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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 3h

There's always a Calvin & Hobbes.

Calvin & Hobbes cartoon. The pair is outside, in autumnal colours but it must be early in autumn because Calvin is still just wearing his t-shirt, no little jacket. He is pondering out loud to his friend, who is mostly looking on thoughtfully as they clamber through the landscape, Calvin gesticulating animatedly as his lays out his conundrum: 'Today at school, I tried to decide whether to cheat on my test or not. I wondered, is it better to do the right thing and fail ... or is it better to do the wrong thing and succeed? On he one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction, but on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either. Of course, most everybody cheats some time or other. People always bend the rules if they think they can get away with it. ... ten again, that doesn't justify my cheating. Then I thought, look, cheating on one little test isn't such a big deal. It doesn't hurt anyone. ... but then I wondered if I was just rationalising my unwillingness to accept the consequence of not studying. Still, in the real world, people care about success, not principles. ... then again. Maybe that's why the world is in such a mess. What a dilemma!'. The pair have come to a halt, and Hobbes looks very absorbed in the reflection, with his hand in his chin and his other hand on his hip. 'So what did you decide?' He asks, reasonably. 'Nothing,' Calvin responds, 'I ran out of time and I had to turn in a blank paper'. They walk on, Hobbes sagely observes 'anymore, simply acknowledging the issue is a moral victory', with his hands behind his back. 'Well,' Calvin follows up, 'it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test'.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#OnThisDay in 1926, A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh was published! 🍯🧸 To celebrate the centenary, let’s explore this interactive story book version of “Pooh Goes Visiting” dating back to the 1930s. 📖 (Classmark: 1931.8.1271) Music by LeonarC from Pixabay

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Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Fun new acquisition: an illuminated copy of the 1470 edition of De civitate Dei, published in Venice by the brothers Johannes and Vindelinus de Spira.

Illuminated opening page, with large initials "I" and "G" in gold, with white vine borders into three margins. A wreath painted in the lower margin was not originally filled in, but an armorial was added in later, in ink, then crossed out.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 4h

indeed! They could just gone 'this crisis is awful but have no power' and few would have judged them for it. But they stepped up. Grateful for that.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14/10/2026

📚 100 years ago today, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends opened up a book to their enchanted Hundred Acre Wood. 🍯 🧸🐝🐰🐷 Read the full extent of their stories from a century ago at the Internet Archive. Courtesy of the #publicdomain.👇 archive.org/details/winn...

Black-and-white pen-and-ink illustration by E. H. Shepard of Winnie-the-Pooh sitting on a log and gazing upward beside a large tree. Behind him is a dark doorway at the tree’s base, with a sign reading “MR SANDERS” above it, a small bell, a hanging bell pull, and a partial note reading “RNIG ALSO.” A small pile of sticks lies on the ground to the right. Dense cross-hatching forms the tree.

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Our “Civilizing” the World' conference (16-23 Oct 2026) explores the uses of Greco-Roman & neo-classical sculpture and architecture by colonial powers. It opens with a special event on 21 Oct. Places are limited - book now ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Supporters incl. Henry Moore Foundation.

Image: ‘A Brahmin and a Mohammedan in Earnest Converse for their Country’s Good’. Monument to Major-General Sir Barry Close, Bart, 1815. Credit: UCL Culture.

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Peter Kidd @mssprovenance.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This looks very useful: a new online searchable version of Cappelli's _Dizionario di abbreviature_ reader.contubernalesbooks.com#/paleo/cappe... There is also a section on how to actually read a manuscript, which looks like a very useful teaching/learning tool: reader.contubernalesbooks.com#/paleo

reader.contubernalesbooks.com

Read Latin and Greek with help on every word

Seven books free, no account needed. Notes, scansion, facing texts and games built from each book's own words.

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A lovely gilded acorn binding for this sunny autumn day. From our 17th century manuscript copy of Aristotle's physics.

Top right corner of a 17th century binding showing a gilded acorn inside a single gold fillet.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

British Museum again in the doghouse over looted material, this time from China, that broke in the case. Let's talk about those cases.

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You may get some good answers if you ask Neil Harris (Udine) - he has seen many copies of this work

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.

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Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

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Anne O'Brien @anneobrienauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another splendid October page, this one from the Huth Book of Hours produced possibly in Bruges between 1485 and 1490. The floral decoration is lovely.

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Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So I've had a speaker drop-out last minute from the session dedicated to Old Norse female networks and communities! I still need to figure out next steps but is there coincidentally anyone who'd like to present in this session? #MedievalSky #OldNorse

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! To celebrate, we're sharing an image of Brian Walton's Polyglot Bible. The impressive six volume work presents the Old Testament in nine languages: Hebrew, Aramaic (Targum), Samaritan, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Ethiopic, Greek, and Latin.

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is lovely, thank you for documenting it! What skins are these?

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Next 3 days will be on From Skin to Script workshop with @crasshlive.bsky.social Starting with dehairing soaked skins #Skin2Script #medievalMSS

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For many years, for Greek speakers 'England' = Britain... This is still the case among some...

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is Michaelmas, a quarter day in the Irish calendar, and traditionally when rents were paid & contracts signed. It's also the last day to eat blackberries - after today, they belong to the Devil and will make you sick!

Detail of a page showing text in Spanish and a woodcut of blackberries. From Dioscorides' Materia Medica, 1555

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets. The Tablet: (Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)

Wooden board (with iron handle for hanging) inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad.
Cultures/periods
Late Roman
Production date
400-500
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot: Egypt
Africa: Egypt
Materials
wood
iron
Dimensions
Length: 40.64 centimetres
Inscriptions
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription subject
educational
literary
Curator's comments
TM 61042; Mertens-Pack 00611.000
Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS) 29 (1909), p. 39 (Kenyon, Frederic G.); Chronique d‘Égypte (CdE) 68 (1993), p. 145-154 (Cribiore, Raffaella); Allen, Sutton, and West 2001: 131; Debut 1986: 260, no. 161; Cauderlier 1992: 90, no. 272.
Bibliographic references
Cribiore 1993 / A Homeric exercise from the Byzantine schoolroom (pp. 145-154)
Location
On display (G69/dc7)
Exhibition history
Exhibited:

2019-2020 21 Nov-8 Mar, London, BM, SEG, Troy
Associated names
Associated with: Homer
Acquisition name
Donated by: British School of Archaeology, Egypt
Acquisition date
1906
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1906,1020.2
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number: TM 61042 (Trismegistos)
Conservation
treatment: 24.4.19 British Museum

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oooh, I've memorised a few! ... 'There was a wee lassie who swallowed a midgie'; 'Book with no pictures'; Hairy MacLary', of course; 'We're going on a bear hunt'; 'I want my hat back'; 'Goodnight Moon', 'There's a bear sitting on my chair', and many more ...

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

IDEA: rehabilitation centers for the modern, digitally ravaged attention span They could feature activities like lectures, seminar-style discussions, and reading. They could be called colleges, or maybe universities.

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am not given to hyperbole when it comes to university industrial relations, but this feels like an existential event. The heart of the university is being torn out, with long-lasting consequences. These strikes are a last-ditch attempt to stop that. Will anyone listen?

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Alberto J. Campillo Pardo @albertocampillo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm delighted to prresent "Privilege and Power Printing Privileges and the Regulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" from the @be4copy.bsky.social project and edited by Marius Buning, @andreaottone.bsky.social and me. #Printingprivileges #Bookhistory #OpenAccess www.scup.com/doi/book/10....

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Privilege and Power | Books

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Crikey, hadn't realised this was already happening.

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking forward to visiting it during my fellowship 🙂 Thank you @marshslibrary.bsky.social !!

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📢This Thursday! The first #EarlyModern Hellenism colloquium for this semester hosted by me and @hlamers.bsky.social ✨Anastasia Stylianou (warburginstitute.bsky.social) will discuss ‘Uncovering the Hidden Histories of England’s ‘Invisible’ Greeks, c.1450-1715' 📆 24 Sept, 15:00-16.00 CET Link below 👇

Image of the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople Kyrillos Loukaris (1572-1638)

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Easy to navigate for whom? Just the timetabling team, assessment planning, and online module access? Because what exactly is ‘difficult’ for students to navigate in still having some actual specific module choices?

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/five-we... 90 courses to be closed at Edinburgh, most in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, incl. Portuguese, Persian studies, and apparently Medieval History. 1,800 job losses estimated. The University has confirmed there is no financial deficit.

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Five-week strike at Edinburgh University at start of new academic term — UCU Edinburgh

UCU SCOTLAND PRESS RELEASE 11:00 AM Thursday 17 September 2026 Members of the University and College Union (UCU) Scotland at Edinburgh University will strike for 25 days over five weeks from 2...

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Interesting that the former owner indicates his identity as 'Byzantine'...

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wouldn't it be better to combine the information from both sources? Why choose?

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bright futures ahead, #edusky.

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Join us this Friday, 18 September, for a free guided tour of Ireland's oldest public library. Tours run every 15 minutes from 5:30-8:45pm. No booking required. culturenight.ie/event/cultur... #CultureNight2026 #CultureNight #CultureNightDublin

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For anyone in France in the next few months, this exhibition looks great! 🙂✨ #bookhistory #earlymodern #skystorians

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

C'est avec grand plaisir que je vous invite à venir à l'inauguration de l'exposition "À la recherche des Châlonnais. Livres et traces cachés du passé" ce samedi 19 septembre à 10h. L'exposition est organisée à la médiathèque Georges-Pompidou de Châlons-en-Champagne...

Affiche de l'exposition "à la recherche des Châlonnais"

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CARAA Center @caraacenter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

JOB : Directeur du Patrimoine F/H, musées d’Angers ➡️ www.emploipublic.fr/offre-emploi...

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Does anybody have access to vol 3 of Schneyer's Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters, who could send me the page ## relating to James of Lausanne? #MedievalSky

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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