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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️

@ellisnilsson.bsky.social

Canadian Medievalist Senior Lecturer/Associate Prof @Linnaeus Uni. Docent @Lund Uni. PI @MappingSaints. WebEditor @info_Scandia. Saints & society; Digital History; Medieval book fragments; Mediating the past via reconstructions/re-creations, (re)enactment

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Steffen Hope@hopesteffen.bsky.social · 13h ago

This is why I have little patience for those who do a "well actually" & point out that millions of books are being pulped as a matter of course anyway. This is a league of its own, & a very sinister one at that. One which destroys material that could otherwise have been made accessible for others.

404 Media@404media.co · 20h ago

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · yesterday

1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look. The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.

Spencer McDaniel@spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 4w ago

I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...

An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...

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jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 3w ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2w ago

In my view, there is a difference between a domain- and task- specific use of genAI, preferably a locally hosted open-weight model not from a commercial AI provider, and slop — but what that woman is doing sounds quite a bit like slop.

Dr Anne E Bailey@anneebailey1.bsky.social · 2w ago

For the feast of St Oswald, the Heavenfield Cross commemorating the site where, in AD 633/634, King Oswald's army defeated the Welsh under Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd. The cross also marks the beginning (or end!) of the St Oswald Way. 👣

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Steffen Hope@hopesteffen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today is the translation feast of Saint Olaf. Bishop Grimkell oversaw the opening of the king's casket in 1031, & declared him a saint due to the incorruption of his body & reported miracles. [Courtesy of NIKU (Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research); Birger Landstad]

Detail from a fourteenth-century altar front, showing Saint Olaf lying dead in his casket with a crown on his head, a pillow under his head, and three wounds from when he died in battle. He looks recently dead, although he has been buried for over a year. Beside the casket, a group of priests and two bishops are standing. One bishop pours oil from a jar on the king's body, while the other sprinkles it with holy water. One of the priests in the background is holding up a book with the pages opened towards the bishops, presumably containing the liturgical chants to be performed.
Steffen Hope@hopesteffen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here's another gem from the cult of Saint Olaf on his feast-day. These doors are from an altarpiece from the early 1500s once situated in Røldal stave church in Western Norway & probably made in Northern Germany. [Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, CC5067]

Two doors of an altarpiece. On the right-hand side is Saint Barbara reading a book in front of the tower that is her attribute, with her eyes piously turned towards Heaven. On the left-hand side is Saint Olaf, dressed in armour. He is holding a halberd in his right had and a ciborium in his left. He is standing atop a dragon with a human head. The face of the dragon does not resemble that of the king.
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

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NorseMap@norsemap.bsky.social · last mo.

The NorseMap keeps growing! Recent submissions include The Irish Viking Pub in Norway, a modern longship in Spain, and even rune graffiti from the University of Tasmania. Explore the map at www.norsemap.eu and get in touch if you'd like to help test the app!

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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️@ellisnilsson.bsky.social · last mo.

Thread. The night sky has become really noisy. See the contrasting image without satellite interference further down.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷@paullecomtephoto.nz · last mo.

At the turning of the millennium there were 769 satellites in space, 2026 there are 14,500 satellites. I spent 7mins photographing the Milky Way rising above Poatiri Mt Charles Hoopers Inlet, on Muaupoko (Otago Peninsula) this evening. Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ #Photography

The Milky Way rising above a hill at Hoopers Inlet on Otago Peninsula with crazy lines of satellites in the sky
Ylva Grufstedt@ylvagrufstedt.bsky.social · last mo.

Since a few people have kindly decided to press the follow button on this account, I thought I'd post some of my academic work. In case we have any mutual interests or you'd like to just chat about something you see here, please don't hesitate to be in touch! Here's a book I wrote:

The cover of a book titled "Shaping the Past: Countrrfactual History and Game Design Practice in Digital Strategy Games", on Degruyter Oldenburg publishing.
Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️@ellisnilsson.bsky.social · last mo.

I have always experienced this at the IMC but understand it is a noticeable change in some strands. A good thing!

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last mo.

There is only one upside on this doom & gloom. At least at the largest Medieval congress this side of the planet (though "only" attracting 2700ish people, where it was still 3500ish before double whammy of Brexit/Pandemic). I don't think I've experienced so much kindness like at this year's edition.