I don’t think many people on here knew her, but my dog, Martha, died yesterday, and she was really special. 💔

Flyers

Flyers

It's #PlantAppreciationDay, so we want to show some love for the uses of plants in #archaeology! 🏺 Preserved plant remains can teach us a lot about life in the past, and we explore a few examples in this mini #AntiquityThread 1/7 🧵

Baserunning this bad on the Phanatic’s birthday is just mean

Nevermind, they are back

Who are these competent batters, and what have they done with my Phillies?

History without historians is doomed to fail. With an interdisciplinary team of scholars we show how the purported link between late Roman conflicts and drought has been misunderstood. We also outline a path forward in the use of sources in paleoclimatic research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A question for my #medievalsky manuscript friends: has anyone ever come across a manuscript with white spots on it, as in the image below? Or any other MS that seemed diseased? I'm particularly interested in early medieval British and Irish instances, but I'd love to hear about anything you've got!

Philly sports and I are on a break

🌟New Year exciting new OA paper🌟 doi.org/10.1080/0076... from myself @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, @shakenbeck.bsky.social & TC O'Connell @cam-archaeology.bsky.social "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100" using #isotopes & #aDNA🧵⬇️ 1/

Go birds 🦅🏈

Philly sports and I are on a break

Go birds 🦅🏈

An article I wrote about emotions and colonialism has just come out in The Sixteenth Century Journal - you can find it below or message me if you’d like a PDF! The Sixteenth Century Journal: Vol 56, No 2 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Pangur Bán and his owner might disagree, lol

Louse-borne relapsing fever is an important part of early British infectious disease history since William MacArthur’s 1949 speculation that it caused the mysterious, sixth-century outbreaks often assumed to be plague. It’s therefore Enormously exciting to have new paleoscientific evidence of it!

Want to learn how a careful study of burial #archaeology can improve our understanding of past disease events, especially the First #Plague #Pandemic (6th-8th centuries)? Check the #OpenAccess article I led in this month’s issue of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies!

It exists in the physical world! @merleeisenberg.bsky.social

New #SpeculumSpotlight episode!! @medievalacademy.bsky.social

My colleagues, Janet Kay, Jordan Wilson and I went on @mmapod.bsky.social to promote our new Speculum article, “Burial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic.” Give it a listen if you’re interested! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

New issue of Speculum Vol. 100, No. 2 (2024) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/spc/2025... @chicagojournals.bsky.social @medievalacademy.bsky.social @merleeisenberg.bsky.social @rachelbsinger.bsky.social

New, OA article! Here my coauthors and I (led by the lovely Janet E. Kay) ponder what burial archaeology would bring to the table as we seek to understand the First Plague Pandemic (spoiler alert: we think it could contribute quite a lot!) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

For folks in DC, I’m giving a talk on early Irish animal disease next week!

Split squad spring training game means 2 Phillies games at once let’s gooo

Check out Rachel Singer's review of Annalisa Marzano's "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome," published in 2022 by @cambridgeup.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #planthist #plantstudies www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

I wrote a book review!

AAAAAHHHHHGGHH

Midnight green food coloring test for next week… Go birds 🦅🏈 #FlyEaglesFly

Took command of the NFC 😏 Toyota | #FlyEaglesFly

Today’s writing session is brought to you by a DAVIDsTEA strawberry matcha latte

Very glad to share the findings from my PhD work on raptors from archaeological sites, showing an early pattern of urban scavenging! #archaeobirds www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today I’m debuting a new #EnvHist podcast series, “The Climate Chronicles.” In 8 seasons and 42 episodes, I’ll tell the remarkable story of how #ClimateChange influenced humanity’s past. Visit the website: theclimatechronicles.com (1/6)

Very pleased to see this out now. Behind paywall for the moment, but hoping to have that changed … academic.oup.com/past/advance...

A very exciting and important new piece of reading from @helengittos.bsky.social on connections between 6th/7th-century England and the Near East. Highly recommended! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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I just published a piece in The Journal of Jesuit Studies, about the Jesuit Alonso de Sandoval, who wrote one of the most important eyewitness accounts of slavery in the seventeenth-century Caribbean. The piece has been published in open access here: brill.com/view/journal...

Merry Christmukkah to all! 🕎🎄

Article in our 600th Issue: Rachel Singer @rachelbsinger.bsky.social on 'Contextualising Edix Hill: First-Pandemic Plague and Britain' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...

It’s my birthday, so the Eagles aren’t allowed to lose today. Go birds! 🦅🦅🦅

My convent of weird rescue animals has a new postulant - everyone meet Holly!

Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article/chapter. “It is possible that the ‘periphery’ has something vital to tell us about the ‘core’ or the whole, should we choose to listen.”

Study Suggests Plague Reached Britain Earlier Than Thought - good research from @rachelbsinger.bsky.social https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/study-suggests-plague-reached-britain-earlier-than-thought/ #historysky #pandemics #plague

Not super excited about having to start a brand new social media presence *again.* But very excited to reconnect with a bunch of late antique and early Christianity friends I haven't seen since my Twexodus in 2021!

Wow, I somehow already have more followers here than I did in the other place. Thanks so much, everybody!

Recent article on Advance Access: Rachel Singer on 'Contextualising Edix Hill: First-Pandemic Plague and Britain' @rachelbsinger.bsky.social #plague academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

So... I have awoken from my 7+ months slumber, to see dozens and dozens of people having flocked here. Let's get this resistance party started. Hello everyone! I mainly tweet about everything you wanted to know about "The Fall of Rome", but were afraid to ask. That and random geek stuff.

Following the Eagles coverage on here has really convinced me that Twitter is obsolete. So glad to have found both my academic and sports communities here, and go birds! 🦅

Hey, new followers, great to see you! My bio promised weird rescue animals, so meet my odd elderly dog, Martha, and my strange elderly snake, Latte. I also have a planted tank full of shrimp and snails (who are admittedly not rescued)

Hi, everyone! I’ve finally moved over here. I’m a PhD candidate at Georgetown studying early medieval infectious disease, climate change, and disability. I also work a fair amount on that wacky nuns’ rebellion at the end of Gregory of Tours. Looking forward to (re)connecting!