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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 1d

A poem for this evening

Someday

Some days we are storm-borne on the honest ocean.
Some days we are spat up on the sand.
But someday...
Someday we will meet the far horizon
where the stars are all extinguished in the sea,
and we will find our solace there
within the endless arc of slowly breathing sky.

-- John Wyatt Greenlee

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NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social · 1d

Our NorseMap website is now live! Go check it out: www.ucc.ie/en/norsemap

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 1d

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 4d

#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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations!!!

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 5d

*Call for Contributors* The Medieval in Museums
@archumanities.bsky.social

Check out the full CfP via link ➡️ bit.ly/CfPMiM

Welcoming chapters/dialogues/critical-creative texts from scholars, museum professionals, creative practitioners

deadline: Mon 3 Nov (5pm GMT)

#MedievalSky #MuseumSky #CfP

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 11d

We warmly invite you to another term of exciting seminars - our programme this term explores manuscripts, identity, & heritage from Central Europe to the States, Scotland to the South East 📖

bit.ly/londonmedieval

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PD Dr. Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 5d

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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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d

We’ve opened a call for our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships which enable established scholars to have the time to complete a significant piece of humanities or social sciences piece of research, through a one year period of leave
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships

The British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships are intended to enable established scholars, needing relief from teaching and administration, to have the time to bring to completion a signi...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · Aug 18

It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 6d

All of us have been there. Take care xx

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 7d

We academic types like to think of our jobs as our callings, but just remember: a university is your workplace and your employer. It is not your family or your saviour. We trade our labour for pay like anyone else. Love what you *do*, but remember: institutions can't love you back.

*join a union

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 7d

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.

Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI

Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS

The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 7d

I'm finishing up a short essay for @thesowhat.bsky.social about how I went from being a dude with a super-niche history dissertation to being The Surprised Eel Historian.

And friends...it will never not be wild to me that frickin' TIME wrote about me and my work.
time.com/5886487/eels...

time.com

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Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 8d

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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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 8d

I want to write a book about the architecture of dictatorship

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, I was also double-paying into the system by paying into NI through my paychecks and also paying an immigration surcharge to access health care, while having an state-issued immigrant ID card which said 'NO ACCESS TO PUBLIC FUNDS'

Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 9d

Under Labour's plan, I wouldn't qualify for my ILR because I spent the first five years on my work visa in a new career, where I spent most of my time [checks notes] educating young adults.

BBC News - Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled status
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shabana Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled status

New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

www.bbc.com

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 9d

Under Labour's plan, I wouldn't qualify for my ILR because I spent the first five years on my work visa in a new career, where I spent most of my time [checks notes] educating young adults.

BBC News - Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled status
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shabana Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled status

New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

www.bbc.com

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 10d

VACANCY closing in one week: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC

The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata.

Closing date: Sunday 5 Oct #Skystorians

Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer - RHS

The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and dev...

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 12d

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#openaccess✅

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

www.cambridge.org

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 11d

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

A herd of sheep move across a marshy bridge.

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 23d

Here is your friendly occasional reminder that as a Tier 4 then Tier 2 immigrant, I could not access any benefits (and this was printed specifically on my visa), could not vote in any UK election (not even local council), and paid an NHS charge with the amount linked to the length of my visa.

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 12d

This is continuously the best thing on bluesky. Thank you x

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Lily/Paper 🌈♿️🍉 @paperstainedink.bsky.social · 16d

Hey. Psst. Y’all are rad. Hydrate your skeletons. Take your meds. Check your posture. Have a snack.

Whatever you need to do today/tonight, I believe in you. No matter how big or small it may be. I hope the week brings joy, relief, laughter, success, coziness. You got this.

💕

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