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Bibliographical Society of America · Back-to-School Special Notebooks
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Malcolm Noble
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Bibliographer & historian with broad interests, incl. business and economic hisotry, queer print, oral history, co-operative HE. he/him www.malcolmnoble.co.uk
We are so proud of the brilliant work of friends and contributors in this issue: thank you to all who brainstormed, peer reviewed, proofread, and helped us think through these #QueerBibliography subjects!
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Malcolm Noble@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 2d agoThe first journal number from #QueerBibliography 2025 is available online, guest edited with the utterly brilliant @ewatson.bsky.social. Thanks to @jilld17.bsky.social and Nadine Kozak for making space so quickly, to anonymous reviewers, our authors, and for Fran Affleck's meticulous copy editing.
does anyone know of any work that’s been done on career trajectories of (UK humanities) academics who have been made redundant? eg information about how many go into school teaching, early retirement, independent research? appreciate this is complex, sensitive and much data is too recent
The first journal number from #QueerBibliography 2025 is available online, guest edited with the utterly brilliant @ewatson.bsky.social. Thanks to @jilld17.bsky.social and Nadine Kozak for making space so quickly, to anonymous reviewers, our authors, and for Fran Affleck's meticulous copy editing.
"He also writes constantly about his friend Charley D. Gurley. For nearly two years, Wing records every change in their relationship with teenage intensity: “Oh Charley, why why are you false?” Later: “He is very kind . . . but still he is not the Charley of old.”"
Digital Newberry@digitalnewberry.bsky.social · yesterdayTwo more John M. Wing diaries are now on Newberry Transcribe—more war, work, printing, and Charley drama. Plus: Route 66 turns 100, with breakdowns, bad motels, and brutally honest traveler reviews behind the postcard fronts. Read more: digitalnewberry.substack.com/p/heartbreak...
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.
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The first journal number from #QueerBibliography 2025 is available online, guest edited with the utterly brilliant @ewatson.bsky.social. Thanks to @jilld17.bsky.social and Nadine Kozak for making space so quickly, to anonymous reviewers, our authors, and for Fran Affleck's meticulous copy editing.
We're not going to miss out on an opportunity to re-up Hallie Lieberman's classic article, "Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America."
Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America - Volume 17 Issue 2
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Coreen McGuire@coreenanne.bsky.social · 2d agoVibrators! Telephones! Embodied knowledge! Hand transplants! Gender historiography!
Opening my inbox to an alert for the first Queer Bibliography and the Library special issue of Library & Information History (edited by @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social and @ewatson.bsky.social) is a very good way to start the week!
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Books are so heavy and book people are so protective & sentimental about them and the vast majority of books (though crucially not all!) are just not worth much and I get paid retail wages to be basically a death doula for middle-aged democrats’ popular nonfiction hoards lmao. pls make my job easier
@arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social The thrills and Detection are all well and good, but a peek inside the Vaults of the Bodleian are why I’d buy this book.
Steven Sheil@scsheil.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnother great Gollancz cover - love how it builds in intensity from 'Thrills!' to 'The vaults of the Bodleian!'
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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If anyone uses Stripe to get payments, go to your Settings (Gear icon) > Plans and Fees > Radar (View plan details) > View Plans > Scroll to "More Options" and select "Lite" I want none of the money I earn to go to AI if I can help it.
💜 Noz 💜 Bust-up Commission Slots Open!@nozdraws.art · 7d agonice, now Stripe is auto-opting people into a nickel charge per transaction for "AI-enhanced" protection shit they never asked for you can change it back to their free "Lite" version, but the fact that it's opt-out by default is so fucking annoying
Giving this cfp a boost: please consider submitting something. Our Forum feature is a great home for shorter pieces. #earlymodern
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal@emwjournal.bsky.social · last mo.We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern
It has been brought to my attention that the forest fires around Bordeaux are burning up the pine plantations set up on drained wetlands there in the 19thC, a project widely admired and imitated around the world. In case someone wants to fund my global history of pine project.
Over 5,000 people have emailed the Charity Commission to ask them to hold Sex Matter's transphobic hate to account. Will you join them? https://action.goodlawproject.org/sex-matters-complaint?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=SexMattersCC&utm_medium=social_media
Stop Sex Matters spreading transphobic hate
The anti-trans pressure group Sex Matters are running a campaign of hate, spewing abuse online and in the media – and putting trans people in danger. Sex Matters say they work to “protect everybody’s ...
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📣CFPs - deadline 31 July📣 Symposium: Global Childhood(s) and Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine 📆16-18 November 2026 🏛️The Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds (UK) In-person with online presentation option #histmed #histSTM
History of Medicines CFPs
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Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
Guten Morgen, BSky. Einen zauberhaften Start in den Tag wünschen Hokus, Pokus und Fidibus ❤️🐿️🐿️🐿️ ❤️ #eichhörnchen #sqrlpix
I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10
Last day to send me your book history proposals for RSA 2027 in Philly!
Marissa Nicosia@nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm excited to circulate this CFP as the Discipline Representative for book history for the Renaissance Society of America! I'm putting together multiple guaranteed sessions for the annual meeting in Philadelphia in 2027. www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
I keep thinking about this, so I’m making it y’all’s problem too: The print runs of Jane Austen’s novels in her lifetime: Susan (later Northanger Abbey): copyright sold for £10 in 1803. Never published, copyright repurchased by her brother in 1816, published posthumously. (1/?)
Dr. Emily Friedman@friede.bsky.social · 2w agoApropos to the Pride & Prejudice-palooza we’re having right now thanks to @trungles.com — it is also a weird specific fuckery to think that my next books will have starting print runs more than the first edition of P&P did in 1813 — and indeed ANY of Austen’s novels in her lifetime.
I was told you miss those days of twitter when I shared my new old books too! Family cooking from aunt Mary. Cookbooks by supposed aunts were a thing at the start of the 1900’s. This is one from France, looking forward to seeing how it compares to the ones from Belgium from that time. #bookhistory
Los Angeles Public Library unveils the world’s largest pop-up book www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/07/dani...
Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
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"Trans+ allies" Nope. If you're serving in the current "Labour" government which has implemented a full-scale trans+ segregation, you can not claim the "ally" badge.
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 2w agoHe is Catholic and has a mixed history on LGBTQIA+ rights. His cabinet features a mixture of Trans+ allies and gender critical voices www.wearequeeraf.com/what-does-a-...