Reposting, 'cuz this is pretty exciting! bsky.app/profile/kris...

A recent post from the BBC website: something fun for all my fellow runatics to read. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

New research analyzing evidence of climatological conditions along Rome's middle-Danube limes and their possible impact on settlement and agricultural developments during the 1 - 4th century CE. Bear in mind: the past is prologue. . . #medievalsky journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Reports of the discovery of a 19th-century runestone in northern Ontario have caught the attention of the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/world/canada/canada-runestone-ontario.html

Sad new this morning from Nova Scotia: RIP, Birgitta Wallace Ferguson. #medievalsky www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obitua...

Only one, sadly! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This new online DB from the Swedish National Heritage Board looks like a -very good- resource indeed: #medievalists www.gotlandicpicturestones.se/s/index/page...

Here's news of an upcoming two-day online colloquium sponsored by the Dictionary of Old English. Registration information is available via the webpage that I've linked to below: epinal-erfurt.artsci.utoronto.ca/index.php/ea... #medievalists #medievalsky

Newly published research provides new evidence for a 'mini Ice Age' in the 6th-century CE: granite from Greenland that likely "rafted" on icebergs to Iceland and deposited in a datable layer. Here's a link to the recent article in -Geology-: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

Interesting computer modeling suggests that Bronze-age Norse boats would have been capable of crossing the Skagerrak strait between Denmark and Norway out of sight of land: new research published in PLOS One. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Publication – Paul Bertrand, « Forger le faux. Les usages de l’écrit au Moyen Âge » rmblf.be/2025/01/31/p...