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CodEX Machina Podcast @codexmachina.bsky.social · 3d

On our latest episode, we interview Dr. Jennifer Gouck, University of Münster, about her research on banned and challenged books and her participation in the Banned Books Network Münster, where she gave a lecture on The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.

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These books were discussed by Banned Books Network in Münster, Germany.

Two flyers with red backgrounds: the top one is for Universität Münster "Banned Books in Conversation: Book Talk and Workshop" Thursdays 18-20 Uhr SpecOps Gesellschaftzimmer 22 May And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell, Justin richardson and Henry Cole, Prof. Silvia Schultermandl
03 July The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Dr. Jennifer Gouck
23 Oct Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden Dr. Sara Pyke
11 Dec Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume Prof. Corinna Norrick-Rühl

The second is Universität Münster Banned Book(s) Club. Bold books. Brave conversations. Join our monthly club to read, reflect and resist together. Just scan below to register.
Oct 16 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Nov 6 All Boys Arent Blue by George M. Johnson
Dec 4 Forever by Judy Blume
Jan 8 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Thursdays 4-5 pm at SpecOps
sponsored by Book Studies (in a book) living.knowledge and am studies

CodEX Machina Podcast @codexmachina.bsky.social · 3d

First, we discuss Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume.

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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume | Strange Land Book Club 6 #bannedbooks

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CodEX Machina Podcast @codexmachina.bsky.social · 3d

It's Banned Books Week! And we are so happy to hear that @georgetakei.bsky.social is the honorary chair this year! We'll have to read his book for Strange Land Book Club! The Codex Machina team has a couple of episodes out right now that focus on banned books and scholarship of banned books.

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#60 of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s according to the ALA

young adult literature, coming-of-age story 1970 beside a recent cover of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. The cover is bright pink and has Judy Blume in large letters at the bottom, with what looks like a text message saying Are You There God? It's me, Margaret followed by "God" with the three dots that show a message is being written.

The most challenged book of 2006, 2007, and 2008 according to the ALA.

children's book, 2005 next to the cover of the book "and tango makes three" by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell with illustrations by Henry Cole. The cover art features two adult penguins and a baby penguin on an iceberg. There is a medallion for the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award

One of the ten most-challenged books of 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021, according to the ALA

novel, urban fiction, 2017 next to the cover of "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas with a medallion for the Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis (the German young adult literature prize). The cover features a Black teenaged woman holding the title of the book.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 5d

On This Day in History: October 7, 1955
Allen Ginsberg gave the first public reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. Kenneth Rexroth emceed while Jack Kerouac worked the crowd with a wine jug and shouts of encouragement. The reading helped ignite the Beat scene.

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in 1959 – Photo by John Cohen

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CodEX Machina Podcast @codexmachina.bsky.social · 20d

🎙️Coming soon, just in time for Banned Books Week (October 5-11) we have a series of episodes about book bans/challenges and censorship. Our next episode will be a Strange Land Book Club episode about Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume. 💪

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CodEX Machina Podcast @codexmachina.bsky.social · 23d

In our fourth Strange Land Books episode, we discuss the Ted Chiang short story "Tower of Babylon". Link is for Apple podcasts, but available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Strange Land Books 4: The Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · Aug 5

Great thread about the mistakes that academic orgs + institutions make on AI. They centre AI because they think it is inevitable. This is a betrayal of their mission to provide critical skills. We should think what we want to achieve & then look for tools, not assume everything is a nail. #resistAI

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Aug 5

The assumption that generative AI could be a "valuable partner" is unevidenced and the example activity is critical thinking work that could better be done in the absence of AI. It's thinking of something you COULD do with AI. Rather than what students SHOULD do to learn.

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CodEX Machina Podcast @codexmachina.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Thessaloniki Book Fair 2025

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CodEX Machina Podcast @codexmachina.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Thessaloniki Book Fair 2025

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CodEX Machina Podcast @codexmachina.bsky.social · Aug 5

We’ve been remiss in posting about our latest episodes as they come out, so it’s time to catch up. In our 7th episode, join us as Bethany and Laura discuss their experiences at the Thessaloniki Book Fair.

A picture of the cover of the “International Professional Program” of the Thessaloniki Book Fair in a sepia tone. The program shows a globe hanger with a stack of books instead of the earth. There are doodles of flowers all over the program. Transcribed over the program is the text in white “Thessaloniki Book Fair 2025”

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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · Aug 4

Do you dog-ear or think that’s too…. ruff on your #books?

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On the psychology & cultural history of our attitudes toward the physical book. NB features fellow @sharpweb.org member & friend Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · Jul 27

The Booker Prize 2025 longlist is almost here. Pull up a seat.

See you on Tuesday 29 July, 2pm BST.

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · Jul 27

For #CoffeeWithACodex on July 31, @leoba.bsky.social‬ will bring out LJS 188 and LJS 191, astronomical texts in Middle English, in two portions of an original manuscript that is now in four parts. The original manuscript was written in England circa 1496.

Register here: https://bit.ly/40kD6sd

Coffee with a Codex: Astronomical Texts (Two fragments from the same original manuscript)

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · Jul 27

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

One does not simply walk past a bookshop.

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Yun Xie @yunxie.bsky.social · Jul 20

A little counterpoint here, hope you don’t mind :) Chinese movable type printing started to take off in the 19th century, and it was due to a mix of factors.
1. There was the growing need for bilingual dictionaries, especially ones mixing Chinese with Latin letters.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Jul 19

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

Slide with title Digital Humanities for a World Unmade, blue background with stylized images of a Dutch windmill, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Hagia Sofia, Big Ben, and the Singaporean lion.

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mia @miaout.bsky.social · Jul 19

My slides on The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums doi.org/10.5281/zeno... from our #DH2025 panel on Openness in GLAM: Analysing, Reflecting, and Discussing Global Case Studies

Thanks again to all the speakers for your fantastic contributions! And the audience for questions

The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums

The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums Museums, libraries and archives have been releasing digital collections records and media as open data for decades. 'Open GLAM' images,…

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Jun 18

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · Jul 8

Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...

BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
NEW SERIES
Book History for the Future
SERIES EDITORS:
Lisa Gitelman, New York University, USA
Tom Mole, Durham University, UK
Sarah Werner, Independent Researcher, USA
Book History for the Future aims to define the cutting edge for a new generation of book historians, as book history enters a new chapter of its evolution. Books sit at a densely trafficked intersection of social relations, status negotiations, emotional investments, material possibilities, desires, aspirations, and dreams.
They require an intellectual approach grounded in attention to physical artefacts and material conditions while also engaged in theoretical reflection, attentive to historical contexts while attuned to contemporary resonances. This series publishes books that eschew academic parochialism in favour of adventurous engagements with new theoretical developments, innovative methodologies, digital tools, and global
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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Jul 9

Back to the live-posting! @owenmonroe.bsky.social is training an AI model to find scientific articles in Victorian political periodicals based on the half-page chunks of the *Penny Magazines* he has labelled as being about science

#SHARP2025 #BookHistory

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Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social · Jul 9

Printers’ devices on the doors of Rush Rhees Library ✨ #SHARP2025

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · Jul 8

It's a special week at @strangehorizons.bsky.social Reviews: we're putting the focus on small US presses publishing speculative fiction in translation.

We have five reviews this week *and* the return of our podcast, Critical Friends. The goal: to note the amazing work done by these houses.

7 July 2025

Visit the post for more.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · Jul 4

such an honor to announce that lucky day has been named an august INDIE NEXT pick. this is decided by independent booksellers who pluck beautiful chords across timelines with their recommendations in such an important way. thank you buckaroos

glowing sign that says thank you booksellers for making lucky day an indie next pick. las vegas sunset is in the background

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CodEX Machina Podcast @codexmachina.bsky.social · Jul 4

It is really disheartening seeing the same things happening in the US happening in the UK.

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