I'm starting a project on changes in the English numeral system from ~1800-1950. Very interested in links between changes in technology and bureaucracy and number systems, e.g. how people read and spoke numbers. Anyone have any interesting sources I should be looking at?

This new article on artificial memory systems "tallies" / "counting devices" is very important. It provides new ways of identifying Paleolithic AMS, and thus the origins of extended numerical cognition in humans. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Learn more about our team! Nerea Fernández Cadenas @nereavsk.bsky.social Co-PI of the project. Postdoctoral researcher with an interest in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (UC3M). Member of the Department of Telematic Engineering and the Institute of Historiography "Julio Caro Baroja".

For any PhD Students or ECRs in search of support in preparing their first journal article for publication, do check out this exciting workshop, run by @hisjournalha.bsky.social! www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

A fascinating new research that challenges what we know about the numerical notations on the Visigothic slates. Today we highlight the article by our co-PI @nereavsk.bsky.social "Numbers on the Visigothic Slates: A Cognitive Approach". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten open-access articles published in June, which range Byzantine cuisine to Viking-Age dogs www.medievalists.net/2025/07/medi... #OpenAccess #medieval

My new paper on Visigothic slates is now available on the amazing special issue "Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories" @schrisomalis.bsky.social and @helenamiton.bsky.social (TopiCs special iusse editors).

New in our special issue of Topics in Cognitive Science, "Cognitive Technologies and their Histories": "Numbers on the Visigothic Slates: A Cognitive Approach" by @nereavsk.bsky.social. Open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hacia una revisión de los paradigmas historiográficos mediante el uso de la Inteligencia Artificial: el proyecto BADDO y el estudio del arrianismo. You can watch the poster presentation by Dr. Nerea Fernández Cadenas between minutes 8:26:00 and 8:31:21. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGqH...

Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about the BADDO project! 🤖 Our PI, Nerea Fernández Cadenas @nereavsk.bsky.social , will present this Thursday, May 29th, a fascinating poster entitled:

🖋️ Who wrote the past when names were left out? Discover how anonymous scripts can still speak volumes in this thought-provoking guest post by @nereavsk.bsky.social on People and Writing. 🔍 #Palaeography #MedievalStudies #Manuscripts 👉 peopleandwriting.usal.es/en/guest-pos...

The #Merovingians have a reputation for long hair and barbarity. Instead, the dynasty, born out of the chaos of civil war, was one of peace, diplomacy, and bureaucracy. 🔒 Archive subscribers can read James T. Palmer’s new article now buff.ly/Rn8ZwO4

The documentary "L'odyssée des chiffres", on which I had the pleasure to collaborate, is now available!! @artefr.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=njcS...

Why is our project named as the famous Visigoth queen Baddo? Find out here, thanks to the post by Alfonso García Sánchez, PhD student of BADDO project⬇️

¡Cónoce nuestro proyecto interdisciplinar! Historia + Telemáticas ¿Qué más se puede pedir?😉

Did you know that we give away free credits to students who want to use Transkribus for their Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis? Lean more about our Transkribus Scholarships 👇 www.transkribus.org/scholarship

Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellowship in History 1500-1800 University of Oxford - Oriel College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT630/s...

Nuestra IP Margarita Fernández Mier participará el próximo 24 de abril en el GIAP seminar series con la conferencia "De los espacios de cultivo a los espacios comunales. Arqueología Agraria en la Cordillera Cantábrica." 🕛 24 de abril a las 12:00h 🔗 Acceso al webinar ➡️ icac.cat/difusio/acti...

📯OPPORTUNITY: Oxford Medieval Studies Social Media Officer📯 As I prepare to depart soon, we're looking for someone to take over the social media reins. If you're interested in this role, have a look at my retrospective at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/21/o... and do consider applying!

Re-posting for the morning crowd...

Why is our project named as the famous Visigoth queen Baddo? Find out here, thanks to the post by Alfonso García Sánchez, PhD student of BADDO project⬇️

Why BADDO (Bringing AI to the Discovery of Historiographical Data To Overcome Traditional Barriers)?

📢 New on our blog! Andrea Aparicio explores how medieval documents reveal the social fabric of rural communities in her guest post 'Approaching Rural Society through Written Records'. 🏡📜✨ @erc.europa.eu #PeopleAndWriting 🔗 Read it here: peopleandwriting.usal.es/en/guest-pos...

Check out Dirk Schlimm's great new article 'Where mathematical symbols come from' in our special issue of Topics in Cognitive Science, "Cognitive Technologies and their Histories". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Meet our wonderful team! baddo-cm.uc3m.es/team/

¡Cónoce nuestro proyecto interdisciplinar! Historia + Telemáticas ¿Qué más se puede pedir?😉

New posts on our blog! The PhD students of the #PeopleAndWriting @ercresearch.bsky.social project have achieved a success—even if they are not aware of it 😜 peopleandwriting.usal.es/en/running-a... peopleandwriting.usal.es/en/running-a...

📢 News on our blog! Aitor Armendáriz explores the mastery of woodlands and their role in shaping history in his guest post «Mastering Woodland, Shaping the Past». 🌿📜 👉 Read it here: peopleandwriting.usal.es/es/guest-pos...

How did conservative western Roman elites react to Roman decline? New article out on early view by Sophie Kultzen (OA) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Essential reading for early medievalists: Julia Smith's new study of the field's history, and perspectives on its future. doi.org/10.1017/ean....

I made one of these for late antiquity. I definitely don't have everyone, so feel free to comment and I'll add you or other people you suggest. go.bsky.app/KP1nQVP

Very happy to say that my book "Merovingian Connections: The Frankish kingdoms and the Roman empire (476– 756)" will be published as part of "The Medieval Mediterranean" series next year! brill.com/display/seri...

Well this forthcoming book looks perfectly delightful from a great scholar: "Gardens in Northern Iberia in the Early Middle Ages: Practice, Product, and Sale" by Wendy Davies: academic.oup.com/book/58984

Last Friday, we held a workshop (peopleandwriting.usal.es/en/about/eve...) to discuss how to tackle the unknowns we face in our work. It was incredibly fun (though many questions unanswered)

It was a stimulating and engaging workshop. Thank you for organising this!

This starter pack was still missing! Hope it is useful and please feel free to share or let me know whom I should add: bsky.app/starter-pack...

A starter pack for Medieval Iberia, al-Andalus and the Maghreb. This is a very incipent pack. Please let me know if I can add you! go.bsky.app/AWY44RV

Trying out this whole starter pack business. Here's a bunch of folks who work on writing systems / scripts (broadly construed). Let me know if you want me to add you!

Another thing new followers may not realise is that we run the Endangered Writing Network, which aims to bring people from varied backgrounds together to tackle problems of language and writing endangerment. So we are interested... 1/3 viewsproject.wordpress.com/endangered-w...