once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Strongly recommend the “Two Georges” exhibition at the Library of Congress. It includes original material on loan from the Royal Archives. Here George III writing in response to the act of association from Congress, September 11, 1774: “The dye is now cast.”

Conference presentation day! #womenshistory

Yeah well whose fault is that??

Can anyone tell what this circled word is? #history #paleography

Can anyone tell what this circled word is? #history #paleography

You know what I thought was a good idea a month ago? To wait until the week I move across the country to write an abstract and an entire paper for a presentation next week.

Our latest podcast episode is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Today we are talking about a very popular, if you can call it that, murder from the 1500s that features a love triangle, a failed poisoning and much more - it's the murder of Thomas Arden!

Last day in Philly ✌️

My department at Princeton is hiring an assistant professor specializing in the study of early Christianity. First round materials are cover letter, cv, and writing sample. Letters will be requested for later stages. Deadline: September 30, 2025.

If you haven't done this yet, the Save SEPTA website linked here makes it incredibly easy. <30 seconds with a provided form letter (customizable if you want, like I did, to add how this disaster personally affects you as a constituent).

Math History is wild, it will just be like: “His ideas were so grotesque that he was disowned by all his friends and colleagues, labeled a disease against humanity and a stain on the face of gods creation. He died an insane pauper. Today his ideas are used in every aspect our existence!”

Today we are talking about the murder of Marguerite Porete, who, while little known to most people, is a fascinating woman whose life ended terribly - featuring the inquisition and the Beguin movement!

Seems like Cambridge UP won't let contributors to edited volumes opt out of LLM training on their work 🧐

Every time someone tells me to use fewer em dashes ⸻ I bring out Big Bertha.

Spent another afternoon in the archives and ended with a wine happy hour. Loving summer Fridays.

We take August off for CWAC but this year we're making an exception - a special one hour Coffee With A Codex on August 14 featuring (a very good facsimile of) the Voynich Manuscript and @lisafdavis.bsky.social !!

AI can't eliminate historians because fun it can't create new knowledge, go to archives (where most sources are) or analyze sources. It can repeat what other historians have already written. History isn't "fact" it understanding the past to understand humanity+ #skystorians

Just as a reminder since this seems to be getting some citations recently. I’ve published this open access piece from my masters dissertation on Crime and Sin in Early Medieval England. doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2021.vol3.no1.08

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. 👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

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Spent my Friday afternoon in the archives with some lovely 19th century letters.

🗃️ #skystorians: have any of you ever done a commonplace book type of assignment in your courses? I'm thinking of something like @jmadelman.bsky.social 's assignment, detailed here. josephadelman.com/2014/09/04/c... #teaching #pedagogy Thoughts? Advice? Could it be done digitally?

Our latest podcast episode "The Sack of Rome of 1527" is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Listen to us talk about the politics and people surround the attack on Rome, with a special emphasis on the Swiss Guard!

Lovely visit to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia today.

Andrea Gibson is my favorite poet. They are the reason I began writing poetry and their words got me through some truly terrible times. Thank you for your words and letting us see your light ❤️

I'm just going to sit here a moment and meditate on Andrea Gibson and how to love life so much that my heart is covered in stretch marks <3

Filling the last Sunday my wife is in Philly before we move with brunch in the city and going to see Lisa Ann Walters do standup. Not a bad weekend 👍

CfP for 6-6500 word articles for publication in "Shakespeare’s 21C/The 21 Century’s Shakespeare", the first issue of "Shakespeare Quarterly" under editorial leadership of Vanessa I Corredera, Arthur L Little, Jr., & @davidmcinnis.bsky.social Deadline: October 3 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/shakes...

Excited to be participating in the online conference! Come hear me talk about the Ann Preston papers and all the other wonderful presentations.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

Can someone make the life changing decision for me? Thanks

Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25

Publishers are increasingly charging authors fees to put their accepted manuscripts in #openaccess repositories. SPARC supports recommendations from Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) on how authors, funders, institutions & libraries can respond. coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

When Universities are mismanaged or run into financial issues, it's always the staff and NEVER the management who lose their jobs. On the contrary, they get above-inflation pay rises that are the equivalent to one or two of the full time jobs they cut. How and why do we let this happen?

Do I continue to do research on the topic I’m giving a conference paper on in September, do I finish up a paper for submission to a journal I’ve been working on for quite some time, or work on the new shiny thing? It’s gonna be the new shiny thing isn’t it?

The Summer Solstice will soon be upon us, and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century. #SummerSolstice British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

Just a friendly reminder that if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and indulging in various pastries, then you will have accomplished more than enough.

Restoring the British Library’s manuscript catalogue to the level of detail it had achieved before they were hacked would do far, far more for historical research than any AI chatbot

A large chunk of this in Colorado is where my dad and I used to go hiking every summer. It’s completely undisturbed, wildlife, wildflowers, etc.

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to smell vintage books in a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Edinburgh during a pouring rain?

Our latest podcast episode on "The Peasant's Revolt of 1381" is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Take a listen to our discussion on the rebellion which attempted to stand up to the policies of the crown! Let's know what you think by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts.

Amsterdam University Press is sending out letters today notifying series editors and authors that they have been taken over – or shall we say: annexed? – by Taylor & Francis. Not a good day. The evil empire of academic publishing is growing.

Can someone please give me the money and time to do a PhD? Thanks

Absolute horror story and infuriating on every level.

News you can use, BL manuscripts edition: Tl;dr you CAN download images detailed enough to teach from. Read on for a hack. #medievalsky #paleography 🧵 At the time of writing, links from www.bl.uk/research/dig... to the IIIF viewer are not working for me in Chrome but are in Firefox.

Do you work with medieval manuscripts? Then please consider completing this questionnaire on the impact of cataloguing on the discoverability and usage of medieval manuscripts: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT is unironically one of the best popular narratives about the way privatization of public services destroys local community