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.

did a starter pack of medievalists on here go.bsky.app/Eyg2JeC

Latin in Medieval Scandinavia! Please share freely. #MedievalSky #IMCLeeds #imc2025

Unterzeichnet! Das Vertrauen in die Wissenschaftsfreiheit in Deutschland ist schwer beschädigt, mal ganz abgesehen von der fortgesetzten Bankrotterklärung in Sachen @WissZeitVG. Wir sind wütend. Gehen Sie, Frau Stark-Warzinger!

Hi #MedievalSky, the #MappingMedievalPeople project has gone live: mmp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at Enjoy! #MMP

#profsfuerhanna in Forschung und Lehre: Hochschulstrukturen grundlegend überdenken.

My theory chapter

Call for Papers for the Video Game Cultures conference 2024 (this year in Birmingham ) - Topic: other, others, othered, othering, otherness, and beyond. Feel free to share this, dear #gamestudies bubble. Deadline is April 30. videogamecultures.org/2024-cfp/

reform des WissZeitVG sieht super aus

During the pandemic I picked up a tiny bit of coding, but I never got around to finishing anything. This morning I made a clone of Bill Gates's 1981 game donkey.bas and I'm very proud of it. Pong or Breakout is next, and then maybe River Raid? gawaingames.itch.io/cone-collider

Juliane und ich organisieren für die diesjährige Arbeitstagung der deutschsprachigen Skandinavistik (ATdS) in Bonn einen Arbeitskreis zu Emotion in der altnordischen Literatur. Fragen und Abstracts gern an mich, Einreichungsschluss ist der 1. Mai.

my personal opinion

Bluesky is officially “open” now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybody’s timelines. So block and give no oxygen.

Ich verlose diese zwei sehr schönen Bände unseres @akgwds.bsky.social Sammelbandes mit über 28 Beiträgen von unserem und unseren Blog(s). Bei Interesse teilt einfach diesen Post. #GameStudies (Im Thread einige Blicke auf den Inhalt, u.a. der ersten und einzig offiziellen Geschichte unseres AK!).

A great opportunity. Any non-UK-based medievalists interested in exploring possibilities at Exeter, do just shout!

Weit über 100.000 Menschen demonstrieren in Deutschland gegen Rechts. Die genauen Zahlen werden wir erst mit Abstand wissen. Wir von @correctiv.org berichten ganzen Tag live: correctiv.org/aktuelles/20... Wir haben die Deutschlandkarte mit weiteren Demos aktualisiert. Lizenzfrei. Gerne teilen.

Nicht Mal der zweite Weltkrieg hat die Nazis auf Dauer entzaubert, just saying

Normally I would be teaching my module on medieval monsters now but today we're striking because it's monstrous that a third of our students live at the poverty line, that PhDs receive part-time pay for full-time work, and that post-PhD there is no job security!