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Linsey Hunter

@linseyhunter.bsky.social
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Keeper of cats and books and wool. Views own. No DMs - haven’t done age verification. Sorry.

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 17h
The British Museum turned away hundreds of visitors who had tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry so they could run a corporate event. Disgraceful. The chair of the BM must resign. But it's George Osborne, so he won't.
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Linsey Hunter @linseyhunter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is the most exquisite privilege when a cat falls fast asleep in your lap.
A sleeping tabbie cat, lying on a black blanket.
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Linsey Hunter @linseyhunter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The teaching of history, like so many subjects, offers enormous valuable transferable skills. Every employability module taking the place of a history module robs chances to experience different historical worlds.
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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#earlymodern
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, does this mean that proposals are fed into an AI system which can then be used to train it? Did those applying give their consent for this?
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The autumnal equinox is only a few days away and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century. BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r @blmedieval.bsky.social
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You know what, I’d like Nous to surprise us for once, and not just do the same old and damaging “cut everything I don’t understand the value of because I can only think of programmes in terms of staff cost” in every place they enter.
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Spat 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...
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🐑📜 Some of Europe’s most well-known historic manuscripts, including the York Gospels, have proven to be biological time capsules for uncovering the 3,500-year history of the sheeppox virus (SPPV). 🧵
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Boobs McGoobs @mcbuttsthecrimedog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton: Be kind to people. I believe in you! Tim Curry: Be yourself and if that pisses off bad people, you're doing great.
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Linsey Hunter @linseyhunter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What a dismal day. Here is some top quality snoozing cat fodder. Hope it brightens your day.
Two brown tabby and white Maine coon cats curled up side by side, sleeping, on a large grey chair.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Literally all of this has been applied here, bought in from some speak-your-weight consultancy. Neither academic staff nor students were consulted. The result is a far worse degree in every subject, and widespread sackings, which was the point.
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Nathan Melson @nsmelson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I did this years ago on Twitter, but, here's a list of tools/utilities that every medievalist show know about and have bookmarked: #medievalsky
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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 18/07/2026
YES!
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 17/07/2026
I’m so happy for them
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We are pleased to say that our July Issue is now out! This Issue includes 22 original articles, 14 #OpenAccess, and 9 book reviews. #Skystorians #GenderHistory Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
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Gender & History: Vol 38, No 2
Gender & History is a global gender studies journal publishing research on femininity, masculinity and gender across eras and territories.
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
University of Sheffield questionnaire on AI use by historians (of which most of my answers reiterated how I think AI is has more negative than postive potential for our field) #skystorians #history forms.gle/s2LnADZHerne...
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Survey on AI use by historians
You are invited to participate in a research survey exploring how historians in the UK use artificial intelligence (AI) in their work. This study is being conducted by researchers at the University o...
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Vice-Chancellor of University of Bristol (salary £312,251): “I take a really personal view on this. My oldest daughter is the only child in my family who really is making a very significant amount of money.”
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Lee Raye @leafyhistory.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Is Animal History radical or not? I have some issues with the way we work and I'd love to hear your opinions about it 😅📗 (thread 🧵) #envhist #animalhistory
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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 16/07/2026
In the age of AI slop, people would do well to remember words ascribed to Samuel Johnson: "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure"
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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
50 Years of Prof Jim Hunter’s classic book, The Making of the Crofting Community. Today in the Scottish public history column, a full conference report of proceedings at the University of the Highlands and Islands Centre for History. www.thenational.scot/news/2627650...
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Book that reshaped Highland crofting history marked at 50-year gathering
Dr Charlie Lynch attends a two-day conference held to mark 50 years since the publication of a book which ruffled the feathers of Scotland’s…
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Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My dissertation isn't finished yet, but If anyone already wants something citable for my paper about Alpine animal welfare (14th-16th century), it's now also on Knowledge Commons (link below, CC BY 4.0) incl. DOI: 10.17613/dcvqh-m2y72 #skystorians #medievalsky #envhist #animalhistory #earlymodern
works.hcommons.org
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Linsey Hunter @linseyhunter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hello friends new and yet to be made. I haven’t done age verification on this app, so I don’t receive dms. Apologies, but please contact me via other means. I’d love to hear from you. Thank you.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Academics all over the country could put their hand up and say they're in the same boat. But when did you last see a big feature on redundancies at a post-92 university?
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RHS finds cuts to history courses fall disproportionately on post-92 universities
The Royal Historical Society has warned of ‘an alarming increase’ in the number of university history departments facing cuts to staffing and degree options – even as numbers studying the subject a…
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
*David Attenborough‘s voice* As the sun rises on this early July morning hundreds of medievalists begin their annual migration to Leeds. Scientists have not fully understood this ritual but it seems to be crucial for the survival of the whole species. Intensive days of medievaling will follow.
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
We know students want some module choice in their degrees. I am so effing cross!
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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Me, after failing to secure tickets to see The Bayeux Tapestry before they sold out. 🥲
A lad on the Bayeux Tapestry who has had his head cut off. 

https://historiamag.com/harold-death-truth/
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Head of the EHRC really did just say Phrenology will help solve the issue of transgenders in society
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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
To my understanding, this is an accurate summation of the state of schism:
The "Myth of Consensual Sex" meme, but instead it's "The Myth of Apostolic Succession" with the consecrating and consecrated Bishops of SSPX saying "I consent" and Pope Leo XIV wielding a baseball bat saying "I don't"
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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 02/07/2026
Another salvaged #medieval MS thread, from my very first day in the Bod (9/10/26). Today was my first opportunity to access items from special collections, starting with this 1463 girdle almanac. It was made to hang from a belt, and I wanted a good look at the binding, to recreate later. 1/21
Close up on the binding of a folding almanac missing its coverClose up on the binding of a folding almanac missing its cover, side view
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/07/2026
🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎 Learn more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Just got Vital Byl’s new history of witch trials in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - a subject I wrote about in the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Magic, but until now little studied. This book looks like a game-changer. Review coming soon…
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Rich. I'll do it Dreckly. ME/CFS @shadowcaster6656.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The only thing flat earthers fear... is sphere itself.
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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It’s here! Publication day for my @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social book. Click here for disgruntled ministers, canny bookwomen, and a world of Catholic print that was more complex and multiconfessional than you could have ever imagined. boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a...
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Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age
Reveals the hidden world of ephemeral Catholic print in the so-called Dutch Golden Age, reconstructing lost works to discover the lived experience of a religious community marginalised within a multi-...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
'Most people are not conspiracy theorists; they are trying to make sensible decisions for themselves and their families. What appears to be changing is more the way people are deciding where to place their trust.' 1/3
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How think tanks can build trust in a fragmented information environment
How do think tanks build trust in an increasingly fragmented information environment? Speakers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Institute for Government and the Nuffield Trust shared...
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I am coming around to the notion that in order to understand why it’s important to be a medievalist every scholar of the Middle Ages should read Tocqueville, Fukuyama, and now, Lepore.
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Fly the angel sleeves of your hostess dress at half mast, dim the standard lamps of all suburbia and please be seated at the telephone table to make the gossipiest call you can from a landline in memoriam💙
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Being an academic in the UK is to be told that your research having a real-world impact is hugely important... only for you to wake up every day with the government announcing a new stupid policy clearly devoid of any fact-based evidence or underpinning research to justify it.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026
“The installation, unveiled in February 2024, allows guests to ask Douglass questions through an iPad. Using a closed database of Douglass’s autobiographies and speeches, the artificial intelligence generates responses based solely on Douglass’s recorded words.”
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Massachusetts museums use AI to bring history to life - The Boston Globe
As the 250th anniversary approaches, museums and historical tours around Massachusetts have evolved to incorporate modern technology like artificial intelligence in their tourism.
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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The idea that LLMs 'hallucinate' is itself a clever invention of the tech industry to disguise actual failures of their systems. Rebranding these serious algorithmic glitches as 'hallucinations' was designed to make the public accept this bullshit by linking it to the vagaries of human psychology.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.' Academia is a "greedy" occupation.
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The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities - LSE Impact
Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...
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UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We are excited to announce St Gilbert’s Medieval History Doctoral Award, established through the generous support of an anonymous donor to assist our PhD students who may face personal, structural, or practical challenges during their studies. For details, visit uhihistory.short.gy/JC0kC4
Silhouette of a cathedral against an atmospheric sunrise with clouds. Text reads St Gilberts Medieval History Doctoral Award, with logo of UHI Centre for History
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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
And in case anybody is wondering, Edinburgh isn’t in debt, and is one of the UK’s WEALTHIEST universities. If the university is/will be in financial dire straits as he claims, then that was on his watch so maybe he should do everyone a favour and resign - and take his team with him.
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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The UKHE sector needs ofc government intervention asap. But we also need to find a way to end the professionalisation of university upper management. We need to end the insulation of upper management from the rest of colleagues. We need to end revolving doors for VCs between institutions.
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Linsey Hunter @linseyhunter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“Exciting” 🤯
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