2-year postdoc for someone with a PhD in Classics or Ancient History www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS114/p... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

On 18 March at 13:00 (EST), Chris Ohge from @dh-researchhub.bsky.social is hosting a free webinar sponsored by eLabs. He's introducing the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition (DHCC) Toolkit ~ a collaborative initiative to understand the impact of DH research: elaboratories.org/event/an-int...

Only four in 10 UK PhD graduates remain in academia just over a year after completing their degrees with many more heading overseas for research jobs than in previous years, a major national poll suggests. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky #PhDs https://ow.ly/30OW50Yq7AH

#jobklaxon Lecturer in #digitalhumanities at @ucc.ie Salary: €42,102 - €72,452 (Scale B) / €44,169 - €68,942 (Scale A). Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal (ore.ucc.ie). Maybe of interest to the @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social community!

We are advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship for the computational study of vernacular cultures of weather and climate modification at the University of Manchester. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #DH

Very pleased to receive author’s copies of Offa, King of the Mercians from @yalebooks.bsky.social today. Looking superb, and an excellent publishing experience!

The 2026 Viking Society for Northern Research student conference takes place at the University of Liverpool on 11 April. Includes student lectures, launch of the paperback 'Embers of the Hands' by Dr Eleanor Barraclough & plenary lecture by Prof Howard Williams @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social

Delighted that my study of "Archbishop Hraban Maurus, King Lothar II and the Roman Army" is now published in the Festschrift for Geneviève Bührer-Thierry, alongside many other (much better) contributions! brill.com/display/book...

Things in the academic world (and elsewhere) are pretty grim currently. I wanted to write something a bit more positive, and personal, about what an academic field can be. Partially inspired by a moment of existential terror when I opened a journal and didn't recognize any of the names. #medievalsky

For those interested in (or with an interest in) UK research, perhaps the clearest visualisation of the infamous UKRI 'buckets' I've seen.

Interested in AI for historical text-reuse and text-similarity detection? If you’re in Vienna on March 5–6, join our "Ruse of Reuse" workshop at the @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social . Registration and details: indico.global/e/ruse-of-re...

I'm hiring! 🏛️ This is a VA-based, hybrid 3-year position for a historian working on digital projects related to religious history. We'll also be hiring a historian working on onsite programming and training related to religious history. Feel free to reach out! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Celebrate Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant the way it was supposed to be - reading about medieval Welsh and Irish legal manuscripts and the people who used them 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #medievalsky #skystorians #epoch23 Out now @epoch-history.bsky.social issue 23 www.epoch-magazine.com/post/a-begin...

Now in #paperback, @rorynaismith.bsky.social's Making Money in the Early Middle Ages is an examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #History #ReadUP

⏰ It's Release Day! ⏰ Join us for Issue 23 of EPOCH, 'Religion & Belief'! With over a dozen articles on topics ranging from the lives of Victorian nuns to the dangers of AI, you don't want to miss this one! Check it out 👇 www.epoch-magazine.com

Don’t forget to check out @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social’s article on the early medieval Carolingian dynastic drama in issue 23 of @epoch-history.bsky.social, it was a pleasure to work with him! www.epoch-magazine.com/post/early-m...

New in Early Medieval Europe: what role did animals play in early medieval medicinal and well-being practices? A study by Holly Miller and Christina Lee (£) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Somehow, an 8th-c. English liturgical manuscript ended up in Mount Sinai (where it was palimpsested and written over by a Christian Arabic scribe). For more info: Michelle Brown, austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...

Academic friends: I'm hosting a campus discussion today with real talk about the the scholarly publishing process/pipeline, and would love to share some "in the trenches" wisdom: what is something you know now about the process that you wish you'd known as a first-year/early-career academic?

SIMS / Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Collaborative Fellowship. Take advantage of the expertise and manuscript resources at Penn Libraries and CSMC’s expertise in the Humanities, material analysis and/or Computer Science. Apply by Friday, May 1, 2026. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4aE3wec

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Where did Carolingian Frankish kings meet to settle their disputes? Here are the locations of the 15 meetings 842-878 that issued surviving agreements.

Have any of your colleagues been made redundant by a UK university? Have you? Do you fear losing your job? Whether you are an academic or professional services staff member, employed or unemployed, we are keen to hear your views in our UK University Redundancy Survey https://ow.ly/b6BF50Yl6B3

In-depth: ‘Disproportionate’ REF portability rules still dividing opinion. While some are happy with the long-form exception, others fear a “significant backlash”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

'Early findings from the first National Disabled Staff Survey (NDSS), completed by 837 disabled staff across 127 institutions in 2025, expose deep structural barriers that undermine wellbeing, career progression, and retention.' 1/2

'A statement on 23 February explained the Bloomsbury-based research institute will be “disbanded” at the end of July 2026 because it “in its current form is not sustainable”.' Goodbye utopia, hello myopia?

Universities of Oxford and Liverpool to team up on R&I. Pair of research-intensive institutions pledge to merge innovation ecosystems to “tackle global challenges”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

This has been a slog but I’m pleased to day that I’m currently checking the proofs, which means this book will soon be out in the wild!

I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.

Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

I'm stuck in Dublin airport with a delayed flight, so let me tell you about the lecture I gave this afternoon to my 2nd-year group of Law, History & Celtic Studies students who are studying early Irish law. We were looking at a piece of legislation called Cáin Adomnáin, also sometimes called 1/6

York is looking for a medievalist (1100-1450) for a year. You’ll get to work with amazing people and live in a wonderful city. Apply by 19 March. See the link for the details. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

The number of academics working in UK institutions has fallen for the first time on record, new figures reveal. Patrick Jack reports #EduSky #AcademicSky https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/number-academics-working-uk-falls-first-time

Another nail in the parlous state of UK higher education in February 2026. More nails very sadly likely coming to an HEI near you....

From mid-February 2026, the MGH is able to make all articles from the DA and NA available in digital form, fully searchable and open access! #medievalsky mgh.de/en/publicati...

Thégan - La Bonté de l'empereur Louis Texte introduit, traduit et commenté par Philippe Depreux À paraître en mars aux Belles Lettres

Number of universities dropping Elsevier deal hits double figures. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

📷 Reflectance Transformation Imaging Training Course 📅 13-16th October 2026 This course, led by @kathrynpiquette.bsky.social, includes a combination of lectures, demonstration, and practical hands-on sessions 🙌🏽🤩 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Have any of your colleagues recently been made redundant by a UK university? Have you? Do you fear losing your job? What has been the effect of redundancies on departmental morale? We are keen to hear your views

Video and audio recordings are now available of the Society's latest lecture (6 February): ‘Alike in Appearance but not in Scope’: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe' with Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) bit.ly/46j42f5 @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians

Getting bloody 96,2% (!) and still no funding. Another year, another sign the system is utterly broken. PS: Never applied for one. This is certainly not to diminish the accomplishments of those who won one. But honestly, major academic funding systems even make Ponzi schemes look more transparent

How did large-scale landowning work on the ground, in a society without centralized landownership records? A brand-new article by Julio Escalona suggests it's about 'Dense Local Knowledge': onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am very excited to report that a project I have been working on for 3+ years is finally seeing the light of day! Along with @byzcapp.bsky.social and Jesse Torgerson, we debut a new annual section in Digital Philology that proposes the dataset as a new genre of publication. odfms.hcommons.org

Should anyone be at a loose end tomorrow evening.

some MSI medieval palimpsests for your day

Our first RHS lecture of 2026 is '"Alike in Appearance but not in Scope": Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe', with Prof Charles West (Edinburgh) bit.ly/49GlmMR 6pm, Friday 6 February. In-person booking is now full but registration to attend this event online remains open #Skystorians

'The University of Nottingham has recorded a deficit of more than £80 million after property experts valued its for sale campuses at significantly less than they were previously thought to be worth.' 1/3

Looking forward to reading this new book by Conor O'Brien. academic.oup.com/book/61836?l...

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you Merovingian cursive: