Summer term 2026 schedule for the IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar in London.

The IHR Earlier Middle Ages seminar reconvenes in May, with another great line-up of papers for the term! #medievalsky

The last academic in the UK, please turn off the claude.

Oh Daisy. This is so awful x

Horrible, cruel and stupid. I'm so sorry.

New university free speech complaints system to come into force this year Universities could face fines of £500,000 or 2% of their income if they are found to have failed to protect free speech.

'Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said "freedom of speech is the foundation of every university's success" but there had been too many cases contributing to "an unacceptable culture of fear and stifling the pursuit of knowledge".

Presumably referring to impact of current mass HE redundancies.

Horrible. I'm so sorry.

Programme, scholarship and registration info for the Harlaxton Symposium below! #medievalsky

It's Wednesdays at Winchester, and it makes my day.

They have practically a full run! I was so excited!

Me, short with long blonde hair, holding a copy of the zine Hellebore in an independent bookstore with green-gray carpeting and a wall of books facing cover out on wooden bookshelves

A table filled with the British Library Tales of the Weird series, featuring Circles of Stone by Katy Soar

'Hey Niall! We're in this!' I'm yelling out the door to my friend and colleague at Courtyard Books in Gloucester @helleborezine.bsky.social. Shout out also to @kjsoar.bsky.social who is also heavily represented here!

Him: what are you thinking about?

Me: Durkheim

Water management: always important and frequently more interesting than someone might think (unless that someone is me)

Oh how interesting. The women in my mom's family (self included) frame quilt. My mom has the frame her dad made for her mom. No idea it was endangered in the UK.

Moulded pot from Corbridge showing a smith (god?) at work

View of the site at Corbridge, with the museum building in the background

Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!"

But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

I'll see what I can do!

Absolutely related, I am mentally and emotionally exhausted at the year 1119.

I think 'hero' and 'halo' are interchangeable terms (we use 'halo' at my uni which, like Leonie, I despise.) It's supposed to be a big, solid, stable programme which generally recruits large numbers.

The cover for the book Norman Rule in Normandy 911-1144 by Mark Hagger, which features a black-and-white photograph of a ruined castle on a hill below a dramatic and cloudy sky.

Shout-out to the not-on-BS Dr Mark Hagger. I'm writing about Norman captivity practices in the long eleventh century, and his Norman Rule in Normandy book @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social has been an absolute bible to me.

REF’s experiment with research culture was always doomed Pretending research environments could be measured by metrics or policies ignored how scholarship actually relies on peer-to-peer relations unique to academic cultures, say Martin Holbraad, Dan Nighti...

'As anthropologists, we have been conducting ethnographic research since 2022 on how research culture is understood and experienced within the intricate ecosystem of universities.'

Smart piece this: worth a read. 1/2

Such terrible news, I'm so sorry. Love to you and all yours x

Oh dear! Hoping for some sunshine and some good results for you and the kiddo. Take care of yourself

I get to go see Glastonbury Tor for the first time this week! How about you?

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And Kelly Preston. That's a Space Camp reference for those of you who haven't seen this particular example from the 'kids having adventures' genre of 80s films

In all seriousness (and I am below), I grew up with Sally Ride and Christa McAuliffe and knew that just like them and Lea Thompson and Kate Capshaw that I could go to space someday.

Artemis II: not only EXTREMELY amazing to get to watch and experience from start to finish, but also passes the Bechdel Test ❤️

Keepe them safe. Guide them home. My hearte ys wyth the Artemis crewe todaye.

Oh yes. I think of it as constantly living in two time zones.

This is me, literally every morning 😭