Jon McGregor
@jonmcgregor.bsky.social
I write novels and stories . (Recentlyish: Lean Fall Stand.)
There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/
Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/
Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
There is still time to get your hands on a copy before Christmas.
Spotted: Volume 5 in the wild 👀
And there’s still time to get your hands on a copy before Christmas (as long as you order *right now*)
store.nottingham.ac.uk/product-cata...
And there’s still time to get your hands on a copy before Christmas (as long as you order *right now*)
store.nottingham.ac.uk/product-cata...
January 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM
There is still time to get your hands on a copy before Christmas.
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Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.
January 20, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.
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Never fails to blow my mind that something only 4% of the population can afford (or has much interest in at all) ever gets presented as *middle* class. That 96% of us are in need of outreach.
January 8, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Never fails to blow my mind that something only 4% of the population can afford (or has much interest in at all) ever gets presented as *middle* class. That 96% of us are in need of outreach.
And if you didn't recently buy your copy of the new @theletterspage.bsky.social, then you are *also* in luck! store.nottingham.ac.uk/product-cata...
December 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
And if you didn't recently buy your copy of the new @theletterspage.bsky.social, then you are *also* in luck! store.nottingham.ac.uk/product-cata...
If you recently bought a copy of the new @theletterspage.bsky.social, featuring letters from across the @unesco.org Cities of Literature network, and you wished we'd had space to include the original texts alongside the excellent translations, then you're in luck: theletters.page/our-latest-e...
Our Latest Edition: Volume 5
The Letters Page, Vol. 5 comes to you as a collection of translated letters written by authors based in UNESCO Cities of Literature who are, like Nottingham, celebrating ten years of their City of …
theletters.page
December 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If you recently bought a copy of the new @theletterspage.bsky.social, featuring letters from across the @unesco.org Cities of Literature network, and you wished we'd had space to include the original texts alongside the excellent translations, then you're in luck: theletters.page/our-latest-e...
Ik kijk er zo naar uit. Mag ik dit jaar voor de eerste keer de sluis open? Ik weet het niet. Ik kan maar alleen hopen.
Something to look forward to: on March 2, 2026, the Fish Doorbell comes back online @visdeurbel.bsky.social visdeurbel.nl/en/
Fish Doorbell – See You Next Season! — The Fish Doorbell
Zie je een vis? Druk op de Visdeurbel dan opent onze sluiswachter de sluis en kunnen de vissen doorzwemmen.
visdeurbel.nl
December 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Ik kijk er zo naar uit. Mag ik dit jaar voor de eerste keer de sluis open? Ik weet het niet. Ik kan maar alleen hopen.
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“Tax. The. Rich.” - 38 Degrees’ CEO Matthew McGregor
The public knows what they want: fair taxes, stronger public services, and the ultra-wealthy paying their share.
The Government must listen when they reveal their plans in Wednesday’s budget.
The public knows what they want: fair taxes, stronger public services, and the ultra-wealthy paying their share.
The Government must listen when they reveal their plans in Wednesday’s budget.
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“Tax. The. Rich.” - 38 Degrees’ CEO Matthew McGregor
The public knows what they want: fair taxes, stronger public services, and the ultra-wealthy paying their share.
The Government must listen when they reveal their plans in Wednesday’s budget.
The public knows what they want: fair taxes, stronger public services, and the ultra-wealthy paying their share.
The Government must listen when they reveal their plans in Wednesday’s budget.
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Please sign and help to save my former department! Goodness knows this is no time to stop teaching about and researching North America!
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
www.change.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Please sign and help to save my former department! Goodness knows this is no time to stop teaching about and researching North America!
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Hello poetry friends. I'm looking, for a thing, for examples of poems that quote from TV characters in a way that makes it clear they're doing so without resorting to eg footnotes or similar. Any suggestions? I feel like I've seen it, but my mind is blanker than a blankety blank.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hello poetry friends. I'm looking, for a thing, for examples of poems that quote from TV characters in a way that makes it clear they're doing so without resorting to eg footnotes or similar. Any suggestions? I feel like I've seen it, but my mind is blanker than a blankety blank.
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It's not just music and language courses- it's 48 courses across the university.
But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.
But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It's not just music and language courses- it's 48 courses across the university.
But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.
But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.
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Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.
Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.
Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.
Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.
Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I just want a place of learning where we can read books, learn languages, plant trees, figure things out, build houses, fix plumbing, ride bikes, do childcare, ask questions, welcome strangers, grow food, care for older people, and dance, who's in
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I just want a place of learning where we can read books, learn languages, plant trees, figure things out, build houses, fix plumbing, ride bikes, do childcare, ask questions, welcome strangers, grow food, care for older people, and dance, who's in
Somebody needs to draw a Venn diagram of (fig. a) universities who close their language departments and (fig. b) universities who have the word "global" or "international" in their mission statements, because these people won't understand a thing unless you put it in a powerpoint presentation
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Somebody needs to draw a Venn diagram of (fig. a) universities who close their language departments and (fig. b) universities who have the word "global" or "international" in their mission statements, because these people won't understand a thing unless you put it in a powerpoint presentation
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Final rehearsal week for The Conditional Citizen
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Final rehearsal week for The Conditional Citizen
Twice in the last fortnight I've seen someone on a bike get hit by a car, and both times the driver has started shouting about it being the other person's fault. I feel quite strongly that if you drive your car into a human being the first words out of your miserable mouth should be "are you okay?"
October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Twice in the last fortnight I've seen someone on a bike get hit by a car, and both times the driver has started shouting about it being the other person's fault. I feel quite strongly that if you drive your car into a human being the first words out of your miserable mouth should be "are you okay?"
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our small press fair brings all the depictions of Englishmen by 19th-century Japanese printmakers to the yard. and they're like, wow, I really enjoy browsing books from a range of very small, small, independent, underground, and other presses based on the island of Ireland and from abroad.
October 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
our small press fair brings all the depictions of Englishmen by 19th-century Japanese printmakers to the yard. and they're like, wow, I really enjoy browsing books from a range of very small, small, independent, underground, and other presses based on the island of Ireland and from abroad.
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The Letters Page is back!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The Letters Page is back!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
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Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.
October 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.
My classroom policy on AI is: this is the only AI we will be using in the classroom.
Raymond Queneau. A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, 1961
September 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
My classroom policy on AI is: this is the only AI we will be using in the classroom.
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This photo of Alaa Abdel Fattah's smile by Mohamed El Raai is the most beautiful thing you could wake up to.
September 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This photo of Alaa Abdel Fattah's smile by Mohamed El Raai is the most beautiful thing you could wake up to.
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Sally Rooney, Deborah Levy, Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen are among 20 authors urging French president Emmanuel Macron to resume a “lifeline” programme for evacuating Palestinian writers, scholars and artists from Gaza.
Sally Rooney and Annie Ernaux among authors urging Macron to reinstate Gaza writers programme
20 authors, including Viet Thanh Nguyen and Abdulrazak Gurnah, call on the French president to restart scheme to help creatives evacuate
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Sally Rooney, Deborah Levy, Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen are among 20 authors urging French president Emmanuel Macron to resume a “lifeline” programme for evacuating Palestinian writers, scholars and artists from Gaza.