I LOVE ALL OF THIS!!

A year ago today, just a few days after Hurricane Helene, and the same walk today.

What does it say about a society that valued poets so highly? Find out in The Medieval Irish History Podcast — back for a 3rd series! We are kicking off again with the inimitable @thecelticist.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1DTU... 1/2

We’re hiring at #AppState! Assistant Professor of African-American History. Great department, strong community, wonderful students, and one of the most scenic places high up in the Blue Ridge Mountains appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/51963

Important update. I don't think the conditions are right for the best possible autumn, but after last year's storm ripped up so many trees and tore the leaves of the trees that were left, any foliage we get will be beautiful.

The next few days will bring up rough memories, but in the worst of times the kindness and spirit of this community shone through.

Incredible stuff

"will always"

If you're used to weaving and the first pic looks odd to you, it's because there is a warping board mounted to the wall, but I am short, so we took a second warping board and clamped it to shelf under the wall-mounted warping board. Because I am short.

Next project mystery

Quality puppy content.

this exists it is called thinking

"Perhaps I desire neither worship nor total destruction. Perhaps my sinister motives and methods are subtler still—as elusive as the third R in the word 'singularity' itself."

Starting a new project and learning something new. A day late posting Friday's #WeavingLikeAViking

It isn't at all baffling. White nationalists and neo-Nazis have embraced a violent misinterpretation of Norse mythology for decades, calling themselves things like the Vinlander Social Club or Sons of Odin. The "Q shaman" guy had a Thor's hammer tattoo. Go read Mattias Gardell's Gods of the Blood.

Because the cost of preventable violence is just too high. apnews.com/article/colo...

Tomorrow in Higgins Hall, Irish Studies is co-sponsoring a lecture by Alex de Waal, Director of the World Peace Foundation and Professor at Tufts University. Join us for his lecture, titled "Gaza, Sudan, Ethiopia: Weaponized Starvation & the Future of Humanitarianism."

I firmly and sincerely believe that even people I find abhorrent should be safe from gun violence. I reject the idea that "it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" (C. Kirk, 2023)

Like many states in the South, NC is a one-party consent state. My students can record me and all of their fellow students in class, without anyone's consent. Recording a class can also be an accommodation, and no one needs to be informed. I state in my syllabus it could be happening at any time.

About this. I've just received an email from a friend and associate of Maartje Draak saying Maartje would have been 'highly satisfied' with this article, and I'm, just, I can't even, what. This is probably the best peer review I'll ever get in my life.

If you work on medieval Ireland, you won't find a better journal or editorial board to work with.

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

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in Kilkenny there was a significant queer Georgian revolt in the 18th century ‘In a world where queer rights and dignities are again being questioned and pared back, these histories matter more than ever’. #queerhistories #irishhistory #history #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Online applications are open for the Newgrange Winter Solstice Lottery. Winners will experience the rare moment when sunlight floods the chamber at dawn. Free entry | Limited spaces | Apply now: solsticelottery.ie #Newgrange #WinterSolstice #HeritageIreland

Finished the first of two Robin Hood bags. Friday #WeavingLikeAViking

Garanteed to be fabulous if you are in Dublin!

Because it's a plagiarism machine. Because you aren't plagiarizing LLMs when you use them, you are plagiarizing very real authors and scholars who you don't even know to give credit to.

Writing England’s origins in the middle of a flag fetish is hitting a nerve which hopefully inspires more reading & thought. The review of David Woodman’s book (posted yesterday) has amassed c. 12,000 views. Here is my earlier take on origins #medievalsky theconversation.com/its-a-myth-t...

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project invite you to the launch of the new Ogham in 3D website on Friday 12 September from 15.30–16.45 in the @ria.ie as part of the conference Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge. All information and tickets available at www.tickettailor.com/events/mayno....

This is useful. Negative parallelisms and rule of three are clear markers for me. (Not once, but repeatedly throughout a short piece of writing.)

It was ONE puppy (who isn't a doodle) and I got that college tee months in advance.

CAca-phony. I was sure of it, and it wasn't until I was in grad school when I finally heard it pronounced correctly.

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

Censorship at UNC threatens academic freedom ncnewsline.com/2025/08/28/c...

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Our medieval midwest princess, always and ever.

To celebrate the anniversary of the 19th Amendment: here is the syllabus I used for a course exploring the history and significance of the 19th Amendment the year of its centennial blogs.bu.edu/vsapiro/file...

And you thought your faculty meetings were bad

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

The revolution will not be televised (since it's online) How efficient "All students, for all assignments, should use ChatGPT to complete each task.. And all professors will save massive amounts of time and energy by using ChatGPT to grade all those papers.. I mean, what an educational revolution"

My gaming studies peeps, how do we use examples like this in the classroom?

Oh, we will be talking about this in my escape room class this week! Mamdani made New Yorkers a game. Like all good games it is voluntary, fun, and might just teach you something (given that public transport gets you around, there is a theme and there is an event at the finish).

I would love for this to cone to Boone, and then I will pay for my kiddo and all the local theater kids to go together and it will be glorious.

It's off the loom now, and the second pic is my not-yet-executed plan. The band is my own tablet weaving, so Friday #WeavingLikeAViking continues!

Learning outcomes (SLOs) are embedded in US higher ed. SLOs focus on measurable outcomes, which is ok, but leaves out the process that gets us there. Anyway, I've tried to find a way to express that on my syllabi My goals for you TRUST your own ideas...

Oh look, water is wet and LLMs suck.

Alongside my article on the 'Dane saga' of Breda in MLC, I wrote a little companion piece for the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) blog, introducing this capricious, clumsy, and charming work of premodern imagination. #medievalsky blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/08/12/d...