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@aelura.bsky.social
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Kit: Celticist, medieval Welsh literature, Arthuriana. MSCA Fellow working on gender and pseudo-romantic language in medieval Welsh praise poetry. Pro-human rights, anti-AI. Opinions (and there are many of them) all my own.

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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Officially back at work now after compassionate leave. Whatever else is going on in the world, my department and colleagues have been incredibly supportive and kind through all of this.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
29th September is the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. Here St Michael is striking a winged figure. BL Yates Thompson 2; 'The Ottobeuren Collectar'; 12th century; Germany, S. (Ottobeuren); f.112v @blmedieval.bsky.social
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Annoyed but unsurprised that after 8k-ish people turned up to an independence march where the first minister (among others) gave a speech, all the coverage is instead about what various right-wing people think about it. Who cares? It was a joyful, uplifting day. It even only rained a tiny bit.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25/09/2026
CFP: Religious Texts in the Celtic Languages, 1500–1900 24–25 May 2027 @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Abstracts invited on any linguistic, philological, literary, historical or theological topic relating to religious prose & verse in the Celtic languages, from 1500 to 1900 llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...
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Religious Texts in the Celtic Languages, 1500–1900 | Celtic & Scottish Studies | Literatures Languages and Culture
A two-day conference exploring religious prose and verse from between 1500 and 1900, written in Celtic languages including Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Call for papers curr...
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Years ago in a postgrad women's group there was much discussion on how to handle the campus visit parts of interviews - dressing up enough but also being able to hike around campus, etc. Much talk of shoes, because this is an area where comfort/style/utility/semiotic value is complex. 1/2
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A while ago, I sat down with Dave Musgrove of @historyextra.bsky.social to talk about "How to Argue like a Medieval Irish Monk" for his Life Lessons from History podcast. Some thoughts on knowledge, humility & right action. #MedievalSky #Spéirghorm historyextra.supportingcast.fm/listen/life-...
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HistoryExtra | Argue like a medieval Irish monk
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very cool! The Medieval Academy of America & @uchicagopress.bsky.social have kindly agreed to temporarily lift the paywall on a short essay I published a few months ago: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/.... Dating, dating, dating. Vital for the historian; essential for interdisc. dialogue.
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The Future of Time: Methodological Dialogues between Philology, Archaeology, and Genomics | Speculum: Vol 101, No 1
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Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New illustration: Božena, the peasant princess of Bohemia 🍂 #MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️
A blonde white woman kneels beside a stream doing laundry. Her hair is wrapped in a blue cloth, and she wears a brown apron over a simple white dress. A basket full of white cloth sits next to her. The forest around her is alive with bright autumnal colours. An oak sapling grows across the stream from the woman.
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British Branch | International Arthurian Society @ias-britishbranch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‼️Call for papers‼️ We are accepting proposals for papers for the XXVIII Congress of the International Arthurian Society at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social  26th-30th July 2027. Abstracts should be sent to ias2027@st-andrews.ac.uk by the 18th September 2026 Read carefully ias2027.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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Hannah E @hspevans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Last few days to submit your abstract!! @imc-leeds.bsky.social
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For the record, "fewer larger grants" is the opposite of how to fund good research. Give a bunch of researchers financial stability and basic funding, without wasting their time on increasingly competitive applications and widening the have/have-not gap, and look how far we'll go.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.
A knight’s helmet with, inexplicably, a chicken face coming out the front
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Katharina Mersch @katha-m.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OPEN ACCESS! Gender, Work, and Service in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Cersovsky, Eva-Maria; Exarchos, Julia. Stuttgart 2026 (Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte – Beihefte, 265). biblioscout.net/de/book/10.2...
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Gender, Work, and Service in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
By focusing on service as an important socio-historical reality of labour, this volume presents new research on the complex relations between gender a...
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I have so many library cards, but every time I get a new Bod card I feel like I've been (re-) admitted to a secret society.
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was a student journalist and took a mic and camera out to talk to people in my community. Everyone was in shock. There were a lot of people who said "we can't let this become an anti-Muslim thing" but there were also a lot who did not. Guess what happened.
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An amazing and healing last day of #GMS2026 reminds us how supportive and nurturing really good scholarship can be when it wants to. Such genuinely brilliant papers and projects and such a lovely atmosphere.
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Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What a day at #GMS2026! Here's my piece for the conference zine, "In Praise of Nature." I'm blown away by the creativity of the performances that we got to experience today.
Photo of a collage. The background has a book cover with gold accents surrounded by marker drawings of leaves. Overlaid on top are cut-out bits of medieval manuscripts showing angels (sometimes playing instruments and with flowers in their hair), monks, Mary, and animals intertwined with vines. There's also a translucent rainbow sticker over a medieval landscape.
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sneaky look at @mirabelledomine.bsky.social and @lukeewalker.bsky.social’s WIP Margery Kempe film at #GMS2026 today!
a film being shown on a screen: a woman in a white medieval dress and veil walks toward the ruin of a castle
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Back in Wales, about to get back to work, and no I have not written the paper I'm supposed to give next week yet.
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Michael Eber @ebermichael.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
CfP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027: "Queer and Trans Medieval Communities" 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We welcome papers (15-20min) from all disciplines of medieval studies by scholars at any level, on any aspect of medieval queer and trans community, in person or virtual. Abstracts due 31 Aug. We'd love to hear from you!
As the existence of the trans and queer community is under constant and
increasing threat across the world – with alt-right political rhetoric in the West seeking to rupture solidarity for and within the global queer community – the work of the historian has never been more vital. Historians have long found solidarity and recognition of queer experiences and practices with individuals and groups of the past. In concert with the wealth of current research being produced in trans and queer medieval studies, this panel session responds to the urgency of this present moment. In the face of existential threats, we recognise the importance of finding community with one another, which includes understanding our community has a history. This panel session seeks not only to contribute to transtemporal and scholarly trans and queer community building, but to better understand what historical trans and queer communities and practices may have looked like – including the mechanisms and structures that attempted to preclude such community formations. Engaging with and making legible such histories constitutes an act of compassion both with historical actors and with living members of our community today. It also constitutes an act of resistance, by finding existence and continuity in community.
Presentations may address but are not limited to the following topics:
-Cultivating cross-temporal queer and trans community
-How trans and genderqueer experiences manifest in the Middle Ages
-Spaces in which queer/trans community could be manifested in the Middle Ages
-Communal failure or loss of community
-A failing or absence of a trans and queer community
-Texts, codes, etc. used in constituting queer and trans communities in the Middle Ages
-Methodologies available for talking about trans and queer communities 
TITLE, ABSTRACT (200 WORDS) AND BIO (150 WORDS) BY 31 AUG TO:
Michael Eber michael.eber@uni-koeln.de
Hannah Victoria hjohnson@aup.edu
Oliver Wilkin o.lg-wilkin@outlook.com
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I've been away from the internet and missed most of the story, but while there are guys out there using AI to write fake articles with made-up sources, 'accused of plagiarism' doesn't seem like a thing to hound someone to their death for. So much sympathy for his family, colleagues and friends.
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James Taub @taubhistory.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A little bit of an odd request. Does anyone know any textile history experts with knowledge on the linen trade in Brittany, Normandy, or Flanders during the 18th century? Trying to identify a marking on an object in our collection!
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
just going to throw this out there again.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Today university fees rise again, while thousands of academics across the country face job cuts, crushing workloads and shattered morale. Students deserve better than this broken system of unfair repayment that widens inequality. Abolish fees and fund universities properly!
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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:
connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.
every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
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What if you just talked to your children
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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
historical accuracy meter
the peter griffin color skin scale chart meme, where white people are said to have met cyclopes and POC are unlikely to
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. We're inviting proposals from early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project. Learn more: bit.ly/4xWduAS
A colour block banner promoting Postdoctoral Fellowships funding. Deadline: Wednesday 30 September 2026
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CSANA @csanaceltic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
CSANA is now on Bluesky, Instagram, and Facebook! Follow us so you don't miss any updates - we have many exciting things planned! www.instagram.com/csana_celtic... www.facebook.com/share/1EJJN4...
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I also love Erling Haaland but since I keep seeing this misstated, it's a SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BOOK; the text is older but the book is not from the 13th century. (Don't get me wrong, it's awesome either way, but a 13th-century Snorri ms would not go for a mere £100k.)
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Anyone (@imc-leeds.bsky.social?) know how long we have to catch up on recordings of sessions we missed? It is currently too hot inside to sit and watch anything, but I definitely want to catch a few!
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
well this is a cool job.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ten percent of the UK population converted to antitrans views since 2023. Almost as if literally thousands of scaremongering hit-pieces in the national press had an effect.
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
maybe because he's trying to convince people 'The Establishment' is a comedian wearing a bin on his head.
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Back from Leeds #IMC2026 and subsequent mini-break in a lovely air-conditioned hotel. Have hardly touched the internet, which is nice sometimes.
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Marieke Röben @amedievalmare.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Have you tried tourneying it off and on again?
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
New tech support team at @imc-leeds.bsky.social seems a little sus. Eager though! 😆
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
#IMC2026 Day 1 success! Learned things about Mongol burials and brides (not together), Gesta Danorum, and Moravian legal cases, gave a paper that was well-received, went to a whole panel on Skyrim, bought a book, and caught up with friends. Onward to tomorrow!
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
After #IMC2026 I'm meeting up with an old friend in York. We're going to Barley Hall again (possibly in garb) and all this nonsense is entirely @tenthcentury.bsky.social's fault. 😆
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Prep for #IMC2026: time paper, save files, charge mini fan, book a little treat for afterward. 😆
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Among all the other reasons I miss my mom, this is the kind of drama we would have such great conversations about and she isn't here to watch it with me.
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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Tionól 2026 Gairm ar pháipéir: sprioc 3 Iúil Call for papers: deadline 3 July #DIASdiscovers www.dias.ie/2026/04/30/t...
Poster advertising Tionól 2026. Click link for details.
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As a Lutheran I find much of the Catholic schisming highly entertaining but also am very much a fan of this Pope.
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Medieval Institute Publications @mip-medpub.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Another excellent series to focus on during Pride Month is our Premodern Transgressive Literatures series. For information on the Editorial Board, submissions, or details on current titles, check out the series page here --> wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
Two banners, one at the top of reading "Series Spotlight" and the other at the bottom reading "Premodern Transgressive Literatures". In between the banners is a photo of a printed work (16th century) with medieval fragments inside.Text reading: Premodern Transgressive Literatures takes a decisively political, intersectional, and interdisciplinary approach to medieval and early modern literature. The series supports scholarship which transgresses normative bounds along various axes. Transgressive Literatures welcomes projects in its three principal strands: Transgressive Canon, Transgressive Texts and Approaches, and Transgressive Academy.Banner reading "Current Titles" above the book covers of "Thinking Queerly" and "Towards an Accessible Academy". Text on a light background reading: "Keywords: intersectionality, interdisciplinary, literature, culture, medieval, early modern, pedagogy
Geographical Scope: Global, including but not limited to Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia
Chronological Scope: Medieval and early modern world"
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I really think you shouldn't be allowed to keep calling yourself a University if you don't have robust humanities departments. Be a business training outfit or a voc-tech or whatever, but you're not a university.
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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ok, this is pretty cool news, & I have some thoughts. #Augustine #sermons #LateAntiquity #MedievalSky www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
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Two new sermons by St Augustine discovered
In a Latin manuscript from a monastery in Poland, a Latin scholar from Würzburg has found two new sermons by the Doctor of the Church, St Augustine. He is currently working with an edition company on ...
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It is Independent Bookshop Week in the UK, so we are highlighting some of the places where you can buy our books (or order them via bookshop.org). In lovely, seaside Aberystwyth there is Gayberystwyth Books: gayberystwyth-books....
The logo of Gayberystwyth Books, featuring a shelf of books whose spines form a rainbow.
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