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Head of Zeus @headofzeus.bsky.social · 17h

The Book of Kells by Victoria Whitworth - Out Today!

The Book of Kells is probably the most famous manuscript in the world – and Victoria Whitworth's masterly treatment offers something new.

Get your copy here! - https://bit.ly/48HEVnQ

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 7h

You checked it out, I see! I would have thought it was library use only.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, indeed. Also some nice majuscule on fol. 80v.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 12h

Voila:

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 11h

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Remember You Will Die traces the lives of artists, activists, scientists, and more as they intersect with the existence of a yearning AI. Eden Robins weaves a polyphonic narrative that is intergenerational, art-filled, and subversive.

A photograph of Eden Robins' novel Remember You Will Die, which rests on a black metal shelf next to a small glass vase full of greenery: red berries, green and white flowers, and a shaggy sprig of foliage.

“Profoundly mistrustful of her own legacy, Dante Pellegrino would have hated this belated obituary. But then again, such remembrances are not for the dead at all. They are for the living—the living now and the living to come. Remember us, we whisper into the ears of the future. Our mistakes have made you possible.” from Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 10h

Ok, people, here's my @utoronto.ca Medieval Studies #Voynich lecture! I've got BIG NEWS to report about the potential original structure of the manuscript. Check it out! (new material starts around minute 14) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH28...

Lisa Fagin Davis: "The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript"

YouTube video by U of T CMS

www.youtube.com

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16h

Next week in NY! Would love to see folks come out. www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/rif...

Poster for a talk at city college NY that reads, “Stripmining History:
How the 'Al' Industry Extracts the Past & What Scholars in the Humanities Can Do to Stop It
IN-PERSON & VIA ZOOM
OCTOBER 16 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM | NAC 6/316
Universities and museums have recently begun partnering with technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their Al products will enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises, however, are not supported by the reality of what computer vision-a foundational branch of Al-can achieve.
This talk provides an introduction to computer vision's origins in military surveillance, an overview of its development under late capitalist regimes of exploitative micro-labor, and an orientation to how computer vision works. This vision has relied on extracting history, and Drimmer argues that it is the responsibility of scholars in the humanities to be knowledgeable about the forms this extraction takes.
Sonja Drimmer
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst”

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks! Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv . 18.3.1, right? The following article mentions "a late eleventh-century probatio pennae on the final folio as from a chant for the feast of St. Lambert, whose cult was most fervent in the Diocese of Liège."
www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publicati...

The provenance of the Edinburgh Martial

www.research.ed.ac.uk

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 13h

Any interesting glosses or pen trials in the Martial?

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 1d

This Friday 10th October 15:30-16:45 in the Weston Library, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese & co-curator Jessica Douthwaite will give a talk on their @bodleian.ox.ac.uk exhibition on John Le Carré visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/lecarre #JohnLeCarré #SpySky

John le Carré talks

Join us for a series of talks on John Le Carré, to tie in with the new exhibition at the Weston Library

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 1d

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14h

White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President https://theonion.com/white-house-doctor-trump-has-far-more-bones-than-any-prior-president/

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Lauren Turek @laurenfturek.bsky.social · 14h

Faith groups have filed suit against DHS for violating their 1st and 4th amendment rights, arguing that by targeting faith-based demonstrators "with violence," ICE agents are enacting a policy that “substantially burdens their exercise of religion” and violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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Maddalena Poli @madpoli.bsky.social · 15h

If you're new to the Warring States manuscripts, I published a piece with my colleague Li Yumeng which introduces the *Kongzi said and *Zhongni said manuscripts. And it's open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 13h

The Northern Crusade has failed!!

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 13h

Today is a big day for the Dievturība (native faith) movement in Latvia, as Latvia becomes the first country in Europe to enshrine the place of its pagan religion in law

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

Job! Judaic Studies & the Medieval/Renaissance Center at Binghamton are looking for a Talmud/Medieval Rabbinics specialist! I have long been part of the Med/Ren group myself and I can vouch it is very active, supportive, and functional. Good people!

binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

binghamton.interviewexchange.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 1d

It might actually be just you. I mean, they're both literal movie stars. And De Caprio was great in One Battle After Another.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 1d

@andyhilkens.bsky.social
Hello! I saw a reference to the mailing list for TeTra seminars. Is that mailing list different than following tetraseminar on Bsky? I'd like to be on the list. Thx!

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 1d

"When you get down to it, rejection can do you a favour. It forces you to face objective reality. You find out, perhaps contrary to your longstanding expectations, that an entire universe exists outside your own head and the opinions of others might matter as much as yours."

‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection

As a writer, I have been rejected thousands of times, and it initially led to shock, denial and anger. Then I accepted it. Here’s what you can gain from doing so too

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 2d

Still time to sign up!

Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 9d

Next Wednesday 8th October, 12.30-1.30: Jiří Vnouček on "A Tale of Two Parchments" - insular and continental parchment preparation.
In person: @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston Library, Lecture Theatre
Or livestreamed.
Free: book here visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...

A tale of two parchments

In this talk, Dr. Jiří Vnouček discusses differences in species choice and membrane preparation of 'Insular' and 'Continental' parchment used for book-making in the early Middle Ages.

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 2d

I do recommend this book for a start: www.routledge.com/Nordic-Latin....

Also this one: novus.no/products/102....

Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments: The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books

Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as bookbindings...

www.routledge.com

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Defector @defector.com · 2d

Two months later, on July 12, the couple were in the area of Bristol, Conn., staying at a hotel. Hill had been yelling at Vaccaro all day because "she was not doing what he wanted her to do," the document said. Inside their hotel room, with some of Hill's other children and family waiting in the lobby, Vaccaro told Hill that she didn't want to go out because she was pregnant and didn't feel well. Hill responded by picking up Vaccaro's phone and throwing it at her face. He then "threw a punch and tried to hit her pregnant stomach, but she deflected it," the document said. Hill also "ripped at her hair and pulled some hair out, then grabbed her purse and flung it across the room," the record said.

Vaccaro was very far along in her pregnancy in November of 2024, when the couple along with some family were at their Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., condominium getting ready to leave for a Dolphins game. Hill got angry with Vaccaro while they were in the bedroom, with the rest of their family in the living area, and spat in her face, the document said. She gave birth to their daughter the next day.

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