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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4h

Is this some kind of slang I am unfamiliar with

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 6h

An interesting podcast for anyone with 41 minutes to spare.
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Yossef Rapoport, "Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 8h

Some genuinely good news - Home Office does the right thing.

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UK expands Hong Kong visa scheme in wake of Jimmy Lai’s prison sentence

Exclusive: Home Office ruling means thousands more Hongkongers will be eligible to come to the UK over next five years

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 8h

In the deep space nebula bluesky-map.theo.io

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21h

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

"But I can’t be dissuaded that history is in fact just as important as science, even medicine."

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d

“The problem is that we have accelerated into a consuming and exclusive narrative about science in the national interest.”

Some day I’ll stop sharing my v personal perspective on how devastating humanities has in fact devastated science. Not today.

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Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen

Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

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Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 1d

"a failure to uplift the humanities, not just as critical underpinning for STEM research and technologies, but as essential to every feature of the research enterprise, has been part and parcel of this catastrophe"

@kawulf.bsky.social absolutely 💯 right.

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d

“The problem is that we have accelerated into a consuming and exclusive narrative about science in the national interest.”

Some day I’ll stop sharing my v personal perspective on how devastating humanities has in fact devastated science. Not today.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen

Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 1d

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it's in my 11th-c book 💅: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 1d

Thomas Mann and the Temptations of Fascism

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Thomas Mann and the Temptations of Fascism

The resurgence of right-wing populism has set the table for the far right’s renewed fortunes. Published in 1947, Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus offers a guide to the mythmaking and rejection of reason t...

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 1d

Elizabeth Fentress et Adam Rabinowitz - Slaving States

From West Africa to the Ancient Mediterranean

À paraître en août aux Princeton UP

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d

After the bustle of London, the lonely fells.

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d

🙏

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d

Unsure how to read this scene.

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to the audience who kept me on my toes! (I wasn't expecting a Meghan Markle question :)

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 2d

Our great thanks to Professor Charles West for his excellent Society lecture yesterday evening: ‘”Alike in Appearance but not in Scope”: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe’ bit.ly/4tluezd

The recording of Charles's lecture will be available shortly.
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians

Charles West gives the Society's annual medieval lecture on European queenship - RHS

On Friday 6 February the Society hosted the first lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) who spoke on: ‘"Alike in Appearance but not in Sco...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 2d

Our great thanks to Professor Charles West for his excellent Society lecture yesterday evening: ‘”Alike in Appearance but not in Scope”: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe’ bit.ly/4tluezd

The recording of Charles's lecture will be available shortly.
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians

Charles West gives the Society's annual medieval lecture on European queenship - RHS

On Friday 6 February the Society hosted the first lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) who spoke on: ‘"Alike in Appearance but not in Sco...

bit.ly

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d

“The problem is that we have accelerated into a consuming and exclusive narrative about science in the national interest.”

Some day I’ll stop sharing my v personal perspective on how devastating humanities has in fact devastated science. Not today.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen

Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 2d

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking
Show
Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen
Prue Leith

Jon Dell Isola @medievaljon.bsky.social · 2d

This week I went on a bit of a digression from what I planned to write, eventually ending up looking at wax seals and Roman gemstones. #medievalsky

Wax Seals and Roman Gemstones: A Study of Historical Digressions

Hello! I received my PhD in Medieval History in May 2025 and am using my expertise to educate interested people in the Middle Ages and the process of creating history. Subscribing as either a free or ...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent, informed synopsis of developments at UKRI in the context of DSIT's priorities. Now is an analysis that maps this onto the purposes, shapes and funding of the HE sector (SHAPE+STEM) identifying where opportunities, tensions and contradictions lie, and whether any circles can be squared.

Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social · 3d

The way UK govt funds science is in the midst of a major transition, with creation of a much more direct link between government priorities & UKRI research funding.

My attempt to set in context the biggest upheaval in UK science funding policy since the 1980s:
softmachines.org?p=3252

UK science policy in transition – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones

softmachines.org

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d

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Government Tracker – Full Fact

Full Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 3d

The medieval Latin alphabet, meanwhile, is a chaos agent. #Truth

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d

"Rogers gave a speech in London hosted by the rightwing Prosperity Institute think-tank, where she described the UK’s Online Safety Act as “tyrannical and absurd”" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe

State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d

"In 1917, Liebermann was struck off as a member of the Royal Historical Society, alongside other ‘Enemy-Members’ from Germany and Hungary."

Ingrid Ivarsen @ingridfi.bsky.social · 3d

Turns out there's more to Felix Liebermann than just obsessiveness about manuscripts and a fondness for difficult German. ingridfiv.github.io/ingridsblog/...

Felix Liebermann’s life

What do we know about Felix Liebermann the man?

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Ingrid Ivarsen @ingridfi.bsky.social · 3d

Turns out there's more to Felix Liebermann than just obsessiveness about manuscripts and a fondness for difficult German. ingridfiv.github.io/ingridsblog/...

Felix Liebermann’s life

What do we know about Felix Liebermann the man?

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 3d

Does anyone know the origins of this ‘immersive experience’? www.timeout.com/london/news/...

A vast immersive Vikings experience is coming to London in March

The cleverly named ‘Vikings: The Immersive Exhibition’ follows smash shows devoted to Pompeii, the Titanic and Tutankhamun

www.timeout.com

Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social · 3d

The way UK govt funds science is in the midst of a major transition, with creation of a much more direct link between government priorities & UKRI research funding.

My attempt to set in context the biggest upheaval in UK science funding policy since the 1980s:
softmachines.org?p=3252

UK science policy in transition – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones

softmachines.org

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d

Should anyone be at a loose end tomorrow evening.

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Jan 6

Our first RHS lecture of 2026 is '"Alike in Appearance but not in Scope": Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe', with Prof Charles West (Edinburgh) bit.ly/49GlmMR

6pm, Friday 6 February. In-person booking is now full but registration to attend this event online remains open #Skystorians

'Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe': RHS Lecture, online

Royal Historical Society Lecture, 6 February 2026

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 3d

New!
The first comparative, international, cross-disciplinary study of silver in late antique Europe. And includes full catalogues of major UK hacksilver hoards: Norrie’s Law (Fife), Gaulcross (Aberdeenshire), Tummel Bridge (Perthshire) and Patching (Sussex).
www.sidestone.com/books/silver...

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d

How can this cost more than a new nuclear power station? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Parliament revamp could cost £40bn and take 61 years

MPs and peers are presented with two renovation options and told to make a decision by the mid-2030s.

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