Malcolm Noble

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Bibliographer & historian with broad interests, incl. business and economic hisotry, queer print, oral history, co-operative HE. he/him www.malcolmnoble.co.uk

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I wrote the keynote article for the July/Aug issue of The Architectural Review. It's about campus protests, campus surveillance, + the history of universities as defensible spaces (spreads in part 2 ⬇️) www.architectural-review.com/essays/lette...

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 3/20 #booksky

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Oh so when HE has a chosen name everyone just goes with it

update, per The Wall Street Journal

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As an editor of a T&F journal I asked a T&F manager about this yesterday. The response - after they had to go and check - was that it only includes Routledge books (designated "Advanced Learning content"). Bad enough, but they really do need to clarify the present and future scope of the MS deal.

This piece from The Bookseller seems to confirm Informa /Taylor & Francis / Routledge intends to use academic work to train AI without any consultation with authors. www.thebookseller.com/news/academi...

Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AIwww.thebookseller.com Authors claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment.

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Gorgeous interactive essay about acknowledgments in PhD theses science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgementsscience.anu.edu.au After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.

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Not that anyone will listen to me but once again, working through Covid, no matter how “mild,” is a great way to increase the possibility of long term harm. This is the second time Biden has modeled this crap, making it harder for workers everywhere to get necessary time off.

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One thing that radicalized me was learning that just 11 people were responsible for the massive wave of book bans over the past couple years. rop.org/update/11-pe...

11 People Responsible for Majority of US Book Challenges – Rural Organizing ProjectFacebook iconTwitter iconInstagram iconFacebook iconTwitter iconInstagram iconrop.org

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Interactive map from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: What will my city’s climate feel like in 60 years? “Many cities could experience a future climate unlike anything present on Earth today.” [fitzlab.shinyapps.io]

Disappointing if a surprise to nobody. The first year at least of this government will just be variations on this except maybe defence

So Labour won't help HE, but they'll stop attacking it "we won’t make our universities and the people who study there the subject of headlines, a political battleground. This is about opportunities across our country.” Fine words butter no parsnips.

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FSU professor awarded prestigious fellowship to study #Indigenous #religious #history and texts Book project explores how Cherokee citizens used the #printing press to create and distribute religious literature during the forced Cherokee migration news.fsu.edu/news/ar...#Indigenous #religious #history and texts Book project explores how Cherokee citizens used the #printing press to create and distribute religious literature during the forced Cherokee migration news.fsu.edu/news/ar...

FSU professor awarded prestigious fellowship to study Indigenous religious history and texts - Florida State University Newsnews.fsu.edu A Florida State University scholar of religious studies has earned a prestigious fellowship from the National Humanities Center (NHC) to […]

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Did you finish or examine a book history dissertation in 2022 or 2023 at any level (undergrad, masters, doctoral)? Please submit the citation info to the form below! The next SHARP bibliography will be the 2022-2023 Dissertation Bibliography! (Plz reskeet!) #BookHistory forms.gle/XbTJNUTSy7Tp...

SHARP Thesis/Dissertation Bibliography Submission Formforms.gle Use this form to submit citation information about book history theses and dissertations completed between 2022 and 2023 Guidelines Dissertations and theses about book history (interpreted broadly, if...

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🤗 about Letterform Archive's forthcoming Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. book! "A self-described 'humble negro printer,' Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., is internationally recognized for his type-driven messages of social justice and Black power, emblazoned in rhythmically layered and boldly inked prints"

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printerletterformarchive.org A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, and community in the graphic arts.

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Maybe THIS will be the dumbest thing I read today: Florida’s education commissioner announced Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a book of the month to “highlight the importance of American pride.” Can’t make this stuff up. H/t @ericcolumbus.bsky.social

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This sucks. Both of my books are now owned by Taylor and Francis. (They were originally published by presses that Taylor and Francis later purchased.)

This is an enormous scandal and reason for all academics to withhold labor from Taylor and Francis/Routledge

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Online and in-person attendance options! #QueerBibliography

Are you interested in attending Queer Bibliography in LA or online the 25th and 26th of July? If so, registration is open here: forms.gle/NweCq1mS5rE5....

Queer Bibliography 2024 Conference Registrationforms.gle To be hosted by UCLA California Rare Book School online and in person at the University of California, Los Angeles - July 25th–27th, 2024 Program (draft) link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LDe...

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Academic conference-attendees everywhere find themselves involuntarily wincing in sympathy.

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"In 1876, the Light House Establishment added a portable wooden library box to the list of supplies they delivered... The rugged box served as shipping box and bookshelf, and delivered much-needed entertainment to the lighthouse staff." www.beachcombingmagazine.com/blogs/news/l...

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Congratulations to @bookscribbler.bsky.social Matthew Daniel Eddy for winning the 2024 Pickstone Prize with his new book "Media and the Mind"! 🎉🍾 Check out this fantastic work on notebooks as extraordinary paper machines between 1700 and 1830.

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Why is he knocking I gave him a key

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today and every day I think about how my job of supporting digital scholarship and digitally informed research - esp with an eye on text and data mining - was made possible by Aaron Swartz

RIP Aaron Swartz who as programmer helped develop the web feed format RSS; the technical architecture for Creative Commons; and the Markdown format. "When he tried to liberate data from an academic website, US authorities responded with $1m fine and 35 years in jail. Then he took his own life."

Aaron Swartz: hacker, genius… martyr?www.theguardian.com Aaron Swartz campaigned for a free and open internet. But after he fell foul of US authorities, he took his own life. His former girlfriend tells Elizabeth Day of her anger at his treatment

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"Project 2025 is not targeting “pornography” as something that’s harmful to children per se, but rather redefining anything concerning sexuality and gender that they say is harmful to children *as* pornography." - @melissagiragrant.com

Project 2025 includes the call to “outlaw” porn. If you want to understand what they mean by that? Look to what these groups are already fighting “porn,” and their connections to anti-gender movements outside the US. I start that analysis here:

The Real Targets of Project 2025’s War on Pornnewrepublic.com It’s not people watching porn online. It’s drag queens, trans people, LGBTQ library books, and more.

This is why I've always struggled with Dickens

#c19 #Dickens

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🔔 Call for papers for a wonderful #BookHistory conference ‘Footprints of the #EarlyModern Book Trade’: Transnational Mobility between the Low Countries and the Baltic Sea Region’, from 25 November to 27 November 2024 at the National Library of Latvia! Apply now! Deadline extended until July 20th.

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Super excited for Queer Bibliography 2024 in two weeks hosted by @calrbs.bsky.social . Registration is now open and we'll be hybrid! forms.gle/SKuYJwkgbHYq...

An elegant thread from @sarahpyke.bsky.social. Do download whilst open access - you can read and disagree later

Now it's open til 8 Sept (ty, U Chicago Press & PBSA editor @wynkenhimself.bsky.social!), a little intro to 'Queer Bibliography: A Rationale', in which @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social & I ask, firstly, not 'what is #QueerBibliography?' but rather, *where* is it? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Queer Bibliography: A Rationale | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 118, No 2www.journals.uchicago.edu Abstract The advent of critical bibliography has seen critical theory put to work to reappraise the field’s foundations, methods, and practices in response, in part, to categories of oppression. Recen...

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In advance of the Queer Bibliography conference later this month, we’ve made @sarahpyke.bsky.social & @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social’s PBSA article free to access through Sept 8. Read and enjoy!!

Queer Bibliography: A Rationale | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 118, No 2doi.org Abstract The advent of critical bibliography has seen critical theory put to work to reappraise the field’s foundations, methods, and practices in response, in part, to categories of oppression. Recen...

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If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.

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I'm reading memos and letters to the university community from presidents who are implementing draconian budget cuts this year (for a project I'm working on) and good god the amount of obfuscatory and weasel-wordy business-speak in these things is making me grind my teeth into dust

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Baylor U, Los Angeles Public Library, Ohio U, Smith, Swarthmore, and the U of Oxford acquired White: A Handbook. Various terms, slang appear in Chapters 4: Covered with white & 8: Producing a black coating or finish, whose titles come from the definitions of “whited” and “blacking,” respectively.