Alex Wingate

@bibliowingate.bsky.social

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PhD student in Information Science. Book History of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), DH, libraries, and rare books. Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton and SHARP News (was alextheknitter on Twitter).

Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:51 UTC

Ooo I saw a tablet weaving reel on Instragram last night and thought "I could get into that!" But seconding the WIPs

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

For only 143.95 euros, I could learn bobbin lace and start yet another textile habit 😂

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:00 UTC

Yay! I’m glad you went! I couldn’t resist getting one of the hyper-realistic mandarin orange keychains on the second visit with @madamebibliophile.bsky.social

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 06:59 UTC

🔔 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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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:32 UTC

Jealous!!! I didn’t have time to squeeze that in, but figured I will be back eventually!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:10 UTC

The serendipity of tripping across the Madrid city printing museum! #BookHistory

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Jo VanEvery, she/her is close enough @jovanevery.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:16 UTC

This also applies to your academic book, latest article, conference paper. The people you hang out with here think what you do is cool and they *want* to hear about it.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 06:20 UTC

@deflatermaus.bsky.social 😂

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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off) @wolvendamien.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 05:02 UTC

Lord, I've seen what you've done in Boris Johnson and Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak and Jacob Rees-Mogg and Marine Le Pen and Henry Kissinger's lives, and i want that for Donald John Trump Sr.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 03:02 UTC

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:04 UTC

Also: Get off your arse and vote. My constituency was won for Labour by 15 votes. A high turnout from the French sorted this. You don't vote? Well, the fash do. If you're replying to this with why it's ideologically impure for a truly left wing person to vote, please just block yourself, I'm tired.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:33 UTC

So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 11:47 UTC

Am fan of all these outfits btw!!

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:38 UTC

Salty licorice cats! 😻

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Bully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 00:41 UTC

"MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM"

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Amanda Smith @amandasmith.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 00:21 UTC

“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 11:31 UTC

Just FYI, at the AGM they said they’ll be closing the X account eventually (not sure timeline). I’ve observed that they’ll RT my stuff if I tag them on Mastodon, but I want them to come here too. (And SHARP News, but we gotta discuss that again among us)

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:52 UTC

Right? It was 1-1 in extra time when I left the shawarma place where I grabbed dinner, and I didn't hear anything on the walk home!

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Hugo Y Yo @hugoyyo.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

When it became known that Trump hates sharks, sea life orgs and shark conservation charities got an increase in donations. People hate him so much. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 12:14 UTC

This whole thread! Folks, do not be like the book blogger who instigated it! People at high risk need to be able to participate in activities safely and even plenty of people at average risk just don’t want to get COVID!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 12:33 UTC

That is exactly what that was in terms of dress style 😂 But I’ve watched enough British mystery shows to figure out the striped jacket and ties with monograms means rowing or rugby! (Also one specific episode of Miss Fisher’s Murder mysteries featuring twin rowers)

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:37 UTC

... and we have a winner. This book won the 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize, as has been announced yesterday at #SHARP2024. Congratulations, Prof. Sebouh David Aslanian. #bookhistory

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 09:12 UTC

@colleenlovesbks.bsky.social and I just watch all the posh and aspiring posh rowing fans rush the train in Paddington station for the Henley Royal Regatta. Gotta cram those fascinators and striped jackets on to that train!

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:10 UTC

Many congrats to @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social and all the other winners of 2024-2025 Linda Hall Library residential and virtual research grants! 🥳 📚 #HistSTM www.lindahall.org/about/news/l... and www.lindahall.org/research/lin...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:52 UTC

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:00 UTC

Bracket Symbols xkcd.com/2954

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 05:47 UTC

Sorry to have missed the moment - delighted by the result!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:46 UTC

We have yet to get to the pub yet, but we’re getting there soon!

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nick null @nicknull.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:55 UTC

a.) this is extremely depressing
b.) congratulations to @genuinebilski.bsky.social on your mask modeling gig for CDC posters

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

Relevant to that NYT piece that's going around...if your vote didn't still matter, they wouldn't be trying everything to convince you it was worthless.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

For my friends in England, it's election day! Happy voting to you all. Just remember: you have a long and proud history as a people who really fucking loved eels. Remember that, when you cast your vote. What would the eels want you to do? 🗃️🧪

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

You do not mess with Chaac.

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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

For those sticking around #SHARP2024 tomorrow, I'll be presenting at 9am. My paper is about my project training an OCR model to read embossed braille. There are lots of fun complications involved in this project that I'm excited to share with you!

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:36 UTC

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing (SHARP) 2025 conference will be: Rochester, NY, US
2025 July 7-11
#SHARP2024

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:33 UTC

Swara: screenshots, but also closed collection and analysis at end of 2023 so can actually finish PhD!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:32 UTC

Q5: interested in how analyze marginalia data since it is dynamic!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:32 UTC

(Not sure got answer well)

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:31 UTC

Swara not sure about one of the parts but think that these are good! Readers do demonstrate preference in platform versus print and also there are return readers from prof serial to monetized serial, and not happy about paying for something they read for free

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:29 UTC

Q4: from @ellenforget.bsky.social are the same readers from Wattpad reading trad published book, and are readers trying to read print more after or returning back to digital?

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:28 UTC

Wattpad pre-commercialization had more connection between authors and readers (or less commercial). And readers do want some authors to move to AO3 and fanfiction.net

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:27 UTC

Q3: can you talk more about Wattpad Reddit group. Comparisons to fan fiction.net and AO3 where users complain about commercialization

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:26 UTC

Q2: bit of a paragraph question, I believe about engagement between Webtoons and Wattpad markets. Swara says that she doesn’t focus on Webtoons, but she thinks there are similar patterns (eg culminating books)

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:24 UTC

Swara: yes (maybe less directly). And author has said she has used reader feedback to judge about her use of foreshadowing

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:23 UTC

Q1: do you have evidence that authors are interacting with readers in marginalia and then changing based on feedback?

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:22 UTC

Q&A!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:22 UTC

Swara: Discuss!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:21 UTC

What are the implications/effects on materiality? Connections between attention and digital marginalia? And is all reading serializad reading?

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:21 UTC

Is the book making process more collaborative? What connections do the platform and these patterns make between various agents(editors readers publishers etc)

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:20 UTC

Swara would like to provoke some thoughts from us. We should think about how platform and digital publishers are affecting trad contemporary publishing decisions

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:19 UTC

Goodness, we’re at the conclusion and I want to know more!

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