If anyone needs an audiobook rec, I cannot recommend highly enough James Redbank’s The Place of Tides.

An amazing medieval library to distract one briefly from current news and marking - the magnificent Bodleian Library in Oxford (Picture taken at a recent visit) #Medievalsky

Yorkists overthrowing Henry VI in 1461:

A yellowed page of a medieval text

📔 Explore BHL’s newest oldest item!

In our #BHLat20 series, we’re highlighting Circa Instans (c. 1190), now the oldest work in BHL, predating the previous oldest item by 300 years.

From the @nybg.bsky.social’s Mertz Library, now online: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/04/circ...

So far, I’m really enjoying it. The overdrive connection is great.

Hit a small snag in my research. Some of the records I need haven’t been digitized by the London Archives as far as I can tell. Anyone know of where I can find digitized lists of prisoners from the Tower of London from 1500 to 1700? #medievalsky #earlymodern

We understand that pain. Petsmart no longer makes these so we have to try and preserve him forever.

#CFP for #earlymodern folks! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together a special edition of the Journal of Epistolary Studies on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World"!

Today we are jumping forward in time to the 19th century and talking about the Mary Ann Ashford Case and how a modern day dog solved a crime by digging in his own back yard.

Please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Also, check out our merch available on our website medievalmurder.org

As a librarian, I will do what I can to maintain basic AI literacy while simultaneously advocating for its violent death 📚

The things we need to stay alive have gotten both more expensive and worse at the same time. A much higher percentage of our income goes to basic staying-alive accoutrements, if you're wondering why people feel bad about the economy. And everyone is underemployed. 🚨hyperbole siren🚨

Jesus this thread is brutal, Canada is decimating federal funding for their libraries and archives including completely cutting libraries in prisons & entirely removing the register of historic places

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

I’ll let you know!

Royal Studies Journal

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Explore our latest research, special issues, and book reviews, Join the conversation:
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Picture of Kobo Clara BW in box on top of gray and blue blanket.

I decided it was time to abandon my 10+ year old Kindle and stop supporting its maker. So meet my new e-reader!

Amazing treasures of medieval legal history to distract one briefly from current news and marking - the Catslechta ˙ (or Cat-sections) - an old Irish legal text on cats (the Senchas Már) which even sets out various categories of cats based on various characteristics or talents.
#medievalsky

New Episode: We are finishing up the Táin Bó Cúailnge, also known as the Cattle Raid of Cooley, with the final installment. Today we are picking up after Cu Chulainn sadly killed his foster brother Ferdiad in one on one combat.
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Image: RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre / The Book of the Dun Cow
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The Black Death by Thomas Asbridge review – a medieval horror story A magisterial history of one of the worst ever pandemics focuses on the individuals caught up in the chaos

Uh oh, @guardian, you should take a hint from a lesson @npr learned years ago. If you're going to use a "historical" image in a piece, make sure it actually relates to the history you're talking about. Your Black Death (plague) image is actually leprosy! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a... 🗃️

Is it imposter syndrome, is it anxiety, or is it the truth? 🫠 Just one of those days where I don’t feel like I’m doing enough and I’m not qualified to do anything at all

A cup of coffee, next to a copy of Ken Follett’s « Column of Fire »

Only forty pages left…

If anyone is interested, my podcast, @medievalmurder.bsky.social is looking for guests for the coming year! If you are a historian, have a book coming out, or just want to chat all things Medieval Murder, feel free to reach out! #medievalsky

Please understand: Whatever you feed to AI, you publish in AI. Book editors are uploading manuscripts to ChatGPT, which is both illegal and insane.

"If you read nothing else in this post, please read this: Whatever you prompt in a chatbot, you publish via that chatbot. If you feed an unpublished novel into ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, you have effectively published that novel."

ai-humanist.beehiiv.com/p/please-und...

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Detail from a woodcut from Dürer's Apocalypse, showing a man (St John) devouring a book. Source: http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:29-uer-dr-ah-0333-5

Text mining before the age of LLM training.

Medieval manuscripts are shaped by countless decisions made by scribes, illustrators, binders, and other hands. Thomas C. Sawyer explores how these choices, both material and textual, reveal the rich and complex world behind the making of a #medieval book. Read the blog: buff.ly/1iqlhvD #medievalsky

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"

got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

An Army Corps project could wipe out one of Florida’s last thriving coral reefs The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida may be imperiled by plans to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades.

The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger.

People know this, right?

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

Nope.