Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardHMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 9hOn Saturday, October 17 (4–5 p.m. CT), join HMML at Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to learn about damaged books in HMML’s collection. Details about this free, in-person event can be found at hmml.org/programs/events 0127
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardFragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Read: Open Access, Interoperability, or AI scrapers and agents: we only get two, at most. In other news, e-codices is currently suffering service interruptions from high-volume traffic. We are working to resolve the issues. 075
Reposted by Dr. Liz Hebbardertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Order your copy of NECESSARY INVENTIONS: ROGER BACON, THE MIDDLE AGE, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE online from @pennpress.bsky.social and use the code PENN-ETRUITT30 (in the US) or UPPNN30 (outside the US) for a discount! www.pennpress.org/978151282988... 075
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardSuzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5 1526693
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardCharles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Great news, and looking forward to a book historian becoming Chief Exec of the UK Space Agency sometime soon in this brave new world! 1416451
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardCarin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨📚📜🚨 "With a chirograph, Pope Leo has granted the Vatican Apostolic Archive and Vatican Apostolic Library an additional area within the Vatican City State, and asked that a new building be constructed."❗️ www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...vaticannews.vaPope orders expansion of Vatican Apostolic Archive and Library - Vatican NewsGiven the increase in the Holy See’s bibliographic holdings and documentary production, the Pope expands the Vatican’s archive and library, and asks ... 26724
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask. 4639421079
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardGetty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Our medieval art curator rates every scroll emoji. 📜 35323
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardAnnalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with. 361220456
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardMonica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"Codicological genomes". Not a term I expected to hear, but I guess it will become part of the medievalist vocabulary now. Great summary of an intriguing study. (And no, fellow codicologists, you still do not have to wear gloves. The DNA in your books is too degraded to do any damage.) #MedievalSky 36426
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardBen Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Thank you for letting people know about @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2027-28 fellowships, @medievalacademy.bsky.social! More info about our Medieval & Early Modern Manuscripts Collection: research.hrc.utexas.edu/pubmnem/ #medievalsky 🗃️ 📜 01812
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardMonica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Not stated in the Bluesky post or the Medieval Academy blogpost is the fact that this is a CFP specifically for #Kzoo2027. Deadline is 15 Sept. #MedievalSky #BookHistory 094
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardTobias Niedenthal @klostermedizin.de · 27/08/202660 years after Raef Payne and Wilfrid Blunt, there is now a new English edition of Walahfrid's Hortulus by Jeff Sypeck. uppsalabooks.com/hortulus #histmed #medievalsky 063
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Academia gives you the extraordinary freedom to choose which impossible deadline you are currently missing 29715
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this! 7756637
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right 1100286106347
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardDot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Do you use digitized medieval manuscripts in any capacity? Do you have opinions about the metadata that describes them? We want to hear from you! Please take a moment to fill out our very short survey. Please repost and share with anyone you know who might be interested! forms.gle/sBPXAnoRhwe1...forms.gleDigitized Medieval Manuscripts: Metadata PreferencesA brief survey about what metadata formats people prefer to go along with their digitized medieval manuscripts. The results of this survey will be used to consider what metadata we make available thro... 37879
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardAlan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works. 21279492156
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardThe Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 16/07/2026I'M DYING OVER HERE 💀💀💀 THE CAT GOT AI SCAM EMAIL 🐈 Aeschylus, our orange tabby, got an obviously AI email about selling more copies of the Oresteia on A**zon 833395
Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Today’s first task: collating this little beast 😍😍 (cue the theme from 2001: ASpace Odyssey) - hand for scale #medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss @peripheralmss.bsky.social (Loras College) 1213
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardMegan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Eduroam giveth, and eduroam taketh away 093
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardJim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"The number of unpermitted turbines identified by Reuters is about double what xAI has publicly acknowledged."reuters.comInsight: Pollution from Musk’s unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communitiesElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has installed 59 natural gas turbines for its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee without securing federal clean air permits, according to commu... 047
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardSarah Noonan @sarahloleet.bsky.social · 14/07/2026What absolutely gorgeous initials in this 15th C Italian Psalter at Loras College @peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medieval 0153
Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Playing my favorite game of fingernail vs scribe with this little ex situ binding fragment from Loras College. 🔍👀 #medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss #manuscripts @peripheralmss.bsky.social 0155
Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · 14/07/2026This little 15c missal (still at Loras College) is full of cadelle letters inhabited by little men with distinctive chins and noses, all wearing hats. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss #manuscripts @peripheralmss.bsky.social 1204
Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · 14/07/2026From the Loras College collections, the *best* vine-bird-dragon of all time?! I think so, yes! 😍😍 @peripheralmss.bsky.social #medievalsky #midwestmss #medievalmss 0146
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardAmalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly. 5544301532
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardSteven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026📢Fallen type klaxon! 091
Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Our @peripheralmss.bsky.social site visit to Loras College is off to an incredible start!!! (feat. @sarahloleet.bsky.social and her incredible student David!) #medievalsky #manuscripts #midwestmss #medievalmss #adventuresinspecialcollections 073
Reposted by Dr. Liz Hebbardelizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The comment count as of Sunday July 11, 2026 1:05pm ET. 74313
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this. 12815540
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one). 17720635
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardTim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...bangordailynews.comThese Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big TechDespite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful. 6666422477
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardLisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026🚨Job! 🚨 Open-rank, tenure-track position in pre-1800 history of medicine at Johns Hopkins #histmed #histstm apply.interfolio.com/182469?fbcli...apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 03035
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardJakub Sypiański @sypianski.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I built a free scholary converter for 20 premodern calendar systems — Julian, Hijri, Solar Hijri, Coptic, Armenian, Byzantine, Syriac, Athenian and more: kalkal.online 710043
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardPurchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Millions of copyrighted songs were fed to AI music generators - now there's proof Suno and rivals are being sued for $150k per song. A sum that would bankrupt these companies and set an important precedent.gadgetreview.comMillions of Copyrighted Songs Were Fed to AI Music Generators – Now There's ProofMillions of copyrighted songs trained AI music generators, and new searchable databases from The Atlantic now confirm which tracks were used. 15146781642
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardTerry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I just learned that OMB is required to respond to every comment on the anti-peer-review rule. So that means our comments really matter, at the very least by gumming up the gears. Send your comment today. 3164132
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardBuckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 04/06/2026us, lightly touching a document: I just need to move you so I can make sure you're properly supported on this table the document, the pages enormous: you SHOVE document? you throw the vellum like a paper aeroplane? oh! oh! jail for archivist! jail for archivist for One Thousand Years!!!! 828061
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardEndless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 04/06/2026AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH 0211
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 04/06/2026And it devalues the research process and in practice - given constantly accelerating cuts to the programs that produce the work genAI merely trains on - makes that process less accessible to people who might want to learn. It is anti-intellectual, and anti-democratic not despite but because of that. 0413
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 04/06/2026The fact that anyone can get any amount of *content* on any subject does not make *research* or *knowledge* a whit more democratic. It devalues not *credentials* (which AI companies appropriate in their own advertizing!) but rather actual *work*: time in the field, in the archive, at the keyboard. 1564
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Above all, taking direct engagement with sources, with the process of building interpretations from them, and with the education of judgment and social interaction that involves, and replacing it with a corporate platform for entering prompts, makes research as a human activity much less accessible. 1475
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Nor is using people's work or selling products using their names, credentials, likenesses, etc. without their consent a blow to credentialism, any more than stealing their papers and diplomas would be. If you struggle to see them as people, try anthropomorphizing them as you do bots. Go from there. 16410
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Equating whatever GPT has trained on with knowledge in general excludes a lot of work that was not digitized in the first place. That's not a win for accessibility or democratization of knowledge. If anything, it privileges what was already most accessible, and excludes unique and marginal sources. 112326
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I'm sorry but if I criticize the promotion of genAl as a surrogate "research assistant" for sidelining non-digitized sources, and for making the process of creating knowledge from them more opaque, and you tell me that's just credentialism, I'm obliged to ask if you read and understood the criticism 214824
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardMonica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/05/2026#GiftLink New York Times piece on Pope Leo's encyclical on AI: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/w...nytimes.comPope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I. in 42,300-Word Encyclical 0113
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardCarin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026"Rare Centuries-Old Notebook Discovered in Medieval Latrine" 👀 news.artnet.com/art-world/no... #paleography #medievalsky 1215
Reposted by Dr. Liz HebbardNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about. 5136701193
Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Cleveland Public Library has some pretty okay books 😊 [091.9927 J339D3] 0144