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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

CFP: While arts and humanities institutions are losing support, academic institutions are adopting artificial intelligence. “Before and Amid the Artificial: (Trans)historicizing the Visual” will examine how art history helps us understand what it means to be human/e. www.elon.edu/u/academics/...

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Before and Amid the Artificial: (Trans)historicizing the Visual

Before and Amid the Artificial:(Trans)historicizing the Visual March 5-6, 2027 | Elon University Call for Papers In 2015, Art History @ Elon hosted “Between, Among, and Across: Transhistories...

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

discovered 3d printer on campus. this seemed like the appropriate use of it

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

how long do you think until my new-ish colleagues realize that the classical music I play in my office ... is just the lord of the rings soundtrack

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Old twitter would have been really funny in the age of disaster lettuce. But now we have horror foods and no chaos twitter to at least make it funny

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Walking through campus today after learning that Dolly Parton died - I saw / was part of faculty huddling together to talk about losing her. I saw students yelling to each other that Dolly Parton had died - and how sad that was- in the chaos between classes.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Trudy and I are on the same page about the start week 2 of the semester

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

first day of the semester. email from one of our new MA students has the best email sign off that I have ever seen. "May your tea never be lukewarm"

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Googled how to make the florescent lights better in a friend‘s new apartment. May I present the google results:

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Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Bought buttons for me and the bestie. No lies told.

Button states:

Hobbies include reading and hating everything

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"final reminder that you must post your syllabi by Aug. 9" Cool. you know what I love? being reminded that summer is almost over with a side of please post your syllabi so the public can judge you and what you are teaching. cool.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

there is nothing weirder than finding a thesis students who writes notes to themselves... in the exact same manner that you do to yourself.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

look I may be bad at mail (opening, sending etc.) but a friend just found something she meant to send me in... 2005. The letter wishes me luck in undergrad. I am now a professor.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Reviewer #2, but make them obsessed with indie music. and grammar mistakes that not even the journal editor could find. This day in peer review is an odd one - even by normal standards.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

my MA student just sent me her thesis ideas in a document titled "thoughts (and prayers suggested before reading)" A+ on the name alone

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

i’m sorry but ‘literally died of hard heartedness’ is the most hack writing yet in an already weak season

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

plan for work. Step 1: look at grant material. Step 2: get overwhelemd. Step 3: look at puppy and remember that puppies exist. Step 4: return to step 1.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

there are many problems with AI . but have we considered that it is also trying to make me into an adult (negative)

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Job Opportunity! The Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking outstanding candidates for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position in the history of U.S. political economy from the Civil War to the present. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess...

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Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

when you co-write an article while you have a concusion (dictating your part out loud to a friend cause you can't look at a computer screen) rereading the article years later means it can be a bit of a surprise to learn what you wrote

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

medievalists of the internet. There has to be an online paleography training tool right? right?? any one have any suggestions

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

home from kzoo and incredibly excited to read this new-to-me gem @lauramorreale.bsky.social

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

ok y'all this paper at @kzooicms.bsky.social by Thai-Catherine Matthews of @skidmorecollege.bsky.social is INCREDIBLE. Chaucer and bell hooks in a digital humanities project?? what an actual dream

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

thrilled to start off the second full day of @kzooicms.bsky.social watching @rittigers.bsky.social 's Dr. Katie Albers give a paper

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Ok Chicago Pope!!!! 📚

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

yesterday @eagatti.bsky.social and I found a book chapter we co-wrote (and edited by @lauramorreale.bsky.social ) out in the wild at @kzooicms.bsky.social . so we obviously took some very normal pictures with the book.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Thrilled to be at @kzooicms.bsky.social and attending a panel on medieval manuscripts in the midwest organized by the @peripheralmss.bsky.social Peripheral Manuscript Project. Honestly, what a dream start to the conference.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

considering banning my dogs from my home office because they are too cute and way more interesting than any work

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The thing about going to a coffee shop in the last week of classes is that even half an hour away from campus, somehow everyone in there is a student on the verge of a mental breakdown.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Three days before the semester ends (and first year on the new job)- and same:

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

on friday: ok I think I am finally ready to start applying for federal grants again after the emotional turmoil of having my NEH grant cancelled. I will apply for an NSF grant this summer as they seem to still be going. Yesterday: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

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Trump Fires Board Members of Group That Oversees U.S. Science Funding

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Oh go to work, leave this animate teddy bear behind at home, oh yeah sure - that sounds like a good idea.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It would probably be unethical to tell my students that their grades benefit when I am eating dark chocolate ice cream? right? probably?

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Just told a friend that our medieval studies degrees were so relevant now- and that she needed to catch up on the pope drama. ”oh no” was the only and most accurate response that I received

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i am 40 fish all hungry for meat @carbidecarbon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

they really said "they should have sent a poet"

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Every photo of me teaching is hysterically deranged looking

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Having an insomnia week - and so I can now tell you - that a sleepy time podcast exists in which they… READ BEOWULF TO YOU as a bedtime story. I. Just do not know what to say here.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Walked into my classroom to find my students had done this deep dive into 1995 pride and prejudice adaptation vs 2005. They did this for an hour before class. We are not reading pride and prejudice

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Yeah sure go teach sagas and learn about data science and leave this fact behind. THAT SEEMS SENSIBLE

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Another "elephant" of the past, this time from Johann Hartlieb’s Kräuterbuch (Book of Herbs), dating from the middle of the 15th century. #skystorians

An animal, drawn onto a page in a manuscript, that looks like a big horse but is supposed to be an elephant (hellfant). Access to the source: https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN620313544

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

at the start of spring break: I am going to grade three or four papers a day and be done by the end of break with no stress. on the last day of spring break, starting at 16 ungraded papers: well shit.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/03/2026

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

please enjoy this remarkable comment that I found while grading my student's peer reviews. One student calling another out for thinking that their peer's paper was AI. I am in AWE of this. the directness. The confidence. The don't give me this AI-shit nature of this comment. just in awe.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

upsides of digital humanities: you get emails like this. downsides of digital humanities: 6 years after graduating phd school, I am somehow still trying to get my brain to simultaneously work in two radically different fields. and like. I am tired.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

“Fullones uḷulamque cano non arma virumq(ue)” 🦉 “I sing about fullers and an owl, not about arms and a man" CIL IV, 9131, Pompeii (IX.13.5), 79 CE, a graffito near a door entrance parodying the fist line of Virgil. ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/gra...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Many are the repositories whose digitized collections are held together by paper clips & twine paid for with an uncertain budget that may not get renewed in the next fiscal year because there’s long been a zeal to “just” digitize things but not to invest in their careful documentation & maintenance.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Sometimes I think about all the professors who I admired and was in awe of when I was in undergrad - as I send a voice note at 6 am describing a workshop that I will do instead of the abstract I promised to send in two days ago

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I think one of the things that threatens my verve as a professor of medieval shenanigans is that I have been doing this long enough that I forget certain medieval theories are batshit. Breastmilk *is* processed blood. I see no alternative scientific explanation as viable.

A fifteenth century manuscript of the life of Catherine of Siena showing her as a young woman kneeling next to Christ and suckling from his side wound.

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