Medievalists: has anyone ever written on the impact that C19 vicars had on the editing and discussion of medieval sources? I’ve no idea where to start with this, but recently wanted to explore it as a side project… 🧐

This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society has a new website that is well-worth checking out for details of the annual conference, journal, and news of the inaugural ECR bursary, which was awarded to @mzukovs.bsky.social. The next bursary will be announced shortly. www.ecis.ie/news-events/

Have you heard?! We currently have 2 vacancies on the #BSECS Council: 1. Postgraduate Representative 2. Communications Officer (working with me!) Posts are voluntary but #BSECS pays travel and accommodation costs, the term of office is 3yrs. Details here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.

Dear Santa, If I’ve been naughty, it was done gently, with good intentions and excellent manners And if we’re being honest, quite charmingly.

Guy Gavriel Kay fan? Check out his recent talk about fantasy and history at the University of Manitoba. (with chapters so you can jump to the main event 😉) youtu.be/NrKd1jRP_X0

My life's work lies in ruins The Center for European Studies, the African Studies Center, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close.

Come work with us! The History Department at the University of Guelph has launched our search for a tenure-track position in the History of the Middle East. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Celtic, with a specialism in Old Irish, University of Cambridge. #MedievalSky www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art

On Thursday I’m talking at the Society of Antiquaries about how 19th-century editors dealt with the scandalous contents of Pepys’s diary (and who leaked the unpublishable bits) 👀 The talk is live-streamed and tickets are free www.sal.org.uk/event/samuel...

The memory of the mass femicide at Polytechnique is still painful. Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Montreal massacre, where 14 women — students at Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique — lost their lives in a mass shooting motivated by misogyny. #December6

This came to me in a dream

Heads up! Share widely! An opportunity to work with their new chair DaMaris Hill, be in a great region of the country, and join a legendary institution! morgan.peopleadmin.com/postings/8399

I honestly think that a lack of understanding of asexuality and compulsory sexuality is a big issue that we to rarely see addressed. If you don't understand that our society is allonormative, you will continually conflate sexuality and trangression/resistance 1/

How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?

Call For Papers: #CFP #Film ‘Stars and Screen’ #Cinema and #Media #History Virtual #Symposium, May 16, 2026 Proposals Due: February 1, 2026 starsandscreen.blogspot.com/2025/10/call... #CinemaStudies #MediaStudies #FilmStudies #conference #CallForPapers #CinemaHistory #MediaHistory #FilmHistory

We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here! www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

The OMGC committee is delighted to announce this year’s Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20-minute papers from graduate students on the theme ‘Sounds and Silence.’ Please submit abstracts of 250 words to [email protected] by 8 December 2025. Details Below

Calling all furries and furry-adjacent folks! A mom near me has a 10-year-old who has been saving up for a wolf fur head and she's trying to find furry communities, preferably kids, for him to talk to. She's open-minded and not judgmental, but she doesn't know where to look. Anyone have any ideas?

Time for a key-word search! We searched for "queer" in all the previous articles published in Restoration. Check out the results in the thread below:

This is one of the most horrific and evil things I have ever read. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Mystified by how to approach an academic journal editor? Need help getting through the "revise and resubmit" doldrums? Our next #RSVPDigiEvent can help! Join us next Friday, Nov. 21 and hear from the editors of top #Victorian journals on "How to Get Published in a Academic Journal": buff.ly/ydJkKAK

Today!!

In Winnipeg? Join us at the University of Manitoba for a talk and Q&A with internationally acclaimed fantasy author and U of M alumnus Guy Gavriel Kay. Tomorrow, November 17 at 1:00 pm. Details below.

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

The fact that @harvard.edu's Larry Summers is teaching three courses this semester while Texas A&M Professor Melissa McCoul was fired tells you all you need to know about what "gender ideology" is allowed and which is not. @aaup.org

🚨 NEW - The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction 🔑 features: - Over 200 years of literature - Multi-traditional; Afrofuturism/Feminist SF/Indigenous Futurism - Comic strips, images, speculative poetry included & more! 👉 buff.ly/Bm5pDCg #NewAtBroadview

The #PopCultureInContext series is co-edited by @hermioneclone.bsky.social, @judithrauscher.bsky.social, and me, guided by the wonderful @davideisler.bsky.social. If you’ve got ideas you’d like to pitch, please get in contact with us! www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/pcc-b...

props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody

I know that the job market is rough this year for Econ PhDs. @utoronto.ca has expanded its postdoc funding. If you are on the market and work on school finance or early childhood education and are interested in a PostDoc, let me know! #econsky #educsky postdoc.sgs.utoronto.ca/current-post...

The CFP for the Society of Reformation Studies' Annual Conference has been released! The theme is 'Lay Relgion in the Reformation' but topics outside this are very welcome. Please share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lay-religi... #churchhistory #skystorians #nuntastic #earlymodern #history #theology

Job Opportunity! University of North Carolina - Wilmington - Lecturer - Atlantic World History networks.h-net.org/jobs/69468/u...

🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

Been in touch with a medical provider in Gaza who says “this ceasefire is even less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefire” — nothing’s getting in, no one’s getting out, people are still being killed and badly injured every day

Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D rb.gy/8hqqzb

Cfp with a sf element. www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...

The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters. n.pr/3LT0ecL

A reminder that we have two current calls for papers - the Peter Nicholls Essay Prize (deadline: 11 January 2026) and a special issue on pulp sf (deadline: 5 April 2026). Details in the newsfeed. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Exciting Halloween news for scholars of things that go bump in the night: Our new interdisciplinary series is here from @manchesterup.bsky.social! The series seeks proposals that examine the supernatural (broadly conceived) in innovative ways. Please get in touch if you have ideas or questions!

The Trump administration sought not to investigate but to intimidate QueerDoc, U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead wrote.

early modern centres (@srsrensoc.bsky.social)

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

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I want all the judgmental assholes to think what it must be like to live on $700/ month. Come the F on. Get some empathy.