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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 8

New Medieval MiniComics Prize Just Dropped!

www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Cartoon Crest for Newberry Library in a medievalizing style. Art by Lucy Bellwood.

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fun first morning of a medieval group jolly to the incredible Très Riches Heures and library of the Duc de Berry exhibition at Chantilly! 📜🎉

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@manuscripta.bsky.social @manuscripta.bsky.social · Sep 3

We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky

manuscripta.se – A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden — manuscripta.se A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden

manuscripta.se

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Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · Sep 4

For those following along, here is the “finished” version (for now… I’m not sure I’m really finished!) 💚 #medievalsky #skystorians #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux #medievalmaking

A red-on-white image of the Indiana University Sample Gates surrounded by trees and creatures in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry

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Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s an embroidery pattern! I’m going to trace it and stitch it up! But I do have plans to add some fun margins with the newly re-adopted IU bison mascot 😊😊

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Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · Sep 3

@kmcdono.bsky.social 👀

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Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · Sep 3

Working on something as part of the Bayeux Tapestry from Scratch Project (booklab.indiana.edu/lab-work/cur...). I’m calling it the B’IU Tapestry 🙃

I’m taking notes—what do you think so far? #medievalsky #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux @guildmedmak.bsky.social

A digital drawing of an Indiana University landmark, the Sample Gates, in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · Aug 22

Seems like a great day to share this again: National Endowment for the Humanities staff are/were* responsible stewards of #taxpayer $$, and the benefits for the American public are incalculable. #NEH

*two-thirds of staff were fired in June.

ben @btskinner.io · Apr 29

As an elder millennial, I could trade my lifetime of tax contributions to the NEH for one month of Netflix and have just enough left over to get some avocado toast if I split it with two other people

Line graph titled "What's my share of NEH appropriations" with a caption: "Between its founding in 1965 and fiscal year 2024, the National Endowment for the Humanities received congressional appropriations totaling $7.37 billion. NEH used this funding to support thousands of individuals and cultural organizations - both directly through various grant programs and indirectly through funds disbursed by the 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils. Beyond these appropriations, grantees raised millions of dollars more from non-federal donors as part of grant matching requirements. To put NEH appropriations in perspective, this chart shows cumulative annual per capita contribution to NEH by age, that is, the total dollar amount the average taxpayer has given to NEH over their lifetime. A few relevant purchases are helpfully included to show what a person could have bought instead, had they kept their personal NEH contribution for themselves..." The x-axis ranges from 0 to 59 years old. The y-axis ranges from $0 to $30. At three ages, items that could have instead been purchased with an individual's lifetime NEH contribution are shown. At 13 years, an egg is plotted on the line with a dollar amount of $6.41 and the caption reads, "Just in time to feed a growth spurt, a person at 13 years old has contributed enough to NEH that they could instead purchase one dozen eggs ($6.23/dozen)." At 36 years, a popcorn bucket is plotted with a dollar amount of $18.20 and the caption reads, "Millennials who are at least 36 years old could exchange their nearly four decades worth of NEH support for a one month subscription to Netflix ($17.99/month)." At 50 years, a gasoline pump is plotted with the dollar amount of $26.00 and the caption reads, "Those 50 years old or older - who have been contributing to the agency for nearly its entire existence - could instead have saved that money to purchase about a half tank of gas (8 gallons at $3.23/gallon)."

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Aug 22

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.

La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center

Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.

www.kplctv.com

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · Aug 20

Today is the feast of Bernard of Clairvaux, d. 1153. I've picked out some 12th c. MSS for his day. This is Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 272, 2v, Bernard on the Song of Songs. Mid-12th c. from the Cistercian abbey of Engelszell. I liked the birdie-beast in the initial A.

Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 246, 2v, detail showing initial A with curvy bird-creature.

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Patricia Baquedano-López @pbaquedano-lopez.bsky.social · Aug 20

Please help circulate widely!
Assistant Professor (T-T) UC Berkeley, Language Revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Seeking candidates with research specialization in language revitalization and a broad intellectual engagement in linguistics and related fields @soclinganth.bsky.social

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · Aug 18

Two great names to start your week off: MS fragment of the Latin translation of Averroes' response to Avicenna's Cantica, a medical work (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1625)
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

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The Latin Programme @thelatinprogramme.bsky.social · Aug 19

Latin word of the day: conatus, conatus - attempt

#LatinWordOfTheDay

two dogs are going down a green slide in a park

ALT: two dogs are going down a green slide in a park

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Aug 11

No one wants to hear this, but it’s true. Either we can value education — not for a select few but for anyone willing to put in the effort — and provide the requisite resources, or we can watch it become a pursuit available only to an elite minority, with everyone else getting a cheap facsimile

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Aug 10

There simply is no substitute for the time-, personnel-, & $$$-intensive way of providing quality education. That we don't want to pay for it, as a society, does not make this any less true, & AI cannot fix that. At best, it can poorly substitute for the real solution.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Aug 10

Sure we could reduce the student to teacher ratio, and create an education system that we know works for students. But that would cost money, so bring in the slop.

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Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · Aug 10

This is why a liberal arts education and educational freedom are important, and why higher ed should not be expected or forced to respond to market demand. The same thing happened with law degrees ten years ago.

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · Aug 10

"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...

That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

www.nytimes.com

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Kat @kaffarin.bsky.social · Jul 30

🧶 bayeux tapestry jumper is finished, blocked and sewn up! Please don’t ask me about weaving in ends I don’t want to talk about that right now. Probably my favourite thing I’ve ever knitted ever #showmeyourknits #knitsky #knitting

Beige jumper on a white background, the front panel shows harold holding a spear under an archway (scenes from bayeux tapestry)

Beige jumper on a white background, the focus is a sleeve with an image of a tower and halleys comet overhead in blue, gold and red

Beige jumper on a white background, a tree motif on a sleeve in blue, gold and red

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · Jul 29

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible

Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

loom.ly

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 1

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

www.mellon.org

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · Jul 30

Join us in signing and sharing this petition to prevent layoffs of over 400 people (both academic & professional services staff) at Lancaster University. We are all at risk and it's a scary time.

Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

www.change.org

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · Jul 28

We love the Peripheral Manuscripts Project! Read Rose McCandless's blog post to find out more about how the PMP is working with Digital Scriptorium 👇

Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · Jul 28

For this month’s blog, DS Graduate Fellow @rosemccandless.bsky.social considers the Peripheral Manuscripts Project, the missions of PMP and DS, and the value of smaller and Midwestern collections: digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/2...

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · Jul 28

For this month’s blog, DS Graduate Fellow @rosemccandless.bsky.social considers the Peripheral Manuscripts Project, the missions of PMP and DS, and the value of smaller and Midwestern collections: digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/2...

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Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social · Jul 29

If you are a final-year undergrad at @universityofleeds.bsky.social, you can now choose "Medieval Manuscripts and New Technologies" as a discovery module! Come and experiment with me and do something entirely different in your last semester!

#HandsOnHumanities

catalogue.leeds.ac.uk/Module/UG/ME...

Undergraduate module Catalogue : Module and Programme Catalogue

Module and Programme Catalogue provides current and historical information regarding the University of Leeds modules and programmes

catalogue.leeds.ac.uk

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yesterday the Senate approved the FY26 Appropriations Bill to keep the funding of the National Endowment for the Humanities at $207mil. There's a long way to go before this is reality, but it's further evidence that none of this - neither #NEH staff layoffs, nor grant terminations - had to happen.

Senate Committee Approves FY 2026 Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

www.appropriations.senate.gov

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Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · Jul 25

I’m afraid there won’t be ruins. The land will have been sold into private hands and the buildings razed long before then.

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Rolf Oldejans @rolfoldejans.bsky.social · Jul 19

It's not hoarding if it's books

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