iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah english people really do think it's dodgy there

Reposted by Tess Wingard

Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I find it strange how often the history of Jews in Europe more broadly is treated as a niche or specialist topic, rather than being part of the main stream of European history. It’s a *choice* to leave Jewish history out of the story.

39521

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm going to Oregon in November and you would not believe how excited I am to see all this

110

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

leeds has a dodgy rep among english people of a certain generation but these days it is probably the most inoffensive, generic mid sized city in the entire country

040

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

chatting with a barista who used to au pair for a family in yorkshire, she said her hosts warned her never to go to leeds because it was dangerous and I just straight up burst out laughing

440

Reposted by Tess Wingard

Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

262185564907

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

sapir-whorf really did a number on generations of humanist scholars huh

140

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

looks amazing, where are you getting your frames from and how are you keeping them up?? I really want to upgrade my setup and get some proper frames for my conference posters...

000

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my students actually already brought up the case in both of my classes, it's been the main topic of discussion among my friends. I don't think men really realise how much women have been talking about it with each other this week and how heavy it weighs on us, particularly those in higher ed.

091

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

preparing to teach a class on rape and consent in medieval culture the week after the Cornell Seven case blew up makes you realise that nothing ever really changes

1276

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

no worries, and good luck to your student 😊

010

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

thank you! I will very much be hitting you up for suggestions in due course ❤️

011

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

also @rmkarras.bsky.social and Katherine Pierpont's chapter on "The Sexuality of Chastity" in the latest edition of Sexuality in Medieval Europe

000

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*Margery Kempe (sorry am distracted watching the Eagles get absolutely wrecked 💀)

010

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the work of Liza Blake and the bibliography of early modern asexualities which she co edited should be helpful. www.academia.edu/44374597/A_B...

academia.edu

A Bibliography for Early Modern Asexualities

A reading list for researching and teaching queer asexuality in early-modern English literature and culture.

200

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

if your student is interested in pursuing it further then Christina of Markyate and Margery Kemke would be two potentially generative primary sources. there's very little relevant secondary scholarship for the Middle Ages but some good stuff that has been published on early modern asexualities.

210

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

im a little skeptical of ace readings of medieval celibacy purely because the sources usually frame it as an active practice struggle over/mastery of desire rather than *absence* of desire. the celibate/virgin as identity category analogous to asexuality may have some mileage to it

120

Reposted by Tess Wingard

ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Delighted to announce that we are initiating an annual autumn lecture series. The lectures will be held on Monday evenings at 6.30pm via Zoom and will last between 45-50 mins, followed by questions. Full details and booking information here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theec...

tickettailor.com

The Ecclesiological Society

The Ecclesiological Society – Welcome to the Ecclesiological Society's ticket website. Here, you can sign up for and buy tickets for all of our events. Almos...

035

Reposted by Tess Wingard

Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First proofs of the forthcoming book have arrived in my email inbox from Bloomsbury. In classic fashion: in the middle of frantic marking and at the start of the school holidays. 🤦🏻‍♂️

27715

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

gonna be adding this to my Medieval Animals syllabus next semester 👀

1164

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it turns out that even a pre-industrial society that supposedly lives in woo woo harmony with its natural environs can still get royally fucked over by natural climatic change completely outside of its control!!

010

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

maybe if certain people read more of the boring economic history scholarship that they brag about not engaging with, they'd know about cute things like the Little Ice Age and the great famine of 1315-18 😊

110

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we need muscular environmental politics that makes the green new deal look like a fucking middle school class project tbh

020

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

tho @josserme.bsky.social is very correct in pointing out that drawing out the interdependence between micro crunchy and macro state capacity is a good way to get people to buy in on an emotional as well as rational political level bsky.app/profile/joss...

030

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

no point in convincing people to be crunchy on an individual level if you can't get them to buy into the macro politics that make it possible.

120

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and all of that is in turn the product of the Nasty Big State, elite ivory tower academics, taxation, red tape etc, all kinds of things that a lot of people hate and don't really understand.

110

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the urban green space near you where you get to smell the roses and watch the birds is the product of ongoing city/state/federal/EU etc investment, rigidly enforced restrictions on greenfield development, and highly specialised expertise in botany/ecology/land management.

130

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the problem is that most people don't make the connection between the small scale touching grass moments and the large scale institutional/national/global apparata that make that possible in the first place

120

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

thank you for making my morning with the replies to this thread diva xx

020

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

completely uneducated vibes based opinion here but I'm wondering if harsher penalties on public indecency in much of the US kinda stopped it being as prevalent a cultural practice?

020

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I stayed at Hilton Boston Brookline-Longwood Medical for EmoTrans 2025 and had a pleasant enough time, it was well connected in terms of transport and I remember it being reasonable enough in terms of price

110

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

can't believe a terror plot of potentially vast geopolitical significance was foiled by the bad guys from Hot Fuzz

317714

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

when have the british ever been right about anything tho

000

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

nah we getting solarpunk postwar consensus starting in 2027, i know it in my bones

100

Reposted by Tess Wingard

Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Georgia O'Keeffe, Morning Sky, 1916 whitney.org/collection/w...

Abstracted image of a sunrise, in bright colors

181309181

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the debate pretty much ended up in people calling each other slurs

100

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

these divas are fighting for their LIVES

120

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there's like five of them and they all got kicked out of the fandom for bl shipping (the chuds didn't want that lgbtq shit shoved down their throats, the terminally online posters said they were fetishising gay men)

120

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a subversion of tropes! i like it

110

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

gonna email blanchard about this so he can revise his theory with new data

010

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

tbh mechs are agp and magical girls are hsts

210

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lowkey stealing hsts_mechsuit for my new alt account handle

110

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

oh there's definitely so much anime out there that is deeply aesthetically and philosophically rich and engages in conversation with both japanese and european artistic traditions, but Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995) is probably not one of them

120

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i'm also a hypocrite because i have literally watched several hundred hours worth of japanese mecha anime in this year alone, but i guess at least i'm not trying to make a statement about problematising the canon with it

120

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

rochester pals! the orchestra that I play in (URSO) is performing in the Prism Concert as part of Meliora Weekend next Friday at 8pm! free entry and everyone is welcome. 😊 www.sas.rochester.edu/mur/ensemble...

sas.rochester.edu

Concerts

010

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

there's a reason i left the UK lmao

020

Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

normative daily range is 3-6 cups (my colleagues are concerned for me)

011