What Is a Healthy Democracy? Johns Hopkins' Common Question hosts "What Is a Healthy Democracy?" a special evening featuring Ben Cardin, former U.S. Senator from Maryland, in conversation with Christopher Celenza, dean of the Kri...

What makes a healthy democracy—and where are we now?
Join former U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Dean @chriscelenza.bsky.social for a conversation on the state and future of American democracy.
📅 April 6 | 6–8 PM
📍 Room 404, Bloomberg Student Center
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 10 of 2026 The pace picked up this week with a total of sixty-six manuscripts digitized. Following recent trends, the largest contingent, forty-eight, came from Ott.lat, with the 13 of Comb filling in the next l...

a solid 66 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
a ton more Ge'ez, medicine, the tragedy Crispo, ancient cameos, classics, chronicles, specula and more!
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 9 of 2026 Another moderately quiet week with twenty-eight manuscripts digitized and uploaded to the Vatican archives. As has been the recent pattern, they consisted of Ott.lat with twenty manuscripts and Comb w...

28 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes tons of Ge'ez, 3 Lorenzo Valla, additional classical works, the Conclave for Gregory XIV, juridical works, a chronicle of Padua and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 5 of 2026 On Friday of this week eighteen manuscripts were digitized, the only day of activity. Of those, sixteen were from Ott.lat, and one each from Chig and Vat.lat. At the right is f.121r from Ott.lat.215...

Since all of this weeks 18 #Manuscripts were uploaded by the #vatican on Friday, I'm a bit late
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Many classics, a medical notebook, an Avvisi, Boccaccio and Poggio, texts on gems and art, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 3 of 2026 A total of thirty-three manuscripts were digitized this past week. They came entirely from the Ott.lat, with twenty-five, and Barb.lat, with the remaining eight manuscripts. To the right is a page fr...

Before the snow fell
The #Vatican Library
Scanned 33 books

www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes a c. 1200 glossed Virgil, a ton of classics, St. Anthony of Florence, medicine, Lorenzo Valla on Latin and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorian

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 52 of 2025 Despite Christmas coming in the middle of the week, the Vatican got in two digitizing days and added seventeen manuscripts this week. It was an unusual distribution with eight, the largest fraction, ...

Many factors delayed the last MS report of 2025, but the #vatican did manage 17 #Manuscripts last week
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Much Ge'ez, strange narrow MS, Arabic stories, Sistine Music and more.
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Rethinking the Renaissance: Ada Palmer on Myths, Power, and the Future We’re Fighting For Uncover the reality of the renaissance through conversations with Ada Palmer. What does it reveal about our current struggles?

New fun podcast interview up, partly about history, partly about finding hope in our present: www.wmnf.org/rethinking-t...

Johns Hopkins film and media programs nationally ranked by TheWrap Hopkins undergraduate and graduate programs land at No. 20 in rankings compiled by leading digital news outlet covering the entertainment and media industry

#ProudOfOurColleagues #JHUFilmAndMedia: hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/03/j...

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 40 of 2025 An extremely quiet week, with only five manuscripts digitized. Of these four are from the Ott.lat collection, and the final one is from Comb. To the right is f.3r from Ott.lat.1713, a 14th C manusc...

Only 5 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Consists of a Ge'ez Book of Hours, a commentary on Aristotle, Nonius Marcellus' De compendiosa doctrina (his only surviving work), Seneca's Tragedies and a vol of Papal stuff
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 38 of 2025 A total of forty-seven manuscripts were digitized in the past week, which is slightly above average when comparing to recent weeks. Also in-line with the patterns of recent weeks, the most manuscripts...

47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 30 of 2025 Another week of digitizing concludes with twenty-nine new manuscripts, which seems to be the current pace. The largest collection continues to be Barb.lat, with eleven added. Following that was Ott....

another week, another 29 #Manuscripts digitized by the #vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Including plays by Sebastiano Baldin, Euclid, Ethiopic liturgy, dated and glossed Seneca, patristics, papal history, and Peñafort... oh my!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

♥️Ausonius♥️! Here is the MS in question: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_S.M... The Cento nuptialis starts at the bottom of 42r. Also, I love this scribe's Ss.

Five Takeaways on Natural Philosophy - Arts & Sciences Magazine Illustration by Grace Toscano Last month, about 150 philosophers, scientists, and other thinkers gathered at a Baltimore hotel to discuss topics ranging

Natural Philosophy at Hopkins! Wonderful event; #ProudOfOurColleagues magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/06/five...

Susan Choi: ‘I Feel I’ve Read Nothing but Great Books Recently’

Go Prof. Choi! #ProudOfOurProfs: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/b...

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 20 of 2025 Mostly coming on Friday, a total of forty-eight manuscripts were added this week. More than half of these, twenty-six in total, came from the Capp.Sist archives, with ten more from Barb.lat. The res...

48 more #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a ton of Cappella Pontificia documents, some even about the Puntatore diaries in Capp.Sist.Diari, more Bussulas, Augustine on music, Ge'ez works and, topically, a Rule of St. Augustine
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 19 of 2025 A total of fifty-eight manuscripts were digitized for the conclave/elevation week. Leading the pack this week was Capp.Sist with nineteen manuscripts, many being single volumes of multi-volume musica...

Uninvolved in the #conclave, the #Vatican libraries digitized 58 #manuscripts
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Including a counterfeit 14th C Dante, a ton of 19th C music, more Sistine Diaries, occult tests, travel guides, glossed classics, Persian poetry and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Come and join us at @livesandletters.bsky.social to talk about #EarlyModern libraries! Two weeks to get your abstracts in! Check the website for full details, incl. how PhDs and ECRs can apply for funding to attend…

So proud to have co-written this newly published book w/my brilliant friend Anne E. Lester; I just remembered the book came into being largely b/c of an #NEH grant Anne received in 2020-2021, allowing us to follow up on our pandemic zoom calls together.
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/a-c...

Founders’ Prize Submission Instructions The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy awards an annual prize of $500 for the best paper on medieval or renaissance philosophy by a younger scholar.  Eligibility is restricted to …

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy awards an annual prize of $500 for the best paper on medieval or renaissance philosophy by a younger scholar.

Details here:

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Sri Sarma discussing the graphs on the computer screen to a colleague.

Sri Sarma looking at computer screens while a colleague explains what she is seeing.

Sri Sarma and her team posing in front of their work spaces.

Sri Sarma standing in an office with desks behind her.

Bold ideas are born from real-world problems. Research turns them into solutions that change lives. At Johns Hopkins, biomedical engineer Sri Sarma’s NIH-funded research is improving how doctors understand and treat common neurological conditions. hub.jhu.edu/.../27/nih-f...

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Thanks to everyone who has kept me at the work and shared my vision about our purpose, now more than ever. Thanks especially to @guggfellows for seeing us!

Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.

Congratulations to @marthasjones.bsky.social and David Yezzi on being named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows, @guggfellows.bsky.social. www.gf.org/stories/anno...

Molten martian core could explain red planet's magnetic quirks The planet's once-strong magnetic field appears to have been limited to its southern hemisphere, the apparent result of a fully liquid inner core that differs from that of Earth

Mars once had a magnetic field like Earth’s, but a new study co-authored by planetary scientist @planetsabine.bsky.social shows its molten core cooled unevenly, leaving the planet magnetically unstable. 🧲 hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/15/m...

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 15 of 2025 Another somewhat quiet week with a total of thirty-six manuscripts digitized. Unexpectedly Ott.lat contributed the largest fraction with twelve, followed by Barb.lat with ten and Capp.Sist.Diari with...

A quietish week, only 36 #Manuscripts from the Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a 13th C NT, 11th C Menologium, more 17th C papal stuff, Sistine Diaries and Ethiopic liturgy. Several humanistic texts, including one by one Raniero Fioravanti, unknown to me
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Three Johns Hopkins researchers named AAAS fellows James Berger, Karen Fleming, and Gregory Kirk join an esteemed group of scientists, engineers, and innovators who have been recognized for their achievements across disciplines

Congratulations to biophysics professor @karenfleming.bsky.social on being elected a 2024 @aaas.org fellow for her work in molecular biophysics. 🎉 hub.jhu.edu/2025/03/27/2...

“Don’t rest on things that you believe—look in the world, listen to the data, listen to real, empirical sources of information,” says Jenann Ismael. 🎙️

"Looking at a tiny part of the brain in a mouse, we can understand how the brain learns, and we can make predictions about how the human brain might work," says @kishoreneuro.bsky.social. hub.jhu.edu/2025/03/19/b...

Great conversation about dark energy!

A photo of a painting called Six Tuscan Poets, an oil-on-panel painting by the Florentine visual artist and writer Giorgio Vasari, 1544.

🎧 Listen to a podcast w/ scholar of #Renaissance #history Chris Celenza on relevant historical antecedents to responsibly deal w/ information, today's risks of manipulating public opinion and more.

➡️ ideasroadshow.com/christopher-...

🗃️ #skystorians @chriscelenza.bsky.social 🏺 #Academicsky #Edusky