Thank you. This means a lot.

Maybe I could be buried with lines from one of the 'Beowulf' funerals, just to intrigue future researchers!

What! This is wild. Perhaps they hoped the ship poetry would carry them to the next world.

Oh I know that! I'm currently wondering if I have the strength to go back into precarity. I've been so lucky to have a job for so long. You always deserved better. Xx

I know. Been there too. Its awful.

Me too.

Yep.

Very tired.

The last few months have been so utterly depressing. Will always be glad to have been able to teach with you though.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Photo credit @plashingvole.bsky.social

Black and white photo of a storyteller with their arms raised. Credit A. Byrne.

Midlands medieval story-loving friends! I'm performing 'Yde and Olive' at Wolverhampton's wonderful Arena Theatre on the 15th April. It is a beautiful performance space and one I often teach in, so it will be a real honour to share this story there. Please share.
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Wonderful!

FINALLY

Beautiful picture!

Congratulations!

Triptych of BBC articles. 24th, 25th, 26th March 2026.

(No, I'm not going to watch the thing that funded the other two).

Yes, I suppose that makes sense. Quite a cultural difference!

A large 'H' in red with a pen drawing of a bird wearing a tall hat

Someone drew a little bird in a hat in this 16th century Welsh manuscript of regulations for bards. British Library, Add MS 19711.

So strange. All my writing has been through conference papers first, and always made better by the ideas and questions offered in the room. Though my field is tiny, so it'd be hard to keep what we're working on a secret even if we wished to!

Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT

The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

How can it possibly be a good book, if somebody put in a lot of careful work on a funding bid in the same area but never came across any conference papers or articles showing another academic is working in that area? It looks equally bad for the publisher, who apparently did zero advanced publicity?

Ugh. Hope you let her in to use mine!

Joyous possibilities here. I can think of a lot of things it'd be worth crowdfunding him to say. Things to undo some of the damage the rest of his words do.

You worked really hard for two years, and then even harder for the last two weeks. Well done you.

Congratulations!

Horrified to say that I have at least three stories I could tell on this subject!

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

Thank you so much! Loved seeing your face appear.

Mate, anxious academic is just how I usually dress. Except for the pointy jewellery.