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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 25d

Hi #Medievalsky,

Michaela and I have decided to put together a last minute #IMC2026 session proposal: *Dead Reckoning in the early medieval [?world]"

If you've anything on interactions with the dead (literary, historical, legal, etc.) and are looking for an (unfunded) session to join, let us know!

michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · 25d

Hey! Are you still looking for someone? I hadn't got around to organizing a panel cos I've been so busy so if you wanted to put together a last minute one I'd be keen 🙂

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · 25d

Hey! Are you still looking for someone? I hadn't got around to organizing a panel cos I've been so busy so if you wanted to put together a last minute one I'd be keen 🙂

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Jul 11

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Jul 11

What a wonderful Merovingianist day we had on Wednesday at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social ! Thanks to my coorganisers @beccagrose.bsky.social and @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social and to all our speakers. Thanks especially to our respondent Shane Björnlie. I feel challenged and inspired #medievalsky

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Jul 6

I took the 16th C limp binding workshop today and it was absolutely fantastic! Linette explained everything so well and i felt like i picked it up so quickly! Not that this is the neatest thing in the world but i got to live my book binding dreams for 3 hours! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2025

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Jul 5

Getting some last minute prep done on the train to the #IMC2025

#medievalsky @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hey kids! First time at the #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social?

Here are some of Old Man Kramer's Hot Tips!

#medievalsky

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Jun 26

@imc-leeds.bsky.social is almost upon us and since the app is now out, I thought I’d remind everyone of our 4 panels on the Merovingians happening all day Wednesday. We finally rallied everyone together so be there or be square! #merovingian #imcleeds2025 @beccagrose.bsky.social

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Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jun 24

IMC 2025: Merovingianist Mixer

We'll be at the Library bar, where campus meets Hyde Park, to avoid interrupting the Euros at Old Bar again.

All welcome, whether you work on late antique or Merovingian Gaul or want to meet people who do.

Plz RSVP to @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social for table space!

Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jan 29

Calling all #IMC2025 Merovingianists and late antique Gaul people!
Sunday 7th July 25, ca 5pm onwards
@michaelajaneruth.bsky.social and I will be hosting the second annual Merovingianists Mixer!

All welcome for a chill pre
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
drink, especially postgrads, ECRs & first-timers.

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Jun 5

Pleased to announce that our book is in the top 20 bestsellers at Independent Bookstores in New Zealand this week! What an honour for the opening week.

#newzealandhistory #womenshistory #feministhistory #medicalhistory #womendoctors #herstory #aotearoanewzealand #nonfictionbooks #newrelease

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · May 31

What an amazing experience it is publishing a book 🥰 i feel so honoured to have been chosen to tell the stories of New Zealand's first women doctors. Thanks to everyone who came to our launch, I am still in shock that it is on shelves.
#booklaunch #aotearoahistory #womenshistory #feministhistory

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · May 30

I am very proud to say that my first book "Against the Odds: New Zealand's First Women Doctors" has officially launched! We had an overwhelming number of people turn up to the opening lecture at the @universityofotago.bsky.social last night and we received wonderful feedback. Thanks for the support!

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Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jan 29

Calling all #IMC2025 Merovingianists and late antique Gaul people!
Sunday 7th July 25, ca 5pm onwards
@michaelajaneruth.bsky.social and I will be hosting the second annual Merovingianists Mixer!

All welcome for a chill pre
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
drink, especially postgrads, ECRs & first-timers.

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Dec 5

"No one knows which ideas will be needed to face future challenges and seize opportunities. But a community of researchers across all disciplines pursuing their best ideas is our best insurance for making sure we have access to those ideas when we need them."

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Dec 5

Great opinion piece about the removal of the humanities and social sciences from the Marsden Fund.
#fundingcuts #newzealand

thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-1...

Juliet Gerrard: Funding the whole pie

It's a tiny portion of our overall funding, yet social sciences and humanities research makes a massive impact. Without it, the pie starts to crumble.

thespinoff.co.nz

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Dec 4

Such disappointing news to wake up to... The lack of appreciation for the humanities was one of the main reasons i left academia in NZ and it's only getting worse.
#historysky #newzealand #humanities #fundingcuts

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Government's Marsden Fund cuts: All humanities, social sciences research funding slashed

Cutting all research funding for the fields is a massive step backwards, critics say.

www.rnz.co.nz

michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Nov 25

Feeling very conflicted... Received the final proofs back from the copyeditor and much has been changed, including what i would consider my "voice" and a lot of sentences that now mean the opposite of what I intended... Is this normal when working with an academic press?
#historysky #publishing

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Nov 21

I now have a "readings" folder which contains a "currently reading" folder and a "currently annotating" folder. And another folder called "legit reading right now" for when i started a new research topic and didn't want it to mix with the old topic, but that is also filling up quickly 😬

michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Nov 21

Does anyone else struggle to find the balance between researching (reading) and writing? I have so many half-read books in my "currently reading" folder because i read so slowly and then run out of time to finish them before i have to start writing to meet a deadline 🤦🏻‍♀️ #medievalsky

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James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social · Nov 21

Reminded Gregory of Tours doesn't start his Histories with "a great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad" (as per the Penguin edition), but gets in a grumble about "the decline or rather death of the cultivation of liberal letters" first.
#medievalsky
(pic Paris BF 17655)

The opening page of Gregory of Tours' Histories in the seventh-century manuscript Paris BnF 17655, complaining about the "decline or rather death" of the cultivation of the liberal arts.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Nov 21

When you ask what did the Middle Ages ever do for us, remember: in the 830s the monks of Fulda Abbey copied this recipe for an almost-lasagna, Patina Apiciana, from De re coquinaria by Apicius (a signature dish, if you will). Full recipe below!

NYAM Vault MS 1

A fragment of a manuscript describing a cooking recipe.

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Nov 20

I need to start posting on here more so here is my win for the day: I just found the origin of the technique I am studying for my thesis. The first pattern Gregory of Tours encountered that arguably introduced him to the concept and proved to him the power of mimicking the scriptures 🤯 #medievalsky

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Jul 3

I couldn't have asked for a better panel. The presentations were brilliant and the audience was lovely. Thank you once again Shachar, Yaniv, and Erin! #imc2024

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Jun 27

Final run-through of my @IMC_Leeds presentation before i print it out! If you like #merovingianhistory and #literaryhistory make sure to swing by at 9am on Wednesday!

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Jun 21

In today's episode of #chatgpt is amazing, did anyone else know that it is able to determine what handwriting might be. This is something i am pretty decent at but sometimes i just get caught on something...