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Oxford History of the Book @bkhistoxford.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Hugely exciting to be able to advertise the Professorship in Latin Palaeography at the History Faculty @ox.ac.uk in conjunction with @wadhamcollege.bsky.social, and to join the world's largest community of medievalists @oxmedstud.bsky.social medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/02/27/j... #medieval #palaeography

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 12/02/2025

1/ Today for #LibraryLoversMonth we are looking at a 1745 English translation of a pamphlet, originally printed in Italian & the subject of a lecture delivered by physicist Antonio Cocchi (1695-1758) in Florence 2 yrs previous, on the merits of vegetarianism, or a Pythagorean diet as it was called.

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Digitization & cataloging is complete for the collection of the Lebanese Maronite Order in Kaslik, Lebanon. The oldest manuscript fragments in the collection date back to the 15th century and were discovered within the binding of a printed book. Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

Evangelist portrait featuring John and his eagle, surrounded by elaborate scrollwork, painted by artist and scribe Rizq ibn Buṭrus. John writes on a scroll that displays the text of John 1:1 in Arabic Garshuni. (OLM 00983, folio 271v)

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/02/2025

From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians

Photograph of the Royal Historical Society's BlueSky homepage.

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Lari Ahokas @ahokas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

One step closer to Leeds #IMC2025 and #DMSI2025 UK edition! See you in July!

A completed Leeds International Medieval Congress 2025 registration form.

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 06/02/2025

This year marks 100 years of the Leverhulme Trust. Enabling talented researchers across the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences to undertake blue skies, interdisciplinary, ambitious and risky research. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/what-we-do

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Thomas Smits @thomassmits.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social) openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

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A Fully-Searchable Multimodal Dataset of the Illustrated London News, 1842–1890 | Journal of Open Humanities Data

The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) aims to be a key part of a thriving community of scholars sharing humanities data. The journal features peer reviewed publications describing humanities rese...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 05/02/2025

If you need another break from current news, come with me 7000 years ago to search for the first speakers of Indo-European languages. 🧪 Gift link: nyti.ms/42ILio5

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Ancient DNA Points to Origins of Indo-European Language (Gift Article)

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others.

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Had so much fun with food historian Marjory Szurko to present a @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social workshop for the Medieval Women’s Writing and Critical Food Studies Network groups on historic recipes (with sweet treats by Marjory)! 📜🍰

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 05/02/2025

2,000 years on the 'To Be Read' pile but with new technological advances we may soon be able to unlock the secrets inside the Herculaneum Scrolls: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... Exciting stuff!

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First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years

The document charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is being 'unwrapped' using X-ray scans and AI.

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Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Reminder: Hilary Term Lecture The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures Elizabeth Frood (Oxford) An unexpected script for an unexpected text: the tomb autobiography of the Egyptian Royal Secretary Tjay cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk/seminars/#po... Magrath Room, The Queen's College 5 February: 5.30pm

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Seminars - Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A magical @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Coffee Morning today on early modern alchemy! 📜🎉

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Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩‍🎨 @nenazhivina.com · 31/01/2025

Drawing, especially in ink, demands absolute focus—every stroke is final. Unlike painting there’s no room for corrections, making it a true test of precision. This challenge sharpens skill over time, pushing constant growth. Freehand drawing is raw and immediate, mastering it means mastering control

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Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures Establishes New Partnership in China The centres will develop inter- and cross-disciplinary research on early text cultures across the world to foster the pollination of knowledge across the study of literate societies. www.ames.ox.ac.uk/article/cent...

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 31/01/2025

The IKEA Foundation has renewed its support for Oxford’s Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH), a pioneering initiative that helps people who have been affected by displacement to become leaders across the humanitarian sector. More info ⬇️

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IKEA Foundation pledges £2 million to Oxford initiative championing

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 31/01/2025

..."For the moment, it would be incorrect to say outputs of ChatGPT or other generative models are protected under IP law by default," Professor Brent Mittelstadt, @oiioxford.bsky.social, told news website The Daily Upside. www.thedailyupside.com/technology/a... #DeepSeek #Chatgpt

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OpenAI Suggests DeepSeek Illicitly Used ChatGPT to Build its AI

To be clear, OpenAI has not yet come down hard saying DeepSeek definitely stole its intellectual property.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 31/01/2025

Take the Bodleian Reader Survey: unioxforfrankie.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Win £50!

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Here is the manuscript studies starter pack with amazing people researching Latin, Greek, Syriac, Ethiopian, Mughal, Chinese and many more manuscript cultures! go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

Sewing pattern for part of a shirt. It is clearly made from a dark brown manuscript page with small lettering written in two columns.

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 29/01/2025

A statement from Vice-Chancellor Prof Irene Tracey following the UK Government’s renewed focus on the Oxford/Cambridge corridor:

“Oxford University welcomes the new growth commission and the government’s renewed focus on the Oxford/Cambridge corridor.

The Oxford-Cambridge region is a powerhouse of innovation and an economic crown jewel, driven by world-leading universities that spin-out as well as attract globally pioneering companies.

As a supercluster, we create thousands of jobs and attract millions in investment that benefits local and national efforts for growth and prosperity through partnerships, such as that between Oxford and Birmingham.

Our efforts additionally bring transformative societal and health benefits that go beyond life sciences and tech with our recognised strengths in the creative arts and humanities.”

Professor Irene Tracey, CBE, FRS, FMedSci Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happy Chinese New Year! On this 19th century Chinese dish, brought to life by Amy George, two dragons play with a pearl.

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ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures @sociodigfutures.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Public lecture announcement! We're honoured to be joined this term by Leverhulme Visiting Professor Theodore Schatzki and invite you to a free public lecture 'Spaces of Digitalising Societies' on 11 March in Bristol and online. Find out more buytickets.at/esrccentrefo... @leverhulme.bsky.social

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Select tickets – Spaces of Digitalising Societies - a public lecture from Leverhulme Visiting Professor Theodore Schatzki – Online & Wills Memorial Building, room 3.30, University of Bristol

Please note: This lecture will be available online and in person. A link to join the lecture online will be circulated in early...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 26/01/2025

Library of Congress launches History of the Book post series blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/...

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History of the Book | Bibliomania

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 27/01/2025

We're hiring! The Bodleian are looking for a Public Engagement Officer. This is an exciting role based in the Weston Library, with the opportunity to make a real impact on visitors and the community, working with the Bodleian’s historic collections. For more information: tinyurl.com/48uuw625.

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Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Curiously DeepSeek is much more truthful? when asked to respond in code

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Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

TERM CARD HILARY TERM 5 February 5.30pm Magrath Room, The Queen’s College Elizabeth Frood, St Cross, Oxford WORK IN PROGRESS (WiP) 18 February 5.15pm Memorial Room, The Queen’s College Riccardo Montalto, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Holly Dempster-Edwards, University of Liverpool

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Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We're delighted to host Dr Riccardo Montalto (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) and Holly Dempster-Edwards (University of Liverpool) at our Hilary Term 'Work-in-Progress' Colloquium on Tuesday 18th February at 5.15pm in the Memorial Room, Queen’s. cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk/work-in-prog...

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“Work in Progress” colloquium – Hilary Term 2025 - Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures

The Centre hosts the following two speakers on Tuesday 18th February 2025 at 5.15pm in the Memorial Room, Queen’s: 1. Dr Riccardo Montalto (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico...

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Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Manuscript and Text Cultures included in DOAJ 13 March 2024 The Centre is pleased to announce that our journal Manuscript and Text Cultures has just been accepted for inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Please see here: cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk/manuscript-a...

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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

We're looking forward to hearing Dr Caitlin Kitchener speak next Tuesday at the Parliaments, Politics and People seminar about early 19thC radical material culture (including a rare surviving Peterloo banner). Find out more and how to join online here: historyofparliament.com/2025/01/22/p... #19thC

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Producing, Performing and Curating Radicalism: How was radical material culture produced, used and curated in early 19th century Britain? - The History of Parliament

Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Caitlin Kitchener. On 28 January Caitlin will discuss the production, use

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Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

CMTC Hilary Term Lecture by Dr Elizabeth Frood (Oxford) 'An unexpected script for an unexpected text: the tomb autobiography of the Egyptian Royal Secretary Tjay’ For more details, see here: cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk/hilary-term-...

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Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

CMTC are opening a three-year research fellowship in manuscript and text cultures. For details, see: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju...

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