I'm organising sessions about medieval female networks and communities for next year's (2027) @imc-leeds.bsky.social!! The CFP is purposefully broad and open, so do share with whoever you think might be interested and hit me up with any questions! #MedievalSky

I'm organizing a panel for Kalamazoo's 2027 ICMS! IF you are interested, feel free to apply! #AcademicSky #MedievalSky #medieval #Book #gender #cfp #conference

People like to claim the #Humanities aren't challenging, but have they ever collated a manuscript? #sweating #bookhistory

Whenever I post about equal rights and basic freedoms, it's *amazing* how quickly people who can't stand the thought of these things wriggle out of the woodwork....

I'm happy to announce that my essay "Body Count" has won the Guy Lemon Award for Public Writing 😊 medievalmanuscriptnerd.com/2025/11/28/b...

How does everyone handle closely examining violent, discriminatory text? Esp if the audience didn't respond? Close reading is important BUT institutional, so facing down harmful language wasn't its intent. I feel like I'm just recommitting violent descriptions when I'm analyzing them. #academicsky

New post! medievalmanuscriptnerd.com/2025/11/28/b...

Sometimes my students make a comment about stuff that happened "in the 1900s." Then I realize they were all born around 2008.

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Some people feel less God-breathed and more yanked out of the grave of Flannery O'Connor.

*SPOILERS* I can think of no good reason for #PBS's #Victoria to kill off Nancy Skerret unless they were doing some sort of historically-accurate rendition, and even then no. I'm going to need a minute.

Found a cool timeline that I thought was worth sharing: A history of printing, and therefore a history of human progress. printinghistory.org/timeline/

In the wake of the BLS firing, here are the appropriate pages from #Orwell's #1984

Check out my new blog post! medievalmanuscriptnerd.com/2025/08/01/e...

I'm sorry, but what??? Did this article just argue for zapping the brains of those with intellectual #disabilities with electricity to help them learn better? Didn't we learn that this was a #badidea last century? www.psypost.org/zapping-the-...

People keep blaming 🍊 for the GOP's ineffectiveness on #Epstein, but has anyone wondered if...they are on the list? Such as, is the Heritage Foundation on the list? Religious fundamentalism has a very bad track record with *cough cough* child abuse.

The fact that people are outing how deeply awful they are, in public, on Jubilee is ridiculous, but I suppose that's where we are now.

"...from the moment one leaves to others than the iudges ... the task of deciding whether the condemned man 'deserves' to be placed in semi-liberty or conditional liberty... one is handing over to them mechanisms of legal punishment to be used at their discretion..." #Foucault #DisciplineandPunish

Indiana University-Bloomington has just cut ~20% of its degrees and programs. At the same time, President Pamela Whitten, whom the faculty and student body VOTED OUT because of her incompetence, has just received 1) a contract extension, 2) raise to 900,000, 3) 200,000 bonus.

The video really only includes information from the 17th century forward, emphasizing a Eurocentric view of California's history. Because historiography tends to privilege documented evidence, the collective memories from indigenous pre-histories may not have been included. youtu.be/iNni60n2qIE?...

I just watched TikTok lives of the #LAprotests. The story was the same across each one. The protests were peaceful, and then law enforcement escalated the situation and either provoked a reaction or began arresting people for simply standing around.

Guys. Guys. Daddy and Daddy are fighting. #popcorn

When I die, don't bury me in satin. Stick me in a peat bog so archaeologists can find me in a thousand years and scratch their heads.

I just graduated with an MLS in Library Science, specializing in Rare Books and Manuscripts from Indiana University-Bloomington! Now, to finish that English PhD dissertation.... 😅 #AcademicSky #MedievalSky #BookTok #RareBooks

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

The more this year unfolds, the more I find myself thinking back to the #Kingsman film.

May the 4th be with you.

That's it. Indiana University -Bloomington is struggling to fund (re: can't) its grad students due to the federal cuts. It's official. I just ..... I mean, yeah, I'm scared. It's already very expensive to live. #AcademicSky #MedievalSky

Today I'm skimming "Women & Christian Origins", Ed. by Kraemer and D'Angelo (1999). It provides a series of essays which explore the engagement and literature of women, #gender, and #sex in early Christianity (Greece, Rome). The essays discuss canonization, gnosticism (Gospel of Mary), & ~heresy~.

It's been almost a week, and the absence left by Pope Francis is still quite palpable. While I'm not a Catholic, I have always admired his courage and compassion as he stood up to the corruption and evil displayed by world-powers.

When I had the opportunity to visit the #Vatican #Archives last year with the #SangalliInstitute, we visited the Archives of the Inquisition. One of the books they had, obviously, was the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (the list of #bannedbooks).

I just want to mention that academics are, as a group, used to receiving Reviewer 2 feedback, regrouping, collaborating, finding creative solutions, and returning with a stronger next draft. #NEH #MLIS #AcademicSky

It's nearing the 250 year anniversary of the founding of the #USA. Because #humanities #funding has been slashed, apparently celebrations can't be planned. Anyway, here's a #tbt to 1776. pacificlegal.org/the-declarat... #DeclarationofIndependence

When I was learning grammar as a child, I thought even then that the idea of "subordinated" clauses sounded scammy. scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e... #AcademicSky #medieval #lexicon #dictionary #booksky

I heard someone reference crypto as a mystery they did not want to be shattered with explanations or realities. If techbro language doesn't explain romance scams, then I don't know what will.

Medieval Studies has historically underestimated women's literacy and involvement in manuscript production. This study by the University of Bergen goes a long way to finding raw (if conservative) estimates of women's creation of texts! #AcademicSky #MedievalSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last night, I had a long conversation with my grandmother, who is an ardent T supporter. She has wanted me to find a job close to her and the rest of the family. We miss each other. This is difficult to do in #academia. A government(-funded) position was my best hope. This is a really weird time.

"On some level, Margery quite literally tosses out the idea of virginity, which the Church had used by that time to control the bodies of women and their activities for more than a millennia." medievalmanuscriptnerd.com/2024/11/03/w... #medieval #Academic #women

*Christmas music starts to play* Me: it's not even Thanksgiving yet!!! Also Me: *automatically starts singing along*

I didn't realize how much I missed Twitter...