Happy Father’s Day! Along with a lovely family dinner (last night so my spouse can travel to see her father today) I got this awesome card- I think they know me pretty well. :)

"name a movie that's better than the book I dare you" Jaws

The Carolingian South is now out! This new edited volume approaches the Franks from a new direction. To celebrate @manchesterup.bsky.social sat me and @graemeyward.bsky.social to ask us some questions about the book: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06... #medievalsky

What AI-Generated Images of Robert Gould Shaw Leave Out and Why it Matters #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

It's recital weekend here in DeKalb! Excited to see my wife and daughter in the shows and dance with my daughter on Sunday. egyptiantheatre.showare.com/eventperform....

Hemingway observed in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises that one goes bankrupt “gradually and then suddenly.” The same can be said of armies. My latest at The Bulwark. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-rus...

Wishing my favorite medievalist and her colleagues a fun and interesting conference! (Zoom link available on request) #medievalsky

Blue states could pass laws mandating faculty governance and academic freedom.

I promise to stop going on about this soon, but my list of moving queens 900-1150 is now up to 122 women 👸 blogs.ed.ac.uk/cwest3/2026/... There are probably still errors/omissions (tell me if you spot one!), but thanks to everyone who's made suggestions on here or by email❤️

I genuinely can't remember the last voluntary recognition I saw!

I'm doing a book event @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social on June 25 to talk about The Public Scholar, writing for media, and some of the broader questions about being a writer in public, on social media, trade presses, and more. Please share! moonpalacebooks.com/events/55699...

Why do I celebrate Pride, and not just during June? Because I despise bullies. Because I know nobody is free until everyone is free. (Thank you, Fannie Lou Hamer.) Because people I care about are LGBTQ. Because I'm not a small-minded jerk. Because love is worth celebrating. Happy Pride, y'all.

Timeline cleanse- a brief pause in her action

#Miniatures some Heritage orcs from the Dungeon Dwellers line to swell my evil hordes.

Reminder: Abolish DHS.

#Miniatures I finished this swarm of giant frogs for my Druid’s conjure animals spell

Barn carts in need of a new home. Before we lost our sister we also lost our uncle who was caring for a colony of outdoor cats. I’ve been working with Cat Coalition of the New South, Inc. to feed, vet, fix, & rehome these sweet babies. If you know of a barn in need of some mousers comment or DM.

I have one last thing to say about this. And that is that we've known AI/LLMs fabricate citations, data, and whole arguments for YEARS! We even have a word for it. "Hallucinate." There is NO excuse for this. Any of this. We KNOW that AI is unreliable. We've known since at least 2022.

Someone is very eager for the weekend to begin…

Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.

Should anyone be in Glasgow next week, and be interested in scribes, kings and scandal:

We're all very pleased with the cover. It's taken a while but the production side seems to be moving quickly 🤞 #EarlyModern 📚

Screaming crying carrying on

Come hear me talk about charters and Arnulf! #medievalsky

Yes hello, I was on my favourite podcast @poltheoryother.bsky.social doing my best to explain the Christian Nationalist leanings of the current American government, and why you should care about medieval history. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Hello Bluesky #BookSky! The Public Scholar is out today from @hopkinspress.bsky.social. You can buy it everywhere books are sold. Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2uj47sa7 Order from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social and I'll sign it - moonpalacebooks.com/item/I12x_a-... You can read an excerpt here. (1)

#Miniatures Grenadier skeletons and Lich, from the 5004 Tomb of Spells.

May the 4th coincides with the start of Lag B'Omer. What this means is that I'll be wearing a Star Wars shirt at the bonfire that night.

Claypotts Castle in Dundee. A well preserved example of the Scottish fortified tower house. Once owned by John Graham of Claverhouse, better known as Bonny Dundee, who died leading the Jacobites to victory at Killiecrankie in 1689.

The Public Scholar publishes one week from today. Please consider pre-ordering and/or asking your library to order. Authors really need your pre-orders to make a book go. I think it's a useful book! More importantly, so do real scholars and writers! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

a little pop history for the day: the plant cannabis has been around thousands of years, as an industrial fiber. Peoples of the steppe and other traditional cultures enjoyed cannabis smoke for recreation. But little old Europe and the West? They never got high until almost 1800.

VERY excited to see this out- truly interdisciplinary research bringing together numismatist/ historian, archaeologist/ archival detective, wood & leather specialists and tireless researcher to fully examine a 9C coin hoard and its containers discovered 150 years ago ugp.rug.nl/Palaeohistor...

RIP Máire Brennan. You can hear her amazing voice in Clannad's stunning song 'Harry's Game', but us old folks will also remember her from this beauty: youtu.be/CWVBgHwkSUY?...

New newsletter's out. Read it and subscribe for free if you want. Photo by Emma Esser. thekingteen.beehiiv.com/p/breaking-t...

Friday timeline cleanse

Now that my biography of Robert Gould Shaw is available for pre-order, I am beginning to organize a book tour beginning in late September. My calendar is already beginning to fill up. I would love to speak in your community. Let's start the conversation. cwmemory.com/events/

As those of us who celebrate Passover get ready for the Seder, where families recount the Exodus from captivity in Egypt to freedom in the holy land, we’re struck by the irony of this tragedy moment. Right now, many of us on this land feel a different kind of restriction. (1/4)

My next book, a practical guide for how to write for mass media, publishes four weeks from today. I hope you'll consider ordering it now, inviting me to speak, and to tell others. Here's what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said about my work. Pre-order here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Publication day! We are pleased to announce that "Digital Medieval Studies-- Crusaders and Computers" is now availble. This is the first deep dive of the DMS series into a specific subfield, and we are really pleased with the results. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270291...

On this Trans Day of Visibility and every day, we're unwavering in our commitment to fight for the future we deserve. This means being free to travel, access health care, take up space, play sports, and be our authentic selves without government interference — full stop.

#nokings DeKalb, Illinois

So we practiced the Macedonian phalanx in class today. My makeshift sarissas held together, no one was injured, and everyone has a lot more respect for the Macedonian infantryman.

Want to see the places discussed by Alice Thornton? Sharon Howard has you sorted! #DataViz #EarlyModern 🗃️

A #Tolkien Thread on Hobbit Architecture for your weekend pleasure. Let's start with The Hill. Some smials like those on Bagshot Row, are delved straight into the face of The Hill, while Bag End is made by cutting a courtyard into it and tunneling 'round the circumference. Tolkien loved variation!

So wonderful to see this chat with Claudia Roden at 90 and still going strong. Such a legend! How Claudia Roden Preserved Her Passover Table From a Lost Jewish Egypt www.jewishfoodsociety.org/stories/clau...

It's the grand finale of my series Meet the Badasses What Helped me make my new EP, True Stories of Time Travel. I'm making today's a thread. 🧵 If you're in the Triangle, or even if you're not, my record-release show is Friday at Rubies on Five Points in Durham. Early show: I start at 7 pm sharp.

My daughter made a most beautiful and delicious cake so I just had to show it off

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

are YOU sufficiently wary of the ides of March? BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH

Illinois, we've got less than one week until primary Election Day ! Have questions about how to cast your ballot? Visit iwillvote.com/il for more info. And if you requested to vote by mail, return your ballot ASAP! Your vote is your VOICE — make sure you use it!