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I've received EIGHT #Voynich solutions in November alone. Can that pace be sustained? Stay tuned...

Listen in to the latest episode of Tea-break Archaeology! www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/teabreak/40 Featuring guest @lisafdavis.bsky.social

I had a great time speaking with Matilda Siebrecht about medieval manuscripts, European mss in North America, and of course my favorite manuscript (#Voynich)! Here's part 1 of our conversation: open.spotify.com/episode/60q1...

What a great find! As a paleographer, I can't help but observe that if this were French I would have dated the not-yet-Gothic script to the mid-12th century. In Norway, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic happens later, hence the tentative 13th-c. date. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...

Popped up on my feed this morning, @lisafdavis.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Looks like I picked a terrible night to be flying cross country with no way to watch the game! Wowzers!

Connecticut folks: I'll be live on Connecticut Public Radio at 1:00 TODAY (Wed. 10/29) talking about All Things #Voynich!

I am on vacation in Cappadocia and in addition to exploring the extraordinary natural wonders of the region I have just had dinner at a restaurant called Barbarian Medieval Tavern and it was delightful. Skewers and tankards and Celtic music and lots and lots of sausage. 10/10 no notes.

The Department of Religion at Dartmouth College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor of the Hebrew Bible in its Ancient Context. apply.interfolio.com/176012

How every state in the US teaches about feudalism. A New post from me and @profgabriele.com, along with access to a slideshow and spreadsheet with more info. 24 states REQUIRE feudalism. 8 suggest feudalism. Feudalism, ICYMI, is not a real thing. Click, read, share, subscribe (it's free!).

I'm in Istanbul at the moment, but my heart is in Boston today. Stay loud and stay safe, friends. #NoKings

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Absolutely wonderful field trip to the@Boston Public Library Special Collections with my Simmons Univ. Library Science students. We were treated to 10th- and 12th-c. monastic manuscripts, 13th-c. Bibles, 15th-c. literature and Books of Hours, and everything in between! Magnificent!

Reunited! ❤️

Good morning from @amtrak.com! On my way to New Haven to hang out with my favorite manuscript in my favorite library with some of my favorite people! 😎

Ok, people, here's my @utoronto.ca Medieval Studies #Voynich lecture! I've got BIG NEWS to report about the potential original structure of the manuscript. Check it out! (new material starts around minute 14) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH28...

@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...

Congratulations @jdsargan.bsky.social! I'm so thrilled that the @medievalacademy.bsky.social could support the #OA publication of your work!

Not an actual Calvin & Hobbes comic, but pretty funny just the same! And, in case you didn't already know how far gone I actually am, the Voynichese text in the last panel is from folio 15v... (h/t @theefantomas.bsky.social) #Voynich

ACLS has released a statement regarding the White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”: bit.ly/3IviMig

oooh, I do love a 🦇📖!

Just noticed that my @sims-mss.bsky.social 2024 Plenary is online, in which I explore the #MedievalManuscript #OpenAccess ecosystem, including @iiif.bsky.social, @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, Digital Mappa, and the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDwQ...

A great article about the massive renovation project facing the Boston Public Library, which is not just a jewel of the city but a national treasure. www.boston.com/news/the-bos...

Well-played, @merriam-webster.com

Wishing a peaceful and introspective Yom Kippur to all who participate, and a very easy fast. (the image is the opening of the Kol Nidre prayer on folio 74v of the fourteenth-century Leipzig Mahzor, vol. 1)

Our next episode and collaboration with the journal Speculum is out now! #speculumspotlight Learn about medieval gift giving and the importance of equestrian culture in cultural exchanges between China and Europe!

Important update: the @redsox.com are up 1-0 on the Yankees. At least for this one moment, all is right in the world.

YOSHIDA!!!! LFG!!!

Post-season, here we go! LET'S GO #REDSOX! #medievalistswholovebaseball

Today in my @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social LIS class, 2,000 years of Latin Paleography in three hours! LFG!

This will be terrific!

North End sunset!

My favorite slide from yesterday's #Voynich lecture at the University of Toronto...particularly à propos since Jimmy Doohan was Canadian!

What an absolute joy to present the computational and codicological #Voynich work Colin Layfield and I have been compiling for nearly a year! Many thanks to the U. Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies for inviting me. For those of you who missed it, I'll post the video link when it's available!

An extraordinarily short-sighted policy.

Shanah Tovah, friends. I wish you all a year of peace and joy. .שנה טובה חברים. אני מאחל לכם שנה של שלווה ושמחה

Don't forget to register for my hybrid #Voynich lecture on Friday, Sept. 26, at 2:30 PM Eastern at the University of Toronto! After a year of work, Colin Layfield & I have important data- and material-results about the original structure of the manuscript! www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/lisa-...

K-12 Updates and Call for Proposals K-12 Updates and Call for Proposals The Medieval Academy’s K-12 Committee is testing ways to best engage with K-12 educators. We are currently developing two modes of engagement. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/k-12-updates...

Day 2 of the New New Science workshop at the Santa Fe Institute: considering how LLMs can be used to help add metadata to extremely large datasets. The projects we heard from were Edut 710, which is a project to document testimony of thousands of Oct. 7 survivors, and 1/3

Day 1 at the New New Science workshop at the Santa Fe Institute: modeling complex humanistic systems to facilitate analysis of large datasets, with examples as varied as 1) analyzing handwriting and literacy in ancient Judah and 1/2

On my way to Santa Fe for what I am certain will be an extraordinary week! www.santafe.edu/events/the-n...

Did I go to King Richard's Faire today and meet The King himself? Why, yes I did and it was all kinds of fun. It's also a very interesting study in how cosplayers are inspired by medieval tropes, but that's a blogpost for another day...

If you need me between now & Nov., you will find me in the Berkshires, Santa Fe, Toronto, Ann Arbor, Istanbul, & Seattle, with day trips to New Haven and Newport. That's around 23,000 miles to travel! Someone find me an extra 2,000 miles so I can circumnavigate the planet between now and Halloween!

A new #OpenAccess resource for teaching world/global history is almost ready. The module "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta," is in final editing & should be "live" by the beginning of September. A preview here: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07...

My main professional organization, @medievalacademy.bsky.social, has just pub'd a statement about the use of AI in its journal. Basically, DON'T! "AI tools cannot take ethical or legal responsibility for their output or enter into legal agreements." www.medievalacademy.org/page/AIPolicy #MedievalSky

I have an amazing opportunity Sept. 15-19. I'll be at the Santa Fe Institute with a dozen invited humanists and scientists discussing this topic: "How do we reconcile traditional humanistic inquiry with mathematical modeling approaches that are reshaping knowledge production?" 1/5

Take advantage of this opportunity to bring a senior medievalist to your campus for free! With thanks to the @medievalacademy.bsky.social Fellows for making themselves available in such a generous way.