Rebecca Shores

Tell me it’s flu season without telling me it’s flu season. #bluebook #springbreak

New Project Explores the Craft of Writing in the Medieval Nordic World - Medievalists.net A major Nordic research effort is taking a fresh look at the earliest written culture in medieval Finland—by studying not only what documents say, but what they are made of.

New Project Explores the Craft of Writing in the Medieval Nordic World www.medievalists.net/2026/03/new-... #medieval

The Americas During the Middle Ages 500-1500 CE Examine the history of indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere from 500-1500 CE in North America and Mesoamerica. Study the diverse peoples, lifestyles, environments, and historical trends that…

We have a brand new course starting in February: The Americas during the Middle Ages 500-1500 CE medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/amer... #history

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

Opinion | The Way to Pay for Free Buses Is to End Free Parking Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.

“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

The real breakthrough of the year isn’t AI.

It’s the explosive growth of renewable energy.

This is almost universally true and also why AI (as it’s being pushed by tech bros) is fundamentally anti-Humanities

"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.

(There was some, and it was mostly quite beautiful) + (author =/= scribe) x (random fact abt goats and geese). Ta-da!

In Durham High Schools, Drama Takes the Spotlight The profile of local high school drama programs is rising, giving students the chance to experiment—and the community access to theater.

“The state of high school theater in Durham is thriving. Year by year, production after production, some really great performances and student opportunities are being developed,” said Les Turner, director of arts education for Durham Public Schools.

A screenshot of a search input in the British Library's interim Explore Archives and Manuscripts catalogue.

An interim version of the Explore Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue is now available through the BL website: searcharchives.bl.uk

It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records.

Alt-Ac Support network

Today I remembered that there is a resource that is just a list of almost one hundred humanities PhDs who have transitioned to other careers and are available to talk about it.

You can schedule an informational interview or invite them to talk to your department!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

World's buildings mapped for the first time in high-resolution 3D map Technical University of Munich researchers have just unveiled GlobalBuildingAtlas, a new 3D map that captures every building on the planet.

This is pretty cool.

I wonder how this might be used to do better climate work — e.g., for addressing emissions linked to buildings, and mapping infrastructure for climate adaptation work?

interestingengineering.com/innovation/f...

@mariadahvana.bsky.social still teaching your amazing translation and loving all the parallels. Clare Danes talking about violence “cradling” grief and “midwifing” unspeakable hopes suggests that your work continues to be widely read. There was even a mention of life being on loan in an earlier ep!

hey #medievalsky, has anyone watched The Beast in Me? Was it cowritten by MD Headley?? That last episode felt like it was taken right out of her Beowulf translation!

📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Woruldhord
📲 english.web.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord
✍️Project Director: Stuart Lee
📝Research Officers: Anna Caughey and Tom Birkett
©️University of Oxford

Need help from a medievalist: what do we do with these obscenely large PDFs from the MGH? How do you search them? How do you make them smaller? Venantius Fortunatus poems are 1000MB!! Please help! #medieval #medievalsky #lateantique

Medieval deaf communication Communicating with hand signs has a long history. Researcher Jude Seal examines the evidence for signing in Medieval Europe among both deaf and hearing communities.

My latest post for the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on #deafness, #communication, and sign language in the Middle Ages
wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi...
#medievalsky #skystorians

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lee's monograph has been published open-access with @archumanities.bsky.social. Read The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body now! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270039... [3/4] #medievalsky #histmed

Very good mail day: @ryancordell.org @deliadraws.bsky.social & other @skeuomorphpress.org students' gorgeous handmade (book, letterpress, illustrations>lino) edition of Ursula K Le Guin's "A Rant about 'Technology'" #DHmakes Some poster versions from the book may still be available? (link in QT)

The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum

This was going to be my response! Also, McCann’s Twist.

@tcddublin.bsky.social have I missed a resource? It’d be great to know for certain which letters are where (esp in breves causae, etc)

Stoked to introduce Book of Kells to my students but cannot find transcription ANYWHERE. Tricks/sources for identifying letters in breves causae, etc? I’m out of practice! #medievalsky #irishsky

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#medievalist #paleography
#MedievalSky

#medievalsky #medievalmanuscript

New find!
What do we think abt the script? Tag said 15th but I’m not so sure.

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