Celebrate #InternationalDayOfFriendship by becoming a Friend of Ceræ! You not only get great rewards thanks to our friends @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social, but you get to join our community and support new and emerging #humanities research. #ancientsky #medievalsky #earlymodernsky #history #journal

Ceræ@ceraejournal.bsky.social · 6d ago

We're celebrating International Friends Day this week, and we didn't want to let it sail by without sharing this new special program, designed especially for our friends! There's book discounts, a conference ticket and more to share ceraejournal.com/the-friends-... #medievalsky #earlymodernsky

#ancientsky #medievalsky #earlymodernsky

Ceræ@ceraejournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We’re delighted to let you know that attendees to our 2026 virtual conference Fame and Fortune (25-26 April) will receive a 40% discount on ARC Humanities Press print titles! Full program available and registrations open. ceraejournal.com/conference-i... Thanks @archumanities.bsky.social!

Pope Leo on AI: “Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.” This short thread is worth reading:

#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #ancientsky #cfp #booksky Hands up who wants to get involved with a cool online journal - or attend an equally fun online conference this April! #fame&fortune

Ceræ@ceraejournal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Seeking Vol 13 Book Reviewers & Conference Deadline EXTENDED! We are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline for themed submissions for our 2026 online Conference: Fame and Fortune to Monday 16 March 2026. Please email your submission for a 20-minute (+ 10 minutes Q&A) presentation…

🚨 Fame & Fortune CFP 🚨 The new themed #CFP from @ceraejournal.bsky.social for Volume 13 of our #openaccess #journal and the annual online #conference is finally here! Conference paper abstracts due 6 March. Themed journal submissions due 30 April. Tell your friends! #medievalsky #earlymodernsky

Ceræ@ceraejournal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

2026 Ceræ Call For Papers We are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 13 of Ceræ, as well as for our 3rd annual online Conference, is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme. Fame and fortune are slippery things. They can be welcome or…

#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #academicsky #historysky Come read the twelfth volume of Ceræ - Dreams, Visions, and Utopias!

Ceræ@ceraejournal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ceræ Volume 12: Published! 2025 has been a year in which the contemporary world has seen immense geopolitical shifts and generational changes. Cultural fault lines globally have deepened and been exploited cynically by a wide variety of different individuals, organisations, and companies.…

We have extended our call for new committee members to November 10th! This time around, we are especially looking for postgraduate students and ECRs with experience to fill our editor roles, as well as a social media manager. #medievalsky #academicsky ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...

Call for New Committee Members

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early caree…

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Hwæt #classicsky #medievalsky #earlymodernsky! 🗣️ Ceræ's annual EOI for new committee members is now open for next year's #openaccess Volume 13. 🗣️ Editorial experience not required - but enthusiasm is. 🗣️ Applications from graduates and ECRs prioritised. 🗣️ DM/email/visit website for more info.

Ceræ@ceraejournal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Happy Monday! A reminder that we're seeking new committee members for Ceræ's 13th volume, including editors, a social media manager, and a fundraising officer. Postgraduate students welcome! See link below for details: ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c... #medievalsky #academicsky #earlymodernsky

Last week I said the hardest, most heartbreaking of goodbyes to my beloved Kiara. 17 years old, but in declining health for the last year or so, she passed peacefully in her garden, in the warm spring sunshine, held by her humans until the very end. We love you forever, darling little puss-face.

A key point has been missed, and for once it's not the AI that's the issue. C-14 dating of MSS doesn't date a text, it only dates the medium on which a text was written. Parchment was valuable, rarely manufactured for a specific text, and frequently recycled. 1/🧵 #ancientsky #classicsky #medievalsky

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows@rogueclassicist.bsky.social · last yr.

Dating ancient manuscripts using radiocarbon and AI-based writing style analysis | PLOS One journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Wow. Unbelievable that this study passed #ethics approval at the University of Zurich, and ridiculous it was considered 'low risk'. The members of that ethics committee need to be disciplined alongside the research team. And no journal should go anywhere near this study or the research team.

Sarah Gilbert@sarahagilbert.bsky.social · last yr.

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

Our opening @ceraejournal.bsky.social conference keynote, @jkeskiah.bsky.social, on the origins of dreams in Gregory the Great: dreams can be a product of a full (or an empty) stomach, and holy men can discern dreams by a secret taste. Well, I have just one response to that: MEDIEVAL CHEESE DREAMS!

Most #medievalsky and #earlymodernsky conferences, even online ones, are expensive 🤑. Not so for @ceraejournal.bsky.social's conference! It really is just under $10 (USD), which is even less in £ and € (and only $15 AUD!) Our first session starts in just 30 minutes! ceraejournal.com/programme/

The 2nd annual @ceraejournal.bsky.social #onlineconference is this week, 26-27 April! 🎉 🗣️Heaps of fantastic papers over our unique 30-hour continuous schedule - which allows for equitable access to the conference irrespective of location. #medievalsky #earlymodernsky ceraejournal.com/2025/04/21/i...

It’s Conference Week!

The 2nd annual Ceræ conference, organised around the theme of Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, will begin this weekend on 26–27 April! Because our conference is truly an international a…

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🚨Open call for papers🚨 Attention #earlymedieval and #lateantiquity colleagues at all career stages! JAEMA accepts submissions from all disciplines and geographical foci - and the submission deadline for Issue 1 of the 2025 Volume is fast approaching. #medievalsky #ancientsky #CFP #skystorians

Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association@jaema.bsky.social · last yr.

The submissions deadline for the first issue of the Australian Early Medieval Association is rapidly approaching - papers need to be submitted by April 30 to be considered for the first issue! See our website for more details: aema.org.au/journal/

Another day ... another #CelticStudies programme under attack. Please sign the petition to send a strong message to the University of Western Brittany that Breton is highly valued internationally: chng.it/cdStWfKmbz The Master's of Celtic Languages and Cultures in Contact blog: l3c.hypotheses.org

Avez-vous une minute pour aider cette campagne?

Sauvons les études celtiques de Brest ! / Save the Celtic studies in Brest !

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Mixed feelings on this article. On the one hand, research about the educated female medieval experience is momentarily occupying the mainstream. But on the other hand, the closer you look at their methodology, the less helpful the results appear to be. #medievalsky #medievalwomen #skystorians 1/🧵

Do you have 'spare' time in April? ✅ Looking for an #independent #medievalsky & #earlymodernsky #onlineconference to attend? ✅ Abstract submissions have been extended for just one final week! Our only submission limitations are chronological and thematic, (not geographic or methodological).

Ceræ@ceraejournal.bsky.social · last yr.

We're delighted to announce the speakers for the 2025 Ceræ conference! @chloehouston.bsky.social from the University of Reading and @jkeskiah.bsky.social from the University of Helsinki will give keynote speeches on April 26 and 27. We are so glad to have them! ceraejournal.com/conference-i...

Rad new #Bowie mural unveiled in my neighbourhood. Fellow #skystorians: if medievalism describes post-medieval adaptions of artistic and intellectual medieval concepts/artefacts, then why isn't there a single word to refer to the same concept but with antiquity? #neologism #ancientsky #medievalsky

Teaching and studying languages is one of the core missions of universities. These languages include ancient ones, modern ones, mathematics, music, and coding languages. À bon entendeur, salut.

For reading other (non-fiction) books during class. More than once in primary and high school. But my coolest teacher in year 10 history, let my best friend and I read other stuff in class if it was broadly relevant - and that, dear reader, is how we taught ourselves rudimentary hieroglyphics.

I made a list of these if you want to block them. I'm not sure that this will prevent them from working, but it might. bsky.app/profile/did:...

no brain, only alison@alisonborealis.bsky.social · 2y ago

The content scraper bots have arrived for "unrolling" people's threads. Do not be the asshole scraping people's content to a third party website that's profiting off it without permission.

"The influence of the Ossian cycle has placed “Celts” at the heart of genre fantasy...this, in turn, has placed 18th- and 19th-century race science, British (and French) colonial expansion, and attempted cultural genocide at the heart of the fantasy genre." 👏👏 Brilliant! #CelticStudies #literature

Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Criticism Special closes out with a wonderful essay from @coimeas.bsky.social on the use of the Celtic in fantasy - but also, and more vitally, the use of fantasy in Celtic. It tackles a key problem - that "'The Celts' have become, for many people, a cultural phenomenon" more than a culture.

Sure, labret use is one explanation for the dental wear in this population, but one I think is unlikely. There is no serious discussion of dental wear resulting from continual use of the mouth/teeth as a defacto third 'hand', no reference to recent studies on the topic. #archaeology #skystorians 1/🧵

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes@lemoustier.bsky.social · 2y ago

🏺🧪🦣 Immensely interesting new, detailed and OA study suggesting cultural cheek piercing - like B in the image here, but one sided & potentially progressively enlarged from adolescence onwards - in a European 'Ice Age' culture 31.5-29.5 ka BP

Not only is this a splendid essay featuring charming 19th c illustrations and poems dedicated to wombats in all their hirsute, rotund glory, I just can't get over the hysterical illustration of 'the common or native catte'. #Victoriana #Australianfauna #skystorians #arthistory

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2y ago

A pyramid, a wombat, and thee

This is the antidote to modern STEM exceptionalism and research chauvinism - a thorough literature review that looks beyond the last generation of research and shines a light on errors and mal-assumptions within the very foundations of a field. #ancientsky #archaeology

Rachel Pope@prehistorian.bsky.social · 2y ago

My piece is out! A history of archaeological scholarship on the potential for matrilineal societies in Iron Age Europe.

Each contribution is fabulous (having read the whole volume through more than once during editing!), but i'm extra proud of 'Meet Me in My World', Roxanne Bodsworth's scholarly and poetic retelling of Aislinge Óenguso from the feminine POV of Caer. #medievalsky #celticstudies #feminist #literature

Ceræ@ceraejournal.bsky.social · 2y ago

The eleventh volume of Ceræ journal is now live! This volume features three articles themed on 'Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation', two varia, and a record nineteen book reviews! Please, #medievalsky and #earlymodernsky, read on: ceraejournal.com/2025/01/22/c...

In recent weeks a whole bunch of new papers have been published in areas that are important to my research - with some amazing new insights ... and disappointments. One of my biggest let-downs has been the widely-shared article on ancient Peruvian #TattooHistory (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...). 1/🧵

Hidden artistic complexity of Peru’s Chancay culture discovered in tattoos by laser-stimulated fluorescence | PNAS

Tattoos were a prevalent art form in pre-Hispanic South America exemplified by mummified human remains with preserved skin decoration that reflects...

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#Dream narratives are some of the most ubiquitous yet diverse genres of #medieval text, and we want to hear about your research! Ceræ is a fully independent digital-only journal, and our #CFP is looking for BOTH conference submissions and journal submissions. #medievalsky #earlymodern #skystorians

Conference 2025

Conference Dates & Venue The Ceræ Conference will be held on 26–27 April 2025. In 2024, the conference was organised in a unique continuous format over a 28-hour period in order to equitably ac…

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Ceræ@ceraejournal.bsky.social · 2y ago

CALL FOR PAPERS: CERÆ Journal and the second incarnation of the CERÆ Conference are both accepting submissions for their 2025 iterations! The theme for both is "Dreams, Visions, and Utopias." #medievalsky #historysky ceraejournal.com/2024/12/17/2...

Even though my Glücksschwein is wonky and looks more like a plucked, zesty hedgehog than a piglet, here's to hoping that 2025 will be a fruitful and prosperous year!