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Wim Van Mierlo
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Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University

Author of James Joyce and Cultural Genetics: The Joycean Genome (Bloomsbury)

Documentary and Heritage Photographer
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St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #documentingplace #documentingspaces #Eastmidlands #nikon #bnwref="/hashtag/bnwphotography" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #zwartwit #zwartwitfotografie #schwarzweiss #schwarzweissfotografie #monochrome

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Black and white interior of a church with heavy shadows during construction. Looking in between white sheets draped from ceiling to floor on the left and a stone pillar on the right towards a stained-glass window.
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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darrensmith.org.uk
The #Peverilof the #peak#pubin #Manchesteris one of the oldest #victorian#public#houseswith its #loyal#customers/#staff.Shot by a #local#photographerDarren Smith Photography on #locationin the #citycentre.#streetphotography#architecturephotography#artnouveau#blackandwhite
DSP
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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katharinehillphoto.bsky.social
#small #BlueSkyArtShow
A person in the distance pauses between the old metal legs of the pier to take a photo of the West Pier's remaining structure in the sea.
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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lesliehowsam.bsky.social
A #bookhistory academic’s review of @biblioasis.bsky.social bestseller, The Notebook. 📒. 🇨🇦
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Roland Allen. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. – SHARP News
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November 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
wvmierlo.bsky.social
The old handbell workshop at John Taylor & Co., Bellfounders, Loughborough.
#photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUnloved #Nikon
Interior of an old workshop; pipes hanging off the wall; steels and debris are lying on the floor.
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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lboroenglish.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher, Liam Young, is co-organising the first @bacls.bsky.social graduate conference, held at the Uni of Leeds on 20 May 2026. Participants will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the journal Alluvium. Deadline for abstracts: 4 January 2026. CFP here: bacls.org/news/188/
News - BACLS New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies Conference 2026 CFP
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November 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
wvmierlo.bsky.social
Textual Scholars: deadline for the 2026 ESTS conference in Lublin, Poland (28-30 May) is fast approaching. Submit your abstracts on the theme of 'Edition and Interpretation' by 30 Nov.

ests2026.arfi.kul.pl/call-for-pap...

#ESTS #scholarlyediting #textualscholarhip #literature #history #humanities
Call for Papers - Edition and Interpretation
ests2026.arfi.kul.pl
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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uoyborthwick.bsky.social
If you missed out on the UK snow this morning feel free to make your own, courtesy of this 18th century recipe from the archive of the Earls of Halifax. All you'll need is a quart of cream, 6 egg whites, rose water & sugar, and the crucial 'Cloven stick' or 'bunch of twiggs' for the beating.
To make snow Take a quart of cream and put into it six whites of eggs; of rose water and sugar as much as will sweeten it, and beat them together with a cloven stick or a bunch of twigs all one way. And as the snow riseth take it up and put it into a dish and so serve it up You must do it but a little before you send it in or it will fall again.
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplace #documentingspaces #heritagephotography #historyandheritage #Eastmidlands #nikon

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A church interior: some of the furniture is covered in a white sheet to protect it from dust. Above this is some arched stonework and a religious painting; to the right a wooden screen with doorway leading to arched windows.
November 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
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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
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November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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foundview.bsky.social
Paris #photography #blackandwhite
October 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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foundview.bsky.social
Paris #photography #blackandwhite
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplace #documentingspaces #heritagephotography #historyandheritage #Eastmidlands #nikon #Newark #church
A closely-cropped detail of the church spire showing two arched windows in the sunight.
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
wvmierlo.bsky.social
Important article in Nature by James O'Sullivan demonstrating how human writing is more heterogeneous than GenAI outputs and therefore distinguishable.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#GenAI #AIslop #Stylometrics #humanities
Stylometric comparisons of human versus AI-generated creative writing - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Stylometric comparisons of human versus AI-generated creative writing
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November 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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View across town from the rooftop of St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplace #documentingspaces #historyandheritage #Eastmidlands #Newark #nikon

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View across the rooftops of the town, showing red and white houses in different styles; a large building with a interesting double chimneystack; on the horizon are three windmills generating clean energy.
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
wvmierlo.bsky.social
On 19 Nov, Christopher Ohge (IES) will deliver a talk on The Bow in the Cloud: A Digital Edition and Network Analysis of Antislavery Literature at LETS: Loughborough Editing and Textual Scholarship research group. 4.15pm in Brockington B1.11 and on Teams. DM for online link.
@cmohge.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Scaffolding, St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplace #documentingspaces #heritagephotography #historyandheritage #Eastmidlands #nikon #photooftheday #texture #eye_collective
Detail view of scaffolding around the side of a church in bright sunlight, with heavy shadows.
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Rooftop, St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplaces #documentingspaces #heritagephotography #historyandheritage #Eastmidlands #nikon

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A well-weathered stone carving on top of a church roof. In the background is scaffolding and a blue sky with big, white clouds.
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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ests-eu.bsky.social
The deadline to submit an abstract for our upcoming ESTS 2026 conference (28-30 May, Lublin, Poland) is quickly approaching!
This year’s theme is Edition and Interpretation. Please visit the conference’s official website for more information: ests2026.arfi.kul.pl
Home - Edition and Interpretation
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November 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

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An old red-brick building with four large windows and several chimneys surrounded by trees underneath a blue sky with scattered white clouds.
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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apache.be
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplaces #heritagephotography #Eastmidlands #nikon #church

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The church during restoration work. Various objects are covered in dust sheets. A scaffolding has been erected next to the stained glass window; beneath the window is a tressle table.
October 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplaces #heritagephotography #Newark #Eastmidlands #church #nikon

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October 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
A daye wythout anachronism ys lyke Emily Dickinson wythout her lightsaber.
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
wvmierlo.bsky.social
PhD opportunity with fee-waiver. I'm always interested in supervising projects in textual scholarship and editing, literary archives and modernism (especially the work of James Joyce and W. B. Yeats).

www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

#phd #humanities #lboro
School of Social Sciences and Humanities | Postgraduate study | Loughborough University
We are keen to receive proposals from scholars interested in working within or across a wide range of areas within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
www.lboro.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM