@ctcallisen
Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Mini-article out now Open Access in Notes & Queries – take a look for my theory of what Wulfstan II means by ‘injustice in the north’ (spoiler: Vikings and weird legal stuff in the Danelaw) doi.org/10.1093/note... #Medievalsky #Medievalists
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Super niche #earlymodern query: has anyone ever worked with account books that are records of salaries received by specific individuals?
I've a prioress and her steward both making these payments. The individual verifies receipt and then signs. The book is a running tally of these disbursements.
Guest lecture Prof. John H. Arnold University of Cambridge Firmiter credimus: The Changing Dynamics of Lay Belief Humanistiska teatern 19 March 17:15 Free entry, all are welcome Contact: gustav.zamore@uu.se The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) begins with a statement of faith, 'We firmly believe...' (Firmiter credimus). But what did it mean to ask the laity to believe firmly? This talk addresses not only what medieval people were asked to believe but how they were 'to believe.' It will be argued that the spectre of lay doubt troubled authorities as much as the more famous threat of heresy.
On 19 March 2026, @hfuppsala.bsky.social is hosting a guest lecture by John H. Arnold on lay belief in the middle ages. Free entry, no registration required!
Date/time: 19 March 2026, 5:15pm
Location: Humanistiska teatern, @uu.se, Engelska park campus
#skystorians #MedievalSky #ReligiousHistory
Happy birthday!
Poster showing a manuscript image and giving the following information: PUBLIC LECTURE: Dr Sarah Corrigan Newman Tàin Bò Cuailgne: How the Manuscript Tradition of the Irish Epic Ended, and Ended Up, in Melbourne. The St Mary’s Newman Academic Centre (SNAC), Manuscript Táin Bó Cuailnge (‘The Cattle Raid of Cooley’) is a nineteenth-century manuscript copy of the most famous Irish narrative of the Middle Ages. Although its oldest surviving copies were produced in the twelfth century, the story of the Táin is set in the first century, and it has been argued to have been written in several periods in between. This talk will highlight the dual significance of this beautiful manuscript by exploring the history of its contents, the physical object, and its creator, Seosamh Ó Longáin, the last official scribe of Ireland. Wednesday 11 March 2026 5–6pm Venue: The Oratory, Newman College, University of Melbourne, 887 Swanston Street, Parkville. Bookings / Free Entry Online: https://www.trybooking.com/DJULZ Email: outreach@snac.unimelb.edu.au Telephone: (03) 9342 1614
And will have more opportunity to talk about the fantastic project of getting @rialibrary.bsky.social MS 24 B 1 digitised and displaying and discussing it alongside the Newman College Táin manuscript here @unimelb.edu.au ...
Join us on 10 March at 5:30pm for a GHIL Lecture by Karin Friedrich (University of Aberdeen) on 'Between Republic and Dynasty: Transnational Governors and Noble Agents between Poland-Lithuania and the Duchy of Prussia' taking place at the Warburg Institute (online participation possible)! 📅
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Puzzle Binding!
Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just...
Had One???
And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)
'All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found.'
All versions of Claude are 'the most resistant to committing fraud'.
Which LLM is your university encouraging students to use most? Asking for a friend.
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
I'm hoping to propose a panel for the SCS on the 1570s, that most pivotal decade in the later Reformation. If you're interested in joining me, send me a DM. #reformazing
In 1954 the village of Châteauneuf-du-Pape passed a municipal ordinance forbidding "cigares volants" — flying saucers — from taking off, flying over, or landing in the village.
To their credit, not a single UFO has landed in the southern Rhône since that day.
Screen cap from the New York Times AI promotion, sorry I mean article, "The New Fabio is Claude". They call the thief using AI to make money on the works of other people a "writer". Future Fiction's is a company that produces AI slop based on stolen texts. Hence it wasn't West who came up with a plot, it was someone else, that the AI theft machine stole from. The quote is: "The writer Elizabeth Ann West, one of Future Fiction's founders, who came up with the plot of "Bridesmaids and Bourbon", believes the audicence would be bigger if the books weren't labeled as A.I. The novels, which are available on Amazon, come with a discolaimer on their product page: "This story was produced using author-directed AI tools." "If you hide that there's A.I., it sells just fine," she said."
So, I can see some reasons for this.
People know AI is theft and don't wanna pay you for stealing.
People don't like they way AI theft macines put out words.
Not noticing without lables might be because if you buy a book, it's too late. Doesn't matter if you realise it's AI. You already payed.
This is amazing! I miss his voice...
A putto is sitting on an early modern type case, a box made for the different types during the hand-press era. One needed to pick up each type for a letter or symbol etc. and compose each word, text, and page. The putto blows also soap bubbles: in each bubble is a letter, and the word formed is VANITAS, meaning "vanity". This detail was published in a German speaking newspaper, "Monatliche Nachrichten einicher Merkwürdigkeiten" in 1751. VD18 90722892.
A putto blowing soap bubbles, sitting on a type case full of type, and the letters in the bubbles read as: VANITAS (vanity).
A beautiful reflection of human writing and publishing, #skystorians
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Det positiva jag tar med mig från det här är att 99 procent trots allt inte är 100 procent. Heja marknadsvården!
Watch this movie - it's funny, like all of Méliès!
Moderaternas partigrupp i EU, EPP, är känd för att gå i lobbyisternas och storföretagens ledband.
Men det här är ändå något av ett rekord. Metas främste lobbyist ska ta fram lagstiftning om EUs digitala regler.
www.brusselstimes.com/1992574/ex-m...
Södertörns högskola söker en lektor i idéhistoria. Tjänsten är deltid (35%) och tidsbegränsad (4 månader). Sista ansökningsdag 12 mars 2026.
#skystorians #AcademicSky #jobs
Grovt språk fyller en viktig funktion i att ge uttryck för känslor som är fullt rimliga i det här fallet.
Kristersson är en korrupt liten bedragare och ett principlöst svin, som inte ens blinkar inför att förstöra liv, och det bör sägas högt och ofta.
Snubblade över Wikipediaartikeln om gnagaren Oligoryzomys microtis, som verkar sakna trivialnamn på flesta språk.
Förutom tyska, som har tagit ansvar: Kleinohr-Zwergreisratte. Småörad dvärgrisråtta.
Bra namn. Allting med den här gnagaren är litet. Uppfattat.
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligory...
In the Holocaust, Jews faced a continuing series of laws forbidding them to do certain activities & occupations. The goal was to remove them from society. The US is now doing this to trans ppl. Generally, once one State brings in such laws, others follow.
can someone explain this simply?
im reading historians who do database work and claim in published articles that LLMs are good for data cleaning. so what i cannot get my head round is this: do you check all of the data for hallucinations? 🗃️
BBC News screenshot shows GB bob sled team and reads “Team GB face uphill task for four-man bobsleigh medal Winter Olympics • 39m ago”
deeply unfair. the other teams, as i understand it, ride DOWN the hill
as it happens, I made this in a haste and with several mistakes in the programme of the three panels... here the correct (I hope) version
#environmentalhistory #envhist #histagriculture #histsci #HSS26 #ESHS26 #17thcentury #histmath
Here is a cool call for the #bookhistory communities: “Women Printing for Institutions in Early Modern Europe”, at the HAB Wolfenbüttel (and organized by Saskia Limbach) in November 2026.
CFP: www.hab.de/wp-content/u...
[9] … so take your paper [I had a second one in my bag] & everywhere the article says Gay, Lesbian or LGBT replace that word with Jew or Jewish, & see what you think.
Twenty minutes later all three looked up from Ireland’s supposedly liberal Times & were horrified. The thing is it worked with…
My introduction to the law took place when I was a child & discovered my being gay was a crime with a jail sentence [or worse, walled up in the Central Mental Hospital to be experimented on]. As a result, like many minorities, I realised that the law was about oppression & not rights [1]
