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Aylin Malcolm

@malentendre.bsky.social

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Literature prof (U of Guelph) | writing about medieval animals | they/them | science before 1700, book history, sci fi, whale facts 🐋 🌐 aylinmalcolm.com 📍Toronto

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Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · Oct 11

I am so excited to present our special issue on "Trans Natures" in medieval literature: scholarworks.wmich.edu/med_ecocriti...

The intro is free to read. Thanks to the journal’s flexible policies, some authors have also posted their articles on their personal sites…. #MedievalSky #EnvHum #EcoCrit

Cover of Medieval Ecocriticisms volume 4. Includes a medieval illustration of a half-bird siren looking in a mirror and a centaur looking over their shoulder (from Getty MS Ludwig XV 3, folio 78).

Table of contents: Intro by Nat Rivkin and Aylin Malcolm; “Settler Fantasies and Queer Disruptions: A Nonbinary Reading of Gerald’s Wolves” (SARAH LAVOY-BRUNETTE AND JORDAN CHAUNCY); “Birds, Blood, and Nonbinary Bodies in Marie de France’s Yonec” (AYLIN MALCOLM); “Cautious Lion, Canny Woman: Queer Animality in La Response du bestiaire” (TESS WINGARD); “Trans Activisms and Interspecies Entanglement in the Middle English Patience” (ELLIS LIGHT); “Of Giantesses, Greenland, and Trans Ecology in Jökuls þáttr Búasonar” (BASIL A. PRICE); “Trans Antagonisms and Affirmations in Henry Medwall’s Nature” (MICAH JAMES GOODRICH)

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Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 2d

Living this in reverse right now with importing my American partner to Canada. After thousands of dollars and six months of work on the file, we've managed to *apply*…now a year or two to wait if all goes well. And of course we're lucky, as this is still the easiest way to immigrate

Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 11d

Me every day since leaving Philly

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 15d

I'm in the market for a beautiful Italian sandwich that will fix my life

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 11d

I saw this story earlier and made a mental note to check what you had to say about it! That line about "AI" analysis being "objective" as opposed to scholars' "subjective opinions" is total rage bait

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Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 15d

This is amazing on so many levels, including the implied renunciation of scientific "progress." Good thing we gave up on chemistry!

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 25d

3) "Smoke and Mirrors: Medieval Drama Through the Smog" by @malentendre.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2025/07/05/s...

#envhum #medieval #theatre #wildfires #smoke

Smoke and Mirrors: Medieval Drama Through the Smog

On June 7, 2025, Toronto hosted outdoor medieval plays amid wildfire smoke, blending ecological crisis with theatrical reflection.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 25d

Our most read articles published in July!

Links in the thread below.

#envhist #cdnhist

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Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · 27d

With the organizers' permission, here's a great #icms2026 CFP on "Naturing Bodies, Embodying Nature." I'm not going this year but would def attend this session!

Apply: wmich.edu/medievalcong...
Contact: Hunter Phillips (hap48[at]cornell.edu), Asher Courtemanche (ac2457[at]cornell.edu)
#MedievalSky

Poster text is as follows:
Call for Papers: ICMS 2026, May 14–16, Western Michigan University. Naturing Bodies, Embodying Nature. This session seeks to explore the intersections of embodiment and environment in the Middle Ages, considering how bodies—organic and inorganic, human and non-human, material and immaterial—constitute, shape, and envelop one another. By “naturing” bodies, we seek to erode neat divisions between humans and the natural world to uncover the earthy entanglements linking humans to the environments they shape and are shaped by. Attuning to John Scotus Eriugena’s claim that nature is the name “for all things, for those that are, and those that are not,” we invite papers that reflect on the fundamentally relational ontology of humans, non-humans, and environments. Abstracts up to 300 words can be submitted to the ICMS proposal portal before September 15.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28d

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 29d

Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral

Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · Aug 22

You have about a week to submit to Dan Reeve and I’s IMC panels on queer and trans temporalities ! #imc2026 #medievalsky @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇

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Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'm putting that line in my book acknowledgments

Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Going deeper into the non-Euclidean rabbit hole: Googling "I would be lost without restaurant" yields a stunning array of slop sites

tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · Aug 22

my roommate was trying to find the menu for a nearby bagel shop and instead found some of the most iconic slop I've ever seen. thanks food! :)

a green square that says "fast food meals. new phenomenon burger taste. $19.90. order via seamless" and in the corner is a non-euclidean cluster of chicken finger.

a very normal 5-star review that says "I would be lost without restaurant. I would like to personally thank you for your outstanding product." - Nina Margaret, CEO apple.

another normal review that says "without food, we would have gone bankrupt by now. thanks food! the service was excellent." John Doe, manager.

an AI image of a pastrami sandwich. not to overuse the word non-euclidean but what else can I say to describe these layers of meat? this one also has some kind of yellow sauce leaking out of the bottom, and another yellow sauce being sensuously drizzled on top. in the lower right corner are baffling tubes that sort of look like if roasted carrots fucked a soft pretzel.

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Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yes! And I shouldn't have just said physical books – we'll be doing a few weeks on digital remediation and labor and all that good stuff.

Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · Aug 26

This course hasn't even run for years – but I think students are more interested than ever in physical books. And it helped to have librarians & curators guest lecture in my previous classes (inc @leoba.bsky.social)!

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Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · Aug 26

This class doesn't start until January so who knows where we go from here

Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · Aug 26

They're going to love your book! (they'd better)

Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · Aug 25

Waitlist is up to 50

Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · Jul 1

My undergrad book history course has 75 students registered and 37 on the waitlist. The students yearn for the books

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Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · Aug 25

Yeah, I've heard lots of people praise the SSHRC model (mostly people with SSHRCs) but there would have been no grad school for me without the US funding model

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Aug 21

"The entire (AI) business model: Get people addicted to the thing to the extent they can no longer function without it, and they will simply have to learn to live with it doing a bad job."

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It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector

It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of compa...

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Katrina Archer @katrinaarcher.bsky.social · Aug 12

Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below.
If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es).
www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

Meta AI Copyright - CFM Lawyers

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · Aug 15

UChicago just axed the Middle Eastern Studies program where I did my MA (along with every other grad program that requires language study). Luckily there isn't anything major happening in the Middle East at the moment, so that should be fine.

Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 13

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · Aug 13

Opening at Penn for a Special Collections Accessions Librarian, responsible for acquiring and accessioning all special collections materials for the Kislak Center. The salary range for this position is $66,000 - $89,039. Come work with meeeee!

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Special Collections Accessions Librarian

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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Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · Aug 11

well, including and beyond the Middle Ages

Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social · Aug 11

Was told today that my scholarly brand is "weird little guys" and you know I will wear this label with pride

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · Jul 30

421,000 bullets shipped from canada since october; 10 million since 2023;
175,000 in april of this year alone

Montréal as the key shipping hub

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Arms Embargo Now!

Canada’s secret arms trade with Israel, exposed: This hard-hitting report exposes the damning data—hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets—and the Canadian government’s web of lies tha...

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