One for the diary: Nauigatio Sancti Brendani: a European Odyssey A day of talks and events to celebrate a medieval Irish bestseller. @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie Thursday, 24th September 2026 In celebration of the launch of shop.dias.ie/product/navi.... More details to follow.
Bernhard Bauer
@bernhardbaver.bsky.social
Associated Professor & PI of ERC CoG-project #glossit at @universityofgraz.bsky.social Department for Digital Humanities Member of @ya-oeaw.bsky.social Glossing, Digital Humanities, Celtic Studies, Language Contact, Historical Linguistics
We kick off our 2026 volume with two fantastic articles! In @bernhardbaver.bsky.social and Francesca Guido's piece, they reassess and challenge the Old Breton glosses on BN1616. Available, open access, here: journal.fi/scf/article/...
Making sure you're not a bot!
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Zukunft der #Wissensregion Steiermark in Gefahr: 500 Millionen Euro sollen bei steirischen Universitäten gestrichen werden. Damit werden Entwicklung und Konkurrenzfähigkeit des Standortes kurzfristigen Sparzielen geopfert, fürchten die Rektor:innen ⬇️ #weworkfortomorrow
Zukunft der Wissensregion Steiermark in Gefahr
500 Millionen Euro sollen bei steirischen Universitäten gestrichen werden. Damit werden Entwicklung und Konkurrenzfähigkeit des Wissenschafts-, Kultur- und Wirtschaftsstandortes kurzfristigen Sparziel...
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An chéad léacht i sraith léachtaí an earraigh The first lecture in our spring series Pádraic Moran (Gaillimh/Galway) Sun, moon and stars in the Reichenauer Schulheft 5pm, 19 Feabhra/February DIAS, 10 Burlington Road www.dias.ie/celt/ @dias.ie
📯 Job claxon: Assistant Professor in Celtic, University of Cambridge (ending soon) @department-asnc.bsky.social wishes to appoint an Assistant Professor in Celtic from 1 Sept 2026. Details for the post can be found at www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista.... Closing date for applications: Wed 11 Feb 2026.
Assistant Professor in Celtic
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, within the Faculty of English wishes to appoint an Assistant Professor in Celtic from 1 September 2026. We seek applicants who have research and
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A little announcement to start the year: over the next few days all sites of the Van Hamel Foundation (CODECS included) will go offline for an upgrade and unless anything unforeseen happens, should be back up within a week or so.
Nominations are open for DH Awards 2025. Anyone can nominate things that are #DigitalHumanities, available to voters, and updated in 2025. #DH Nominations close 2026-02-26 and the only way something gets on the ballot. You only need to nominate something once. dhawards.org/dhawards2025...
DH Awards 2025 – Call For Nominations | Digital Humanities Awards
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2 scoláireacht ar fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh 2 scholarships available in the School of Celtic Studies Sprioc: 5 Eanáir 2026 Deadline: 5 January 2026 www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v... @dias.ie
Thanks a mill to @davidstifter.bsky.social for including myself in his advent calendar.
🌲5️⃣🎁 Glosses, glosses, parallel glosses… Dr Bernhard Bauer’s academic career has been very diverse. After an MPhil. in Vienna, editing Old Breton glosses, while simultaneously creating a lexical database of the St Gall glosses (www.stgallpriscian.ie/forms), he first came to Maynooth in 2012/3… 📖
🎁 Gaimchorgus 2025 🌟 The darkness outside leaves no doubt: the time has come again to brighten up the end-of-year despair by the annual 𝐹é𝓁𝒾𝓇𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓇𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓈 𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓂𝓇𝒾𝒹 𝒾𝓈𝒾𝓃𝓉 Ṡ𝑒𝓃𝑔𝑜í𝒹𝒾𝓁𝒸 ‘Old Irish Advent Calendar’, on Bluesky (and, out of a nostalgic habit, still on Twitter). As is proper, the Advent... /1
The Societas Celtologica Europaea is now on Bluesky! ➡️ Our goal is to support the scholarly study of Celtic languages, literatures, and cultures in research and teaching and to promote cooperation among Celtic scholars. 👋 Follow us for updates on our student prizes, conferences & more!
Our GlossIT presentation from the Fourth European Symposiumin Celtic Studies is now online: zenodo.org/records/1704...
'What goes on?' Researching early medieval glossed corpora using a combined Digital Humanities and Celtic Studies approach
The 90-minute thematic session aims to investigate the intersections between early medieval vernacular Celtic and Latin glossing traditions. Our methodology integrates philological and (historical) li...
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📜 Zwischen den Zeilen: Bernhard Bauer analysiert Kommentare in mittelalterlichen Handschriften. Sein Projekt Glossit wurde mit einem @erc.europa.eu-Consolidator Grant von knapp zwei Millionen Euro über fünf Jahre gefördert: uni-graz.e-publikation.de/de/2-2025/gl... #weworkfortomorrow
Zwischen den Zeilen lesen
Bernhard Bauer erforscht mittelalterliche Handschriften
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Half of the #GlossIT team en route to Bonn for the "FOURTH EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM IN CELTIC STUDIES". We will present tomorrow afternoon. www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/keltologie/e... #ESCS25
📣 Call for Papers für DHd Konferenz 2026, 23.–27. Februar @univie.ac.at 🧭 Thema: „Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten“ Wie verändert digitale Modellierung geisteswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisprozesse? Fokus: materielle Kultur, Code, Interfaces, KI etc 📝 Bis 1.8.2025: dhd2026.digitalhumanities.de #DHd2026
DHd 2026 – Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten
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I hadn't been aware of this recording of 11 Early Irish poems, read by Myles Dillon around 1956. Kindly made available by the School of Celtic in University College Cork. www.youtube.com/watch?v=45WU... (I am pleased to note that my own pronunciation of those poems isn't far off Dyllon's.)
Prof. Myles Dillon reads 11 Early Irish Lyrics, c. 1956
YouTube video by School of Irish Learning UCC
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I am looking forward to catch up everyone at #IMC2025 next week. On Wednesday, I am presenting in one of the sessions organised by ARITHMETIC. Come join us for some fun with mathematics.
New issue of Das Mittelalter Vol. 30 No. 1 (2025) heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/mia... #openaccess Schnittstelle Mediävistik. Kollaborationen der Mittelalterforschung im digitalen Zeitalter @bernhardbaver.bsky.social @nominiel.bsky.social @mhdbdb.bsky.social @luiseborek.bsky.social
GlossIT is hiring a Digital Humanities postdoctoral researcher for 4 years (75% FTE). Candidates should have experience with digital editions and philological/linguistical projects: jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/9a9b... Position from 1 June 2025 (starting date negotiable). Deadline is 12 May 2025.
Universität Graz
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𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 5 A special issue for today’s St Patrick Day, to highlight one of the wider aspects of the DiⒶgnostic project (@researchireland.bsky.social), namely the prehistory of Irish. The project’s main research question of dialectal variation in Old Irish is – directly or indirectly –… ☘️
The slides from my presentation at the earlyirishhands.ie/karlsruhe-be... are now online at zenodo.org/records/1486...
Karlsruhe Bede Conference – Early Irish Hands
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Arqus Alliance have posted a news item about the recent workshop by @bernhardbaver.bsky.social in Early Irish (LEIGHEAS @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social DiAgnostic @davidstifter.bsky.social): www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/... @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social
Joint Workshop Hosted at Maynooth University with Arqus Alliance
On Monday the 10th February 2025, Maynooth University (MU) was delighted to host the in-person workshop “Digitally Transcribing and Editing Medieval Sources,” by Dr Bernhard Bauer from the University
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Digital Transcribing and Editing Medieval Sources with Dr Bernhard Bauer @bernhardbaver.bsky.social, formerly of Early Irish Maynooth and now, University of Graz. 📅Monday, 10th Feb ⏲️9:30 -13:00 🏢Lab 1.37, AHI, Iontas Building Register by email deborah.hayden@mu.ie
It's great to finally come back to Maynooth!
Workshop on: 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 Dr Bernhard Bauer @bernhardbaver.bsky.social (Gloss.IT project; University of Graz) 10 February 2025 9:30-13.00 Room 68, Arts Building Maynooth University @maynoothuni.bsky.social Details see below ⬇️
[Please Repost] Our next ATNU Virtual Speaker is Hannah Busch from CCeH at the University of Cologne who will talk to us about "Matching Medieval Manuscripts with Machine Learning". research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at... Wed 19 February 2025 at 4pm UK time. (Zoom link will be sent to all registered.)
News | Animating Text | Newcastle University
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🚨 Lost & Found! A 19th-century Irish translation of Paradise Lost by poet Tomás ‘an tSneachta’ Ó Conchubhair has been rediscovered in the University of Illinois collection! 🎉 Believed lost for decades, it's now live on ISOS. 📜 🌍 👉 Explore: www.isos.dias.ie/collection/u...
📢 Only a few days til Feb 6, when we deepdive into the contents and context of the Karlsruhe Bede (Aug. perg. 167)! @historytcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social See earlyirishhands.ie/karlsruhe-bede-conference
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