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Grant Jones

@grantosjones.bsky.social

Medieval Historian interested in the relationships between the Church and chivalric culture c.1100-1250.

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Andrew Curry@andrewcurry.com · 9h ago

The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org

Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet

“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder

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Nahyan Fancy@fancynahyan.bsky.social · last wk.

Brilliant from my colleague John in Politics at Exeter. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri... #DefendExeterUni If you want to see a snapshot of the errors in @exeter.ac.uk UEB's analysis of teaching capacity see the next one 1/2

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last wk.

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

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Alex Harvey@alexharvv.bsky.social · 2w ago

toying with the idea of proposing an IMC panel(s) next year, something about early medieval raiders and raiding, but importantly NOT the Vikings, or rather not *just* the Vikings Just putting this out now to see if anyone is doing anything similar / is anyone partly interested? lets chat!

Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · 4w ago

Colleagues: if you do #GlobalMiddleAges work, this is an urgent case where you can use your expertise to support cultural conservation & Indigenous peoples. If you don't know Chaco Canyon, look it up. But do so quickly. The Comment period ends 29 July. #MedievalSky

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 4w ago

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Mateusz Fafinski@calthalas.bsky.social · last mo.

Have you organized a smashing session at #IMC2026 that fits somewhere in the first millennium and you are thinking about publishing it? Essays in Long Late Antiquity accept proposals for special issues and special sections, just get in touch! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...

Contents | Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1, 1

This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ...

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Dr Heidi Colthup@heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've heard colleagues say that AI stops the gate-keeping and allows easy access for students without the necessary skills. I have a problem with that because it's our job to help them get those skills, not to outsource it to a computer.

Alastair Forbes@areforbes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My new article - examining the implications of the crusader cross as a symbol of group identity within monastic narratives of the First Crusade - is now out (and open access)! ⚔️🛡️✝️ So many thanks to the editors and reviewers for helping bring it to fruition! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Symbolic Investiture and Identity-Making in Monastic Accounts of the First Crusade | Studies in Church History | Cambridge Core

Symbolic Investiture and Identity-Making in Monastic Accounts of the First Crusade - Volume 62

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn@lizgloyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm at 175 responses for my survey on personal tutoring! I want to smash the 200 threshold, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral repsonsibility for students in the last 5 years under any title, I'd love to hear from you - it only takes ten minutes. Please do share.

The Role Of Interpersonal Relationships And Care In Personal Tutoring Within UK HEIS

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Rule: The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class content—into generative AI systems. AI can be used for research on papers ONLY for the limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources. Students are responsible for the accuracy of their research and all other aspects of their submitted work. Citations to sources that do not exist will raise a presumption of prohibited AI use