Hard same.

Can somebody at #aarsbl25 snap a pic of the seabury display and send it to me here or post it? #sblaar25

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

Clothing and Identity - new perspectives on textiles in the Roman Empire -- Project website ctr.hum.ku.dk/research-pro...

Also #SBLAAR25

Hey #AARSBL folks: gentle reminder to add alt text to your posts about the conference. It’s already exclusionary enough.

Sure, the author wrote a one-paragraph summary, but wouldn't you like this broken robot to do it instead?

📣 I’m teaching a National Gallery online course about Saints this December! 💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun. 🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0

People need to reckon with the hypocrisies of governments prepared to suport products that algorithmically fabricate history while stripping funding from the archives and repositories that hold actual historical artifacts. This is far more expansive than the cyberattack on the British Library.

The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.

I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story. I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.

I’ve been asking this question since the attack. The silence as one of our major national institutions was crippled has been extremely frustrating and shortsighted.

Always a pleasure share my stuff…even better when I get to see @siobhanjolley.bsky.social and visit Manchester!

This week’s astonishing artifact is an ancient Egyptian human-hair wig found in the tomb of a royal architect and his wife. 🏺🧪

My former employer, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, will be the first Russell Group university to cut #Theology degrees from next year onwards: thetab.com/2025/11/06/r... Do consider to sign this student-led petitions: www.change.org/p/stop-the-r... @uonucu.bsky.social

Reminder of the quality of the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social TRS course that they have now chosen to scrap

Good for them, it's madness what has been proposed.

Today seems like a good day to remember Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), whose pioneering work in X-Ray diffraction led to the discovery of the structure of DNA – but only after one of her photos was stolen and shown to the men who would later win a Nobel Prize for the discovery (without citing her).

And this is different from phrenology, how exactly? "A new paper suggests the use of skull calipers can tell a recruiter much about an applicant's personality"

And this is different from phrenology, how exactly? "A new paper suggests the use of skull calipers can tell a recruiter much about an applicant's personality"

There's a Japanese clothing site called "Toga Virilis"* and it's really messing up my search results. *It does not sell togas.

Some numbers: Roughly 12% of NYC's pop are Jewish. If they made up 12% of the total 2mil voters for NYC mayor, that means 240k Jewish NYers voted, or roughly 25% of NY's total Jewish population - hardly a plurality given 33% of them went for Mamdani. (Exit polls are not super reliable either so…🤷‍♀️)

I really try to keep my posting here to professional and prof-adjacent content (for my own mental health if nothing else) but as a NY-er who vividly remembers that day, I couldn't scroll past this without comment… This is fucking DISGUSTING. Shame on every single asshole involved. גיי קאַקן אויפֿן ים

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Once more, with feeling: Jew hatred antedates modern constructions of wh*teness by literally thousands of years. It's cannot be understood or effectively countered solely in terms of contemporary racial politics.

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

This is just millenials and avocado toast recycled.

It's been three hours and I'm still thinking about this:

These kinds of comparisons are always important to help us comprehend what is happening in our world. This is St. Paul's: www.stpauls.co.uk/visit-us

Doing some research for a school programme using the National Archives currency convertor - it shows historic buying power and the equivalent in £ today. Here's what I learned: The cost of building St Paul's Cathedral in 1710 is the equivalent of £114,954,828 today. OR... < half the Trump Ballroom.

Look what's finally out in the world!

LET THE PEOPLE SAY AMEN!

Working some more on this today. Does anyone have anything they think I should cover in an introduction workshop? I’m closing with a big list of recent books publications so please promote away

What moved the West away from social collectivism and rules of hospitality and towards greater individualism? Protestantism? Enlightenment? Industrial Revolution? Capitalism? “Age of Exploration” type colonialism?

This is one of the very first things I point out in any “interfaith” work I do.

Fabulous job opportunity for someone with education administration experience. calibre.careers/opportunitie...

This is what an AI "gun-detector" does. Educators, what do you think your AI "AI use detector" does? gizmodo.com/teen-swarmed...

IT’S ALIVE! today i received my advance copies of 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮 ahead of publication next month. it just dawned on me last week that people might actually buy and read this book. which is mildly terrifying. yay?

The 2011 BBC show 'Romancing the stone' showed a reconstruction of what historians thought Wells Cathedral in England may have looked like before the late 14th century based on tiny fragments of paint that survived the horrific "scrape" of the Victorian era. I made a gif:

If you're free this Thursday morning, I'll be giving a virtual lecture titled "The Real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians" as part of the 2025−2026 public lecture series hosted by the Bade Museum and Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley. Come join the fun!

We need to take notes on the Louvre heist for the Vatican basement menorah heist. They did it in 7 minutes. It’s gematria.

Fish & Chips is owed to three waves of refugee migration. French Huguenots fleeing Catholic persecution (& giving English the word 'refugee') brought chips. Sephardi Jews who fled the Inquisition brought fried fish. And it was (probably)... 1/2

Today I published a new section of my website with resources for those who wish to learn, study, and/or teach ancient languages using braille. It rests on work we did over the past year to expand screen reader access to these languages through the LibLouis library. Check it out and share around!

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

A local community group I'm affiliated with is running a charity drive for Gazans. If you can spare a penny and/or a repost, we'd be hugely grateful. www.gofundme.com/f/Humanitari...

Note the note at the end: "Every UK news outlet to which the authors sent this essay declined to publish it." 2/2

"The fact that the asphyxiation of British higher education does not instantly count as a national scandal underlines the extent to which the austerity mindset continues to constrain our political imagination" - @robbhawkes.bsky.social & Scott Ferguson's piece is excellent. Also: 1/2

A local community group I'm affiliated with is running a charity drive for Gazans. If you can spare a penny and/or a repost, we'd be hugely grateful. www.gofundme.com/f/Humanitari...