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Alex Wingate

@bibliowingate.bsky.social

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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

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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!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 12h

Oh I know there are weirder ones than me lol. I know they’ve got an onsite conservation lab, so I figure there’s a scale running around there somewhere. I figure to the nearest oz will be okay because I have to account for the binding anyway bc the copies in the book list are unbound

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 12h

I think I’ve sent my weirdest reference request ever to a library: I’m asking if they’ll weigh two copies of a particular book because I’m trying to verify my guesstimate of how many of 225 copies two different people bought. They bought by weight for old paper, not copies, hence math! #BookHistory

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Óscar Perea Rodríguez @opr71.bsky.social · 1d

Hasta un reloj estropeado acierta dos veces al día.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

“I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district." trib.al/MZsOwGU

MTG Turns Against Republicans in Shocking Flip on Government Shutdown

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks Democrats have a point on the Obamacare fight at the center of the government shutdown.

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 1d

Archives!
Ah!-chives
Argh!-chives
Blah!-chives!

What was your last research day like?

Mine has been a lot of argh!, alas.

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 2d

Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +

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Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know all our lessons are free to transform, reuse and share under the CC-BY licence?

Join our free webinar on 23 October at 15:00 BST to learn how you could lead independent adaptations of our content for your needs and community:

tinyurl.com/ph-remix-reuse

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 2d

Like a good thread about airports? (obvs yes)

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 2d

A life update: this wound up paying off. I'm still applying to several jobs that are hopefully careers, but I've got my survival needs covered by a job at the airport that I'm apparently pretty good at.

And instead of being in an office alone, which was driving me mad, I see 20k people a day.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · Aug 12

There is a line around this building to get to the line entrance to wait to get into this job fair.

At the airport. For airport jobs.

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Kittie @kittiepeters.com · 2d

delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 3d

The bad news is that there's an overcast and even though there are dozens of pelicans they're not feeding in focus distance. The good news is the overcast gives the IN FLIGHT BELTED KINGFISHER a really solid reflection on the water.

Cell edit. Better later. 😇 🪶

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 4d

Happy discovery while searching for teaching materials for early medieval Bible week: the Stockholm Codex Aureus is online and freely downloadable as a very high-res PDF from the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/urn-...

#medievalsky #paleography #bookhistory

Codex Aureus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

MS. A 135, Royal Library, Stockholm, Sweden

archive.org

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 5d

Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!

We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Dec 8

Seasonal greetings for both the #bookhistory and #digitalhistory folks: a keyboard waffle iron. 🗃️

A waffle iron that forms keyboard waffles.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

The US is deporting a journalist today

Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities

They grabbed him

Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family

The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally

They’re attacking the free press

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Full Story Baltimore @fullstorybaltimore.tours · 9d

Faux Civil War recruiting poster, with text in a variety of vintage fonts, reading:
RALLY, NEIGHBORS,
FOR THE UNION
The walking tour
“Baltimore’s Confederate Shadows:
Mount Vernon to Midtown”
SOON TO TAKE THE STREETS!
Knowledge is power!
Let the rebels take warning!
NO SKEDADDLERS WANTED! FALL IN, FOLKS!
The Union MUST and SHALL BE preserved! The Rag of Treason must no longer define us!
On Saturday, October 4th, 7pm to 8:45pm
And Wednesday, October 15th, 7pm to 8:45pm
☞ Purchase tickets at https://fullstorybaltimore.tours/
Returning for two nights only
Do not miss this unique chance

Another faux Civil War recruiting poster, with text in a variety of vintage fonts, reading:
NOTICE!
RALLY, NEIGHBORS, FOR THE UNION
AWAKE! THE ENEMY ARE UPON US!
AND JOIN US ON THE WALKING TOUR
“Baltimore’s Confederate Shadows:
Mount Vernon to Midtown”
SOON TO TAKE THE STREETS!
Knowledge is power!
The Union MUST and SHALL BE preserved! The Rag of Treason must no longer define us!
On Saturday, October 4th, 7pm to 8:45pm
And Wednesday, October 15th, 7pm to 8:45pm
☞ Purchase tickets at https://fullstorybaltimore.tours/
Returning for two nights only
Do not miss this unique chance

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 5d

For the #DHMakes and #quilting crowds, check out the shiny/sparkly rulers and other stuff from Feral Notions!! (Did I just buy myself an iridescent ruler? Yes, yes I did) feralnotions.com

Feral Notions

Fun and sparkly sewing notions and quilting rulers!

feralnotions.com

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7d

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely essential to reserve the phrase “computer guy” for the guy who fixes your computer, i e, a modern day Hercules. I think you mean “tech bro”

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 7d

it really does seem like computer guys just want to make the world worse

it's like they're at the point they're literally sitting around in a room going "how can we make the world a worse place?"

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 7d

My writing career summed up in one image:

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 7d

Just donated to my @pbs.org station (go WETA!!!) bc of federal funding debacle, and what am I rewarded with? A whole new *Walking with Dinosaurs* series! When not dissertating and Newtoning, I will be quilting and watching the dinosaurs
(and go donate to PBS and NPR to support public broadcasting!!)

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 7d

Figured it out! He wrote book 4, chapter 14, but it's really in book 5, section 2, chapter 14. I also now know that books have multiple sections, meaning that there are like five chapter 14s in a given book.
#BookHistory #HistSci

Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 7d

Something has definitely gone wrong in Newton's alchemy citation when it leads you to a section on mules, eels, and trouts...
#BookHistory #HistSci

Screenshot from a Google Books scan of Faber's 1652 Operum (vol. 1) in book 4, chapter 14 of the "Panchymicum." Left column is the end of chapter 13 on mules, right column has chapter 14 on eels and the beginning on chapter 15 on trout.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 7d

Something has definitely gone wrong in Newton's alchemy citation when it leads you to a section on mules, eels, and trouts...
#BookHistory #HistSci

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 7d

by the way, all those benign AI bots crawling the internet for for-profit LLMs, yeah it turns out when 9,000 hit your archive catalogue or image database all at once they break the system. This is an emerging sector issue.

The last weeks have literally seen humans labouring to feed the machines...

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