iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A rabid sheep, still from the horror movie Black Sheep.

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Sarah Blick @sarahblick3.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

#GothicManuscripts Sherborne Missal, 1399-1407, England, detail of the Resurrection. I think the sleeping soldiers kits are quite snazzy and colorful. The brilliant patterned red sky behind Christ is impressive & the dog snoozing nearby is quite cute.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This nonsense about the printing press and universities is simply a different form of the "the Church enforced thought control in the Middle Ages" canard and says quite a bit more about what the speaker thinks about modern institutional surveillance and control than about history.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And if you have any interest in music whatsoever, definitely watch the whole documentary series (10 episodes in all), covering the entire history of music. The whole thing is here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Very positively reviewed by the Guardian too: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music review – it’s amazing that this staggering show exists

Charlotte Ritchie presents a wildly ambitious and unapologetically brainy YouTube documentary that takes in Big Bang soundwaves, singing dolphins and an astonishing amount in between. Don’t miss it fo...

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 01/08/2026

** As it's being discoursed: I do not use any generative AI (ChatGPT, Claude et. al.) at any stage in my writing process. I write because I enjoy writing. I enjoy the challenge of expressing an idea, or character, or setting in such short form and tell a story with them. It's all human made. **

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What's the greatest medieval manuscript discovery of modern times? Here are ten rediscovered texts that changed medieval studies. Which fascinates you the most? www.medievalists.net/2026/07/10-l... #History

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10 Lost Medieval Texts Rediscovered Centuries Later - Medievalists.net

Discover ten medieval works once believed lost, from forgotten chronicles and heroic poems to manuscripts found in caves, libraries and book bindings.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The problem of manipulation is on the table. Stealing the current books, buying the old books, and cooperating with large archives and collections and libraries, like in Oxford, is part of the same agenda. It is about controlling the information of the future. That’s what is really on the table.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

„Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world“ (Anthropic).

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A tiny man shooting a word nearby, within a printed text of the European past. Welcome to another #rebus broadside of the later so-called #ThirtyYearsWar. A shootin' short 🧵 for #skystorians

A man shooting the word "Lermen" (Lärmen", being noisy) within a printed text.

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Damn, this made me chuckle.😆

barbwritesstuff: I have learnt today that my library refers to me as "the specific and highly active user" and has denied some of my purchase requests because "we can't skew the collection too much toward the taste of the specific and highly active use."

I did suggest roughly 100 vampire books for purchase last year. I think this probably has something to do with that.

Dragon-in-a-fez: op is there any particular reason the librarians would feel safer not invoking you by name?

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I was looking at the AHA's book prizes, and if you work on Europe between 1000 and 1500, you're SoL. What's especially fascinating is that British History starts in 1485 and European Cultural History starts in 1500.

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Sudo Naaame @sudonaaame.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Digitization is not always the best option, either. Storage of archival images is expensive, and then there should be ongoing management of the files. That’s the IT dept. for us, staff turnover and bad communication, etc. Sometimes you must damage the book to scan it, too.

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MegaForte84 @megaforte84.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

They also can't tell the difference between describing a common error to correct it and giving correct information. I've seen a search summary AI give the wrong liturgical ABC year, probably because descriptions of the common error are much more boilerplate than descriptions of the correct answer.

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

To the inevitable cries of “just digitize everything, then;” not an answer. Making digital facsimiles accessible requires huge investment: staff, metadata, preservation. Orgs are currently not funded to meet these needs. While digital objects are great, they’ll never replace looking at originals.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

OOOOO. Exeter's got Nous in as well... Of course... (@exeterucu.bsky.social, have you FOIed how much they're paid?) Can we PLEASE put an end to the involvement of these consultancies? They have done nothing but vandalism.

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A best practice approach to academic restructure at Exeter

Explore Part 2 of Exeter Uni's major transformation case study. Learn how collaboration & strategic alignment drove restructure.

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Ahh! I need to check this account more frequently. 😑 We leave tomorrow. Are you around tonight? Want to grab supper?

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I feel bad for the gunners mate, but I really like the name of the sloop.

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

…Wolfgang Prommer, who catalogued it both alphabetically & via keywords. Nuremberg’s Aegidius Oertel became the first librarian in 1561. In 1571 Fugger sold the collection to Albert V, making it the nucleus of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. 📚📜 [4/4]

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

…(& failed) to convince Hieronymus Wolf to become its librarian, the collection was first administrated & organised by Antwerp physician Samuel Quichelberg who adopted the Augsburg court library’s shelving system. Later it was administered by the librarian… [3/n]

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

…Italy, Spain, & the Netherlands (over 10,000 volumes total); having manuscripts copied in Venice; &, in 1552, purchasing the manuscripts & incunabula of physician & humanist Hartmann Schedel, one of the richest humanistic private libraries north of the Alps. After Fugger tried… [2/n]

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

#TIH #OTD 14 July in #BookHistory: 1575: Death of Hans / Johann Jakob Fugger (b.1516), German banker & patron of the arts & sciences from the von der Lilie line of the Fugger banking family. He assembled a major library, commissioning agents to collect manuscripts & printed works in… [1/n]

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s rare from me (I’m a medieval manuscripts scholar), but once in a while I’ll post an item of interest from print history.

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

…general discussions have been interpreted by the government as advocates of conspiracies.“ For more on Zoia Horn, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoia_Horn #Privacy #Freedom #CivilLiberties #Surveillance [5/5]

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Zoia Horn - Wikipedia

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

…in homes, in libraries and universities inhibits and destroys this freedom. It stands on freedom of association—yet in this case gatherings of friends, picnics, parties have been given sinister implications. It stands on freedom of speech—yet… [4/n]

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“It is because I respect the function of this court to protect the rights of the individual, that I must refuse to testify … I love and respect this country too much to see a farce made of the tenets upon which it stands. To me it stands on: Freedom of thought—but government spying… [3/n]

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

…jailed for nearly 3 weeks for contempt of court after refusing to testify for the prosecution, despite being granted immunity, in the conspiracy trial of the ‘Harrisburg Seven’ anti-war activists. In a written statement to the judge, Horn declared: … [2/n]

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

📚 📜 #TIH #OTD 12 Jul 2014: Death of Zoia Markovna Horn [née Polisar] (b.1918), who, in 1972, became the 1st librarian in USA to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience. A member of ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee, Horn—who worked at Bucknell University—was… [1/n]

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

… the patronage of Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, it was based mainly on Gennady’s Bible & was the primary source for the Moscow Bible published in 1663 under Alexis of Russia. #typography #EarlyPrinting #books

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

#TIH #OTD 12 Jul in #BookHistory 📚 📜… 1580: Completion of the 1st printing of the Ostrog Bible, the 1st full printed edition of the Bible in Church Slavonic & the 1st in Cyrillic type. Published in Ostrog (Ostroh, Ukraine) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by Ivan Fyodorov with …

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

VICE-CHANCELLOR ARRESTED. 🤩 Do we think *the regulator of the sector* is going to get some serious questioning why they didn't catch any of this? And why they allowed the name change -- which triggered alarm bells with journalists, but not with them? The uselessness of the OfS on full display.

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Now I’m the one who is awfully late. (Hello from London.)

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Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Find somebody who looks at you like vulpis looks at simius

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

How do we calculate loss of written works? A depressing but important new study notes that "the loss was far greater than scholars once thought. Researchers estimate that up to 60% of medieval literary works and more than 95% of the manuscripts that once carried them have disappeared over time." 📜🖋️

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Up to 60% of medieval texts and 95% of manuscripts have vanished, study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine

A new study estimates 60% of medieval texts and over 95% of manuscripts were lost through centuries of copying and destruction.

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Current status: Sitting on the grass in Russell Square, eating sushi to the mingled calls of ring-necked parakeets and football hooligans. Ah, #London… 😌😏

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Katherine I @chesneycat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Bona Books is not alone.

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

*psst* We’re up in The Terrace with Dot Porter—feel free to join us.

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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Paper delivered. Productive question period. Duty done re appearances at receptions. Now chilling with @leoba.bsky.social at The Terrace at @imc-leeds.bsky.social … and life is good. #HappyFace

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Roy Milton Baker's Hilarious Cat Dance

ALT: Roy Milton Baker's Hilarious Cat Dance

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