Are you working on the history, culture, or literature of medieval Norway? If so, consider submitting an abstract for this upcoming volume edited by @marycoconnor.bsky.social and me! #MedievalSky #OldNorse

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Ironic

The bears at the river. The winter is over 🐻

Maria Danielsen, Knut Ørke og Holger Pötzsch har skrevet et opprop om KI i høyere utdanning som jeg nettopp har signert. Signér du også om du ønsker en mer faglig og kritisk diskusjon av innføring av KI på universiteter og høgskoler! Oppropet skal sendes til Khrono. nettskjema.no/a/602234#/pa...

To lighten up the timeline, some good news: I just donated the latest royalties from the CRPG Book, bringing us to a total of £37,901 raised for charity since 2019! Thanks everyone for the support! The book is back in stock @bitmapbooks.com if you also want one: www.bitmapbooks.com/products/the...

if you need another reason to delete your account

Gotta post something beautiful against the aftertaste. It's Thulsa Doom, fools!

This damaging nonsense was exhibited at Bonn as well. Utterly frustrating to see institutions just giving up.

DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung. Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.

fuck the usa

Ok, since apparently I got nominated for @nyvgcc.bsky.social's award for game journalism based on this piece, I'll share it again: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... Happy that it resonated with so many people across the globe, it fits nicely in a year where Despelote united Latin America XD

We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔 But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️ If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

Since a decision regarding my and my department’s future is apparently imminent (as in, should happen in the next month or two), I thought this is a good time to repost this. Please keep your fingers crossed for Scandinavian Studies at Tübingen, and for me.

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

Happening today! Still time to sign up! It it helps, I can promise that a picture of a walrus will feature in the presentation.

'Rising Sun', Blackheath (1942) by Francis Dodd (Private collection; sold by richardtaylorfineart.com)

I am a massive fan of the dictionary

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

But wait, there's more! Here is another Call for Papers for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026, this time together with my friend Adrián Rodríguez Avila. We invite papers on 'The Reckoning of Time in Medieval Scandinavia'. Please share both these calls freely! #medievalsky #imc2026 #oldnorse

There's still time for some last-minute abstracts! Deadline Friday 19 Sep! 🤗

The UK: saying the word 'Palestine' means you will be arrested and your name forever marked on a list of dangerous terrorists Also the UK: a hate criminal got in trouble for calling for violence against a vulnerable minority? this is an absolute outrage

But wait, there's more! Here is another Call for Papers for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026, this time together with my friend Adrián Rodríguez Avila. We invite papers on 'The Reckoning of Time in Medieval Scandinavia'. Please share both these calls freely! #medievalsky #imc2026 #oldnorse

Hi everyone! @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2025 was a wonderful experience for me -- so I'd love to do it again! Here is a Call for Papers from Mary O'Connor and me, entitled Envisioning The Times: Writing the Past and Shaping the Future in Thirteenth-Century Norway. #medievalsky #imc2026 #oldnorse

CfP @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026: New Studies in Old Norse Hagiography Session Jointly Sponsored by the Norse Hagiography Network and the Viking Society for Northern Research Deadline: August 24. [Alt text in thread]

CfP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026, organised together with @celtichagiography.bsky.social. Deadline: August 31. [Alt text in thread]

I didn't notice this either, but if you're on Academia you can opt out of their AI nonsense by going to 'Account Settings' under your profile pic then 'AI Settings' on the left-hand side.

I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months. The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.

I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

The anti-capitalist Bestiary is coming along nicely I think! 😎 #art #illustration #DisabledRights #TaxTheRich

What a deeply strange exhibition at my home uni @unibonn.bsky.social. The goal is to show 'pictures that were unfortunately never taken' of female scientists (and scholars, one might add) of Bonn. These pictures are AI-generated. bilderinstitut.de/untaken-pict...

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

@stadtwerkebonn.bsky.social Hi! Warum kommt denn am Bonner Hbf ohne Erklärung mehrmals in Folge kein Flughafenbus - was ist da los?

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Book https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/book-2 'Rule of thumb: you're only allowed to give tedious interviews of process if your book is unreadable modern literary fiction about people coming to terms with something or other.'

CALL FOR PAPERS. Following the publication of our third volume, Apardjón is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for Volume 4 with a deadline of September 1 2025. We welcome submissions of articles of no more than 10,000 words and should be written in UK English. See our CFP for more details!

Apardjón vol. 3 is out, and it's available through open access! My review of Sophie Fendel's fantastic 'Physiologus- und Bestiarienrezeption in Nordeuropa' is in it. 🤗

Interessante Punkte aus einem Thread zu (fehlenden) PoC in der ziemlich trägen deutschen Mediävistik

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Very happy to be attending my first @imc-leeds.bsky.social! I'll be presenting a paper on the Old Norwegian King's Mirror and co-organising a panel on 'Latin in Medieval Scandinavia' together with Adrián Rodríguez Avila. #medievalsky #imc2025

Anyone recognise this head? Esp. Oxford folks. It has suddenly appeared in the communal area of my building... if I can figure out where it's from I can try to return it?

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. 1) PhD on the Old Norse King's Mirror 2) some medieval volcanoes transcending space but not time & others time but not space

Auf Nimmerwiedersehen an Bettina Stark-Watzinger 🎉

Join us at our next event on the 8th November, where Adrián Rodriguez Avila, ASNaC, will deliver an online lecture on St Botvid and his appearance in Södermannalag. More information and registration for Zoom link available here: www.uib.no/en/rg/lawand...

The Northern Lights in Oxford last night were quite something!

Internet was such an awesome tool.