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Alex Wingate
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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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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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Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel.

One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.
February 13, 2026 at 1:01 AM
This is the best! I can't wait to see the jacket!
February 13, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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Friends: @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @sharpweb.org are teaming up for a non-guaranteed panel on “Modernism in Ephemeral Print” at MLA 2027, in LA. Consider submitting!
Call for Papers: Modernism in Ephemeral Print (2027 MLA Annual Convention)
mla.confex.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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There are 70,000 people in DHS concentration camps. 3000 are children. Close the camps. Being our neighbors home.
February 13, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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El V Congreso Internacional Patrimonio Escrito en Circulación:
Geografías del Libro en la Edad Moderna se celebrará en la
Universidad Federal de Pernambuco (Brasil), del 3 al 4 diciembre de 2026.
Envío de las propuestas hasta el 31 de mayo a rmolflo1@upo.es
Idiomas: portugués, español e inglés
February 12, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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We are thrilled to announce that applications for our 1st round of Microgrant funding are now open! These small seed grants of up to $300 USD support exploratory research or new projects in periodical studies. Applications for this first round of funds are due March 1!
RSVP Microgrants – RSVP
Microgrants are seed grants designed to support new research projects and/or explore ideas in the field of periodical studies. The Microgrants scheme was established in response to the 2025 survey of…
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February 12, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Shout out to the student journalists that have tirelessly covered their professors' ties to Epstein. My job would be much harder without them. See thread for some of my favorite recent student news pieces.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd
Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences
Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.
www.insidehighered.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Heather Bamford's new book uses unpublished manuscripts to explore the practice of reading emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/n...
New Book: Bamford, Unprinted
Heather Bamford, Unprinted: Reading and Meaning in Early Modern Iberia (Toronto, 2026).
emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Seconding that this would be awesome! I was looking at places the other day, and my currently Midwest mindset of prices crying a little
February 11, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Switching from Navarre work to Newton work this evening, apparently Newton wrote down a "cure" for nose bleeds and what seems to be menstruation documented by Robert Boyle:
"By this may be cured profuse bleedings at the nose, & weomen[sic] *at other parts*"
February 11, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Places of publication forever! All citation systems can pry them from my cold, dead bibliographer hands
February 11, 2026 at 1:50 AM
But I do despise how in-text citations can break up the flow of reading (looking at you social science articles with 20 papers in a single in-text citation!!!). I think if I was a humanist in a humanities dept., I'd be doing normal Chicago.
February 11, 2026 at 1:49 AM
I get that with the initial footnote since you get full info, but after that point, it feels no better than in-text since you might have to go hunt for the first full one unless there is a bibliography! (cf. me hunting for the first footnote in some Spanish books recently with no bibs)
February 11, 2026 at 1:49 AM
I settled on Chicago author-date for both my proposal and dissertation because it works well with both the social science and humanities bits of my stuff. And Chicago has way more style guidance. But I do my archival sources via footnote because those are waaaay too long for an in-text citation
February 11, 2026 at 12:46 AM
The thing I have come over to about APA in the course of the PhD is how easy it is to cite/gesture at a whole work. It feels weird and wrong to cite things without a page number in Chicago note-style and MLA
February 11, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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Hey y'all.

A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews.

Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂
“Please enjoy the museum”:

Relooted is OUT NOW!

Please share!
February 10, 2026 at 10:05 PM
For both VA and IN (same bird even!), yes to both questions!
February 11, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Doing APA or Chicago author-date in-text citations with early modern texts is one of my favorite things bc you get things like (Wingate 2025; Nebrija 1525). And here I even got to stick in a signature since there's no pagination in the preliminaries! #BookHistory
February 11, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Age verification? [garbled dial-up sounds]
Age verification? I had a Geocities site.
Age verification? My first computer screen was green.
February 10, 2026 at 4:27 PM
It's gone from 30 something this morning when I went to the gym to a whole 60F this afternoon in Bloomington. I've opened the windows to give myself and the plants some outside air
February 10, 2026 at 6:36 PM
My normal dutch oven is occupied by pasta sauce so I had to break out the artichoke dutch oven for sourdough today!
February 10, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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I was honored to lecture last night at the National Library of Australia on Pop Bibliography ✨ The recording is available here: www.youtube.com/live/ssI69kp...
February 9, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Mi capacidad para hablar español como hablante no nativa siempre será mi habilidad más querida e importante para mí. Es la base de casi todos mis éxitos y aprecio tanto a tod@s mis profes desde la primaria hasta ahora en el doctorado
Our graduates become bilingual to various degrees 🤯🤯
I always tell them this is their superpower. 5/maybe the end.
February 9, 2026 at 10:10 PM
¡¡Estudios Hispánicos para siempre!!
Friends with a new, renewed, or amplified interest in the Spanish language and Latin America, consider checking out the work your colleagues/neighbors in departments of Spanish/Romance Languages/Modern Languages/etc--they're likely in the corner of an old campus building 1/
February 9, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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"For viewers who don’t understand Spanish — like this reporter — ..."
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Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.

But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:10 PM