Our GlossIT presentation from the Fourth European Symposiumin Celtic Studies is now online: zenodo.org/records/1704...

📜 Zwischen den Zeilen: Bernhard Bauer analysiert Kommentare in mittelalterlichen Handschriften. Sein Projekt Glossit wurde mit einem‪ @erc.europa.eu-Consolidator Grant von knapp zwei Millionen Euro über fünf Jahre gefördert: uni-graz.e-publikation.de/de/2-2025/gl... #weworkfortomorrow

Half of the #GlossIT team en route to Bonn for the "FOURTH EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM IN CELTIC STUDIES". We will present tomorrow afternoon. www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/keltologie/e... #ESCS25

📣 Call for Papers für DHd Konferenz 2026, 23.–27. Februar @univie.ac.at 🧭 Thema: „Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten“ Wie verändert digitale Modellierung geisteswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisprozesse? Fokus: materielle Kultur, Code, Interfaces, KI etc 📝 Bis 1.8.2025: dhd2026.digitalhumanities.de #DHd2026

I hadn't been aware of this recording of 11 Early Irish poems, read by Myles Dillon around 1956. Kindly made available by the School of Celtic in University College Cork. www.youtube.com/watch?v=45WU... (I am pleased to note that my own pronunciation of those poems isn't far off Dyllon's.)

I am looking forward to catch up everyone at #IMC2025 next week. On Wednesday, I am presenting in one of the sessions organised by ARITHMETIC. Come join us for some fun with mathematics.

New issue of Das Mittelalter Vol. 30 No. 1 (2025) heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/mia... #openaccess Schnittstelle Mediävistik. Kollaborationen der Mittelalterforschung im digitalen Zeitalter ‪ @bernhardbaver.bsky.social @nominiel.bsky.social @mhdbdb.bsky.social @luiseborek.bsky.social ‪

Funding for 4 year PhD in Uni Galway, on project ‘Connect 4: Uncovering Knowledge Exchange within the Early Medieval Insular World through Linguistic Idiosyncrasies in Obscure Letters, Words, Phrases, and Texts’, directed by Ciaran Arthur. Deadline 20 June. www.universityofgalway.ie/classics/res...

GlossIT is hiring a Digital Humanities postdoctoral researcher for 4 years (75% FTE). Candidates should have experience with digital editions and philological/linguistical projects: jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/9a9b... Position from 1 June 2025 (starting date negotiable). Deadline is 12 May 2025.

𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 5 A special issue for today’s St Patrick Day, to highlight one of the wider aspects of the DiⒶgnostic project (@researchireland.bsky.social), namely the prehistory of Irish. The project’s main research question of dialectal variation in Old Irish is – directly or indirectly –… ☘️

Since I had trouble finding any "brief introduction to XML and TEI" that was either brief or genuinely introductory, I decided to write one myself: www.pmoran.ie/posts/guide-...

The slides from my presentation at the earlyirishhands.ie/karlsruhe-be... are now online at zenodo.org/records/1486...

Arqus Alliance have posted a news item about the recent workshop by @bernhardbaver.bsky.social in Early Irish (LEIGHEAS @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social DiAgnostic @davidstifter.bsky.social): www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/... @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social

Digital Transcribing and Editing Medieval Sources with Dr Bernhard Bauer @bernhardbaver.bsky.social, formerly of Early Irish Maynooth and now, University of Graz. 📅Monday, 10th Feb ⏲️9:30 -13:00 🏢Lab 1.37, AHI, Iontas Building Register by email [email protected]

It's great to finally come back to Maynooth!

[Please Repost] Our next ATNU Virtual Speaker is Hannah Busch from CCeH at the University of Cologne who will talk to us about "Matching Medieval Manuscripts with Machine Learning". research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at... Wed 19 February 2025 at 4pm UK time. (Zoom link will be sent to all registered.)

🚨 Lost & Found! A 19th-century Irish translation of Paradise Lost by poet Tomás ‘an tSneachta’ Ó Conchubhair has been rediscovered in the University of Illinois collection! 🎉 Believed lost for decades, it's now live on ISOS. 📜 🌍 👉 Explore: www.isos.dias.ie/collection/u...

📢 Only a few days til Feb 6, when we deepdive into the contents and context of the Karlsruhe Bede (Aug. perg. 167)! @historytcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social See earlyirishhands.ie/karlsruhe-bede-conference

Job advert: Postdoctoral researcher in my DiAgnostic project (funded by a @researchireland.bsky.social Advanced Laureate award) Details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr... Deadline: 23 February 2025

Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies Prize for young scholars.

Interesting pen drawings in the #manuscript BSB, Clm 18158 (www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:B...). This manuscripts dates from the 11th century and was produced in Tegernsee (Bavaria). Did they know about hurling? #medievalsky

Currently working on my presentation for next week's earlyirishhands.ie/karlsruhe-be... on a very interesting #earlymedieval #manuscript with #oldirish #glosses

This month, we will be closing our petition in order to send the result to the various institutions deciding on the fate of Celtic Studies in Utrecht. So...if you know of some people who haven't signed yet, please send them our link! 🙏 1/2 www.change.org/p/red-de-opl...

I am honoured to be a part of "Common Grounds. Towards a #Medieval Comparative #Literature". Looking forward to the fabulous papers and discussions over the coming days. www.neuphil.uni-wuerzburg.de/mediaevistis...

Really looking forward to this great conference on the Karlsruhe #Bede next month. I will also contribute my two cents on some #glosses. earlyirishhands.ie/karlsruhe-be...

I still can't believe the Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialen website looks like a Geocities website in A.D. 2025

The #GlossIT team is making good progress with segmenting and first transcriptions of the manuscripts of our corpus using #eScriptorium. The picture shows fol. 54v of Valenciennes. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 174 (portail.biblissima.fr/ark:/43093/m...)

Is it that time of the year? Yes! It is time for a new advent calendar. 🎅 This year, we'll explore the Old Breton Gloses. No, no link at all with the field I want to work in.

🌲1️⃣🎁 4ᵗʰ c. I-MEA-004 (Sí an Bhrú/Newgrange, Co. Meath) [ᚋ]ᚐᚊᚔᚐᚃᚔᚕᚑᚂᚒᚔᚕᚑᚔ [M]AQI AVI KOLUI KOI ‘of the son of the descendant of *Collae? (*Collovias?) here’ It is unknown when the writing system ogam was invented. The earliest extant, archaeologically datable texts are from the 4ᵗʰ century ᴀ.ᴅ. ᚐ

There’s still lots of room in the Celtic Studies starter pack! I’ve made some additions as I’ve seen people arriving, focusing on accounts that seem to be active, but if you have a suggestion or want to be removed let me know!

I have written a @derstandard.at piece for the Young Academy blog of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Just a reminder that regular updates on #glossit are published here: glossit.uni-graz.at/en/news/

I am honoured to deliver this year's "Vortrag in memoriam Rudolf Thurneysen" at the University of Bonn

News and updates on #glossit will be published on our website: glossit.uni-graz.at/en/news/ Our presentations etc. will be available via the gloss.it.-community on Zenodo: zenodo.org/communities/...

And so it begins! I might be in the run for the longest affiliation at IMC

Join us (.i. the Arithmetic team) for our two sessions on Monday at @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Have you ever wondered what #frogs and #ravens sounded like in the early medieval period? The glosses on #Priscian in HAB, Wolfenbüttel, Cod. Guelf. 50 Weiss. are your friends! As the glossator tells us, they sounded like "coax" and "cra":

Happy days! The 9th c. #Bede manuscript Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. Phill. 1832 is now available online (#IIIF)! It's going to be part of #glossit 's corpus. digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/...

...and so it begins! Today marks the first working day of my ERC CoG-project #glossit In the coming five years my team and I will investigate language contact and knowledge transfer visible in the early medieval glossing traditions on the Venerable #Bede and #Priscian

🔔 job klaxon reminder Applications now open for Digital Humanities #postdoc position in the ERC #GlossIT project: tinyurl.com/2dnwz79r 📢 Deadline June 12. Come and join us at the University of Graz

🔔 job klaxon Applications now open for 2 #postdoc positions in the ERC #GlossIT project: - Classical/Latin Philology tinyurl.com/y2pmr4mf - Digital Humanities tinyurl.com/2dnwz79r 📢 Deadline May 8. Come and join us at the University of Graz

Thrilled to share that I have been elected to the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences! Honored to join the ÖAW

Funded PhD alert! Applications open for an IRC-funded PhD scholarship on the EMISoS (Early Medieval Irish Scripts on Stone) project, under supervision of @ndefaoite.bsky.social and @davidstifter.bsky.social! Deadline 9 April. Full details available here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/early-irish-...

I'm very happy that Austrian television interviewed me for my upcoming #ERC project #glossit #unigraz #dhgraz tvthek.orf.at/profile/Stei...

I'm happy to be part of the teaching team for this week's Master Class 'Digital Scholarly Editing' at Universität des Saarlandes

JOB: Center for Information Modeling (ZIM-ACDH), University of Graz BMBWF-funded project "Digital Humanities Infrastructure Austria (DH-Infra.at)" #MachineLearning #DigitalHumanities Ph.D. position: jobs.uni-graz.at/de/jobs/f2b3... Non-Ph.D. position: jobs.uni-graz.at/de/jobs/bee4...

In Kürze im #OpenAccess: Historische Mehrsprachigkeit - Europäische Perspektiven. Hg.: Rita Franceschini, @mhuening.bsky.social und Péter Maitz. Wie war der Alltag von Europäer:innen in unterschiedl. Epochen oder Gebieten von #Mehrsprachigkeit geprägt? www.degruyter.com/document/isb... #linguistik