Norselass
@norselass.bsky.social
Early Medievalist, far traveller, health humanities. Still lives next to Robin Hood.
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Senior Professor School of Celtic Studies position now open for applications. More information can be found on www.dias.ie/senior-profe... #DIASdiscovers
January 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Senior Professor School of Celtic Studies position now open for applications. More information can be found on www.dias.ie/senior-profe... #DIASdiscovers
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We are please to announce our History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025.
Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR.
Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR.
Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
January 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We are please to announce our History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025.
Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR.
Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR.
Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
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Applications open for a Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures @queenscollegeox.bsky.social to work with the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures! www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju...
January 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Applications open for a Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures @queenscollegeox.bsky.social to work with the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures! www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju...
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The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month series is back for another year! Our January 2025 entry is @ria.ie MS 23 F 19, containing an original Irish treatise on anatomy, an Irish version of the Trotula texts on women’s medicine & much more👇
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
January 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month series is back for another year! Our January 2025 entry is @ria.ie MS 23 F 19, containing an original Irish treatise on anatomy, an Irish version of the Trotula texts on women’s medicine & much more👇
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
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Join us on Friday 7 February for the first Society lecture of 2025: 'Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World', with Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) bit.ly/4gLj28g.
Booking is now open, for in-person & online attendance
#Skystorians #medieval
Booking is now open, for in-person & online attendance
#Skystorians #medieval
'Dangerous Journeys: Framing women’s movement in the medieval world'
The Royal Historical Society's Medieval Lecture 2025 will be given by Professor Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University).
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January 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Join us on Friday 7 February for the first Society lecture of 2025: 'Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World', with Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) bit.ly/4gLj28g.
Booking is now open, for in-person & online attendance
#Skystorians #medieval
Booking is now open, for in-person & online attendance
#Skystorians #medieval
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
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A very exciting SSNS Seminar coming up this Thursday (16 Jan, 7pm GMT), as Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm will be discussing ‘Frisia and the Viking Age‘. Online, free, and open to all!
Sign up now at www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...
Sign up now at www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...
SSNS Seminar - Dr Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm - 'Frisia and the Viking Age' - Scottish Society for Northern Studies
The SSNS Seminar Series continues on 16 January with a talk by Dr Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm on 'Frisia and the Viking Age'.
www.ssns.org.uk
January 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A very exciting SSNS Seminar coming up this Thursday (16 Jan, 7pm GMT), as Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm will be discussing ‘Frisia and the Viking Age‘. Online, free, and open to all!
Sign up now at www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...
Sign up now at www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
Contributions are invited (in various forms/media) to Islands Symposium - Island narratives of kinship, place, and the weather. 3-4 April 2025, at Ceòlas (South Uist) and online.
DL for proposals 15 Jan.
For further details, visit bit.ly/3DKqO3W
Contributions are invited (in various forms/media) to Islands Symposium - Island narratives of kinship, place, and the weather. 3-4 April 2025, at Ceòlas (South Uist) and online.
DL for proposals 15 Jan.
For further details, visit bit.ly/3DKqO3W
Call for papers – Islands symposium
We invite contributions (in various forms/media) to a symposium which considers Islands as sites of geo-embodied knowledge mediated through experiential engagements with weather. Click here for Isl…
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January 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
Contributions are invited (in various forms/media) to Islands Symposium - Island narratives of kinship, place, and the weather. 3-4 April 2025, at Ceòlas (South Uist) and online.
DL for proposals 15 Jan.
For further details, visit bit.ly/3DKqO3W
Contributions are invited (in various forms/media) to Islands Symposium - Island narratives of kinship, place, and the weather. 3-4 April 2025, at Ceòlas (South Uist) and online.
DL for proposals 15 Jan.
For further details, visit bit.ly/3DKqO3W
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If you are an early career historian, you really should be following @historylabplus.bsky.social
🦋 Hello BlueSky! 🧠
We’re the UK’s network for early career historians, supporting those nearing the end of their doctorate or early in their post-doc. We Partner with @ihr.bsky.social + more, offering career development, networking, + events showcasing the latest in historical research. 🔍✨ #HL+
We’re the UK’s network for early career historians, supporting those nearing the end of their doctorate or early in their post-doc. We Partner with @ihr.bsky.social + more, offering career development, networking, + events showcasing the latest in historical research. 🔍✨ #HL+
January 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If you are an early career historian, you really should be following @historylabplus.bsky.social
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Our International Max Planck Research School is offering two PhD fellowships, funded by @maxplanck.de & hosted at @mpi-nl.bsky.social, to carry out innovative research projects on language & genetics, & on multimodal language. Application portal closes 6th Jan 2025! 🧪
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
January 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Our International Max Planck Research School is offering two PhD fellowships, funded by @maxplanck.de & hosted at @mpi-nl.bsky.social, to carry out innovative research projects on language & genetics, & on multimodal language. Application portal closes 6th Jan 2025! 🧪
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
Happy New Year! May there be hope and light.
December 31, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Happy New Year! May there be hope and light.
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Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
Frohe Weihnachten! I know it is hard to feel festive this year, but let's keep up the hope. I hope you are all with people who love you.
December 25, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Frohe Weihnachten! I know it is hard to feel festive this year, but let's keep up the hope. I hope you are all with people who love you.
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This time of year can be a bit much - so here is a non-exhaustive list of some UK numbers that might help a bit.
Childline: 0800 1111
Samaritans: 116 123
Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247
Mind: 0300 123 3393
CALM - 5pm-midnight 0800 58 58 58
Plus bonus restful cat photo.
Childline: 0800 1111
Samaritans: 116 123
Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247
Mind: 0300 123 3393
CALM - 5pm-midnight 0800 58 58 58
Plus bonus restful cat photo.
December 19, 2024 at 1:54 PM
This time of year can be a bit much - so here is a non-exhaustive list of some UK numbers that might help a bit.
Childline: 0800 1111
Samaritans: 116 123
Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247
Mind: 0300 123 3393
CALM - 5pm-midnight 0800 58 58 58
Plus bonus restful cat photo.
Childline: 0800 1111
Samaritans: 116 123
Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247
Mind: 0300 123 3393
CALM - 5pm-midnight 0800 58 58 58
Plus bonus restful cat photo.
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Applications invited for the Society's Workshop Grants, 2025. Grants provide £1,000 for historians to come together to pursue a project relating to their work bit.ly/3Omeg4T
Not just research, but also grant writing, networking, teaching and others.
Closing date: Friday 24 January #Skystorians 1/2
Not just research, but also grant writing, networking, teaching and others.
Closing date: Friday 24 January #Skystorians 1/2
December 17, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Applications invited for the Society's Workshop Grants, 2025. Grants provide £1,000 for historians to come together to pursue a project relating to their work bit.ly/3Omeg4T
Not just research, but also grant writing, networking, teaching and others.
Closing date: Friday 24 January #Skystorians 1/2
Not just research, but also grant writing, networking, teaching and others.
Closing date: Friday 24 January #Skystorians 1/2
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My department is advertising 3 doctoral positions in history and 1 in archaeology! Check out the calls below, circulate widely, and let me know if you have any questions about Oslo!
Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124) | University of Oslo
Job title: Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 16, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
December 17, 2024 at 10:38 AM
My department is advertising 3 doctoral positions in history and 1 in archaeology! Check out the calls below, circulate widely, and let me know if you have any questions about Oslo!
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As promised... here's our first festive instalment from the Saga of the Earl's of #Orkney (aka Orkneyinga #saga)... 'The Host with the most'! #Christmas blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasisland...
Christmas in Orkney: the most wonderful time of the year (for killing someone) - Ragna's Islands: A New Saga
Christmas (ON jól) is perhaps not the first thing that springs to mind when we think of the Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga Saga) and yet it is referenced fifty times within the text(s). Over the next few days we will take a look at some of those instances… 1. The host with most ...
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December 17, 2024 at 4:03 PM
As promised... here's our first festive instalment from the Saga of the Earl's of #Orkney (aka Orkneyinga #saga)... 'The Host with the most'! #Christmas blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasisland...
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Dear all, the German government has not “collapsed”. That happened a month ago. Today’s no confidence vote was an entirely usual procedure in keeping with our constitition. The outcome was clear, as were the elections in February.
Enough drama in the world without construing it.
Enough drama in the world without construing it.
December 16, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Dear all, the German government has not “collapsed”. That happened a month ago. Today’s no confidence vote was an entirely usual procedure in keeping with our constitition. The outcome was clear, as were the elections in February.
Enough drama in the world without construing it.
Enough drama in the world without construing it.
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Ok I know nobody cares about this but me, but GOD I care:
1. I have just downloaded your app.
2. You want me to make an account. I don’t want to make an account!
3. When I enter my email, you inform me that I already have an account! This seems like a good thing, but I know it means only pain. 1/2
1. I have just downloaded your app.
2. You want me to make an account. I don’t want to make an account!
3. When I enter my email, you inform me that I already have an account! This seems like a good thing, but I know it means only pain. 1/2
December 13, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Ok I know nobody cares about this but me, but GOD I care:
1. I have just downloaded your app.
2. You want me to make an account. I don’t want to make an account!
3. When I enter my email, you inform me that I already have an account! This seems like a good thing, but I know it means only pain. 1/2
1. I have just downloaded your app.
2. You want me to make an account. I don’t want to make an account!
3. When I enter my email, you inform me that I already have an account! This seems like a good thing, but I know it means only pain. 1/2
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The funeral details for Raghnall O’Floinn are available here - such a huge loss. A wonderful person and scholar - deepest sympathies to his family and friends - rip.ie/death-notice...
Death Notice of Raghnall ÓFloinn (Dublin) | rip.ie
The death has occurred of Raghnall ÓFloinn of Dublin Ireland, on 10/12/2024. You can view the full death notice and add your condolences here.
rip.ie
December 11, 2024 at 11:34 AM
The funeral details for Raghnall O’Floinn are available here - such a huge loss. A wonderful person and scholar - deepest sympathies to his family and friends - rip.ie/death-notice...
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Call for NECRON Board Members
The Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse is looking for a new board for 2025-2027.
If you are a PhD/postdoc/ECR interested in joining the board, contact us by January 15th with a short bio & let us know why you're interested in running NECRON.
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The Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse is looking for a new board for 2025-2027.
If you are a PhD/postdoc/ECR interested in joining the board, contact us by January 15th with a short bio & let us know why you're interested in running NECRON.
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December 11, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Call for NECRON Board Members
The Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse is looking for a new board for 2025-2027.
If you are a PhD/postdoc/ECR interested in joining the board, contact us by January 15th with a short bio & let us know why you're interested in running NECRON.
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The Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse is looking for a new board for 2025-2027.
If you are a PhD/postdoc/ECR interested in joining the board, contact us by January 15th with a short bio & let us know why you're interested in running NECRON.
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I think I am losing the battle against ' I can definitely finish this stuff before Christmas so I can have a clear start in 2025'.
December 10, 2024 at 9:51 PM
I think I am losing the battle against ' I can definitely finish this stuff before Christmas so I can have a clear start in 2025'.
@uonenglish.bsky.social Congratulations to all the MA students who graduated today. Whether you could attend in person or watch it online: it was a joy to have you here. I am wishing you the very best for your future. If you are around say hello.
December 10, 2024 at 4:53 PM
@uonenglish.bsky.social Congratulations to all the MA students who graduated today. Whether you could attend in person or watch it online: it was a joy to have you here. I am wishing you the very best for your future. If you are around say hello.
Lovely to see our Viking & Early Medieval English MAs graduate today. I did not take a picture, but I cheered. @moufridji.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Lovely to see our Viking & Early Medieval English MAs graduate today. I did not take a picture, but I cheered. @moufridji.bsky.social