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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies

@winstonblack.bsky.social

Haligonian, Medievalist, Author, Historian of Medicine, Science, and Religion. Dad to kids and cats. Playing piano, MTG, D&D, BG3

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The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 10h ago

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 23h ago

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Anfor@anforsorrow.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ancient little guys of the day! These prehistoric baby bottles in the shape of little creatures were found were found in Bronze and Iron Age graves in Vösendorf (Austria). Actually, a study was conducted on these bottles around 2019 and they found traces of ruminant milk!

Ceramic baby bottles in the shape of animals or mythological creatures. Bronze and Iron Age (1200–800 BCE). Found in Vösendorf (Austria). Wien Museum. Vienna.
Robbie Richardson@londonmikmaq.bsky.social · last wk.

“Drum Dancer” (1973) by the brilliant Inuk sculptor Karoo Ashevak, who carved figures from stories he heard in his traditional childhood out of weathered old pieces of whalebone left by 19th-century whalers and Inuit ancestors.

A whalebone figurine of a comic and grostesque figure playing a hand drum A closeup face of the firing with many teeth and a gaping mouth
That guy@stuartbayens.bsky.social · 2w ago

A federal judge has approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about US$3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.

Judge approves a US$1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

A federal judge approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay authors about US$3,000 per book.

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Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

3 years after Raja Ampat’s walking shark won full legal protection, researchers off Sawinggrai village counted 2,462 per square km, the densest population ever recorded. These reef-crawlers barely move, which makes them easy to wipe out but quick to recover. buff.ly/IypEuj3 #ShareGoodNewsToo

New walking shark discovered as protected population booms

Researchers discovered the new, and already endangered shark in Papua New Guinea, while a study shows strong habitat allows them to thrive

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History and Heritage Yorkshire@handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 3w ago

Built around the late 18th or early 19th century, the Bedale Leech House is a purpose built structure that was created for an apothecary on the estate of the Beresford-Pierse family of Bedale Hall. It was in use until the early 20th century. Fresh water from Bedale

Bedale Leech House, a small, Grade II listed 19th-century brick structure located in North Yorkshire. It is the only surviving building of its kind in the United Kingdom, formerly used to store medicinal leeches for medical bloodletting until the early 20th century. The building features a unique castellated design with Gothic-style windows, situated directly on the banks of Bedale Beck. Image: Rosser1954 CC BY-SA 4.0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies@winstonblack.bsky.social · 3w ago

Well, it's official. I'm no longer the "Gatto Chair of Christian Studies" and a professor of medieval history and religion. I'm now an "Independent Scholar", i.e. unemployed. Great times in academia when I'm a co-PI on a multi-year grant and have to apply for employment insurance.