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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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Old UK Print Ads @oldukprintads.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
From Australia, Sep 1953: Table Margarine ad from Meadow-lea (more at @OldInPrintAds.bsky.social) «Count up all the minutes you'll save... with spread-at-a-stroke..... cream-in-a-twink... new, simply delicious new Meadow-lea!»
This advertisement promotes the new Meadow-lea Table Margarine, emphasizing its smooth texture and ease of use. The visuals showcase it being used for sandwiches and baking. The text highlights the product's delicious taste and nutritional benefits, promising extra value at the same low price.

Count up all the minutes you'll save... with spread-at-a-stroke..... cream-in-a-twink... new, simply delicious new Meadow-lea!

Great news! Your favourite, sunny-sweet Meadow-lea
now churned to silky smoothness from an amazing new
formula just perfected by leading food scientists! Now
you can run up sandwiches in half the time... spread
toast in a jiffy... break all speed records with your cakes
and biscuits, scones and pastries! Try wonderful new,
smooth-spreading Meadow-lea to-day! It's more delicious
than ever just simply melts in your mouth! So good
for you, too.. each golden pound is enriched with
precious Vitamin A!
Extra value... but still the same low price
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Help! I am looking for places in C18-19 literature where women are characterised via. their appreciation of novels, a la Austen's Northanger Abbey, chapter 6. Google no longer works and all of my ideas have left me. Any thoughts?
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have been lucky to see so much amazing material in archives and libraries for productive and for indulgent reasons, which have delighted and provoked thought in so many ways, but this tipped-in paper sample from *740* absolutely blew my mind.
A tipped-in scrap of Komashi paper from 740
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The times I’ve been told to keep my mouth shut! Happy banned books week!
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What in the MR James is going on here? 😙
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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
CALL FOR PROPOSALS (CFP): Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, Feb 19-20, 2027. DEADLINE: Nov 20. documentaryediting.org/archives-and... #BlackStudies #BlackHistory #DigitalHumanities
White text against a purple background: "Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies"
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cherries and cheese by a beautiful blue pitcher in 1760 by Luis Egidio Melendez. It's his day.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another year of Queer Bibliography— please share widely; we are looking forward to this!
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh yes that should be excellent
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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stopped in my tracks yesterday by ‘Snakes and ladders: a game for learning about AIDS/HIV’ (London, 1988), which a colleague got out for a display. Self-explanatory but brings home the randomness & chance of it all at the time. At least 10,000 men died from HIV/AIDS in the USA in 1987. (1/2)
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Absolutely splendid. Number 5 (five)!
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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Extremely excited to share the CFP for the ✨fifth✨ annual #QueerBibliography conference! bit.ly/QB2027CfP When? 2-4 September 2027 Where? Manchester, UK & online Theme: TAKING STOCK Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2027 Decisions: by 12 March 2027 Submit here: forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWm...
Queer Bibliography
Taking Stock
Manchester, UK and online
2-4 September 2027

Call for Proposals

Since the inaugural 2023 conference, queer bibliography has grown from an interesting concept to a burgeoning field. Our 2027 theme, Taking Stock, marks the fifth annual conference and is a chance to pause and reflect on genealogies of the field, the present state of queer bibliographical enquiry, and our senses of the future. How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations? Where do we find ourselves and our work? 

Stock also has meaning in bibliography. While “stock” originally referred to a tree trunk or plant stem, and figuratively to the source of a line of descent or even a human torso, it later began to connote an aggregate of goods—in the context of bookmaking, one might own a stock of paper or pasteboard. Towards the mid-nineteenth century, “paper stock” began to connote the raw material of paper itself. “Stock” might refer to the inventories of booksellers, the process of beginning and curating an institutional or personal collection, and the supply and material characteristics of paper. From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities? What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects?

We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or reflect on
bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we
welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies.This three-day hybrid conference will be hosted at the John Rylands
Library, part of the University of Manchester, and online on 2–4 September 2027. The conference will feature two days of panels, conversation, and discussion on 2 and 3 September and will be followed by an optional workshop on 4 September. Conference programming may also include evening receptions, tours of Manchester libraries (including Chetham’s Library, the oldest public library in England), and collection viewings at the Rylands.

The conference welcomes participants from a diverse range of fields and
career stages, including: book arts practitioners, activists, postgraduates,
early career researchers, independent scholars, librarians, archivists, and
booksellers, both in person and via video conference. As in past years, the goal of the broadly articulated theme of “taking stock” is to bring people in and to shape conversation, not to exclude or limit. All submissions that engage with the intertwined relationship between queerness and bibliography are encouraged.

Participants will be invited to submit a 2000-word pre-circulated paper,
before presenting in panels of 10-minute papers. We also welcome
alternative contributions, such as workshops, roundtables, or self-organised seminars and creative presentations, with a pre-circulated submission that provides a grounding for the conference contribution.

Contributors should submit an abstract of 200–300 words, along with a
short bio, by 29 January 2027:

https:/ /forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWmtfjZ8

Prospective speakers will be informed of the outcome by 12th March. Pre-circulated papers will be collected and shared in mid-July. 

Any questions should be directed to: queerbibliography@gmail.com

http://queerbibliography.org
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next.
Twitter screenshot: New: Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Call for Papers: Hogg’s Worlds Now, University of Glasgow, July 2027 Submit your abstracts for this new conference at the University of Glasgow on July 2-4, 2027. Deadline for submission 31 December 2026. More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6619
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Gabriel Mckee @secret-terror.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ONE MONTH TO GO until the submission deadline for next year's meeting of the Popular Culture Association! We're seeking abstracts for a special session series on "UFOs, Cryptids, Conspiracies, & the Paranormal."
Bright pink background with clip-art images of a UFO, ghost, sasquatch, and a pyramid-topping eye. The text reads: One month left! Send us your abstracts on weird culture! Proposals due October 31. (Ooh spooky.) Popular Culture Association 2027 Special Topic: UFOs, Cryptids, Conspiracies, and the Paranormal (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association) Boston, Massachusetts Organization: Popular Culture Association Event: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Categories: Popular Culture, 20th & 21st Century, Anthropology/Sociology, Cultural Studies, Film, TV, & Media, History. Event: March 24-27. Abstract deadline: October 31. Days left: 30.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A new kind of redlining just dropped
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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How do you show a whole digitized book in one thumbnail? Modern books have illustrated covers, but in research collections the cover is often a plain library binding. So I made Flipbook: hover over a book from any #IIIF source and flip through its pages. hadro.github.io/flipbook/ #GLAMsky 📚📜
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The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Deadline extended until 7 October! The Events Planning Committee seeks proposals for sessions centered on the tools and methodologies of bibliographical work, to take place during BSA’s Annual Meeting in January 2027 View the full CfP and submission instructions: 🔗https://bit.ly/cfp-tools-trade-27
Promotional graphic announcing a 7 October deadline and a call for proposals titled “Tools of the Trade at the 2027 Annual Meeting,” with a black-and-white meeting photograph. White text on a copper background.Copper text on a white background, with more details about submitting a proposal including a link to learn more and a deadline of 7 October
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A colleague just recommended Richard Godbeer "The Overflowing of Friendship Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic".
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How disappointing. Or perhaps not: I am told Athamas sounded tired but had been up at 4am to go and do something else the day before, as usual. Not, perhaps the everlasting boy.
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Part of this is surely the one week(!) rehearsal for revivals. If i wanted Sitzprobe as opening night, I'd go to Vienna.
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Matches other reports I have had, and indeed what I felt in Amsterdam earlier in the year.
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Semele?
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should aspire to care about things like this, even if that means arguing for Schubert over JSB. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPeL....
youtube.com
Three Russian Musicologists Debate Schubert and Bach.
YouTube video by Nidhal Selmi
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I both hate and love how I always cry at Bohème. If Puccini favoured any instrument it was surely the heart strings.
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am familiar with Musgrave's chamber music and was keen to see this. Flights were - and are - wildly expensive and impractical, so your account is welcome, and I may go for the stream, although like everyone, I had enough of those in 2020.
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/289e...
ft.com
Rebuilding LA, the Eames way
The 1949 house designed by Charles and Ray Eames is the inspiration for a new generation of prefab homes replacing those destroyed in last year’s wildfires
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Journal of Co-operative Studies @coopstudiesjournal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
JCS has delineated the ideals & practices of co-operation in theory & practice for many decades. Now we turn to the imagination. Coming soon - our special issue explores cultural imaginaries of co-operation in creative works & within cultural co-operatives themselves. www.ukscs.coop/pages/journa...
ukscs.coop
Journal of Co-operative Studies | UK Society for Co-operative Studies
Linking theory and practice
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s against my principles to drink with the man I’ve diddled
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The programme for this looks splendid. Serious FOMO!
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Toad looked around. He saw that Frog was not there. “I AM ALL ALONE!” screamed Toad.
Toad suddenly realizes that Frog is not on the sled with him.

From "Down the Hill"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Somehow I found "Make the Met forever" mildly menacing
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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There are lots of issues regarding LLMs to discuss, but this is the fundamental one that should have stopped all else in its tracks: they are an unprecedented breach of intellectual property rights, and society cannot be ordered around pretending that LLMs are a special case worthy of exemption
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Slashing and Smearing Opera History? All in a Day’s Work. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/s...
nytimes.com
For the Met’s New ‘Macbeth,’ a Costume Designer Transforms Historic Ensembles (Gift Article)
For two new productions at the Met, Montana Levi Blanco raided the opera house’s archives, completely transforming decades-old costumes by his idols as he went.
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
me reading your posts
A detail of a painting of St Lucy, showing her eyes on a golden plate. They look like bored clams.
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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Who needs endless social media vids, try the dopamine rush of finding a woman hidden in a 1649 imprint!!
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare you
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UK installs AI facial scanning technology at residence halls
The University of Kentucky is installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology on several campus buildings.
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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Russian strikes destroy 12 million books in Ukraine ahead of new school year buff.ly/VAR8J3a
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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm very excited to be giving the 2026-27 W.J. Alexander Lecture in English Literature on October 15th at University College, University of Toronto! It will be called "Joseph Brant's Unwritten History: Towards an Indigenous Antiquarianism."
uc.utoronto.ca
Joseph Brant’s Unwritten History: Towards an Indigenous Antiquarianism | University College U of T
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InfinITO @squirreldad.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Guten Morgen, BSky. Unser Kleinster, Balu, geht auch schon auf Entdeckungsreise. Das ist alles noch etwas beängstigend, aber gleichzeitig auch aufregend. #sqrlpix #eichhörnchen
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Repost: Things you should know but didn't know you needed to know before knowing: A nasothek is a collection of the broken noses of statues and busts. Now you know.
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nytimesguild.bsky.social @nytimesguild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yesterday, this company told our members we have to "dig deeper" to cover the costs of our health care. Today, its executives rang the opening bell at the the NYSE.
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An astonishing amount in this piece, including some book history www.ft.com/content/b431...
ft.com
I’ve covered wine for 50 years. Here are 50 ways it changed
Over five decades, Jancis Robinson has seen her supposedly sleepy, tradition-obsessed world transformed
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InfinITO @squirreldad.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
Hallo und guten Morgen, BSky. Felix ist schon super aktiv! Was ist mit euch? #sqrlpix #eichhörnchen
Junges Eichhörnchen steht auf Hinterläufen
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Charmingly excoriating, like the glass of unspecified eau de vie which somehow just appears after a good supper. Abendstern works in the way that Prégardien Winterreise did. I am always grateful to musicians willing to take real risks like this. Thanks for sharing!
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