Are you at @imc-leeds.bsky.social and presenting on a creative-critical topic? Tag us know and we will repost your panel for visibility! #IMC2026 #IMC #medieval

I am very excited to confirm that RGB images of the Hereford Gospels are now available online under Creative Commons license, thanks to the stellar work of Dr Bill Endres: osf.io/pswd5/overview

Thread about an almost-literal Cassandra of our present decline, who had already seen it all, 30 years ago…

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 11mo ago

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

The fabulous @laurakalas.bsky.social talking about toughness and Margery Kempe with Ray Winstone on Radio 4. Absolutely wonderful. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

History's Heroes - History's Toughest Heroes - Margery Kempe: Ministry of Tears - BBC Sounds

A medieval woman finds superhuman strength in her tears.

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We are now accepting submissions for Vagantes 2026, hosted by The University of Rochester, April 9-11! See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested. Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing?  If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

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Found it!

This is phenomenal 😂

Mary Flannery@15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social · last yr.

If you’re at @imc-leeds.bsky.social right now, reply w/a screenshot of your filled-out version of my comedy bingo card (link below) and I’ll enter you into a drawing to receive a free, signed copy of my Chaucer biography (it has pretty pictures!)! #IMC2025 www.pointsincase.com/lists/academ...

NEW from the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine... our handlist of the 198(!!!) pre-1000 manuscripts with medical texts not included in the standard catalogues. It's been a productive first phase for the project... but a lot of work still to do! #medievalsky

I'm constantly thinking about the fact that despite all the focus on 'impact', they don't seem to count the context in which we have the most impact of all: teaching students, and especially those from a wide range of backgrounds

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

Today is the feast of Saint Alban, Britain's protomartyr, who is dear to me for many reasons. I grew up on Mount Saint Alban (DC), and in the 1980s I dug with the Biddles at St. Albans (Herts), where I learned to tell rusted Roman hobnails from the earth that turned red with the martyr's blood. 🕯️🧵

please don't tell me kids need to learn how to use AI "for their future"

The Simple Truth About These Miserable Heat Waves

Much of the country is facing brutal, potentially deadly heat. The reasons for such extreme events are not complicated.

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When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families

Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care

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'Hidden optical secrets of the Parthenon revealed by Oxford archaeologist' #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 archaeologymag.com/2025/05/hidd...

Hidden optical secrets of the Parthenon revealed by Oxford archaeologist

Oxford archaeologist Juan de Lara used 3D tech to reveal how light dramatically illuminated Athena’s statue in the ancient Parthenon.

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Thomas Aquinas has entered the chat and wishes to remind you that even if you are smarter and better educated, that yiayia might nonetheless know God a lot better than you do, though

Andrew S.@shoutingboy.bsky.social · last yr.

A [Greek Orthodox] Priest I had talked about the challenge of getting people to distinguish theology from “yiayialogy” [yiayia = grandma]. No matter what’s written down, there’s always going to be a whole lot more people vaguely remember learning from grandma or from the nuns or…

More meta text: the scribe emerges in the margin from the line-filler to write the text. Bodleian Library MS. Douce 6; Psalter; c.1320 CE-1330 CE; Flanders (Ghent) f.61r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months. The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.

You can't really do this though, can you. You can say that there was no intention to echo Powell, but you can't say that comparing the Powell speech with Starmer's speech is itself inherently wrong.

Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians

I could point out what’s theologically wrong with this, but actually I’m most struck by how this managed to be both tasteless and yet somehow very touching, which takes a writer of rare skill.

The Onion@theonion.com · last yr.

“Our autopsy found the Holy Father had a substantial amount of Eucharist in his system— roughly four times the legal limit—at the time of death,” said Fernando Ruini theonion.com/vatican...

Call for Proposals: AHR Special Issue: Methods for Archival Silence in Early History Call for Proposals AHR Special Issue: Methods for Archival Silence in Early History Due September 16, 2025 The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pro...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence

ChatGPT firm reveals human leader that is easily entertained.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’

Frozen. In the Original Klingon. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP82k5HHa/

So if it wasn’t abundantly clear - I am a massive dorkus. Behold, my first big cosplay of 2025 (or ever, really!) This has been hands down one of my favorite personal projects EVER - the cosplay took...

TikTok video by Jax

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attacking higher education is economic sabotage the largest employer in 10 states + 60 of the 100 top cities “The local impact would reach far and wide: In 2022, Johns Hopkins affiliates accounted for over 93,600 jobs+over $15 billion in economic output in Maryland.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts

Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.

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We can add to this being asked to do things that result in the reply 'I would love to do this, but please understand that I have to reapply for my own job before the end of this month so may not be able to fulfil this obligation in the next academic year'. I can't pretend I'm ok with this anymore.

Leonie V. Hicks@lvhicks.bsky.social · last yr.

One of those days when the drip, drip of nonsense at an institutional level combined with a national HE crisis makes everything I do seem utterly worthless.

Got a bit too close to the candle in their zest to read. (Book of hours 13 from U. Iowa.)