Here we Goooo! I haven’t been able to post about this until we went live, so today I’m posting highlights from the Les Enluminures Text Manuscripts Fall Update! This is our annual Big September Issue.

someone in this building singing from Kpop Demon Hunters and managing to get close to some of those high notes. go get'em?

New address for the BL Digitised Manuscripts *BLOG* as of 30 Sept.; archive of older posts to be available later at the new site. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman... I hope they actually mean it about making the archive available. #medievalsky

"For now, researchers can take comfort knowing that agencies outside Kennedy’s direct control are charting a different course."

The day I visited Malmesbury Abbey was blessed with a rare quality of light which allowed the pattern and iconography on the eight orders of the C12th porch to fizz into life. #thread

Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

Here we Goooo! I haven’t been able to post about this until we went live, so today I’m posting highlights from the Les Enluminures Text Manuscripts Fall Update! This is our annual Big September Issue.

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.

Breaking: The Onion reveals itself to have nuclear capabilities

A fun thread about the challenges of selling corsetry to mass publics in a period that's transitional both fashion-wise and image-replication-wise.

TIAA: Join our financial habits discussion! me: my financial habit is survival

This entire administration.

My latest for @hyperallergic.com is on the many Roman bath discoveries made this summer—it’s a recap of an amazing excavation season and a deep dive into ancient flip-flops worn with socks. Thank you to @lisayinzhang.bsky.social for brilliant edits. May socks be worn with sandals without shame! 🧦 🩴

SPERM WHALE EATING A GIANT SQUID--filmed probably for the first time *ever*!!! 🌊🦑🐳

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

#earlymodern out December at last such a privilege to work with three distinguished scholars of early modern women’s writing

Ok but is the way to describe Hee Haw to people who weren't there a fully live action Muppet Show?

Inside of me there are two lions. Both have anxiety.

STERILIZING IMMUNITY

NJ PBS shutting down next summer. “15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.” newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

When trees were TREES!

AI is just microplastics for software. It's polluted every app and slowly killing them.

It says a lot that I'm in a med-heavy fall AFTER LEAVING the UK and the NHS bc (for now) I have better access in the US than I did in the UK...

This is where I plug the v cool history book that records pockets substantial enough for all these things, and how they were a normal part of women's lives for hundreds of years (and also charts what occurred in the times when skirts didn't fit these vital accessories!)

Shingles vax scheduled! (I'm aiming for WINGS this time. Covid vax = tentacles. But shingles is 2-jab sequence so two wings. Measles obv is autism. Got that one locked and loaded already!)

Do read through this thread--a very interesting project, with policy applications that could actually become reality in a place like Sweden, where they do fund trials of things like this, if the evidence supports doing so.

My grandmother berated her kids when they let the puffballs go to spoor before collecting them. Decades later, my dad carefully noted the GPS position of each puffball he found while out fishing, so he could return to the same spot the following year.

I see your puddle reflection snaps and I raise you an -office desk- reflection snap.

A 17th-century bookbinding in full bloom! While screening the collections for books to show during a hands-on workshop on historical bookbindings, we stumbled upon this devotional book bound in a beautiful embroidered binding featuring flowers, usually associated with female makers and/or owners.

Not a good time to be looking for entry-level work. finance.yahoo.com/news/top-eco...

Y’all, watching folks joke about how it’s already the 23rd in Australia, New Zealand, China I realized there’s a great country song I need to write: “Heaven’s on Central Standard Time”

I see your puddle reflection snaps and I raise you an -office desk- reflection snap.

imagine being In Your Lane, Unbothered, Moisturized, Flourishing, and Focused then someone starts poking you with a stick

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

this is indeed absolutely incorrect. almost every college sports program operates at a loss and is subsidized by donors, as well as "athletic fees" paid by students.

Our friends over @reactorsff.bsky.social‬ have a very special sneak peak of Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA, first in a new epic fantasy trilogy inspired by Tlingit culture and folklore! Read the excerpt: bit.ly/479fFGG Preorder geni.us/doorsea Netgalley geni.us/SolarisNG

Today's mantra: I am no one and nothing. Only by finally finally getting this through my thick skull will I finally manage to fit into this world

'They [maps] are a great research tool and are also equally accessible to people without skills or training.' 🗺️ Dr Evan Jones (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) comments on the addition of historic street names to Bristol's Know Your Place interactive city map for BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Notice, #earlymodern #skystorians, the logo at the middle of the photo? The VOC (Dutch East India Company). All the more reason to reckon with the legacies of these companies and how they integrate (or don't) with shifting ideas of globalisation, integration, capitalism, and national identity.

The roses are doing well this morning.

I got back to my hotel and saw the foreground involved FALL FOLIAGE! In California! I had to stay up to finish the edit. Glad to live in this universe with you all ❤️

Tonight's sunset walk

You guys!! First Italian sausage SINCE 2020! (Apparently an American thing. Also Brits puree their sausage meat so even if the meat/spices were right the texture was not.) My god my god, I'm going to have BRATWURST THIS FALL!!!!

I heard recently that there was a place on the Woonasquatucket River to see American eels and holy moly did this spot deliver! youtu.be/lxnopqW2344

(completely unironically) nature is healing

Anyone interested in medieval fakes should plan a trip to Paris. The Musée Cluny has a show from 7 Oct. to 11 Jan., www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/pr... and the Archives nationales has one from 15 Oct. to 2 Feb.:

Anyone else discover that Outlook's fully lost the ability to hold onto sig file images from one moment to the next? I can start an email with the image there, and then by the time I finish drafting, the image has disappeared. Ditto the actual sig file save page. Now you see it/ now you don't.

Shrikes don't beat around the bush. They get right to the point.