Hazel was a delight to work with; look out for this one!

🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

🔔☎️ RING RING ☎️🔔 Hello? … Slow down, what's that? … Oh, a new Carantes newsletter has been posted and sent out? … And you can access it on our website linked below? Well now that's a reason to be excited! … Bye, love you too! carantes.org/2025/09/22/s...

Charlemont Grants scheme is open to applications until 23 October. This scheme is a travel grant awarded to outstanding early career researchers working in the humanities, social sciences, or sciences. Learn more here: https://www.ria.ie/grants/charlemont-grants/ @lswalescddcymru.bsky.social

What a quick and simple way to completely undermine your reputation as a teaching and research institution.

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

Well.

writing a new york times article for the upcoming indie game "consume me," and i'm looking for academics who can speak to the gender politics and history of games! I know the school season has just started again, but I'm really hoping to hear back this week before I must fly out. my DMs are open.

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

"A five-month investigation . identified six people shot by Israeli snipers on 22 November 2023 . who grew up in Naperville, Illinois and Munich, Germany." "Their story illuminates patterns of killing by Israeli troops, who . treated unarmed men between 18 and 40 . as targets"

How exciting is this!!!

It's welcome week and I'm on strike (again) over the University of Edinburgh's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies. UoE has no deficit, but cuts of £90 million are already underway, damaging teaching, research, and the future of education at our university.

Are women bourgeois?

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 M 70, Leabhar Gabhála / The Book of the Invasions. The ‘Book of Invasions’ (‘Leabhar Gabhála’) is not the name of a specific manuscript. Rather it is an origin legend of the Irish people that exists in many variant versions.

i know this is a v important day in everyone's calendars. of course, you've all been waiting eight years for...... my 29th bday

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

Do you think they might have gone to Babylon? Hard to be sure.

i forgot to post this here, but i made a v short twine game over this summer! you can play as a radio operator at the end of the world here: unjenuine.itch.io/echoes-of-en...

dating someone who plays warhammer has meant slowly becoming desensitised to many silly names over the years. but this weekend, encountering a unit called 'armoured meganobz' basically broke me. deeply unserious hobby i love it

🐶 Happy International Dog Day! 🐕 Statue of a dog holding a cob of maize (corn) in its mouth, from Colima, Mexico, c. 100 BCE to 300 CE. National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Photo by Ziko van Dijk.  #InternationalDogDay #Dogs #Dog #History #AncientHistory #HistoryBuffs

News from the European Celtic Congress Bonn 2025: After a very long gestation process, the proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales (𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟓) has now appeared in printed form. You cannot imagine what relief this means for my fellow editors and me, and for the authors.

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) wishes to recruit an Associate Professor/Professor in CDH from Jan 2026 Specialisms: Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/associa...

Don’t know who made this but thank you

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 1:00 (EDT) / 6:00 (BST). Registration is free. Come and join us for a great discussion: uark.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I can still fix it.

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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

yes i am sure

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇

wrote a small thing for a game jam about liminality barse.itch.io/liminaltrave...

This is a very, very sad man who has just seen something that's made him forget his sadness.

What I note a lot of these very rich, very daft fellows share with the vibe historian is the assumption that they are so 'built different' that with just a few hours a day they can successfully exceed the skills and work of very talented people refined over decades. And...no...you can't.

Another clip from our recent emergency meeting on ‘Archaeology and Apartheid’. Here Jen Baird explains how archaeology is used to justify occupation and colonialism. You can watch the meeting back via our YouTube channel: m.youtube.com/@Societyfort...

Are you a parent with a baby that needs a little polish? I do gentle, natural replacement—in accordance with a long tradition of færie child-snatching. I will take your human child and leave behind a waxy-skinned changeling that seems to fade from existence when viewed in your peripheral vision.

me when a medieval scribe makes an eye-skip error vs when i make one

Pretty interesting study! This result is going to get misinterpreted in a bunch of different ways over the next few days, so I thought I'd share a few thoughts with you now to contextualise some of the stuff in the paper.

In conclusion: fund university research more, sever ties between big tech and research funding, and please think twice before offloading work to your favourite AI tool today. It might be quicker to do it yourself.

We're advertising two artist's residencies at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print. Please share! www.thinicepress.org/research/pri...

hot girl summer (i'm teaching myself to touch-type)

Join some of our Curious Travellers team at the FREE Early Career symposium "Journeys of Curiosity", in Liverpool on 25th September 2025. Propose your papers by 15th August!

Summer is packed with conferences, research, and teaching prep...but how about taking some time for your own creative criticality? Our next Making Space Session is taking place on Thursday 7th August 5:30pm-7:00pm (BST). Make sure you've joined the Guild to receive a link!

rhifyn yr haf newydd ymddangos - rhif 89 ac yn dal i gyfrif. Tanysgrifiwch am £10 y flwyddyn (dau rifyn gan gynnwys y post). Ni chewch well bargen yn unman. cmcspublications.com

I spend a lot of time looking at & teaching about parchment recycled in the early modern era, not just in bookbindings but any place where a piece of durable parchment might be of use, like this clothing pattern cut from a saga manuscript (Magnússon Institute 122 b fol.): handrit.is/manuscript/v...

We've had a lovely time celebrating the publication of "Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature," edited by @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social, at this year's #IMC2025. Congratulations to everyone involved in this fantastic book! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

In a few week I’ll be teaching a Rare Books School course on medieval manuscripts. One skill I’ll be teaching is how to recognize manuscript fragments. While this account here is rare, it’s a reminder of why the histories of scraps matter. www.leeds.ac.uk/news-arts-cu...