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Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had a really great time in Stavanger last week. The students, staff and MARRI project are doing a lot of really cool work on modern medievalisms and you should all check it out here: www.uis.no/en/research/...

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The Middle Ages in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Relevance, Reimagination, Inspiration (MARRI) [IN-13167]

MARRI is an interdisciplinary research project that explores how the Middle Ages continue to shape modern culture, language, and society.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.

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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Despite it being after hours and amidst stormy weather, we had a wonderful and highly successful lecture with @robehoughton.bsky.social at the UiS campus last night, through the MARRI project. Almost 50 students, staff and alumni came to hear about medieval video games and their academic uses!

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

PPE Forum - bruken av viking-estetikk i dag! 2. nov. 12:15, universitetsbiblioteket UiS. Uttrykk for en inkluderende eller ekskluderende nasjonalisme? På panelet: Markus Eldegard Mindrebø, Institutt for kultur- og språkvitenskap; Ellen Hagen, Arkeologisk museum; og Inger Undheim, Garborgsenteret.

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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Appreciate the nod - your paper looks incredibly interesting!

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

September is the time for treading the grapes. #Medievalcalendar BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.9r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lite empiri å basere argumentasjonen på ja. På den annen side vil jeg nesten slå et slag for Øystein, bare fordi Øystein Magnusson er så S-tier at det er vanskelig for Øystein Haraldsson å trekke det noe særlig ned.

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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Godt poeng her. Håkon Herdebrei er vel den eneste som går inn i nedre halvdel.

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Øystein Hellesøe Brekke @oysteib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Haakon VIII is the first King of Norway to have two Norwegian born parents since King Magnus the Lawmender, who died in 1280. (Still part of the "immigrant population" though, as the statisticians define it - two foreign born grandparents.)

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“If you want research led teaching then at a minimum you have to allow teaching staff time to *read* and incorporate new research” I say every year as I object, again, to a workload model that allows 50mins prep per 1 hour teaching.

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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Stavanger løste dette fint med bispesetet her. Det nærmeste man kan bevise er vel "ca. 1120-årene", men det blir ikke noe bra 900-årsjubileum av slikt, så 1125 it is!

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Øystein Hellesøe Brekke @oysteib.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Ein ting som fascinerer meg, er òg dei folka som vaknar opp i 2026 og berre: "Hæ?! Profilerer Noreg seg i utlandet med VIKINGAR??? Kva nymotens påfunn er det?"

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Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Either way, LLMs are useless for most humanities research. And I mean, fundamentally, structurally useless. Unfixable. Not the right tool for the job. Like trying to change your car tire with a pair of pliers.

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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Good times, and a fantastic audience!

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Maria Danielsen, Knut Ørke og Holger Pötzsch har skrevet et opprop om KI i høyere utdanning som jeg nettopp har signert. Signér du også om du ønsker en mer faglig og kritisk diskusjon av innføring av KI på universiteter og høgskoler! Oppropet skal sendes til Khrono. nettskjema.no/a/602234#/pa...

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Opprop om KI i høyere utdanning - Nettskjema

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Games and stories are imitations of life, ways of playing at life, sometimes ways of learning how to live. Some of the rules may appear both cruel and arbitrary. But if you want to play the game, or live the life, you have to follow them.

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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

A rather beautiful view of the Ullandhaug tower upon returning to the office. Hopefully marking the beginning of a significantly better 2026!

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I do find it interesting trying to explain to people that historians deal in arguments, not in facts. History isn’t a catalogue of dates and names, but what happened around those things, and how we now and those who were alive at the time perceived and responded to those events.

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Another beer post for the evening: In 1241, Pope Gregory IX informed Archbishop Sigurd Eindridesson (r.1231-52) that children who are baptised in beer can not be considered to have been properly baptised.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Trick or treat? 😈 #Halloween BL Stowe MS 17, f.200r

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 31/10/2025

The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

Poster for Masters in Public Environmental Humanities.
Our 2-year masters program
in beautiful Stavanger, Norway,
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Key aspects:
• Combine critical thinking
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• Work across humanities
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• Put learning into action
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• Taught entirely in English
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Questions? Email PEH@uis.no

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

What HE managers fail to understand is that in the context of the Humanities, ‘employability’ isn’t teaching coding or carpentry, but skills around writing, presenting, reasoning, evaluation, analysis, research etc. In an 80% service economy, these are the skills that fundamentally matter.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty.

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

📅 Save the date! The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled: Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide 🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw More details to follow.

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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Medieval techniques to preserve mental health? Sage advice here (and a wonderfully written post). "Tao seemed forever struggling with the dilemma between living freely but poorly and working in the government but unhappily. Besides resorting to alcohol, Tao dealt with such struggles with poetry."

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The Rise of Poetry Therapy in Eleventh Century China

How did literati manage their mental health in middle period China? Melancholy, depression, and down moods were as common among them as among us today. In the absence of antidepressants and therapists...

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 08/09/2025

At my good colleague @markusmindrebo.bsky.social’s book launch at the @unistavanger.bsky.social Library today. Women, Politics, and Social Networks in the Sagas of Norwegian Kings. Congratulations on the book, Markus!

Powerpoint slide with Norwegian text, kvinner og makt i sagalitteraturen, and picture of a woman with a sword

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Ubisoft @ubisoft.com · 03/09/2025

Step into the heart of Medieval Baghdad—right from your phone. 📜 Uncover rich, immersive history 🦅 Explore 9th century Baghdad 📱 Experience it all for free, anytime, anywhere Launching today for free: the Discovery Tour App – Medieval Baghdad #AssassinsCreed

Scholars, musicians, historians all stand in front of a night sky overlooking Baghdad. Underneath a phone rest. In the center text reads: "Discovery Tour app. A Ubisoft Original. Medieval Baghdad."

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Jenny Cromwell / Papyrus Stories @jennycromwell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We have a cover for Ancient Egypt in Video Games! Out either late 2025 or early 2026 - will post a link with contents once it’s up on the DeGruyter website. I’m very excited that this is soon out in the world!

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

29th August is the feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist. Here Salome is depicted doing a spectacular sword dance! ⚔️ Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 2. 6; 'The Littlemore Anselm'; f.166v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"This book is a must-read for both medievalists and gamers." - @medievalists.bsky.social The Middle Ages in Computer Games by @robehoughton.bsky.social offers the most comprehensive analysis and discussion of medievalist computer games to date. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/XnzZx0z #medievalsky

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

It’s an unimaginable amount of money. He could have bought two - maybe even three - Warhammer armies.

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

So does that mean it’ll develop crippling depression and a bunch of debt

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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Gode poenger her. Synes også det ligger en viss risiko i den typen kritikk mot ChatGPT som først og fremst er flisespikkeri mot bagateller (slik som du nevner her) - da bidrar man såvidt jeg kan se til å ta brodden av all (mye viktigere) kritikk så fort språkmodellene får fikset disse bagatellene.

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Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

There's another very kind review of The Middle Ages in Computer Games out on @gamevironments.bsky.social from @markusmindrebo.bsky.social. There's also a bunch of important articles on peripheral religions in games in this issue which are well worth a look. doi.org/10.48783/gam...

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Review of Robert Houghton's The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism (2024) | gamevironments

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Lucy Moloney @lucyelm.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Look even *if* AI could do the job of a historian, I still wouldn’t trust it. My research is on how elites used the past as a political tool and tried to control historic narratives. I wouldn’t trust tech companies and their connections to right wing governments to not rewrite the past.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The Call for Papers for our strand on the Middle Ages in Modern Games for next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social is now open with the conference theme of 'Temporalities'. Please circulate to any interested parties. Deadline 17 September. Text here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Universities messed up by not getting rid of student evaluations after the wave of peer reviewed scholarship about their issues and before evals became a culture war item. This could have been done a decade or more ago and betrays a stunning lack of imagination in capitalist ed sector

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 31/07/2025

Indeed, there is evidence from randomized controlled trials of large introductory classes, that student course evaluations are negatively correlated with how well students learned the material. maa.org/math-values/...

One study in particular showed that student evaluations are good predictors of learning. But there’s a twist. The correlation between student evaluations and quality of learning is negative. The higher the instructor’s score in the student evaluations, the worse the learning; and the lower the evaluation score, the better the learning. (Feel free to read that again. There is no typo.)

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