On a more personal note, I brought back with me the labyrinths we built on our last evening in a tiny place on Rue Daguerre. I am so happy to have found colleagues and friends with whom I can do this ❤️
This week dedicated to #diagrams is now over, but the work continues towards the publication of our results and the next phase in the life of the #EIDA community. Huge thanks to @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social for hosting us and for sharing it's beautiful secrets with us! #msca #histsci
A four-year-long collaboration with EIDA-Editing and analysing hIstorical astronomical Diagrams with Artificial intelligence reaches a crucial milestone in Paris next week: eida.hypotheses.org/a-global-his... 🤩✨ @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social #histsci #diagrams #manuscripts
Thrilled to have COSMOPOET represented as part of the celebrations for 30 years of MSCA at UGent yesterday! 🎉✨
Here’s to many more years of curiosity, collaboration, and discovery! 🚀💫
#MSCA30 #MSCA #ResearchLife #UGent
🎉 Happy 30 Years to #MSCA, a programme that has helped researchers explore new frontiers and build independent careers! COSMOPOET will have a stand at the networking event this afternoon — come meet @dulila.bsky.social and join the celebration! event.ugent.be/registration...
And if you look at this 1975 photo, the armillary sphere is not there: beeldbank.onroerenderfgoed.be/images/179261 it could be that the sphere was temporarily taken down or that it was erected after 1975...
I absolutely agree about the cutout zodiac. About the building, I have been doing some superficial digging online. The building is listed is immovable heritage example of a rococo style with a facade in the Louis XV style: inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjec...
#starrywalks in #ghent continue with a chance discovery on Korenlei, a corner I have taken multiple times before. I guess today the light was just right for me to notice this beauty 😍 #armillary #sphere
A celestial globe; late ninth-century manuscript. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 250, S. 472
🧵🧵Spring brought more daylight and Cosmopoet's second guest author, fellow stargazer 🤩💫and skywalker 🌌👣: Davide Massimo (@davidemax.bsky.social) is this month's Cosmopoet, and he brings us an example of an epigram concerned with the 'image of the sky':
This Thursday, 12 March 2026, Emmylou Haffner and Nadia Podzemskaia organise a truly cool event, across arts and sciences, on the topic of points and lines. COSMOPOET will be present with achromatic lines and cosmological diagrams. The program is available here: www.item.ens.fr/points-et-li...
Join us on March 4 Fotini Kondyli's lecture "Spindle Whorls and Women’s Work: Reframing Middle Byzantine Lives in the Athenian Agora." 12:00 pm on Zoom. Register: maryjahariscenter.org/events/spind...
book jacket with inverted medieval text
"The Early Illustrated 'Apollonius of Tyre' Studies of a Sinai Palimpsest" by Head of Research of the Old Books New Science Lab / CMS Alum, Jessica Lockhart, with Michelle P. Brown, is now available from Barkhuis Publishing. 📖
www.barkhuis.nl/product/the-...
Well observed, @stephenaj.bsky.social ! we will put a pin in it and keep it in mind for our diagrammatisation discussions in April.
Thinking of diagrams: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeLU...
OIKOS Course Byzantium in the Global Middle Ages at UGent 📅 2–3 February 2026📍Ghent University
The biennial OIKOS course on Byzantine Culture brought together ReMA and PhD students from Belgium and the Netherlands for an intensive exploration of the theme of Byzantium in the Global Middle Ages.
A reading recommendation: zenodo.org/records/1823..., which led to this other web place www.worldswritingsystems.org and I am loving it 😍
This Friday, 21 November, COSMOPOET will present at the lunch seminar of Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies: www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/n... This is an in-person event. All are welcome!
University of Vienna - Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural, and religious history (from 1040):
memorients.com/news/univers...
Funding opportunity: NEH Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations Grants, 2026–2027. Applications due December 3, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/neh-sch...
Attend: Byzantine Learning in Ottoman Service: Manuscripts, Scholars, and Ideology (1450–1500), lecture by Samet Budak (Princeton University), Princeton University, November 10, 2025, 4:30–6:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/byzanti...
New volume of Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes Vol. 55 (2025) journals.openedition.org/cchyp/1857 #openaccess @openedition.bsky.social Chypre, de l’Antiquité tardive à la fin de l’époque médiévale (LA3M, Aix-en-Provence)
My starry walks around Ghent continue. 💫💫This time with the discovery of this celestial globe (no stars, just celestial circles but still) - part of the sculptural composition of the rococo pulpit in St Bavo's cathedral designed by Laurent Delvaux. 🤩🌐✨🌌
🧵🧵In the very first instalment of this guest author and fellow stargazer 🤩💫and skywalker 🌌👣series, it is my pleasure to introduce Stamatina Mastorakou (@smasto.bsky.social), the October Cosmopoet! Here's what she had to share about her chosen poem:
Well yes, but in every impressionistic image there must be a grain of realistic diagrammatic something, right? The horoscopic square is easily recognisable for instance. And I wonder about the rest, and yes, especially about that lunar crescent one...
Cool! I like "determinedly oblique". I see the horoscope, but what do you say about the rest of the diagrams?
🧵🧵As much as I find the research I am doing for this project fascinating and fun for me to do, I have been thinking that I am missing the collaborative community-building and fostering element that is usually not at the core of individual postdoc projects.
Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.
The first talk of our Institute's Colloquium series 2025/26 "Rethinking #Time in the History of Science": @helgejojo.bsky.social and François Hartog on "Unsettling the Historiographic Operation." 🗃
🗓️ Nov 18, 2025 (14:00 CET)
📍 MPIWG
🔗 bit.ly/3IApzqX
#HistSci #CulturalHistory @ehess.fr
I like the addition of a cloudy sky - theoretically an obstacle for the functioning of the sundial!
Not so random because I knew it was there: an unassuming, nothing-to-write-home-about sundial in Brussels, just above La Pharmacie Delacre 🤔😏🤩monument.heritage.brussels/fr/Bruxelles_Pentagone/C... @cosmopoet.bsky.social
Who knows 🤔 but I'll try to find out things about the building. Also what a wonderful mosaic!!!