It’s that time of year when I eat a gluten- and lactose-free semla and then sign out of BlueSky for Lent (and maybe the Easter season as well).

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

Two PhD positions in #Musicology advertised at Uppsala University--and in Sweden a PhD is paid employment! The department is lovely and particularly strong in #EarlyMusic & #MusicalBookHistory. Closing date 26 March 2026; interviews can occur throughout application period. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

A point I make in my work on this subject is that we need to reject the insistance that convos abt commercial AI products should be about the tech. Determining whether AI is “conscious” is a Smartwashing exercise in solipcism that distracts from the material conditions of the product’s distribution

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

Rejoice, for it is Semla Season! A semla is a traditional pre-Lenten Swedish treat. I ordered this delicious specimen from Landings Konditori in Uppsala. #GlutenFree #TinyJoys

#TinyJoys: tea delivery from the wonderful tea shop Kränku on Gotland. I ordered so much tea that they sent me a bonus sticker! #TeaUp

Excellent reading and listening for your Saturday morning! #EarlyMusic #EarlyModern #BookHistory #TeamNun #Nuntastic #Skystorians

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who's just a TINY LITTLE NEUME hiding away in this binding #fragmentfriday

Check out the episode 55 of our podcast “ArtsAbly in Conversation” with Eric Whitmer, a third-year Ph.D. student in Musicology at the University of Michigan. Find the podcast episode here: www.artsably.com/episode-55-a... #ArtsAbly #arts #disability #accessibility #DisabilityArts

Semla Season has begun in Sweden. First of the year: a semla-inspired biskvi (gluten-free!). #TinyJoys

Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!

#EarlyModern #BookHistory

Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography. Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work. Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change. Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT): www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Read report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...

Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here: eseh.org/membership/h... #EnvHist #EnvHum

Sweden: Grant for recruiting international visiting researchers to Sweden 2026 www.vr.se/english/appl...

So I know it's a minor detail when the rest of the world is on fire, but can I just say now that @universitypress.cambridge.org is treating my work like garbage - work that was part-funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

And the extension pack, get more #EarlyModern #Skystorians. Collect them all. go.bsky.app/K2gp9GK

Here's the second one, with equally excellent #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 2/3

Another exodus from the other site, from the sounds of it? If you're looking for the #EarlyModern gang, we've got three starter packs that compile a bunch of them. I can keep adding to the third, just poke. Here's the OG: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 1/3

First #bookhistory post of the year. Some books simply scream for a thread! We have two copies of the same #EarlyModern edition. Why would we want to collect two copies of the same book, you ask? Read on! EHC Antwerp, K 54092 copy 1 and 2. [1/16] 📜 💙📚

#TinyJoys: minuscule perfect snowflakes on my mitten.

Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to. Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f... (also available via many standard podcast listening services)

This fantastic book is also the first full gradual printed in the Italian peninsula! Fantastic to learn of another extant copy. Professionally, it's also the book that ignited my love of early modern plainchant & music printing (cf my diss + articles from 2019 and 2020!) #MusicalBookHistory

I'm a beguine. (On brand, #BringBackBeguinages)

Extending application deadline to early January so still time to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

I posted this👇 to a claim that genAI is better than Ctl+F to search historical docs. @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social replied with a genAI summary of my document and @bookllyfr.bsky.social asked if it was accurate. It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵

#BookHistory #PaperHistory

it's the mOOOOOOOOOOOOst wonderful time...of O antiphons! #fragmentfriday

Job opening in #histsci #philsci at Wageningen University: Asst. Prof. of Philosophy of Life Sciences, in a group led by Rachel Ankeny. Deadline Jan 12! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...

It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

If you have some time, please help PhD student Marta Guidotti with this survey on reading comfort. You'll be asked to adjust different parameters for texts in languages you can and cannot read to improve reading comfort of texts. The test takes about 10 minutes at most. comfortread.framer.ai

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

"New cross-Nordic research project on forest cultural heritage" - the official press release and announcement for ROOTS, @wrigleyca.bsky.social's new Nordforsk-funded #envhum project on forest cultural heritage.

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Students, staff, faculty turning to ChatGPT? That means they are being asked to do things they don't have the time, resources, support, etc to do.

Curator of Music Special Collections Oberlin College and Conservatory Oberlin, OH #LISJobs #LibraryJobs via INALJ inalj.com?page_id=56415 .

Ytterligare 27 lovande forskare får nu ta del av Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelses femåriga grundforskningsanslag. Läs mer om deras forskning: kaw.wallenberg.org/wallenberg-a...

The AMS Music and Disability Study Group proudly welcomes Stefan Sunandan Honisch to the Community of Practice on Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 at 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST via Zoom. For more information and registration, please use the following link: www.musicdisabilitystudies.org/blog/decembe...

The Call for Papers for the Music and Collective Access Symposium is till open. If you have questions, don't hesitate to send an email. Don't hesitate to share the call for papers published on various platforms including ArtsAbly's website: tinyurl.com/music-access. Deadline: December 15th, 2025.

@annelouiseavery.bsky.social’s Advent Calendar stories bring such delight every year! (Also, if you’ve not yet read her Reynard the Fox you must remedy that immediately. It’s the perfect cozy winter read.)

Job – Tenure Track – Environmental History – BOKU University - Vienna Apply by January 6th. niche-canada.org/2025/12/02/j... #envhist