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aelura

@aelura.bsky.social

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Kit: Celticist, medieval Welsh literature, Arthuriana. MSCA Fellow working on gender and pseudo-romantic language in medieval Welsh praise poetry. Opinions (and there are many of them) all my own.

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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · Nov 13

Now that I've decided to use this, guess an intro is in order? I'm a postdoc looking at the figure of the bard in medieval Welsh poetry, and the trope where he writes about himself as spouse of his patron. Well-documented in Irish, not in Welsh. Here for all the Celtic, gender & weird medieval shit.

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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 10h

First day of HCC is a wrap! I got in late last night, didn’t realise my paper was today, uploaded the wrong slides (but fixed them) and am jet lagged in both directions but it was still a good day. 😆

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s talk about AI art.

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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 6d

I LOVE ALL OF THIS!!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 11d

AMAZING JOB ALERT!!! Dorset Council are recruiting a World Heritage Officer to support the management of the Jurassic Coast! Would suit an Earth Science graduate with an interest in digital comms and content: deets here: www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/vacancies/32...

World Heritage Officer in Dorchester | Dorset Council

View details and apply for this World Heritage Officer vacancy in Dorchester. Join a passionate and collaborative team at the heart of Dorset's environmental and heritage work. As part of the Dor...

www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk

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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 10d

jesus christ all I want pdfs to do is sit there being easy to read and also preferably editable.

aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 11d

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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 11d

Oh it turns out I DO still have it disabled via the registry but M$ has just been overriding that sometimes because they feel like it. This is ridiculous.

aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 11d

I thought I'd disabled all of Copilot completely, but the sneaky bastard turned itself on in Notepad of all things. Which explains why it kept trying to 'correct' things I was trying to write in Welsh. Well, time to see if it needs scourging elsewhere. I had nothing important to do today I guess.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 12d

A healthy reminder that two opposed evils are never equally evil, that you usually won't get anywhere better by refusing both of them, and that a hypocrite still has a better potential for good than someone lacking good ideals to begin with.

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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 13d

That's crazy. I've been hearing for months about how bad supporting Substack is, but the whole idea of not supporting an author you like because they change platform is baffling. Best of luck with it.

aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 18d

Your periodic reminder that there is a good chance whatever you want to read/watch/listen to is on Hoopla, and also a good chance your library subscribes to it, and there is no downside. See also Libby, Kanopy, Freegal, etc.

aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 22d

Conference paper this morning not my best work, but still went rather well. Lots of interesting discussion after which is always great.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 25d

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal.

This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer.

#MedievalMonday

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The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social · 28d

Jobs For Medievalists

Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English: Medieval Literature

Review of applications will begin 10 November, 2025

The English Department at Trinity University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in medieval
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 29d

austerity brain: when you’ve got nothing left to cut you start trying to cut other people’s free labour

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 29d

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 29d

Llongyfarchiadau!

Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Univ of Cambridge @department-asnc.bsky.social · Sep 11

Congratulations to Dr Ben Guy, who has been awarded an AHRC standard grant to fund a major collaborative project on the early Welsh charters and their boundaries!

www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

Congratulations: Dr Ben Guy awarded an AHRC Standard Grant for project on early Welsh charters | Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic

www.asnc.cam.ac.uk

aelura @aelura.bsky.social · Sep 9

Rebecca Shercliffe's brand new "Old Irish: A beginner's guide" is splendid, to be used along with Strachan's "Old Irish Paradigms" and Thurneysen's "Grammar of Old Irish" (real doorstop that one).

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 9

Here’s the thing: we do not concede *one inch* to the far right. Ever. Anywhere. They are not just another political player. They are a threat to everything our ancestors fought and died to protect. They are not to be appeased. They are to be stopped. Rip down the flags wherever you see them. 3/3

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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · Sep 8

One of the softer tactics was the 'ice front', where people refused to speak to German soldiers unless absolutely necessary, pretended not to know the language, and refused to sit next to them on the bus. It worked so well that 'standing on a bus if there were free seats' was made illegal.

aelura @aelura.bsky.social · Sep 8

After my PhD, family and I celebrated with a trip to Norway. The Resistance Museum at Akershus was really cool - all dedicated to how the Nazi occupation of Norway was consistently thwarted by part of the country saying 'fuck you, make me' and the rest just quietly refusing to comply. Good stuff.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Sep 8

You might assume “Anglo-Saxons” is a simple phrase with a simple meaning, but it’s meant various things during the past centuries. This is a brilliant open-access summary of those evolutions by Prof Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Anglo-Saxons: Myth and History | Early Medieval England and its Neighbours | Cambridge Core

The Anglo-Saxons: Myth and History - Volume 51

www.cambridge.org

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James Bow @handle.invalid · Sep 8

Hey, are you a school library and can you use some upper MG or YA books? I'm an author with a bunch of copies (a fantasy trilogy, a YA SF work and its companion SF anthology) that I need to clear out of storage.

Drop me a DM or reply to this post, and I'll work on sending these to you.

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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · Sep 8

Except then ICE just steals it and claims they never saw it.

aelura @aelura.bsky.social · Sep 8

That's happened to me with AppleHealth before; it usually sorts itself out (though last year I was mid-moving countries and had to just pay for it, but better jabbed than not).

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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · Sep 8

Splendid line in the translation of a poem I've been working with today: "I love for spite and not inclination." #celticsky 😆