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Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social · 9h

I am really looking forward to this! Please share and encourage people who may be interested to attend!

SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · 13h

📢 SSE1K Online Seminar Series: People and their Environments in the First Millennium CE
Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preisler-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk
“About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads”
🔗 Register: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars

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Ben Taylor @vox-dei.bsky.social · 1d

This is pretty crucial to consider now. Imagine what happens if Farage, Badenoch or Jenrick decides to go down the same route as Trump on science.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 1d

Her baby in her placenta?

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, thanks, this is good to know about, I will delete this though not sure of the full background

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 4d

it's ridiculous how some people seem to think the only possible reason to do a humanities phd is to become a tenured professor. i use the considerable fruits of my philological training all day every single day to overanalyse every word anyone says to or around me within an inch of its life

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 3d

A Roman votive stone to Asclepius and Hygiaea which was built into one of the north isle windows of the Church of St. John the Baptist at Tunstall in Lancashire. It probably came from the nearby Over Burrow Roman Fort. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #Tunstall

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 6d

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

Freelance Work

Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

joanneedge.co.uk

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 7d

‘Woman named… but definitely not by us!’

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 7d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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PD Dr. Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 8d

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen)

Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invites ap...

www.hsozkult.de

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you.

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British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social · 8d

📣 BSR / Early Medieval Europe Fellowship – Call for Applications!

Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in early medieval European history?
Apply now!

⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2026
More info here: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 10d

The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.

We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.

Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!

3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)

full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152

www.uni-bonn.de

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Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 11d

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

jobs.kent.ac.uk

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IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social · 11d

📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Autumn 2025 schedule for the Institute of Historical Research's Earlier Middle Ages seminar. Full information available at https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/earlier-middle-ages

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 12d

A very packed York Unlocked weekend - my highlight was Thin Ice Press where I’ll definitely be returning!
My kids got to make some lovely prints:

A letterpress-printed poster saying YORK in green ink on top of yellow

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 12d

A very packed York Unlocked weekend - my highlight was Thin Ice Press where I’ll definitely be returning!
My kids got to make some lovely prints:

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 12d

Seriously? What is even the point… (I see this coming in the UK soon too.)

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 13d

Oh wait! I mean the Caravaggio one, but I assume this applies there too

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 13d

As soon as I read this article this morning, I rolled my eyes so hard, and then hoped you’d do a thread.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 14d

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:

Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?

**pause**

Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 13d

Florence + the Machine researched her album lyrics in the Warburg? PhD student me is beside herself www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

‘The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death’: Florence Welch on sexism, screaming and the lost pregnancy that nearly killed her

The Florence + the Machine singer talks about life after devastating loss, performing with Taylor Swift and the double standards for women in music

www.theguardian.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 13d

Why does nothing work anymore, and what can we do about it?

I’ll be in conversation with Reeta Chakrabarti exploring this theme in York on Weds 15 Oct. Tickets are free but you must register

www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcom...

Upcoming : Chancellor's Lecture - Hetan Shah | York St John University

View our Events at YSJ

www.yorksj.ac.uk

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 14d

Oh it must be brilliant for that! Lots of layers to unpick, and direct links to medieval and antiquarian texts (and buildings)

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 14d

Though he gets vikings all wrong, of course …

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 14d

Yes that monk annoyed me too! But a great idea for a novel. I loved that Cuthbert is always a saintly presence, that it starts after his death.

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