Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Completely taken with this cadelle letter on an antiphonal leaf at Grinnell College. Look at those little dashes on the right!!! It’s so good! @peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

Another incredible treasure from Grinnell, this time in the art collection, is this set of cuttings of the miniatures from what must have been a gorgeous book of hours! 🌟 (1985.003.001-009) #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

Another @peripheralmss.bsky.social site visit to share with you, this time at Grinnell College! #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts

Another site visit for @peripheralmss.bsky.social! Today I’m at Augustana College (Rock Island, IL) looking at a bunch of binding fragments to start (my favorite!! 😍).

This scribe did such a good job erasing a mistake that it proved difficult to add the correct words back in… 😬 Berea AC 170.9 #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragment

Completely charmed by the impatient decorator who put wet ink of facing-page initials against this page—whoops! Berea Art Collection 170.98 #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragments

Heads up, manuscript fans! I’m starting site visits for our second round of grant work and SO EXCITED. I’ll be sharing images of fun stuff I’m looking at that is part of our @peripheralmss.bsky.social project! Today I’m at Berea college Art Collection! #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss

One book, two very different pastedowns. Leaf from a MS of the Breviarium in psalmos (Ps 107), attributed to Augustine or Jerome or Anonymous (Migne 26). And an attractive leaf from a later prayer book (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, G 1057) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0...

"...appear to be typical of an investment strategy whereby donors, aided by university administrators and regents, circumvent faculty governance in order to treat universities like incubators or, worse, as click-farms to inflate the user data seemingly keeping the AI investment machine humming."

@lauramorreale.bsky.social your Newberry workshop looks amazing!!

Stolen from the Latin teacher FB group.

Here's something that's not talked about enough The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year 1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.

"Too Catholic, Too Medieval" by CMS Professor Emeritus, David Townsend. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools. AI is another version of colonial extraction.

Details of a fragment from an Abbasid Qur’an 📚 Iron gall ink on perfect parchment 🐑 @theul.bsky.social MS Add.1118, 3/4th century AH/ 9/10th century CE #IslamicManuscript #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #Parchment #JummahMubarak

Our online Winter School is now open for booking! We’re offering online courses on a range of topics for those interested in pre-modern books. Courses begin on 26 January. Check it out 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

A very maker-medieval few days 😍😍 #makermedieval #medievalistmaker #medievalsky #naturalink #pokeberryink #dropspindle #spinningflax #marigoldflowers #marigoldink @guildmedmak.bsky.social 👀

I've been researching wine production and distribution in the middle ages and one of the earliest depictions I've found is on the Bayeux tapestry. This is the Victorian British tapestry at the Reading museum, my own photo. #medievalsky

Excited to be giving a talk about the Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social at WashU later in the month! WashU is a round 2 partner, and we are thrilled to have them on board! library.washu.edu/events/medie...

New Medieval MiniComics Prize Just Dropped! www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Fun first morning of a medieval group jolly to the incredible Très Riches Heures and library of the Duc de Berry exhibition at Chantilly! 📜🎉

We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky

For those following along, here is the “finished” version (for now… I’m not sure I’m really finished!) 💚 #medievalsky #skystorians #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux #medievalmaking

Working on something as part of the Bayeux Tapestry from Scratch Project (booklab.indiana.edu/lab-work/cur...). I’m calling it the B’IU Tapestry 🙃 I’m taking notes—what do you think so far? #medievalsky #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux @guildmedmak.bsky.social

Seems like a great day to share this again: National Endowment for the Humanities staff are/were* responsible stewards of #taxpayer $$, and the benefits for the American public are incalculable. #NEH *two-thirds of staff were fired in June.

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

Today is the feast of Bernard of Clairvaux, d. 1153. I've picked out some 12th c. MSS for his day. This is Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 272, 2v, Bernard on the Song of Songs. Mid-12th c. from the Cistercian abbey of Engelszell. I liked the birdie-beast in the initial A.

Please help circulate widely! Assistant Professor (T-T) UC Berkeley, Language Revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022 Seeking candidates with research specialization in language revitalization and a broad intellectual engagement in linguistics and related fields @soclinganth.bsky.social

Two great names to start your week off: MS fragment of the Latin translation of Averroes' response to Avicenna's Cantica, a medical work (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1625) www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

Latin word of the day: conatus, conatus - attempt #LatinWordOfTheDay

No one wants to hear this, but it’s true. Either we can value education — not for a select few but for anyone willing to put in the effort — and provide the requisite resources, or we can watch it become a pursuit available only to an elite minority, with everyone else getting a cheap facsimile

This is why a liberal arts education and educational freedom are important, and why higher ed should not be expected or forced to respond to market demand. The same thing happened with law degrees ten years ago.

🧶 bayeux tapestry jumper is finished, blocked and sewn up! Please don’t ask me about weaving in ends I don’t want to talk about that right now. Probably my favourite thing I’ve ever knitted ever #showmeyourknits #knitsky #knitting

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. 👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Join us in signing and sharing this petition to prevent layoffs of over 400 people (both academic & professional services staff) at Lancaster University. We are all at risk and it's a scary time.

We love the Peripheral Manuscripts Project! Read Rose McCandless's blog post to find out more about how the PMP is working with Digital Scriptorium 👇

For this month’s blog, DS Graduate Fellow @rosemccandless.bsky.social considers the Peripheral Manuscripts Project, the missions of PMP and DS, and the value of smaller and Midwestern collections: digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/2...

If you are a final-year undergrad at @universityofleeds.bsky.social, you can now choose "Medieval Manuscripts and New Technologies" as a discovery module! Come and experiment with me and do something entirely different in your last semester! #HandsOnHumanities catalogue.leeds.ac.uk/Module/UG/ME...

Yesterday the Senate approved the FY26 Appropriations Bill to keep the funding of the National Endowment for the Humanities at $207mil. There's a long way to go before this is reality, but it's further evidence that none of this - neither #NEH staff layoffs, nor grant terminations - had to happen.

It's not hoarding if it's books

I’d heard rumours that a Playmobil Cistercian monk was a thing that existed, and I can now confirm those rumours are TRUE. It’s not easy to get hold of tho - a special limited edition for Eberbach Abbey

Having so much fun in Leeds!! And really looking forward to talking about manuscripts in the US Midwest tomorrow 😊 Join us! #medievalsky #manuscripts

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

An initiative true to Nigel Palmer's legacy - donate for a travel fund to support graduate students doing archival work mediumaevum.org.uk/donate/palme... @mediumaevum.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

"The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Budget proposes to terminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/4kEnEPo

A good impression.

Okay here is more! I have Bridget Whearty's permission to post some details, which is good because I was so struck by her lecture I haven't stopped yelling about it (folks who have seen me IRL, including my husband, can confirm). cc: @literaturegeek.bsky.social #dhmakes