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LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social · 8h

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social · 2d

New open-access publication: Discover how a multidisciplinary approach helped identify and contextualise three Qurʾānic parchment fragments from the University of Münster collection, revealing their shared origins in an Umayyad Qur’an:
www.nature.com/articles/s40...

From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad Qur’ān - npj Heritage Science

npj Heritage Science - From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad Qur’ān

www.nature.com

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 3d

Newly digitised Gəʽəz manuscript just dropped

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 4d

This has serious implications. Transcriptions and ground truth are often core research outputs. Using them without explicit consent or attribution is basically what AI companies are doing to human textual production. Even if in like with their T&C's.
Source: www.facebook.com/share/p/19vG...

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 4d

Despite years of messaging that "your data is yours," @transkribus.bsky.social uses all transcriptions (private or not) for model training. Staff can review your uploads, and your work may be retained and reused indefinitely, even if you delete it..

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks!

Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 5d

Question for those working in Ethiopian studies: what universities outside Ethiopia offer at the moment Gəʽəz courses in person?

I have seen Marburg, Hamburg, Rome (Sapienza and PIO), Madrid and Uppsala. Am I missing something?

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 7d

(It is so painful to see cases used wrong, be it in inflected languages or not.)

Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 7d

Question for the Latinists: if repeating a concept in Latin from a text quoted above, do you quote it in nominative or do you keep it in the case it was in?

E.g.
<<"... armorum violentia, temporum longitudine confirmata". This "temporum longitudo" comprises what...>>

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

Manuscript Data Curation Fellow

University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 18d

Horrendous and absurd new Terms of Service is causing people to terminate their use of #Academia
What are people using instead?
I'd be sad to lose contact with my c. 6K followers.
leeds.academia.edu/DrIanMcCormick
#Highered #Edchat #University #research
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 14d

Academia.edu has always been a scam to gamify & monetize the psychic damage of twilight-phase academic neoliberalism: this person looked you up, that person mentioned you, your work matters. Intellectual as individual brand-builder. The rights stuff is awful but the basic concept is bad enough

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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social · 14d

Almost two years ago, we opened our exhibition (Un)chained Knowledge, subtitled “Fake news, censorship and information around 1500 and today”. The digital version of this exhibition is still available online. Why are we putting this exhibition back in the spotlight now?

(Un)chained Knowledge

In the mid-15th century, at the time when Dieric Bouts (ca. 1410-1475) settled in Leuven as a town painter, access to scientific knowledge was very limited. Professors could afford manuscripts, while ...

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 23d

After the London protests of last Saturday, I find myself thinking of this poem by Joan Margarit:

"yet fear has never left me either /
for life has shown me the faces /
of those who could be my assassins."

Àvila, juliol del trenta-sis:
ell va gravar els seus noms a la muralla.
El cel lluent d’estiu el travessaven
les bales negres de les orenetes
amb les notícies dels primers morts.
És l’èpica que em queda: anys més tard,
sota la por que vaig sentir d’infant,
vaig aprendre a callar i a somiar
sentint aquelles veus: Tindràs la teva guerra.

Ja no queda ningú dels qui m’ho deien.
Mai no he gravat cap nom en una pedra,
però tampoc m’ha abandonat la por,
perquè la vida m’ha mostrat els rostres
dels qui podrien ser els meus assassins.

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 25d

Ooh, exciting! If you fancy something I wrote about inventories and catalogues (in case this isn't the thing you're citing), I have a chapter in the expanded edition of Paula Findlen's Early Modern Things: www.routledge.com/Early-Modern...

Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500-1800

Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made – came to define some of the key developments of the...

www.routledge.com

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · Sep 3

Justo. Por lo visto hay también un deponente baubari. Güagüar.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · Aug 28

Someday I want to see a historian pretend to be a scientist and get published in Nature, a magazine that is very good at publishing scientists pretending to be historians.

Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · Aug 28

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology

The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology

Nature - The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

www.nature.com

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · Aug 22

Being told I got a fellowship I didn't really qualify for two months after sending an email to withdraw through a request to submit additional documents for HR. Spanish bureaucracy.

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · Aug 20

Digitization & cataloging is complete for the 35 Ethiopic manuscripts microfilmed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, including Aethiop. 16 (HMML project number 24994), which is of particular importance to the study of the Ethiopic Bible.

Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

Madonna and Child, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus. Aethiop. 21, preserved by HMML as microfilm 24990

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · Aug 17

Pero lo importante: ¡¡mucho ánimo con la mudanza!!

Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · Aug 17

En 2017 pagábamos 1250 por un piso de tres habitaciones, dos baños y cinco o seis balcones. En 2023 estuve de estancia y los estudios en Lavapiés estaban a 1800.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Aug 15

We still invite applications from early- to mid-career researchers to Global Innovation Fellowships: The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) offering an opportunity to collaborate with DGAP on various European policy issues. Apply now: buff.ly/fAhi5yw

White banner with an image of a cityscape. The words 'Global Innovation Fellowships: The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) 2025-26' are written on the right-hand side.

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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · Feb 11

/postmedieval/ is launching a new mentorship programme to facilitate publication for scholars whose first language is not English.

👇 find all the details here 👇
sites.google.com/view/postmed...

Call for participants for a mentorship programme for scholars who have not yet published in English

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · Aug 8

Braudel is rolling in his grave.

Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social · Aug 8

Tell me you don't understand the purpose of humanities research without telling me you don't understand the purpose of humanities research

@economist.com @eui-history.bsky.social

www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

"Soon after its founding, however, it became apparent that the EUI’s splendid digs might be distracting its scholars. As one insider explained to Charlemagne: “Left to their own devices, the academics began producing studies of the wool trade in 15th-century Flanders and suchlike.” He was joking—up to a point. A search for recent articles on the EUI’s database produced a list headed by “Silk consumption and dressing practices in late-medieval Catalonia”. In 1993 the university set up a new division, the Robert Schuman Centre, to keep things forward-looking and relevant, but with mixed success. In 2017 a School of Transnational Governance was founded in the hope that this would finally do the trick."

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · Aug 8

It's kind of an insane example to make, given the centrality of the wool and silk trades to European economic integration and industrial development. Even if you wanted to be a philistine about the value of historical scholarship, you could at least be competent at it.

Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social · Aug 8

Tell me you don't understand the purpose of humanities research without telling me you don't understand the purpose of humanities research

@economist.com @eui-history.bsky.social

www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

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