Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Show me the minutes of the meeting IN A UNIVERSITY where someone agreed to pay money for software that would use AI to scrape and slopify the careful and diligent work of researchers and students. 051
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026tfw when you open a 5000 word chapter that a PhD student has worked really hard on and the UNIVERSITY SOFTWARE cheerily says "ooh this looks like a long document do you want me to summarise it for you?" 3677
Reposted by Jon McGregorChris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I hope Ed Sheeran, and indeed many, many more people, read Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 0194
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A question for book trade people: what's the best thing to do with, um, left over proofs/ARCs? Assuming I can't treasure *all* of them forever, but also knowing that charity shop donation is frowned upon... are there charities/reading schemes etc it would be okay to donate to? Specific examples? 321
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Not everything on the internet is terrible: washinglineindex.co.uk/today?locati...washinglineindex.co.ukToday | The Washing Line IndexCan I get my washing dry outside today? Check your local Washing Line Index, shirt score and best drying window. 173
Reposted by Jon McGregorSalena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The Good Immigrant - 10th Anniversary Edition is out this week, 10th Sept with @canongate.co.uk @nikeshshukla.bsky.social - exactly 10yrs to the day of its 2016 post-Brexit release. I felt like making a bookstack of TGI contributors works @bookshop.org check it out > uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-go...uk.bookshop.orgThe Good Immigrant, 10th Anniversary Edition, further reading...The Good Immigrant: 21 writers reflect on race in contemporary Britain - Canons (Paperback) Publishing this week, September 10th 2026. Edited by Nikesh Shukla with a new introduction by Candice Carty-... 21914
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026ffsyoutube.comThe Frames - Red Chord (Acoustic Witnness 2001)YouTube video by irishmusiccentral 110
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I am once again asking every department head to put this on the doors of every office and seminar room in the corridors of learning 082
Reposted by Jon McGregorHolly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Hey @artsemergency.bsky.social has their call open for mentors again! You get paired with a young person approx. 16-17 and talk to them once a month, it's great and not very much work at all and the organisation is ALWAYS short of mentors who work in games 12434
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Solidarity with all my @uonucu.bsky.social colleagues as we move into the fourth week of a two month strike, and with colleagues at @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social, @sheffielducu.bsky.social, @uculsbu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @ucu-londonmet.bsky.social also fighting for their jobs and students. 0154
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 08/06/2026@eireannmor.bsky.social vindt u nu voetbal leuk? 150
Reposted by Jon McGregorfolukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 01/06/2026"UK universities have shed more than 30,000 jobs in the past three years..." Why is every sector worthy of governmental concern except ours? Even pretend concern? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/i-dont...timeshighereducation.com‘I don’t think I’ll ever be able to be in the same room as former colleagues’The results of Times Higher Education’s UK University Redundancy Survey vividly illustrate the deep human impact of the redundancy crisis on those who have lost their jobs. But respondents are torn ab... 39356
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Solidarity with all my @uonucu.bsky.social colleagues starting the first day of a 61 day strike today, including the 2700 of us at formal risk of redundancy and especially colleagues in Languages, Music, and Mental Health Nursing whose departments/courses are being closed down altogether. 12210
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Savoured every minute that Buendia played for Norwich, knowing we'd never hang on to him. We saw him do stuff like this every week and it was so delicious 2164
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Vol 6 is still available, in all its very limited, handstitched, numbered and signed, 5 different cover designs, touched with the brilliant work of this year's Letters Page students, marked with a very real sense that this is probably the final issue glory. Link in the article below. 132
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Love to log in for an all-staff briefing at a major university and for some reason be reminded of this lad: youtu.be/6_auGsfsw5k?...youtu.beNiel Kinnock - Speach - Skuttling around in TaxisYouTube video by Graham Foss 021
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Nederlanders: Als jullie weten wat dit 'paradijsvogel' is, kunnen jullie me erover vertellen? Ik ben absoluut in de waar. 000
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 19/02/2026In my Dutch lesson last night the teacher tried to explain the figure of the 'paradijsvogel', not literally a Bird of Paradise but the woman in brightly coloured clothes and hair, who enthusiastically tells stories in the street. Hoe zeg je dit in Engels, she asked, and we were all like: WHAT. 120
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 13/02/2026If you like the look of this, you'll probably want to get yourself a copy here: store.nottingham.ac.uk/product-cata...store.nottingham.ac.ukTHE LETTERS PAGE, VOL 5 | University of Nottingham Online StoreThe Letters Page, edited by Jon McGregor, is a literary journal in letters: all the stories, poems, and essays submitted are sent in the form of a handwrit 082
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I was a judge on this, and I can confirm that I judge this book to be an absolute banger 041
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Recommend 'The Literary Lifeline', by (my colleague) Kevin Harvey, on reading groups, libraries, 'bibliotherapy', & more. There's sometimes a glib assumption that reading is "good for you" in a strange medicinal way, and Kevin really unpacks that idea properly. www.bloomsbury.com/us/discover/... 020
Reposted by Jon McGregortaylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis 327233507734
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 20/01/2026There is still time to get your hands on a copy before Christmas. 121
Reposted by Jon McGregorCharlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all. 1362979497
Reposted by Jon McGregorJohn Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 09/01/2026‘You Who Wronged’ by Czesław Milosz. For some reason or other this poem came to mind this morning. Written in a time of tyrants: #Poetry 524389
Reposted by Jon McGregorLuke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Never fails to blow my mind that something only 4% of the population can afford (or has much interest in at all) ever gets presented as *middle* class. That 96% of us are in need of outreach. 1101
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 16/12/2025And if you didn't recently buy your copy of the new @theletterspage.bsky.social, then you are *also* in luck! store.nottingham.ac.uk/product-cata...store.nottingham.ac.ukTHE LETTERS PAGE, VOL 5 | University of Nottingham Online StoreThe Letters Page, edited by Jon McGregor, is a literary journal in letters: all the stories, poems, and essays submitted are sent in the form of a handwrit 120
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 16/12/2025If you recently bought a copy of the new @theletterspage.bsky.social, featuring letters from across the @unesco.org Cities of Literature network, and you wished we'd had space to include the original texts alongside the excellent translations, then you're in luck: theletters.page/our-latest-e...theletters.pageOur Latest Edition: Volume 5The Letters Page, Vol. 5 comes to you as a collection of translated letters written by authors based in UNESCO Cities of Literature who are, like Nottingham, celebrating ten years of their City of … 011
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Ik kijk er zo naar uit. Mag ik dit jaar voor de eerste keer de sluis open? Ik weet het niet. Ik kan maar alleen hopen. 030
Reposted by Jon McGregor38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 24/11/2025“Tax. The. Rich.” - 38 Degrees’ CEO Matthew McGregor The public knows what they want: fair taxes, stronger public services, and the ultra-wealthy paying their share. The Government must listen when they reveal their plans in Wednesday’s budget. 23416
Reposted by Jon McGregorGillian Roberts @citizenofblue.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Please sign and help to save my former department! Goodness knows this is no time to stop teaching about and researching North America! www.change.org/p/save-ameri...change.orgSign the PetitionSAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM 043
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Hello poetry friends. I'm looking, for a thing, for examples of poems that quote from TV characters in a way that makes it clear they're doing so without resorting to eg footnotes or similar. Any suggestions? I feel like I've seen it, but my mind is blanker than a blankety blank. 334
Reposted by Jon McGregorUniversity of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 07/11/2025And in the meantime, please sign this petition: www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...change.orgSign the PetitionStop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham 065
Reposted by Jon McGregorUniversity of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 06/11/2025It's not just music and language courses- it's 48 courses across the university. But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too. 21715
Reposted by Jon McGregorHannah Robbins (they/them) @drhannahrobbins.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students. Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved. 53127
Reposted by Jon McGregorProf Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukMusic and modern languages courses suspended at University of NottinghamIn a statement the institution also says it is 11213112
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I just want a place of learning where we can read books, learn languages, plant trees, figure things out, build houses, fix plumbing, ride bikes, do childcare, ask questions, welcome strangers, grow food, care for older people, and dance, who's in 1016218
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Somebody needs to draw a Venn diagram of (fig. a) universities who close their language departments and (fig. b) universities who have the word "global" or "international" in their mission statements, because these people won't understand a thing unless you put it in a powerpoint presentation 214219
Reposted by Jon McGregor'The Conditional Citizen' (Don’t you want me baby?) @zooindigo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Final rehearsal week for The Conditional Citizen 011
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Twice in the last fortnight I've seen someone on a bike get hit by a car, and both times the driver has started shouting about it being the other person's fault. I feel quite strongly that if you drive your car into a human being the first words out of your miserable mouth should be "are you okay?" 1126428
Reposted by Jon McGregorDublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 21/10/2025our small press fair brings all the depictions of Englishmen by 19th-century Japanese printmakers to the yard. and they're like, wow, I really enjoy browsing books from a range of very small, small, independent, underground, and other presses based on the island of Ireland and from abroad. 0149
Reposted by Jon McGregorThe Letters Page @theletterspage.bsky.social · 29/10/2025The Letters Page is back! The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready! 054
Reposted by Jon McGregorAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting. 1081785481
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 30/09/2025My classroom policy on AI is: this is the only AI we will be using in the classroom. 072
Reposted by Jon McGregorMai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 23/09/2025This photo of Alaa Abdel Fattah's smile by Mohamed El Raai is the most beautiful thing you could wake up to. 0627
Reposted by Jon McGregorViet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Sally Rooney, Deborah Levy, Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen are among 20 authors urging French president Emmanuel Macron to resume a “lifeline” programme for evacuating Palestinian writers, scholars and artists from Gaza.theguardian.comSally Rooney and Annie Ernaux among authors urging Macron to reinstate Gaza writers programme20 authors, including Viet Thanh Nguyen and Abdulrazak Gurnah, call on the French president to restart scheme to help creatives evacuate 26013
Reposted by Jon McGregorSinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Mariam Dagga, a journalist killed yesterday by the IDF left behind two sets of instructions: that her colleagues not cry at her funeral, and asked her 11-year-old son to make her proud. Murdering journalists. Bombing hospitals. Causing a manmade famine. Slaughtering children. This horror has to end. 010244