We have a small budget to make a start on gathering resources for a Book Lab: does anyone have any recommendations, either for materials we should be buying, or for resources that give advice on doing such a thing?

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

My book is out! Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile, with Cambridge UP @universitypress.cambridge.org. I am so grateful to the friends, family, colleagues, librarians and archivists who helped along the way. Nervous and excited to see it in the world! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

An incomparable legend.

Can’t wait to read this!

Job klaxon! Fixed-term lectureship in medieval/early modern. You would be joining a truly lovely set of colleagues: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...

It feels like one thing we need to be making sure we do in response to AI, mostly in an effort to make our colleagues lives easier, is be making sure that we claim our publications with an ORCID or in some other easily accessible place.

My colleague, investigating a student for obvious GenAI use, sent me a bibliographical reference to a chapter I'd apparently written in a volume I had apparently edited. Neither title of course exists. But they were both titles I COULD have written, and he emailed because he felt he had to check.

We’ve acquired a remarkable group of rare medieval manuscripts that reveal new insights into life in Britain & Ireland during the Middle Ages – from religious dialogue to daily urban life. Items include…

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

Preparing to deliver my first US graduation address and can't help but feel that my UK gown doesn't have nearly enough tassels/brocade.... time to crack out the sewing machine?

And you may find yourself living in a thatched-roof hut And you may find yourself living in the Holy Roman Empire And you may find yourself negotiating with your lords And you may find yourself in a beautiful hall, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Johannes Gutenberg invented the Real Housewives franchise

Me: You can do anything with a history degree! Student: I want to be a history professor. Me: Except that.

UK academic friends: I am looking for a model of a UK job letter, preferably English lit, to share with my graduate students: does anybody have one they'd be willing to share?

Oop, there it is.

Printed some trans errata slips today for some guerrilla corrections to the historical record

We all need to remember that overwhelming us is the point. None of the EO's are official law, and a lot of them won't make it to that stage.

Speaking of which, it's 2 weeks until this closes. Do submit!

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages. www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

Broke: doomerism Woke: Writing the gayest shit imaginable and using it to set the tone for your year

There are apparently only six LGBT marked sessions at the Oxford Literary Festival, two are by anti-trans campaigners, one is by a straight person and none are by trans people.

The UK continues to quietly force trans adults to detransition. It was never about trans youth. Doctors in the UK are withdrawing hormones without warning and cutting tags people off even after decades of being on HRT. www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home...

Young Black women aged 18-30 are invited to join an exciting new hybrid programme for budding archivists and curators. Open until 9th December. Please share :)

Yet another white guy in the NYT opinion columns talking about things he knows nothing about and can’t be bothered to look up the research on or the legal arguments for in the name of “sympathy”.

Reading @jdsargan.bsky.social's "What Could a Trans Book History Look Like" (recommended by Bridget Whearty) and shouting YES in a shared office 😅 "Book historians love books" WE DO AND WE SHOULD SHOUT ABOUT IT. I'm sorry I didn't read this when it was published but I'm glad to be reading it now.

I’m so glad it worked for you, Dot!

My student is interested in material related to learning to write for her final medieval manuscripts project—we’ve been thinking about primers and alphabet “pen trials”, but we’re having a hard time finding any digitised manuscripts that fit the bill. Does anyone have any suggestions? #medievalsky

My student is interested in material related to learning to write for her final medieval manuscripts project—we’ve been thinking about primers and alphabet “pen trials”, but we’re having a hard time finding any digitised manuscripts that fit the bill. Does anyone have any suggestions? #medievalsky

Happy 85th birthday Wendy Carlos, who revolutionised the synth with Bob Moog, made electronic music before Eno & Kraftwerk, & composed scores for Tron, Clockwork Orange and The Shining. A trans icon, Carlos gave few interviews but this BBC one features her beloved cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ca...

Good morning, recirculating this opportunity with alt text for currently or formerly incarcerated women and daughters of those who’ve been impacted. More details in Gabrielle’s skeet below. Applications open this week!

teen vogue has been a source of reliably good journalism for years. this latest editorial is another in a long line of hits, and it’s worth reading.

There it is. (From @swordsjew.bsky.social)

1000 now in the rear view, but given some new followers in recent weeks, I thought I’d reflag this piece that might be of interest.

My article, “What could a trans book history look like?”, is still available open access: please download, I‘ve been promised a special fun surprise when it hits 1000! digitalcommons.wayne.edu/criticism/vo...

Medievalists, we’re hiring an open period position in the history of science. I’m not in the dept or anything to do with the search, but I *know* we need some medieval historians, so if that’s your I encourage you to apply! Happy to answer questions about UGA/Athens if I can.

If you missed this huge story published at 9 pm last night, here it is with a gift link. WSJ, with its extremely talented investigative reporters and editors, put 5 bylines on this. That shows their level of confidence and how hard they are working to fight a lawsuit from Musk. It's solid.

Donald Trump’s closing argument, by ad spend, is that trans people are bad and he will remove them from public life this is what he thinks will win him the election tell him to go fuck himself - and be ready to protect your trans friends and neighbors

Truly, the actual quiet part out loud. The violent psycho-sexual dominance of the white heteropatriarchy underlying all of this. Tied in with Vance wanting to make abusive marriages impossible to leave, forced birthing & all the other things.

The 3 genders: dick, bow, and implied waistcoat

Medievalists, we’re hiring an open period position in the history of science. I’m not in the dept or anything to do with the search, but I *know* we need some medieval historians, so if that’s your I encourage you to apply! Happy to answer questions about UGA/Athens if I can.

in any other medical context, results like this would qualify as a miracle - you just don't see this level of satisfaction even with completely uncontroversial, common medical treatments there is simply no serious good faith argument that gender-affirming care hurts people - the opposite is true

This is tomorrow friends.

I guess I’m a Chaucerian now…

cis folks, you need to internalize something. the monsters responsible for this know the statistics. they don't lack information. they know what this leads to. the suicide of trans kids is the point. what effect do you think they're hoping for by eliminating a generation? what is that called?