Stephen Gregg
@shgregg.bsky.social
Academic: 18thC literature, book history, critical digitization. Bath, UK. Accomplices Sid the greyhound 🌈 and Turner the whippet.
Don’t normally post family stuff but can’t help feeling proud of my 15 year old boy who went and bought these two books for himself today:
If there’s one thing Alexander Pope taught us, it’s that translators of the Odyssey are a calm bunch who never pick public fights with anyone
Did I travel all the way to #JodrellBank this morning for a 5min TV interview? Yes reader, I did. Did I then persuade the fab e-MERLIN Director Simon Garrington to let me climb inside the Lovell Telescope? Well, if you can't flex a Royal title occasionally, then what is the point of having it? 😇🔭🧪
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The rather lovely Hogarth memorial in Bartholomew Close, where he was born
This would be another big blow for UK science. It's also a threat to a #WorldHeritage site which was only listed by the UK in 2019 after nearly a decade of work by scientists, advocates & government. Now it should go on the World Heritage "in danger" list. @unesco.bsky.social @icomos.bsky.social 🧪🌏
Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support
Scientists say decision is blow to UK astronomy as deep space observatory is home to world-leading facilities
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‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
The #EnglishCreates: Futures symposium brought together students, teachers, researchers, writers and advocates to celebrate the creativity and public value of English. We’re delighted to now share recordings of the talks for those who couldn’t join us on the day: www.youtube.com/channel/UCVL...
Visual work by Patricia Farrell: patriciafarrell.weebly.com
Patricia Farrell
Patricia Farrell lives in Liverpool. She is a poet and visual artist. She co-organised the SubVoicive reading series in London in the 1980s and was a member of the arts group New River Project. She.....
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International Times@internationaltimes.bsky.social · 3w agoRubble internationaltimes.it/rubble-2/ Patricia Farrell
Ladybird endpapers. London sunset ‘A Little Princess’, 1985 Artist: Shirley Tourret
It's Harrison Ford's birthday, which means we are obliged to share this absolute banger from our archives: "No one on the committee can identify who or what instilled Dr. Jones with the belief that an archaeologist’s tool kit should consist solely of a bullwhip and a revolver."
Back from Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied
“As chairman of the Committee on Promotion and Tenure, I regret to inform you that your recent application for tenure has been denied by a vote of 6 to 1. Fo...
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Descriptive bibliography question for those who know more about the 18th century than I do: the book below is large and has a lot of plates, and seems based on signatures to be a folio in 2s. Is this a thing? I am used to seeing them in 6s. The binding is such that I can't ascertain directly.
Megan L. Cook@meganlcook.bsky.social · 3w agoI don't choose the preposterously large books, the preposterously large books choose me. (In all fairness, the preposterously large book is resting on foam supports that tilt it towards the camera but it is still, I assure you, very very large)
Sure it doesn't work, but have you considered that it makes middle-aged men feel like COOL SPIES? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Book history/bibliography folks—doe anyone know of a bibliography/libguide/anything else where folks have compiled revisions of Robert Darnton’s famous “Communications Circuit" diagram? I’ve seen so many over the years—I kind of want to point students to a whole batch of ‘em for a class exercise
- Guy named Monty playing spoons in front of barrel fire - Minor league baseball game on radio in room next door at flophouse, 1953 - Time
Tom Waits White Noise Sound Options
Rumble of freight trains at dusk Tuesday delivery at scrap metal yard Broom sweeping floor of bar in Sheboygan at closing time
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Stupidly pleased that my university is recommending Zotero!
The gyre is what? I see. And wider is bad, right? Okay. How bad? Did you say “blood-dimmed tide?” That doesn’t sound great. We’ll get a guy out there tomorrow between 12-5.
'Before the move, the library was surveyed shelf by shelf in Milan, with the position of every volume, thematic groupings and connections between authors and disciplines carefully documented, so that the new premises in Bologna could reproduce Eco's original arrangement exactly'. Echoing Eco.
Wanted in Rome@wantedinrome.bsky.social · last mo.Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.
Hi #bookhistory people. Can anyone help me with any sources that talk about dirt in a printing office or press room? Ideally pre-1800 but I’d be interesting anything.
Survey on digitising flap books, movable books, volvelles, that kind of thing! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #GLAMS 📚
Designing Interactive 2D for Movable Books or Other Texts - User Survey
Primary Question: What are researchers,’ book artists, paper engineers, & library professionals' goals for interactive digital surrogates (digitized versions) of movable books or other texts? For thi...
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This is Nala. She thought your face had disappeared. Turns out it was behind your hands the whole time. Incredible. 12/10 (IG: goldennala27)
A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.
Summer storm Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Summer, 1960)
