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Ada Palmer

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Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”

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Tara Calishain@researchbuzz.bsky.social · 9h ago

#Greece #manuscripts #DigitalHumanities 'The collection includes eight manuscripts written in Greek. One of them, however, was in very poor condition and could not be digitized.' (machine-translated from French) nouvelles.ulaval.ca/2026/09/29/l...

La Bibliothèque a numérisé sept manuscrits anciens rédigés en grec

Couvrant une période de plusieurs siècles, les ouvrages numérisés contiennent, entre autres, des évangéliaires, le récit d'un martyre et un commentaire sur un traité d'Aristote

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John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 4h ago

So today was exhausting and refused to end. But! One bright point was starting Kylie Lee Baker's Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng. Provided necessary relief during the worst What an opening chapter! Love seeing otherworldly horrors bubble up during a pandemic lockdown.

Rosywing 🌹@roserisenn.bsky.social · 7h ago

'The Beast's Bounty' 37 million autumns ago in Colorado, a young Megacerops is finally tall enough to taste some of the first fresh apples... ever! (Malus florissantensis) He joyfully collects them atop his basket-like head. This is my #paleoart for Day 1 of #Inktober2026! The prompt was 'Apple'.

Digital palaeoart of an extinct rhino-like mammal called Megacerops, which had a forked bony crest on its nose. He is happily picking bright yellow crabapples of the extinct species Malus florissantensis and using the shape of his head like a basket. I've used bold, ink-like outlines and a colouring style meant to mimic that of Copic markers.
Karl Galle@karlgalle.bsky.social · 7h ago

I mean if @adapalmer.bsky.social can run papal election simulations as an official class assignment, I don't see why the same can't be legitimately done for a "build your professor an early modern sea monster lectern" project? 🤔 bsky.app/profile/adap...

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 7y ago

It begins! Day 1 of my 1492 papal election simulation is underway and campus is scarlet with Cardinals! No pope today, but many factions and an unexpected visit by the dead Pope’s drunkard illegitimate son!

Suave Morbida@maitre-poulard.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Il y a en Pologne et plus largement en Europe centrale une tradition, relevée par l'historienne de l'art Magdalena Łanuszka, de chaire baroques en forme de baleine dans certaines églises. C'est assez incroyable. Exemple dans l'église Saints-Pierre-et-Paul de Duszniki-Zdrój en Basse-Silésie (1/n)

Un immense monstre marin jaillit du mur, couvert d’écailles, doté de grandes nageoires et d’une queue noueuse, la gueule grande ouverte, parsemée de molaires carrées et de canines acérées comme celles d’un hippopotame. Ses yeux écarquillés fixent le ciel et son palais rouge est visible dans la cavité de sa mâchoire ouverte. Autour de sa bouche sont assis, miraculeusement suspendus dans les airs, les quatre évangélistes vêtus de robes d’or. Des crânes humains gisent sur son museau, à côté d’une figure extraordinaire, squelette d’un côté et chair de l’autre, s’élevant vers le haut. Des figures et des nuages tourbillonnent plus haut vers un soleil au sommet où le Christ ressuscité se tient triomphant.
John Theibault@jtheibault.bsky.social · 18h ago

I think I missed this fun thread on paleography when it first appeared. I remember when I first started in the archives being happy when a document in Latin turned up because I could at least make out the words. It does take a while to get the rhythm of old handwriting.

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s #HandwritingDay so I thought I’d share a thread about Renaissance handwritten documents I worked with in the research that led to “Inventing the Renaissance,” and the best and worst scripts I’ve ever seen. 1/? (Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)

Detail of some handwritten Latin. A note written in the bottom left margin of a book is in smaller, paler text than the bolder letters visible in the top right corner where the main text of the book is. At the top one can read a word which begins "Ne" and then has a bizarre squiggle, The next word is clearly "pro" then a strange line. The following words, to an expert eye, can be read as "sustitudine veterii alterum requirit ut neque hoc neque illud primus Cicero usus est sine altorum" but most of hte words are very hard to make out, many have omitted letters assuming you'll recognize the abbreviation, and only the word "Cicero" is really recognizable to a modern eye.
Colin Smith@colinsmith.bsky.social · 20h ago

Clearly an exceptionally busy evening for the super-scientific craft of International Rescue as just about everything on Tracy Island that can be launched is piloted on its way, by Graham Bleathman, bless him, from 2022.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor@mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 2d ago

$62 to go!! OMG WE CAN DO THIS!!! Click the link! Back the project! Yell about it to your friends!!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

OPPORTUNITY WINDOW: An Anthology of Time Loop Stories

Deja vu doesn't begin to cover it... OPPORTUNITY WINDOW will bring you a book of brand new time loop stories (and maybe some you've seen before) from across the SFFH genres!

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor@mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 2d ago

28 hours left! We are SO CLOSE!!! Who can help us cross the finish line??? A little over $100 to go! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

screenshot from the campaign for OPPORTUNITY WINDOW $1879/$2000 with 110 backers and 28 hours to go
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 22h ago

Vivid numbers in this overview of Illinois’s new Net Zero carbon plan: “improvements in air quality alone would lead to between 392 & 631 fewer premature deaths per year. That translates to between $8.8 and $13.8 billion in avoided healthcare costs & increased worker productivity.” #ShareGoodNewsToo

Illinois EPA releases ‘Comprehensive Climate Action Plan’ to reach ‘net zero’ emissions

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois has made substantial progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in recent years, but it is not yet on track to meet its goal of reaching net-zero emissions

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Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s #HandwritingDay so I thought I’d share a thread about Renaissance handwritten documents I worked with in the research that led to “Inventing the Renaissance,” and the best and worst scripts I’ve ever seen. 1/? (Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)

Detail of some handwritten Latin. A note written in the bottom left margin of a book is in smaller, paler text than the bolder letters visible in the top right corner where the main text of the book is. At the top one can read a word which begins "Ne" and then has a bizarre squiggle, The next word is clearly "pro" then a strange line. The following words, to an expert eye, can be read as "sustitudine veterii alterum requirit ut neque hoc neque illud primus Cicero usus est sine altorum" but most of hte words are very hard to make out, many have omitted letters assuming you'll recognize the abbreviation, and only the word "Cicero" is really recognizable to a modern eye.Bild