New paper out: Assessment of the differentiation of Sambucus nigra plant parts using a multi-target and suspect screening by LC-HRMS and ICP-OES

Do you realize that this could lead to a civil war in the US and that Putin would then have a completely free hand?

BREAKING: Polish military fired at drones which violated its airspace, Prime Minister Tusk says

BREAKING: Poland's military confirms multiple drones have violated its airspace, people are urged to stay at home

It was too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse tonight, so here’s some fun diagrams of eclipses from a 13th century astronomical compilation, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘

Highly interesting paper from Tanja Pommerening and team: "Philological analysis of ancient Egyptian recipes supported by modern chemical profiling approaches." #histmed

And now he's gone. Dad, thanks for everything!

Oh, they're not invented in Germany? So sad. /i

Ulrich Ellenbog #Proofs. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb... #Augsburg #HistMed

Do any of you brilliant #histmed teachers know of a nice narrative introduction to early nineteenth-century medicine? Something like a case study of a doctor or a patient? I'm looking for something for undergraduates. I have a separate story for medicine and slavery.🗃️

Ahem.

Crazy, but that's how it goes Millions of people living as foes Maybe it's not too late To learn how to love And forget how to hate

The end of a legendary life. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Little dragons love inhabiting initials of medieval manuscripts. However, this one just found his book is about pee. Opening of Isaac Israeli, Book of Urines, translated by Constantine the African, in Erfurt/Gotha MS Amplonian Q 207: "Incipit liber urinarum Ysahac" #medhist #histmed #manuscript

Uff, das habe ich nicht kommen sehen. :-/

In der "Debatte" um Prof. Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ging bislang fast vollkommen unter, dass diese von 2015 bis 2024 Verfassungsrichterin in Sachsen war. Offenbar wurde sie damals ziemlich geräuschlos gewählt und offenbar verlief ihre Arbeit dort auch ohne große Aufreger. Komisch.

Genaust 1996, S. 73. @blumen-natur.de

On a medieval typo & its interpretive consequences… Did Chaucer write elves … or wolves? My question: did this influence Tolkien?

11th July is the feast of St Benedict. Here is a miniature of St Benedict of Nursia to whom the second book is dedicated, standing next to initial 'F'(uit). BL Egerton MS 3089; Gregory the Great, Dialogi; 10th century; ?Clermont-Ferrand, Central France; f.18v

Climate change tripled heat-related deaths in early summer European heatwave: www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

I can say anything about medievalists this week and none of them will notice, muhahaha

CAVE: Sudhoff: Pionier des Faches Medizingeschichte, lange tot. Sudhof: Juristin, die einen aktuell diskutierten Bericht erarbeitet hat. Vgl. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Su... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...

"Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago." #skystorians

Heute vor 125 Jahren wurde der Grundstein für die Abtei St. Hildegard in Eibingen gelegt. Das seit 1148 bestehende Kloster war im Zuge der Säkularisation 1803 aufgehoben worden. 1900 erfolgte die Neugründung.

"Die Medizinhistorikerin Daniela Angetter-Pfeiffer über die Suche nach 'Wundermittel' im Laufe der Jahrhunderte, und was davon blieb." #histmed

1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓 Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions. A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... #Renaissance #OpenAccess

Im Alter von 99 Jahren ist das Institut für Zeitungsforschung auf Bluesky angekommen. Es ist - wie man schon 1926 wusste - zukünftig Großes zu erwarten. Wir werden hier zukünftig das Institut sowie seine Bestände und Aktivitäten vorstellen. #Dortmund #Medien #Journalismus #Forschung

New open-access book on coinage in the Middle Ages, with a range of contributors on Gaul, Egypt, Italy, the Rhineland, and more, edited by @rorynaismith.bsky.social: www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10.... #medievalsky

#Handschriftenportal erhält erste Schnittstelle: Zugriff auf unseren umfangreichen Datenbestand nun per #OAIPMH möglich, Datensets sind als #TEI & #DublinCore verfügbar. 🔜 Weitere Schnittstellen folgen, welche sind für Ihre Arbeit und Forschung besonders relevant? #digitalhumanities #medievalsky

The Papyrus Museum of the Austrian National Library in Vienna is an underrated treasure with a spectacular collection of Coptic, Greek and Arabic papyri from Egypt. #papyrus #ancient #medieval Highlight 🧵 : A Coptic amulet for protection against scorpions. (1/6)

On a hot day let us remember the balsam garden of Cairo (Fustat), with its seven pools of water and jars to catch the balsam. BL Sloane 4016; Herbal; c.1440; Italy, N. (Lombardy); f.10v

Carole Ann Ford, who turns 85 today, with Tom Baker and William Russell. #DoctorWho #WhoSky

Romana is having a bad teeth day on Friday 13th. (Pictures unrelated to #DoctorWho, they're from 1972's "Vampire Circus".)

1 and 2 in 1959's "Dial 999". www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdPX... #DoctorWho #WhoSky

Bigeneration, Classic Who style.

A week later, and I think it would have been better to just air the original finale and then show the regeneration sometime in the next episode. So, similar to the 1996 film. #DoctorWho #WhoSky

This has to be one of the worst costumes ever in classic #DoctorWho. Librarian Shardovan, an important character in "Castrovalva", 1981. It's just a clear plastic bucket and black bandages.

Most of my favourite modern #DoctorWho episodes were written by Steven Moffat. Perhaps I've been missing that in recent years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_... #WhoSky

Cistercians preferred seals! A high proportion (63%) of the C12/13th manuscripts from the monastery at Clairvaux were bound in sealskin, mostly harbor & harp seals from Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland & Greenland, perhaps chosen to match their white habits. www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/medieva...

Dating ancient manuscripts using radiocarbon and AI-based writing style analysis #skystorians

Current work/fun: lots of 12th c. English medical manuscripts, both for an essay on medical charms and a conference paper on monastic infirmaries. One of the stars: Durham Cathedral MS Hunter 100, made in or near Durham Priory. Shown here, fol. 85r & 118r, start and end of the medical texts.

Your first Doctor Your favourite Doctor Your favourite companion Your favourite story

M'kay.

My best answer to about all the #DoctorWho questions is: At least 3 seasons were planned with Gatwa, but it all collapsed when they couldn't shoot a 3rd season this year. So, possibly. no search for Susan (3rd season arc?). Plus, a somewhat rushed regeneration with many possible explanations.

Apparently it's Sherlock Holmes day so of course we have to share the real Sherlock, Edinburgh surgeon and RCSEd President, Joseph Bell! Here he is with some letters from his former pupil, Arthur Conan Doyle that confirm Bell as inspiration for Doyle's literary detective.

Discover our newest titles in the #History of #Medicine with this newsletter. Go to: bit.ly/437sbE4 #Medievalsky #Science #HistoryofScience #Epidemics #Pandemics #Physiology #Medievalists

Ein ganz normaler Tag in Lindau.

"You must stop looking at it and start writing." BnF MS Latin 276; Evangelia; 12th century; f.36v @gallicabnf.bsky.social