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

Come and do an MA in Medieval Studies at @leedsims.bsky.social! This year we have *two scholarships* specifically for UK students from underrepresented groups. Apps due 9 June: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/s.... Get in touch with us if you have any questions! #MedievalStudies #Scholarships #Leeds #MA

😍😍 #medievalsky @fragmentarium.bsky.social

Book concept: People start finding books in a Little Free Library that were never written or published in this world. Some are exactly what the "borrower" needs. Some are a delight. But some are dangerous. And the Little Free Library just might have a sinister agenda...

The @acls1919.bsky.social, AHA, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the unlawful dismantling of the NEH: "Congress believed NEH to be essential to the functioning of our democracy, & the public interest would be served by honoring that determination."

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

“To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations."

Bit weird for a gender reveal, but to each their own I guess.

Habemus papam! 💨

White smoke appears over Sistine Chapel as Conclave elects new Pope

PROCRAFTINATING (n): a word I coined for what I tend to do with my nervous energy and burned-out brain at the end of the year. Current mode involves designing tshirts for myself and maybe two other people on the planet #DHmakes #medievalsky Fig. 1:

Though they don't seem to be talking about it publicly, it's worth screaming from the rooftops that university presses have also lost NEH grants. NEH has a program to fund creating OA editions of books born of NEH funded research. Publishers apply directly for those grants, not scholars.

We still have places for #DMSI2025 that will take place on 11 July. If you are already going to be in #Leeds for #IMC2025, stay for another day and join us for a day-long event of #learning and #networking on #DigitalMedievalStudies! First-come first-served. Apply by 1 June. tinyurl.com/DMSI-2025-UK

This graph represents tens of thousands of active NSF grants. About 14% of them were awarded in 2020 or earlier, yet none were terminated. All 1044 cancellations occurred since 2021. The odds against such an occurrence arising by chance is p<0.0001, less than 1 in 10,000.

NEW: @acls1919.bsky.social. @historians.org, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social are suing the NEH and DOGE over grant, program, and staffing cuts. The associations say the dismantling of the NEH is "unlawful many times over," violating separation of powers and the Administrative Procedure Act.

good news, classicists: AI is 100% ready to teach your Advanced Latin class

NEH Grantees with Terminated Grants--the 30 day window for appeal is almost here. If your DOGE termination letter is dated April 2, then it is recommended to submit via eGMS by May 1. Having spoken w/ a number of sources, here's the best info I could gather on appealing your grant termination.

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

Happy Easter from the Beinecke Lancelot (ms 229) 😍😍 #medievalsky #medievalmss

Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ287/a...

New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

Bauerlein in the NYTimes argues that NEH should focus more on (quoting Trump) “the poetry of Walt Whitman, the stories of Mark Twain, the songs of Irving Berlin, the voice of Ella Fitzgerald." It took me 3 minutes on the NEH website to find: * 106 NEH grants supporting work about Walt Whitman +