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Alex Wingate

@bibliowingate.bsky.social

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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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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · Nov 14

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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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 3h

But raises for academic leaders who want to insinuate AI into all corners of an institution 🙃🙃🙃

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 3h

disbarment for attorneys who use AI to write briefs; dismissal for teachers who use AI to grade student papers; dismissal for researchers who use AI to write their books and articles

www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

www.404media.co

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 14h

And the new trustees are vaccine skeptics and the like.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

By reporting on the governor's dismissal of Indiana University's elected Trustees, who he then replaced with his own appointees. 3/

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

‘Culture of fear’: Dismissed trustee Vivian Winston calls for change at IU

Indiana University's independent student newspaper.

www.idsnews.com

Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 14h

Someone in an airport this summer overheard me talking to a former professor of mine about how terrible our president was, and without having heard what school I went to, that person asked me if I was at IU. Bc the actions I described made the hair stand up on their neck and they knew it was her

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

By reporting on the Indiana University faculty's overwhelming no-confidence vote in the (still serving) university president. 2/

www.idsnews.com/article/2024...

‘A vote is not a temper tantrum’: No confidence movement comes from years of tension

Faculty will decide whether to vote no confidence in Whitten and other administrators Tuesday.

www.idsnews.com

Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 14h

Just a reminder, our current, very terrible president was not chosen through a process following set procedures. And whatever woman is chosen at some point as the next president of IU should be considered the actual 1st female president.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

It doesn't surprise me that Indiana University is going after the student newspaper. The IDS has played a key role in holding the university administration accountable.

Including by reporting on the administration's investigation and intimidation of faculty 1/

specials.idsnews.com/steve-sander...

The pursuit of light and truth

Law Professor Steve Sanders’s battle with IU over reporting on presidential search process

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 14h

Ah IU, doing exactly what one would expect of the current administration

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 23h

New review of Binding Media out in pre-print!

"Ortega’s terminology – “binding media” – is a useful phrase that should enter the critical lexicon. It gives us the means through which to consider these hybrid media forms, not as “just” paratextual objects, but as core parts of distributed books."

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

A preprint/author's original version of my review of @elikaortega.bsky.social's Binding Media.

Posted under OUP's self-archiving policy academic.oup.com/pages/self_a...

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Review of Binding Media by Élika Ortega

A review of Ortega's Binding Media. My conclusion is that Ortega's terminology—"binding media"—is a useful phrase that should enter the critical lexicon. It gives us the means through which to conside...

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 1d

This past year, HMML upgraded many of the underlying servers and systems that support HMML’s websites, including Reading Room (vhmml.org), which had a 99.998% “uptime” (online availability) this year.

Learn more about HMML's digital tools for manuscript scholarship: hmml.org/research/digital-tools

Digital Tools

Online resources for the study of manuscript cultures.

hmml.org

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 1d

Doing citation work in Newton's mss again, and in one part he writes that a substance will have "saporem paulò acutiorem succo uva," aka "a taste a little sharper than grape juice." I don't know about you, but I would *not* be tasting anything that comes out of an alchemical process!! #histsci

Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t have a specific thing in mind, but maybe traditional piecing for the technique just for the practice (current one is EPP, next one before bugs will be foundation paper piecing!)

Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 1d

You will all be please to know that they *did* weigh one of their copies for me, and I think my math maths right! There’s only a difference of 2oz between my estimate and theirs which should account for the limp vellum binding on theirs and lack of binding on mine! #BookHistory

Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 6d

I think I’ve sent my weirdest reference request ever to a library: I’m asking if they’ll weigh two copies of a particular book because I’m trying to verify my guesstimate of how many of 225 copies two different people bought. They bought by weight for old paper, not copies, hence math! #BookHistory

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 1d

I also wanna use this awesome mushroom fabric, but I don’t know if the color scheme works

Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 1d

I think I should be able to count my ability to curate a quilt‘s worth of bug fabric without trying towards my collection development skills on CVs and cover letters 😂 And long-term planning, because this is for two quilts ahead of now

Table with 16 different fabrics laid out. All have bugs and butterflies on them in some way. General greens and earth tones with metallic touches

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 2d

Water from the ceiling.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 2d

Medieval Islamic scribes, such stuffy serious people! 😜

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic practical joke for medieval scribes.
(from §22 of this book payhip.com/b/BoYj4 by @majnouna.com)

"To render the scribe unable to write from the inkwell: Squeeze the juice of a tamarind and transfer it to the inkwell. No scribe will manage to write from it."

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 3d

'There was a day when people who practise Islam went to the church & got to know the prayer space & then they did the reverse; the Catholics went to the mosque & experienced it,” said the mayor “& around 2 months later, the five religions we have in Villamalea came together to pray in the church.”'

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance

Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

www.theguardian.com

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

absolutely and I think that’s really important! they’re denied communion in there, which is actually incredibly unusual, so this is the next best way to bring the Eucharist to them. maybe it gave some small degree of reassurance to some very scared people that they aren’t forgotten

Ser T-error, Guarding the Veil and Rogue-ing Traders @imasithduh.bsky.social · 3d

Would it also be a comfort to the Catholic folks who are trapped in the ICE facility? Sort of a "We brought Jesus with us and even though He was turned away, He is here for you"?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA Catholics are so gross to me. first off, a LOT of these immigrants are Catholic, and the catechism is EXTREMELY CLEAR on the church being one united global body. those people are your family. your loyalty should be to them and not the president!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 3d

That is true, but we do at least have pennies for splitting, and it itself is not generally being split into other things! Plus we like counting by fives. A ducado is the biggest unit, and they made the next biggest unit go into it 11 times! It'd be like having our biggest bill be $89!

Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 3d

*1 real = 36 or 34 maravedis
(But you get the picture, it's nuts)

Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 3d

Early modern Navarre (and sometimes Spain) has the weirdest money system
1 ducado = 11 reales (who chooses a prime number for money?)
1 real = 36 or 34 reales (depends on Navarrese or Castilian)
1 quartillo = 1/4 real (only normal one)
1 tarja = 2/9 real (wtf??)
#histsky #BookHistory

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 3d

A bookseller died in 1684, his executors had to sell of all his stuff to pay his debts, and for this particular book, clearly no one was gonna buy 225 copies so they sold it to a couple dudes for old paper. Which is generally sold by weight versus the actual value of the book as a thing to be read!

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 4d

'Knit Hello is a typeface for hand knitting, the outcome of a series of Typographic Knitting—or Typeknitting—workshops...based on slipstitches & a simple letterform grid, offers a simple, frustration-free process for beginners, w/o floats or getting entangled'. By Rüdiger Schlömer. #DHmakes

Knit Hello – Typeknitting

Knit Hello is a typeface for typographic knitting.

www.knithello.com

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 4d

Viva Virginia!!!!!
Sic semper tyrannis in action!

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

I did hear about this and I don’t know that I have TEA but I have THOUGHTS

first of all let us not skip past the symbolic significance of “Leo signed the document on Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi”

Julia L @calenmir.bsky.social · 4d

@clairewillett.bsky.social wanted to make sure you hear this (and hear any tea you might have regarding this): www.ncronline.org/pope-leo-bla...

Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

www.ncronline.org

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