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Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In light of this, I want to share some resources on trans people in the medieval and early modern period, for anyone who might be interested. There is a thriving field of research into the lives, identities, and experiences of trans people globally before the advent of modern medicine (a 🧵)

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 15/07/2025

Digital ownership matters for preservation of the published record - libraries can’t preserve what we don’t own. Check out what BRIET is doing to help libraries build lasting digital collections ⬇️

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Another new paleogenetics study that is also (potentially) presenting evidence for plague's presence in northern Europe in the 13thC, as much as a century before it's "supposed" to be there. Here's the citation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #MedievalSky #aDNA 🧪🗃️

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Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland

We investigated ancestry, kinship, and health in individuals from three cemeteries in Finland: Tampere Vilusenharju and Pälkäne Ristiänmäki (11th–12th…

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We have many USB’s and other lost property which wants to be reunited with its owner! ☹️ Please email imc@leeds.ac.uk if you think you have left something behind.👍 #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

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Kyrie E. Bouressa @kyrieb.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

What a spectacular time at #IMC2025! And thanks especially to the wonderful folks at #DigitalMedievalist for organizing so many cool panels (and letting me present my neume script classifying project—POSSUMM*!). More notes to come. *the Paleographic Object Sorting System Using Machine Methods. 😁

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An orange conference tag for the International Medieval Congress 2025, identifying the poster—Kyrie Bouressa— and her affiliations with McGill University and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology.

A red banner indicating the presence of the International Medieval Congress hung over the white bring entrance of a red brick building.

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Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Looking forward to our three sponsored sessions today by @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social on digital approaches to materiality of manuscripts w/ @kakapitan.bsky.social! #IMC2025 #DigitalMedievalStudies #DigitalManuscriptStudies #DigitalMedievalist tinyurl.com/DMatIMC2025

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Jenn should be studying @chaosandcake.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

TRAVIS COUNTY If you're free at all this week, Leander desperately needs volunteers for food and water distribution, and cleanup. They need chainsaws, ATVs, wood chippers, any equipment for moving debris. And people who know how to use them. www.kxan.com/independence...

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Kyrie E. Bouressa @kyrieb.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Hello Leeds and hello #IMC2025– kicking things off with a bunny sighting! 🐇

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Henrike Lähnemann @hlaehnemann.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social. Pls advertise, @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...

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Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Project Researcher – Oxford Medieval Studies

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Manuscript from Mont-St-Michel rediscovered. Something for everyone in this codex!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”

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Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 1945 | Critical Inquiry: Vol 51, No 4

Abstract The devastation of World War II left German libraries partly in ruins, collections and catalogs lost or destroyed, prompting a need to reconstruct and reimagine the library system. This artic...

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Canada has a VERY TEMPORARY legal situation allowing anyone with provable CA ancestry to claim Canadian citizenship w/ no generational limit. It may be overruled, but it’s real now. Colin and I both have French Québécois ancestors so you bet yer ass that I’m doing a LOT of rush document requests now

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We are delighted to announce the launch of The Guild of Medievalist Makers (GuMM), a community for academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work. Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨ Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!). academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

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The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections

Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 02/04/2025

Thanks, @rmac.bsky.social, for recommending @securedrop.org for potential leakers and whistleblowers, and thanks, Laura, for writing this timely article. ➡️ Check out our video on how to leak sensitive information to media outlets securely and anonymously: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FR...

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How to share sensitive leaks with the press

YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 30/03/2025

Just FYI in case you haven’t heard: El*n just sold X to xAI, which means if you still have an X/Twitter account all your public and private conversations are now fair game for training AI. Delete your X account immediately.

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How to Delete Your X / Twitter Account - A Step-by-Step Guide - MOR10

Here’s how I deleted my X/Twitter account while retaining control over my handle so nobody else can take it. Caution: Following this step-by-step

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Women played an important role in policing 13th-century England. Women couldn't be in frankpledge or sit on juries, but they were still required to raise the hue & cry, they chased criminals when need be, and were required to attend trials when they witnessed crime or discovered bodies. 🧵1/5

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Reference: Vidal Mayor, Ms. Ludwig XIV 6 (83.MQ.165), fol. 153v (1297-1305).

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

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WIRED @wired.com · 27/03/2025

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This year's conference is organised by @medievalcanter.bsky.social at Canterbury Christ Church, 2-5 July. Theme is "Gender: Charity and Care". Plenty of time to get your abstract in--they're due March 31 Full info 👉 medievalgender.co.uk/2025-canterb... #MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️ #CfP

Save the Date! Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 July 2025. Be inspired by love, charity and care to consider gendered literary, political/historical, and theological texts and responses, all forms of religious belief and none, and social/socio-economic, and environmental explorations of the subject from caring to apocalyptic climate emergency.
Topics might include:
• Religious devotion and almsgiving globally (including generosity in Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism (d̄āna),
• Jewish philanthropy (tzedakah) and Islamic charitable giving (sadaqa)
• Gift-giving and donations in texts, documents, material culture, drama and depictions from saints to chuggers, lay piety, and non-normative medieval beliefs, including the opposites of charity and care - cupidity and neglect.
• Charitable locations: leperhouses, hospices and hospitals, and the care of the sick and dying, childbirth and childcare.
• Charity in urban and rural domestic settings and gardens, guilds, church ales and help ales.
• Charity and care for bodies, feelings and nature: emotions, senses, sensualities, sex, chastity, and inclusive genderings.
• Convenor: Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Centre for Kent History & Heritage, Canterbury Christ Church University
• Kindly email abstracts and questionsto GMS 2025 Liaison Dr Diane Heath, Diane.Heath@ScienceMuseum.ac.uk
• AbstractDeadline: Monday 31 March 2025
PLEASE PUT ‘GMS 2025 ABSTRACT’ IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL – THANK YOU
• Abstracts 200 words max (+ bio) for papers (20 mins); panels, poetry, performance, posters and art also welcome
• ECR travel bursary aid available on receipt of tickets (post attendance) via the Kate Westoby Fund.

• Location: Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU
• Conference begins Wednesday 2 July; Conference Dinner on Thursday; Conference ends Saturday am.

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WIRED @wired.com · 21/03/2025

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

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How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

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Kyrie E. Bouressa @kyrieb.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This will mean deaths; park employees already do so so much before even getting into visitor safety and land maintenance. As summers in Texas get hotter and water scarcer, this is… dire news. The state and national park systems in the US are incredible. Gutting them is a mistake and a tragedy.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

#medievalsky #jobfairy. Job posting, Tenure Track (!) medieval, early modern Literature at UNBC. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?....

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 20/02/2025

New Pharaoh's tomb just dropped. The tomb of King Thutmose II has been uncovered, Egyptian officials announced on Tuesday, marking the first discovery of a royal resting place since King Tutankhamun’s was unearthed in 1922.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 11/02/2025

🚨 Help us locate 'lost' Jewish books! 🚨 The Leo Baeck Institute’s Library of Lost Books is calling on citizen scientists to report sightings of books looted by the Nazis. Read about the initiative & how you can help here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtraine... #LibraryOfLostBooks #CitizenScience

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Have you seen this book?

Since we as trainees get the chance to visit many libraries, and spend a lot of time in them day-to-day, I thought I would introduce to you a different kind of library today: The Library of Lost Bo…

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Tuberculosis outbreaks in Kansas and North Carolina and yet I’ve not seen a single media outlet mention wearing masks. In fact masks are banned in North Carolina. A good respirator protects from more than just Covid. The people deserve to know how to keep themselves safe.

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Job klaxon! Come and work with us as Manager of the Digital Humanities Research Hub in the School of Advanced Study, University of London @dh-researchhub.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

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Hub Manager:London Senate House - Hybrid

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Dominik Waßenhoven @domwass.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Historian: Obviously, this has to be attributed to the loss of sources.

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Dr Matt Firth @mattfirth.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Want to do a fully funded PhD on medieval English historiography? Well do I have an opportunity for you! See the attached ad and get in touch ASAP if you're interested (and please share widely).

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Contesting Conquests – HDR Scholarship Opportunity - Flinders University

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 19/01/2024

MYSTERY: I was driving in the woods one night with the radio on scan, and a song came on whose chorus was women rhythmically chanting “LOLOLOL.” I've searched for years and found nothing…except ONE reddit post from 2016 describing the exact same song: www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyton... Anyone know it??

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jam @jammyness.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

🍁📣 Canada is updating COPYRIGHT LAW to deal with AI! They want to hear from us about it! The survey is four open-ended questions and one general "feedback" question. All the questions are optional! So if you want it can be REAL QUICK tiny.cc/ai-ca

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Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

From: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Current status: Open Consultation period extended to January 15, 2024.

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

If you're going to be at AHA in San Fran you won't want to miss our discussion of teaching premodern history in modern classrooms! I'll be talking about (lost) women's history in news media & medievalism in the context of Japan. Hope to see many of you there next week! aha.confex.com/aha/2024/mee...

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