Finally teaching a medieval grad class = I'm going to email a bunch of friends in a few months and tell them how much my students like their essays
Aylin Malcolm
@malentendre.bsky.social
Literature prof | currently writing on: medieval plant grafting; worm reproduction | they/them | science before 1700, book history, sci fi, whale facts 🐋 🌐 aylinmalcolm.com 📍Toronto
Hung my comically oversized teaching award up in my office today
Medieval studies is reading a weird 700 year old poem and then, ten years later, finding something original to say about it
The essay cluster I co-edited with Andrew Richmond on "Premodern Digital Ecologies" is out: academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/41... #MedievalSky @vickymcalister.bsky.social @linguistaria.bsky.social
Volume 41 Issue 3 | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities | Oxford Academic
An official journal of the European Association for Digital Humanities. Publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities including, but not limited to, the fiel...
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The long-expected return of the aspidochelone
An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on B.C.'s largest reservoir | CBC News
B.C. Hydro says it's monitoring for the reappearance of a mysterious island first spotted by boaters 100 kilometres from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in northeastern B.C.
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The semester is approaching! If you’re teaching race & premodern contexts, check out throughlines.org - premodernist scholars across fields (including literature & other disciplines) with informational videos, reading lists, classroom activities, and much more! @acmrs.bsky.social
Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom
Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.
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When I first moved to SoCal and took my child to the city library (as one does, first thing), this book title had me confused for several minutes.
Might be as simple as "we still have lots of books from the Middle Ages (and they mostly look great)"
Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · 2y agoWhat’s something that’s a banal observation in your field, but which really blows students’ minds the 1st time they encounter it? I’ll go 1st—when we talk about how technological history gets narrated & I say "no human being has ever lived in a historical period—they’ve only lived in the present"
EARTHWORMS ARE INVASIVE SPECIES IN CANADA!
Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · 2y agoWhat’s something that’s a banal observation in your field, but which really blows students’ minds the 1st time they encounter it? I’ll go 1st—when we talk about how technological history gets narrated & I say "no human being has ever lived in a historical period—they’ve only lived in the present"
my latest: i can confirm there's been a concerted campaign to develop a data center in northern virginia within a historically important national park site relying on help from a senior advisor to the interior department under the first trump admin will the land swap happen? for @heatmap.news
How the National Park Service Wound Up in a Data Center Deal
The agency is reportedly considering a land swap that would allow AI infrastructure in one of northern Virginia’s largest green spaces.
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My friend landed on my head, hopped around my hands and clothes, and refused to leave while I walked down a mountain for 20 mins, until I laid them gently on a flower
Late post, but I'm so proud of Erin O'Brien for publishing her work on queer joy and ace-ecologies. This piece emerged from our graduate seminar but takes a totally new form here, with embroidery!
NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Dancing with the Willow: Redefining the Erotic through Ace-Ecologies" by Erin O'Brien is the seventh post in the Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” series. niche-canada.org/2026/06/20/d... #envhist #envhum #queerecology #queerjoy #pridemonth
I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
I'M DYING OVER HERE 💀💀💀 THE CAT GOT AI SCAM EMAIL 🐈 Aeschylus, our orange tabby, got an obviously AI email about selling more copies of the Oresteia on A**zon
Already 52 people on the waitlist for next winter. Book history is popular and every school should dedicate resources to it!
Aylin Malcolm@malentendre.bsky.social · last yr.My undergrad book history course has 75 students registered and 37 on the waitlist. The students yearn for the books
Spent all day writing about erotic plant grafting and the Crucifixion. Weird how this is my job and not, like, the reason I'm in jail
"Why are you so mad? Are you choleric?" –my non-medievalist partner to the cat
Sorry for the self promotion, but I've written a blog post on alternatives to Google Scholar librarykirsten.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/t...
The Big List of Google Scholar Alternatives (and the Big Librarian Existential Crisis)
The Crisis I started writing this in summer of last year, intending it to be a nice little list of tools that would be handy if Google Scholar disappeared or got substantially worse, as a follow up…
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It! Is! Here! Open Access (and already hoovered up by the scrapers no doubt such is our world) UK/EU paper copies will be available eventually but until then, EVERYONE now has free access! press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ill...
Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 10mo agoHey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...
"Your mother asked why I was putting that sticker on the wallet...I thought it was a question that should be pitied rather than answered" –my dad
My dog is sick and I am struggling :( sorry if I owe you some writing
They’re called ‘academic journals’ because they’re where you write your private thoughts nobody else is allowed to read
1/ Right now, a bill called C-22 is moving through Parliament. It would let police pull information on who you talk to, when, and where, all without a warrant. It's at committee this week. 🧵
Come write with us at EHN! Graduate students and early career scholars who identify as women, trans, and/or nonbinary people (FLINTA*) are invited to submit abstracts for our next round of publications.
“Nazir’s selection is less about him using AI and more about the irony of Euro-American conceptions about the unintelligibility of postcolonial writing.”
Karl Steel@karlsteel.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis is a good read of the Granta / Commonwealth mess and quite a teachable essay for undergrads, so bookmark for your Fall syllabuses africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...
