Matthew Fisher
@bookhand.bsky.social
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Medievalist, geek, Associate Professor of English at UCLA. Editor, Viator.
Anyone have a spare few million? Iâve got my eye on a 10th C gospel written by women.
news.artnet.com/art-world/me...
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Rare Gospel Written by Medieval Women Could Fetch More Than $1 Million at Auction
A recently discovered gospel likely written by women at the abbey of Essen in the 10th century could sell for more than $1 million.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/medieval-carolingen-gospel-auction-2708571
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Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
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Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
https://www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-history-culture-history/eight-pages-bound-in-furry-seal-skin-may-be-norways-oldest-book/2571496
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Damns straight. UC faculty, UC Faculty Associations (hi @UCLAFA ), and
#AAUP
pushing back against
#UCOP
. Universities are not corporations.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate
School officials defend software as bulwark against ransomware, but professors fear potential surveillance of their devices
https://www.science.org/content/article/university-california-faculty-push-back-against-big-brother-cybersecurity-mandate
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Canât believe we have to fight these fights. But here we are.
dailybruin.com/2025/10/14/j...
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Judge rules UC must publicize Trump administration settlement demands - Daily Bruin
This post was updated Oct. 14 at 11:30 p.m. A judge ruled Tuesday that the UC Board of Regents must publicize the Trump administrationâs proposed settlement demands to UCLA.
https://dailybruin.com/2025/10/14/judge-rules-uc-must-publicize-trump-administration-settlement-demands
24 days ago
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Robert Mahon
about 1 month ago
4 out of the 9 Nobel laureates in Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine are University of California faculty (2 UCSB, 2 Cal) and one other received all their degrees from the UC system (UCLA and UCSD). So those highly funded woke liberal universities are clearly failing, eh?
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Brian Soucek
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Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:
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First day of instruction at
#UCLA
. Amidst fucking everything, I take strength, courage, and even joy from our students. We shall see if it lasts the day, but for now, on a gray Los Angeles morning, the year begins with sharp glimmers of hope.
about 1 month ago
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Not waiting for
#UC
leadership to sell us out.
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University of California students and faculty sue the Trump administration
White House using civil rights laws to wage campaign against school system to undermine free speech, says suit
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/university-of-california-trump-administration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 2 months ago
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Miriam Posner
about 2 months ago
Tomorrow the UC regents are meeting at UCSF to discuss Trump's extortion attempt. This is a defining moment for the UC system, for public education, and for the university as an institution. We demand no concession, no capitulation, no cuts.
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My former student won an Emmy! Well done, Jui!
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UCLA English alum Jui Sarwate receives Emmy Award - Department of English UCLA
UCLA English Department - News
https://english.ucla.edu/news/ucla-english-alum-jui-sarwate-receives-emmy-award/
2 months ago
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It is, I will admit, a very small relief to see the University of California making very small gestures in the right direction.
#StandUpForUC
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https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved/stand-up-for-uc
https://t.co/7ovP018f2q
3 months ago
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âIt's like we all know, way down in our souls, that our generation is gonna witness the end of everything.â
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Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism
The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-31/trump-freezes-nih-nsf-funding-ucla
3 months ago
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I love my work. It may not feel the same way about me.
#medieval
#manuscripts
5 months ago
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Snipers on the roof last year. My rage at
#UCLA
âs failure to protect students, and indeed how they were endangered, will never fade.
5 months ago
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Not now, people. Never now. Shame on President Drake.
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Statement condemning faculty member removal from commencement
https://mailchi.mp/cucfa/statement-condemning-faculty-member-removal-from-commencement?e=7445fd42b6
6 months ago
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The Nation Magazine
6 months ago
A police attack on a film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning, write four UCLA faculty members.
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UCLA Is Now Nearly Unrecognizable as a University
A police attack on a documentary film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/fortress-ucla/
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Joshua Clover died. I was so very young when i met him in 1996. As was he.
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Value Theory for the End of the World
Poet, communist, cat-lover, teacher, music critic, roadrunner, critical theorist, Marxist: though not necessarily in this order, Joshua Clover was all those things--and more. To me, however, he was fi...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/value-theory-for-the-end-of-the-world
6 months ago
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And I wonder, are they one of my students? One of my friendsâ students? Obviously theyâre one of my colleaguesâ students. How many steps removed does it take for people not to see the fucking outrage?
7 months ago
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Jaweed Kaleem
7 months ago
UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.
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Trump administration revokes visas of multiple UCLA, UC students - Daily Bruin
This post was updated April 5 at 10:20 a.m. The United States government has revoked the visas of multiple students across the UC, including at UCLA.
https://dailybruin.com/2025/04/04/trump-administration-revokes-visas-of-multiple-ucla-uc-students
7 months ago
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Quinn Dombrowski
7 months ago
Need a project tonight and tomorrow? Check out the instructions here and consider adopting a site at risk.
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Jo
8 months ago
Remember the 90s when everybody only hurt sometimes.
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Fab work.
#scribes
#medieval
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How many medieval and early modern manuscripts were copied by female scribes? A bibliometric analysis based on colophons - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - How many medieval and early modern manuscripts were copied by female scribes? A bibliometric analysis based on colophons
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04666-6
8 months ago
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#UCLA
students at the Getty.
dailybruin.com/2025/03/06/g...
#medieval
#manuscripts
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Getty Center interns share interpretations of newly exhibited medieval manuscripts - Daily Bruin
This post was updated at March 6 at 8:06 p.m. With an ongoing exhibition, the Getty Center is giving new voices the opportunity to speak up.
https://dailybruin.com/2025/03/06/getty-center-interns-share-interpretations-of-newly-exhibited-medieval-manuscripts
8 months ago
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Prioress's Tale - "And hastily they for the provost sente." Yeah, if I had a singing corpse on my hands, I'd look for someone in charge pretty damn quickly too.
#Chaucer
#medieval
8 months ago
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Rob Ford
9 months ago
Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
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Prof. Ben Pohl
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Massive
#medievalsky
manuscript find in the SBB-PKB: a copy of Ranulf Higden's 'Petagogicum'âa work hitherto presumed lostâproduced near the time of its composition and perhaps under Ranulf's personal supervision (according to the article). Congrats to all involved!
www.spkmagazin.de/2025/der-moe...
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Der Mönch und die Handschrift
Von dem Benediktinermönch Ranulf Higden (ca. 1280-1364) aus Chester ist nicht viel ĂŒberliefert. Dabei war er einer der bekanntesten englischen Gelehrten des SpĂ€tmittelalters und Verfasser einer umfang...
https://www.spkmagazin.de/2025/der-moench-und-die-handschrift.html
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More gloves (though not white, and not cotton, and I suspect present for Serious Scientific Reasons).
#medieval
#manuscripts
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Cytology brush technique unlocks medieval DNA clues from parchment pages
At NC State University, a project is changing our understanding of medieval history. The team extracts DNA from old parchment documents
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/02/cytology-brush-medieval-parchment-pages/
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Cursed white gloves.
#medieval
#manuscripts
#medievalsky
bbc.com/news/article...
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Rare medieval rolled manuscript found in York Bar Convent archive
Fewer than a dozen of the documents have ever been discovered, York's Bar Covent says.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/c8j84gm90ldo
9 months ago
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I love my students and colleague
@devinfitz.bsky.social
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9 months ago
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Check out
#googleAI
getting
#Chaucer
wildly wrong. On the other hand, I sort of love the Man of Law/Bevis of Hamtoun mashup. Custance quietly floating along through the rivers of blood in London.
#medieval
#medievalsky
9 months ago
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I know there are many, many issues with the world. But, the MIDDLE ENGLISH DICTIONARY IS DOWN. Help!
#medieval
#medievalsky
#middleenglish
10 months ago
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âA Geat woman too sang out in grief; with hair bound up, she unburdened herself of her worst fears, a wild litany of nightmare and lament: her nation invaded, enemies on the rampage, bodies in piles, slavery and abasement. Heaven swallowed the smoke.â -Heaneyâs Beowulf
10 months ago
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***screams in Angeleno** Pause. Shallow breaths.
10 months ago
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Brian Goldstone
10 months ago
This doc tracking rental price gouging in LA (posted by
@latenantsunion.bsky.social
on X) has been up for less than five hours, and already 57 properties are on the list. The rent gouging is unreal: "Listed $9,995 on 1/7/2025 (!) and then increased to $14,500 on 1/11/2025"
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Ah, yes the well known hazard of "the accidental posting of one of the documents for sale online"
#medieval
#manuscripts
www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
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MSN
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/medieval-manuscripts-found-in-portuguese-dumpster-spark-intrigue/ar-AA1vD6iK
11 months ago
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Finnish
#medieval
#manuscripts
and
#biocodicology
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Big data is coming! | Medieval texts, scribes, and craftsmanship | University of Helsinki
The first over 300 samples for the project have been taken!
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/projects/medieval-texts-scribes-and-craftsmanship/news/big-data-coming
11 months ago
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The before was very civilized.
11 months ago
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Thanksgiving is -exhausting-
almost 2 years ago
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âYouâd think Josephus would mention that.â I do love being on a university campus. #overheard #UCLA
about 2 years ago
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Postdoc at UCLA -âPostdoctoral Fellow Positions, âRace in the Global Past through Native Lensesâ -
cmrs.ucla.edu/job-post/pos...
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https://cmrs.ucla.edu/job-post/postdoctoral-fellow-positions-race-in-the-global-past-through-native-lenses-mellon-foundation-uc-presidential-postdoctoral-fellows-program/
about 2 years ago
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Rebecca Romney
about 2 years ago
Thrilled to announce this yearâs winner of the Honey & Wax Prize, an annual award of $1000 for a book collection built by a young woman in the US (30 and under), via The Millions! We also awarded 5 honorable mentions â so many stellar collections! Read more here:
themillions.com/2023/09/hone...
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Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize 2023 Winners
Auroura Morgan is the winner of this year's Honey and Wax Book Collecting Prize for American women book collectors aged 30 and younger.
https://themillions.com/2023/09/honey-wax-book-collecting-prize-2023-winners.html
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âThose proposals cling to the idea that the labor market is where the value of an education is ultimately determined.â
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over 2 years ago
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No more definite article for social network.
over 2 years ago
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