Epic Handshake meme with Carl Weathers labeled KATE BUSH, Arnold labeled MARY SHELLEY and their combined handshake labeled COMPLETELY REVOLUTIONIZING THE GOTHIC GENRE AT 18 YEARS OLD

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call me a spondee by cause Ich am stressed stressed

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting.

She had some things she needed to get off her chest

The really egregious thing is how much Bristol has spent on buildings recently.

Do university administrators think that buildings teach? research? provide student support?

Academics and professional services staff *are* universities and we are being treated like an unwanted extra.

I just had to lie to my wife about why I was tearful. It was because I'd been reading the Wikipedia page about Catherine of Aragon. What that woman went through. I had no idea.

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

'this appears to be a long document, save time by reading a summary by AI' says Acrobat at the top of a PDF of all the Annals of St Bertin written between 830 and 882

Some very exciting news about the CMS PGR Conference 2026! #medievalsky #skystorians

Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).

Please share widely!

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A fancy pigeon strutting with a top hat on his little head, painted in acrylic over a maroon background

I was right he did need a top hat.

Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

Looking forward to being back at @imc-leeds.bsky.social this summer! Can’t wait to share some highlights from my Big Scary Pontifical Spreadsheet with the world!

The Bristol CMS PGR conference is taking place from 30 March to 1 April and I will be there to give the keynote, and also hear a bunch of amazing papers, obviously.
The call for papers is now open, so of you are a medieval PGR, do come along!
medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/pgr-conferen...

And here’s what I’ve been harping on about for the past four years. Catch me banging on about intersectional Chaucerian virtue yet again at #IMC2026 #medievalsky

Thanks Sîan ☺️ Definitely hibernation! I purchased ludicrously fancy pyjamas for the occasion and plan on being horizontal for the foreseeable!

Photograph of printed thesis draft with lots of notes in my terrible, near-illegible handwriting

Photograph of Acknowledgements Page

A very big day today… I have passed my PhD with minor corrections! Had a fantastic time talking Chaucer with my examiners #medievalsky #PhDone 🎓

Alice Greedy Dyke

England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005

It’s the universities encouraging students to use AI that really gets me. All this “we need to accept it’s here and teach them to use it” does not help students learn to think. Writing is for thinking and communicating, not just producing words.

my first-born turns two tomorrow. So proud of all the organisers - we have a jam packed programme of insanely creative papers 🍏

Living with chronic illness is physically and emotionally exhausting. Nine hours in A&E with such severe pain that liquid morphine didn’t even offer relief. All dismissed as ‘normal’ endometriosis symptoms

I cannot wait for this paper. Bristol people, come along to brat symposium:the remix on Thursday!

not as gutted as I am! You’re sorely missed here in Bristol!!!

Abstract: In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In medieval England, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies did not exist. This is what they did instead. dun, dun.

Putting together the slides for next week’s brat symposium @bristolcms.bsky.social (dun, dun) #medievalsky

majoring yn English ys punk rocke

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

A photograph of a rosary - a loop of string threaded with brown beads, some with symbols painted on them. Rosary of 30 unglazed earthenware beads of red and black clay, British Museum 2009,8038.1.a-b https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_2009-8038-1-a-b?selectedImageId=1310905001 © The Trustees of the British Museum

📢 NEW Will of the Month Post 📢

October's will is an unusual & poignant example of a married woman who made a will

Margery Gadyng died in childbirth in 1540 - she declared her will to the midwife & women attending her, leaving them bequests of ribbons & rosaries

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Notepads are always well received. I also love a little conference postcard because I’m silly and sentimental!

You were blonde woman, thick head of hair, maybe late 40s or early 50s at RDU TSA checkpoint this morning. Traveling with your parents. Handling the luggage, their spatial awareness & strangers’. Got them to the lounge.

Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡