Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

The anxiety / fear global divide

I caught up on this fantastic lecture at lunchtime - recording available below. And, having spent this weekend at a kids’ chess tournament, I was also pleased to be able to regale my family with facts about the history of chess

Who is Mamdani’s wingman? He nearly held it together for Heated Rivalry but he’s lost it here

Look at this absolute delight! A local church holds a Rocking Service where the baby in the Parish born nearest to Christmas Day, is rocked in a decorated cradle at Candlemas. Possibly the last Church in the world to do so - unless you know different? #TinyJoys

Just got back from a 3-day writing retreat - it was incredible! A step by recommend to anyone thinking about it www.chapelgarth.com

Just got back from a 3-day writing retreat - it was incredible! A step by recommend to anyone thinking about it www.chapelgarth.com

Does anyone know the origins of this ‘immersive experience’? www.timeout.com/london/news/...

I am dreaming of an innocent time when it was a scandal to have a "fibreglass replica of an Ogham inscription made and transported" to one's island retreat. The really important questions are: which ogam inscription is it, where did they get their dating to "350 AD" from, how did they create... /1

Important! AHRC is looking for a new Executive Chair. A critical role for arts and humanities. £160k - £170k. Please share widely to help get the best possible field! fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

University is where you go to learn from researchers. That’s what being a student at a university is

This sounds great! #histchild #skystorians royalhistsoc.org/calendar/gen...

I hate to tap the sign but again: this is all made to make in-person education and access to knowledge transfer a preserve of the elite. Human education for the few, bots for the many.

A great way to ensure that poor people get substandard education, while the wealthy get to actually think and engage with a human being

Anyway, good news! Open-ended lectureship in early medieval history at KCL. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

You don't become a teacher by memorising techniques and using strategies based on acronyms and catchy names. You become a teacher by learning how to build relationships, communicate effectively and help other people understand the world more fully. It's an interaction not a delivery.

I realised over Christmas that I’d never gotten my second MMR jab on account of childhood moves and policy changes. I emailed my GP and I just got it this morning, free on the NHS. It’s never too late and you can’t overdo it. Please get vaccinated. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Squeezing my research and teaching work in the gaps between academic misconduct meetings

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is 30 year old today. with an inception date of 26th January 1996. It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters. sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp

St Peter's College have set up a page for people to record their memories of Stephen which will be shared with his family and posted on a tribute page as appropriate. Link here: www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/step...

And can they prove what was created by their software?

We are hiring! We are looking for someone to join us as @astonuniversity.bsky.social new archivist! jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

New depths of dystopia. Everything about this is so disturbing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A regime that finally backs down when confronted by a united Europe is still tough enough to kidnap a five year old after preschool. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

To snatch a five year old carrying a school bag from the street and tell the parents nothing as you send that child to a prison thousands of kilometres away is unalloyed evil. Every person in this chain of command should be prosecuted. Every single one. They have to be.

Very sad news. May Stephen rest in peace. #medievalsky

The inkless doodles of Eadburg, an 8th-c. nun, discovered by new technology: now published by Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson in EME doi.org/10.1111/emed... (Open access)

New essays for #medievalsky folks - including a #histsci -related essay on elephants in medieval England, and an essay on race and Beowulf. 🗃

Surely the story should tell us who is demanding £3.5 million for this item… they actually don’t have to!

The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.

We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project. www.uis.no/en/research/...

1/ A shout out to seriously the most stunning article I have read perhaps ever - Erin Maglaque's in the December @Journalofmoder. I was one of the readers for this piece, and I even wrote in my report that it was such an intense read that I had to go for a walk afterwards to calm down.

Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals. What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@insuhi.bsky.social Public Seminar Series - Placing Women, Tracing Journeys: Female Mobility and Social Bonds in the Norse Period. 7.00 PM Thu 26 February 2026. Online, free to attend. Registration: tinyurl.com/5crcab6w

Another straw in the wind suggesting that employers may increasingly value 'liberal arts' (Humanities) graduates' skills in the context of the increased need critically to navigate the AI landscape. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers.

Neighbors standing guard over churches so that parents can have secret meetings about how to keep daycares safe. This is what's happening in the Twin Cities right now.

Come and join us, we will have a blast celebrating this massive achievement in late antique and early medieval studies!

An interesting PhD opportunity (i.e. job!) at Oslo on the project POLYCHROME: "Candidates should propose a research project that examines, in one form or another, historical sources that shed light on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries."

This workshop has not been advertised that much, but for anyone interested in Late Antique Latin historiography and recent groundbreaking developments in our understanding of it this looks extremely interesting. I am really sad I will not be able to attend.

Look at this, medieval friends!!

Bump for my CFP for Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Deadline 14 February! Have had a few abstracts already and it's shaping up to be great. 🗃️

The schedule is here! More info to come with talks soon, but spread the word and join the mailing list!

Happy new year! We're delighted to share our seminar schedule for Spring 2026. All events take place at the @ihr.bsky.social (Wolfson NB02) on Wednesdays at 5.30pm. All welcome - please sign up in advance here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Yes it is!

The Angels' Kitchen, Eugène Grasset, originally the cover for the 1893 Christmas issue of l'Illustration magazine.

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Delighted about this - Humanitarian Scholarship in our department at MRes level . Palestinian eligibility. please share www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a... #gaza #palestine #humanitarian #irish #masters #academia

Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Celtic, with a specialism in Old Irish, University of Cambridge. #MedievalSky www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...