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Our article on colourants in parchment fragments has finally been published! I had a small part to play, as "author nr. 6", providing the context of the colours used in some of the fragments tested. Thanks to Thea Winther for including me in this exciting project! www.nature.com/articles/s40...

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It's St Valentine's Day today - yes, it's a saint's feast day! St Valentine is one of the almost 800 saints included in 'Mapping Saints'. saints.dh.gu.se/explore/sain...

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*and didn't hate it.

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As a medievalist who is currently investigating how technology has employed as a marker of otherness in both the Middle Ages & the modern world, I fully agree with this post.

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🚨FUNDING ALERT🚨Hey #MedievalSky! @medievalacademy.bsky.social wants to give you money. Funding for Medievalists of Color, for MedievALLists (i.e. not tenured) and students! Apply by Feb. 15: www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-upc...

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Bloomsbury, 1933, and each week my father & his pals were going to meetings & marches to try to do something, anything, about the rising anti-semitism in Germany. Everyone was fully aware of what was happening. Fully aware. This was six years before the outbreak of war.

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Thread!

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The idea that higher ed’s job is to train people to meet the demands of “the market” is farcical. These demands are fickle and trendy. College takes four years and is built on slow moving foundational principles. This is magical rhetoric to direct where the money goes.

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Thank you to @priyaatwal.bsky.social & all our contributors last night for fascinating reflections on the complexities of moving towards ethical community histories practices as academics working in universities. The recording will be available soon.

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Last year, I was privileged to be a part of the interdisciplinary project, "The medieval parish church in Småland: a holistic perspective on religious space and practices" @LinnaeusUniversity. My part: studying calendars & feast days, as well as local pilgrimages to e.g. parish churches.

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St Blaise was of course well-known in Sweden and Finland too. For information on his nearly 50 cult manifestations there, see 'Mapping Saints': saints.dh.gu.se/explore/sain...

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Governor Tim Walz made Black History Month a state proclamation to protect it.

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Today is the feast of St Blaise. As one of the Holy Helpers, he is best known for healing a boy who swallowed a fish bone & is considered the patron saint of those with throat ailments. Little is known about Blaise’s life, but his vita claims he was a C4 doctor from Armenia. (1/n)

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I have a fondness for tattered & damaged sources. So for the feast of Saint Brigid of Kildare, I give you this calendar page from Linköping in Sweden, where Brigid's feast is celebrated by a memoria, a brief liturgical celebration. [Sveriges Riksarkiv, Fr 27557; saints.dh.gu.se/explore/cult...

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Nuns #3

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The job is done & the project is nearing its end. Today, project manager @mikaelalm.bsky.social & project archivist @johansjoberg70.bsky.social thanked two of our conservators for their excellent work, saving the collection for future use & making possible the high-quality digitisation of it.

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Parker Library On the Web massively transformed the access to medieval manuscripts Just listen to @stewartbrookes.bsky.social give a powerful testimony on the impact it had for research www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ope... #PLOW #ParkerLibrary

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Are you a PhD student interested in the history of knowledge? Apply for the Lund summer school this August. Under the guidance of @bjornlundberg.bsky.social and others. I taught it in 2020 and 2021, great fun. newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/01/28/2...

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Fabian Persson, Professor of Historia, inaugural lecture: "Det som aldrig hände och dess betydelse: Om vikten av inlevelse, tillfälligheter och komplexitet i historien" Counterfactual history as a way of understanding the way historical events were experienced at the time. lnu.se/mot-linneuni...

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‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online

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Thinking again that we've got THREE manuscripts used in the parish of St. Thomas, Bristol, in the 15thc--a bible, a book of hours, and a fragment of a missal. Wondering how many other medieval English parishes have that many survivals (or more).

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This I didn't know.

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People in the UK, if you have a problem with the likes of Elon Musk donating £100,000 to the Reform Party, please sign this Parliamentary Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations, and please share it widely petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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A selection of talks from the '6th Digital History in Sweden Conference' is now available via @dariaheu.bsky.social CAMPUS. Topics include: the use of AI & citizen science in digitization; creation & care of digital archives applying postcolonial perspectives. campus.dariah.eu/resource/eve...

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Great news! Finally, after years, making one of my footnotes in Facsimile Narratives obsolete. Voss manuscripts used to be a curious case where the access to the original was free but the digital facsimile costed you a lot of money. academic.oup.com/dsh/article-...

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There exists in this world a category of people called historians who are highly trained in the skills needed to make sense of complex source material. Maybe, just maybe, these scientists should actually talk to them. www.earth.com/news/ai-stru...

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By compiling multiple sources of data, we reach the astonishing figure of 71,000 migrants who have died or been missing at the European border since the early 90s. A hecatomb caused by the migration policies of European countries.

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Och jag är med på ett hörn också. Många intressanta resultat.

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The whole 'we need to accept that AI makes mistakes, just like people' thing is bleakly hilarious because if it's going to fuck up, remind me why we're not giving the work to people again? I mean obviously there's that 'would demand a living wage' thing, but

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A wonderful #free #online #training session organised by my @vchlondon.bsky.social colleagues: Researching Place-Based Religious Histories Beyond the Parish Church. Brilliant expert speakers - this will be incredibly useful.

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Job alert: the National Library of Scotland is looking to recruit a permanent, F/T curator of early modern books and other printed material. Please share widely! nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

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