Hello folks who work with digitized manuscripts. What is your preferred metadata format? If you could get ONE, what would it be? TEI, Json, a spreadsheet, MARC, or something else? Please let me know and share this query! This is important!

SHUT THE FUCK UP, HOLY SHIT IT'S REAL the essay deadass starts with "it is unknowable through what lens and mentality daisuke operated when he declared that bridget was a girl" i am going to Throw Up

'All these contextual networks build on each other. The material difficulties of life as scribe help me talk about the material difficulties of life as a minstrel.' We are delighted to share the next Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost by @siglum.bsky.social! 👇

Making a point. #worksonpaper

Rosamond McKitterick (1949-2026) A formidable scholar, an inspiring teacher, a generous spirit and a supportive colleague - truly, we have lost one of the great ones. @sidneysussex.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @camedieval.bsky.social

All y’all book history nerds, historical making nerds, or just plain nerd nerds, Sean Silver posted the recipes and instructions for making historical ink that we used in our “Thinking Through Printing” symposium workshop last week. Go brew some stuff, get inky!

This was MUCH more interesting than I thought it would be. Typesetting! Syllabification! Aldus Pagemaker! Loebs! And a living and contrite Chortlemuffin! And at the bottom of the rabbit hole is someone many of us #bookhistory types studied with. youtu.be/kL1PDqzqhM4?...

Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.

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Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

It's Mother's Day in Spain today. Featuring the amazing Cuban-Jamaican artist Harmonia Rosales, check her art if you haven't already! www.harmoniarosales.art

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Behar (בְּהַר) with a bear with its nose in a jar of honey. #ParashahPictures Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.73v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

medieval fanboys be dropping into your margins like 'optime dixisti sancte ieronime dulcis' ('you said it best, sweet saint jerome!')

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

Still thinking about Bodedo

best news story of the day by far www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Turns out you can now pre order my forthcoming book on Anglo-Catholicism and trans feminism! Baffled by the link? Intrigued? Check it out! blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Hate will not win. apnews.com/article/ston...

A glimpse into #childhood in Roman #Egypt - some wooden action #toys from Karanis: a toy sword, a toy hammer, and a toy weaver's comb. Dating 1st to 4th century AD. 📷 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 🏺

Appropriate since snakes do not have arms.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Daughter: What do you call a female Viking? Me: skjaldmær? Daughter: No, mommy (*rolls eyes*). A Viqueen. Me: Ah, I shall add this to my lecture notes. I stand corrected.

Btw my press funded a small study into best-practices for alt text for illustrations, especially of illustrations of art. The resulting guide is short and clear and available free to download.

Windows needed urgently! "Four of this type exactly. Exactly! But hurry, hurry, by tomorrow!" The writer provided a helpful diagram - notice the little man with his arms up denoting height! Egyptian hieratic script on a pot shard, c.1200 BC 📸 Me #FindsFriday #archaeology🏺

So good to see everyone's amazing projects! And more #Flaxchat and #Linochat, of course!

🎵 oldest tortoise crypto death scam! / Oldest tortoise crypto death scam! / Tortoise in a death scam! / Tortoise power!

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

The St. Augustine Gospels will not be making an appearance, but the Saint John's Bible (facsimile edition) will! saintjohnsbible.org I also support this choice and am happy to see Minnesota Benedictines represented. The order of service is here: www.churchofengland.org/sites/defaul...

#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...

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

🚨🚨 Announcing: SUMMA 🚨🚨 Simple spreadsheet software for calculating with Early Modern English currency. gjhilton.github.io/Summa/

I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.

You're not going to make any money doing this and no one is going to read it, so you must hope for a secret third thing to happen

Hinamatsuri, brought to you by the Fukui Dinosaur Museum.

please don’t lick the archives

JOB ALERT! 📜📚 Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin? apply.workable.com/middleburyco...

As a medievalist, w/nearly 2k years of Church history closer to hand than many this ToC is still breathtaking, and teachable, and also on that 2k year timeline not unprecedented. It's TWO THOUSAND YEARS of legal authority, legal practice, brought fully to bear in a different jurisdiction.

This is adorable! New favorite cat painting.

Things are still scary and uncertain here in Minnesota but the community is strong and so is our love #iceoutcomics #iceoutmlps

The image assets for the next video are getting pretty complex, so I made a visual tracker to organize things. This spaghetti mess is what I ended up with. Is it a better method of organization than winging it? Time will tell, I guess.

He dances in a way I have only seen horses dance. He possesses a power and majesty we will never know.

I crumble to dust and blow away with the wind

My first proper first-author paper has been published in Antiquity! The article is fully open access, so it’s free for anyone to read and share. The research came out of my PhD and uses a “whole-town” isotopic analysis approach to explore diet in Medieval Cambridge🏺 1/4 tinyurl.com/mu8a38zb

historian here! Yes

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Disabled people are part of the future. We must and should imagine and dream of futures where disabled people don't just exist but are everywhere, as we should be. This need to fix/cure all disability is a eugenicist dreaming, and we should want better for ourselves.