Horrific ⌨️ The Persian Jewess @persianjewess One of multiple fires at an industrial complex in Iran used to store corpses. According to sources, the Regime is now covering up its crimes against humanity by burning the bodies of murdered protesters. 90,000 protesters have been killed to date.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fixed term #museumjob @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Assistant Curator in Renaissance and Early Modern History, based in the Scottish History & Archaeology Department 📜🗃️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/829206

University is not a business, students are not customers, education is not a product, researchers are not salespeople.

I really want to stress that this is not some form of wishful thinking. It is an understanding of higher education that stands in opposition with the model that brought us graduates in crippling debt, adjuncts being fired for teaching difficult subjects, and a rat race for third party funding.

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

New article! John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... #earlymodern

We are also thrilled to bring you the news that Chris has been recording his wills songs! If you would like an email to let you know when the album is released, follow the link here 👇

Sad news about Clare Gittings - Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England remains very important to those working on the history of death and dying.

Think of all the tips lost.

I know it seems scarcely credible, but I've found another govt AI announcement to complain about www.gov.uk/government/n...

Antiquarianism, by Joe Saunders. Antiquarians have served an important part in the study of history over the last few hundred years, and their work has helped the development of the modern historical sciences. how-to-history.com/2026/01/28/a...

Government of, by, and for Twitter trolls

33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...

A great resource!

Baroness Amos, Chair of the independent National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, is asking women and families to share their experiences of maternity and neonatal care in England, through a public Call for Evidence. www.matneoinv.org.uk/call-for-evi...

LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.

In fact we have records of at least 65,000 immigrants in the late MEDIEVAL period. This means real numbers were significantly higher. In England more than 1% of the population was foreign born (never mind 2nd gen) with numbers as high as 1 in 10 in cities. There’s a database!

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

Tudorheads! Libraries reopen soon, if yours hasn't got a copy of Gonzalo's book on Philip, the under-regarded consort of Mary I, remedy that STAT. Deep work in the archives w/this one, and really a narrative-changing must-read.

This is called 💫RESEARCH💫

Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

if you’re an academic who uses AI to crank out research, you should have to give up your position to one of the more worthy candidates who didn’t get a TT job

Academics are making the decision to shove unpublished original research that isn’t even theirs into the plagiarism machine. I can’t.

What you have all be waiting for...interesting stories from and about languages students. Enjoy reading them! www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-polyg...

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

🎉 Today I defended my dissertation and passed with summa cum laude. The title is "Dependent Lives In and Beyond Archives: Enslaved People in Sephardic Jewish Households in Early Modern Bridgetown, Barbados (1654-1800)." The abstract is below, and I hope to publish it soon.

Not all #earlymodern prints are publications. These are unused key labels intended for 1 of the 11 locks guarding Antwerp’s 14th-century privilege chest preserving charters for centuries. The Officina Plantiniana probably had to produce these ephemeral prints as the city’s official printer.

CERL internships 2025 – Huntington Library Studying the 'life' of Spanish incunabula at Huntington Library (San Marino, California) By Iván Pérez Marinas Huntington Library, San Marino, California Hola! My name is Iván Pérez Marinas, Curator of Manuscripts and Incunabula at the National Library of…

Blog post by me on a manuscript book I found during my Folger fellowship this summer. I was interested in what it had to say about widowhood and remarriage but it also took me down a recusant book history rabbit hole!

Today's @thetimes.com is reporting that this new book published by Springer, on sale for £180 hb, contains 'footnotes that cite scientific publications that appear to have been invented....' Who'd have thought it! www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Very rarely does a post warrant all caps, but: SEARCHABLE INTERIM MANUSCRIPTS CATALOGUE. At long last! searcharchives.bl.uk

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

Next semester is already looking quite busy with RA work, part time teaching and ploughing on with my book. But if you have transcription or archival (London/SE area) needs please do drop me a line. My rates are now on my webpage. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

Palaeographers: you definitely should consider applying to this illustrious fund:

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

great 🧵. We wouldn't cut up all the texts from archives and send a pile of individual words to Google to save for us. the shift from the archive to the "large language model," where words become parameters and lose their contexts, and where accessibility is nil, is NOT=transparency for humans

I'm very proud of the work we did on this medieval gold seam in collaboration with TNA. Not only can you use this material for financial and economic history, there are so many tantalising glimpses of people's lives and relationships on the island. #TNAConnections

Anglicans, Catholics and others from liturgical traditions ‐ check out image 7 for a special treat ⚓️

BLOODY AI,a thread:so, I saw a picture online of the Towers of Perugia by a Renaissance artist, Benedetto Bonfigli whose other work I know a little bit. Here is the image 1/n:

The point is: lots of people will have accepted the first image because it looks kind of right and it's on an art page. The doctored image is already turning up in search results. We are cooked if we don't start to push back against this stuff. AI is poisonous to human endeavour, pass it on <end>

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

I particularly liked seeing a skill we train: source criticism, used, here, to unpack how cooked the 'data' in the 'AI jobs' report actually was. The report's definition of what we do, and what 'history' therefore can be, is pathetically, obviously, insufficient.

This is very good and goes in front of my MA students next term for sure. It's a lot better than the various medium posts I've written but it's reassuring to see so many people arrive at the same answer after checking. No, AI is not capable of "replacing" historians. Not even close, wrong timezone.

Needless to say I’m delighted about this. It was super to work with Simon Neal, who re-catalogued more than 70 volumes; to collaborate with Eamonn Kenny @adaptcentre.bsky.social who knocked the data into shape; and to incorporate it into the Knowledge Graph we’re building, based on @dib.ie entries