Happy to have received these chonky bois in the post. Congratulations to @downham.bsky.social and the editorial team for seeing this work to publication. Thanks to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social and @makingawarrior.bsky.social for supporting the exploration and development of the ideas in my chapter.

Thanks @ccooijmans.bsky.social we should also mention your fascinating paper is open access on the @livunipress.bsky.social website!! David, Nancy and Fiona were a lovely team to work with on this book #medievalsky

Se van resolviendo misterios...

Offre d’emploi – Post-doctoral Research Associate in Latin linguistics (King’s College London) rmblf.be/2026/06/24/o...

Offre d’emploi – One-Year postdoctoral fellowship: Relations between Frisia, Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia (400-1100) rmblf.be/2026/06/23/o...

Just landed in Toronto, excited to welcome amazing #medhist #histmed #manuscript scholars from around the world for two days of "Languages of Authority: An International Workshop on Editing Medieval Medicine", organized by Sarah Star and me with support from @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca.

HMML is hiring a "Cataloger of South Asian Manuscripts," a full-time, benefits-eligible, remote position. Details: https://bit.ly/4uGD6PE The Cataloger will be working on Islamic manuscripts recently digitized in India and Pakistan. This is a two-year, grant-funded position. #LibraryJobs #Hiring

PhD with skills in medieval MSS & Latin needed! Post-doctoral Research Fellow for 30 months (with the possibility of extension) to support the AHRC-Funded project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain, c.1200-1500’ jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

New open access paper by Dr Cooijmans (former Liverpool postdoc) in Proceedings of the 19th Viking Congress, (Liverpool Uni. Press) "A Place of Contact and Contradiction: the socially constructed space(s) of viking encamp" #medievalsky #archaeology www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pb-assets/OA...

Unbelievable job title alert

IMPORTANT UPDATE - there was an administrative error that resulted in the closing date for this post being listed as 19 May. It is, in fact, 19TH JUNE. This has now been corrected, so please do alert anyone you know who might be interested in applying.

📢JOB ALERT 📢 We are looking to appoint a F/T open-ended Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700) @lancasteruni.bsky.social. This is an amazing opportunity that we are very proud to announce, so please spread the word far and wide! www.hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

For #FindsFriday evidence of #viking brutality - a 35-year-old woman from Zutphen (NL) with sword cuts to her knee and a York copper penny by her side. Written sources report an attack on the town in 882. Neither she nor the child with her was buried. #medievalsky museazutphen.nl/stedelijk-mu...

Job Opportunity! Lecturer in Global Medieval History University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Central European University - Post-doctoral Researcher: memorients.com/news/central...

Western Washington University - One-year Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of Medieval Europe: memorients.com/news/western...

Oy vey.

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians

🎧 FORSCHUNG HÖREN: Forschende u.a. der #UniMainz haben Genome von Menschen aus dem römischen Grenzraum 400-700 n. Chr. in Süddeutschland untersucht - mit überraschend detaillierten Einblicken in eine Zeit tiefgreifender Veränderungen 👉 www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/roem... #Anthropologie

It remains bananas amazing that U Tennessee offers its summer language courses (incl. intensive 4-days-a-week Syriac w/ George Kiraz!) through the Marco Institute for free to UT students, staff, faculty, *and alumni*— and for only $500 for non-affiliates. marco.utk.edu/summerlangua...

University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.

Another astonishing Norwegian find on Facebook - Year 1 were on a class trip last week when one 6 year old saw something odd sticking up from the ground. It is a well preserved 8/9th century sword! 😱 It has now gone to the National Museum in Oslo. Amazing! 🤩

This was a great episode of the Early Medieval Europe podcast with @medievaljon.bsky.social! Check it out for cunning kings, furious families, perishing popes and fun times with charters! #medievalsky

600 job cuts. Closure of 42 degree courses. Nottingham University is selling its King's Meadow and brand-new Castle Meadow Campus which "for as little as £14.4 million despite bosses spending around £80m on the ill-fated project." #highered #academicsky www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

Here's my take on that (other answers are also available...) www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

If universities think AI can and should replace faculty and the basic skills students used to be taught, then why not replace all varsity athletes with robots? Who needs humans to play varsity football when robots can do it for us?

New job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Greek Literature or History Yale University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69957

We're inviting applications for two Associate Lecturers (education focused) in Ancient History and Archaeology, to start on 1 September 2026. One post will be for two years, and the other for one year. We're holding two information sessions on 21 April. 🔗 Get session links: bit.ly/4sZ5AUx

I really enjoyed recording this podcast! Listen on to learn how to use a pig‘s bladder in early medieval medicine! #medievalsky

📢 Please share, and join us THIS SATURDAY for our archaeology and natural heritage Open Day at Govan Old's 1,500-year-old churchyard, which surrounds the Govan Stones museum. Everything is free to visit and experience, from 11am to 4pm!

1 Wiss. Mitarb. "Formulae – Litterae - Chartae" (Univ. Hamburg) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Latin 2 student gave a presentation on Seneca the Younger today, which led to a discussion of famous people dying in bathrooms and me inevitably telling them to look up Arius of Alexandria.

Possibly my all-time favourite Onion post. #Archaeology

This morning's lecture on the vikings in Francia was enhanced by this graphic of Frankish rivers, taken from @ccooijmans.bsky.social's admirable book.

With 200+ tickets claimed for my public lecture on the Bayeux Tapestry on 30 April, there are only a few spaces left! Get your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lec.... When they’re gone, they’re gone!

This was a fun conversation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hidden Medieval Tunnels and a Viking‑Age Mass Grave Revealed

Oooh and with a focus on gender history! 👇👇

Gonna spam some of my own writing here again because AI industry people are bringing out that “black box” canard again www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...

When I experienced sight loss, my perspective on the experience of blindness changed. This post discusses blindness and cataract surgery in the Middle Ages. wellcomecollection.org/stories/reve...

Awesome work from one of our PhD students Vera! Check out this mega isotope dataset! 🧪 ⚛️ 🦷🦴

Everything Is Mechanical Turk

A very interesting viking (?) find from south of Cambridge: www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Assistant Professor, Medieval History in Chile networks.h-net.org/jobs/69752/p...

Very much looking forward to this #charterrific event tomorrow! If you want a copy of the Teams link, just let me know. (Formal sign-up is now passed, but I have permission to circulate the link.)