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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 6h

Head's up Sweden too. Nip this in the bud while you still can.

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NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did you know that you can upload images to the iViking app from your gallery? 🌄 Easily share pics of Viking heritage from your photo archives... like this super pic of a modern runestone (the Vasastenen) taken by user Ingski and submitted this week. #iViking #MedievalSky #NorseMap #Norse #heritage

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Dr. Liz Fischer @lizfischer0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Does anyone have a syllabus on pre-modern nostalgia?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Peraventure the "humanityes cultivate empathye" defense doth not worke by cause those who trye the hardest to defunde and dismantle the humanityes are activelye workinge to devalue empathye.

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Tales from the Mabinogion @mabinogiongame.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interested in both the Middle Ages and video games? You're in for a treat next week! I had the pleasure of giving a keynote talk at last year's event, overall a super interesting occasion - very much looking forward to seeing the presentations this year! middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/middl...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the beautiful things about my weirdo course, "Extracting the Past: Democratic Futures without AI" is the intellectual collage I get to concoct. Last week we read about the history of computer vision; this week we read Michelle Caswell on archives and met with special librarians & archivists.

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Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So I've had a speaker drop-out last minute from the session dedicated to Old Norse female networks and communities! I still need to figure out next steps but is there coincidentally anyone who'd like to present in this session? #MedievalSky #OldNorse

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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another timely (and otherwise absolutely relevant) article! I just discussed periodization (and how it works and doesn't) wrt the Middle Ages with my 1st years.

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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And that's me just finished recording a lecture related to this topic! And in a couple weeks they'll be testing & discussing Transkribus. Guess if I'm adding a link to this article to the reading list?! Perspective is needed.

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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Stanislov Petrov Day. First time I've heard of it but what a relief that he existed. Great take in this piece about parallels with today's techology and its hiccups, aka GenAI systems.

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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, Global Humanities, Simon Fraser University Literary, Rhetorical and Social Worlds of Ancient Greece universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

SURVEY - DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND HISTORICAL REENACTMENT Reenactors! The followup survey to our pilot is here. Please help by filling it out & spreading this post among your reenactment friends and communities. Thanks! --Sara & @ylvagrufstedt.bsky.social www.facebook.com/sara.ellis.n...

Young Vistula basin dwellers during an early medieval reenactment in Poland. Image by Marsilar, 9 August 2026 (License: CC-BY-SA-4.0. Self-published work).

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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Inspirerande! Går det att få samma effekt i Lomma kommun? undrar några bekanter. Och min ständiga fråga: Varför finns det ingen orubblig jordbruksreserv (jmf 'agricultural reserve') som omfattar Sveriges bästa lantbruksområden?

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 21/09/2026

Behind every refugee is a life interrupted by war, conflict or persecution. Peace is the most urgent form of protection they need. #InvestInPeace

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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Interesting (and important) example that once again reminds us of the need to dispell the (seemingly neverending) myth that the digital equates to speed in all areas.

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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Valkoll har varit en räddning i dessa osäkra dagar. Tack, Victor!

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Victor Pressfeldt @vpressfeldt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nu är sidan för att följa ledamöter mycket bättre. victorpressfeldt.com/valkoll/leda...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A first-rate resource for anyone who writes on British and Irish (including colonial and postcolonial) history, from the Romans to the present. Also available via national libraries and individual subscriptions (discounted for members of various associations). And it cannot hallucinate citations!

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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wish I were in Stockholm for this event! Presentation of the digitization of medieval manuscripts project. www.kb.se/om-oss/evene...

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Jo Guldi @joguldi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What happens when AI breaks our ability to establish what actually happened? I talked with Shae about Wikipedia across 300+ languages, AI’s English-language bias, provenance, and why we need a right to a verifiable past. Historians and archivists belong in the AI conversation.

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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🚨EPISODE ONE OF MY NEW PODCAST, CHALLENGING HISTORIES, PRODUCED BY @histfest.bsky.social IS OUT TOMORROW!!!! 🚨

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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

UK specific but universal example. I'm concerned about the direction things are going in Sweden too. Unlike where I grew up in Canada, my kids had access to council-run, affordable music programs here. But places are limited & can't count on school music classes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I co-founded an orchestra 18 years ago. Since then, I’ve seen doors close for working-class musicians | Robert Ames

I have lost patience with the sector’s talk of diversity when it refuses to acknowledge those people who can’t afford to keep playing, says conductor and composer Robert Ames

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#maritimehistory #earlymodern

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Donna Trembinski @medievalatx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Forgot to tag Shannon in the original post, sigh. @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social @canmedievalists.bsky.social

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Gunnlaugur Magnússon @pragmarxist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Min tes så här kvart i val: skolpolitiken kommer inte fixa skolan. För det krävs verkliga systemändringar som politikerna verkar oförmögna att genomföra skolaochsamhalle.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/g...

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Gunnlaugur Magnússon: Skolpolitikens svek mot skolan

I slutspurten mot valet kom resultaten från den nyaste Pisa-undersökningen. I dagens inlägg ger Gunnlaugur Magnússon en analys av det skolpolitiska läget utifrån regeringens löften och levererade r…

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Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries @dhnb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📢 ONLINE EVENT 24. SEPT: ONWARDS AND OUTWARDS - DHNB celebrates 10 years, with provocations by @arjensenius.bsky.social, @andabaklane.bsky.social and CJ Chen on where digital humanities research is heading. More information and registration for zoom link here: dhnb.eu/about-dhnb/o...

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Amy S. Kaufman @askaufman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The September newsletter is here with a few thoughts about AI and writing, and all the reasons it's a bad idea. amyskaufman.substack.com/p/the-one-ag...

Christine de Pizan writing a book with a robot emoji on her head.

People have spent decades being afraid of the singularity, but I actually think that what we have right now-unintelligent AI-is far more dangerous.

LLMs encourage people to look outside themselves to figure out what they want to say, instead of looking inside. They encourage us, in essence, to be told what we think and feel.

In our current always-online world, our creativity was one of the last inner spaces available to us. And creativity requires shutting out external distractions, all those flattening, homogenizing voices. It's the space that makes us individuals."

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Plese repost & share! Teachinge or studyinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level? Heere ys a free, open access, scholar-creatid resource: #OA #OER opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

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The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books

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Brita Planck @planckskonstant.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Älskar när människor som kan och förstår saker förklarar!

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You said, "Sadly as I am not as creative as others, I used chat GBT to help me figure out how to do it and what I needed." I am one of your creative friends. I would have been delighted if you had asked me. If I could have shared what I know, with you. If we could have done this craft together.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Has anyone written about carbon monoxide poisoning from a historical perspective? How people understood what was happening, how common it was, how people avoided it? #skystorians 🗃️

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Mari Välimäki @marivalimaki.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is the situation between historians and the National Archives in Finland

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How dare you forbid vehicles in cities! We cannot have towns where the only vehicles will be for deliveries and services! This is an insane left-wing idea, a novelty against any tradition and it will kill the inner cities. Lex Iulia Municipalis from 45 BCE:

14) After January 1 next no one shall drive a wagon along the streets of Rome or along those streets in the suburbs where there is continuous housing after sunrise or before the tenth hour of the day, except whatever will be proper for the transportation and the importation of material for building temples of the immortal gods, or for public works, or for removing from the city rubbish from those buildings for whose demolition public contracts have been let. For these purposes permission shall be granted by this law to specified persons to drive wagons for the reasons stated.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hey fam, do we have a historian of 18th/early 19thc Canada hereabouts? I've got an archival question.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 30/08/2026

CBC has the best coverage of the US, but Canada's large population of recent immigrants with worldwide relationships also makes its world news great. This CBC journalist is on placement with Deutsche Welle and bringing domestic German news to an Anglophone public. www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...

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How ordinary clothing became a coded language for Germany's far right | CBC News

As Germany’s far right gains political ground, researchers say some of its supporters are becoming more comfortable signalling their views in public — sometimes without displaying an explicitly politi...

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The final countdown to the paperback of A History of England in 25 Poems, out this Thursday 3 September! I'm especially excited that it actually has the little Penguin on the front cover - and the classic orange spine 🧡🐧. I'd be so grateful for any last pre-orders 🙏 www.penguin.co.uk/books/461263...

Cover of A History of England in 25 Poems by Catherine Clarke, with a design of three birds. A quote from The Times, Books of the Year (Dominic Sandbook): 'Marvellous, brilliantly realised'

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

September is time for threshing the wheat. #MedievalCalendar BL Add 62925; the 'Rutland Psalter'; c.1260 CE; England, S. E.; f.5r @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

September is the time for sowing seeds. #medievalcalendar Bodleian Library MS. Add. A. 46; Calendar from a Psalter; 13th century, third quarter; f.5r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Manuscript Hunters! My new project, HANDMADE, on Neil Ker & his international network of scholars is running at CESTA. Since June, three fab undergrads have used AI to list, describe, & transcribe 10,000 letters and postcards from 1933-1982. We now have an incredible resource for further analyses.

A large poster showing text and visualizations emerging from the Manuscript Hunters project on Neil Ker.

The key research questions for the Neil Ker correspondence project.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm aware of the surreal nature of spending a couple hours auditing votes for a fun novelty bracket and making a statement like this, but it's also a CBC project that I treat with integrity Enchanted Forest is lovely, we have no idea who set up these automated votes, it just is what it is

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