Reposted by James HarlandJulia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Back safely from our ancient history tour to Venetia et Histria. Day 9: a last minute panic over a lost document, the filing if a police report and a manic race through Venice airport to catch our flight. It’s never dull travelling with students 😉 0131
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Wasn't going to let a little old broken ankle stop me from enjoying our marvellous departmental excursion to Venetia and Istria. 2361
Reposted by James HarlandBonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 02/10/2026The BCDSS invites applications for Heinz Heinen Fellowships 2027/2028, open to doctoral, postdoctoral and senior scholars and Alternative Knowledge Producers. Proposals on the period before 1900. Deadline: 10 January 2027. buff.ly/q7D1TvA @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de 044
Reposted by James HarlandRobert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Warsaw Late Antique Seminar: Winter Semester 2026/7: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl 02110
Reposted by James HarlandGiulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026when the only reason you agree to do reviews is the financial incentive of getting your friends’ books 1246
Reposted by James HarlandShin Megami Tension Headache @chakacant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Totally unrelated but Hitler fell in with the Nazis because he was sent in to spy on the DAP by the German army. i mention this for no reason 0221
Reposted by James HarlandAsh @queerash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Oh you're a posh public school boy who joined the army and got medically discharged for a relatively minor injury? Then you got in with a bad crowd which led to a vague substantial-but-doable prison term? After which you immediately became close to the most notorious far-right agitator in the UK?" 719618
Reposted by James HarlandAsh @queerash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I still absolutely don't believe it but Danny Tommo having an almost perfect background for an intelligence asset is so funny 1218722
Reposted by James HarlandSimon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A previously unknown early medieval church from the Norse period found by archaeologists on Greenland! www.nrk.no/vestland/uib...nrk.noUiB med på sensasjonelt funn på Grønland: Avslørte ukjend kyrkjeruin frå norrøn tidEit beinfunn under ei utgraving på Sør-Grønland stadfestar oppdaginga av ei norrøn kyrkje frå mellomalderen. Funnet kan gi nye svar på kvifor vikingane til slutt reiste frå øya. 0217
Reposted by James Harlandlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated. 7557105
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Not a bad climb for a man currently on crutches, imho. 3260
Reposted by James HarlandHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026FT asking the big questions here - could Anthropic maintain its growth trajectory if AI destroys humanity? www.ft.com/content/96d0... 813540
Reposted by James HarlandAnna Neumaier @annaneumaier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Alter. 21627 Einreichungen auf ein Fellowship-Programm. Wer soll das alles begutachten? 😶🌫️ Wer jetzt nicht für mehr Grundförderung und weniger Drittmittel argumentiert, der ist doch nicht gescheit. 1026372
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There remains nowhere near enough attention given to this study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 1122
Reposted by James HarlandJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening? 23833111339
Reposted by James HarlandWIRED @wired.com · 11/09/2026Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. www.wired.com/story/one-of...wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 15458198
Reposted by James HarlandWOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course. 181270440
Reposted by James HarlandMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026How do we think about the "Fall" of Rome today? What can we do to frame it in a more productive way? Our new open access article tries to tackle these questions and offer a new view of the scholarly narrative of the end of Rome. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgTowards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge CoreTowards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end 415561
Reposted by James HarlandDr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's not Caturday, but here's a #medieval description of "cattys mynte" (catnip), from the Middle English #herbal of Henry Daniel, written ca.1380: “cattes louyn it souerynly, in so mykel þat þey walwen hem þat ar yn & þeron, & eten it by þe grounde, but if þer be þe more plente of....static.klipy.comCatnip Kitty Enjoys CatnipALT: Catnip Kitty Enjoys Catnip 24919
Reposted by James HarlandJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."bu.eduNew Learning Outcomes Announced | English 402366471
Reposted by James HarlandHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 16/09/2026BIG NEWS for any pedestrians fuming at e-bike riders Lime have permanently banned a rider caught cycling on the pavement. City of London police says: 3640772
Reposted by James HarlandREwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026i really want to know what it was about this one instance that made them look into this 6786
Reposted by James HarlandGilda Sahebi @gildasahebi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Zum x-ten Mal in wenigen Wochen im verspäteten ICE. Wenn alle so wirtschaftsbesessen sind: Ich frage mich, wieviel Arbeitstage verloren gehen, weil Leute früher fahren müssen, später ankommen, nicht arbeiten können (schlechtes Netz & Wifi) usw. Bestimmt mehr als wegen telefonischer Krankschreibung. 571636311
Reposted by James HarlandSarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm really puzzled. If AI is 'revolutionizing workplaces' without any training for staff, I don't understand what UG students need to be taught in order to use it. Why does it need champions? Why does it need to be 'built into' courses? All this 'how to use it well' chat. What does it mean? 1132
Reposted by James HarlandEd Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Public Order Act 1936 "... any person who in any public place or at any public meeting wears uniform signifying his association with any political organisation or with the promotion of any political object shall be guilty of an offence..." www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8an... #R4Today 37135
Reposted by James HarlandMarc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Spat out my tea reading this review of The Uprising. The what of what now? Popular understanding of medieval history has taken a hell of a pounding in recent weeks. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se... 2021050
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Anyone who thinks that cats aren’t affectionate and don’t have personalities hasn’t witnessed one scream at you until you come and give her her cuddle on her special stool. And yes, it has to be *that* stool. 1251
Reposted by James HarlandCatherine Baker @cat-baker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My first solo-author article, Is the Far-Right Anti-Science?, is now published in Social Epistemology. It explores the far-right’s epistemic struggle to claim scientific authority, attacking and co-opting science to legitimise white supremacy & misogyny—an issue academia must increasingly attend to 18140
Reposted by James HarlandRhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026According to the FT, Orr is acting as a live-in-landlord-cum-cult-leader to Cambridge students including those under his own supervision, whilst receiving formal complaints about his behaviour, and boasting publicly how the university is a recruiting ground for the party he might be doing crime for 21579225
Reposted by James HarlandJames 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 James HarlandAlex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026NEW BOOK ALERT 🗣️🗣️🗣️🚨📢🎺 Releasing on the 15th of November this year, I am very happy to reveal the cover for something slightly different: a colouring book all about Norse mythology THE VIKING WORLD: A COLOURING BOOK, to be published via Amberley Publishing for £15.99 (or £14.39 via the below link) 56224
Reposted by James HarlandMark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Turns out, this was the lesser story about James Orr today. 627896
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pretty spectacular timing for this and Channel 4’s investigation to drop at the same time. 091
Reposted by James HarlandMarc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Canterbury, of course was famous for its paganism. Especially its nuns. 924822
Reposted by James HarlandMarc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Today's BBC radio drama about the Bayeux Tapestry sounds arrestingly original. 3823032
Reposted by James HarlandChris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I feel myself turning into a fundamentalist against LLMs producing scholarship (bracketing wherher they can do other things well): scholarship requires *understanding* of other scholars’ positions & imaginative depth to understand one’s research subjects - imitating that doesn’t mean *doing* that 1143
Reposted by James HarlandMatthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Yes. Those of us in the trenches are having to live in the destructive wake of higher ed policy by hype and fomo. It has fallen to us, instructors in the classroom, to figure all this out and mitigate the effects of this decision making — for no extra compensation. 1176
Reposted by James Harlandflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I appreciate that it’s as open and undisguised as this is. If Clinton was naked Arnie stepping out of the temporal rift, and Obama was slightly damaged Arnie with plasters over cuts on his face, then Trump 2 is the gleaming chrome Terminator skull. 1426
Reposted by James HarlandSimon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Ok Re: Cofnas etc Wenn jemand "Kevin MacDonald" zitiert oder lange dessen "umstrittene" thesen referiert, liebe freunde im journalismus, dann handelt es sich um das Mainstreaming eines Top-Antisemiten der USA seit ca 1980. (This is a sign to be vehemently tapped later) 18416
Reposted by James HarlandStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The thing I really hadn't expected was that racism's renaissance would be so....whiny. 37950138
Reposted by James HarlandCharles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Did Charlemagne consider converting Muslims in al-Andalus to Christianity? New evidence uncovered by Lukas Dorfbauer, just published on Early View, suggests he might have - contrary to previous assumptions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comA newly discovered Carolingian text: Candidus' <fi>Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti</fi>, written for CharlemagneThis article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlem... 24516
Reposted by James HarlandPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Here in Flanders, Cofnas defends himself as someone just stating "scientific" truths. In the UK, Cofnas had to argue that his views are not "susceptible to change in light of evidence" in order for the legal strategy to work. /55 14510
Reposted by James HarlandPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Since this false claim is repeated by almost everyone (even by BBC): Cofnas was not fired by Cambridge. His college did (Emmanuel) end its affiliation with him. But he remained employed at Cambridge until the end of his contract, no measures were taken against him www.cam.ac.uk/notices/news... /53 23514
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Just putting out there, in instances where a perceived slight has emerged because somebody hasn't referred to somebody with their doctoral title: before assuming malice do check if the perceived offender is German first... 3292
Reposted by James HarlandBonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 21/08/2026Applications are now open for a W2 Professorship in Economic Anthropology with Tenure Track W3. Full job advertisement here: buff.ly/QNAxMgN @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de 099
Reposted by James HarlandBonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 21/08/2026Applications are now open for a W2 Professorship in Cultural Heritage with a focus on German Colonialism with Tenure Track W3. Full job advertisement here: buff.ly/cCW52Ff @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de 055
Reposted by James HarlandLeonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."law.berkeley.eduArtificial Intelligence PolicyEffective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […] 231899795