#fabulamurina (mouse story) 501
Minimus et Minima plaustrum ponderosam per harenam trahunt (Minimus and Minima are dragging the heavy wagon through the sand). plenum est Silvio et amicis, qui laete exsiliunt! (It's full of Silvius and his friends, who jump out happily!)
rimonoroni Follow christians: what could possibly be in that evil book.... what horrible spells does it hold within its pages... what black magic does it propagate.... the talmud: so if you send your kid off to Torah school but he has a really hard time with it, send him back home and go to school yourself instead so that once you've learned Torah you can go and teach your entire family. in fact, once some rabbi went out to go to Torah school and do just this, and on his way he came through this town and he asked if he could stay in the synagogue for the night. and of course the rabbi said yes but weird enough no one was in the streets and something was kind of off about the whole place. so our hero went into the synagogue only to find a seven headed demon just hanging out in the library!! our hero is terrified and prays super hard and because of this the demon is vanquished. he goes back to the rabbi and is like "dude wtf" and the rabbi was like "listen i know this is unorthodox but you're well known for how good at praying you are and this demon has been terrorizing us for well over a month and we were desperate. we knew you wouldn't die" and the guy was like "i didn't know that!" who do you think is in the right? hm. tough question. anyway. what were we talking about again? oh right. what if you make your sukkah doorway 1/7 of a cubit too short. would that be fucked up or what rimonoroni Follow #what? look up Bavli Kiddushin 29b <3
I love the Talmud
LONDON POETRY PEOPLE. Um. do you, maybe want to come to my book launch? www.outsavvy.com/event/34936/...
BBC News - World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public - BBC News
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More amazing #buyastrangerabook day action.
@nealdm86.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person a copy of Fifth Season by N K Jemisin.
If this is something you're after, get in touch!
UK only
Love this book! Go for it, people!
📅 We hope you'll be able to join us on 16th March to celebrate the project launch and hear from the artist, Sarah Lightman and her long-time collaborator @dawnllewellyn.bsky.social - book your free ticket at tinyurl.com/BibWomen
What a week and it's only Wednesday!
BL Add 10294; Morte Artu; c.1316 CE; France, N. (Saint-Omer or Tournai); ; f.94r @blmedieval.bsky.social
We're filling up fast for Monday's
celebration of Sarah Lightman and the launch of our new @uomreligion.bsky.social project, Encountering Biblical Bodies!
Book your place and please share if you know folks around Manchester who have a body (biblical or otherwise) at tinyurl.com/BibWomen
Here's the thing...the government could just fund universities. It's a CHOICE not to.
"public spending can be deployed as a potent weapon against many of the challenges we face today" – so why isn't this weapon being used? That's the question we *must* be asking.
neweconomics.org/2018/10/a-go...
Lecturers in Biblical Studies have been awarded a Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies Grant for the project "Encountering Biblical Bodies". Holly Morse & @siobhanjolley.bsky.social are working with colleagues across @uomsalc.bsky.social to host an exhibition & and symposium. Watch this space!
Letting Higher Ed die (bc we “can’t afford to do something about it”) while spending tax money to prop up a (foreign) private industry that steals, drains resources, and harms its users is going to be this government’s toxic legacy.
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Apply for a #grant of up to £4k for research related to Anglo-Jewry.
Individuals and institutions may apply: professional or lay scholars, PhD students, organisations, museums, libraries, archives.
Deadline: April 2026
Visit: www.jhse.org/jhse-awards
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Also, get rid of the jobs that literally don't fit within 40hrs. My second uni contract required *by their own timing standards* (which we all knew were BS underestimates), 53 hours a week.
They only had to calculate the hours because they paid me as casual labour. It was a normal lecturer role.
Email notice for article: Responsibility for Murder: The Background of Judith’s Legal Argumentation
My latest (published) article “Responsibility for Murder: The Background of Judith’s Legal Argumentation” Journal of Biblical Literature 144.4 is now available. I spoke about the argument with the folk at MF Norwegian School of Theology (recorded and available in the link): youtu.be/tN_6LwMqOVs?...
For context, my most cited paper is a decade old and has 600 citations. I literally reach more people through this book in 6 months than my "best" paper has in 10 years.
Academics have a really skewed way of looking at and valuing written outputs.
I really enjoyed and appreciated it! We definitely need more of this sort of discussion in academia!
This past autumn, I developed a schools programme focusing on religious diversity in East London from the Roman era to today (bc there has ALWAYS been migration). The kids particularly enjoyed learning about the large Black British community living in the Parish of St. Botolph's in the 16th C.
Hmmm I would say tea is the One True Liquid, water is Failed Tea, and juice and soup are Tea Done Wrong ☕
Tiggy's origin story!
Photo of T&T Clark Handbook of Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek on otherwise empty bookshelves.
This arrived, just in time to be packed up for moving. My chapter on the Apocryphon of Ezekiel argues that it was not a single composition in antiquity, and it mostly made up of independent short sayings. Thanks to the editor Marieke Dhont and @tandtclark.bsky.social for publishing.
Happy new year
I was repeatedly told by mentors in my department that I would have no problems finding a job because I was a woman. That same department has hired nothing but white (Protestant) men for the last half dozen or so hires in my field.
What is striking to me was how deeply acculturated it is to assume a man gets a job b/c of he deserves it while assuming a woman gets a job b/c she is a woman—even among those who recognize the problem w/that logic the second they stop and think about it.
It's the annual time of the year when I invite you to spend two minutes learning the signs of sepsis in babies and children. Knowing this can save a life (and indeed did for our newborn son six years ago)
In doubt, ask: could it be sepsis.
Know the signs, save a life.
Take all the fancy research chair money and boost the Discovery Grants, fellowships, and graduate scholarships rather than spaffing it on a small number of people
Omg going to start using this for my toothless boy rescue who's just discovered the joys of biting people stroking him 😂
A short thing about Advent Calendars, radio interviews, and a 12-second "cat in the snow" somethinggrand.ca/2025/12/11/a...
a photo of Kym, a white person with flyaway brown hair, green earrings, a green turtle neck jumper and a flowing black coat, standing looking windswept on some coastal dunes covered in marram grass
I'm Kym, a poet, spec fic writer & editor from the North of England. My debut poetry collection is forthcoming with @ninearchespress.bsky.social 2026 & you can find the other stuff I've done here kymdeyn.com. I run a press: @thebraag.bsky.social. I love books, bogs, and my wife.
HUMAN CONNECTION, POETIC WAYS AND UNCERTAIN FUTURES West Midlands Independent publisher and Arts Council England NPO Nine Arches Press announces 2026 poetry list Rows of photos of the poets nine arches will be publishing: First row, l-r: Jennifer Wong, Rishi Dastidar, Kym Deyn, Daniel Sluman and Dillon Jaxx. Second row, l-r: Roy McFarlane, Shagufta K Iqbal, Katie Griffiths, Mary Mulholland and Jessica Mookherjee.
Square graphic with an antique illustration of a slowworm. In old fashioned font it says "Oh, Worm? 'Folkish' by Kym Deyn, Nine Arches Press, 4/26'
In the midst of everything, some good personal news: the worm is out of the bag! My debut collection Folkish will be published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social this spring ✨🪱
It's full of ghosts, worms, saints, and folklore. It's also absolutely furious. I hope you guys enjoy it. 💚
