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Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference @oxmgc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🎶 Registration is open for the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2026: Sounds & Silence! 🎶 Join us April 23–24 for paper sessions, keynotes from Dr. Eleanor Standley (Oxford) & Dr. Joseph Mason (Cambridge), and more. Register here (in-person/online) 👇 oxgradconf.wixsite.com/omgc/2026-so...

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Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference @oxmgc.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The OMGC committee is delighted to announce this year’s Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20-minute papers from graduate students on the theme ‘Sounds and Silence.’ Please submit abstracts of 250 words to oxgradconf@gmail.com by 8 December 2025. Details Below

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

It’s #WorldMigratoryBirdDay! Bird migration is one of nature’s greatest wonders... Epic journeys across oceans, deserts and continents, guided by instinct and the pull of the seasons. Meet three extraordinary travellers spending summer in the UK… 👇

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Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference @oxmgc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

And away we go! OMGC 2025 is underway with Panel 1: Saints and Staging.

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Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference @oxmgc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Registration for OMGC 2025, ‘Rituals and Ceremonies,’ April 24-25 at the Maison Française d'Oxford, is now live on our website! Follow the link to register for free in-person or online participation. oxgradconf.wixsite.com/omgc/event-d...

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MONDAY, APRIL 8 9:30-10:00 Registration (in-person) 10:00-11:30 Session 1: Divine Affectivity <ul><li>Marlene Schilling, 'Connected through Sc...

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Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference @oxmgc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

...and our 2025 program is now live, too! Check out the full slate of presentations below, including keynote speakers Dr. Helen Gittos (Oxford) and Prof. Aleks Pluskowski (Reading).

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Wolfson College Oxford @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

When we launched this channel, we promised river-based content. And wow, do we have some for you.... A misty sunrise walk for one Wolfson student at the weekend was rewarded with this most thrilling of sights.

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

These deeply beautiful maps show the migration patterns of––respectively––Curlew, Kittiwake & Blackcap. From this interactive migration atlas recording migrations of 300 bird species: migrationatlas.org Birds both tether us to places & stitch the world together.

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I’ve been catching myself daydreaming about the PNW – specifically of the view from my old desk and trips to the Olympic Peninsula. There’s something encouraging and tranquil about a skyline of evergreens and the quiet of mossy forest. Perhaps it’s that the current milieu is deficient in both.

Hoh Rainforest, Olympic National Park
WA, USA

Kalaloch Beach, Olympic Peninsula
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Joanna Coleman @joannacoleman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Great read with concrete recommendations to combat the denialism surrounding the 6th exinction. « As with climate change, the biodiversity crisis is happening whether or not people believe or directly experience it ».

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Since yesterday’s MS damaged by a canon ball was a hit, I figured I’d continue sharing objects from my overflowing folder of museum/archive snapshots. Today I give you the historian’s version of r/whatismycookiecutter: what is my Iron Age brooch? (Moesgaard Museum, DK) 🏺 #archaeobirds #aarhus

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

A highlight from my trip to York: a manuscript hit by a canon ball! This cartulary (c.1345-1480) may have been in St Mary’s Tower during the 1644 siege of York. The shape of the damage led to the theory that it was hit by a musket/cannon ball. York Minster Archives, MSS XVI/A.1 #medievalsky #York

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Some of the wildlife at Tresco Abbey Gardens, Isles of Scilly UK

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

What is something small that changed your perception of the past? #medievalsky Here’s mine: In De Avibus, Frederick II recommends spitting cold water on falcons & transporting them at night to prevent overheating in warm seasons. Never expected aristocracy spitting on raptors, but there you go. 🗃️

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Did Foster the People (un)intentionally produce an album w/ appeal for medievalists? Bosch-esque art, a krautrock-jazz version of The Seafarer in Glitchzig… Is it just me?! (Also, the 🎺 solo rocks) My spirit out in the waterways, over the whale’s path it soars widely But the wind has other plans🎶

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

The OMGC committee is delighted to announce this year's CfP! We look forward to receiving paper proposals (250 words) from graduate students on the theme of ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. The conference will be held in Oxford on the 24th and 25th of April, 2025. More info on the CfP. #medieval #OMGC25 🗃️

Call for Papers for the 2025 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference on the theme of 'Rituals and Ceremonies.' The conference will be held on the 24th and 25th of April, 2025. in Oxford. The committee welcomes proposals related to the medieval period from graduate students from all disciplinary perspectives and universities. Presenters should plan to attend the conference in-person. Paper proposals should be no longer than 250 words and sent to oxgradconf@gmail.com by the 6th of December, 2024.

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Registration for the 2024 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference is open *until March 15*! Hosted by MFO on April 8-9, this year’s conference includes keynote lectures by Prof. Sophie Page (UCL) and Dr. Hannah Ryley (Oxford). www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford... #oxford #medievalsky #conference 🗃️

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Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2024

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

I’ve read too much hagiography recently. My mid-term stress manifested as a dream of inescapable Apocalypse. I’m an advocate for historical empathy, but dreams of end-days (Friday of week 8) it NOT what I bargained for. 😂 #medieval #medievalsky #AcademicSky 🗃️

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Reading Venantius Fortunatus’ hagiography of Radegund and I have a suspicion he was fed up with the nuns at Poitiers for not doing their chores. He likes to emphasize how saintly Radegund scrubbed the kitchen, cleaned the privies, and swept the pavements. Moral of the story: take out the damn trash.

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

I realized yesterday that cats are the masters of circular breathing. Talented little bastards don’t even have to try.

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I am excited to extend a CfP to graduate students for the 2024 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference (8/9th April). We are looking for submissions relating to the theme 'Signs and Scripts.' Whether that means inn signs, theatre, spiritual signs... is up to interpretation! lnkd.in/eMjihfjc #Medievalsky

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is excited to announce that the theme for the 2024 conference is:
‘Signs and Scripts’

The conference will be held in person on the 8th and 9th of April, 2024. We invite proposals relating to all aspects of the topic ‘signs and scripts’ in the medieval world. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary perspectives, whether historical, literary, archaeological, linguistic, interdisciplinary, or anything else. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.

We ask that all presenters attend in person with hybrid participation available for attendees who cannot travel to the event.

Submission Guidelines
Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes. A limited number of bursaries are available to help with travel costs, and we welcome applications from graduate students at any university.
Please send abstracts of 250 words to oxgradconf@gmail.com by the 17th of December.

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

I'm excited to share my recent blog post on OMS exploring the cultural logic of Majapahit 'piggy banks' and their muddy origins in a global history of sapiens and sus. 'Writing in the Mud' is a challenge for historians to take inspiration from pigs and transgress comfortable disciplinary enclosures.

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

I’ll take this as an opportunity to plug Professor Urbanski’s new book “Medieval Monstrosity.” She was an inspiration and a mentor during my time at the UW and introduced me to Jeffrey J. Cohen’s work on “Monster Theory” which she applies in her book to Medieval Europe. A perfect Halloween read! 🎃

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

“October is the season of pumpkin spice, knit clothing, candles…” Nope, sorry, it’s poofy bird season. Always has been, always will be. (Drawing of a rather portly chickadee enjoying a sunset from my grade-school storybook project. Even little me was interested in non-human animal perspectives.)

Round black-capped chickadee enjoying a sunset
c. 2008
Pencil, colored on paper, printed
8.5” x 11”

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

I love going into a supervision meeting full of doubt and emerging from the office with inspiration and a clear sense of direction. Real heroes don’t wear capes.

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Just finished S1 of "Ways of Knowing", a collaborative podcast project between The World According to Sound and UofWa. Such a great intro to analytical methods and disciplines in the humanities – including #EnvHum! Definitely worth the 90min listen. www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/ways-of-know...

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Season 1: Ways of Knowing — The World According to Sound

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Ryan Mealiffe @rmealiffe.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I’ve been thinking about Cassiopea (“upside-down jellyfish”) way to much. Imagine getting to lie around all day in calm tropical waters, subsisting on the excess ATP from your symbiotic dinoflagellates. A friend of mine once said, “I wish I were a jellyfish.” I can’t help but agree.

A group of Cassiopeia xamachana jellyfish on sand with their bell facing down so the endosymbionts they host can photosynthesize.

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