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We have loads of exciting events on this week, featuring Alison More, @alisonibeach.bsky.social, Amir M.A.H. Parsa, Hannah Dawson and @zbrookman.bsky.social!

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Did I mention the @lindoresabbey.bsky.social Distillery cats, Friar John Claw and Vesper -- cats so cool they have their own Instagram account with over 78,000 followers (friarandvesper)? Vesper is shy, but Friar John loves to drape himself all over the archaeology and tea tables!

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Join us for the 2025 Monastic Archaeology Field School at Lindores Abbey! History, Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Heritage Management! Applications are open until 17 March but admissions are rolling and we are filling quickly! Links below for applications and requests for one-on-one information chats!

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TeamNun on the road in Italy! Read here about our most recent adventures in the archives of the monastery of Santa Maria della Stella. www.teamnun.org/news/teamnun...

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Paper rec: Hayward, M. (2015) 'Dressed in blue: the impact of woad on English clothing, c.1350-c.1670', Costume, 49(2), pp. 168-185. doi.org/10.1179/0590... Interesting article, especially with woad being such an old, recorded, dye. #DressHistory #HistoricalTextiles

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Archaeological scientists in the archives, historians in the lab -- the #TeamNun way! We work together to understand the strengths and limitations of our various academic specialties and how they work together!

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#TeamNun on the road in Saluzzo, Italy! Working our way through 6 centuries of a Cistercian women’s monastery. Riffredo/Santa Maria della Stella 🤩

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A suggestion on how UK universities can save money and reduce faculty burnout in one fell swoop: drop the surveillance culture of moderators, externals, etc., etc. Hire good people and trust that they will do their job.

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Postdoctoral fellowship in the field of medieval studies for a period of 12 months (2025/2026). Together with the École française de Rome and the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo. Application deadline 31 January 2025: t1p.de/6nu6q @maxweberstiftung.bsky.social #medievalsky #medievalstudies

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Welcome to St Andrews, the School of History, and TeamNun, Nora! @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @standrewshist.bsky.social @teamnun.bsky.social #medielvalsky #archaeology

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Carolin Gluchowski (Germany) -- studies reform and reformation in 16th-century women's monasteries in Germany. Key player in an innovative team exploring the impact of religious change on the lives of nuns in a stunning graphic novel, Breaking Walls! #TeamNun loves innovative approaches to impact!

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Discover our selection of our short courses (in person and online) at The London Rare Books School in 2025! Discover our current offering and secure your spot here: buff.ly/3Za70PK More courses are coming! #RareBooks #OnlineCourses #DigitalEditing #MedievalSky

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Applications are coming in for our 2024 Monastic Archaeology Field School at Lindores Abbey in Fife, Scotland! Hands-on history and archaeology, course credit from the University of St Andrews. Admission is rolling until we fill (final date 17 March 2025) -- don't miss out! mafs-scot.org

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For those of you in the Boston area, I'll be hosting a Q&A after a special screening of the documentary film Hunt for the Oldest DNA at the MIT Museum on December 3 at 6pm. Tickets to the screening and after show are available here: mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/sel...

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Ford Lectures! Jocelyn Wogan-Browne! Bet these'll be great! @oxmedstud.bsky.social #medievalsky www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l...

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"If you embrace diversity but ignore disability, you are doing it wrong." #DisabilityIsDiversity

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Perfect row on the North Sea. Cormorants, oystercatchers, herons and a very curious grey seal.

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I live in a beautiful place. Sunrise from our window 😍

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Are you an applied microeconomist and golfer? Come to Fife & do both! The 1st annual Fife Applied Microeconomics and Golf conference will be held 2-4 June. Golf on Balcomie (Old Tom Morris) and Craighead Links (Gil Hanse). Deadline 15 Jan. Info: applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/fifeamgolf/

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Tired of the modern world? Come dig into the Middle Ages this June-July at Lindores Abbey in Scotland. Learn about medieval monasticism, and gain practical experience in field archaeology, bioarchaeology, and heritage. U of St Andrews credit. Link below. #MedievalSky #Archaeology

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next week I have two (!) sessions where I'll be piloting a new research method based on focus groups and participatory action. the first group of co-researchers (aka participants) have a combined 100+ years of experience in the field 😱😱

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Come dig with us! Applications are now open for our 2025 Lindores Abbey Excavations! Hands on history, heritage, and archaeological skills - earn St Andrews credit. Information and application below!

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Come dig with us! Applications are now open for our 2025 Lindores Abbey Excavations! Hands on history, heritage, and archaeological skills - earn St Andrews credit. Information and application below!

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Happy St Martin's Day with this splendid #medievalsky miniature from an 11th-century manuscript made at Fulda and preserved at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Bamberg (MS Lit. 1, fol. 170r: nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...; CC BY-SA 4.0). Get your lanterns ready! 🏮

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I'm sorry but I don't think you can do "oh the Dems didn't talk about this one issue I love so that's why they lost" in this election, democracy was and is on the line, Trump is a horrible man who ran a horrible campaign, sometimes you have to just face the reality of the electorate being awful

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We are in the 2024 Celebrating Archaeology from Historic Envrionment Scotland magazine. Out today! #medievalsky #archaeology archaeologystrategy.scot/wp-content/u...

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Want to join us at a spectacular site of Lindores Abbey in Fife, Scotland in June 2025? Are you an undergraduate and want to learn archaeology, heritage, and h istory skills? We are taking expressions of interest for 2025. Share with friends, colleagues, students!

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We have migrated from TwitX and are now here for all Monastic Archaeology Field School musings! We are back at Lindores Abbey, Fife in June 2025.

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Come dig with us in 2025! Great site, great team, great field archaeology experience!

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Steve Medema (USA) -- Influential historian of economic thought whose research focuses on the twentieth century, but whose interests stretch back to Ancient Greece and the Middle Ages! #TeamNun loves our allied supporters!

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Derek Hall (Scotland) -- superstar archaeologist leading the dig at Lindores Abbey Distillery for Mafs Scotland. Some day he will find Kimm Curran and me some Scottish nuns! #TeamNun loves monks too!

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Erin Redfern (USA) -- award-winning poet whose brilliant poem, "The Artist" -- inspired by hearing the story of the "lapis lazuli nun" on NPR -- was runner-up for the 2020 James Hearst Poetry Prize. #TeamNun loves engaging with creative writers!

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St Andrews ME4757 -- Monks & Nuns, Saints & Bishops: Germany in the High Middle Ages (Scotland) -- you get a class like this once in a career if you are lucky. Hardworking, smart, and creative. It was such fun to introduce them to medieval Germany.

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