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Elaine Treharne
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Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever. .. more

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Elaine M. Treharne FSA FRHistS FEA FLSW was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 1964. She is a Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, Courtesy Professor of German Studies and of Comparative Literature, and a Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. She was at the University of Leicester for eighteen years as a lecturer, then professor, head of department, and dean, before emigrating to the USA. She is a Welsh medievalist, focusing on Manuscript Studies, Early English literature, and the History of Text Technologies, particularly of the handmade book. She led Stanford University's online courses on manuscript study entitled Digging Deeper. She is a qualified archivist, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the English Association, for whom she was also the first woman chair and President from 2000 to 2005. Treharne was made a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in April 2020. She is the President of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (2022–2025). .. more

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 4d
Three cats in the autumn light #caturday

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 4d
Medieval Ghost Stories: The Chilling Haunts of Byland Abbey www.medievalists.net/2024/11/medi... #ghoststories
Medieval Ghost Stories: The Chilling Haunts of Byland Abbey - Medievalists.net
What would you do if a ghost blocked your path, or if a spirit appeared at your door, desperate for absolution? For the people of medieval England, these weren’t mere tales to spook children—they…
www.medievalists.net

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 5d
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️
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CEMA
cemasorbonne.org

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Beth 💜 @picklebee.bsky.social · 5d
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️🧊

www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
A map with gritters on it called William Wall-ice, grit tok, Gritney Spears and The Grittist Snowman A map with gritters on it called I've grit a crush on you, grit a bit, polar patroller, I want to break freeze A map with gritters on it called bear chills, thistle do icely A map with gritters on it called Gritallica, Olaf snow free roads, salt shaker and sled zepplin

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 6d
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

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Michael Donnay @mjdonnay.bsky.social · 6d
📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly

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Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press
Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...
uolpress.co.uk

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 7d
Want to start the new year by learning new things? In January 2026 Anna Somfai will teach an online course on medieval philosophical and scientific manuscripts. More information here 👇 @warburginstitute.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social #MedievalSky please reskeet!

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IES: LIPS & LRBS Winter School | 2026
ies.sas.ac.uk

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 7d
Jean Armour Polly, aka Net-mom, celebrates the Internet Archive’s 1 trillionth webpage, highlighting the ephemerality of websites, the need to preserve digital culture, & the librarians & archivists who make that possible.

More ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/v...

#Wayback1T @netmom.bsky.social

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8d
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 12d
Someone once asked Fats Waller, in the early days of boogie-woogie piano, how he kept the right hand from doing what the left hand was doing. He said, "That's what I'm in the middle for."
a piano at the Met

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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 12d
We're launching a really exciting new MSt in Creative Translation - details here. Oxford has a wealth of brilliant translator energy and I am excited to see what will come out of this. Please forward to likely sorts! www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
MSt in Creative Translation
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages is delighted to announce the launch of a new course, the MSt in Creative Translation.
www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

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UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social · 16d
Hi there! We’re the Archive Sector Leadership team at The National Archives UK.

We support archives of all types and sizes across England.

Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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Two people in a repository opening a drawer and examining a large colourful illustration.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 17d
Anyone got a spare £million? Asking for.... Well, asking for me news.artnet.com/art-world/me...
Rare Gospel Written by Medieval Women Could Fetch More Than $1 Million at Auction
A recently discovered gospel likely written by women at the abbey of Essen in the 10th century could sell for more than $1 million.
news.artnet.com

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 17d
A good time, it seems, for a thread about public sculptures of, and by, women that have been installed in the last 10 years or so...
Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 18d
ChatGPT is critically dependent on Wikipedia, its most-cited source (but Wikipedia doesn’t need ChatGPT at all). If you care about what LLMs are telling people, making sure Wikipedia is accurate should be your first priority. www.linkedin.com/pulse/wikipe...
Wikipedia is the Anchor of ChatGPT’s Knowledge
A new study from SEO experts at Ahrefs has quantified what many have long suspected: Wikipedia is the single most-cited source in ChatGPT’s answers by a wide margin. “ChatGPT’s citations aren’t confin...
www.linkedin.com

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 20d
Self-portraits of the manuscript's illuminator, William de Brailes:

"w. de brail' qui me depeint"

BL Add 49999; 'The De Brailes Hours'; Oxford; c.1240; ff.43r, 47r, 88v

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Paige Roberts @paige-roberts.bsky.social · 20d
new British Library digital preservation policy
www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

"The policy is built around 4 interdependent principles that shape the BL approach to digital preservation: pragmatism, consistency, risk awareness, and sustainability."

via Maureen Pennock

#DigiPres #iPres25 #wdpd25
Launching our new Digital Preservation Policy
On World Digital Preservation Day 2025, we’re pleased to announce the release of our new Digital Preservation Policy.
www.bl.uk

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Dan Elphick @danelphick.bsky.social · 20d
Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'

Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 22d
Whoa Rebecca Lawrence has resigned as Chief Executive of @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Sorry that this might mean more turmoil at an institution that is a critical part of UK research infrastructure
www.bl.uk/about/press/...
British Library Board statement
The British Library Board has announced that Rebecca Lawrence has stepped down as Chief Executive.
www.bl.uk

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · 22d
Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!

www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...

www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 23d
My book is now available open access on project muse, with OAPen launch coming soon. Hard copies should start going out this week (if they have not already): you can get yours for 50% off with code SAR50.

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 24d
Hope to get back there. Nowhere more beautiful on this earth. *Actually true.

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 24d
The glory that is my hometown—Aberystwyth. Wales’s first UNESCO City of Literature. Y peth gorau!

unesco.org.uk/news/wales-f...
Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature: Aberystwyth Ceredigion joins global network of Creative Cities | UNESCO in the UK
Today, 31 October 2025, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, has become Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature…
unesco.org.uk

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 24d
Baylands Preserve, Palo Alto. Pelican squadrons, waterbirds galore.
White pelican fishing Water, birds and Santa Cruz mountains Pelicans and plane Waterbirds

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 25d
JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 28d
Ninth-century Easter music! Cool.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Some of the earliest written notes in western musical history discovered in Pennsylvania
Ninth-century manuscript for Easter services remained ‘out of sight’ for years in hands of private collector
www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 29d
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 29d
In the midst of a long-overdue update to Stanford Text Technologies. If you want to get a sense of what the project does, head over to texttechnologies.stanford.edu
Stanford Text Technologies
texttechnologies.stanford.edu

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · 29d
There's still time to apply for one of several full-time positions in computational humanities at Carnegie Mellon University

* Assistant Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanitiesapply.interfolio.com/173622
* Assistant Tenure Track Prof in Computational Humanities apply.interfolio.com/173626
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 29d
Job announcement -

Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair in English
Loyola University Maryland
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Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair in English job with Loyola University Maryland | 2000570
Loyola University Maryland Main Campus Full time R-0000000661   Position Title Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair in English Employee Type Regular Office...
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