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Ernesto Priego
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Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Editor @comicsgrid.com. Co-organised @comicsandai.org. Sharing; reposting is not endorsement. Absolutely personal capacity. I am human. UK based. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
Aaaaand this was 2025... #OpenAccess. Thank you @openlibhums.org @janewayolh.bsky.social @siliconchips.bsky.social and all the incredible editors, copyeditors, peer reviewers, authors and friends. Patience and kindness will get us there. Happies and merries! 🎄🙏

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 3d
That time of the year when talking to family members reveals that the adoption of GenAI (say ChatGPT) to outsource and delegate mundane tasks (shopping lists! travel itineraries!) is more widespread than imagined within the relatively cushioned (often soundproof) walls of academia. Really worrying.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 3d
The Comics Grid Volume 15 (2025) Wrapped ernestopriego.com/2025/12/23/t... #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies
The Comics Grid Volume 15 (2025) Wrapped
The Comics Grid’s 15th volume, corresponding to 2025 has been wrapped. With thanks and season’s greetings.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 6d
#nowplaying
A Charlie Brown Christmas Vince Guaraldi Trio LP playing on the turntable

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 6d
Censorship and repression work: it's oh so quiet on social media. The emperor's new clothes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=htob...
Björk - It's Oh So Quiet
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 6d
Sat 20 Dec 2025 10.00 GMT www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trickle release of Epstein files on a Friday signals move to bury Trump ties
The justice department is using a variety of tactics to try to obfuscate the US president’s connection to the sex offender
www.theguardian.com

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
Meanwhile, in New England...
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · 7d
BREAKING: A federal court ruled the Trump administration is unlawfully depriving potentially thousands of people in ICE custody in New England of the opportunity to challenge their detention.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 7d
BREAKING: A federal court ruled the Trump administration is unlawfully depriving potentially thousands of people in ICE custody in New England of the opportunity to challenge their detention.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
Democracy dies redacted.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
An absolute joke.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
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Epstein files release live updates: Trump administration publishes thousands of documents
It is unclear if the heavily redacted Epstein documents released by Trump’s justice department are the entirety of the government’s trove on the late sex offender
www.theguardian.com

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
As expected! 🤔 Merry Christmas!
Screenshot of a government-style webpage titled “Search Full Epstein Library.” The page explains it hosts materials released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, includes a content warning about sexual assault descriptions, shows a last updated date of December 19, 2025, and displays a search box with the word “Trump” entered, returning “No results found.”

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
Your holiday reading sorted, if you can access the site, that is: Epstein Library www.justice.gov/epstein
Department of Justice | Homepage | United States Department of Justice
www.justice.gov

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
Looks like the DOJ website is struggling with so many visitors. Possibly for its first time ever.
US department of justice extremely high volume of search requests notice screenshot

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
Today I repotted my 10-year-old Rhipsalis Baccifera Horrida, whose name is Rulfo, and gave it cactus food, and it looks so much happier already. Speaking of achievements. It is native of Madagascar, not Mexico, but makes me feel at home and I'm amazed at how much it's grown over the years.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
Unavoidable (perhaps) feeling of anticlimax once things are wrapped up for another solar cycle... challenge is to feel fufilled, satisfied one did the best one could possibly do under the circumstances. No need for effusive, explosive instant metrics- what's done is done no matter what.

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The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship @comicsgrid.com · 7d
Season's Greetings! 2025 Wrapped! www.comicsgrid.com/news/880/ #ComicsStudies @openlibhums.org
2025 Wrapped
Dear colleagues, Season's greetings! It's that time of the year again. We have wrapped up The Comics Grid's 15th volume, corresponding to 2025.This past year was, once again, an exceptionally …
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
I agree it is demoralising. Sometimes where there is big money there is also a lack of big thinking, tho. At this stage small-scale thinking is likely to create less damage (all the tech bros praise themselves for being 'big thinkers').

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
Oh no, very sad news. An inspiration- my sincere condolences. :-(
davidprosser.bsky.social David Prosser @davidprosser.bsky.social · 7d
All of us at RLUK were shocked and saddened to hear the news that Paul Aryis has died. Paul was committed to building up the library community - as well as his work at UCL he generously gave his time and wisdom to a wide range of conferences, workshops, and committees.

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Dr Paul Ayris | LERU
Dr Paul Ayris LERU UCL Open Science
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David Prosser @davidprosser.bsky.social · 7d
All of us at RLUK were shocked and saddened to hear the news that Paul Aryis has died. Paul was committed to building up the library community - as well as his work at UCL he generously gave his time and wisdom to a wide range of conferences, workshops, and committees.

www.leru.org/news/in-memo...
Dr Paul Ayris | LERU
Dr Paul Ayris LERU UCL Open Science
www.leru.org

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 9d
We have responded to the OfS consultation on quality regulation. We welcome some proposals, including the expansion of TEF to all providers. Yet we are concerned about proposals to transform the TEF’s core aims and raise the stakes of TEF performance.

Here are our key takeaways:

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 9d
I find the unwillingness to address the absolute disaster that Brexit has been directly and out loud profoundly irritating- the cultural amnesia whilst we walk through the rubble is difficult to process.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 9d
Meanwhile, all the money and resources wasted in partially undoing the incredible act of self harm that Brexit was... and in the meanwhile, how many young people missed out and had their fates completely altered?

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vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 9d
Today, we make further steps in our renewed EU-UK strategic partnership.

We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.

Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 9d
Restricting visas for care workers will only make things work for the UK care sector and society at large. An idiotic and evil thing to do, motivated by bigotry, not the wellbeing of the country.
unison.org.uk UNISON @unison.org.uk · 9d
Hundreds of overseas staff working in social care and the NHS travelled to Westminster today to lobby MPs over plans to restrict visa rules for care workers.

Follow updates here ⬇️
unsn.uk/3MLAeAz
Care workers lobby Parliament - UNISON National
Hundreds of overseas staff working in social care and the NHS travelled to Westminster today to lobby MPs over plans to restrict visa rules for care workers
www.unison.org.uk

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 9d
I used to be semi-effective at sharing stuff I've worked on (including vivas etc) but have just been swamped and now utterly exhausted. Running on fumes.

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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 9d
Hundreds of overseas staff working in social care and the NHS travelled to Westminster today to lobby MPs over plans to restrict visa rules for care workers.

Follow updates here ⬇️
unsn.uk/3MLAeAz
Care workers lobby Parliament - UNISON National
Hundreds of overseas staff working in social care and the NHS travelled to Westminster today to lobby MPs over plans to restrict visa rules for care workers
www.unison.org.uk

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 9d
Today, we make further steps in our renewed EU-UK strategic partnership.

We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.

Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14d
Huzzah!

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The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship @comicsgrid.com · 14d
New in the journal! To close this year's volume (volume 15!): Everywoman’s Story: Reading Abortion Eve and Not Funny Ha Ha as Graphic Biofiction and Zóéfiction doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies @openlibhums.org #OpenAccess
Everywoman’s Story: Reading <em>Abortion Eve</em> and <em>Not Funny Ha Ha</em> as Graphic Biofiction and Zóéfiction
This article discusses two American pro-choice comics in the wider context of graphic biofiction. One is the now legendary Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli’s Abortion Eve (1973) and the other is Leah Hayes...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14d
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comicsgrid.com The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship @comicsgrid.com · May 24
A thread of recent articles in the journal: all open access, read online or download the PDF and/or XML files- #ComicsStudies