Stephen Gregg
@shgregg.bsky.social
Academic: 18thC literature, book history, critical digitization. Bath, UK.
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Londoners! I'm doing a free lunchtime talk about my book at the V&A on Thursday
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
Lunchtime Lectures: Shoes and the Georgian Man - V&A Academy Talk at
V&A South Kensington · V&A
This talk is part of the free Lunchtime Lecture programme. No booking is required.
www.vam.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Londoners! I'm doing a free lunchtime talk about my book at the V&A on Thursday
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
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If you have a copy near you, please send us information about it! We want to proliferate copy-specific data and you can tell us more about provenance, marginalia, bindings, and other copy-level data! Please share that and photos here: blog.wheatleycensus.org/2025/11/08/h...
Help expand the Wheatley Census – Wheatley Census Blog
blog.wheatleycensus.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If you have a copy near you, please send us information about it! We want to proliferate copy-specific data and you can tell us more about provenance, marginalia, bindings, and other copy-level data! Please share that and photos here: blog.wheatleycensus.org/2025/11/08/h...
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Pleased to announce the Wheatley Census is ready for 1.0 public release! As detailed a census as possible (right now) of the first six editions - those printed in the 18th century - of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, is available here: www.wheatleycensus.org.
Wheatley Census
www.wheatleycensus.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Cool
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The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
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What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
Guides: What's currently available: Introduction
This guide provides up to date details of which services are currently available following a cyber-attack, and which aren't.
bl.libguides.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
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'What to Do for English Now' by Robert Eaglestone – Open access in the latest volume of the Yearbook of English Studies. A call to arms to defend a subject in crisis. Please read and share!
#EnglishStudies #EnglishCreates
muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...
#EnglishStudies #EnglishCreates
muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...
Project MUSE - What to Do for English Now
muse.jhu.edu
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
'What to Do for English Now' by Robert Eaglestone – Open access in the latest volume of the Yearbook of English Studies. A call to arms to defend a subject in crisis. Please read and share!
#EnglishStudies #EnglishCreates
muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...
#EnglishStudies #EnglishCreates
muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...
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THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
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Petitions to save modern languages at Nottingham and Leicester:
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
www.change.org/p/save-moder...
Won't have any effect, of course, but no reason not to sign.
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
www.change.org/p/save-moder...
Won't have any effect, of course, but no reason not to sign.
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
www.change.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Petitions to save modern languages at Nottingham and Leicester:
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
www.change.org/p/save-moder...
Won't have any effect, of course, but no reason not to sign.
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
www.change.org/p/save-moder...
Won't have any effect, of course, but no reason not to sign.
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'Graduates are overwhelmingly positive about universities – 81 per cent say universities have a positive impact on the nation. Among non-graduates, that figure drops to just 55 per cent.' (Interesting that it's that high). 1/3
The political centre of gravity continues to shift towards higher education sceptics
Graduates and non-graduates are polarised in their views of university study. Steve O’Neil thinks through how the sector can demonstrate its value across the electorate Graduates and non-graduates are...
wonkhe.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
'Graduates are overwhelmingly positive about universities – 81 per cent say universities have a positive impact on the nation. Among non-graduates, that figure drops to just 55 per cent.' (Interesting that it's that high). 1/3
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If journalists of the blue skies are looking for an expertise on early modern printing culture and its rules, to highlight art like this in more detail, hit me up.
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
If journalists of the blue skies are looking for an expertise on early modern printing culture and its rules, to highlight art like this in more detail, hit me up.
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If you’re feeling a bit sad it might help a little to know that this painting exists. It’s called Dynamism of a dog on a leash, by Giacomo Galla, 1912:
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
If you’re feeling a bit sad it might help a little to know that this painting exists. It’s called Dynamism of a dog on a leash, by Giacomo Galla, 1912:
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This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win
Great film. Fantastic opening scene (and the ending scene).
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Great film. Fantastic opening scene (and the ending scene).
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I think this is *the* licensing issue of our time.
Whether it's prohibiting fascist uses or stopping AI training, liberal open licenses are falling down.
I still like CC BY-SA, forcing to share derivatives, but am not sure a license change is the technical solution to this social problem.
Whether it's prohibiting fascist uses or stopping AI training, liberal open licenses are falling down.
I still like CC BY-SA, forcing to share derivatives, but am not sure a license change is the technical solution to this social problem.
"That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically. That very particular bunch of autocratic corpo-states are actively destroying the world I'm trying to pro-socially enrich as a commoner."
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I think this is *the* licensing issue of our time.
Whether it's prohibiting fascist uses or stopping AI training, liberal open licenses are falling down.
I still like CC BY-SA, forcing to share derivatives, but am not sure a license change is the technical solution to this social problem.
Whether it's prohibiting fascist uses or stopping AI training, liberal open licenses are falling down.
I still like CC BY-SA, forcing to share derivatives, but am not sure a license change is the technical solution to this social problem.
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WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️
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My lasercut 9" Luddite block printed well—the surrounding wood grain looks so good I didn't even need to mask it out of the print. (Never know what to expect the print to look like when cutting w/a different material or settings)
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Cool
Closely followed by open.spotify.com/track/3nhIMd...
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Closely followed by open.spotify.com/track/3nhIMd...
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Thoughtful analysis of the impact of GenAI on job applications and job advertisements and hiring - relevant advice for graduates? www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
The AI Shift: Is hiring becoming less meritocratic?
Use of LLMs encourage more applications but they change the commitment signal of employers and employees
www.ft.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Thoughtful analysis of the impact of GenAI on job applications and job advertisements and hiring - relevant advice for graduates? www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
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That’s a book from 1756 you won’t find in the catalogues. It’s art from Hito Steyerl, and featured this weekend in the German SZ Magazin. The real Codex Maximilianeus Bavaricus Civilis exists, but without #AI robots on the title page next to an entry about “Leibeigenschaft” #bookhistory #skystorians
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
That’s a book from 1756 you won’t find in the catalogues. It’s art from Hito Steyerl, and featured this weekend in the German SZ Magazin. The real Codex Maximilianeus Bavaricus Civilis exists, but without #AI robots on the title page next to an entry about “Leibeigenschaft” #bookhistory #skystorians
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"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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'Once again, the lack of regulation in the university sector has thrown up the risk of creating disciplinary “cold spots”; if the proposals are adopted, students in the East Midlands will no longer have a local opportunity to develop an integrated knowledge of languages and cultures.' 3/3
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
'Once again, the lack of regulation in the university sector has thrown up the risk of creating disciplinary “cold spots”; if the proposals are adopted, students in the East Midlands will no longer have a local opportunity to develop an integrated knowledge of languages and cultures.' 3/3
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'On 25 November, the Council of the University of Nottingham will discuss the plan to close all Nottingham’s undergraduate degrees in modern languages and cultures – as well as in music, nursing and various other subjects.' Leicester proposes closure & withdrawal of languages from next year. 2/3
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
'On 25 November, the Council of the University of Nottingham will discuss the plan to close all Nottingham’s undergraduate degrees in modern languages and cultures – as well as in music, nursing and various other subjects.' Leicester proposes closure & withdrawal of languages from next year. 2/3
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'After vigorous and partially successful attempts to save modern languages degrees at Cardiff...and the University of Aberdeen in the past two years, linguists are now called upon to point out the equally obvious folly of cutting modern languages at the universities of Nottingham and Leicester.' 1/3
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
'After vigorous and partially successful attempts to save modern languages degrees at Cardiff...and the University of Aberdeen in the past two years, linguists are now called upon to point out the equally obvious folly of cutting modern languages at the universities of Nottingham and Leicester.' 1/3