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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 11/06/2026

One of the readers groups I’m in, someone just asked for a book “set in the 1990s or 70s, back when women used to wear modest full length clothing” and I just honey. sweetie pie. you’re gonna wanna sit down for this

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair

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Josh Coulthard @joshcoulthard.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

We look forward to hearing your rabbit holes!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [catchye hurdy-gurdy riff] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Omg the auto captions for my lecture #medievalsky

Captions on my lecture on chivalry and gender reads “hi everybody, we’re going to continue our discussion of Courtney Love by considering whether Courtney Love was actually real”

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This cause is close to my heart - genuinely, the amazing Salisbury Collection of Welsh history, language and literature was a major boon in completing my PhD: having this on open shelves was worth semi regular trips from Southampton, I’m forever in the library’s debt.

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Save the second floor of Cardiff University's Arts and Social Studies Library (ASSL)

Dear current patrons, past patrons, and future patrons of Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL) at Cardiff University. On Friday 17th of May, library staff of the ASSL were informed by University Li...

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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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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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Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Gesticulating, talking about Chaucer, wearing a suit that makes me feel like David Byrne Thank you @bristolcms.bsky.social for organising another fabulous PGR conference earlier this month

Me gesticulating while delivering a conference paper

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

call me a spondee by cause Ich am stressed stressed

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting. She had some things she needed to get off her chest

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 18/02/2026

The really egregious thing is how much Bristol has spent on buildings recently. Do university administrators think that buildings teach? research? provide student support? Academics and professional services staff *are* universities and we are being treated like an unwanted extra.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I just had to lie to my wife about why I was tearful. It was because I'd been reading the Wikipedia page about Catherine of Aragon. What that woman went through. I had no idea.

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

'this appears to be a long document, save time by reading a summary by AI' says Acrobat at the top of a PDF of all the Annals of St Bertin written between 830 and 882

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Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Some very exciting news about the CMS PGR Conference 2026! #medievalsky #skystorians

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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands). Please share widely! tinyurl.com/f7su6urv

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Global PhD on Middle English Arthurian romance

The University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I was right he did need a top hat.

A fancy pigeon strutting with a top hat on his little head, painted in acrylic over a maroon background

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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”

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Cassie Fenton @ccfenton.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Looking forward to being back at @imc-leeds.bsky.social this summer! Can’t wait to share some highlights from my Big Scary Pontifical Spreadsheet with the world!

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The Bristol CMS PGR conference is taking place from 30 March to 1 April and I will be there to give the keynote, and also hear a bunch of amazing papers, obviously. The call for papers is now open, so of you are a medieval PGR, do come along! medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/pgr-conferen...

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Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A very big day today… I have passed my PhD with minor corrections! Had a fantastic time talking Chaucer with my examiners #medievalsky #PhDone 🎓

Photograph of printed thesis draft with lots of notes in my terrible, near-illegible handwriting

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Alice Greedy Dyke England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

It’s the universities encouraging students to use AI that really gets me. All this “we need to accept it’s here and teach them to use it” does not help students learn to think. Writing is for thinking and communicating, not just producing words.

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Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

my first-born turns two tomorrow. So proud of all the organisers - we have a jam packed programme of insanely creative papers 🍏

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Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Living with chronic illness is physically and emotionally exhausting. Nine hours in A&E with such severe pain that liquid morphine didn’t even offer relief. All dismissed as ‘normal’ endometriosis symptoms

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Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I cannot wait for this paper. Bristol people, come along to brat symposium:the remix on Thursday!

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Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Putting together the slides for next week’s brat symposium @bristolcms.bsky.social (dun, dun) #medievalsky

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

majoring yn English ys punk rocke

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worm adderall (feral) @wormmo.de · 01/11/2025

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

📢 NEW Will of the Month Post 📢 October's will is an unusual & poignant example of a married woman who made a will Margery Gadyng died in childbirth in 1540 - she declared her will to the midwife & women attending her, leaving them bequests of ribbons & rosaries sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

A photograph of a rosary - a loop of string threaded with brown beads, some with symbols painted on them. Rosary of 30 unglazed earthenware beads of red and black clay, British Museum 2009,8038.1.a-b https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_2009-8038-1-a-b?selectedImageId=1310905001
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

You were blonde woman, thick head of hair, maybe late 40s or early 50s at RDU TSA checkpoint this morning. Traveling with your parents. Handling the luggage, their spatial awareness & strangers’. Got them to the lounge. Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡

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Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Get your proposals in by the end of the month! A title and rough outline is more than enough - and remember to sign up if you just want to be a spectator. We want to make sure there’s enough coffee/pizza/wine for all 💚💚💚

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Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Objectively the best Medieval Summer School out there 😉 Please consider sharing and, even better, applying! 🙂

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Here’s something to look forward to! In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition! 🗓️ 4-18 December

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Jenny Kenyon @jennykenyon.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

brat is back, baby. maybe one of my favourite academic events of all time, and the first paper I gave in Bristol to the best audience… it’s time for the remix 💚

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Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Last year’s brat symposium is (and might very well always be) my favourite academic event. Super creative research in an informal, experimental space. Come along, it’ll be a blast! 🍏

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

anyone in the area needs to attend this- the original was next-level and this one is not to be missed!!

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

So true - but the humanities provides so much more than preparation for the economy: it is a training for the whole of life, not just the job. Every well-functioning civil society needs a critically attuned citizenry.

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Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Good ol’ Neath train station. Makes a nice change from the usual human excrement found on the platforms

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Hātabaðan, n: Bath (place name). (HA-ta-BA-thon / ˈhaː-ta-ˌba-θan) The city of Bath used to be called Hot Baths. Image: Book of Hours; St Omer or Théouranne, c. 1320; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 36684, f. 7v. #OldEnglish #WOTD #placenames

Medieval marginalia depicting a person bathing in a barrel-like tub, with a large bird perched above them and a dragon like creature lurking below.

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