Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

Our NorseMap website is now live! Go check it out: www.ucc.ie/en/norsemap

Postdoktor i språkteknologi for norsk fagspråk: www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

it's ridiculous how some people seem to think the only possible reason to do a humanities phd is to become a tenured professor. i use the considerable fruits of my philological training all day every single day to overanalyse every word anyone says to or around me within an inch of its life

Jeg har hatt forskningstermin, og ting (endring/effektivsering?) som har skjedd i jobbhverdagen under den tiden er bl.a: fasttelefonene på kontor og poststed (for intern & ekstern post) er blitt borte; det har kommet et nytt saksbehandlingssystem (må læres) & nytt nasjonalt vitenarkiv.

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...

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...

We are advertising a 12-month researcher position in #runology (more specifically, digital runology) based at the Museum of Cultural History, connected to the NFR funded project NORCHRON: Norwegian diachronic corpus 200–1814 CE. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Öösel taevas on tähti täis.

A mast year to be sure. Oak legacy near Crickhowell, Wales

“Vi kan ikkje leve i ein bonderomantikk.”. Sier en politiker om arkeologi og kulturminneforvaltning. Fordi det er behov for et sted der flere kan levere moderne søppel. www.nrk.no/vestland/ark...

With a bespectacled cow playing backgammon?!?

Kanel. En dekadent utländsk lyxprodukt, odlad på en mytomspunnen kryddö, och av rotlöst kosmopolitiska handelsmän fraktad till Medelhavet via indiska och arabiska hamnar. Säljs enligt Plinius den äldre för ett pris som är 50 gånger högre än priset på rökelse och myrra.

En anmeldelse som godt avslører den romantiserende tilnærmingen som fortsatt tiltrekker mange:”For norske lesere blir resultatet en bekreftelse av allerede etablerte fortellinger: Russland som en kulturell stormakt, mystisk og voldelig – men samtidig tiltrekkende.” www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Very good journalism about a very important but grim aspect of life in Ukraine now. Gas stations are fascinating places in general, but this article reveals much more about the role of these places in society. This should be accessible as a gift article, I believe. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

l'une des plus belles cartes que j'aie jamais vue : l'Europe du XVIIIe siècle en ses langues et alphabets ! Europa Polyglotta Linguarum genealogiam exhibens. una cum Literis, scribendisque modis, Omnium Gentium . Opera Godofr. Henselii delineata, 1730 env. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Go...

Medieval techniques to preserve mental health? Sage advice here (and a wonderfully written post). "Tao seemed forever struggling with the dilemma between living freely but poorly and working in the government but unhappily. Besides resorting to alcohol, Tao dealt with such struggles with poetry."

Khronos kommentarfelt under artikler byr ofte på perler der de samme stemmene vet alt om alt. For eksempel vet noen der at så godt som ingen publikasjoner og forskning innen humaniora har samfunnsnytte.

A good, nuanced explanation of some of the contexts within which the modern Valhalla references appear. Read to understand.

"Hey, you can't park your car on my lawn. You need to move it." "I CAN though. It's legal, or at least, it's the subject of a lot of legal debate." *Hastily writes paper, "Revisiting the Epistemological and Legal Framework of Automotive Parking on Neighbor's Lawns"*

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜ The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces. They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading. #bookhistory 💙📚📜

@dannybate.bsky.social ‘s new book is great! C for yourself

Essential aid to #runology! #Runic #graffiti in Gotlandic churches being photographed.

Interesting study: “Palatalization is not indicated in standard Estonian orthography. In the 1820s, Otto Wilhelm Masing proposed marking palatalization with a small dot placed beneath the vowel preceding the palatalized consonant.”

Normal mengde trøbbel med et togsett i dag ved Asker. #togpendler

So the cool thing about this: there are two scripts here, Bactrian and Brahmi. The Brahmi is a common Buddhist curse formula, the Bactrian appears to be gibberish. No clue if the curse is still active (we'll find out I guess), but the nail can still probably give you tetanus

Anyway, please read this thread through the wider lens of seeing what filling word counts at set intervals can do to anyone’s ability to think like a normal human.

... but I suspect that over enough time of being only an op-ed writer, particularly a successful one, eventually you mistake the illusion of surety you must put down on the page as a conviction that every thing that pops into your head must be correct and people who argue against you are stupid...

Thanks to generative AI, "the only foolproof thing that works right now is to slow down and ask questions before sharing: If a piece of content seems shocking, divisive, or too good to be true, pause before spreading it."

Uhm so Teams suddenly automaticaly makes voice mail sound transcripts? And they are hilarious? (No my colleague did not want to speak to me about taco dictors.) #ai

Kjøreledning har falt ned ved Gulskogen. Buss for tog mellom Mjøndalen og Drammen. #togpendler

we made a "get involved" page for @uio-oceh.bsky.social, for anyone who wants to collaborate or just come and hang out. www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...

Since I have deleted my profile at academia . edu, I have put together a list of articles that I have published over the years. Those that are available online are accessible through links. Feel free to ask me for any PDFs you might need: my-albion.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-li....

Portmahomack in the news! Come see the inscribed stone mentioned here on display at National Museums Scotland, and then head up to the Tarbat Discovery Centre for ultimate enlightenment www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Here is the first more in-depth article on the truly breathtaking discovery of a 6 kg silver hoard, containing thousands of late 1100s AD coins and ample Viking Age jewelry, found near Stockholm. Paywalled, but surely not the last you will hear of this. www.dn.se/sverige/hon-...

4-year funded PhD in Old Norse-Viking Studies at UCC, working on the Literature & Art strand of the NorseMap Project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

I think this is also happening because far too many people don't consider women fully human & deserving of serious histories; but Greg makes a very important point. Inclusive history isn't just 'add women & stir'. It should make us entirely rethink what kinds of histories matter in the first place.

House full of stories 📷 Kristiine #estonia #tallinn #historical #urban #landscape #wooden #architecture #photography

Finnic and Baltic languages are the only ones to use the different word for Finns and Finland: suomi, soome, suomija, somija and so on. Nice to see the Livonian variant of the word.

A stunning treasure of legal history containing some of the oldest English laws and which also features a dragon - The magnificient Textus Roffensis. (Textus Roffensis is on display in the crypt of Rochester Cathedral and available online at rochestercathedral.org/textus) #medievalsky

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

This is a great, must-read thread about Paulina Borosook and her seminal book CYBERSELFISH. I read it back in the day and I consider it by far the most prescient book from the dot-com era. It sucks that she has, indeed, largely been erased.

Free book download of collected papers on Knowledge Commons ‘No Horns on their Helmets? essays on the Insular Viking Age’ #medievalsky #history #vikingsky #archaeology works.hcommons.org/records/xc6k...

Good question!

The way you can now put a simple idea into an LLM to have it spit out a bunch of words that express roughly the same idea, but with some random shit added to it, probably isn't good for the whole "words have meanings and are chosen on purpose, figure out what that purpose was" angle of text analysis

the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich

It didn't occur to me that one of the problems with getting older is witnessing the culture debate and process the same things over and over. Like, as a historian it's fascinating and useful to analyze these continuities. As a human it's exhausting.

Rock art #boats coming alive! A captivating glimpse of its storytelling power. Enjoyed exploring the Ramberg #bronzeage #rockart site in eastern Norway with members of the CAS funded Climate, Crops and Crisis project (cas-nor.no/project/clim...). Video by @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

Yes to this dream of “a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”