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Today is the publication day for _ Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures _ Bravo e Brava to editors Eduardo A. Escobar @knpazuzu.bsky.social & C. Jay Crisostomo (Editor). It is free / open access to read! uclpress.co.uk/book/scribal... ✍️

The Sixteenth Century Journal is seeking a new Editor. If interested, please apply by 15 July. #earlymodern 🗃️

"UNESCO sees adjunctification as a systemic, global problem that undermines job security, academic freedom and career attractiveness." And yet UK uni leadership see it as 'an agile workforce dedicated to cutting edge teaching and research'. Funny.

“I cannot find another period outside of a significant economic downturn when the Black unemployment rate has deteriorated this much, this fast... It’s affecting every region of the country, and it’s taken out people who followed the script.” wapo.st/4vbKVNC [gift link]

It's Match Madness! Watch Tiny Desk concerts from the 32 remaining World Cup nations that still have a chance to win it all. n.pr/4oV8rga

On the same afternoon that almost nobody was turning up for this, Dupont Circle was insanely packed with many 100s of people standing in long lines around the entire park area just because the Indian embassy was handing out free mangoes. 🧐

aDNA analysis of human genetic diversity in medieval Sicily: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... "the data indicate nuanced and unappreciated demographic shifts." #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges

*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference at the Warburg. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interwoven process that transcends the geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Learn more ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

Renaissance frames could cost more than the paintings they contained. A well-made frame is itself a work of art -- gift link #Venice

If you missed our visit with Rochester Institute of Technology's Cary Collection 15th century Italian copy of Johannes de Sacrobosco's De Sphera Mundi (bound with two other texts) you can watch it now! It has some unusual diagrams that are worth seeing. youtu.be/FSyZjp5Fm4g

Most people think Sherlock Holmes began at 221B Baker Street. But Holmes began somewhere far stranger: in a Victorian hospital ward in Edinburgh, where surgeon Joe Bell taught students to read a body like a crime scene.🧵 Here's the US 🇺🇸 trailer for SLEUTH-HOUND. Preorder: linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...

Friday! Join John F. López, author of THE AQUATIC METROPOLIS, for a book launch with the Association for Latin American Art! The event starts at 12pm EDT. https://utampa.zoom.us/j/99754469653?pwd=mrZzxJaeJalUAMPttz2TLiAfLo4WvZ.1#success#success

From the statement by the SciAm members of the Writers Guild: "No matter who owns this storied science magazine, we are the powerhouse of this cell. We will not be intimidated or back down."

Organized by my friend and colleague John McEwan, cosponsored by @kulibraries.bsky.social, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, and the @bibsocamer.bsky.social ! A good confluence indeed. 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

NEH grant recipients who received notification that a terminated award is eligible for reinstatement can find more information about initiating the restatement process here: shorturl.at/0GwBc

Oooh, new Late Neolithic plague piece out today! This was already issued in a pre-print back in 2024, but I want to go thru the final version in detail before posting comments. Here's the link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Plague #YersiniaPestis #aDNA #EpiSky 🧪

The Katz Center mourns the loss of scholar Carlo Ginzburg, an innovative historian who was an early developer of microhistory, a method which hones in on a specific individual or small group, giving voice to the marginalized. Watch his talk with Francesca Trivellato: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgHc...

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

The annual bibliography is one of @sharpweb.org’s most important (and least recognized) contributions to #bookhistory. Broad and diverse in scope.

It! Is! Here! Open Access (and already hoovered up by the scrapers no doubt such is our world) UK/EU paper copies will be available eventually but until then, EVERYONE now has free access! press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ill...

Ah so LLMs operate like senior male academics. Who could have envisioned that technology trained on existing texts could operate in a fundamentally conservative nature

CFP for the RSA 2027: The Sack of Rome at 500 🚨 Sponsored interdisciplinary panels on all aspects of the Sack. See www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... #earlymodern #Renaissance #Skystoriana

Last week we received a very special donation. Christiane Pintens (92) brought us the duster her grandmother Maria Krijger (1874-1941) had used over a century ago, when she was the housekeeper and cleaner of our library! Preservation has come a long way. #Libraries #LibraryHistory #Dust

One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n

I've told this story before but as a little kid i told everyone i was going to be a garbage truck driver when i grew up. when i became an archaeologist, my parents told me they were proud that i had held onto my childhood dream of collecting other people's rubbish

Yes, I'm sure the work of a woman who [checks notes] wrote anti-HUAC pamphlets, had her husband jailed for refusing to testify before HUAC, & whose early US work grew out of having the FBI confiscate her passport to travel overseas was entirely NOT political. 🧐 🤔 www.history.utoronto.ca/node/4594

To the extent that people are angry (as they very much should be!) about the horrific war on science, they also need to get angry about this outrageous war on the humanities. Both attack peer reviewed research that doesn’t happen to fit with a center-right worldview.

This is a great read for history / economics / finance nerds. (Complimentary; I wrote my senior thesis on the first 50 years of the Federal Reserve). Some people in comments said his gift link didn't work so here's another: www.wsj.com/finance/gild...

Happy 45th to Raiders of the Lost Ark! Here’s a piece I wrote 5 years ago on what real archaeologists think about Indiana Jones. 🏺🧪

"Illustrations, diagrams, and other non-topographical features on maps from the European Middle Ages and the Renaissance weren’t mere “decoration”, as old-fashioned map historians insist; they were part of what maps were for." Latest newsletter: medieval maps! buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Make some paper with us at the Library of Congress! We make paper at the Library to create a body of reference samples for material science research. This research helps support the preservation of our collections.

A reminders in this time of racist incitement around violent crime that last year a full *21 percent* of US homicides were from ex-husbands and ex-boyfriends murdering their former partners and children, and I don’t see anyone inciting pogroms against men: wapo.st/3RQKwCf [gift link]

Hello! Please pre-order my new book, Necessary Inventions: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science. You can get 40% off if you order by June 12; just use the code PENN-SUMMER26. www.pennpress.org/978151282988...

Now online: Dr. Lane Baker presents “The Lords of Little Egypt: Romani Immigrants in the Holy Roman Empire, 1417–1498,” his Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize lecture. Visit: vimeo.com/1198553821

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The Harvard Bookstore warehouse sale through tomorrow (June 7th) has big discounts on a number of volumes from NYU's Library of Arabic Literature, for folks interested in that series: hbswarehousesale.com/collections/... 📚

It’s like Bezos confused his pet projects and thought this was the Washington Post

There's a close family resemblance between "We'd be much less productive if we actually had to check every paper we cited" and "We'd not be able to deport nearly as many people if we had to give all of them due process."

Wait, so if I dust off my grad school Samuel Edgerton books, I can now get a high-paying job in tech, right? 🧐 🎨 archive.org/details/heri...

New vacancies 🌟 As part of the #EduTrack program, Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" is hiring a #PostDoc to work on "Migratory Expertise and Practices of Knowledge Transmission" 🗓️ Deadline: June 7 📍 MPIWG Berlin 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu5tend3 #HistSci #STS

Today I'm teaching this classic in my Microhistories module at Birkbeck and coincidentally I've just received a review copy of the 50th anniversary edition with a new Afterword and Postscript. His remarks in the postscript on a formative memory from 1944 hit hard.

The Huntington Library is hosting an online talk on Vesalius by Maarten Van Dyck this Thursday, May 7th at 3:00 p.m. EDT -- "Anatomy in a Courtly Setting: New Light on the Frontispiece of Vesalius' Fabrica" www.chstm.org/events/anato... #HistSTM #EarlyModern

Hello down there! In the wake of the Artemis II Mission to the moon join Sarah JS Parker, PhD candidate in medieval history, as she examines the Sphere of Sacrobosco and early modern interest in outer space! Read it here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/the-cos...

New #OpenAccess book -- "Ancient Egypt: New Technology." #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky www.fedoabooks.unina.it/index.php/fe...

Perhaps the most delightful thread you'll read today, particularly if you're a fan of: -Science fiction (Or perhaps I should say "scientific romances" since it discusses #JulesVerne) -The cultural history of #aviation in France -The history of technology more broadly #histSTM #histtech #scifi 🗃️📜📽️🛩️

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