🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

Horrendous and absurd new Terms of Service is causing people to terminate their use of #Academia What are people using instead? I'd be sad to lose contact with my c. 6K followers. leeds.academia.edu/DrIanMcCormick #Highered #Edchat #University #research Highlighted by @nposegay.bsky.social

Academia.edu has always been a scam to gamify & monetize the psychic damage of twilight-phase academic neoliberalism: this person looked you up, that person mentioned you, your work matters. Intellectual as individual brand-builder. The rights stuff is awful but the basic concept is bad enough

Almost two years ago, we opened our exhibition (Un)chained Knowledge, subtitled “Fake news, censorship and information around 1500 and today”. The digital version of this exhibition is still available online. Why are we putting this exhibition back in the spotlight now?

After the London protests of last Saturday, I find myself thinking of this poem by Joan Margarit: "yet fear has never left me either / for life has shown me the faces / of those who could be my assassins."

Ooh, exciting! If you fancy something I wrote about inventories and catalogues (in case this isn't the thing you're citing), I have a chapter in the expanded edition of Paula Findlen's Early Modern Things: www.routledge.com/Early-Modern...

Someday I want to see a historian pretend to be a scientist and get published in Nature, a magazine that is very good at publishing scientists pretending to be historians.

Being told I got a fellowship I didn't really qualify for two months after sending an email to withdraw through a request to submit additional documents for HR. Spanish bureaucracy.

Digitization & cataloging is complete for the 35 Ethiopic manuscripts microfilmed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, including Aethiop. 16 (HMML project number 24994), which is of particular importance to the study of the Ethiopic Bible. Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

We still invite applications from early- to mid-career researchers to Global Innovation Fellowships: The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) offering an opportunity to collaborate with DGAP on various European policy issues. Apply now: buff.ly/fAhi5yw

/postmedieval/ is launching a new mentorship programme to facilitate publication for scholars whose first language is not English. 👇 find all the details here 👇 sites.google.com/view/postmed...

Braudel is rolling in his grave.

It's kind of an insane example to make, given the centrality of the wool and silk trades to European economic integration and industrial development. Even if you wanted to be a philistine about the value of historical scholarship, you could at least be competent at it.

A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Looking for a flat in London for September (flexible). Open to studios, 1-beds, or any nook where the heating works and there isn't much mold. As someone studying divine intervention and mystical revelations, I am starting to believe that finding something affordable might require both.

4-year Departmental Lectureship in Global & Imperial History in Oxford: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC516/d...

For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein! zenodo.org/records/1583...

«Quizá nadie como Compagnon ha encarnado de manera íntegra el ideal humanista en el que confluyen docencia, erudición y proyección pública. "Con la vida por detrás" es su testamento intelectual». Diego S. Garrocho, @elpais.com elpais.com/babelia/2025...

The MGH have reinstated a Dokumentlieferdienst, or reprography service, and I'm advertising it on their behalf. If don't have access to a german library, you can order PDFs of rare papers and books, directly from their online catalogue. Example below! mgh.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/se...

📢 Just published on StModerna: 🌍 5 doctoral scholarships in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Naples) – deadline: 27 August 2025 🔎 Full details and more here: www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati... www.stmoderna.it/it/concorsi/ www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

Over 300 medieval #manuscripts from the collection of the Cistercian Abbey of Stams now digitised. Thanks for sharing, @buecherwurm99.bsky.social! #medievalsky

So the @researchireland.ie Global Talent Scheme is now open for "exceptional mid-career and established researchers," currently employed outside Ireland, who want to move their research here. All disciplines (I think). Individual awards up to €3.25m (!) www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

#History #SkyStorians @lselibrary.bsky.social are launching a Library Fellowships scheme to work with their archives and special collections, includes funding for travel/accommodation/subsistence up to £5k. 3 themed fellowships available. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

So very happy and excited to share that I’ve been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to join the @warburginstitute.bsky.social for the next three years!🎉I'll be carrying out a project titled "European Translations of African Christianity: Ethiopian Religion through Humanist Writings"

Seminar on Transkribus and other HTR tools for Masters and PhD students (mostly)! Languages: Latin (Carolingian/Late Medieval) Medieval Czech, Early Modern German, Byzantine Greek, Syriac and Medieval Hebrew

Christopher N. Warren will give a free public talk on “What is Computational Bibliography?” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday 30 July, in UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom. Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures #BookSky #DigitalHumanities

Erri De Luca but it could be Alda Merini

Dear #Skystorians If any of you, by any chance, will be in the French National Archives at Pierrefitte next week, I need a document. I would be very grateful (and pay you for your time) if you could take some pictures for me. It shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes. Please DM me 🗂️

“Being a purist isn’t possible, but what’s important is making the effort. If we can reduce the customer base for the dominant players and show there’s a market for a different way… that could help incentivize more non-US options” Via @parismarx.com www.disconnect.blog/p/getting-of...

Fantastic 8y-year postdoc position in Belgium: HOBBiT – Heritage Old “Belgian” Books in Transition (HOBBiT) : Books and libraries in “Belgian” monasteries of the Windesheim Congregation, 15th – early 16th centuries Deadline: August 15th www.kbr.be/wp-content/u...

Happy to report that StoriaModerna @stmoderna.bsky.social has joined Bluesky!

Studying #earlymodern #bookhistory, #rarebooks, or print culture? Antwerp’s Museum Plantin-Moretus & the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library offer unmatched treasures. Apply for the Nottebohm Fellowship by October 1: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fell...! 💙📚📜

Please apply, especially early career and independant scholars! Come visit #Antwerp and use our magnificent collections!

Use www.swisstransfer.com/es-es. No ads, no AI, and up to 50 GBs

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

Must-read by Carine Roos: “The image of governments and businesses ‘seizing potential’ reinforces a sense of urgency: AI must be adopted now, at scale, and with minimal friction. In this story, governance is reactive; it responds to appetite, rather than shaping direction.”

7 Neo-Latin PhD positions at Innsbruck and Freiburg: Ancient Greek and Neo-Latin; Oral Neo-Latin; Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin; Bilingual Books for Early Modern Readers; Catholic Inculturation(s); Canones of Neo-Latin Texts; The Nachleben of Neo-Latin Literature. listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Wonderful opportunity to work in an incredible collection of Judaica in Amsterdam: www.allardpierson.nl/en/fellowshi... #rarebooks #bookhistory 📜📚

Are you a doctoral student working on medieval history who'd benefit from a stay in Paris?

Latin as a living language in 16th century Europe. In 1552 the inquisitors in Lisbon were interrogating an Englishman accused of sacrilege and because the Englishman "could not speak Portuguese well and knew Latin, they asked him questions in Latin." digitarq.arquivos.pt/.../0b68019c....

PSA.

Yunte Huang, "Living transpacifically", in Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, 2014) on geopolitics and intellectual property

Mark McConnell will give the 2025 Karmiole Endowed Lecture on “Publishing in the Renaissance: Christophe Plantin’s Business Strategy” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, 9 July in UVA’s Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom. Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures

Yunte Huang, "Living transpacifically", in Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, 2014) on geopolitics and intellectual property

PhD SCHOLARSHIP! TCD is looking for an outstanding scholar keen to research materials broadly related to a project on the dramatic representation of Romani people, Ottomans, and “Moors” in Renaissance Italian comedies Deadline 4 August all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/ucd-sc... #EarlyModern

Diego García Panes pidió una licencia para leer libros prohibidos para terminar su obra Theatro de Nueva España. La obra nunca se imprimió, el manuscrito en 11 volúmenes se encuentra en la #BNM. García Panes contrató a un pintor para las estampas, como esta 👇. #NuevaEspaña #HistoriaDelLibro

For my PhD diss I consulted this gigantic 16th-century world map by Pierre Desceliers in the conservation studio of @thejohnrylands.bsky.social. This map will soon be available in super-high-res imagery! Check out the lower-res map and its #monsters now. 1/2 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci

CFP: Aljamiado Afterlives 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) Kalamazoo, MI, May 14-16, 2026 HYBRID session Sponsor: IMANA (Ibero-Medieval Association of North America)

hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...