโs @theobserveruk.bsky.social I review the thought provoking new book by @naomialderman.bsky.social โDonโt burn anyone at the stake todayโ (Fig Tree) which examines our current information crisis. HTTPS://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/how-to-survive-an-information-crisis
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Please apply!
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Very sad to see this - I enjoyed meeting him - a great man!
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Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Womenโs History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in womenโs history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
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Port Meadow GMT
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Love it!
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Come and join me and @carosanderson.bsky.social at @stroudbookfestival.bsky.social on Bonfire Night. No books will be harmed during the event - even though I will be talking about 'Burning the Books' (available from @johnmurrays.bsky.social & @harvardpress.bsky.social)!
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Librarian in the Kansas City area. Creator of librarianproblems.com. Author of LIBRARIAN TALES. Lover of all things cats and books. He/him. williamthelibrarian.com ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐บ
Home to the University of Nevada, Reno Archives and Special Collections materials. Our strengths include Nevada politics, activism, environmentalism and land use, mining and railroads, people and places of Nevada, and book arts/artistsโ books.
science educator & communicator | biodiversity scientist | ecologist | guest scientist at @igb-berlin.de
posts in EN and DE, occassionally in ES
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now: co-founder @thenerve.news before: deputy editor, Observer New Review
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Founder of Get It Loud In Libraries www.loudinlibraries.com cool programme of doorstep library gigs with future BRIT & Grammy winners. Born to live in Scotland. Lover of music, books, libraries, radio, dogs, PNE & wife Elizabeth. A BEM, no less.
Presenter, Radio Fourโs Front Row and Start the Week.
All things Classics, Egyptology & Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Archaeology, and History of Art & Architecture. Part of the Bodleian Libraries.
More on our blog! tinyurl.com/ytpzdper
History of archaeology, Knossos, archives, gaming, wine
Ancient History PhD candidate @ Bristol working on craniometry, Arthur Evans & Minoans๐บ๐ Volunteering @ Griffith Institute
In Oxford/From Dublin
Reading: Ringworld by Larry Niven
Oxford prof. French and world cultures. Literature and visual arts & all things 19thC. Slow city cyclist. Don't ask me where I'm from, it takes too long to explain.
Watch the US because what happens there soon comes here (08/01/25, it's happening right now, watch out for Farage and Musk running Trump's playbook here).
The Christian right are neither!
Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham, UK | drnjwaddell.co.uk
(currently on maternity leave)
Collections Research at The National Archives, UK
literature, material culture, book history, textiles
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I work at the British Library in the Digital Research team as a Digital Curator, working with Asian and African collections. I'm interested in all things Digital Humanities, especially OCR/HTR, AI/Machine Learning, Digital Mapping, 3D and IIIF.
Artist, poet, STUDENT (for at least another FIVE YEARS) ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ๐๐จ
https://www.roisinnineachtain.com/books
I,bird - Broken Sleep Books 31/12/25
Poetry/Nature/Literature studies & Art
Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Study horrible things that happen to OK people, write books, overuse sarcasm. Lviv-Haifa-Jerusalem-Madison-New Haven-Washington-Bologna.
Retired archivist & museums professional, based in Newcastle upon Tyne but still Welsh. Luxury views my own
Retired Librarian interested in all History including the History of the Book, Icunabula and the advent of Printing. Theology, Art, Literature, Bruges. Sport, mainly Football and Test Cricket but also Boxing and Horse Racing.
Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & technologies, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Libraries are dope. Still a punk.
