I’ll be back in April to talk about Old Norse body horror! Have a look at the schedule for plenty of other great talks coming too

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Happy Winter Solstice, all.

Head over to @necron-network.bsky.social for the registration link!

We’re excited to share our new main catalogue, making it easier for you to find and request the majority of our published collection. We’ve also launched an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Find out how to start searching and requesting on our website bit.ly/BLNewCatalogues

Norse in the North 2026: Mind and Body Deadline for Abstracts: 2nd February 2026 We welcome postgraduate students from any level with research on any aspect of Old Norse, medieval Scandinavian, and Viking studies that fits the theme. #NitN2026 #medievalsky #callforpapers #oldnorse

For those Old Norse and Viking lovers, the Norse in the North conference has made it to Bluesky! As we’re finalizing the CFP for 2026 at Leeds, please follow @norseinthenorth.bsky.social for updates! #oldnorse #medievalsky #postgraduate #conference #medieval

Acceptances for The Long Middle Ages have been sent out! Watch out for scheduling announcements and new social media pages for the seminar series coming in 2026! 🥳 If you would like to join the mailing list for the series, do get in touch! #middleages #medievalsky

Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tiny Marginalia Dragons💙💚💛🖤 #medievalsky #medievalart #medieval #dragon #marginalia #middleages #medievalmanuscript

We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.

All my sessions have been accepted for the #IMC2026. 😊 'The Reckoning of Time in Medieval Scandinavia' with Dr Adrián Rodríguez Avila, and a double 'Envisioning the Times: Writing the Past and Shaping the Future in 13th-Century Norway' with Mary O'Connor! #medievalsky #oldnorse

Looks like I’m gonna be very busy at #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social We’ve got comics, dragons, and Old Norse galore! #medievalsky #comics

Tonight at 5:30 GMT! Please come along!

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Only two weeks left to submit your abstracts! #medievalsky #medieval #earlymodern #lateantique

Yesterday marked the inaugural School of English PGR Symposium. This event was the result of months of hard work from myself and the other organisers including @nrhopwood.bsky.social

Save Modern Languages and Music @ Uni of Nottingham! 💛💚💙 www.change.org/p/stop-the-r... www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...

Join us on 27th November at 5.30pm to hear @nrhopwood.bsky.social talk about a late medieval Icelandic saga on dragons 🐉 we can't wait for this one! Scan the QR code or click the link below to sign up: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I’m very excited to talk about one of my favourite sagas with @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social on 27th November! It’s online, so please sign up and come along, it’ll be a great, dragon-y time 🐉

"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women Trump has fired, a single mom waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with your back against the wall. Your struggle is ours too."

Having both presented and been on the committee for this conference, I cannot recommend it enough!

It's Halloween! 🎃 Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."

The School of English PGR Symposium is taking place on 11th November, featuring over 10 papers from SoE PGRs! Sign up here to come along forms.office.com/e/75eFxbbbiY

Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique

How to Make a Monster www.medievalists.net/2023/10/how-... #monsters #halloween

“Monsters always speak of power — sometimes they speak for it, other times they speak against it.” A postcard from @dinostalgia.bsky.social

I’ve had to read Watkins’s ‘How to Kill a Dragon’ so many times, and it’s always interesting to see how much we inherently desire to know about where our stories come from and the very first story (though, really, we will never truly know) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

A really great and clear-eyed editorial by @danielpgrote.bsky.social for @comicsxf.com about the cancellation of Red Hood over at DC and the world of hypocrisy we live in. #comicsky

Just under one week left to submit!

👩‍🏫 Seeking medieval teaching support this academic year? 🧑‍🏫Consider joining our friends at TEAMS, the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages! Membership is free, and the support is priceless 🤝 teams-medieval.org/membership/ #medievalsky

SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here: www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

One week left to submit!

I've put up the new call for papers for the 2026 Romancing the Gothic programme! Come join us! (I welcome feedback) romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...

@necron-network.bsky.social is coming to @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026! This in-person roundtable is open to all current NECRON members. To get involved, email Natalie Hopwood ([email protected]) with a short bio and a brief overview of what you want to say by 15th Sept.

Call for Papers - Medieval Temporalities and Comics Medieval Temporalities and Comics Leeds International Medieval Congress, 6th-9th July 2026 Hybrid Session Co-organized by Natalie Hopwood, University of Leeds and Michael A. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pap...

The first meeting of MATER is happening on 19 September - if you'd like to join and haven't signed up yet, please email rachel dot moss at northampton dot ac dot uk!

If you see this, post a character you love and a character you...tolerate (Is there any other way to do this than the great Maddie v Jean debate?)

We are not trivialising LLMs. Copyright theft is not trivial. Environmental damage is not trivial. Unreliability is not trivial. Risk to human cognition is not trivial. Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

I had no one to give recommendations when I was a kid, so my first trip to the comics store at 10 ended with me getting a volume of Ultimate X-Men… all I can recommend to people is to keep trying until you find a story you love and don’t listen to others opinions about what counts as a “good” comic

Medieval Temporalities and Comics @imc-leeds.bsky.social 6th-9th July 2026 Co-organized by Natalie Hopwood, University of Leeds and Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College (The Medieval Comics Project)

A golden chestnut from the archives: @bbeatrix.bsky.social writes about Hush, the JSA and James Robinson, Tony Harris et al's Starman comicsxf.com/2025/05/20/t...

📣 Attending #IMCLeeds2025 and work on the Medieval North? Come hang out with NECRON for a casual evening social! 🗓️ Weds 9 July 🕗 20:00 – meet at Parkinson Building 🍻 Social at The Library Pub after Meet fellow PhDs & ECRs in a chill, friendly setting. Stay as long as you like! Alcohol optional.

One week until IMC! I’ll be roundtabling on Monday with “How to Conference” and presenting on Tuesday with “Shedding Skin: Human Face and Monstrous Bodies in Old Norse Sagas”! Come see me chat about conference advice AND people tearing their skin to become dragons! @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.

Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his beautiful wife and newborn son. Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice. From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.