My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

🪨 Deciphering the Singapore Stone 👾 The linguistics of Project Hail Mary 🇮🇷 The beautiful linguistic chaos of modern Iran 🐶 Your dog might be eavesdropping on you (linguistically) ✨ Revitalizing a Native American language from old manuscripts

We’re hiring a Learning & Teaching Librarian to handle enquiries, collaborate with other teams to grow digital capabilities, and integrate Library content into the curriculum. For more details and to apply 👉 https://ow.ly/3wox50YsNky Closing Date: 1 April 2026 #LibraryJobs

Euronews Earth launches today, informing you on how climate change is shaping life across Europe.

Final, ish, reminder that I am going to Portsmouth tonight to give a lecture about borders to the Royal Geographical Society, a fact I find funny in at least three different ways www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

New Paris mayor Emmanuel Grégoire cycles to city hall after election win

Happy St Sheelagh's Day!

"I’m very worried about what is being destroyed. We’re all extremely worried, because what we’re seeing is the ad hoc closure and drastic cutting of many, many departments across the country." Historian Lyndal Roper in today's THE: bit.ly/4sqsfJ2 #Skystorians 1/2

Féile Pádraig sona daoibh! ☘️ Happy St Patricks day everyone! ☘️

"Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft gedenkt Jürgen #Habermas in Dankbarkeit – für ein Jahrzehnt in Starnberg, das zu den kühnsten Kapiteln ihrer Geschichte gehört, und für ein Werk, das weit über dieses Jahrzehnt hinaus wirkt." Ein Nachruf auf Jürgen Habermas www.mpg.de/26269576/jue... / Von Jürgen Renn

Don't forget to co-sign the petition about the drastic & destructive cuts at Essex University! What their management is doing, without regard for the impact of the community, should not be allowed to set a precedent for #UKHE www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027. Learn more and apply through the link below! www.bl.uk/services/res...

If you want to hear more about the experience of being a taught postgraduate student here at York, do read the blog written by Grace, one of our Renaissance and #EarlyModern Studies MA students blogs.york.ac.uk/student-voic... 🗃️

Six months ago, we launched Rapporteur to raise the bar for European reporting. Since then, we’ve broken stories, provided essential policy intelligence and built a community of readers who care about the future of Europe 👉 eurac.tv/9YqQ ⤵️

Tune in to Euronews' new flagship morning programme at 8 am Brussels time. In just 20 minutes, we bring you up to speed on the biggest news of the day. #EuropeToday

#linguistics #earlymodern #media

England's first national newspaper, The Daily Courant, published by the seriously under-remembered Elizabeth Mallett 11th March, 1702. 30 years a publisher, she chose male pronouns when writing, & never printed her first name. Current London plaques commemorating the Courant don't name her at all.

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What IS th difference between a migrant and an expat? Time? Money? Having a 'home' to go to? Being able to go to it? Having th choice of whether to take your pet? Paying tax? ...?

Studying at a distance doesn’t mean studying alone! 💻👥 With SCONUL Access, #OUstudents can use university libraries across the UK & Ireland. 📚 Study alongside others and feel more connected to a wider learning community, closer to where you live... 👇 https://ow.ly/LboH50YmQrz#OUstudents

NEXT MONDAY! Excited we get to welcome @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social to talk about Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid. 9 March, 17:30 (UK), in person & online -- sign up for the zoom link. #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #HistSTM #HistMed

oh! Come to Mile End! And here from these brilliant women!!! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Final 24 hours. I'm really grateful for the loads of people who've signed up in the last few days.

Things I wish I'd known... “As early as 1866 the Linguistic Society of Paris specifically banned discussion of the origin of language as being altogether too disruptive for the contemplative atmosphere of a learned association.” (Ian Tattersall in the ever-brilliant @nybooks.com mail) #linguistics

Chick- #linguistics, anyone?

The UK’s rightful place is at the heart of Europe. Let’s return.

Thread to remind us all that we're supporting authors & publishers as well as libraries just by giving a book a home for a while for free. Do it. Because #libsky

#englang #linguistics needs Herriot Watt. Please take a minutes to read & sign LINCS' petition.

The Department of Languages at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social is facing serious cuts with a proposal to make 11 of its staff redundant, stop offering undergraduate Chinese and German and eliminate intercultural studies courses. Please sign this petition: heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/05/s...

#earlymodern #skyhistory 2nd most 'at risk' from A1 - & if we translate texts while we're at it, we're double doomed....

A joy of Bluesky is that this appeared in my feed right by a post asking what you can be thrown out of the British Library for doing.

#libsky (just so our heroic librarians are prepared for all this may bring).

The 🇪🇸 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana is here. Who takes it? Preview 👇 📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/will... 📸 Cor Vos

Being busy as an academic back then. Sitting in your working spacing (here it's the Initial "G"), wearing your thinking hat, doing scientific stuff with instruments (he's measuring), and forgetting the world outside (in this case a page in Latin about geography). The year is 1523. #academicchatter

There's a new look at Public Books! We’re debuting a brand-new website (we can’t stop looking in the mirror), and a redoubled commitment to the goal we’ve had since the very start: creating a classroom the size of the world.

Can't believe it's my second #earlymodern eels repost in three days. As we used to say, there's a paper in this.

Where is th AMEN button on this thing?

For anyone who thought all that Harry Potter stuff wasn't real.

Fot all its beautiful #etymology, th word 'eel' somehow evokes th darker, slipperier connotations of th thing it names. If we'd stuck with 'fenn-fysche,' now, we'd surely have had a very different relationship, keeping them as pets and bragging about them to impress our friends at dinner parties.

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free - Rolling Stone

📢 New publication! Our member Jan Zalega has published “External Lexical Influences in the English Language from Antiquity to Modern Times,” tracing how contact with other languages has enriched English over centuries. #etymology #research #linguistics 🔗 digespedi.us.edu.pl/index.php/20...

Because #linguistics must never forget where it came from.

Because I dont know why I didn't get this from #linguistics or ##earlymodern ...

Y'know we'll only find something else to give us a break between reading & writing in our books and reading & writing in our mails. Ah, we're addicted to something, and its not th tech.

File under #earlymodern, if y missed it elsewhere.