The elephant in the room....🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 Bodleian Library Arch. G b.6; Historia naturale di Caio Plinio Secondo, tradocta di lingua latina in fiorentina per Christophoro Landino; 1476 CE; Italy (Venice); f.93v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Outside my office window right now

I'm very pleased to share my new article on the python library undate, which is an ambitious in-progress effort to make it easier to work with incomplete dates and multiple calendars, building on work from Shakespeare and Company Project, Princeton Geniza Project, etc. doi.org/10.1017/chr....

Congrats to @maynoothuniversity.ie postdoc Johanna (team member @brokensong2023.bsky.social), awarded a Bodleian Library fellowship! www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Fantastic find. Medieval slate initially scored for music and reused for accounts in Middle English (cost of ink, 2d; repair of King William’s painting, 1/ 2d). (Abbey gatehouse exhibition.)

If you're in Dublin between now and late October, don't miss the Words on the Wave exhibition at the National Museum on Kildare St. Some of our most important medieval Irish manuscripts are on loan from the Abbey of St Gallen & are back in Ireland for the first time in c. 1200 years. #MedievalSky

Nice to see the Song of Wade featured in the newspapers! I'm happy to be an "academic sleuth" – but I'm not a "scientist". *Humanities scholars can make discoveries too!*

CFP!! Come to beautiful @maynoothuniversity.ie for the #BROKENSONG conference! 14-16 May 2026: 'Fragmented Musical Cultures c.1150–c.1350'. CFP deadline 30 Sept 2025. More info and the full CFP: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/i... @erc.europa.eu

Signed a publication agreement for an article I've co-authored with @karendesmond.bsky.social & Jared Hartt, for Plainsong & Medieval Music this autumn, based on work we shared two MedRens ago (in Munich 2023). Conferences are vital to making good collaborations and sharing our work!

In early June, Karen traveled to London where #BROKENSONG convened a very productive pre-MEC workshop to move forward on encoding pre-mensural notation in MEI - thanks to all involved! She also presented a paper at the 2025 MEC conference #music-encoding ‪@music-encoding.bsky.social‬

Can we maybe leave the watermarks off this time guys

NYT: “Ms. Leavitt did not offer any evidence of “D.E.I.” pursuits Dr. Hayden engaged in. She accused Dr. Hayden of allowing “inappropriate books in the library for children.” The Library of Congress does not lend books to adults or children” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

"Designing sustainable Digital Editions", Dr Pádraic Moran, University of Galway. 17.00-18.00, Tuesday 27 May 2025. Iontas seminar room 1.33, Maynooth University. All welcome - no booking required.

lots of layers to this chant fragment: -Lenten collects in writing that suggests it was made in Ireland, possibly in the 8th century -Musical notation added several centuries later, possibly in Germany somewhere? but it doesn't match the words? fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to digitally unroll many more. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Yes it is insulting, to say the least (said as a NEH reviewer and awardee): ‘NEH has also taken programmatic steps to ensure that all future awards will, among other things, be merit-based…’

Proud to share the latest work from our group! We liberate musicological data from their printed form and provide a novel machine-readable resource for computational analysis! #digitalhumanities #musicscience www.linkedin.com/posts/timeip...

"Words on the Wave" in @nmireland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving. Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.

This week, the #BROKENSONG team enjoyed a very good time studying the medieval fragments and books preserved in the Worcester Cathedral Library. #medievalbluesky @erc.europa.eu @worcestercathedral.bsky.social

Joyeux/Happy « Hug a Medievalist Day 2025 » ! rmblf.be/2025/03/31/j...

@eeleach.bsky.social’s insightful & straightforward method for analyzing 14th-c. music that I’ve taught & had my students apply in many contexts: Leach, Elizabeth Eva. “Counterpoint and Analysis in Fourteenth-Century Song.” Journal of Music Theory 44/1 (2000): 45–79. doi.org/10.2307/3090...

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

End & beginning: Betrayal of Christ faces Annunciation to Mary in Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, 1325. Love how bodies of son and mother echo one another. For feast day of the Annunciation, which is today.

If you’re interested in doing a PhD under my supervision on medieval music (including notation, MSS, digital approaches) this is a great opportunity: four years incl EU fees, 25k euro stipend & 2k research per year. Apply now & DM for details: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-res... #medievalsky

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

#StPatricksDay ☘️ Ireland is known for storytelling, traditional music, & recently, for rap! "Just as Celtic bards used rhyme & meter to captivate and connect audiences, rhymed connections help us remember stories and spark new associations." Griff Rollefson @ucc.ie #HipHopStudies 👉

☘️ A St. Patrick's Day special for #MedievalMonday! ☘️ This fine illustration of St. Patrick preaching is part of Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.27 (Part II), a collection of 14th and 15th-century manuscripts from Bury St. Edmunds. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

...clerical repression and economic isolationism, almost everyone in Ireland agrees that the past was, to use a technical term, shit." /2

No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.

Last weekend, Professor Karen Desmond attended the Leading Women in Medieval Religious Communities conference, with a paper titled 'Networks of Polyphony in 14th-Century England, and Possible Connections to Shouldham’. The event took place at the University of Notre Dame London, UK.

Trump drain brain

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Discussing this 2017 article on digital medieval history with MSc students later. 8 years after publication, 18.5% of its digital links no longer work. What implications does that have? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

He did not bend his neck

Delighted to be giving a talk today at the #DCU musicology seminar series and introducing my #ERC BROKENSONG project!

Deadline fast approaching!! Apply by February 25: spread the word...

Somehow I'd never realized that the digitization of the Exeter Book includes raking light photographs of drypoint images in the margins! Overview here: theexeterbook.exeter.ac.uk/drypoint.html and you can click through to the manuscript viewer to zoom in. #medievalsky #manuscripts #oldenglish

New post! 🧭 Navigating the IIIF Landscape: A Guide to Finding Images & Manifests. I gathered your community tips, hidden gems & helpful tools for discovering IIIF content. Thanks everyone who contributed! #IIIF #DigitalHumanities #liiive liiive.now/blog/2025-02...

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

it seems one of the stated purposes of capping overhead on NIH grants at 15% by those who champion the cap is to starve PhD programs in the humanities www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon. Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027! #DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway

The suspicious looking guy with a moustache and a hat surely looks like a character from the comic Inspector Gadget. However, in original, he is part of an impressive capital (forming a "P") of a choral book from around 1500 from a workshop of Petrus Alamire. #earlymodern #skystorians #bookhistory

The chant for #Candlemas (a little belated) in our fabulous 15th century processional, with 500 year old splodges of beeswax! It belonged to the long-vanished church of St John the Evangelist on Fishamble Street in Dublin & may have been used in Christ Church Cathedral next door