we're always accepting pitches for people to be on the show! please just have a look at the website, listen to a few episodes, and see if you fit the profile and vibes of the show. Then, head to AmericanMedieval.com and fill out the google form! #medievalsky

The thing about using masculinity as a measure of authenticity and worthiness is that it’s a continually receding horizon that requires the supplicant to continually pursue more and more ridiculous efforts to prove themselves, e.g. “I drink the big man drink of the working class.”

Just sent in the final changes. I've done a whole 'nother book! Pre-order now! There'll be a tiny drawing of Henry Scampi in it!

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Hi friends! I am looking for freelance writing & editing work. Journalism-wise, my beats tend to be religion/disability/parenting and, as one editor put it, “quirky historical essays”. I also have experience writing/editing copy for websites and social media. Hit me up at [email protected]

I've been reading this book and it is absolutely WILD how wrong people are to try and back-project modern dynamics onto the premodern Middle East in an attempt to frame the process of Islamisation as an instance of settler colonialism. Warning: this will involve a lot of fiscal adminstration!

Do you want to be published in a good-looking book? The Critical Muslim is looking for well-written, engaging essays for its Universities issue. Could be a personal account or a polemic. About universities of any time or place. 3000 to 6000 words, but not in an academic style! Get in touch...

This week and every week, trans rights are human rights and anyone willing to throw trans folk under the bus is no friend of mine 🩵 🩷 🤍 🩷 🩵

what’s something you enjoy doing in your academic job? - teaching. Love my students - talking with colleagues and learning about their interests - those epiphany moments in research - when a student stays after class to ask 1 more question

Marking season is one of the toughest (the volume) and most rewarding (the kids are alright, y'all) parts of university teaching. That tension isn't actually necessary but it's currently v tough. Anyway, right now I'm marking for our brilliant History in Practice module and it is *so* rewarding 😍

Language and script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia Mairs, Rachel. 2026. Language and script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia (Elements in Writing in the Ancient World). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This Element examines – for the first time in a single volume – the…

'It's not so very important for a person to learn facts...He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.' - Einstein, 1921. Fuck you, AI bros.

Good morning with a new shop offering! Inkmaking flashcards, originally a backer exclusive. A handy set of 7 postcards (A5) for go-to techniques and ink recipes drawn from both my books. for when you need a quick reminder on how to mix gouache, make a lake, red paint… More info: payhip.com/b/AfSjt

This is going to be the most amazing debut novel! By my absolutely brilliant PhD student x

Still looking for a chance to speak at this year's Congress? Time hasn't run out yet! We still have a number of sessions looking for a new paper! To view a complete list, and submit your proposal, visit our Late Call for Papers here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/lat... #Medievalsky #IMC2026 #IMC

"perhaps the biggest difficulty for the current leadership of the EAA...is that it may even be out of line with significant voices among Israeli archaeologists, some of whom are indeed stating that their own Government is breaching those basic ethical principles referred to by Dr Kamash and Dr Moen"

The paperback version of ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME is coming out soon! And with an even more stunning cover 🥰

I've been thinking about some sort of content collective idea for a while but never have the time or energy to make progress beyond this draft pitch. It felt like it could work quite well, though. Feel free to take it / adapt it / improve it /share it / generally make use of this.

Out today! Our newest episode is a biography of Themistocles - the rise of democracy allowed Themistocles to rise with it, but could Themistocles' career survive that same democracy? Our special guest is Michael Scott, Themistocles' latest biographer.

“I think the moment you fully settle into adulthood is the moment you learned how to use professional stress to cover for emotional distress. Who could say where the depression started and the burnout began? It was convenient if you’re uncomfortable with your own feelings.” Oof, @trungles.com

You don’t have to do this to yourself. There are non-Google options. Kagi is one of rude best search engines I have ever used: kagi.com

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

In our new article, @somiyagawa.bsky.social introduces the Database of Medieval Nubian Texts (DBMNT), a comprehensive digital archive of over 4,500 texts from Christian Nubian kingdoms (6th–15th c.). Read more on our website! 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/05/15/t...

Reading this review which points out that NDT doesn't seem particularly interested in science fiction and thinking about how the NYT *Books* section completely ignored a book that came out last month which did exactly that You can buy that book here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Hope endures in recognising that what is made can be unmade if we have the will and collective commitment. There is nothing inevitable about living in a world marred by hatred.

Nobody is born Islamophobic. Islamophobic children are made and will continue to be made in a society that treats Islamophobia as a bipartisan norm and even sometimes social good. Islamaphobic children with access to guns are made possible by an Islamophobic society that loves guns.

What if we didn’t train people to be assholes in book reviews? (From 2021) www.patreon.com/posts/585362...

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

Our episodes now have ads inserted into them. This is great news for us as it helps us keep the show on air. But, if you really want to avoid ads completely, you can find every episode, ad free, in our new subscriber tier - no interruptions for only $3 a month. buymeacoffee.com/ancienthisto...

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Thrilled I've got 150 responses to my survey on personal tutoring! I'm aiming for 200 responses, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral responsibility for students in the last five years, whatever that's called, with ten minutes spare, I'd love to hear from you. Do share if you can.

This is a very good book, which you can judge by the very good cover. You should absolutely buy a copy from whichever independent book seller you like to shop with. I can thoroughly recommend @biggreenbooks.bsky.social as a very lovely bookshop (and person!).

I'm hiring for a funded PhD in 'global' medieval history or trans-Mediterranean entanglements at my chair in Bochum, Germany, from 1 Oct 2026 — 3 yrs, your own project, 3 hrs/week teaching in the History Department, at 65 %of TVL-13 (~€2050/month after tax). Apply by 31 May — or please share 👇

New book: FINDING ALADDIN celebrates a Syrian storyteller who was almost lost to history. Hanna Diab created Aladdin from the facts of his own life, only to be betrayed by those he trusted—and then erased from his own story. I'm overturning 300 years of injustice. Order now: linktr.ee/matthewteller

“Emerging research has begun to show what most people feel is obvious: Relying on A.I. for cognitive tasks can reduce one’s own intellectual capacity and resilience. It’s one thing to use it in the workplace, but in the classroom, difficulty is often precisely the point.”

Just two more days of the 20% PREORDER20 discount with bookshop.org to get my book (out 4th June) uk.bookshop.org/p/books/all-...

#JobKlaxon We are looking for a permanent Lecturer in Global Medieval History to join us at @leedsims.bsky.social! Applications due 1 June. Happy to talk to anyone interested in an informal capacity. If you are in Kalamazoo, find me at #ICMS! #leedsmedievalstudies jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

This book is terrific! Still have a section left to read - read some other parts slowly, repeatedly and ran off to execute things - but if you're a historian type who wants to make the world a better place, this is a book you NEED. 💙📚🗃 #AcademicSky

We've got to make a better world than this, for all of us 💔

Today is Nakba Day. For Palestinians, the Nakba is not only a history of 1948 displacement. It is an ongoing reality of occupation, besiegement, settlement expansion and dispossession.

Job Opportunity! Lecturer in Global Medieval History University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

The thing about chronic illness is that there’s never just one thing. There’s always multiple things. There’s always compounding things that cause other things or are common concurrent things. It’s always just and endless stream of things.

FULLY FUNDED MA IN CLASSICAL STUDIES! 🧵 2026 Leventis MA Studentships @openuniversity.bsky.social The Leventis Foundation/ Open University are offering paid studentships for candidates who meet one or both of the following criteria:

Y'all, I've been lucky enough to read this in advance and it's *so* good! Pre-order it here (with the discount code PREORDER20 until 17th May) uk.bookshop.org/p/books/glad...

If the students had not encamped Nicholas Kristoff (of all fucking people) wouldn’t have written about Palestinian rape. Im going to say it again & again : just because a movement doesn’t accomplish its objectives, just because it’s brutalized, doesn’t mean it doesn’t change its world.

Looking forward to presenting at ICMS in one of two sessions in honour of Sharon Kinoshita and especially to talk about how her book, Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature, has influenced my research. @kzooicms.bsky.social #Kzoo2026 #medievalsky

one of my favorite people wrote one of my favorite recent reads. can't recommend it enough!

I finally have my copy of Homosexual Intifada!! Such an honor to have both a poem and a story in this collection of art by queer Palestinians. Here are some sneak peaks!! @interlinkbooks.bsky.social @intifadabatata.bsky.social out June 2nd, pre-order now! interlinkbooks.com/product/homo...

I'm offering a 3-session online course for @92ndstreety.bsky.social in June on white nationalism and GrecoRoman antiquity. The far right knows more about ancient history than you expect, but there are traditions of classicism that challenge their narratives. Join me! roundtable.org/live-courses...

I loved the HC version of this book. It has illuminated for me how subsequent polities have tried to take parts of the heritage of Rome for themselves. For all you worldbuilders, be it writers or TTRPGers, here is a template to learn from how to "layer" history.