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Matt Shaw

@matthewshaw.bsky.social

In a library. Most likely just off Queen's Lane. #PrintHistory #Time #Newspapers https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867

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Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’ve seen in two culture /higher ed magazines recently the claim that the printing press engendered a crisis of authority at universities bc anyone could publish what they wanted and people could learn things without universities. This is not true.

Matt Shaw@matthewshaw.bsky.social · 6d ago

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5902/cm... 'In March 2026, the current government said that it would publish a new strategy for public libraries later this year to “restore their position at the heart of communities and their pivotal role in improving ... lives'

Reading for Pleasure

Report of the Education Committee

publications.parliament.uk

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 6d ago

My takeaways: fund libraries (school + public). Make school libraries statutory. Fund author visits (self serving but still valid). Fund books in early years hubs. Teach parents/carers how to read with young children. Make national year of reading a decade. Focus on SEND readers. Focus on poverty.

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 6d ago

My takeaways: fund libraries (school + public). Make school libraries statutory. Fund author visits (self serving but still valid). Fund books in early years hubs. Teach parents/carers how to read with young children. Make national year of reading a decade. Focus on SEND readers. Focus on poverty.

Matt Shaw@matthewshaw.bsky.social · 2w ago

A challenge for bibliometrics ‘Endersby worked her way up from being an armour expert to the board, including overseeing the cyber and intelligence division… “My publication list is really rubbish, because all my best work was classified”.’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Met Office chief Penny Endersby: ‘There is not going to be a usual summer’

The head of the UK’s national weather service on this year’s multiple heatwaves, the net zero backlash and why geoengineering is not a panacea

giftarticle.ft.com

Hannah Murphy@hsmurphy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

kcl.ac.uk

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

10. Hard to even know where to start in commenting on this report because it's such a jumble of grievances, lies, and accelerationist fever dreams. But this paragraph floors me. Not only is it talking about AI agents doing the science, it's utterly ignorant of the information economics of science.

n such a world, experimental information becomes a tradeable commodity, and price mechanisms replace slow institutional coordination. Markets could form to support the scientific enterprise, such as prediction markets informing grantmakers about technologies on the horizon, bounty markets directing re- sources toward unsolved problems, and reputation markets tracking which agents produce reliable results. Agents would interact directly, exchanging data, hypotheses, and compute time through microtransactions. The whole system runs continuously, at speeds no human institution could match, but is guided by human judgment about which breakthroughs merit large bounties, and which questions require framing that machines cannot yet provide.
Matt Shaw@matthewshaw.bsky.social · 2w ago

‘and set up practice in what is now Romilly Street in Soho, he ventured into the unregulated bazaar of the bourgeois wellness industry.’

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2w ago

‘The liberal insistence on the separation of state and society wasn’t just about keeping some areas of private life free from political control. It was also about hoarding power, as Marat was quick to understand.’ Oliver Cussen on the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2w ago

Been on a bit of a historical research bender & one thing that’s been mildly shocking is how consistently you find minor errors even in massively well-regarded works by major historians once you start cross-checking or looking at primary documents.

Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · 2w ago

The House Oversight & Government Reform Cmte holds a hearing at 10am on “Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Reshape the Past” Witnesses: Anthea Hartig, director, Natl Museum of American History; Mike Gonzalez, Heritage Foundation; Matthew Spalding, Hillsdale College

congress.gov

Matt Shaw@matthewshaw.bsky.social · 2w ago

"For this book doesn’t just document the way university expansion has driven urban renewal; it also shows how historians, if scattered across Britain and not confined to Oxbridge and London, become rooted in, and defenders of, its urban life"

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2w ago

‘As planning bumped up against profit-seeking and deindustrialisation prompted a turn to “heritage”, new interests were mobilised and new narratives appeared.’ Susan Pedersen on twentieth-century urban change in Britain. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Prof Tracey Hill@tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 2w ago

A window into living conditions in 1628: Joane Bullocke, a tenant of the Fishmongers, is asking for stairs to be installed in the house she lives in because she is lame and struggles to get up the ladder to the trapdoor that leads to her room (the Company agreed to pay for the stairs).

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