Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️

Oh, some are mighty plucky! I have been concerned about the blackbirds here all week. False spring and all that.

Yay! Well deserved. Too bad I missed the opening seminar.
See you later!

That is amazing! So beautiful @drlauravarnam.bsky.social !

Good perspectives.

OK jag gick in och kollade själva undersökningen och tänkte rapportera svenska siffrorna då:

If you sing, this is a great thread!

Alas! Thanks for posting! This result is useful. Balances out a colleague's current good results on 17th c handwriting. Less complicated layout too maybe. 😅

An ibm slide from 1979 which says in black text on white background “a computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision”

Sadly relevant, still:

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Urgent rescue curation of space heritage in a time of world crisis’ with The Science Museum Group and University College London at Universi... PhD Project - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Urgent rescue curation of space heritage in a time of world crisis’ with The Science Museum Group and University College Lond...

We have a 4-year AHRC-funded PhD studentship on 'Rescue curation of space heritage' advertised!

Supervision by me, space scientist Lucie Green (@luciegreen.bsky.social), and curators of space and engineering at the Science Museum, Doug Millard and Ben Russell

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Åh, den lyckan!!

Vad roligt!

Bury St Edmunds Iron Age coin hoard sells for more than £33,000 Finder Prof Tom Licence plans to use some of his share to fund archaeological work in eastern England.

Follow up on the Iron Age hoard from East Anglia further illustrating everything that is wrong with the legislation around metal decting and treasure. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tur det! På annat håll verkar den retoriken fungerar.

Huh. Well, that's another reason to stop recommending them.

Argh!!

Reactions mixed as B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time | CBC News Reactions range from applause to concern as March 8 will be the last time most British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.

My home province is finally ditching time changes! Yay! Come on EU, time for you to also follow through on that decision made over 6 (!) years ago.

Reactions mixed as B.C. to end...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A short blog about 'Mapping Saints' (in Swedish):
svenskahistoriskaforeningen.se/index.php/bl...

This week my students were asking about the distinction between anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism. The conversation happened in the context of reading Gandhi’s Satyagraha in South Africa. They were amazed that Gandhi could see the Boer as an iconic figure of colonial suffering and resistance 1/

Still true.

Radio is vital!

People need to celebtate something less bad... but yes, I totally get your point!

Oh, lucky you!!

Ja! Visste inte att den skulle komma i HT och bra. En liknande artikel behöver jag på engelska till digital historia kursen!

HEART ys the art of fierce hope.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, bold dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

Fund higher educacioun yn the HEART disciplines:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

I hope so! But does he really care about hockey? I wonder.

A post for the LNUC Concurrences spring seminar series.

Check out our full 2026 spring seminar series!

Starting this week with Napoleon Maddox, "A Conversation that Looks like a Concert", in collaboration with Mono, Växjö.

lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Thanks, Alicia! I'll send a message.

How inquisitive was medieval inquisition? Kaarel Sikk, David Zbíral, and Reima Välimäki have published a new study in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities that examines how Peter Zwicker's inquisition in Stettin (1393–94) utilised informatio...

#MedievalSky

Have you wondered how medieval inquisitors gathered the names of suspected heretics?

We have some answers based on a quantitative study of the Stettin inquisition (1393-94).

News on DISSINET home page:
dissinet.cz/news/article...

Link to the research article: doi.org/10.1093/llc/...

I have been wrestling with these questions, in light of my work on understanding local medieval pilgrimage. Great to have some fresh insight and perspectives!

Oh this looks brilliant! And I see @hopesteffen.bsky.social is taking on the challenge Margaret of Roskilde! :) Does one have to register?