Just cancelled Disney+. I've seen arguments that this could hurt good creators, and we should focus instead on taking down Iger and those fully responsible for bowing to fascist censorship. But currently, as an overwhelmed individual in another country, what else can I do to send a message?

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Bruh

Publication – « Medieval Bestiaries. New Approaches », éd. Debra Higgs Strickland rmblf.be/2025/09/11/p...

Deleted. After 15 years! I once derived some professional benefit from Ac****ia, but for years it's been nothing but annoying, invasive emails every day, that preyed on many academics' desire for approval, contact, citation. The owners should never have been allowed the .EDU domain. It's a lie.

Does your teaching touch upon the Black Death? Then don't miss the one and only Dr. Monica Green's open-access, introductory teaching module for the History for the 21st Century (H21) project! www.history21.com/owit-module/... #earlymodern #histmed #medhumanities #medieval #worldhistory

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

Labour disruption ends: Dalhousie Board of Governors and DFA reach tentative agreement

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal. This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer. #MedievalMonday

Well, that decides it. I was seriously thinking of applying for the open position in Medieval History at UT-Knoxville. Not now. I won't give any time, energy, or support to an institution that sides WITH fascists, racists, and promoters of murder, & AGAINST free speech. Shame on you, UT.

It was a pride and pleasure to contribute to this article for the Science History Institute: Melissa Rossi, "Holy Smoke: The monks, nuns, and friars at the forefront of alchemy in early modern Europe" #histmed #medhist www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

The program is now posted for the upcoming international conference on the history of plague, 14-16 October in Bordeaux: www.academia.edu/143929249. An important gathering of historians, bioarchaeologists, entomologists, & geneticists looking at one of the most devastating diseases in history. 🧪🗃️

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods 📍Institute of History, University of Bern (🇨🇭) 📆Deadline: 19 October 2025 ▶️ Information: tinyurl.com/56ywncuj #Medievalsky #DigitalHumaniities

The IHPST is hiring! Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth! New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

This is one of my favorite manuscript pages anywhere: I call it Frankenfolio. It shows how valuable parchment was in the Middle Ages: they sewed up two holes & the scribe wrote carefully around the stitches. Fittingly, the text is Pseudo-Hippocrates, "Book of Diets", talking about different meats.

We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky

Former CDC directors and senator call for RFK Jr to resign www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Starting another year of teaching tomorrow. Excited for a packed house in my course, "Magic and Witchcraft in Premodern Europe", always a popular topic! But bittersweet. It's likely the last year I'll ever teach, at least full time. It's been a good 20 years (!), but I expected more.

Free, open access German/English edited book, Literature and Botany. "This volume explores the deep connections between literature and botany, examining how plants shape cultural narratives, ecological thought, and human imagination." vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

The Medieval Scriptorium is now available in paperback! 😊 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-med... #bookhistory #medievalsky #skystorians #medievalmanuscripts @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

My main professional organization, @medievalacademy.bsky.social, has just pub'd a statement about the use of AI in its journal. Basically, DON'T! "AI tools cannot take ethical or legal responsibility for their output or enter into legal agreements." www.medievalacademy.org/page/AIPolicy #MedievalSky

My fantastic TikTok co-star is @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Rawlinson D. 252, a collection of necromantic texts and diagrams produced in England in the 15th century! 📜🖤✨

Postscript by Seamus Heaney who died twelve years ago today

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

POSTDOCTORAL SHOWCASE! Come and hear all about the exciting work our post-doctoral fellows have done this past year! Starring @claireturner.bsky.social & Jean David Eynard. 25 September, 5-6pm, Crowdcast. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/postdoctor... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Hey, does anyone here have an in with the Annapolis Royal Heritage Society in Nova Scotia or any similar group from the region? I've tried a few emails and not had any luck. Please, I have the 130+ year old diary of a woman living in the region and would like to see it taken care of!

The new history of theriac (since Watson's 1966) is out there in the world, on its own. At last, out of my thoughts. I am so happy! #histmed #histscie #earlymodern #histpharma #pharma

📣 CfP: The endless scroll - Digital approaches to Medieval Time, IMC 2026, Leeds UK The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts invites contributions that explore how digital methods and tools can illuminate, represent, and reinterpret medieval temporalities. 📅 Deadline: 1/09/2025

My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator. 🧪🌎

Oh. Oh my. I think I love it.

Nothing can mess with your sense of time like waking with a migraine at 4:30 am, napping during breakfast, driving 2 hours, taking a Rizatriptan, napping again, and then eating lunch at dinner time. I'm fine, how are you?

Pleased with this. Took a while holding still by the feeder to get it.

I’ve been on board the Bluenose several times, and it occasionally anchors in my village of Sambro. I’m glad the owners/crew have decided not to travel to the US.

I am giving away a signed copy of Humanish to whomever comes up with the best name for this adorable little toaster that graces the cover of Humanish. Here's the link to submit your name idea: justingregg.substack.com/p/name-this-...

Happy kid caught the biggest fish at camp. Good end to the summer.

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!

Delighted to have a chapter on Irish medical writing published Open Access in this excellent volume, now available in print! Many thanks to @brendankanect.bsky.social and Patrick Wadden for all their hard work as editors: brill.com/display/titl...

Archivist Amanda Sweet from Anglesey Archives explores the rich histories found in old wills: www.orielmon.org/en/blog/will...

📅Save the date: Sat. 25th Oct. 2025‼️ 📜 #TOEBI2025: "Education and Early Medieval England" 🏫 University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social 🗣️ Alice Jorgensen @tcddublin.bsky.social 🗣️ Lindy Brady, Edge Hill University #️⃣ #medievalsky #OldEnglish

Morning visit to the foggy harbour. Great beasts eat silently at the water’s edge. Also: lighthouse and sea turkeys.

Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below. If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es). www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action... www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

Found 10 of my publications stolen by LibGen. I tried to supply contact information to join the lawsuit, but the forms only accept US addresses. Anyone know another way to join?

Say it again for those in the back: HUMANITIES USUALLY SUBSIDIZE STEM at most R1s. Yes we have receipts.

Fires are growing in Bayers Lake, just a few minutes from my house. Photo last night Aug 12 (credit Emily Reiner) from Northwest Arm looking up to Bayers Lake area and #Halifax Tower Hotel, with smoke across the horizon.

🧵(1) Exciting news regarding the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) project, which photographed more than 9,000 manuscripts in Ethiopia from 1973 to 1994 and is the largest repository for scholarly access to texts in Geʻez. hmml.org/collections/...

#cfp for the 2026 Conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, ‘Women Religious: Patronage & Networks from Medieval to Modern’ taking place at Queen Mary University of London on 11/12 June. Please share widely #nuntastic historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...

Join us for an online discussion inspired by our Curious Cures exhibition! Our panel of experts will 'dissect’ the medieval body, revealing how our ancestors thought their bodies functioned. ⏰12 August, 7-8pm 📍Online 🔗Register: https://loom.ly/ck4iTmI