What makes a healthy democracy—and where are we now? Join former U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Dean @chriscelenza.bsky.social for a conversation on the state and future of American democracy. 📅 April 6 | 6–8 PM 📍 Room 404, Bloomberg Student Center hub.jhu.edu/events/2026/...

a solid 66 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... a ton more Ge'ez, medicine, the tragedy Crispo, ancient cameos, classics, chronicles, specula and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

28 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes tons of Ge'ez, 3 Lorenzo Valla, additional classical works, the Conclave for Gregory XIV, juridical works, a chronicle of Padua and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Since all of this weeks 18 #Manuscripts were uploaded by the #vatican on Friday, I'm a bit late www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Many classics, a medical notebook, an Avvisi, Boccaccio and Poggio, texts on gems and art, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Before the snow fell The #Vatican Library Scanned 33 books www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes a c. 1200 glossed Virgil, a ton of classics, St. Anthony of Florence, medicine, Lorenzo Valla on Latin and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorian

Many factors delayed the last MS report of 2025, but the #vatican did manage 17 #Manuscripts last week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Much Ge'ez, strange narrow MS, Arabic stories, Sistine Music and more. #MedievalSky #Skystorians

New fun podcast interview up, partly about history, partly about finding hope in our present: www.wmnf.org/rethinking-t...

#ProudOfOurColleagues #JHUFilmAndMedia: hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/03/j...

Only 5 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Consists of a Ge'ez Book of Hours, a commentary on Aristotle, Nonius Marcellus' De compendiosa doctrina (his only surviving work), Seneca's Tragedies and a vol of Papal stuff #MedievalSky #Skystorians

47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

another week, another 29 #Manuscripts digitized by the #vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Including plays by Sebastiano Baldin, Euclid, Ethiopic liturgy, dated and glossed Seneca, patristics, papal history, and Peñafort... oh my! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

♥️Ausonius♥️! Here is the MS in question: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_S.M... The Cento nuptialis starts at the bottom of 42r. Also, I love this scribe's Ss.

Natural Philosophy at Hopkins! Wonderful event; #ProudOfOurColleagues magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/06/five...

Go Prof. Choi! #ProudOfOurProfs: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/b...

48 more #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes a ton of Cappella Pontificia documents, some even about the Puntatore diaries in Capp.Sist.Diari, more Bussulas, Augustine on music, Ge'ez works and, topically, a Rule of St. Augustine #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Uninvolved in the #conclave, the #Vatican libraries digitized 58 #manuscripts www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Including a counterfeit 14th C Dante, a ton of 19th C music, more Sistine Diaries, occult tests, travel guides, glossed classics, Persian poetry and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Come and join us at @livesandletters.bsky.social to talk about #EarlyModern libraries! Two weeks to get your abstracts in! Check the website for full details, incl. how PhDs and ECRs can apply for funding to attend…

So proud to have co-written this newly published book w/my brilliant friend Anne E. Lester; I just remembered the book came into being largely b/c of an #NEH grant Anne received in 2020-2021, allowing us to follow up on our pandemic zoom calls together. cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/a-c...

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy awards an annual prize of $500 for the best paper on medieval or renaissance philosophy by a younger scholar. Details here: smrpblog.wordpress.com/founders-awa...

Bold ideas are born from real-world problems. Research turns them into solutions that change lives. At Johns Hopkins, biomedical engineer Sri Sarma’s NIH-funded research is improving how doctors understand and treat common neurological conditions. hub.jhu.edu/.../27/nih-f...

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Thanks to everyone who has kept me at the work and shared my vision about our purpose, now more than ever. Thanks especially to @guggfellows for seeing us!

Congratulations to @marthasjones.bsky.social and David Yezzi on being named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows, @guggfellows.bsky.social. www.gf.org/stories/anno...

Mars once had a magnetic field like Earth’s, but a new study co-authored by planetary scientist @planetsabine.bsky.social shows its molten core cooled unevenly, leaving the planet magnetically unstable. 🧲 hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/15/m...

A quietish week, only 36 #Manuscripts from the Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes a 13th C NT, 11th C Menologium, more 17th C papal stuff, Sistine Diaries and Ethiopic liturgy. Several humanistic texts, including one by one Raniero Fioravanti, unknown to me #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Congratulations to biophysics professor @karenfleming.bsky.social on being elected a 2024 @aaas.org fellow for her work in molecular biophysics. 🎉 hub.jhu.edu/2025/03/27/2...

“Don’t rest on things that you believe—look in the world, listen to the data, listen to real, empirical sources of information,” says Jenann Ismael. 🎙️

"Looking at a tiny part of the brain in a mouse, we can understand how the brain learns, and we can make predictions about how the human brain might work," says @kishoreneuro.bsky.social. hub.jhu.edu/2025/03/19/b...

Great conversation about dark energy!

🎧 Listen to a podcast w/ scholar of #Renaissance #history Chris Celenza on relevant historical antecedents to responsibly deal w/ information, today's risks of manipulating public opinion and more. ➡️ ideasroadshow.com/christopher-... 🗃️ #skystorians @chriscelenza.bsky.social 🏺 #Academicsky #Edusky

TONIGHT! www.loc.gov/item/event-4...

Applications are open for the Summer Latin Program at the Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto! Note that Basic Latin is online, a great opportunity for anyone who's been wanting to start Latin and doesn't have a local option. www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer... #medievalsky

Announcing a new RBS course: H-205 "Censorship from the Inquisition to the Present," taught by @adapalmer.bsky.social, 3–8 August 2025 at the University of Chicago. The first-round deadline to apply for H-205 is 7 March. For our complete Summer 2025 course schedule, see rarebookschool.org/schedule.

« In “The Trouble of Color,” Jones has done more than honor her family’s history; she reinscribes their story on the tablet of our collective imagination. » www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/b...

« If you have been misapprehended, mistaken or misunderstood for someone you are not…if you’ve heard that your family is too complicated, too out of bounds, confused or contradictory, this book is for you. » - MSJ #thetroubleofcolor www.bookpage.com/interviews/m...

With NIH support, scientists from institutions around the world, including Johns Hopkins, were able to map the human genome, helping advance our understanding of genetic risk factors for diseases like cancer. 🧬https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/02/28/nih-funding-human-genome-rajiv-mccoy/

Only 24 #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Mostly 17th C stuff from the Barberini family, but also some Ethiopic, a few more Sistine diaries, post-Byzantine Greek and a Spanish commentary on Pope Paul II... #MedievalSky

🏺 Watch this clip from our in-depth conversation w/ Prof Richard Janko, who has done extensive research on the Derveni Papyrus, Europe’s oldest surviving (but burnt) manuscript from the 4th c. BCE. 🗃️ #archaeology #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #Greece @umich.edu youtu.be/Fw5lNQ3E_88?...

I’m thrilled to announce the March dates for THE TROUBLE OF COLOR tour! Thanks to these incredible individuals for joining me - I’m truly humbled! And I hope to see you there Cambridge, New York, Baltimore and DC!

Join me in Charlottesville for a week of #fragmentology @rarebookschool.bsky.social! First-round applications close TODAY! rarebookschool.org/courses/libr...

Join classicist Mary Beard in conversation with dean @chriscelenza.bsky.social on 2/25 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington D.C. Regester here: www.eventbrite.com/e/humanities...

Happy discovery for those interested in Late Latin/Early Medieval Latin: this vol. is entirely #openaccess and full of goodies! academic.oup.com/book/55329 #medievalsky #medievallatin #lateantiquity #latin #classics

How many figures do you see in Primavera below ❓ 🔎 "A film that melds art history with detective work - even the smallest detail can offer up clues, if you know what to look for." @thereviewshub.bsky.social 🎬 Film page BOTTICELLI'S PRIMAVERA: ideasroadshow.com/primavera/ 🗃️ #arthistory #history

Note this book is "open access" - meaning it's free to anyone who wants to download it. #oa #openaccess

The Kirkus review for THE TROUBLE OF COLOR is out: “Eloquent, candid, and meticulously researched, this book will appeal to both lovers of family memoir and scholars of Black history.” Out on March 4 (and you can preorder whoever you buy your books!) www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

"Inventing the Renaissance" comes out in one month in the UK (2 months USA), so I'm going to share daily #HistoryPix from the book, starting with Benvenuto Cellini's stunning Perseus, my pick for a cover illustration (thank you, editors!) For me, this statue personifies the Renaissance because 1/?

Day 2 sharing teaser #HistoryPix for "Inventing the Renaissance" (out in one month!). Often in Florence one sees buildings like this, where one section is rough stone standing out amid stucco neighbors. It's actually a remnant of the old Guelph-Ghibelline feuds that so long rocked Medieval Italy 1/?

Today at the #HopkinsBloombergCenter, technicians are painstakingly cleaning a piece by Ethiopian artist Elias Sime. Commissioned specifically for the building, the work - titled "Roots" - is made of reclaimed woven wire and other reclaimed electronic components washingtondc.jhu.edu/arts-culture...