Inside you are two wolves. One is sick of conversations about AI and never wants to have another one. The other is using all her Grad Cert assessments to do research into education to yell ‘Stop Allowing Students to use AI!’

Can anybody help me with a copy of Grünbart, "From Letter to Literature: A Byzantine Story of Transformation" in Medieval letters: between fiction and document, ed. Høgel and Bartoli (Brepols, 2015)? I can't get to my uni library & they won't scan it for me because it's on the shelf! #ICanHazPDF

Changing my browser search to Wikipedia because most of the time when I search something that’s what I want anyway lbr

Have a slot to present at the big giant conference in my academic field in July and I have mostly been really hoping, throughout the year, to get enough work to pay for it. This has not happened. If you do have the disposable funds to help I would be very grateful.

due to the rising cost of housing, there are now three wolves inside you

Just checked mine, it was ‘warn’

Word says ‘demonstrates’ is too complex a word, be so for real right now 😩

Dropped my car in for a service and walking home along a route that passes me past some primary schools. The interactions between the lollypop* people and the kids is just so wholesome *crossing guards for the non-Australians (and Brits? Is this a term we got off you?)

And another related question - spellings of ‘Britain’? Mostly curious about the Y vs I after the R #medievalsky

And another related question - spellings of ‘Britain’? Mostly curious about the Y vs I after the R #medievalsky

Do I know any early medievalists here who know what the Carolingians called the Early English? (I.e Saxones versus Anglo etc.) or where to look to find this out? #medievalsky

Counterpoint: true learning cannot be rushed.

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Tell me you love a cat without telling me you love a cat: I’m sitting outside working in 13 degrees and rainy (She’s not allowed outside unsupervised)

Oh I want to see all the illustrations 🥰

‘AI is not neutral, it reflects values and choices’ Okay so I may just have to send my first years and end of semester email with some words from the pope…

This is the problem at the heart of all alleged AI use cases in pedagogy

I will say - I’m tallying those disclosing AI use and those saying they didn’t use it. And (if we take everyone at their word) non-AI use is presently winning.

Oooh! @mairistirlinghill.bsky.social have you checked for any spare change behind the sofa, maybe…? www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

The amount of essays I’ve marked here going ‘hmm, X is the particular weak point of this essay’ (X being structure, grammar, proofreading, or similar) - only to get to that student’s AI disclosure at the end and see that they noted having used AI to do that particularly task.

Very proud of my first years and their public history projects - they did such good work 🥰

Oh , she’s the cutest

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In under 12 minutes, let’s go 🎉

The fact I have to mark when all I want to do is listen to Maisie’s new album? Rude

It’s ok to be sad. It’s ok to be angry. It’s ok to rage. It’s not fair when a setback steals your baseline. It’s not fair when you lose function and can’t get it back. The just world fallacy tries to make us think it’s “our fault”. That if we were “good” we wouldn’t have setbacks.

Getting an email from the university about managing my ‘financial wellbeing’. Idk maybe if you paid staff for all the work they do? Have we tried that first?

Mordred was my little legendary named boy, but the fairy vibes were calling me #artsky #craftsky

This is next week! Come along! #histmed #histstm #medievalsky #historysky #medicinesky

Me: overwhelmed Also me: let’s use my break time to try learn every country in the world for absolutely no reason whatsoever

What is the best paper to show to my GP with an overview of different medical treatments you can try to deal with Long Covid ? #LongCovid #MECFS

My first years are working on their public history projects and they have such fun ideas, I’m keen to see how they all end up

I need to find a pal, ideally a hiring academic, who can help me do a practice interview presentation between tonight and noon Wednesday - no more than 30 minutes, 8 minutes of me presenting, and then another 10 minutes of practice questions (which I can supply if needed) and then some debrief

Renfair was very fun, highlight was possibly walking from the car to the event where a little girl in the street went ‘she’s a princess’ 🥰😭

Hello, I'm on the academic lit search again - is there any writing out there on trans lives* in Northern Ireland? Thank you! * specifically trans people, I've found tons of great sources on LGB people. @hleehurley.com

Open access

That feel when you read some scholarship that is so useful to your own research 🥰

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Anne: The key messages from the community about PEM: listen to your body, rest early and don’t push through!

Sometimes I think about the semester I taught half the first unit unit, so was marking like 150 students, and it was the most productive marking I have ever been in my life Want something done, give it to a busy person, they say. But teaching was literally the only thing I was doing the semester

This is so lovely

All of these things--casualization of academic labor, censorship, the insistence that academic research of any kind can be done by AI--are part of a longer project of devaluing academic work, especially in the humanities. You only work this hard to DEvalue something if it's valuable--and a threat.

Accommodating a two-tiered system of equally-qualified academic workers led to the devaluing of workers in both tiers. If you're doing this and you think it's not going to bite you (and your whole field) in the ass in the same way, you've got another thing coming.

I bought a too-large dress in an op shop last week (I’m going to a ren fair next weekend, and this is the vibe. No I will not take questions on historical inaccuracy). But look! I made it fit! I’ve never altered clothes before!

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

I will be presenting (online) at this symposium! I'm part of the Imagining Medieval Masculinities panel, although for once my paper ("The hero’s wife and charioteer: gender, class, and the queer possibilities of friendship in the later Ulster Cycle") is actually substantial about Emer as well :)

Oh this is so cute

I second everything Ellie says in this thread. I could vote when I was here as an international student. That seemed weird. And yes, everyone who has indefinite leave should be granted the vote.

I admit that #LocalHistoryMonth always takes me a little by surprise (it shouldn't, forgive me). One of the joys, from my point of view, is being able to celebrate the work of the @vch-home.bsky.social network, some of whose recent publications are described in the thread below. #Skystorians

The @royalhistsoc.org Funded Book Workshops are now open for applications for 2026-27! I honestly cannot recommend these enough: the workshop it facilitated for my second book was among the most positive and affirming days of my career. If you're thinking about it, do it! #skystorians