iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Academia distilled.

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 06/10/2026

Banning books goes back thousands of years, almost as long as people have been writing. For Banned Books Week (Oct 4-10), Aaron T. Pratt, the Folger's curator of rare books and prints, looks at one of 15 books that James I went beyond banning to publicly burn: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

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James I's Last Book Burning | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Medieval Murder Podcast is looking for guests for our forthcoming episodes. If you are an historian, history enthusiast, or author please feel free to submit your information about a potential episode topic! #medievalsky #earlymodernsky

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Medieval Murder Podcast - Guest Episodes

The Medieval Murder Podcast is looking for guests for our forthcoming episodes. If you are a historian, history enthusiast, or author please feel free to submit your information about a potential epis...

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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

>papal schisms >recurring plagues >antisemitism >magical thinking Which one of you cowards called Medieval Studies useless??!!

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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 01/10/2026

October is the time to make wine - and work on your scorpion drawings. 📖 A man treads grapes. Scorpio. Calendar from a Psalter. 13th century digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/5…

Medieval manuscript page showing two illustrations. A man treading grapes in brass-bound tub; drinking from bowl; an assistant tips grapes into tub. Vine on right. A scorpion representing Scorpio is below. The page has handwritten Latin text in red and black ink.

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thinking about this again and smiling

“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should let people dream of something besides labor

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reading is a practice of freedom.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Iowa City Public library has framed art 🖼️ that you can check out and hang on your wall for a few months. And that is cool.

Art on the wall of a public library with a little boy looking at the art

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Librarians & archivists go to work every day and devote their time and energy to make things accessible and discoverable, today and for many, many days to come. If you see us at the dumpsters, mind your business! Nobody thinks more about the preservation of knowledge and the human record than we do.

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Medieval Murder Podcast @medievalmurder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today we are talking about Saint Sunniva and the Legend of Selja. Sunniva was written about in an anonymous 12th century Norwegian legend, which was later included in Oddr Snorrason’s Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar.

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Saint Sunniva and the Legend of Selja

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm sad about the end of the MSc in Medieval History at Edinburgh, but it's worth saying that the postgrad medieval history courses aren't affected, and will still be available to students on the History MSc programme.

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Alas a timeline synchronicity with @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social that on this occasion really tests the forgiveness. @lottelydia.bsky.social @eicathomefinn.bsky.social

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H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would recommend! I'm not too far in, but so far it's provided a nice context and introduction to the subject in a way I hadn't gotten looking at monasteries from a strictly library perspective.

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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TSW welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces on animals real & imaginary in medieval marginalia. Argumentative, creative, & pedagogical pieces on marginalia from any manuscript, place, & language is welcome! #medievalsky #marginalia #skystorians www.arthuriana.com/tsw-calls-page

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Angry Birds Manuscrit animé

ALT: Angry Birds Manuscrit animé

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H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A wonderful way to start the morning.

A picture of the book “The Monastic World” by Andrew Jotischky, next to an open notebook with notes, and a pumpkin shaped candle.

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H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As an alumna of @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social’s MSc in Medieval History this is ridiculous and devastating for staff, faculty, students and alumni!

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H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is paywayalled. Could you share what’s closing in History, Classics, and Archaeology?

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🧵Early subscription libraries in Yorkshire emerged in the 18th century. These libraries allowed middle-class members to pool money to buy and preserve books. The most important example is The Leeds Library, founded in 1768 and the oldest surviving proprietary subscription

The Leeds Library, founded in 1768 and the oldest surviving proprietary subscription library in the country. Image: Michael D Beckwith, Public Domain.

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Obvs this would happen (saying it 20 yrs ago no-one wd listen) the plan was 1. coax libraries to throw out hard copy & subscribe to ecopy 2. without hard copies available, pump up price for contd access to ecopy. These people who claim to run universities like businesses have no clue about business

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I totally get why Lonnie Bunch is leaving the Smithsonian, but I am also very worried and very sad for what may come. All of the nation's history is in peril, and who knows what kind of historian may be coming to lead it under this administration

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H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We finally got a VPN and can now watch The Chase UK which we discovered on our honeymoon roadtrip from London to Inverness. 👏

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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Academics should not be using general-purpose AI tools (including ones provided by your institution as "closed-loop" for anything proprietary, confidential, sensitive or even just scoopable.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One of the most visionary leaders in the history of The Smithsonian (his appointment is titled "The Secretary"), and the DC heritage sector. Up there with Archibald McLeish at the Library of Congress. Bunch's example positioned memory and recognition as central to preservation and curation.

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Smithsonian chief Lonnie Bunch III to retire amid Trump administration pressure on institution - US politics live

Bunch told the New York Times it was not Trump pressure on the organization that had led to his departure but acknowledged ‘stress’ of the role

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Blue Skies In Utah @papabear333.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The bread is poisoned and the circus is too expensive.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/09/2026

If you see something, save something. Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️ Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears. See something worth keeping? Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/ #ToolsYouCanUse

Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art framing the edges. Bold black text reads "Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage that's important to you before it changes or disappears." A yellow ">" chevron tagline at the bottom reads "tools you can use."

Cream graph-paper graphic framed by yellow line art, featuring a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage with its search bar, page thumbnails, and three tool options — Subscription Service, Collection Search, and Save Page Now — with the Save Page Now box circled in red. A yellow ">" chevron tagline below reads "tools you can use," pointing toward a yellow arrow.

Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building in the lower right. Bold black text reads "Save a page that matters today."

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Emily Schnall @emilyschnall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I just learned the Academy of Natural Sciences here in Philly is suddenly shuttering at the end of this month. Financial issues. It’s been open almost two centuries, it’s older than the London natural history museum. It was the first place in a the world people saw an articulated dinosaur skeleton

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Vicky McAlister @vickymcalister.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Seeking submissions for Eolas vol 20 (2027) until Oct 16! Eolas publishes articles, short reports, DH reviews, and book reviews and we're happy to receive submissions in any of these so long as it relates to medieval Ireland! More info asims.org/Eolas #medievalsky #digitalhumanities

NOW ACCEPTING ARTICLE, SHORT REPORT, AND DIGITAL PROJECT REVIEW SUBMISSIONS FOR EOLAS 20 (2027 publication)!

Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of Ireland in the Middle Ages, including Irish intersections with other medieval cultures and societies. We look forward to receiving submissions on a range of subjects dealing with all aspects of medieval Ireland, including but not limited to: archaeology, philology, theology, literature, history, and art history. The journal is available on JSTOR and is published by the Catholic University of America Press.

The journal includes a Book Reviews section, a Short Reports section, and a Digital Projects Reviews section.

Deadline for article or digital project review consideration in Eolas 20: Friday 16 October 2026.

Further information can be found at: https://asims.org/eolas/

● Articles should be based on original research and be between 7,000 and 10,000 words in length.
● Short Reports are between 1,000 and 3,000 words and take a narrower focus such as examining an archaeological site, manuscript, or literary item.
● Requests for digital project reviews should be submitted by the project lead in an email to the General Editor. The request should include a 300-500 words project description, a url to the project, and details of start date, duration, and continuing status/completion.
● Submissions will be peer-reviewed and assessed by the editorial committee and an outside double-blind reviewer and returned within three months.
● Please use Chicago style, with footnotes; details are on the website: asims.org

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H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m over here managing ours in the Library IT department as the discovery librarian as just like a side gig that take sip the majority of my time

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H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Anyone else feeling a bit discouraged as academic librarians? It feels like my projects aren’t really making a difference and are definitely not noticed by upper admin even in the library. #glams

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H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I finally have a chair in the corner by the window and my plants to read ❤️

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H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The audiobook is also lovely. I’d also recommend The Salt Stones if you like those two.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

not a conspiracy and other researchers are documenting and developing www.theamericanvandal.com/p/against-te...

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Against Technofeudal Education

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Research databases are not preserved. There is no system in place in the UK (or anywhere else, so far as I know) to ensure that research outputs are officially preserved in perpetuity, as though they were books, when they are in the form of a database. " lukemckernan.com/2026/06/28/l...

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Lost resources

To lose one database is a misfortune; to lose four feels like a conspiracy. Recently three online databases and one audiovisual digital archive with underlying database, on each of which I worked f…

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H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I always think summers are going to be my time to catch up on various projects, but libraries never sleep and so my plate is so full that things are falling off it…

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