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Would maybe not have phrased it quite like that?

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"If you’ve ever wanted to read an academic journal article, though, you may have noticed that it costs money to download it—anywhere between $5 and $90. The article’s author isn’t getting that money."

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

No-one: Hey, how's the job hunt going? Me: Just submitted my 11th for this year No-one: Great, how many interviews? Me: what are those?

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The Google satellite map of Sawtry inadvertently exposes someone destroying a neighbour's house with a death-ray

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My first book is now available from Palgrave. This is the academic equivalent of building a jet engine or marksmen rifle in your shed. An academic, without institutional affiliation is still an academic if they produce work: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 12 days ago • 312 comments

This is why they will never allow the tenure-track via challenge to single-combat route. Too great a risk that a candidate has 'prior experience.'

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

A great pedagogy tip. The main problem for medievalists is that we can only assign sources that have been translated into English - and those (popular sourcebook series, the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, etc.) have mostly already been fed into AI training data.

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Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

submitted 27 days ago • 140 comments

crabs in a bucket | patreon.com/lubchansky

submitted 27 days ago • 18 comments

When I retire I want to open a more historically informed version of Medieval Times for England in which knights have the Virgin painted on the inside of their shields and wealthy guests are expected to bring books of hours and there is an anchorite living in the entryway

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Just a Bakelite electrical plug splitter/extension thingy. Turns one powerpoint into three. Look at it, it is SO PRETTY.

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

and we’ve discovered it’s actually really hard to eat parchment, and the documents survive chewing! #eatingtearingthrowing @lflannigan17.bsky.social @saracharles.bsky.social @freemanjones.bsky.social

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Big fan of this as a method, both for bigots and for disengaging with male academics that We All Know About.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

A quick question for manuscript people: can you think of any other examples where a scribe/translator notes per manum 'by the hand of' with a little drawing of a hand - as below?

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

One day left on this kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/345...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 45 days ago • 40 comments

If your partner is a medievalist you should expect that they will walk you through the joys of declining personal names in Latin on the day you discover that The National Archives has just made your life so much easier. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/refere...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

AMAZINGNESS! How would you like to have YOUR NAME as a character in my next book AND raise money for trans rights charities? WELL ASK NO MORE! Auction is here. Bidding starts at £10. Let’s raise some money! www.32auctions.com/organization...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Grateful to Steven Gunn for such a thoughtful and detailed engagement.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Really delighted with this review!

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone watching Pierre Poilievre eat absolute shit in Carleton and respecting Canada's bilingual culture.

submitted 55 days ago • 71 comments

This is probably the strangest (and also the fiercest) article I've ever written, out now in History Workshop Journal. And it's available open access! academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

Yeah, I went there . . .

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

Are you wrestling with editing medieval texts? Do you have students who are? This summer school course is for you! 👇 📖💻🤯 5 days, June 2025 @ies-sas.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

My friend just sent me this from the Cardiff protest. Contender for best protest sign I’ve ever seen

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

what an amazing definition. my loose translation: “Ben Shapiro, for anyone not familiar with him, is an LLM which generates voicemails from Tucker Carlson at 1.5x speed”

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

“Talking with the vice president helped the cardinal better understand the Book of Job,” said a Vatican spokesperson, who added that the Book of Job itself was not discussed.

submitted 64 days ago • 27 comments

Not the same indeed.

submitted 65 days ago • 508 comments