Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Really remarkable stats. The point about senior posts surprised me. I can envisage a situation in 10-20 yrs time where e.g. endowed professorships continue to advertise, but the cohort of research-focussed mid-career people ready to step up is basically non-existent. Academic quality will collapse. 3112
Reposted by Dave AddisonFernand Peloux @fpeloux.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Parution en ligne des actes d'une journée d'étude (2024) sur les échanges de textes entre les péninsules ibérique et italienne dans le haut Moyen Âge, à l'occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Manuel Díaz y Díaz. www.mirabileweb.it/edgalluzzo/m... 053
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 10/02/2026This is a truly wild ride. A professor of economics claiming that AI is working class liberation. Hmmm. wonkhe.com/blogs/ai-sha... 040
Reposted by Dave AddisonCharles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Looking forward to reading this new book by Conor O'Brien. academic.oup.com/book/61836?l...academic.oup.comThe Rise of Christian Kingship in the Early Medieval WestAbstract. This book investigates how Christianity changed politics and how politics changed Christianity over the course of the early Middle Ages. Early Ch 04015
Reposted by Dave AddisonYale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 22/12/2025New volume of Traditio Vol. 80 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56113 @projectmuse.bsky.social @xuthal.bsky.social @jmharland.bsky.social @daveaddison.bsky.social 0136
Reposted by Dave AddisonMonica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪nature.comPoint of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for fundingWith so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins. 8425241
Reposted by Dave AddisonJames Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 05/12/2025My new article has now been published in the 2025 volume of Traditio. I use a little examined episode on the lower Rhine in the late 350s with the aid of agricultural archaeology to reveal fiscal dependency relations between the Empire & Barbaricum, & the consequences of their rupture. #medievalskydoi.orgJULIAN’S BATAVIAN CAMPAIGN, AN EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL IN BRITAIN, AND BARBARIAN ACCESS TO THE ANNONA MILITARIS | Traditio | Cambridge CoreJULIAN’S BATAVIAN CAMPAIGN, AN EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL IN BRITAIN, AND BARBARIAN ACCESS TO THE ANNONA MILITARIS - Volume 80 813332
Reposted by Dave AddisonDave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 05/12/2025I'm very happy to see that my new article on the martyrs of Zaragoza is out in this year's Traditio. Many thanks to the Traditio team, who were wonderful to work with! doi.org/10.1017/tdo....doi.orgTHE ‘INNUMERABLE’ OF ZARAGOZA: A MARTYR CULT BETWEEN CITY AND MONASTERY | Traditio | Cambridge CoreTHE ‘INNUMERABLE’ OF ZARAGOZA: A MARTYR CULT BETWEEN CITY AND MONASTERY - Volume 80 3198
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 05/12/2025I'm very happy to see that my new article on the martyrs of Zaragoza is out in this year's Traditio. Many thanks to the Traditio team, who were wonderful to work with! doi.org/10.1017/tdo....doi.orgTHE ‘INNUMERABLE’ OF ZARAGOZA: A MARTYR CULT BETWEEN CITY AND MONASTERY | Traditio | Cambridge CoreTHE ‘INNUMERABLE’ OF ZARAGOZA: A MARTYR CULT BETWEEN CITY AND MONASTERY - Volume 80 3198
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Wild stat in the FT: Coventry University spend 12% of *all* annual expenditure paying fees to middle-men who recruit international students 🤯 220
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 19/09/2025I genuinely don't understand who this kind of messaging from Kyle is for. Do red wall voters dream of Silicon valley in the fens? Are Economist subscribers a major voting bloc? Or does he just spend too much time talking fifteen or so guys from a handful of think tanks? 000
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Would be easier to imagine journalism surviving the AI threat if certain journalists weren't equally, or rather more, prone to hallucination. 020
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Relatedly, I think it's strange how little university AI conversations relate to the business context of all of this. (For good and for ill). You don't have to be an AI doomer to wonder whether the promises that these companies valuations can ever be made good. 110
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 19/08/2025AI question: Have any scholarly societies/journals/professional bodies put out policy statements on the use of LLMs in historical research? I'm aware of many on teaching and assessing, but not so many regarding research. There was a roundtable in the AHR in 2023, but this wasn't a policy piece. 140
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Eye-opening stuff here from Clifford Ando on Chicago 031
Reposted by Dave AddisonJames Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Any #medievalsky members heading to the Leeds International Medieval Congress take care about emails from Global Travel Experts (ops@gtravelhost.com) asking you to 'confirm your booking.' Seems to be an elaborate scam & has targeted other international conferences: www.faops2024.org/gnuboard/bbs...faops2024.orgFAOPS 2024FAOPS 2024 11414
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Really enjoyed writing this piece with @merleeisenberg.bsky.social on the use and abuse of "feudalism" in current political thinking. Thanks v much to @jacobinmag.bsky.social. Free to read here: jacobin.com/2025/05/capi...jacobin.comCapitalism Is Changing, but Not Into “Neofeudalism”Some left writers have argued that contemporary capitalism is mutating into a form of “neofeudalism” as tech barons run amok. But what we’re actually witnessing is an important shift within rather tha... 050
Reposted by Dave AddisonDave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Late to the party, I know. But here's my review of Peter Brown's autobiography, in which, among other things, I ask what the Brownian rethinking of the end of the Roman Empire tells us about thr intellectual history of Britain's own imperial twilight link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comPeter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History - SocietySociety - 062
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Late to the party, I know. But here's my review of Peter Brown's autobiography, in which, among other things, I ask what the Brownian rethinking of the end of the Roman Empire tells us about thr intellectual history of Britain's own imperial twilight link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comPeter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History - SocietySociety - 062
Reposted by Dave AddisonJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 01/04/2025The British media, especially newspapers, is also getting more detached from public opinion as it has an ever decreasing market, the draw of American clicks, and owners who are happy to treat them as loss-making vanity (and power) projects. 12362102
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I met a Times journalist once and they spent the entire time quizzing me on why younger people are refusing to subscribe to the newspaper of record these days. They had this weird sense that they were entitled to people's attention, since the Times was the truly representative centre of Brit media. 210
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 17/03/2025What better way to celebrate Bradford's re-vamped Science & Media Museum (2025) than by closing the university's chemistry, film and television courses? 010
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Apparently Clyde Pharr translated the Theodosian Code to own the libs (a healthier response than many today ...) 152
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Good news for medievalists ... But on a serious note, is there any good work from pre-modern historians engaging with Varoufakis's "Technofeudalism" etc? 1122
Reposted by Dave AddisonCharles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 07/01/2025A reminder about the EME/BSR fellowship: a month's stay in Rome for someone doing/recently finished a PhD on early medieval European history. Deadline 31st January. bsr.ac.uk/second-bsr-e...bsr.ac.ukSecond BSR/Early Medieval Europe Fellowship - bsr.ac.ukIn partnership with the journal Early Medieval Europe, the British School at Rome is pleased to announce the second BSR/EME Fellowship. Aimed at early career researchers (defined as current PhD stu... 02221
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 02/01/2025It's clear that there are particularly acute issues in funding for the humanities and arts, but I've also always found it eye-opening to speak to scientists about how bad things are getting in their disciplines. A general crisis. 120
Reposted by Dave AddisonDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Really interesting long essay on Netflix & the streamers. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess... 50963314
Reposted by Dave AddisonSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/12/2024About a 10th of the number of Ukrainian refugee children state schools took in without any panicked coverage. Such nonsense. 341195357
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 22/12/2024I'm slightly surprised by the negative response from academics to Labour's axing of the Latin programme in certain states schools. What's a good reason to teach Lati to children, besides a hazy nostalgia for the bad old days of grammar schools and the cultural canon they cultivated? 200
Reposted by Dave AddisonMerle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Well this forthcoming book looks perfectly delightful from a great scholar: "Gardens in Northern Iberia in the Early Middle Ages: Practice, Product, and Sale" by Wendy Davies: academic.oup.com/book/58984academic.oup.comGardens in Northern Iberia in the Early Middle Ages: Practice, Product, and SaleAbstract. This book is about gardens in northern Spain and northern Portugal in the early middle ages, that part of the Iberian peninsula that lay beyond M 07620
Reposted by Dave AddisonDave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Very happy to see my new article on Paschasius of Dumium and the Iberian translation of the Apophthegmata patrum published (open access) in Al-Masaq. Features Atlantic-Mediterranean connectivity, Evagrius Ponticus, and a crocodile. doi.org/10.1080/0950...doi.orgVisions of the Desert in Atlantic Iberia: The Enigmas of Paschasius of Dumium’s Liber geronticonThe apophthegmata patrum or “sayings of the desert fathers” were an essential resource for Late Antique monastics. Compiled in Greek, they quickly circulated in an array of languages, including Cop... 2207
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Very happy to see my new article on Paschasius of Dumium and the Iberian translation of the Apophthegmata patrum published (open access) in Al-Masaq. Features Atlantic-Mediterranean connectivity, Evagrius Ponticus, and a crocodile. doi.org/10.1080/0950...doi.orgVisions of the Desert in Atlantic Iberia: The Enigmas of Paschasius of Dumium’s Liber geronticonThe apophthegmata patrum or “sayings of the desert fathers” were an essential resource for Late Antique monastics. Compiled in Greek, they quickly circulated in an array of languages, including Cop... 2207
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Re: being culpable, what's so unnerving about this line of argument is that it partakes in exactly the same demand for direct relevance that government and industry increasingly and (often) unreflectively make of universities. 130