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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

📢 Save the Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026‼️ 📜 #TOEBI Conference 2026: All Kinds of People 📚 TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level. 🏫 Host: University of Nottingham 📲 www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/ #️⃣ #medievalsky #OldEnglish

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Norselass @norselass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nothing makes you feel appreciated as working for a place 25 years and not even getting an acknowledgement. Oh well...

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Peter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Teaching English? Check out the Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit for explanations, applications and free material. www.nottingham.ac.uk/stylisticstoolkit

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

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SHAPE Involve and Engage

A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 13/05/2026

"As long as financial pressures and current student recruitment trends that vary sharply between different providers continue, course closures and cold spots will grow." @britishacademy.bsky.social updates its 'Cold Spots' mapping of SHAPE subjects with 2024-25 HESA data bit.ly/4uKAXCX #Skystorians

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Subject cold spots are growing. We need to address the root causes

New analysis from the British Academy shows us huge areas of the country where key areas of humanities, arts, and social sciences are not taught. Ruairi Cullen has the details

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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We have a postdoc medical humanities position available at Exeter on the Wellcome-funded After the End project. Are you interested in endings and aftermaths? If so, please do apply and join our research team. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/79...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exeter | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate vacancy in Exeter. Postdoctoral Research Associate Salary Details The starting salary will be from £34,610 on Gra...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/05/2026

We currently invite applications to our 2026-27 Master's Scholarships programme: bit.ly/4dTHmXe Scholarships of £5000 are for students from groups currently underrepresented in academic history to study for an MA in history or a related subject. Closing date: Friday 5 June #Skystorians

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Master's Scholarships programme, 2026-27: supporting groups underrepresented in academic history - RHS

Each year the Society awards Scholarships to support students who will study for a Master's degree in history at a UK university. Master's Scholarships, each of £5000, support students from groups cur...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Interested in people who lived through the Norman Conquest? We have a new pre-print out about the aDNA of a rural community in Surrey who did just that! With more bioarch to come on this amazing site: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @liabetti.bsky.social @cegamorim.bsky.social & others not on 🦋

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🏺🧪Preprint of 1039(!) whole ancient human genomes from Britain, mainly dating to 1st Millennium CE, representing the best part of 7 years of my life. Herculean effort by @marinasdsilva.bsky.social to get this over the line. 'Migration Period' is more migrationy than we could have possibly imagined.

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Norselass @norselass.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It's Walpurgisnacht today. Germans celebrating an 8th century English nun with strong beer and dancing.

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Dr Jasmin Higgs @jaztherunologist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Come take a jaunt through a kirkyard with me… perhaps we’ll see some runes! open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi...

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Siobhán Barrett @siobhbar.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I am looking forward to speaking about Irish medical scribes from Co Mayo at the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar on Monday next 27th April. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

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James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Our early Latin medicine project is still doing its Manuscript of the Month blog - here is Jeff Doolittle on a fragment of the Old Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/04/24/2... #medievalsky

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21: A Fragment of the Aphorisms (Barcelona ACA Frag. 33) – Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine

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Hugh Pumphrey @hughpumphrey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is how pay has behaved in a UK university ( @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social ) since 2008. CPI, CPIH and the deprecated RPI are measures of price inflation. Tot WP and Reg WP are measures of other peoples' pay. Details blogs.ed.ac.uk/hughpumphrey... and linked posts.

Plot of real terms pay in a UK university as a function of time since 2008. It is down to between 80 and 85% if you use CPI, CPIH or other people's pay to define "real terms". If you use the deprecated RPI measure it is down to about 72%

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The pay premium of the median teacher, or university lecturer, has also fallen

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Clare Burke @thesherdnerd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The state of governance now 🫣 Another great looking talk in the WELHMA series as part of the Institute of Medieval Research 👇 #archaeology #history #Nottingham 🏺🏛

A poster for a talk called Place names and public assembly in early medieval Europe

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Norselass @norselass.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My new favourite word: thicky thicky dumdum.

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Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Learn more about the 2025 ‘Vikings for Scouts’ initiative that has supported the Derbyshire Scouts Archaeology team in developing activities for the Derbyshire Archaeology Badge in Kate Olley’s UoN English Substack post: uonenglish.substack.com/p/vikings-fo...

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Vikings for Scouts

Place-name Jenga, cardboard longships, and a grand launch event...

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...

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Sagas! The 2026 Midland Viking Symposium

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

#MCRHumNetwork is looking for a social scientist or a humanist with experience in surveys to carry out research on the life and work histories of MCRs in UK during Academic Year 2026/2027 on a self-employed basis. We apply for a @britishacademy.bsky.social Small Grant.

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Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics @uoncral.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Let's have a look at a typical Friday for one of our researchers, Dr Christine Muir. Stay tuned for more about her research on second language acquisition! #uoncral #language #languagelearning #research #researchcentre #appliedlinguistics #nottinghamuniversity #uon

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 07/04/2026

After Trump's latest shocking threats, Keir Starmer faces a choice. Withdraw US access now to UK air bases, or risk letting British soil be used to commit war crimes.

Donald Trump post threatening Iran, saying “a whole civilisation will die tonight.”

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

For some of the many compelling reasons why we need English as a discipline now more than ever, see universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... and support the @univ.eng.bsky.social campaign and the work of the @englishassociation.bsky.social

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#EnglishCreates

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Norselass @norselass.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Reviewing for the @erc.europa.eu is the most stressful thing. I understand that they now have a tw step authentication but this system could not be more user-friendly. This is costing me real time - and remember: it is free labour. I guess no other profession would put up with such rubbish.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...

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Management consultants are ruining UK universities

Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

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ZDF heute-show @heuteshow.de · 01/04/2026

Konsequent

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Ever wanted to learn how those manuscripts you research were actually made? Give it a go yourself! Bookings close 22nd May, bursary deadline 7th April. buff.ly/GEkudq3 #palaeography #paleography #LIPS26

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 01/04/2026

"A charm offensive is all well and good when it works, but at present the UK is all charm and the US is relentlessly offensive. That suggests it might be time for the British Government to reassess its approach." inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

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Trump's insults are an embarrassment to both him and the UK

Donald Trump has made a point of singling out and embarrassing the UK on the world stage

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖 An overview of Playing with Old English: A Playful Pedagogy Resource ✍️ Megan Cavell and Renée R. Trilling 📝 TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

⚠️ Deadline tomorrow ⚠️ Final call for our New Voices in Midland History Conference, for postgraduates, early careers researchers, independent scholars, and heritage, museum, and archive professionals. Saturday 6 June at the National Civil War Centre in Newark. More details below 👇

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Norselass @norselass.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

@virginmedianews.bsky.social was supposed to fix our WiFi. Instead they wrecked our connection. Of course there is no one to fix it now.

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Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

🌟New Year exciting new OA paper🌟 doi.org/10.1080/0076... from myself @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, @shakenbeck.bsky.social & TC O'Connell @cam-archaeology.bsky.social "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100" using #isotopes & #aDNA🧵⬇️ 1/

Graphical abstract for the paper. Skeletons with male & female grave goods (sword and brooches with bead string), with arrows to a tooth showing the type of analyses & subsequent information you can get from them. First arrow goes to isotopes which tell about individual migration; strontium is linked to food and underlying soils/geology; oxygen is linked to drinking water and to the climate. The second arrow goes to DNA which informs about ancestry and relatedness. To the right is a map of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa with a big oval of arrows to indicate movement around all areas of the map, and a map pin in England with arrows from various regions leading to it, to show that people moved from all across the map into England in the early medieval period.

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender welcomes award nominations for the 2026 Book Awards, Editions Award(s) & Collaborative Project Award For more info &/or to nominate a work, see docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline: May 25, 2026

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Society or the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender 2026 Awards Nominations

The Society seeks nominations for awards for English-language scholarly work on women and gender in the early modern period (ca. 1450-1750) published/completed between June 2023 and May 2026. Items pr...

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Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Today and tomorrow (March 24-25), the three highly fragile sleds from the Oseberg burial are being moved into the new Museum of the Viking Age - a very carefully planned process. #Vikingtidsmuseet @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/news...

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We Are Now Relocating Our Most Fragile Objects - Museum of the Viking Age

The move to the new Museum of the Viking Age has reached its most nerve-racking phase – bringing the fragile Oseberg sleds safely into the new museum.

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Children's reading & cultural engagement across libraries & community spaces in Leeds' - BL & Uni of Glasgow www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc.... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 24 April

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University of Glasgow - Colleges - College of Social Sciences - Student funding opportunities - Postgraduate Research - Latest PhD opportunities

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

According to the media, archaeologists are always shocked and baffled by what they randomly find in the ground, but historians uncloak a duplicitous cover-up. Only scientists can prove the truth

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Collection of medical texts compiled in 1500-1501 during the writer's medical studies. Includes copies of texts in the medical curriculum, at least one copied from a printed edition. The larger writing is the texts; smaller writing is comments (UPenn LJS 424) #medievalsky 🔗: bit.ly/4dbbVao

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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Job opportunity with manuscripts and early printed books! Librarian at Lincoln Cathedral – Cathedral Library £43,722 - Full time applicaiton DL: 14 April 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQX901/l...

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Librarian at Lincoln Cathedral

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📢 Deadline extended: 30 April 2026‼️ 📜 Theme: All Kinds of People 📚 TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level. 🏫 Host: University of Nottingham 📅 Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026 #️⃣ #CfP #TOEBI #medievalsky #OldEnglish

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

📢 #TOEBI GRANTS DEADLINE EXTENSION ‼️ ⏰ Deadline: 5pm on the 30th April 2026. 💻 Members who are graduate students/recent PhDs without a full-time post are encouraged to apply. 📝 Application forms are available to download here:⤵️ 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g... #️⃣ #medievalsky

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Norselass @norselass.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The deadline for the 2026 TOEBI conference is fast approaching. Nottingham is hosting this year. Come and join us in the Midlands for 'All Kinds of People' @toebi.bsky.social

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Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Reminder that our third CSVA reading group of the term is taking place today, 12-1pm, Trent A49! We hope to see you there as we explore Brian McMahon’s “Remembrance of Things to Come: Memory and Prophecy in Old Norse Literature.”

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