Today (Nov 11) is the feast of St Martin of Tours; to celebrate, I talk a bit about Martinmas customs and about the celebration of the Feast at Thalbach in Bregenz in 1595 in today's blog post silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #blog #research #Martinmas #medieval #chant

Today's blog post is on chant performance, and addresses the way in which our popular listening tastes -- exemplified by Taylor Swift -- have come to influence our chant performance practice and consumption silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

Today's blog post asks: what do space alien dreams have to do with checking historical data? More than you might think! silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #blog #Research #AcademicChatter #data #narrative #history #AcademicPractice

I wrote a blog post about office hours, the most silent time of the day. Enjoy! silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #AcademicChatter #Faculty #FacultyLife #OfficeHours #Academia #AcademicHumor

I wrote a (short) thing! Blog post on the surprising absence of smell from the multisensory details covered in memorial endowments in early modern Bregenz silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #smell #multisensory #liturgy #memorial #blog #research #history #15thc #16thc

A blog post on that journey "From Draft to Done" in a scholarly context... silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #draft #outline #ScholarlyPractices #blog #AmWriting #Research #AcademicChatter

I wrote a thing! This is my first extended assessment of Vorarlberg prayerbooks, focused on prayers "before" the image of Mary www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16... #prayer #15thc #16thc #nuntastic #Catholic #BVM

everything is terrible, but at least it's all really fucking stupid too

today's blog post addresses my bad mental habit of thinking of the woods as silent. Plus, some #hiking pictures. And a couple #fungi silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #woods #forest #silence #sound #blog

Seasonal greetings for both the #bookhistory and #digitalhistory folks: a keyboard waffle iron. 🗃️

If you like paper structure models, I've got another blog post for you -- part two of yesterday's post silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #pedagogy #AmWriting #TeachingWriting #Blog #PaperWriting #structure

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Today's blog post shares a writing how-to that I use with my undergraduates. (Not my only model, but a place to start!) silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #pedagogy #AmWriting #TeachingWriting #Blog #PaperWriting #structure

The three Augustinian Sisters make the case that the church needs to give back by letting them inhabit their cloister as they'd been promised. I blogged about them today silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #nuns #nuntastic #dignity #autonomy #ChurchPolitics #nunsontherun #goldenstein #blog #AmWriting

A new blog post on the summer's Asia trip -- this one on morning experiences in Kathmandu, with its integration of the sacred into daily life silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #Kathmandu #travel #Soundscape

Earlids are back! A post on attentional earlids, engaging with the work of Ananya Mandal and her teams on noise and its impact on attention and focus silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #earlids #blog #AmWriting #AcademicChatter #soundscape #filtering #focus

Today's post is short, sweet, and to the point, and addresses the "when" of writing... silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #Blog #AmWriting #AcWri #WritingPractice

I've been writing blog posts about some of the interesting prayers from the 16thc Thalbach prayerbook. Today's contribution: a prayer on Mary's sorrows as redemptive silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #blog #AmWriting #AcWri #16thc #prayer #FranciscanTertiaries #nuntastic

Today's blog post went in the history direction -- a brief overview of Nazi impact on Catholic Vorarlberg silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #blog #History #20thC #Vorarlberg #Catholic #Bregenz #nuns #AmWriting

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Today's blog post is on editing the old fashioned way -- with scissors and tape and notecards and physical sorting #blog #AmWriting #AcWri #WritingStrategies #AcademicChatter

Today's blog post is on a tourist day in Kathmandu, featuring a parade silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #blog #travel #Nepal #Kathmandu #parade #soundscape

Today's blog post is on using research questions, and what makes a good one. silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #blog #Academia #AcademicChatter #Writing #ResearchQuestions #editing

As I sort my photos, I will be blogging about my seven-week Asian sojourn this summer. Today is my first post, and talks about an interesting night in Delhi... silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #Asia, #AsianSojourn, #Blog, #Delhi, #HotelStories, #Tourism, #Travel

Also, a 2-page CV? My CV is 24 pages, and I have to cut to 2? Gah.

My darling partner: you don't have to publish anymore Me: mmmhm *carries pile of books to desk* Partner: you could have all kinds of hobbies Me: telling people they're wrong with citations *is* my hobby

So, another blog post exploring the Brand (Vorarlberg, Austria) Parish Church frescoes of the early 16th century. silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #blog #research #ArtHistory #16thc #frescoes #14Nothelfer #ParishChurch

Today's blog post explores the 1507 Frescos from Brand's Parish Church in Vorarlberg, Austria, and offers a new identification of the three saints in one of the panels. silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #blog #research #Vorarlberg #Austria #medieval #frescoes #ArtHistory #ParishChurch #16thC

Me, staring at a blank page in Word. Oxford, MS. Auct. T. inf. 2. 7, 12th century

The #medievalsky eel 🧵 you didn't know you needed.

Medieval story time! Let’s talk about Isabel, who stabbed a priest when he told her to shut up in church (relatable) So Isabel lived in London in 1330.

You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC). A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world. Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/

Joining in for #5amwritersclub. I'm on the half-hour, but I'm here!

Sound on.

Today's blog post is on financial provisions for a niece's convent entry in 1613 Bludenz, Vorarlberg, Austria silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #nuntastic #ConventDowry #Convent #monastic #blog #research

Some actually good news for early modernists, bibliographers, and catalogers: the beta ESTC is live!!! What an effing journey it's been trying to do research post-BL attack; it is a huge relief to see this progress datb.cerl.org/estc/ 📜📚

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you Merovingian cursive:

This new Texas law copies anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany. That legislation consisted of a series of restrictive laws passed in 1933, then the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. This is not an exaggeration.

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Today's blog post uses Jahnabi Barooah Chanchani's assessment of imagery in a Sanskrit devotional text to assess what images might be doing in an Austrian prayerbook of the same period #nuns #nuntastic #images #devotion #blog #research #15thc #medievalsky

Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

This Rare 15th-Century Manuscript Is Getting a Long-Awaited Restoration 📜 news.artnet.com/art-world/te...

Pokemon Snap but part of the way through you start to notice that wild Pokemon are disappearing, and you have to do stealth missions to free them from their abusive trainers (killing is ok)

This is a general thought, not a subtweet, but I increasingly feel like there's a lot of unintentional revisionism about US public opinion during the pandemic. Views obviously shifted, but early on there was *remarkably* broad support for a wide range of mitigation tactics

It's a blog-post day, here a funny one on earlids in sea mammals, along with their musical capacities. Sea Lions: your ideal candidate for freshman Ear-Training??? silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #blog #music #SeaLions #ecoacoustic #research #humor

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Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you #RenaissanceHorses 🐴

Can't let today go by without listening to this banger youtu.be/fXBPeiTPH5I?...