Alex Wingate
@bibliowingate.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Information Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton & SHARP News.
W&M '18, ULondon '19, MLS @IU '21
W&M '18, ULondon '19, MLS @IU '21
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Alex Wingate
@bibliowingate.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hello all you new followers! I'm a book historian/PhD candidate in Information Science. I work on bookselling/ownership in EM Navarre, Spain; the intersection of ILS+Book History; & applying quant and digital methods to Book History. I mostly post #DH, #DHmakes, #BookHistory, & quilting things!
I am very grateful to the different publishers of the Artis auriferae that none of them decided to do line-by-line reprints of each other's editions. Figuring out Newton's citations would be infinitely less fun if it were because soooo many citations would not be able to be verified. #BookHistory
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I am very grateful to the different publishers of the Artis auriferae that none of them decided to do line-by-line reprints of each other's editions. Figuring out Newton's citations would be infinitely less fun if it were because soooo many citations would not be able to be verified. #BookHistory
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Adorable ancient little guy alert! 🦔 #DHmakes
Part 218 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Adorable ancient little guy alert! 🦔 #DHmakes
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#SundayYellow
Seen In Paducah
I know you are not going to believe this, but, this quilt was in the miniature quilt exhibit. All of the quilts were 18 inches square, or smaller. 😳 This one that was named "Dans les Bains de Maroc" was made by Robin Gausebeck from Rockford, Illinois.
Seen In Paducah
I know you are not going to believe this, but, this quilt was in the miniature quilt exhibit. All of the quilts were 18 inches square, or smaller. 😳 This one that was named "Dans les Bains de Maroc" was made by Robin Gausebeck from Rockford, Illinois.
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
#SundayYellow
Seen In Paducah
I know you are not going to believe this, but, this quilt was in the miniature quilt exhibit. All of the quilts were 18 inches square, or smaller. 😳 This one that was named "Dans les Bains de Maroc" was made by Robin Gausebeck from Rockford, Illinois.
Seen In Paducah
I know you are not going to believe this, but, this quilt was in the miniature quilt exhibit. All of the quilts were 18 inches square, or smaller. 😳 This one that was named "Dans les Bains de Maroc" was made by Robin Gausebeck from Rockford, Illinois.
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A visit to The Quilt Museum in Denver took my breath away. The impact is impossible to capture. I'll share a few detailed passages so you'll get the gist. Live in Denver? You'd be wise to check out this special exhibit before it's gone. The artist is Linda Anderson. And remember, these are quilts!
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
A visit to The Quilt Museum in Denver took my breath away. The impact is impossible to capture. I'll share a few detailed passages so you'll get the gist. Live in Denver? You'd be wise to check out this special exhibit before it's gone. The artist is Linda Anderson. And remember, these are quilts!
Really thoughtful thread that incorporates a quote from Mere Christianity that I still remember writing a response to in high school and Stuart Hall (yay cultural studies!)!
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Really thoughtful thread that incorporates a quote from Mere Christianity that I still remember writing a response to in high school and Stuart Hall (yay cultural studies!)!
Transcribing witness testimony where a village goes to the bishop to convert 1/4 of an endowment for 4 dowries to paying out a school teacher's salary. In their initial petition, they pointed out that w/o a teacher to teach the 3 Rs, their kids can't go to grammar school or uni... (1/4) #BookHistory
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Transcribing witness testimony where a village goes to the bishop to convert 1/4 of an endowment for 4 dowries to paying out a school teacher's salary. In their initial petition, they pointed out that w/o a teacher to teach the 3 Rs, their kids can't go to grammar school or uni... (1/4) #BookHistory
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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a little anti-ChatGPT* poem by Elinor Wylie (1921)
*my interpretation
*my interpretation
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
a little anti-ChatGPT* poem by Elinor Wylie (1921)
*my interpretation
*my interpretation
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Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
Somewhere Bowker and Star are laughing
An old lady steps from the queue. “it’s a carrot,” she says. Glares defiantly at the assistant. The assistant wilts. Enters the radish as a carrot. The elderly Polish gentleman leaves triumphant. Life resumes.
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Somewhere Bowker and Star are laughing
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Using a dishwasher rather than hand washing can save you nine days of personal time over the course of a year.
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Using a dishwasher rather than hand washing can save you nine days of personal time over the course of a year.
It's wild to me how on point Pope Leo seems to be with AI use. A quote from today:
"Be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth...Use it in such a way that, if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, create, and act on your own."
"Be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth...Use it in such a way that, if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, create, and act on your own."
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's wild to me how on point Pope Leo seems to be with AI use. A quote from today:
"Be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth...Use it in such a way that, if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, create, and act on your own."
"Be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth...Use it in such a way that, if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, create, and act on your own."
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NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
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We are excited to welcome Dorothy Berry as the speaker for our 2025 annual lecture, "How Users Imagine Archival Research", on December 10th. Register now: https://edin.ac/4pfKrDp #EdCDCS Charing: Melissa Terras
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We are excited to welcome Dorothy Berry as the speaker for our 2025 annual lecture, "How Users Imagine Archival Research", on December 10th. Register now: https://edin.ac/4pfKrDp #EdCDCS Charing: Melissa Terras
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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After a short posting hiatus, I'm very excited to share this CFP...
📢 Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire
📆 Conference dates: June 10–12, 2026
📝 Application deadline: December 19, 2025
Submissions very welcome from all #earlymodern disciplines — please do consider applying and sharing!
📢 Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire
📆 Conference dates: June 10–12, 2026
📝 Application deadline: December 19, 2025
Submissions very welcome from all #earlymodern disciplines — please do consider applying and sharing!
![CALL FOR PAPERS ANNOUNCEMENT:
Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire
June 10th–12th, 2026
Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
__________________
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Thomas O’Connor
Professor
(History)
Maynooth University Mayte Green-Mercado
Associate Professor
(History)
Rutgers University-Newark Leonardo Velloso-Lyons
Assistant Professor (Spanish and Portuguese)
Emory University
_________________
Exile, diaspora, displacement, multilingualism. Although recent events have brought current issues of migration into sharp relief, the existential dilemmas arising from globalisation, cultural homogenisation, and territorial expansion are anything but new. These dilemmas are deeply rooted in the imperial projects of the early modern period in many ways — and especially so for migrants caught in the ever-shifting dynamics of the Spanish empire as it expanded across the world. In the early 1600s, for example, the Spanish Crown welcomed thousands of Irish refugees who would use their newfound positions and language skills to aid fellow migrants in some cases (such as converso communities facing persecution in Mexico or their own kin facing often violent political subjugation in Ireland) even as they assisted in upholding the status quo in others (such as morisco communities facing expulsion in Iberia).
This conference aims to spark innovative conversations on the way such crosscurrents contributed to emerging conceptions of identity and belonging at the time. What roles did migrants, whose movements were shaped by varying degrees of coercion and agency, play in sustaining, resisting, or remaking community structures in local as well as global contexts? And how did this complicate their representation amid power and precarity?
[not all information will fit here, so please contact laura.francis@mu.ie for a full text document!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6oaze4jw33wpb47b5xtt2ysm/bafkreie7haz76umirlvj24ic56i4zo2budsb2zvo26k5idjcq56stj7g6a@jpeg)
![Proposals are thus encouraged, but not limited to, the following topics on the early modern Spanish empire:
Migration & Community
Migration & Naturalisation
Migration & Solidarity
Migration & Diplomacy
Migration & Dissent Migration & Memory
Migration & Multiculturalism
Migration & Multilingualism
Migration & Translation
Migration & Book History
Migration & Archives
Migration & Materiality
Migration & Racialization
Migration & Religion
Migration & Gender
The conference also specifically aims to cultivate interdisciplinary debates and welcomes work from across fields, such as history, literature, philosophy, etc. Perspectives on understudied relations among multiple migrant communities and/or contact zones are especially desired.
Application Information
For consideration, those interested are invited submit a paper title (15 words max.), abstract (200 words max.), and brief biographical note (50 words max.) to this form by December 19th, 2025: https://forms.office.com/e/yzcmdrraee. Scholars at all career stages are highly encouraged to apply, and all applicants will be informed of acceptance by the end of January.
[not all information will fit here, so please contact laura.francis@mu.ie for a full text document!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6oaze4jw33wpb47b5xtt2ysm/bafkreibefcf3fpsupriufp3hvoqb3qhib4dq5t2vpli2io32s75e5vekq4@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
After a short posting hiatus, I'm very excited to share this CFP...
📢 Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire
📆 Conference dates: June 10–12, 2026
📝 Application deadline: December 19, 2025
Submissions very welcome from all #earlymodern disciplines — please do consider applying and sharing!
📢 Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire
📆 Conference dates: June 10–12, 2026
📝 Application deadline: December 19, 2025
Submissions very welcome from all #earlymodern disciplines — please do consider applying and sharing!
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Reference question that I'm crowdsourcing:
Does anyone know of any guides or resources for someone who is trying to transition to a new name in professional settings? This is specifically in the LIS field.
Does anyone know of any guides or resources for someone who is trying to transition to a new name in professional settings? This is specifically in the LIS field.
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Reference question that I'm crowdsourcing:
Does anyone know of any guides or resources for someone who is trying to transition to a new name in professional settings? This is specifically in the LIS field.
Does anyone know of any guides or resources for someone who is trying to transition to a new name in professional settings? This is specifically in the LIS field.
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Write an essay to win £500 📝
The Gordon Duff Prize is now accepting proposals on the science of books and manuscripts and the arts relating to them.
Find out more and how to enter: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
The Gordon Duff Prize is now accepting proposals on the science of books and manuscripts and the arts relating to them.
Find out more and how to enter: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Write an essay to win £500 📝
The Gordon Duff Prize is now accepting proposals on the science of books and manuscripts and the arts relating to them.
Find out more and how to enter: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
The Gordon Duff Prize is now accepting proposals on the science of books and manuscripts and the arts relating to them.
Find out more and how to enter: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
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Today's Nudivember species has bounced all around taxonomically from a species being split into 3 and then a genus change and is now Trinchesia caerulea.
Info: www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/s...
Photos: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/542385-...
Info: www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/s...
Photos: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/542385-...
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Today's Nudivember species has bounced all around taxonomically from a species being split into 3 and then a genus change and is now Trinchesia caerulea.
Info: www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/s...
Photos: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/542385-...
Info: www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/s...
Photos: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/542385-...
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🌟 Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief has been extended!
👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!
Details here:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!
Details here:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🌟 Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief has been extended!
👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!
Details here:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!
Details here:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
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Yesss! The Keywords for Black Louisiana just won the Digital Project Award at the ASA. Proud to have contributed to this amazing team. Some of the best DH students I've trained up in there. Congrats too for @mellymeldubs.bsky.social & @miriamposner.com. Read all about it in the poster. 🥳🥳🥳
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Yesss! The Keywords for Black Louisiana just won the Digital Project Award at the ASA. Proud to have contributed to this amazing team. Some of the best DH students I've trained up in there. Congrats too for @mellymeldubs.bsky.social & @miriamposner.com. Read all about it in the poster. 🥳🥳🥳
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Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.
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📣 Dicionário histórico da Biblioteconomia / Portal de Livros de Acesso Aberto UNICAMP
📌# Biblioteconomia# DicionárioBiográfico# Dicionários
🔗 Acesse em: https://www.pedroandretta.info/index/2025/11/18/dicionario-historico-da-biblioteconomia-portal-de-livros-de-acesso-aberto-unicamp/
📌# Biblioteconomia# DicionárioBiográfico# Dicionários
🔗 Acesse em: https://www.pedroandretta.info/index/2025/11/18/dicionario-historico-da-biblioteconomia-portal-de-livros-de-acesso-aberto-unicamp/
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📣 Dicionário histórico da Biblioteconomia / Portal de Livros de Acesso Aberto UNICAMP
📌# Biblioteconomia# DicionárioBiográfico# Dicionários
🔗 Acesse em: https://www.pedroandretta.info/index/2025/11/18/dicionario-historico-da-biblioteconomia-portal-de-livros-de-acesso-aberto-unicamp/
📌# Biblioteconomia# DicionárioBiográfico# Dicionários
🔗 Acesse em: https://www.pedroandretta.info/index/2025/11/18/dicionario-historico-da-biblioteconomia-portal-de-livros-de-acesso-aberto-unicamp/
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Rick Steves from 2014: "The more I travel, the clearer it seems to me: Fear is for people who don't get out much. These people don't see the world firsthand, so their opinions end up being shaped by sensationalistic media coverage geared toward selling ads."
Op-Ed: Tune out cable news and turn away fear
I miss the days when people would say "Bon voyage" to travelers heading off.
www.latimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Rick Steves from 2014: "The more I travel, the clearer it seems to me: Fear is for people who don't get out much. These people don't see the world firsthand, so their opinions end up being shaped by sensationalistic media coverage geared toward selling ads."
Look just tell Newton you actually made the Philosopher’s Stone and that’s what you used to resurrect him, and that’ll cut things down quite a bit. Then you get to make up what your fake alchemical processes were!
November 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Look just tell Newton you actually made the Philosopher’s Stone and that’s what you used to resurrect him, and that’ll cut things down quite a bit. Then you get to make up what your fake alchemical processes were!