For those in search or need of a bewildering equine banger this week, here is the latest disconcerting artistic product right out of our very own stable door. More on Bandcamp, including the (actually genuinely amazing) chiptune 'In C'.

Hank Spears@hankspears.bsky.social · 3w ago

The new Simple Carpenter single HORSE WEEK is out today! Available on Subvert, YouTube and all good streaming platforms*. See linktree in bio for more details.

And, as for every occasion, there’s always a Rylands Dante edition, here the November 1491 edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, shelfmark 5121.(fol. V2r).

Today is the last day of the John Rylands Research Institute @thejohnrylands.bsky.social before it closes, so I’m thinking back to our first Kaffeeklatsch in Oct 2023 with Kelly and @stefanhanss.bsky.social. Thanks so much to all who sailed with us over the years in our amazing cathedral of books!

STASERA! CE SOIR! HENO! TONIGHT! Indie-legends supergroup-double-bill tonight at the Hull Adelphi for all the port people!

RRRapid-Kool@rrrapidkool.bsky.social · 2mo ago

People of Hull! We'rrre supporting the magnificent Airrrcooled tomorrrrrrow night!! Get yourrrselves down to the Adelphi if you have nothing betterrr to do!!!

MWNG, LLANGOLLEN!!

People from the proper North know of course that It's Grim Up North is basically just the M62 corridor (i.e., the South). And so we must return to The Fall.

NUMBER 10 NORTH

The KLF always get there first.

Reupping my photo of the fantastic Angine de Poitrine at @nathbrudenell.bsky.social last night (now spelled correctly.) Microtonal double-necks, preposterously good drumming; ART!

Guyda Armstrong@guyda.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Angines de Poitrine at the Brudenell !

Angines de Poitrine at the Brudenell !

Another brilliant team also in this HAVI cohort! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Ruth Ahnert@ruthahnert.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Delighted to share that my co-PIs @danielwilson.bsky.social @mcollardanuy.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social: www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

Delighted to be funded under this programme with @guyda.bsky.social and other brilliant colleagues, working on differentiating print with computer vision!

Schmidt Sciences@schmidtsciences.bsky.social · 10mo ago

JUST ANNOUNCED: Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11M to 23 teams globally for our Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI). These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture. Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY

Learn more about our award and tremendous team here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r... @manchester.ac.uk

Researchers from the University of Manchester in partnership with the University of Oxford have been awarded funding from Schmidt Sciences for their project Envisioning Print with AI Computer Vision.

The Envisioning Print project brings together an expert team of textual scholars, book historians, computer scientists, library data experts, and research software engineers from the University of Man...

manchester.ac.uk

Amazing news! I'm completely thrilled that our Envisioning Print project has been selected for a 2025 @schmidtsciences HAVI award, + honoured to be part of this cohort of humanities teams advancing AI-driven approaches to understanding human histories and cultures.

Schmidt Sciences@schmidtsciences.bsky.social · 10mo ago

JUST ANNOUNCED: Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11M to 23 teams globally for our Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI). These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture. Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY

Very pleased to report that the MBV lights also pretty much blew out the sensor on my phone as well.

MBV versus Aviva Studio's power supply last night: MBV victorious (, obviously).

Come and see our legendary Head of Imaging Jamie introduce an eighth wonder of the world this Friday lunchtime @thejohnrylands.bsky.social !!

Jamie Robinson@rylandsesoterica.bsky.social · last yr.

This Friday 11th July from 12pm I will be introducing a newly produced full size reproduction of the stunning world map from 1546 we have been busy with at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Come explore the world seen through the eyes of a French renaissance king!

The Bulletin of the John Rylands University is going to be #openaccess from tomorrow! Including the substantial back archive! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/05...

The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is unlocking - Manchester University Press

Manchester University Press and the John Rylands Research Institute and Library are delighted to announce that from spring 2025 the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library will publish Open Access. This ...

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IGGY POP!!!

Watching this on SNUB TV at my friend's house when I should have been at orchestra practice literally changed the course of my life. Thanks, guys!

John Robb official@johnrobbofficial.bsky.social · last yr.

The day Dinosaur Jr filmed the video for Freak Scene in my back garden louderthanwar.com/the-day-dino... via @louderthanwar

Amazing, and AMAZINGLY LOUD Dinosaur Jr gig at the Albert Hall last night; as it should be done.

We are very happy to announce the concluding conference of the AHRC-funded project 'Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page', at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, 29-30 May 2025. For more info, see: ow.ly/EZJN50VPUUM

A conference presenting the brilliant work of many people over many years.. most immediately myself, colleagues at @oxford-vgg.bsky.social, @thejohnrylands.bsky.social and elsewhere. Come for the computer vision stay for the incunables, or vice versa

Guyda Armstrong@guyda.bsky.social · last yr.

It is exactly 725 years ago tonight that Dante went into the selva oscura, so when better to announce our FREE 2-day ENVISIONING DANTE conference, 29-30 May 2025, @thejohnrylands.bluesky.social ? Register for each day separately, links below ⬇️⬇️

It is exactly 725 years ago tonight that Dante went into the selva oscura, so when better to announce our FREE 2-day ENVISIONING DANTE conference, 29-30 May 2025, @thejohnrylands.bluesky.social ? Register for each day separately, links below ⬇️⬇️

WE ARE LEEDS WE ARE LEEDS! (very impressed to see this, as a Leeds graduate lcsleeds.bluesky.social; I hope everyone else follows).

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2y ago

The University of Leeds has become the first Russell Group university to officially announce that it is quitting Elon Musk’s social media site X. It will, however, be alive and well on Bluesky. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Incredible intensive language course learning to read, speak, and transcribe two indigenous languages at the Newberry Library in Summer 2025; details below! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Heather Froehlich@heatherfro.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Newberry Library is hosting a 1-week Intensive Language Study in Nahuatl/Nawat this summer (Jul 21–Aug 01, 2025). Applications due March 15: www.newberry.org/calendar/cen...

12 new postdoc opportunities in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester; details below! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Erica Baffelli@baffellierica.bsky.social · 2y ago

Call for 12 Bicentenary Postdoc Research Fellowships (3-years) at UoM. Fellows will need a mentor and address the Faculty of Humanities priority research themes of Digital Futures; Sustainable Futures; Creativity; Global Inequalities; and Adaptive Societies. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Just visited the JRRIL Imaging Team, now properly installed in their fantastic new imaging suite! With all the curtained cubicles and trollies it is basically GOTH CASUALTY (HT Jamie).

Our fantastic Envisioning Dante postdoc Dr Rebecca Bowen is giving a paper in London (and to remote viewers) 16th Jan 2025! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

IHR Italy 1200-1700@ihritaly.bsky.social · 2y ago

Seminar alert: Rebecca Bowen will speak on 'Figures of Love: Imagining Amore in the Early Italian Tradition', 16 Jan, in person IHR London and also via Zoom, register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/figur.... All welcome! Please share.

IMMENSE show last night at the Academy; like gigs used to be!

the Jesus Lizard@thejesuslizard.bsky.social · 2y ago

112 dB at soundcheck. We’re here, Manchester.