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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 21h

Had a book published before mid-2021? Take 5 minutes to see if it's listed here and if so another 5 to enter info. And look up your grandma's book, the book of your friend, etc. and let them know

PSA: Get Your AI Money, Authors

The Anthropic settlement has been preliminarily approved, which means people can join in to be a member in this class action suit.

notesfromasmallpress.substack.com

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 1d

But my good trick-or-treater, do we put on such costumes because this night is spooky, or is the night spooky because put on such costumes?

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 1d

Have you been bereft without MLGB3? It was the essential and much-used online listing of extant books from British medieval libraries. Those good people @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have been working away and have just re-launched it, with the promise of more in the year ahead:
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 1d

This is just a bunch of fake news

Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 1d

New issue of Illinois Classical Studies Vol. 50, No. 1, Spring 2025 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55694 @projectmuse.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social Fake News is or as Invective in Ancient Texts

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 2d

The yearly update of the Supplementa tertia (v. 6.7) is out! Additions and corrections to the three published volumes of Aristoteles Latinus Codices, with plenty of hyperlinks to digital images! If you know or own other MSS of the medieval Latin Aristotle, please reach out!
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Monday! A reminder that we're seeking new committee members for Ceræ's 13th volume, including editors, a social media manager, and a fundraising officer. Postgraduate students welcome! See link below for details:

ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...

#medievalsky #academicsky #earlymodernsky

Call for New Committee Members

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early caree…

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 2d

Booklist found in a will from 837 CE. Kind of notable that the daughters are all given books (the sons too, though that's less notable).

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 2d

👀 Ooo, what are you saying about scholastic philosophy?

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 5d

My book's not in there...and I'm actually a little offended?

Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 6d

Anthropic settlement explainer:
--look up to see if your work was included (easy)
--file a claim if it was (easy)

--Amount will likely be 1.5K (3K per book, split w/publisher)
--Money comes between now and 2027 (in separate tranches)

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 6d

I've gotta say, it would be hard to live up to a name like Exsuperius.

(from Gallagher and Meade "Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity")

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 8d

Not gonna lie-- catching news like this is one of the main benefits of bluesky for me.

Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 8d

I started teaching Aristotle's Ethica Nicomachea in Greek last week with the usual complaint about the lacking quality of Bywater's 19th-c OCT edition. Turns out that a new one came out this year, over 1000 pages in OA! Bound to be an improvement!
libros.csic.es/product_info...

Green cover with golden lettering in Spanish

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 13d

lolsob

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 14d

Poster's madness? More like imPOSTER syndrome!

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14d

if you can look at it without catching poster’s madness, the list of who actually gets engagement here is pretty interesting. somewhat dire at the top but quickly it’s real and high quality posters.

bluefacts.app/top-reach

The Top 1000 Engaging users of the last week (updated daily) | BlueFacts

View the most engaging users on Bluesky by total number of likes and reposts, updated daily.

bluefacts.app

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 14d

Look what came in the mail today! Another goodie to share with my manuscripts course that starts next week. #medievalsky

The cover of Sarah J. Charles, The Medieval Scriptorium

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah, I've been getting a lot of these too.

Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 20d

The above screenshot from this article (I have no idea why the article starts with Carlo Acutis, who, as far as I know, has nothing to do with AI): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The chatbots claiming to be Jesus: spreading gospel or heresy?

Jesus chatbots aren't the only AI technologies seeping into religious practice. Some worshippers don’t agree with the use of them.

www.nature.com

Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 20d

In one of my classes we were just talking about the bit of Exodus where the Israelites were worshipping the golden calf. (There had been an allusion to it in a text we're reading.) Anyways, apropos of nothing, several different companies are now offering an AI Jesus:

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 20d

I have deleted my account using this workaround.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 20d

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

Academia.edu | Privacy

Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.

www.academia.edu

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 20d

Anyways, I’m out.

If you want proofs of any of my work, just shoot me an email!
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 20d

Granted, many of the academic publishers were themselves loathsome, and their business model was poaching money from universities and labor from scholars. 3/4

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 20d

I had thought of academia[dot]edu as a place to share scholarship with people who didn't have access. But ultimately it was a for-profit company, whose business model was to poach profits from academic publishers. 2/4

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 20d

Deleted my academia[dot]edu account, which I should have done years ago.

A quick thread on leaving academia (the site!).
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 20d

Yeah, same. This was just the final straw. I also despised their enthusiasm for AI.

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Latinitas Animi Causa: Latin for Fun @habesnelac.bsky.social · 20d

Seasons of the year poster in Classical Latin!

What season is your favorite?

Recognize any English words from these?

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