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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was reminded of a very Dublin insult this morning - “oh he’s such a martyr, Padre Pio has a picture of him on his windscreen”.

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Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bill Potts can tell you that this doesn’t end up going well.

Anti-ageing mask that looks like a cyberman

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looks like I get to continue not listening to Ed Sheeran.

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Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s Bayeux Tapestry day!

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

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Arendse @arend.se · 14/08/2026

Today's You Be The Judge in @theguardian.com is whether or not a woman is allowed to annotate her own books. As someone who is literally curating an exhibition on the history of annotations in books, let me tell you her boyfriend's argument is total BS: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop annotating her books?

Julie makes notes in the margin as she’s reading, but Charlie says she’s ruining books he may want to read. Should they get on the same page? You decide

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Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Mick Oat Milk, pleased to meet you.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

this is universally applicable

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The cfp for next year’s MAMO (the Middle Ages in the Modern World) conference is live! We’ve got amazing keynote panels, speakers, and special events- check it out!! themamo.org

Cfp for the Middle Ages in the Modern World conference

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Francesca Stavrakopoulou @proffrancesca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Absolutely stunned to hear of the passing of Rosamond McKitterick, who did me (like many others) a number of good turns at crucial points in my career. My thoughts are with her family and her many devoted students. May she rest in peace and rise in glory. #MedievalSky #Skystorians

A screenshot of an X-post announcing the passing of Rosamond McKitterick.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Humanities are cheap. They also offer the best bang for the buck in higher education. Closing humanities does not save money. It was never about the money in the first place.

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It's okay to use citation software. It's okay not to. Using citation software isn't even a little bit like using Gen AI to write, read, or summarize (citation software is deterministic: same inputs, same outputs). These are actually easy things to know and understand and avoid Discourse about.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 09/06/2026

The interesting question is not who uses Zotero or does not use Zotero. The interesting question is which academics enjoy working conditions that allow them to make scholarship central to their professional lives, and which academics have to do scholarship <in spite> of their working conditions.

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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The 2026 London International Palaeography School is underway! ☕️☕️📖📚🎉🎉

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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

PhD with skills in medieval MSS & Latin needed! Post-doctoral Research Fellow for 30 months (with the possibility of extension) to support the AHRC-Funded project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain, c.1200-1500’ jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow: AHRC Project ‘Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain’

The University of Southampton is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral Research Fellow for 30 months (with the possibility of extension). The Fellow will support the AHRC-Funded project 'Strange Geograph...

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 04/06/2026

modified it for the medieval crowd

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

E.A. Lowe continues to crack me up: 'As far as my experience goes with pre-Caroline manuscripts, and I have seen most of them...' I mean, he probably wasn't wrong, but still.

E.A. Lowe writes: 'As far as my experience goes with pre-Caroline manuscripts, and I have seen most of them...'

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Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Please read and sign this open letter protesting the very negative changes to Irish research strategy: openletter.earth/concern-abou...

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Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The focus on cultural issues at the ICIRI is fine but clearly these malfunctions are a result of deliberate structural deficiencies added during its creation. NO’L highlights the late stage removal of many of its investigative powers. A sham of an organization and process www.bbc.com/news/article...

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ICRIR: 'Something fundamentally wrong' with Troubles legacy body

Former police ombudsman criticises the organisation set up to investigate Troubles-related deaths.

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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🚨 #medievalsky 🚨 Middle English Dictionary update via FB: "In its 100-year history, MED has enjoyed periods of support, and periods when that support was lacking. It is about to enter on one of the latter. After this year...UMich will no longer fund ongoing editorial work and maintenance." 🧵

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"Scholars from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) uncovered the manuscript that contains Caedmon’s Hymn at the National Central Library of Rome." #MedievalSky #speirgorm #Spéirghorm www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

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Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library

Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder

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Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Please think about donating to this organisation which helps young Palestinians learn musical instruments: www.alkamandjati.org/en/article/1...

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Make a Donation

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I’ve never used AI for any part of my writing process and I don’t want to use it. I love writing. Yes, it’s work, and sometimes it’s incredibly hard work, but it’s MY work, and that’s the point. I don’t even know how to access Chat GPT or whatever. I’d rather stick my hand in a toaster

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Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Look what arrived today! Lovely to be in the company of all these wonderful people!

Two volume edited collection with my chapter highlighted in the open contents page

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Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My son brought this home from school. I think he might go back tomorrow and tell his teacher where the dismemberments are missing.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I’m revising my graduate seminar on medieval manuscripts and was wracking my brain trying to think of an enticing short reading to intro my students to a case study in codicology before remembering that I co-edited a journal issue devoted to the topic. Enjoy! journal.thewalters.org/volume/76/

A screenshot of the introduction to our open access journal issue of the journal of the Walter’s art museum. The title is seeing codicologically: new explorations in the technology of the book. On the page is an opening from a die cut manuscript the parchment pages of which look like lace.

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Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

C19 medievalism🤝C21 far right '[The nation's] women will reform [the nation's] men and will have to rescue our history, not through Amazonian traits, but through the power of noble hearts & powerful femininity. In family life, in marriage, lies our hope, which madmen want to destroy' (Karl Weinhold)

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the words `` this has all happened before and it will happen again '' are on a black background .

ALT: the words `` this has all happened before and it will happen again '' are on a black background .

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

OMG - f*ck AI for ruining the em-dash for writers. I use them all the time. Of course, what a shock that AI uses them since they were trained off my voice and other authors' voices.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

There are many good reasons why your department should hire a medievalist. Teaching the actual history of the Crusades and debunking "feudalism" so you don't wind up with trends like this is one of them.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Translators work hard to make sure that the translated words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, etc, not only convey the author's meaning, but also the author's *style.* Translators are alchemists. They are artists, and poets, and researchers, and editors. They are magicians and wizards.

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Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I think there's something aspirational in this 19th-century description of Chaucer 'so derb, daß Einem Hören und Sehen vergeht’ (so crude that you lose your hearing and sight). At least, I can think of someone who would find it aspirational.

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a man in a suit is walking through an office with binders on the shelf .

ALT: a man in a suit is walking through an office with binders on the shelf .

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Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Duolingo to Karl Simrock, after seeing his 28th “improved translation” of the Nibelungenlied.

The Duolingo bear asking if you need new hobbies in Italian and English

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

‘The Super Extender’, for when you need a little extra help getting to the point - 14th/15th century, University of Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 609/340, f. 5v

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Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I got a little over-excited when I found Siegfried mentioned in this children’s book about the Middle Ages (Time Travel Sleepover, 2024). Readers are left to wonder about the consequences of the weak spot (spoiler: not good).

Cheerful-looking man with a leaf stuck on his book, bathing unconcernedly in a lake a blood, with the caption: Siegfried. Bathed in dragon's blood, which protected him from attack, but a leaf fell on his back and that patch became his weak spot.

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Terrible news. Universities are being decimated.

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British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

📣 BSR / Early Medieval Europe Fellowship – Call for Applications! Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in early medieval European history? Apply now! ⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2026 More info here: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

A screenshot of a tumblr post from user kleinergeist, reading "Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,"

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Dr Ellen Gallimore @emgallimore.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Just over one week left to submit your abstracts! Come join @rafletcher.bsky.social, Dr Thijs Porck, and me at #IMC2026 talking about "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century".

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Dr Rachel Delman @racheldelman.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Are you a late stage doctoral or postdoctoral reasearcher with expertise in medieval and/or early modern landscape history & an interest in working with or in the heritage sector? This opportunity with the University of Oxford and West Horsley Place may be for you: www.tss.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/19...

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Researcher in Oxford City Centre | Oxford University

View details and apply for this Researcher Temporary Assignment in Oxford City Centre. To apply for this role you must have: Proven experience in high-level research, ideally at adva...

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Astrolabes and quadrants return to display in the Upper Library at Merton College with special thanks to Nikki Tomkins, Oxford Conservation Consortium, Khris Watts, Harriet Campbell Longley, and @stephenaj.bsky.social It took many hands! #astronomy #astrolabes

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Vashti Media @vashtimedia.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

We are devastated and enraged by the murder of Awdah Hathaleen by Israeli settler Yinon Levi earlier today. Awdah was a writer, teacher, and activist in his village of Umm al-Khair in Masafer Yatta, and a friend of Vashti Media. May his words resound through the entire world:

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Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This is disastrous for access to the Humanities for all but the independently very wealthy. My own doctorate was a student-led AHRC-funded project (ie I came up with the project). It’s awful to see these opportunities taken from the next generation, especially given the huge increase in tuition fees

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