A good time, it seems, for a thread about public sculptures of, and by, women that have been installed in the last 10 years or so... Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...

Anyone got a spare £million? Asking for.... Well, asking for me news.artnet.com/art-world/me...

ChatGPT is critically dependent on Wikipedia, its most-cited source (but Wikipedia doesn’t need ChatGPT at all). If you care about what LLMs are telling people, making sure Wikipedia is accurate should be your first priority. www.linkedin.com/pulse/wikipe...

new British Library digital preservation policy www.bl.uk/stories/blog... "The policy is built around 4 interdependent principles that shape the BL approach to digital preservation: pragmatism, consistency, risk awareness, and sustainability." via Maureen Pennock #DigiPres #iPres25 #wdpd25

Self-portraits of the manuscript's illuminator, William de Brailes: "w. de brail' qui me depeint" BL Add 49999; 'The De Brailes Hours'; Oxford; c.1240; ff.43r, 47r, 88v

Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx 'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.' Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.

Whoa Rebecca Lawrence has resigned as Chief Executive of @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Sorry that this might mean more turmoil at an institution that is a critical part of UK research infrastructure www.bl.uk/about/press/...

Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts! www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his... www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...

My book is now available open access on project muse, with OAPen launch coming soon. Hard copies should start going out this week (if they have not already): you can get yours for 50% off with code SAR50.

JOB Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

The glory that is my hometown—Aberystwyth. Wales’s first UNESCO City of Literature. Y peth gorau! unesco.org.uk/news/wales-f...

Baylands Preserve, Palo Alto. Pelican squadrons, waterbirds galore.

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

African #bookhistory in the archives

Ninth-century Easter music! Cool. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In the midst of a long-overdue update to Stanford Text Technologies. If you want to get a sense of what the project does, head over to texttechnologies.stanford.edu

Job announcement - Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair in English Loyola University Maryland joblist.mla.org/job/2000570/...

There's still time to apply for one of several full-time positions in computational humanities at Carnegie Mellon University * Assistant Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanitiesapply.interfolio.com/173622 * Assistant Tenure Track Prof in Computational Humanities apply.interfolio.com/173626

Assistant Professor of British Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Univ. of Scranton): #medievalsky #earlymodern memorients.com/news/assista...

This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Got these today. I reckon they should be on all reading lists!

Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag, Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster, 21 October 1966 by David Hurn. #AberfanDisaster

Harvard: "slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots ... for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.... The History department will be admitting five students each year for the next two years, down from 13 admitted students last year" bit.ly/4hnMxhU

Come and work with our wonderful team! Applications open for a Full-Time Archivist post Closing date: 11th November. #Jobs #Archives #Heritage jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

The recording of the @ihr.bsky.social Creighton Lecture (not a lecture) 2025 is now available online. Me in conversation with brilliant poet Hannah Lowe, chaired by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, on 'Doing #History with #Poetry'. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Type Design Lunch for our students in @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social at CESTA, Stanford!

Out now in Modernism/Modernity, Alice Staveley’s brilliant collaborative DH work on the circulation of Woolf! modernismmodernity.org/articles/sta...

#medievalsky

Old and Middle English can set you up for life. Fund the Humanities! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Published today! Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts, by Siân Echard. Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory www.pennpress.org/978151282705...

Had fun filming a short video about the fabulous Parker.stanford.edu with @blalbritton.bsky.social today. We have a super NEH project (Global Currents) on the automated retrieval of features of manuscript layout using Parker data.

*Vacancy - Chair of Advisory Board (Voluntary)* UWP is seeking to appoint a new Chair to the Advisory Board, responsible for ensuring the Board functions effectively in supporting our mission, vision and strategic objectives. For more information, visit: www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...

A preprint/author's original version of my review of @elikaortega.bsky.social's Binding Media. Posted under OUP's self-archiving policy academic.oup.com/pages/self_a... works.hcommons.org/records/kekj...

MEMOs EVENT: Islam in Medieval England British Library, London: memorients.com/events/memos...

I’ve got company!

some beautiful zingers in this new piece by Ruha Benjamin: "Worshipping one’s own intelligence, it seems, leads to a dangerous desire to bring the rest of humanity to its knees." #ai lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Benicia, former capital of California

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, in a statement announcing its decision to recognize Maria Corina Machado with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025:

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.” The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Delighted to be giving a Bede's World / Durham World Heritage Site lecture in @durham.ac.uk on 18 October.

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below. It's especially for journalists covering this story! Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Next Wednesday 8th October, 12.30-1.30: Jiří Vnouček on "A Tale of Two Parchments" - insular and continental parchment preparation. In person: @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston Library, Lecture Theatre Or livestreamed. Free: book here visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...

Is it coffee time yet? MSS R.9.17 See the whole manuscript here: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R... #marginaliaMonday

📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week... 📖Old English Poetry in Facsimile 📲 oepoetryfacsimile.org/index.html ©️Medieval Academy of America ✍️Director and Senior Editor: Martin Foys ✍️Associate Editor: Kyle Smith 💻Digital Mappa: www.digitalmappa.org

Indeed!

Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!