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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Always enjoy these, but this is a particularly fine edition. There's a module's worth of learning in this one email.

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right?? Drafting my "no-AI-on-this-module" policy statement, and being asked if I want help to write it.....

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Show 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.

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They call them Windows PCs because at some point they're getting thrown through a window, am I right

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"It was around that time that the university found themselves with increased costs for replacement windows and replacement PCs that had somehow gone through those windows."

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

tfw 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?"

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I hope Ed Sheeran, and indeed many, many more people, read Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The little launderette library, eh? Interesting...

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A 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?

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

tipped off to this by today's edition of @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social, to whom many thanks

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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The 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...

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The 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-...

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this is the coolest thing I have ever seen

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Went to see The Frames in Birmingham in maybe 1998 and Glen Hansard was something else. Will always be grateful for the music he put into the world.

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I am once again asking every department head to put this on the doors of every office and seminar room in the corridors of learning

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hey @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

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The brother's going to work it out

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Norwich's very own Ali Ahmed came very very close to a goal there

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Solidarity 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.

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It was, it was. The spotify list has disappeared but I'm going to rebuild it now because frankly you're right: that is a good playlist!

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Wow... I have only the very vaguest memory of that, and now I can't find it either. Wait...

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Solidarity 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.

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Savoured 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

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"We asked.." let me stop you right there while I open a carton of milk and pour it all over my head.. .. okay, carry on

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

There's a lot about working in a university which is not great right now, but the joy of seeing students take a challenge and throw themselves into it is one of the purer joys. These guys are going to do great things with reading and writing and publishing one day.

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Vol 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.

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"Phone butler" is pure gold, absolute top bins sir

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We've all got to do our bit for more flexible working conditions

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Just booked this without checking the time, so I guess I'm bunking off work on Wednesday afternoon

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Love 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.be

Niel Kinnock - Speach - Skuttling around in Taxis

YouTube video by Graham Foss

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Somebody should delve into this

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

uhhhhhh what in the absolute chat is happening

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Very quickly approaching the point where the cheapest way to send a letter will be to sell it on Vinted and wrap it in an old carrier bag..

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

or if this is about who I think it's about why not go all-in on "the frequently-Booker-shortlisted", or "consistently-Booker-shortlisted", or "permanently-Booker-shortlisted"

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I gave all my students notebooks at the start of this semester, and we've been doing a lot of in-class writing, and seeing their notebooks fill and get all crinkly has been warming my heart. Not a screen in sight. Can recommend. (Also no nude dudes; there were some regulatory concerns.)

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Nederlanders: Als jullie weten wat dit 'paradijsvogel' is, kunnen jullie me erover vertellen? Ik ben absoluut in de waar.

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