#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Getting great support as a professor in 2025.

One part of admin tells us they take AI writing very seriously and will treat it as plagiarism if not allowed in the course.

Student submits an all-AI essay and I begin the plagiarism investigation, only to be told AI writing can't be proven.

Sigh.

New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Keepin' it Old School this time

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

She is holding a book! 📖
Currently writing a section on visual evidence for book use in medieval Scotland - so this could not be better timed...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yes, the Anthropic settlement is go.
If you've written a book, check the website and database-- easy to use. One of my books is listed, and I filed a claim.
Make sure you know what kind of "owner" you are of a book (I'm a "beneficial owner" meaning the press holds copyright but I get royalties).

Rest in peace, Jane Goodall.
You taught us that kindness is a form of strength and that respect for life in all its forms is the truest measure of humanity. You will be dearly missed.

Will-o’-the-wisps, the fleeting flames occasionally seen above swamps and graveyards, may be tiny lightning bursts jumping between microscopic bubbles of methane. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

15,000+ searchable charters from the early Middle Ages...

Sudden late summer shower, glowing cathedral, and full sky rainbow. It’s okay.

📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Oooh, an important talk by Anna Gili, with new evidence for elements of Constantine the African's attempts to salvage parts of al-Majusi's Kitab al-Malaki. November 11.
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin... #MedievalMedicine #Pharmaceutics #MedievalSky #histmed

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

It's all happening for us train enthusiasts (or is it just me?) as today marks 200 years since the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 - the birth of the modern railway.
So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂

[Call for papers] FuMaSt – The Future of Manuscript Studies Fifth edition, Firenze, 5-6 February 2026 (no later than 30 October 2025).
www.irht.cnrs.fr/sites/defaul...

Okay got it working after a couple hours of trying. No idea why the change.

I got to see this table last year when it was at Lincoln. What an amazing piece of furniture! And as a Canadian, I'm proud of our big saw helping out the Brits.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Hi Clare, the Google form to register isn't working. I get "site can't be reached" in both Chrome and Safari.

Registration is now open for the sixth Performing Magic in the Pre-Modern North conference, which will take place online on 13–14 November 2025. #medievalsky #magic
Register for free here: forms.gle/Xr8CgpRhhooC...
Programme: performingmagicinthepremodernnorthconference.wordpress.com/2025-nov-13t...

"Autism: First diagnosed in 1943.
Tylenol: Not invented until 1955.
RFK Jr.: Born 1954.
Thus RFK Jr. is more likely to have caused autism than Tylenol."

This is it. We can all stop making Youtube videos now because there is not beating this.

"Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-O...