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Wim Van Mierlo

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https://linktr.ee/wimvanmierlo Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University with 'an air of cranky scholarship about him' Author of James Joyce and Cultural Genetics: The Joycean Genome (Bloomsbury) Documentary and Heritage Photographer

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Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’ Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

What is 'hot air'?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

09.03.2026 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The choices universities and colleges make about AI are political Ahead of this week's Digifest, Michael Webb and Rebecca Flook confront the complex values systems behind general purpose AI technology

'The systems now being woven into education are shaped by a remarkably small group of people. Not “the internet” as the source of training material. Not “society” influencing the way we use these tools.'

Fascinating that this comes from within Jisc. 1/3

09.03.2026 08:02 👍 121 🔁 58 💬 3 📌 10
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Number of items belonging to Dickens going on display at the Charles Dickens Museum, London. Includes my favourite category of literary artefacts: a lock of his hair!

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

#Dickens #LiteraryHeritage #hair

09.03.2026 10:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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St. Swithun's, Woodborough (Gedling, Nottinghamshire), August 2025

#photography #documentingplace #documentingspace #nikon #Woodborough #stswithun #monochrome #blackandwhite

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05.03.2026 17:29 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am looking to hear from scholarly editors working on authors considered ‘problematic’ for their views on gender, sexuality and race. What place can/should such views have in the scholarly edition traditionally focused on composition, publication and reception history?

#textualscholarship

05.03.2026 16:14 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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At over 400 years old, this door at Exeter Cathedral is thought to have the oldest surviving cat flap.

02.03.2026 02:37 👍 36 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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Woodborough Hall (Gedling, Nottinghamshire), August 2025

#photography #documentingplace #documentingspace #nikon #Woodborough #monochrome #blackandwhite #manor #historichouse

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01.03.2026 11:58 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Those stairs in Wells Cathedral are a photographer's dream.

01.03.2026 11:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#photography #visualart #art #fineart #artist #creative #artistic #aesthetic #composition #contemporaryart #blackandwhite

01.03.2026 07:45 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Deux pompes à essence en plein désert. En arrière plan, les roches typiques du far-west.

Deux pompes à essence en plein désert. En arrière plan, les roches typiques du far-west.

Dernière chance
Last chance

#blackandwhitephotography #bnwphotography #photography #monochrome #landscapes #nature #landscapephotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #ClassicMono #usa #utah

27.02.2026 17:02 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Interested in brushing up your knowledge on rare books? Check out our week-long courses at the London Rare Books Summer School.

Scan the QR code or visit our website: buff.ly/7cpbeU1.

#RareBooks #SummerSchool

27.02.2026 15:32 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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British dual nationals: have you been prevented from travelling to the UK? We’d like to hear from British dual nationals who have been prevented from boarding a flight, ferry or train because they did not have a British passport or certificate of entitlement

The Guardian wants to hear from UK dual nationals who've not been permitted to board flight, ferry or train.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

#ETA #citizenship

25.02.2026 11:18 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Books are indeed not just for reading.

25.02.2026 08:59 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Contemporary Literature and Culture Degree | Postgraduate study | Loughborough University An innovative new programme that provides an understanding and appreciation of literature and culture in the contemporary period.

Just spreading the word about our great MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture. As it happens, I met w/ our wonderful students this morning to talk about the current state of the literary market and the diversity deficit in publishing.

www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

#postgraduate #publishing

24.02.2026 11:48 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Black and white image of empty market stalls; the ground has old cobblestones.

Black and white image of empty market stalls; the ground has old cobblestones.

The Market Square, Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025

#photography #streetphotography #documentingplace #documentingBritain #nikon #Newark #monochrome #blackandwhite #market

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21.02.2026 10:42 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Institute of English Studies, SAS | LinkedIn Institute of English Studies, SAS | 12 followers on LinkedIn. A unique centre for research, teaching and advocacy that speaks both for and about books. | The Institute of English Studies (IES) is a un...

We are on LinkedIn! Please give us a follow!

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20.02.2026 14:48 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

What kind of markup does Grammarly produce? And is that visible/identifiable in (I assume) the underlying xml?

18.02.2026 12:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge "thys technologye ys the future"
Ys an ideological move

16.02.2026 19:30 👍 376 🔁 76 💬 3 📌 0
Long exposure photo of old ruined pier in Brighton. The sea looks like it's frozen.

Long exposure photo of old ruined pier in Brighton. The sea looks like it's frozen.

Went to the place and did the thing.

📷 #FujiFilm #X-T5
🔭XF18-135mm

#Photography #Nature #Sea #Brighton #LongExposure

10.02.2026 08:07 👍 80 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Black and white image of an empty shopping arcade passage with a row of lanterns hanging from the glass roof.

Black and white image of an empty shopping arcade passage with a row of lanterns hanging from the glass roof.

The Arcade, Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025

#photography #documentingplace #documentingspace #nikon #Newark #monochrome #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #flaneurism #arcade

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16.02.2026 17:31 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Black and white image of house with the 'Tasty Bites' cafe on the corner of an empty road.

Black and white image of house with the 'Tasty Bites' cafe on the corner of an empty road.

"Tasty Bites", Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingplace #documentingspace #nikon #Newark

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13.02.2026 17:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A black and white image of an old warehouse along the river quay; the gantry of a railway line passing behind is seen on the right.

A black and white image of an old warehouse along the river quay; the gantry of a railway line passing behind is seen on the right.

Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingplace #documentingspace #nikon #Newark #newtopographics #uktopographic #newtopographicsmovement #monochrome #blackandwhite

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07.02.2026 10:28 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Come work with me on #JamesJoyce #Modernism #LiteraryArchives #TextualEditing #LiteraryHeritage!

06.02.2026 17:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

📣 Funded PhD studentships at Loughborough Uni English Department

1) UK and International applicants: lnkd.in/esnYZrBD

2) Ring-fenced studentship for UK BAME applicants: lnkd.in/epnaHwmV

You can find out about staff expertise here: lnkd.in/eFSK6UWH

#PhD #Funding #Humanities

06.02.2026 17:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2

New publication!

New Directions in Digital Textual Studies, expertly edited by Christopher Ohge and Kristen Schuster.

My chapter on "Unlocking Literary Heritage: From Cabinets of Curiosity to Digital Storytelling" is surrounded by some really terrific work by a bunch of great scholars.

06.02.2026 14:03 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 Like many organizations, Wiki Education has grappled with generative AI, its impacts, opportunities, and threats, for several years. As an organization that runs large-scale programs to bring new e…

"In their current states, GenAI-powered chatbots cannot write factually accurate text for Wikipedia that is verifiable".

wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01...

#AI #GenAI #wikipedia

04.02.2026 19:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A black and white image with high texture of an old industrial building covered in graffiti alongside a a road viaduct in the shadows.

A black and white image with high texture of an old industrial building covered in graffiti alongside a a road viaduct in the shadows.

Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025

#photography #documentingplace #documentingspace #nikon #Newark #newtopographics
#uktopographic #blackandwhite #monochrome


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04.02.2026 18:08 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945 Cambridge Core - English Literature after 1945 - The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

Our Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has published a new book chapter - 'Staging Utopian Subjects: Contemporary British Theatre Beyond the Barriers' - in The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945.

30.01.2026 12:19 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingplace #documentingspace #nikon #Newark #EastMIdlands #ThePhotHouse #photographersofbluesky

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02.02.2026 17:02 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Travelling around the eighteenth century: the Baskerville Carriages — CPHC A one-day conference

A conference about typography and horse-drawn carriages.

www.cphc.org.uk/events/2026/...

#conference #typography #transport #18C

30.01.2026 13:52 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0