Dear medievalist and medieval-curious friends, please help spread the good word about a new opportunity to enroll in the Advanced Certificate in Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. CUNY may not be rich, but we are uniquely rich in medievalists! www.gc.cuny.edu/events/medie... #medievalsky

ICYMI, Friday was my last day at @redmonk.com I am excited about what’s next for me (more on this next week). For now, just want to say how grateful I am to my RedMonk colleagues for my time as a monk. Also, I left you a post on my way out: redmonk.com/kfitzpatrick...

Three things that matter

I have spent a lot of time on the road lately: three conferences (Monki Gras, KubeCon, Atlassian Team ‘25) in the past three weeks, with SIGCSE 2025 and Dynatrace Perform earlier this year and a slew ...

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#MonkiGras here I come! Who will I see there?

I'm looking for my next thing, and I need to move fast. I have several years of experience in developer relations from startups to the enterprise, and I'm particularly skilled at distilling complex topics into something easily understood by newbies and non-technical folks alike, on stage or off. 1/3

For anyone out there who is considering (or knows someone who is considering) a career in STEM, some thoughtful, timely, and much appreciated advice from @grimalkina.bsky.social The full conversation: redmonk.com/blog/2025/03...

Take a few minutes and listen to this conversation with the always brilliant @grimalkina.bsky.social on the psychology of software teams, the importance of psychology to technical innovation, and why we need science. Full episode here: redmonk.com/blog/2025/03...

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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In 2025, is every Saturday morning flight basically like a flight to Vegas, or are folks just Buffalo Tracing their way through the end times?

How does @githubeducation.bsky.social plan to reach 1 BILLION developers? @github.com's @avni321.bsky.social joins @kellyann.bsky.social to talk global developer enablement, the role of generative AI, and why the world needs coding skills now more than ever. redmonk.com/blog/2025/02...

In the latest @redmonk.com update from @kateholterhoff.bsky.social. Congratulations @rstephens.me A very well deserved promotion!!!!

it's just my experience, but i've been calling my rep's offices regularly since 2016, and one of my rep's mailboxes is full and half of one senator's lines either don't go through or were busy. that's never happened in the time i have been calling. keep the pressure on. call your reps. 5calls.org

Robinson Meyer@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · last yr.

Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:

Wild how the category of “women” must both be ruthlessly defended by the right but also stripped from all direct research, support, or institutional funding.

my December 2024 brain has some serious explaining to do

I regret to inform you that people have officially started circling back around after the holidays

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents:

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Jumping on the bandwagon by calling out my 5 star reads of 2024. It was not the best reading year for me, I'll admit. I DNF'd probably around 15 books, finished 45, and was pretty disappointed in a large majority of those. But here are some I loved!

when you have a holiday cold and a cat insisting that you stop doomscrolling and rest

🎼 All I want for Christmas 🎶 🎵 Is a 2024 redo 🎶

missed #caturday b/c planes, but here’s a sleepy Ishka

The William Morris Society US is now accepting applications for the 2025 Joseph R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship, supporting scholarly and creative work about William Morris and his circle. Deadline: January 31, 2025. More information: morrissociety.org/2024/12/17/c...

Call for Applications: 2025 Joseph R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship • William Morris Society in the United States

The William Morris Society in the United States calls for applications for the 2025 Joseph R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship.The deadline is January 31, 2025.

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This is notable because Vultr has self-funded their cloud infrastructure buildout from their operating cash flow up to now www.wsj.com/articles/clo...

Exclusive | Cloud AI Startup Vultr Raises $333 Million at $3.5 Billion Valuation

Chip giant Advanced Micro Devices and hedge fund LuminArx Capital Management raised $333 million for a growth financing round for cloud startup Vultr, a sign of the hot demand for artificial intellige...

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Headed to Notre Dame for an outdoor football game on Friday ☘️ And of course there is snow in the forecast 🌨️

On Monday, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by @postwait.lethargy.org, @kellyann.bsky.social, and @sogrady.org to talk about tech conferences. Unsurprisingly, a lot has changed in the decades since we met these folks at conferences! What's worth the trip in 2025? youtu.be/YBId0FLKxCo

Oxide and Friends 12/9/2024 -- Conferences in Tech

YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company

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8:15AM, Edinburgh.

"Midwinter - Perchta and the Wild Hunt" ❄️ Personal piece A counterpart piece to my summer witches, with Jupiter smuggling his way besides Perchta/Hulda riding in the night sky, because he has been shining so bright in the night sky this january.

disclosure: those are @rstephens.me’s friendship bracelets

Rachel Stephens@rstephens.me · 2y ago

usually @monkchips.com and @sogrady.org give me authority to speak on behalf of the company, but in this instance I'm actually not allowed to say "RedMonk ❤️ Taylor Swift" but some of RedMonk does, and I ❤️ Taylor Swift and I ❤️ this post from @kellyann.bsky.social redmonk.com/kfitzpatrick...

It’s interesting to note that the UCLA #complit AI course had heavy input and design from likely underpaid history grad students. I’m curious to know if any other #literature faculty had input on this and what the faculty actually did for revision and #CourseDesign. Expertise matters!

Finally home on a #Caturday, so taking the opportunity to reintroduce my cats.

KellyAnn Fitzpatrick@kellyann.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to see so many new #MedievalSky folks in my skyline! Will endeavor to post more neomedieval and tech industry content in the future (b/c I think a lot about both) But first: the laws of #Caturday dictate that I introduce my cats

Hello hello graduate students of #MedievalSky UNC and Duke University are co-hosting Vagantes 2025 in Durham, NC, USA Apr 3-5 and still looking for submissions! Here's the CFP--abstracts due by December 9th. (I'm saying come hang out with me and my friends we are nice and also funny) #callforpapers