Back to teaching this week, more than I have had in years due to the saints project. Bit of an adjustment. In my first-year-level course on historical theory & method, I may have mentioned my take on current events & issues with commercial gen-ai. Hopefully can make a small difference this way...

#Nunavut ‘This is all our family’: Nunavummiut rally to support Greenland, as Inuit leaders also speak up Dozens of people participated in rally and walk in Iqaluit on Saturday www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

An interesting PhD opportunity (i.e. job!) at Oslo on the project POLYCHROME: "Candidates should propose a research project that examines, in one form or another, historical sources that shed light on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries."

I behov av något att pigga upp i januarimörkret? Lösningen finns på Scandia blogg! Nytt inlägg av Peter Bauer om 'Sexualpolitikens folkliga dimension': journals.lub.lu.se/scandia/anno...

I tell my students explicitly to NOT do this and then I explain why - full of hallucinations, stolen material, mischaracterizations.

Dreaming of this for the charters, etc at Riksarkivet!

27th December is the feast of St John the Apostle and Evangelist who is depicted here seated at a lectern with a golden book and with his symbol holding a golden ink-horn. #StJohn BL Add 49598; Benedictional of Æthelwold; 963-984 CE; England S; f.19v

"[N]ot only is “AI” not especially new; protesting it has a long history. Inspired by the collective objection represented in this photo, we are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education."

26th December is the feast of St Stephen whose martyrdom is depicted in this 'Da' at the beginning of the Collect for the Mass of St Stephen. #StStephen BnF MS Latin 9428; Sacramentarium of Drogo; 9th century (between 826/837 CE & 855 CE); Metz; f.27r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Happy Second Day of Christmas! 🎄

Värt att påminna om den hårda & rättvisa kritik som @malinmichea.bsky.social och @kuggla.bsky.social riktade mot Historiska museet. Tog någon utställningen i försvar? Hittills har vi alltså tre kandidater anmälda till tävlingen "AI-klantigaste kulturarvsinstitutionen 2025". Anmälan öppen till jul!

The DIGARV book is now OA! Lots of useful & interesting digital humanities stuff in there. Chapter 9 is about/by the Mapping Lived Religion project team. Check it out! www.vitterhetsakademien.se/nyheter/nyhe...

We are ten days out from Christmas which means that if you are Welsh, it's the time of year when a skeleton horse might show up at your door and challenge you to a rap battle. If you lose the horse gets to come inside and drink your booze. Happy Christmas from Mari Lwyd!

Today's @thetimes.com is reporting that this new book published by Springer, on sale for £180 hb, contains 'footnotes that cite scientific publications that appear to have been invented....' Who'd have thought it! www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Final seminar/conference for the Swedish DigArv research program today with @MappingSaints . Celebrating our joint publication & 14 successful digitisation projects! Here's to fruitful & vital collaboration between cultural heritage institutions & universities! May it continue.

December 9, St Anne's Feast Day: saints.dh.gu.se/explore/sain...

Read the thread for the example; here's the point to remember.

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My colleagues & I (who work/have worked with translation into English) have been saying this for years: translators are vital. Now there's this false belief that gen-AI (only useful as a probability machine) can replace them. No, humans still do language best. universitetslararen.se/2025/12/04/a...

It's Advent but there are still saints' feasts entered in some medieval calendars. Tomorrow is the feast of St Barbara, but today, you can take your pick from these little-known saints in 2Mapping Saints': saints.dh.gu.se/explore/saints

Yes, I’m a medievalist. But that doesn’t stop me from being curious about the rest of history. Current non-medieval historical book is “Behind the Mask of Chivalry” and dang is this hard hitting and profound. Follow along if you like, I’ll share thoughts and observations as I read.

Ett splitternytt Scandia är här och det blir det innehållsrikaste någonsin! Prenumera genom att kontakta [email protected]. Innehållet går redan nu att läsa digitalt på OJS. journals.lub.lu.se/scandia/issu...

Another week another press release for "AI" art history disguised as journalism. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

So this lexographical detective story is a very good read and not at all a gong show. IFYKYK

Grateful for all of these examples. Refusing to use an unnecessary and unhelpful tool should always be a right.

"Everyone should have the right to refuse to engage with technologies that harm them, their students, and the planet."

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Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.

And as for the Flannery Editing business itself, it (and I) can now be found over at www.flanneryediting.com —get in touch if you’d like to work with me!

An updated Dictionary of AI to help cut through the obfuscating buzzwords. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/... *with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions

Fabulous library! So happy I managed a short visit... although doing research there would be a dream! Of course the best bits were the medieval MSS.

Now after the successful trip made by the Oseberg ship in September, it’s time for the Gokstad ship to move to its new spot within the Museum of the Viking Age. #VikingShips #Vikingtidsmuseet www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/relo...

Seriously?! How can gen"AI" fact check?! This cannot be a good source for anything much really.

Hoping to make the tour time for @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social while in Cambridge this week! But also... does anyone know of any other university libraries in Cambridge that don't actually require college or tour access?

Back by popular demand, Introduction to Latin Palaeography will run online in February 2026 #MedievalSky 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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För alla oss i högskolevärlden är upplevelsen att vi nu nått en bristningsgräns. Lokaler sägs upp, administrationen sägs upp och på vissa håll även undervisande personal, mer undervisning och mindre forskning i tjänst.

You're most welcome ! He's at it again :D ! mondediplo.com/2025/08/02te...

What is a viking to you? Has your perception of them changed over the years? NorseMap is a @erc.europa.eu funded research project where we want to map the legacy of vikings in areas like literature & art, branding, tourism & politics. Comments below -what comes to mind when you think of vikings?

Vi har en ledig stilling som forsker i #runologi for en periode på 12 måneder ved Kulturhistorisk museum, UiO. Stillingen er en del av infrastrukturprosjektet NORCHRON: Norwegian diachronic corpus 200–1814, finansiert av Norges forskningsråd. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

Report out from Sweden's HUMTANK that shows the vital importance of humanities-based courses/influence in higher education programs leading to a profession. The report is based on a study of programs in engineering, medicine, and police training. Recommendations include: humtank.se/ny-rapport-f...

An excellent true thing is that I gave unequivocally anti-“AI” talks at Wesleyan and Tufts this month where the computer scientists and engineers in attendance have no interest in allowing this industry to hijack education and asked me “how can we get our students to take your classes?”

October is the time for sowing the seeds. #MedievalCalendar BL Yates Thompson MS 3; 'The Dunois Hours'; c 1439 CE-c 1450 CE; France (Paris); f.10r

Call for applications! 📣 The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝 1/3

Great thread!

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World (King's College London): memorients.com/news/lecture...

Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on 22 September. Here is the ram caught by its horns. Bodleian Library MS. Michael 619; Maḥzor for the High Holidays (Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur), Western Ashkenazi rite (Tripartite Maḥzor, volume 3); 1320–1330 CE; f.5v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Imagine in a few years, you come across an online video of yourself - your face, your voice, presenting a garbled version of your research or ’in conversation’ with another scholar saying things you don’t agree with, you have no control to stop it 1/3 #academia

The Ohio State University is now requiring students to become "fluent" in AI. It's a perverse metaphor, and as always, the wisdom of Star Trek proves useful in understanding its perversity. sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...

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