I have been neglecting my academic social media, but here is some news that my podcast on my most recent obsession - St Christopher Cynocephauls - is out (has been out for a while)

The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast@mmapod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bark! Bark! 🐶 a new episode just dropped feat. @drpolina.bsky.social!!! #medievalsky #stchristopher

Really enjoyed chatting about medieval zombies on the Resurrectionists podcast. What a productive week I'm having! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyd-...

The Dead Wouldn’t Stay Buried: Medieval Horror Stories

YouTube video by The Resurrectionists Podcast

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I'm in this picture and I like it! My article ‘The Legend of the Serra Revisited: Identifying the Composite Creature’ has just been published with Preternature. Big thank you to the editors for their hard work 🦭

Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural Vol. 15, No.1 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56223 @projectmuse.bsky.social @psupress.bsky.social @seamonsterscholar.bsky.social @drpolina.bsky.social

In 2022 my amazing colleague Emelie and I went on a trip to Östersund to see the Nordic Myths exhibition at Nationalmuseum Jamtli. We then wrote an article, which later grew into two articles. Super happy to see Part 1 published today, check it out, there are pictures! kb.osu.edu/items/8e0974...

Binged One Piece up to the ongoing episodes, what a time to be alive!

My colleague and I are launching a new podcast series called Memory and Nature. If you are a researcher in environmental humanities, we will probably want to interview you! To express interest, send us an abstract by 1 February 2026. See the cfp for details ⬇️

When people say that German or any other language is romantic, Dr. Daruwalla thought, all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language (c) John Irving, 'A Son of the Circus'

Watched Puss in Boots 2 bc a friend of a friend said it's the best animated film ever. Well, Puss meets the personification of death and reassesses his life by making meaningful connections w/ others. In other words, very Irvin Yalom-y

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

Open-Access Teaching Module on the Black Death Now Available

Free, new materials for teaching the Black Death

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Tell me this job was created for a friend w/o telling me this job was created for a friend

Finished Wednesday's 2nd season. Why does a late-autumn motorcycle road trip with Uncle Fester suddenly look so good?

Come to my seminar on sea monsters on Monday at Stockholm University! (It will be in English 😉) www.su.se/centrum-for-...

Любимые формулировки из Гулистана Саади (перевод Рустама Алиева): Однажды ночью, о минувших годах размышляя и даром погубленную жизнь в памяти оживляя, камни дома сердца своего я подтачивал алмазами слёз

Environmental medievalists, we want to see you at the animal sessions at the IMC 2026! Please submit your abstracts by 10 September 🦔 @imc-leeds.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social

1st day back from my conference Eurotrip - @imc-leeds.bsky.social (where we've plotted forthcoming sessions w/ Medieval Animal Data-Network) and @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social in Prague (where I've tried out medieval studies from the memory perspective). Now let's catch up on this pile of emails

Travelling to the UK w/ a visa (duh). SAS puts me on the spot by calling me together w/ several other holders of uncool passports to their desk through the fucking intercom. This is besides the fact I can't check in online bс again my passport is uncool.

Publications are like buses... My article on representations of fish in medieval children's literature has just come out and it's in OA: ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/ha...

I struggle a lot with American English I realise

Today I have sent out two documents: a publishing agreement for my article and a presentation pic for a pole dancing competition 🤘

Prioritising AI over - well - natural intelligence is a perfect example of how ✨some people✨ want to see humans as expendable materials. I said what I said.

That moment in a romcom when an ugly girl shows up in her prom dress #akademiskahögtiden #Sweden

Love that autocorrect tries to replace godkänd with goddamn

Did you know that university employees also have human rights? Follow SULF/LiU to find out more! eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

SULF Linköpings universitet | LinkedIn

SULF Linköpings universitet | 7 followers on LinkedIn. A chapter of SULF, the Swedish Association of University Teachers and Researchers | Welcome to SULF at Linköping University! We are a chapter of ...

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I'm so sorry

My amazing colleague Emelie Fälton and I wrote a chapter on sea monsters and environmentalism. It was published in the open access yesterday, have a look! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication | Maida Kosatica,

This collection brings together established and emerging scholars for a critical framing of sustainability through the lens of language and communication,

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Writing a Black Death lecture fighting the temptation to say 'this is yersinia pestis, it might be small but it's got big plans'

Spotify needs to introduce a repeat mode, but like THE SONG - some different song - THE SONG again- another different song and so on so I can avoid complete degradation

Do you think one can regress from Purgatory i.e. go to Hell instead of Heaven? Like by behaving particularly badly?

Albertus Magnus on salpa: according to Pliny the salpa is an obscene, vile, marine fish. It can in no way be cooked unless it is first beaten very forcefully and broken down with a club or stick. What did salpa ever do to Albert?

John Arderne's scroll (National Library of Sweden X118) contains first-aid advice on what to do if you have a spear stuck in your bum