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

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Saint Mundita is the patron saint of spinsters!

Our new Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities now has an Instagram page. It’s a bit rudimentary still, but we are grateful for follows, as Meta restricts new accounts significantly. www.instagram.com/mapeh_uis #envhist #envhum

I agree! Academia's current structure means too many excellent researchers don't have permanent posts & rely on external funding for their salaries--which leads to soaring application & plummeting success rates. It's such a difficult situation. (I'm a researcher who left & works in research support)

To be clear, it would be more understandable if reviewers routinely said this about double albums of Beethoven piano sonatas, or even recordings by an unaccompanied male group like the Orlando Consort. But they don’t. #EverydaySexism

First Nottingham, now Northumbria ... my heart aches for all of my musicological colleagues.

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

RMA statement on the proposed suspension of recruitment to all UG music programmes at the University of Nottingham: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/17/s...

If someone knits or crochets you a blanket or sweater, they want to keep you warm AND they dedicated many hours of their lives to making it for you. There's no profit in fiber arts, not when you can get a machine made at Target for 30 bucks. So know fiber artists making for you? Is an act of love.

I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy

International musicology friends: you can sign this petition if you've ever been a member of the American Musicological Society. There is also an option to sign anonymously if having your name linked to a petition would not be good for you &/or your career. Sharing in solidarity as a Never Member.

Bifolium from a breviary used as cover material for a printed book (@unihalle.bsky.social, Cb 2246) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:g...

Very excited to see our article on a fabulous central European music fragment now out in Plainsong & Medieval Music. Thanks to co-authors Jared Hartt & Karen Desmond! Fully open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There is a weird Protestantism that hangs about contemporary academia. We have festschrifts for retirees but absolutely no customs to manage losing SO MANY from our communities before we reach that point. There is no churching when contracts are renewed, no Placebos when careers are lost.

Andrea Reyes Elizondo @altibel.bsky.social and I have responded to a blog, recently published on @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social, which argued that using AI responsibly in research means being transparent about it. We object that supposed transparency obscures more fundamental ethical questions.