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International Congress on Medieval Studies @kzooicms.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Browse the CFP and submit your abstracts here: icms.confex.com/icms/2027/pr...

Manuscript illustration of a morose fish with a speech bubble that reads: "Submit your abstracts for ICMS 2027! Due September 15."

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Perhaps AI will be the grit that makes the pearl: making institutions articulate, for the first time in decades if not ever, what the hell they’re about and what an education is supposed to be for. (This from the MIT committee‘s report on AI)

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm late getting my cards out for St Swithun's Day again, ugh

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Friends! I'm organizing a session for Kalamazoo 2027! Please share and get in touch if you have questions or ideas you'd like to talk about: (1/4)

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Narratives and Narrators in Early Medieval England

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

After a recent milestone birthday, finding Solomon's tone very pointed this morning. (From Dan Anlezark's ed and trans of Solomon and Saturn II)

Text snippet reading: "Solomon said: Old age is, of all things, powerful on earth. With plundering shackles, capacious fetters, she reaches widely, with her long rope, she subdues all she will. She destroys the tree and shatters its branches, uproots the upright trunk on her way, and fells it to the earth; after that she feeds on the wildfowl. She defeats the wolf, she outlasts stones, she surpasses steel, she bites iron with rust, does the same to us." From Dan Anlezark, ed., The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn.

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Come see how I followed up this opening line:

Opening lines of Lorden's Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, reading: "Not unlike Christianity, Old English poetry begins in a stable, with livestock serving as the predominant witnesses to a miraculous birth."

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My first book, Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, has now become available open access through Cambridge University Press! Please check it out here, and feel free to share! I'm delighted that my work could be made accessible to everyone. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

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Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry

Cambridge Core - Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature - Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Grateful to Hannah Bailey for this thoughtful review of my book:

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

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Doctor Hurdy Gurdy @notarealdoctor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Absolutely devastated for these lovers separated from each other two and a half millennia before i was even born. From the book, "Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs" (Wolfe, Michael)

Anonymous inscription at the Battle of Salamis, 480 BCE

To our towering friendship
I've raised this little stone.
Sabinus, I will look for you forever.
If things turn out as people say
And you join the dead,
To drink from the river
That helps men forget,
Please don't drink the drop
That makes you forget me

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is sooo cooolll!!! I’m spending my free time for the rest of today reading the journal article about this.

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Also if you're a trans medievalist, apply for the Trans Travel Fund, also offered through SMFS ! More details here: smfsweb.org/trans-travel...

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I'm also thrilled that my article inspired the choice of cover image, Henry Justice Ford, Crossing the River (1911), for the story “Malchus the Monk,” in The Book of Saints and Heroes, by Leonora Lang, ed. Andrew Lang (London: Longmans, Green, 1912)

Cover of Modern Philology for May 2026. On an off white background, the cover image is a painting of a man and woman crossing a moonlit river at night. The painting is Henry Justice Ford, Crossing the River (1911), for the story “Malchus the Monk,” in The Book of Saints and Heroes, by Leonora Lang, ed. Andrew Lang (London: Longmans, Green, 1912).

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Excited that my new article, "Just as We Read Anywhere: Type Texts, Intertexts, and the Earliest English Lives of Malchus," is out now in Modern Philology! Free access to the first 50 readers here (or email/DM me!): www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/X9HPY...

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I am a PhD sociologist who works outside academia and I approve this message.

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This makes me so happy and proud 😭

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Grateful to Alice Jorgensen and JEGP for this lovely review of my first book: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

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Project MUSE -- Verification required!

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The MLA Old English Forum is now accepting paper proposals for the 2027 annual meeting, 7-10 January. We’re accepting 300-word proposals for two guaranteed sessions until March 15, 2026 for 15-20 minute papers. Please share widely!! And don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions. (1/6)

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
Funding status
Open for applications
Career stage
Early-career

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Feeling immensely grateful at the end of this tough year. I got tenure, was humbled to receive generous recognition from colleagues, and got some exciting professional news in the last few weeks. There's so much work to do but most of the people I get to do it with are pretty great.

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ayoushlazikani.bsky.social @ayoushlazikani.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Check out this excerpt of the brilliant @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social 's monograph, "Straight White Men Can't Dance," forthcoming from Bloomsbury in September!!

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

(the black hole here, too, is how can you possibly evaluate the analysis that your LLM produces if you are not trained to interpret, analyze, historicize?) everything is amazing if you know nothing

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The Kool-Aid Man is often depicted with a smaller pitcher of Kool-Aid: himself. This recursive image invites a layered semiotic reading destabilizing the boundaries between subject and object, container and contained, body and commodity, to highlight a profound paradox in capitalist symbolism of

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Meidas_SocietysChild @societyschild.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Harvard is offering 558 free classes, including but not limited to "We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy", "American Government: Constitutional Foundations", and "U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy." Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏

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Catalog of Courses

Browse the latest courses from Harvard University

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Why is it that BlackRock is doing a better job defending the value of the liberal arts than most actual higher education administrators?

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Ava Hu @avahu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

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12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal

At UC Berkeley, 12 students have had their status restored today after 23 were terminated since April 4.

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Glad to see that it's not too hot today, nor too cold - you really only need a light jacket #PerfectDate

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Literary Form in Early Medieval England - free to download for five more days! Please share! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Cambridge Core - European Studies - Literary Form in Early Medieval England

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

My newest book, Literary Form in Early Medieval England, is available open access for the next two weeks! Come download it for free! This is part of the Cambridge series Elements in England in the Early Medieval World. www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 10/04/2025

We need to keep the cuts to the NEH at the forefront of national, local media attention. I just had a convo today with someone from my local Mass state rep's office about how the cuts to the NEH & NSF etc. and the broader war on higher education will have destructive effects locally.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

the pinnacle of human achievement

A Google search for 'how many rs in museum of english rural life'. Google's AI overview responds to say: The Museum of English Rural Life in Reading has no "Rs" in its name, it is simply called "Museum of English Rural Life.

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Hi all! Just a reminder to send in abstracts by this Friday, 3/15!!

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The MLA Old English Forum is sponsoring two panels at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Jan 8-11. Please share the following widely! (Please note that all accepted presenters must be members of MLA by 7 April, 2025) (1/5):

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

On @projectmuse.bsky.social in Journal of English & Germanic Philology 123.4, @jenlorden.bsky.social argues that Andreas can't displace suffering because he is a secondary character in his own story. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/939567

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Not just the National Institutes of Health, now the National Science Foundation is put on pause. Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.

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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

So delighted to see my strange Andreas article out in the world!!

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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Two genders for everybody to share is just unsanitary. Genders should be changed regularly, you have to at least let them air out before you put them on again 💅🏻

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Universities need to work out how to deal with what precarity has meant when they increasingly rarely hire people into permanent jobs: people with family, children, dependents, permanent homes…

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Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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