To celebrate #PrideMonth 2026 🌈 we are looking into past examples of expressions of LGBTQ+ love. Nicholas Kontovas, Bodleian Curator for Central Asia, puts the spotlight on the poetic works of Sultan Husayn Bayqara, who ruled the Timurid Empire at the turn of the 15th century. https://bit.ly/3Sfs7Pz

Newly digitized @gallicabnf.bsky.social: 🙏 [trilingual ms. dictionary French-Manchu-Chinese, ca. mid-18th c.] @ gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... (BnF, Mandchou 280)

Channeling my best David Attenborough to introduce one of the many wonderful items in our #Treasured exhibition, currently running until 26 October in the ST Lee Gallery of the Weston Library in #Oxford. Come visit to see this manuscript and more!

#Teachers! We're developing a schools programme, based on our research, aimed at 11-18 year-olds, and would love your input! Do you teach #silkroads, the #middleeast, or want help adding more diverse topics to your #curriculum? Take & share our survey: forms.office.com/e/bV8bQW63wd #history #edusky

TOMORROW! Don't forget to book your free ticket for the 'Invisible Treasures' hybrid film screening and panel discussion. The event will explore the ethical and practical challenges facing scholars and heritage institutions today: ticketsource.co.uk/invisible-east #heritage #history #provenance

Sorry for the negativity, but: Another career opportunity missed in the UK because I am a foreigner. @ox.ac.uk needs to make clear when they hire people that their interpretation of UK visa regulations means there will be slews of things foreigners are ineligible for.

Taiwan Studies position at @soasuni.bsky.social

Digital South Caucasus Collection Online library about South Caucasus @pauleverill.bsky.social spartokos.wordpress.com/2025/05/25/d...

If you want to listen to me speak about Turoyo Neo-Aramaic for about 20 min in English, listen to this podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Job klaxon! We are advertising for a permanent lecturer in German (Teaching and Research). Come and join our team here at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies. Deadline 9th July. @lcsleeds.bsky.social jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

A lot of bangers recently on the old bird site

Tekin'in 1989'da yayımlanan Erdem 5.13'teki yazısında Ramstedt'in 1917'de çıkan Türk dillerinin yeni tasnifini ortaya koyduğu bir makalesinden bahsediyor ancak kaynak bölümü pdf'ye dahil edilmediği için başlığını hiçbir yerde bulamıyorum. Ehl-i ilm arasında bu makaleyi bilen var mı acep? #Türkoloji

Today on "Things that get my goat": Digital archives of print journals that only post the articles and NOT the bibliographies. It's great that Ramstedt (1917) is so important. Sadly, it is not important enough to be easily retrievable over a century later without, oh, I dunno, a TITLE! </rant>

No friends in #Oxford can escape my shameless promotion of our TREASURED #exhibition! 😈 Seriously, though, follow my former @unileiden.bsky.social partner in crime @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social for more on #African #linguistics, especially #syntax and language change!

Our database of the Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area is now available online! #linguistics abla.cnrs.fr/features/ abla.cnrs.fr/features/

In celebration of Pride month we hosted a Show and Tell for students. 'How LGBTQ+ People’s Lives are Reflected in Bodleian Collections' featured an array of archival items from 1777 - 2017. Please check ALT text for more info! #Pride #LGBTQHistory

FREE EVENT: Join @invisibleeast.bsky.social on 1 July for a screening of the short film 'Striking Gold: The Discovery of Medieval Documents' from Afghanistan & a panel discussion on the ethical and practical challenges facing scholars and heritage institutions today! 🔗Find out more: buff.ly/Chesgy1

The TREASURED programming doesn't stop @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social! You've seen @invisibleeast.bsky.social's contribution to our exhibit; now come learn more about their important work protecting and promoting #manuscript #heritage in #Afghanistan on 1 Jul. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jul25/...

Offre d’emploi – Chercheur/chercheuse en post-doctorat sur l’histoire et/ou la littérature du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (H/F) rmblf.be/2025/06/16/o...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Papyrology (Greek and Latin Papyri) University of Exeter - Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL342/p...

Assistant Professor in Chinese Buddhist Studies- The University of Hong Kong – Centre of Buddhist Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK214/a...

www.universalyiddishlibrary.org/en/?fbclid=I... @dhjewish.bsky.social #DHJewish #Yiddish

This is an incredible collection that needs just the right person. #lisjobs #classics careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Some #Pride history held at the Library: A year after the 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn & subsequent protests, NYC's first Pride march was held to commemorate the Stonewall Uprising. All 12 minutes of footage from the Lilli M. Vincenz Collection. 👇 www.loc.gov/item/2024603...

Join us for a film screening & panel discussion on the ethical and practical challenges facing scholars and heritage institutions today. Registration is essential via bit.ly/InvisibleTreasures Information on hybrid access will follow. #invisibletreasures #heritage #skystorian #provenance

Call for Papers! Peregrinations of Plenipotentiaries, Pilgrims, Peddlers, Pedagogues, Poets, and Painters: Literary Exchanges between Ottoman Anatolia and Inner Asia for a two-day workshop held in the University of Oxford, 16-17 April 2026.

Senior Research Scholar in Buddhist Philosophy- Institute of Global Value Inquiry (Remote position) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ788/s...

Teaching Associate in Early Modern Ukrainian Studies [Temporary Cover] University of Cambridge - Department of Slavonic Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ675/t...

Teaching Associate University of Sheffield - School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ385/t...

♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely! www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

The amazing @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Treasured exhibition has everything, from incredible manuscripts to sweet personal keepsakes! And a fantastic opening night with a talk by Stephen Fry! 📜🎉

Bsky hive mind Does anybody have an idea what script this could be? It is 9 separate graffiti from the castrum at Bu Njem (Libya), same place where the Latinopunic ostraca were found ; 3rd C. CE.

Im UK werden weiter fröhlich Departments oder Sections of German geschlossen. #Brexit sucks! Please sign this protest note on behalf of colleagues at Bangor University. 🙏 www.change.org/p/stop-cuts-...

The pre-Islamic script from Dhofar was undeciphered and therefore there are no inscriptions of this type in #OCIANA. Now we have the decipherment of the main variant of the Dhofari alphabet: t.co/ngtzPB9ZPz

Our new exhibition 'Treasured' opens TOMORROW! What makes a treasure? Is it age, rarity, beauty – or something else? Treasured invites you to explore the meaning of value itself through some of the world’s most remarkable books and manuscripts. More info: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/treasu...

My first co-curated exhibit opens this evening @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social! TREASURED is a treasures exhibition that questions the very notion. It's also the first at the #Bodleian with around 50% non-Western material. Those in #Oxford can visit starting tomorrow, 6 June. And it's free!

Mehmet hocamızın artık Bluesky hesabı da var! 🎉 Özellikle #Türkçe #etimoloji veya Eski #Uygur dili ve edebiyatına ilgli duyanlar bu konulardaki tespit ve fikirleri için mutlaka takip etmeliler kendisini.

Teaching Associate University of Sheffield - School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ385/t...

Pursuant to your earlier question: @maartenkossmann.bsky.social

Sometimes I get down on myself thinking that identity and language choice can't possibly be as intertwined as research implies because no one is that conscious of sociolinguistic indexicality IRL. And then life reminds me how wrong that doubt is with gems like this.

“Why are you so angry about this merger of the Schools, even though it doesn’t offer any solution to any of the problems, Liesbeth? Surely, the worst it does is wasting time of people who could otherwise be coming up with actual solutions?” Nussbaum’s assessment of the state of UKHE in 2010 is 😬

In case of interest, colleagues in the fantastic @ox.ac.uk Dept for Continuing Education are advertising a FT permanent post in the art of the Global South in early modern/modern art and material culture! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI408/d...

This month we're highlighting @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social‬ list of LGBTQ+ resources. The list is updated regularly with new titles. Learn about LGBT+ people in history and society from autobiographies to fiction. 🔗 go.glam.ox.ac.uk/LGBT+ Happy Pride Month!🏳️‍🌈 #ResourceOfTheMonth

I can tell you now that not a single one of my US colleagues will consider a job offer in the UK once they do a bit of research. Even those who could stomach the low salaries and high cost of living will politely decline when told they have to pay the exorbitant immigration fees.

New, fully funded PhD studentship in the Department of Classics at the University of Galway is now available

Publication day! My new article in ASCHKENAS has appeared: "The Mother Tongues of Medieval English Jews"—ever wondered if the Jews of medieval England might have spoken English? This article's for you, #medievalsky. Check it out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

New #documents are coming soon on the Invisible East #digitalcorpus www.invisible-east.org The next release will include New Persian and Middle Persian documents which feature in #publications from our team members. Watch this space! #medievalsky #skystorian #digitalhumanities #Persian