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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy pub day to me! And to Jehanne. I hope she might be glad of my admiration for her: her jokes, her style, and her incredible grit. #medievalsky #skystorians. Come celebrate with me and @sarahweinman.com tonight or @harvardbookstore.bsky.social tomorrow @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What a great initiative! So forward thinking for the field.

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I have been writing/talking about this for about a decade now. Here is a simple way to back up/document at least some of your digital work. One thing to remember, however: a database IS NOT a book, so we need to build preservation structures that acknowledge that difference. digitalhumanitiesddp.com

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The Digital Documentation Process - The Digital Documentation Process

TUTORIAL This website will serve as a guide to the Digital Documentation Process (DDP), a set of best practices for cataloguing and preserving digital projects. The DDP makes digital humanities (DH) s...

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

@josserme.bsky.social This is a great project! Any interest in approaching a field-specific journal that might be interested in publishing according to the ODFMS model? tagging @byzcapp.bsky.social @jtorgeson.bsky.social for discussion

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Thanks, @merleeisenberg.bsky.social! Would you consider submitting your dataset to odfms.hcommons.org; or better still, finding a sub-speciality journal that would consider publishing user-reviews following our model?

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Open Datasets For Medieval Studies – ODFMS is a showcase of world-class research on the Middle Ages in dataset format.

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

ok this is a super specific question. I'm trying to find the MUFI (medieval unicode font initiative) code for the medieval Italian currencies lire, soldi, and fiorini that appear in mss as below. I've only found "lira" as a modern pound (lb) sign. Any help would be most welcome!

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We were also pleased to conclude our 6th DMSI Workshop Series, where participants engaged in practical, hands-on training, including Nodegoat and AI applications for medieval data. The participants also presented their ongoing research during lightning talk sessions.

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I agree with this thread and will say that these communities may (have to) look different from what has come before. Creativity and real awareness are what is called fo.

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Lari Ahokas @ahokas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

On Friday, it was time to attend the Digital Medieval Studies Institute #DMSI2026 workshop. This year I attended @delphinedemelas.bsky.social session on using LLMs and VLMs & what they can and can't do. Very useful, thanks to organizers @lauramorreale.bsky.social and @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social! 4/

Digital Medieval Studies Institute Leeds 2026 workshop, Friday 11th July 2026.

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

You will find the full programme of Digital Medievalist IMC sponsored sessions here: ▶️ tinyurl.com/5c8pm45j We look forward to welcoming you to the #IMC2026 in Leeds for a week of digital scholarship and community building. 10/10 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities #medievalsky

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IMC 2026 - Overview of Events Sponsored by Digital Medievalist

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

6 years ago, with my colleague Anne Lester & the CARA branch of the MAA, I helped put together a discussion about working beyond the professorate. It may provide some interesting approaches for the medievalists out there facing changes in their professional lives: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t828...

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MAA2020 CARA Meeting

YouTube video by Medieval Academy

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

absolutely lovely review of the La sfera print publication! Digital publication still ongoing.. sferaproject.org

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S.C. Kaplan @medievallitura.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hey folks, especially my fellow academics! If you need #editing - line, developmental, formatting, and/or proofreading - my books are very open for the next several months, so now is a great time to hit me up. See www.sckaplan.com/select-portf... for a sample of past clients.

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Select Portfolio — S.C. Kaplan Editing

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I think all good Washingtonians should make their way down there with a leaf blower or two.

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

{{New Post}} Digital Medieval Studies—Crusaders and Computers Edited by Laura K. Morreale and Sean Gilsdorf www.arc-humanities.org/978180270291...

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Just wondering why in the world an Assistant Professor of Business /political economist is the Acting Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities. No shade on this dude, but what the heck. www.neh.gov/news/william...

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

@historians.org do we have plans along these lines? What can we do to get some going? We are dying out here.

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Amazing! Thanks for checking it out @helsinhashtags.bsky.social ! sferaproject.org is coming along too....

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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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Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

If you are at @kzooicms.bsky.social don't miss the @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social roundtable Session 258 - New Possibilities and Directions in #DigitalMedievalStudies on Thur 3.30pm + reception. All welcome to talk about #DigitalHumanities and #MedievalStudies! #ICMS icms.confex.com/icms/2026/me...

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New Possibilities and Directions in Digital Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is good news; I am assuming this means that the balance of the grants must be paid out.

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

WOW! I am so thrilled with this! What a wonderful re-use of the dataset. This is EXACTLY the reason that datasets should be out and circulating for scholars to use and reuse!

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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Great new teaching resources available for The Ellesmere MS - please share widely, and reach out to the creator with feedback if you use it next semester / for your own experiments! manuscriptreader.org

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TJ Reader - Web Version

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Hey medievalists! Do you have a recent digital project you want reviewed in Speculum? Please send in nominations for recent projects on the following themes/methodologies : Women & gender Law/legal cultures Maps & mapping For more info, see the call for projects www.themedievalacademyblog.org

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Sigh. So much to be done, and so little support t do it.

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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Folks! I'm teaching a one-day workshop for DMSI in Leeds. If you're already planning to attend the conference, consider sticking around for one more day to learn all about Manuscript Materiality in a Digital World. We'll look at manuscripts from Leeds' collections and then we'll talk digital!

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Publication day! We are pleased to announce that "Digital Medieval Studies-- Crusaders and Computers" is now availble. This is the first deep dive of the DMS series into a specific subfield, and we are really pleased with the results. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270291...

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Digital Medieval Studies—Crusaders and Computers - Arc Humanities Press

The study of the religious, cultural, and political movements now known as the Crusades is one of the most well-established subfields in Medieval Studies. In...

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

What a great meme! We have put this process into (published) practice for medievalists in our Digital Philology series, "Open Datasets for Medieval Studies" (ODFMS). Check out the short intro that outlines all the steps here muse.jhu.edu/article/979928

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Project MUSE -- Verification required!

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

"Individuals with high visibility, international mobility or thematic ambition may be perceived as too difficult to integrate or even as destabilising to existing hierarchies – especially if they are also outspoken." This article is spot on in many ways. "You need to achieve! But not too much!

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Hi medievalist friends. We are looking at this 15th c copy of the Image du Monde, in the section on Geometry. Does anyone know what is in the upper right corner of this image? Is it the monk's bed? Does he straight up have star stickers on his bedroom wall?

A clip from a manuscript featuring a monk drawing shapes on a board. In the upper right corner is some sort of folded cloth, with stars in the background.

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Who feels bad for Michael McDonald and the kids in his club house, who have been subject to "embarrassment"? You break it, you bought it.

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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Didn’t get that Oscar? Or even if you did why not a certificate in medieval studies @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ? Come to the open house Wednesday to find out more.

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I need a quick bit of help from my medievalist peeps: can anyone take a picture of p. 5 of Riley Smith’s "The First Crusaders"? I need to check a capitalization question for a direct quote. #medievalbluesky Thanks!

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

two points here: 1. he thinks he is smarter than you are; even now he is reading these comments and thinks he has fooled everyone. 2. he will never be ashamed of this - on the contrary this behavior will be something he brags about for years, and those in his circle will respect him for it.

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Even when the answer to this inane ChatGPT prompt was "no," projects were still cancelled for no apparent reason. Like our project on La sfera:

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I had some high hopes that Gemini 3 would be able to handle the (slightly boring) financial records from early 15th century Florence. Alas.

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 27/10/2025

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Did you know you can get a turnkey DH website for less than $5,000? Complete with an interactive map-based search, built-in content management system, hosting, maintenance, and support! dh.tools/fairdata #DigitalHumanities #Mapping #LinkedData

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Turnkey FairData Website Package

We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Digital Philology Vol. 14, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242 #openaccess @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Unlikening Translation: Words, Sounds, Events, Things @lauramorreale.bsky.social @byzcapp.bsky.social @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I am very excited to report that a project I have been working on for 3+ years is finally seeing the light of day! Along with @byzcapp.bsky.social and Jesse Torgerson, we debut a new annual section in Digital Philology that proposes the dataset as a new genre of publication. odfms.hcommons.org

odfms.hcommons.org

Open Datasets For Medieval Studies – ODFMS is a showcase of world-class research on the Middle Ages in dataset format.

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I am so glad to see this dataset catalogued and archived. IMHO, medievalists need to create a recognized "library" for this kind of intellectual work. My colleagues AL McMichael and Jesse Torgerson are working together on something like this!

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Escape with DALME to a pastoral farm in Auvergne to learn about...cowbells! (and other interesting stuff) dalme.org/features/cow...

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Also I forgot to say that if you win an award to go to Kzoo, there will be a waiver for DMSI participation fee AND a subsidized registration fee for the Congress!

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