byzantine scribes knew what they were doing: the numerals above the words in the main text (epistle to the philippians) match up to the ones pointing you to bits of the marginal commentary. footnotes ftw, endnotes get fucked

Happy Friday to all, but especially to the new Journal of Mughal Studies. 500 years after the empire dawned... first issue coming soon. escholarship.org/uc/journalof... #Mughals #India #history #scholarship #highered

Sharing with Alt Text to increase visibility. Fuck these death machines, especially in the UK where the need to have either of the top two is extremely limited.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Retromallien puutetta olen välillä minäkin ihmetellyt, luulisi että "take my money"-porukkaa riittäisi. Ehkä joku säädöksiin liittyvä juttu, vanhanmalliset korit ei läpäise turvallisuustestejä tms…? Vai tekijänoikeudet?

Dear fellow historians. I could use some help. Looking for research on Scandinavia's double-christianisation, the one at about 1000 and the one during early 16th century. They seem in many ways similar, political projects with massive consequences for public rule and national culture.

Emme lähtökohtaisesti haluaisi esittää 8 miljardin veronkiristyksiä, mutta me emme ole tehneet velkajarruryhmän ratkaisuja. Olemme itse asiassa vastustaneet niitä systemaattisesti. Olemme vain tuoneet tutkimusnäytön pohjalta esiin, että keskimäärin veronkorotusten haitta on pienempi. 3/x

Erityisesti arvostin tätä Aki Kangasharjun kommenttia. Kertoo kaiken, jos 8-11 mrd e leikkaukset eivät tunnu missään, mutta 8 mrd e veronkorotukset ovat "kommunismia". Silloin palattaisiin kokonaisveroasteessa 2000-luvun Nokian kulta-ajan "kommunismin" tasolle. www.verkkouutiset.fi/a/aki-kangas...

Ohjelmaidea ylelle: puheenjohtajatentti, joka keskittyisi pelkästään näihin kolmeen teemaan: sivistys, luonto, kulttuuri. Miten puolueet pitäisivät näistä huolta.

No like this is actually a thing in manuscript studies though, especially in South Asia: lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v...

Amazon being c*nts made me think of how access to printed texts has been restricted by the adoption of new technology, e.g.: * the shift from blackletter to Roman typefaces in Europe * the switch from Ottoman Turkish to the Roman alphabet in Turkey * the creation of simplified hanzi in China

PSA: Amazon is discontinuing all access for pre-2013 Kindles. Books can no longer be sent to those devices at all. Man, fuuuuck Amazon. #Booksky

The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants is now open for applications, supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

Die EU verschenkt 40.000 Interrail-Ticket, mit denen man 30 Tage lang kostenlos quer durch Europa bahnfahren kann, an junge Europäer*innen, die zwischen 1. Juli 2025 and 30. Juni 2026 volljährig geworden sind: https://youth.europa.eu/news/discovereu-back_en

-Poliittisista päättäjistä talouden mittarit saattavat tuntua rationaaliselta tavalta hallita yhteiskuntaa. Tutkimuksemme ehkä kiinnostavin havainto on, että kansalaisten näkökulmasta pelkkiin talouslukuihin tuijottaminen tuottaa pikemminkin irrationaalisia lopputuloksia.

Never gotten over how Columbia had a whole micro-site paying tribute to its 60s protests and building takeovers; then, when Gaza protesters repeated that strategy they called in the NYPD

Hello Bsky!! Today is two holidays! Confederate Surrender Day Anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's Death Enjoy!!

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.

A good opportunity for an English version of my cautionary true stories about how #intelligence services recruit & manipulate their useful idiots. The following may sound like a paranoid thriller but, unfortunately, it isn't. And Varoufakis displays MANY of the signs of being - frankly - used.

This is catastrophic.

Early modernists! I'm writing about Frost Fairs and keep seeing claims that Elizabeth I played archery on the frozen Thames, but can't find source besides Holinshed who says in 1587 'diuerse of the court being then at Westminster, shot dailie at pricks set vpon the Thames'. Is there another source?

And are these sensible governments in the room with us right now?

Last day of free download! 😱

After the 2008 banking crash the UK parliament called in the CEOs. The first question was ‘what are your banking qualifications?’ Surprisingly few had any. Q2 was ‘can you explain the financial instruments you were selling?’ None could. Crash explained. Same for AI?

Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!

Delighted to announce that Volume 15 of the Journal of Early Modern Studies is now available online! oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

Them: Tell me Europe is mission-critical to bringing humanity back to the Moon without telling me Europe is mission-critical to bringing humanity back to the Moon. Me:

And until this month, basically everyone on Earth assumed that America had the military might to project power wherever it saw fit. This is what kept global order, such as it was.

This is always the argument against "either a paywall or it remains inaccessible"

Never seen an antiiwar, water or anti-austerity protest be left to do this sort of thing and cause this much disruption before.

#earlymodern bluesky'ers! Over the past 2 decades or so, quite some interesting work on global commodities & commodity chains (Cotton, Tea, Coral, ...) has been published. Is anyone aware of good recent (review/historiographical meta-) articles that (critically) take stock of this literature?

Noting a distinct but unsurprising difference in how the Gardaí react to dickheads in tractors and SUVs blockading Dublin city center to a few dozen protesters in an industrial estate beside an airport.

So pleased to see this out in the world! 2 volumes, over 60 contributors (incl. a small one by me) - a huge achievement for the four editors congratulations to @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social et al for getting this over the line!

Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide. Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model. We are in the wrong timeline.

1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis. You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me. An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life. unherd.com/2026/04/why-...

The best thing EU governments can do is invest as much as possible in clean energy, and bite the bullet on high upfront costs despite debt burdens. But EU fiscal models used to map out nat spending plans ignores the effects of climate change and crises and degrades the strong case for clean energy.

Arkiston kutsu, lähteiden viettelys – Historiantutkimuksen materiaalinen maailma -symposium järjestetään 13.5.2026 Kielikeskuksen juhlasalissa (Fabianinkatu 26, Helsinki). @koneensaatio.fi Ilmoittautuminen 29.4.2026 mennessä verkkolomakkeella: www.lyyti.fi/reg/Arkiston...

Hey #earlymodern Nederlandstalige historici! Wat is die kronkel? Het gaat om Ameland, dus ik dacht even 'Ijlande' maar die kronkel is me niet heel bekend?

Bad news and good news about our April 26 workshop, The Transmission of Knowledge in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Bad: we've had to move online. Good: that means you can join us from anywhere. A Zoom link will be circulated — PM me if you'd like one.

Euroopan komission mukaan -yhteisöverokannan alentaminen on tehoton tapa lisätä investointeja -kohdennetut kannustimet toimivat paremmin, mutta nekin supistavat verotuloja -voittojen verottamisesta koituu suhteellisen vähän haittoja Orpon hallituksen kannattaa perua ensi vuoden yhteisöveroale.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

10 grants available (up to €300) for travel and expenses to join us in Trento, Italy, 16-18 September, for postgrads and ECRs working on a topic related to 'Circulating Faith: Christian Missions in a Global Perspective (1500–2000)' deadline 30 April isig.fbk.eu/it/news/deta... #earlymodern 🗃️

👉 Media: lopettaa VM:n käyttämisen ainoana mittatikkuna - se on pystynyt siihen aiemminkin. Sen sijaan: – avataan oletukset (millä kertoimilla, millä aikajänteellä) – verrataan vaihtoehtoisiin arvioihin – tehdään näkyväksi epävarmuus Muuten “realistinen” = vain yksi malli. 2/3

Universities are the cash cow of publishers like Elsevier. Universities pay with: 1) money, 2) free labor, 3) data. But this can change! Read how we can fix this in our open-access book Fixing Academia (chapter 9): fixingacademia.wordpress.com/chapter-9/.

Can you imagine how excited 311 workers were to have this Mayor show up? To take their jobs seriously? To cause everyone to see how important their work is? To show respect for what they are doing? Idk stats but women of color are well represented in the 311 workforce. Respect is meaningful.

We’re just kidding, that’s why you can’t uninstall it

Working on the history of hair? Or just found a hairy case study you would like to explore? We are looking forward to it! Please answer our CfP on „Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026“ and join us in Lucerne this October! #skystorians #earlymodern