Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.

Not now, remnants of primordial magma ocean. ... No, on second thought, now is an okay time.

Captain America Comics #1 Marvel, 1941 Cover by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, who were also the primary creators in the interior.

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What's troubling you, little half Edvard Munch-styled half Super Mario inspired sea monster, screaming in a sixteenth-century map of the Indian Ocean? Tell us, how are you doing, little fella?

Oh dear. Here’s a real gem for scholars of #medievalism, gaming history, historical games, and bigots designing them.

A great opportunity for historians of science "Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science" usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Meryem Sebti - Penser le monde avec Avicenne Une introduction à sa philosophie À paraître en septembre aux Belles Lettres

Forest adventures with the mini-mini-me. Carnivorous sundew, friendly frog, technicolor mushrooms, and a rickety bridge. No pictures of the vicious swarms of horseflies.

For those who do not yet know Hatcher's contributions to Black Death studies, I highly recommend his “England in the Aftermath of the Black Death,” Past and Present, no. 144 (Aug. 1994), 3-35, academic.oup.com/past/article.... R.I.P.

Circle of life in my chives. Green crab spider nabbed a thirsty sweat bee.

Our boletes are very personable. Some kind of myconid gathering under a tree.

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Andrew J. Bielecki (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social)’s review of new translation of _La Sfera/The Globe: Cosmology, Science, & Geography in the 15th-C. Mediterranean_, pub 2025 @ Italica Press. Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

We are looking for a postdoc @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! And they are looking for another postdoc @unituebingen.bsky.social! If you want to work on the Latin translations of Aristotle's De anima and De sensu, this is your chance! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #ancientbluesky #philosophysky

Here's the link to MMA podcast webpage: www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/post/the-glo.... I'm looking forward to listening to this, b/c the trade in & lore about hunting birds offers a super opportunity to explore #GlobalMiddleAges questions. #MedievalSky

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

Haha, nice one @privateeyenews.bsky.social !

JOB POSTING 📜📚 The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University seeks a research (reference) librarian: yale.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/external_car...

I co-edit a book series for Boydell & Brewer on "The Urban World in the Middle Ages." Open to *BOOK* proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, or Islamic world. For more info, email me, [email protected]. Happy to hear from 1st-time book authors.

Just landed in Toronto, excited to welcome amazing #medhist #histmed #manuscript scholars from around the world for two days of "Languages of Authority: An International Workshop on Editing Medieval Medicine", organized by Sarah Star and me with support from @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca.

Got a fantasy novel, a new electric weed trimmer, and a homemade Father’s Day card this morning. Some of us are born dad; others have dadness thrust upon us. Wait. I don’t think that works…

Prepping for my next history of medicine class. Don't tell them all the answers are right here:

Sad news but what an amazing life. The Major Oak was a similar age to the oak trees used to build the Hall.

🗣️ Medievalists! 🏰 Check out this page, we’ve done a reconstruction the medieval chapel at Chester Castle! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... Please share widely! There’s loads of info and *lovely* images from the repertoire of medieval art - and also more reconstructions!

Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Apparently no smelling lilacs for me. Always look before you sniff. Green crab spider not as well camouflaged as usual.

It! Is! Here! Open Access (and already hoovered up by the scrapers no doubt such is our world) UK/EU paper copies will be available eventually but until then, EVERYONE now has free access! press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ill...

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums

In the wake of Rosamond McKitterick's death, on the blog @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social remembers her as a teacher and a mentor: salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/a...

Our repair works at St James's, Llangua in Monmouthshire have been recognised by Europa Nostra, being shortlisted for the 2026 European Heritage Europa Nostra Awards. 1/9 📷 After Repairs

recently talked with CBC to help bring attention to the problems with AI in the bookselling and publishing world. love to see Nimbus Publishing making their policy with generative AI crystal clear www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

That’s a hell of a cover. But I was expecting an article about the cyber attack!

Flamboyant screaming forest chicken is making it hard to drive the kids to school.

I cannot mow the lawn. Very very late spring means legions of adorable wildflowers and mint are all here at once, in my lawn. Oh no.

Gorgeous evening by the shore. Lucky to live here. So many baby ducks!

We're down to the last handful of tickets for my workshop on 'Medicine and the Senses' in Leeds on 10 July. Please share! www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

PhD with skills in medieval MSS & Latin needed! Post-doctoral Research Fellow for 30 months (with the possibility of extension) to support the AHRC-Funded project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain, c.1200-1500’ jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Not much grows well here, but lupins and chives are happy in this very late spring.

For Pride I ask you to look at what I think is one of the most powerful pieces of queer art. Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers) By John Boskovich

MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK. This is not a drill. MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK!!! www.tallandier.com/livre/marc-b... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Calling all PhDs and ECRs who work on the history of material and visual culture of science - the Nuncius Essay Prize for 2026 is open for submissions until 31 August. Details here: brill.com/fileasset/do... #histSTM

Job Opportunity! University of Oklahoma - Norman - Open Rank - History of Science, Technology, and Medicine - History of Women and Science networks.h-net.org/jobs/70051/u...

Happy pride, remember the words of Papa Lynch.

A cartoon about book festivals for @theguardian.com

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fire/Fog

Two 14th-c bifolia from an Arabic astronomical treatise translated in Latin (Haly Abenragel, De iudiciis astrorum) recycled as pastedowns, one of them now detached from its board (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 894) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

One thing that I think is really valuable about the AHA's academic job reports and their data-driven nature is that while everyone reports that the academic job market was bad when they got a PhD, we can actually put some data to those recollections.