Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Me, yesterday, going to bed early after a wild evening of texting my brother about frogs 110
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Finally teaching a medieval grad class = I'm going to email a bunch of friends in a few months and tell them how much my students like their essays 061
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Hung my comically oversized teaching award up in my office today 4140
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Medieval studies is reading a weird 700 year old poem and then, ten years later, finding something original to say about it 292
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The essay cluster I co-edited with Andrew Richmond on "Premodern Digital Ecologies" is out: academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/41... #MedievalSky @vickymcalister.bsky.social @linguistaria.bsky.socialacademic.oup.comVolume 41 Issue 3 | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities | Oxford AcademicAn official journal of the European Association for Digital Humanities. Publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities including, but not limited to, the fiel... 2103
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The long-expected return of the aspidochelonecbc.caAn island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on B.C.'s largest reservoir | CBC NewsB.C. Hydro says it's monitoring for the reappearance of a mysterious island first spotted by boaters 100 kilometres from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in northeastern B.C. 010
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmJonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The semester is approaching! If you’re teaching race & premodern contexts, check out throughlines.org - premodernist scholars across fields (including literature & other disciplines) with informational videos, reading lists, classroom activities, and much more! @acmrs.bsky.socialthroughlines.orgThroughlines — Race in the premodern classroomCreated by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom. 12217
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmBenjamin Jancewicz @benjancewicz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Montreal 1976 Olympic poster 622440
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmSumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026When I first moved to SoCal and took my child to the city library (as one does, first thing), this book title had me confused for several minutes. 19518119
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Might be as simple as "we still have lots of books from the Middle Ages (and they mostly look great)" 092
Reposted by Aylin Malcolmno brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 20/03/2025EARTHWORMS ARE INVASIVE SPECIES IN CANADA! 22479107
Reposted by Aylin Malcolmjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 07/08/2026my latest: i can confirm there's been a concerted campaign to develop a data center in northern virginia within a historically important national park site relying on help from a senior advisor to the interior department under the first trump admin will the land swap happen? for @heatmap.newsheatmap.newsHow the National Park Service Wound Up in a Data Center DealThe agency is reportedly considering a land swap that would allow AI infrastructure in one of northern Virginia’s largest green spaces. 4264148
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmCredentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Me, nodding knowingly: The beaks. 10293151570
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 13/08/2026My friend landed on my head, hopped around my hands and clothes, and refused to leave while I walked down a mountain for 20 mins, until I laid them gently on a flower 071
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Late post, but I'm so proud of Erin O'Brien for publishing her work on queer joy and ace-ecologies. This piece emerged from our graduate seminar but takes a totally new form here, with embroidery! 132
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmJohnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come. 3845112172
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmThe 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
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Already 52 people on the waitlist for next winter. Book history is popular and every school should dedicate resources to it! 071
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 23/06/2026"Why are you so mad? Are you choleric?" –my non-medievalist partner to the cat 191
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmKirsten the (ex) Librarian @librarykirsten.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Sorry for the self promotion, but I've written a blog post on alternatives to Google Scholar librarykirsten.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/t...librarykirsten.wordpress.comThe Big List of Google Scholar Alternatives (and the Big Librarian Existential Crisis)The Crisis I started writing this in summer of last year, intending it to be a nice little list of tools that would be handy if Google Scholar disappeared or got substantially worse, as a follow up… 33020
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmPadraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 19/06/2026Oh, look, the federal government is violating the Clean Water Act 18531
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmKathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026It! Is! Here! Open Access (and already hoovered up by the scrapers no doubt such is our world) UK/EU paper copies will be available eventually but until then, EVERYONE now has free access! press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ill... 1112360
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"Your mother asked why I was putting that sticker on the wallet...I thought it was a question that should be pitied rather than answered" –my dad 010
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 15/06/2026My dog is sick and I am struggling :( sorry if I owe you some writing 230
Reposted by Aylin Malcolmnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 09/06/2026They’re called ‘academic journals’ because they’re where you write your private thoughts nobody else is allowed to read 319732
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmAvi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/05/20261/ Right now, a bill called C-22 is moving through Parliament. It would let police pull information on who you talk to, when, and where, all without a warrant. It's at committee this week. 🧵 12509340
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmEHN. @envhnow.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Come write with us at EHN! Graduate students and early career scholars who identify as women, trans, and/or nonbinary people (FLINTA*) are invited to submit abstracts for our next round of publications. 131
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026“Nazir’s selection is less about him using AI and more about the irony of Euro-American conceptions about the unintelligibility of postcolonial writing.” 1104
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Margaret Maurer and I noticed a ream wrapper – a sheet used to package stacks of paper – in a book at UPenn libraries. This raised one of my favorite questions: what can we learn from studying old trash (or old recycling)? uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/r...uniqueatpenn.wordpress.comRecipes and Recycling: A Dutch Ream Wrapper in an English Recipe BookBy Aylin Malcolm and Margaret C. Maurer Penn MS Codex 251 is a slim eighteenth-century recipe book with a distinctive binding made of thick, durable paper. The binding’s exterior is red with a stam… 1166
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmNiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 18/05/2026"As the editors of an important collection on gender-variant saints have argued, medieval records challenge the idea that such identities are a 'modern' phenomenon and 'offer historically grounded refutation of theological transphobia.'" - @malentendre.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/04/30/t...niche-canada.orgTrans Histories, Environmental Futures: Reading Silence Across BinariesAylin Malcolm explores how medieval texts, like Silence, reveal intersections of gender variance, environmental transformation, and resistance to binary norms. 1147
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 09/05/2026So proud of my smart friend @yrliu.bsky.social for this deservedly glowing review! beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi...beforewegoblog.comSPFBOXI Review: The Whisperer in White – Y. R. Liu 010
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmNiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 30/04/2026We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for our new collaborative series with Written in the Waves, Soil and Sea: Environmental Histories of the Atlantic World Proposal deadline: June 30, 2026 Series publication beginning September 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/04/30/c... #envhistniche-canada.orgCall for Papers - Soil and Sea: Environmental Histories of the Atlantic WorldWe invite submissions on any topic related to environmental history of the Atlantic world. 01413
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmDr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Heyo! - @tinaadcock.bsky.social, Sarah, and I decided to extend the deadline for Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” to APRIL 13th!! It's hard to focus on joy right now. That's why we chose the theme. niche-canada.org/2026/02/28/c... #envhist #envhum #queerecologyniche-canada.orgCall for Submissions - Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy”We wish to build off of scholarship and lived knowledge that envisions queer joy as an affective or emotional way of knowing, specifically a way of knowing and being in relation with the environment a... 0165
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select... 401412679
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 23/03/2026In these troubled times, my mental fortitude depends so much on one angry little nugget 180
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmDan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social · 22/03/2026So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread: 3639212001
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmAmy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $ 32130610
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmNiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 28/01/2026"Alberta’s right-wing Social Credit government fed anti-communist sentiment; the rat, like communism, had the potential to dismantle the province’s economic structure and way of life." - @fvreilly.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2016/09/01/r... #envhist #alberta #cdnhist #animalhistory #coldwarniche-canada.orgRats and Communism: Protecting Alberta from Invasion in the Early Cold WarAlberta’s rat-free status resulted from a Cold War–inflected surveillance campaign, framing rats as communist infiltrators threatening agriculture, society, and security. 063
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 05/02/2026EXCITING UPDATE: The "Trans Natures" collection is now fully open access! Read it here: scholarworks.wmich.edu/med_ecocriti... #MedievalSky #EnvHumscholarworks.wmich.edu Medieval Ecocriticisms | Vol 4 | Iss 1 1134
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmDr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 04/02/2026The Trans Natures special issue (ed by @malentendre.bsky.social and Nat Rivkin) of Medieval Ecocriticisms that I contributed to is available open access ! Enjoy ! scholarworks.wmich.edu/med_ecocriti...scholarworks.wmich.edu Medieval Ecocriticisms | Vol 4 | Iss 1 0158
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmDr. Leonard Bright @drleonardbright.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Texas A&M decided to publicly cancel my Ethics class, and share a false statement that I declined to provide information, which made it impossible for [them ] to request an exemption. See for yourself, if this statement is true. They are getting creative! 4526471046
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Applications are open for MA and PhD positions in my department. Quite honestly, I think it’s a great place to do grad school in English. Tell your friends! MA: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/sotec/g... PhD: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/sotec/g... #AcademicSkyuoguelph.caAdmissionAdmission Requirements Admission to the MA program is the equivalent of an Honours degree in English from a recognized post-secondary institution, with at least a high second-class standing (78%) in t... 174
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmThe Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 26/11/2025Modern researchers know about the cuckoo’s cross-species brood parasitism – but one Roman emperor observed this more than 700 years ago.theconversation.comBird sex fascinated medieval thinkers as much as people today 011
Reposted by Aylin MalcolmU of G McLaughlin Library @uofglibrary.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Drawing from many items in the U of G archives, Michael Dawson explores Jell-O in Canadian and American history. Curious to learn more? Explore our Archival and Special Collections: www.lib.uoguelph.ca/archives/our.... #UofG 134