Ruth Karras
@rmkarras.bsky.social
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Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕
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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!

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earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians
CMS; Bristol; University of Bristol; Medieval Studies; MA degree;
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I was guessing it must actually be Italian American sausage bc you can get lots of Italian meats here, right from Italy, but not the sausage.
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£77,816 er annum. What an exciting post.
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Vacancy for Head of Research, Archives and Libraries - British Museum. Deadline 29 September 2025. bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C... #MuseumJobs
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Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
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Submissions are now open for the Medium Ævum Essay Prize 2026!

📅Deadline: 12:00 midday (GMT) 1st December 2025
📝6,500-8,000 word essay
👩‍🎓Open to graduate students and those who have graduated from a higher degree in the last 3 years
🏆£500

Read more on our website: mediumaevum.org.uk/essayprize
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Shitty first draft achieved. One week remaining to make it something i can show to people.
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I am now counting how many words I ‘write or repurpose’ i.e. paste from conference paper to article
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Very much feeling this today.
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No better feeling as an academic than someone you’ve mentored getting an academic job. Better than publishing a book.
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I always include a note that says something like ‘Need cite Authorname?’ so I don’t come back to it and go ‘what was I thinking?’ But sometimes it’s just ‘Check this’