In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky

Heads up for the very non technical folks. This is a new scam with links

Tonight's vegetarian experiment: stuffed capsicum, with spiced lentils and goat cheese

Hi #MedievalSky, does anybody have a copy of Lisi Oliver's 2003 chapter “Who was Æthelberht’s Laet?” from Linda Hall's Confrontation in Late Antiquity? Many thanks in advance! 😁

Do this! I just spent my morning filing away almost 300 pages of excellent materials on undergrad and postgrad teaching and skills, curriculum development & assessment design for reference... Horrifying to think all that expertise and effort will all just end up in a digital graveyard.

Enjoying the us timeline discovering the art of the AFL mark 😂

The shelters are being overwhelmed right now with pets whose owners never come home after being deported. Some aren’t rescued in time. Please consider finding room in your family for one extra if you are able to do so. Or consider a small donation to your local pet rescue or shelter. 😿

Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on. CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️ institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...

Happy Friday! Monday is the last day to express interest in joining the committee for Ceræ's thirteenth volume. We hope to see you join in. #medievalsky #earlymodernsky ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...

10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.

Anakin/Padme meme: So you're going to implement deep environmental protections locally and give them regulatory teeth, right? RIGHT?

This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365 Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

We're looking for our January speaker for our speaker series. Is it you we're looking for? For details, go to Bodiesandbeing.com #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

The real news today is the announcement of the Aus squad of 15 for the coming Ashes. The bowling looks strong despite Cummins' injury. It's batting where the vulnerabilities are. Notably, the Q of the opening pair is still *ahem* open, & there is a log-jam contest for No. 3 & middle order spots.🏏

Thank goodness jr sosige went missing for 20 minutes this afternoon or I might not have achieved my steps target for the day... 😬

Preference will be given to candidates experienced in online learning, chairing departments full of inveterate enemies who long ago gave into a prevailing sense of nihilistic despair, and an understanding of what the words "assessment" or "digital humanities" mean???

FIFTH book, and still on the hamster wheel! Just one example among the many bright minds condemned to contributing less to knowledge than their full potential and/or burning out doing it, because of a stupid system that we have the power to change.

Delightful

Ah nuts. I was all booked to do a rehab drive to visit my oldest friend tomorrow, and now they're forecasting up to 40mm of rain... Guess that's that for now then.

Registration deadline is 9 November - it's all coming up fast now!

The media coverage of the EPBC reforms has largely been terrible. Two key points that many omit: 1. The _primary function_ of the Environment Protection & Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is clear in its name. Hint, it's not to fast track development or 'balance business & the environment'.

On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.

Not now new COVID virus

Medieval "ember day" tarts for our annual "Medieval and Renaissance feast" today. Looking forward to attending with SO's help for the first time in 2 years 😊

Government funding of basic research pays off.

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

If you have a hard copy of the 3-vol (2018) "Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources" and are looking to pass it on to someone (such as a medievalist trying to produce critical editions of 13th-century texts), then please contact me!

No sir. I didn't see you playing with your dolls again.

If you’re donating to a food bank, consider donating some respirators too! Food banks will be overwhelmed and crowded. Covid is still with us, still disabling and still killing. Many folks are losing food assistance & healthcare. A well fitted respirator can keep you healthy!

Welcome to Emerge Australia’s #mecfs and #longCOVID Action Forum event in Parliament House, Canberra, today. Our event, “From stigma to science: educating for change” is live streamed. You can register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... We will be live posting on this thread. 🧵

Tracey Collins: We need investment in clinical education to both prepare for the implementation of the new guidelines and also to prevent harm. We need emphasis on pacing not graded exercise, and inclusion of appropriate care for those who live with severe ME/CFS.

#Medievalsky Anyone going to be in the TNA map room this week who could check some Latin for me? Or alternately, anyone who has pics of C 77/7, m.7d., they could share by any chance? Gratitude and acknowledgement shall be thine!

We are happy to share the publication of Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature, edited by @janebonsall.bsky.social and Hannah Piercy! Thanks to the generosity of the @snsf.ch it has been published open access!

Putting up the bat signal for my SO... Does anybody happen to have access to a pdf of this >> BS 31:1940 Specification. Steel conduit and fittings for electrical wiring

Car: "Depress clutch to start." Me to clutch: "The planet is being ruined by billionaire sociopaths, everyone's house is grey, the internet was a terrible mistake and I can't stop thinking about all the stuff I put in bins in the 1990s that I should have recycled. Also I think I've broken my toe."

Emma Thompson. Still delivering the relatable moments after all these years.

Congratulations to all the successful bids, and commiserations to everyone else ❤️

Holey moley that sounds nasty! Get well soon! 🏏

Fiona the Precariously Employed Bettong has an important message for Australia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If you’re feeling this way, you’re not alone. More importantly, you’re not broken. patthomson.net/2025/10/25/b...

Your reminder that there is beauty in the world

Semester 2 teaching ended today at my uni. That makes three whole semesters of teaching I've missed on account of #LongCOVID, and I'm one of the lucky ones who is recovering! Hoping that I might be able to get back in the classroom to some degree next time; and sending extra hugs to those who can't!

This is amazing, all! My initial offer to match $500 in food bank donations tonight was quickly used up, but many stepped in to match too, & by my count we've given more than $2,200 to food banks tonight! Go fabulous BlueSky community!! 💪 See thread for more donations awaiting matchers 🔥 #NoHunger

Back by popular demand, Introduction to Latin Palaeography will run online in February 2026 #MedievalSky 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Episode eleventy billion in "was putting the internet into random household objects good or nah?"

Medieval Latin teachers, help! Disaster for our @memsunikent.bsky.social Latin learners: the Memrise pages for Collins's Primer have disappeared. Do you know where they might be now and, crucially, what substitutes there are. I have seen pages on Quizlet and Brainscape. Recommendations?