I feel so miserable about this. Nearly broke myself working 16, 18 hour days during the pandemic. We did everything we possibly could, then doubled it, tripled it. HE is still struggling to get back off the floor, years later. Now another financial punch in the face. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There's loads of (non invasive) archaeological investigation needed in Clonard, Co. Meath. If any archaeologist, esp. a student/ECR, is interested, please come talk to me about my @researchireland.ie history of medieval Clonard project & maybe apply for the grant below! @aidanosullivan.bsky.social?

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Available Oslo PhD positions – heritage conservation, archaeological & paleoenvironmental geochemistry, & on the POLYCHROME project (concerning historical sources on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries) #jobfairy www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...

Know Your Parasites

A lovely job opportunity for an ECR, a temporary lecturing position but it has built in research time too. Come work with us in Maynooth for a year! #medievalsky You can email/message me if you've any questions & I can point you in the right direction.

Seeing how shite the elites are at writing emails you start to see why they think gen ai is magic and the bees knees

University is where you go to learn from researchers. That’s what being a student at a university is

Might we tactfully point out that to obsess negatively with trans people when the richest and most powerful men in the world are trying to reverse centuries of humane progress and equality to acquire impunity for rape and murder shows a weird sense of priorities?

Looking forward to this conference on all things Celtic in Helsinki. See CfP - deadline end of February

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

As ever, incredibly inspiring words from Rachel 👏🥹❤️

Great article on "Haraldr Maddaðarson and Scoto-Orcadian Politics before 1222" combining source analysis with the wider context

Delighted to have this project out there for people to read! I'm very grateful to all the contributors and the team at @apardjon1.bsky.social. A special thanks goes to @medivalist.bsky.social for all her hard work in turning our Bishop Adam conference into this special volume! #MedievalSky

Det er fortsatt litt tid for å sende inn fremlegg til Norske historiedager i mai i Oslo. Fristen er 25. januar 2026. www.hf.uio.no/iakh/forskni...

Still a little time left to submit an abstract for the Norwegian Historians Convention to be held in May in Oslo www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english... Deadline 25th (NB old date is on this webpage - the extension/correct date is in the Norwegian version)

Such a shock. He was fundamentally decent and particularly considerate towards students and early career researchers

Terrible news of the death of Stephen Baxter, superb historian and kind colleague. www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

Great to see medieval Ireland as an area of interest here

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

the entire population of England in 1086 will return in... Avengers Domesday

Ha!

It really shouldn’t need saying that brilliant students are found across the demographic spectrum. The capacity of parents to pay for a child’s education has very little bearing on whether or not their child will be hard-working, full of curiosity, passionate and quirky, all of which would be

🌟New Year exciting new OA paper🌟 doi.org/10.1080/0076... from myself @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, @shakenbeck.bsky.social & TC O'Connell @cam-archaeology.bsky.social "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100" using #isotopes & #aDNA🧵⬇️ 1/

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

"The work that client firms are settling for is not better when it’s produced by AI, but it’s cheaper, and deemed 'good enough.'” This is exactly what I feared. Not that AI would replace good writing (it can't), but that good writing would cease to be valued

Abstract deadline for Oslo Student Conference on Medieval Europe imminent (Friday 12th) Theme of "Close Encounters" to be held in March 26.

Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI” Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages

"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign." Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq

As long as there have been children, there have been toys. As it's the #LateLateToyShow we thought we'd share some of our favourite toys in the @nmireland.bsky.social Many toys through history copy adult life, like this wonderful toy boat and sword from Viking Dublin #archaeology #SpéirGhorm

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.

"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."

Horrified by the proposed closure of Modern Languages @uniofnottingham.bsky.social This would end language higher education in the East Midlands & decimate the uni’s research profile. Shortsighted and reckless. #University_of_Little_England #SaveNottinghamLanguages #WeAreUoN

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

... and Leicester... Languages, History... It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Attention Celticists! Scholars of early medieval Britain! Old Norse enthusiasts! Only three days remaining to submit an abstract for CCASNC 2026: Women and the Weird!

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Published a short piece in 'The Conversation' about Kash Patel's use of the white-supremacist dog whistle 'see you in Valhalla'. For my uncensored feelings on the subject, please just see the image below. theconversation.com/see-you-in-v...

A final reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions is the end of next week #medievalsky Details 👇

Here’s my cover story in next month’s BBC History Magazine on ‘1066: Who was the rightful king?’ Out now @historyextra.bsky.social

It’s fascinating how often those who appeal to history are woefully ignorant of history! “Saxon forefathers” is a classic 19th century racial dogwhistle. Moreover, the “ancient liberties” thing is utter tosh.

Many thanks to everyone who has helped make this possible. Ryan is much missed, and I'm glad the Society is honouring his memory in a way befitting his own ethos of generosity and curiosity.

My article 'Beyond Clontarf: links between Dublin and the earldom of Orkney' is out in the latest Medieval Dublin volume @fmdmedievaldublin.bsky.social covering political examples up to the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland with a wee bit of trade and archaeology at the end

One last #KingAndConqueror grumble - the Godwins kept going on about Alfred in a way that presented themselves as his successor (presumably because of their association with Wessex) when really it was Edward the Confessor who was of Alfred's line