Colleagues: if you do #GlobalMiddleAges work, this is an urgent case where you can use your expertise to support cultural conservation & Indigenous peoples. If you don't know Chaco Canyon, look it up. But do so quickly. The Comment period ends 29 July. #MedievalSky

One in four academic history positions in post-92s are gone since 2019 alone. One in four. We don't have data for 2025-6 and I doubt it magically got better.

Advance notice of the British Academy reports published to be tomorrow (Wednesday) and their findings. It does not make happy reading if you value UK higher education and research.

Barely caught my breath from #imc2026 and already the CfPs for #imc2027 are coming thick and fast!

Vikings der, yano that! #ScouseNotEnglish #MedievalSky

Traveling back from Leeds and seeing posts about next year: #medievalsky

Have you organized a smashing session at #IMC2026 that fits somewhere in the first millennium and you are thinking about publishing it? Essays in Long Late Antiquity accept proposals for special issues and special sections, just get in touch! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...

Orderic (briefly) made it downstairs for the #IMC2026 disco! I'm not sure that it was *quite* close enough to the repose of the monastery for his taste...

Great helm alert! #IMC2026

Quick reminder to come along tomorrow morning if you're free! #IMC2026 #S1511

The very excellent @areforbes.bsky.social on monastic sound in Orderic Vitalis's account of Hellquins's Hunt #imc2026 #medievalsky

May have already bought six books at the second-hand book fair... Or to put a more positive spin on it, restricted myself to just six books at the second-hand book fair! #IMC2026

All set for #IMC2026 - if you're not too hungover on the Thursday morning come along to Session 1511 by @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social - I'll be talking a load of absolute horse.... allegories!

Anyone interested in #soundstudies may be interested in panel 342 on Historical Sound Studies at #IMC2026, Monday 4:30pm. The session examines the place and meaning of sound to medieval societies, with my own paper examining the role of sound in Orderic Vitalis' account of Hellequin's Hunt.

New Junius album is choice, but the album closer is 👌🏻 open.spotify.com/track/2oTpG6...

‘I don’t care for football/soccer’ is the new ‘I’ve never watched an episode of Game of Thrones’.

I've heard colleagues say that AI stops the gate-keeping and allows easy access for students without the necessary skills. I have a problem with that because it's our job to help them get those skills, not to outsource it to a computer.

With one month to go until #IMC2026, here's a re-upload of my little non-exhaustive thread of tips and tricks for first-timers (including a link to a great blogpost by @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social at the end!) #MedievalSky

RIP to the inimitable John Blanche

RIP to John Blanche, the best to ever do it. Before Warhammer was even Warhammer he understood what it was: weird, gross, unsettling, maximalist.

My new article - examining the implications of the crusader cross as a symbol of group identity within monastic narratives of the First Crusade - is now out (and open access)! ⚔️🛡️✝️ So many thanks to the editors and reviewers for helping bring it to fruition! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I'm at 175 responses for my survey on personal tutoring! I want to smash the 200 threshold, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral repsonsibility for students in the last 5 years under any title, I'd love to hear from you - it only takes ten minutes. Please do share.

📢 #CfP: “Failing Male Bodies. #Body, #Gender, and #Masculinities in the Medieval West (4th-15th Centuries)” 📍 GHIP, 28–29 January 2027 📅 Proposals should be sent before 1 July 2026, FR/EN/DE ➡️ More information: www.dhi-paris.fr/fr/...#CfP:#Body,#Gender,#Masculinities#Paris #DHIP

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO233/d... one year post in Old Norse #medievalsky

He's got to go at this point, team looks absolutely bereft. #SlotOut

fab late #medievalsky / #earlymodern history job folks! considering what magical unicorns perm jobs in history departments are these days, i can only imagine with some trepidation how many apps this well get... 🗃️

PSA for other non-Brits going to Leeds: If you got an ETA in the past, check if it's still valid! The website kinda suggests that an ETA is only valid for 6 months, but I used the online-check⬇️and the ETA that I got for Leeds 2025 is actually valid for 2 years! #IMC2026 #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

Help, #MedievalSky! There's an opening on our #IMC2026 Panel on Abbatial Identities within and without the Cloister. Do you like abbots/abbesses or another kind of 'monastic leader', and are you having second thoughts about skipping the IMC this year? Let me know and we might have a session for you!

Another battle won with French engineering. Service: Done ✅ Washer Pump: Replaced ✅ Front crossmember: Oh dear 😱 Bank holidays done right.

Just published in The Mediaeval Journal, my article about this elephant, drawn by Matthew Paris in the Tower of London. It includes Matthew’s text about the elephant, which surprisingly has not previously been published. #medievalsky

📢 Late Call - #IMC2026 Tired of doomscrolling? We are looking for one more #DH paper for our session "The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time, II" at the IMC Leeds 2026, organised by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... #CfP #medievalsky

What a response. Unis are in such trouble that Labour should be actively modelling scenarios like university closures in their constituencies so you know the employment and cultural impacts. When it happens it will be much worse than Labour realises, for everyone, not just students and employees.

#MedievalSky is there any scholarship looking at vernacular glosses holistically, rather than specific texts/languages?

"So in instituting an AI policy, no matter how well intentioned ... we are explicitly saying, this product has so guaranteed a space in our institutions that we are mapping out sanctioned uses for it."

Would love a boost for this post to get it to those interested in Arabic manuscripts please and thank you. #Skystorians #MedievalSky @soasuni.bsky.social @soaslibrary.bsky.social @soas-speccoll.bsky.social @soashistory.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

hi #medievalsky - does anyone know a way of tracing where certain passages of the Glossa ordinaria have been taken from? Trying to find the (I assume patristic source) for one particular bit of commentary, and totally stuck. Any help appreciated!

honestly I think it would be both hilarious and potentially actually useful to split the "Evangelical converts doing 40K LARP" Catholics from the "been wheeling Granny from hospice to mass since 1997" Catholics

#MedievalSky I received a very important announcement today. Feminae, the bibliographical database on medieval women created and run by Margaret Schaus for the past couple of decades, is going offline as of 1 April. Download as much as you can ASAP: inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/Adva...

Job alert! Three late antiquity postdoc positions on an ERC funded project GREEKWEST here at Liverpool - come join an amazing department! #medievalsky

Struggled to get back into Alcest until recently, but have hammered this album all day today, it's so good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Ox...

Last year I worked as a fact-checker on the Real Vikings podcast (Noiser), narrated by Iain Glen. The first episode is now free, exploring the Viking Age from Ragnar Loðbrok and Harald Hardrada to the wider Norse diaspora from Constantinople to Vinland. www.noiser.com/real-vikings #medievalsky

Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer... #medievalsky

Presenting the Seven Liberal Arts: Astronomy, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, Rhetoric, Logic and Grammar BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; 14th century; Italy (Tuscany); f.29r @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Are you a scholar working on cool gender stuff in Britain and Ireland? Would you like to come hang out by the seaside for a weekend while talking about your awesome research? Then have I got a symposium for you! #medievalsky #cfp wp-research.aber.ac.uk/medievalgend...

🚨 LATE SUBMISSION WINDOW OPEN 🚨 We've had a withdrawal from one of these sessions and would be very keen to include another paper - please do not hesitate to reach out if you're interested, and to help us spread the word. Many thanks!! #skystorians #medieval #medievalsky #premodernrace #imc2026

Two Visiting Full-Time Faculty Positions in Spanish (Medieval/Early Modern Iberian Studies): memorients.com/news/two-vis...

There is a vacancy in our project 'Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550' for a junior or postdoctoral researcher! #medievalsky careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Junior-R...

‘The state of the world is at the present day constantly changing’ I feel like this could have been written this morning, but it’s a ‘Song on the Times’ of thirteenth-century England, during the reign of Henry III Perhaps some things just really don’t change…. #medievalsky #history #politics