Another Damned (AD) Medievalist
@admedievalist.bsky.social
Carolingianist w/sidelines before & after, prosopography, dbases, SFFH nerd, teacher, crafty artsy pet mom, con panelist, soprano, Prof of not-US History. ND & will fight you on casual misuse of “trigger*” (IYKYK) she/her.
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Views my own, not my employers
February 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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Conferences are vital for academics because we need to know which of our peers are:
A) 15 minute conference papers
B) 20 minutes EXACTLY
C) 25+ minutes dear god kill me now
A) 15 minute conference papers
B) 20 minutes EXACTLY
C) 25+ minutes dear god kill me now
February 16, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Conferences are vital for academics because we need to know which of our peers are:
A) 15 minute conference papers
B) 20 minutes EXACTLY
C) 25+ minutes dear god kill me now
A) 15 minute conference papers
B) 20 minutes EXACTLY
C) 25+ minutes dear god kill me now
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Reposting this again in case it helps some people. Do it if you can! It doesn’t hurt for more than a few seconds, and you might save some kid’s life.
A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
February 16, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Reposting this again in case it helps some people. Do it if you can! It doesn’t hurt for more than a few seconds, and you might save some kid’s life.
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We have written to Science Minister Lord Patrick Vallance urging him to step him and help reverse the cuts to astronomy and space science proposed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council last month.
Read the letter in full 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
Read the letter in full 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
'Reverse the cuts': RAS urges Vallance to avert scientific crisis
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has called on science minister Patrick Vallance to step in and prevent the "catastrophic damage to astronomy and space science" ...
ras.ac.uk
February 16, 2026 at 10:04 AM
We have written to Science Minister Lord Patrick Vallance urging him to step him and help reverse the cuts to astronomy and space science proposed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council last month.
Read the letter in full 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
Read the letter in full 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.
Thinking about the many decisions that get made when you turn your notes into a draft and what that looks like when the bot is making all of those decisions, even if you get the "final say" after the decisions have been made. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 4:52 AM
This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.
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Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the hippopotamuses, for yesterday was their special day!
For World Hippo Day, here is an illustration of a (smiley?) hippopotamus from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon [Reserve 590 BUF]
#WorldHippoDay #RareBooks
For World Hippo Day, here is an illustration of a (smiley?) hippopotamus from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon [Reserve 590 BUF]
#WorldHippoDay #RareBooks
February 16, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the hippopotamuses, for yesterday was their special day!
For World Hippo Day, here is an illustration of a (smiley?) hippopotamus from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon [Reserve 590 BUF]
#WorldHippoDay #RareBooks
For World Hippo Day, here is an illustration of a (smiley?) hippopotamus from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon [Reserve 590 BUF]
#WorldHippoDay #RareBooks
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"The way in which the ÖAW have done this makes instantly obsolete the lists of volumes available elsewhere online. In a sense, they have taken back control of their own series, and drawn traffic back to their own site." #openaccess
Downloading the CSEL volumes from the publisher website. Some very clever thinking going on over there in Vienna.
www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...
www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...
All the CSEL series PDFs up to 2010 made open-access
Something wonderful has happened over in Vienna. We all know of the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL) series of critical Latin texts of the fathers. This began back in 1866, and th...
www.roger-pearse.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:23 PM
"The way in which the ÖAW have done this makes instantly obsolete the lists of volumes available elsewhere online. In a sense, they have taken back control of their own series, and drawn traffic back to their own site." #openaccess
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Great new study on early medieval foodways, specifically a lack of fish in cooking pots! Glad it's not just our #ArchaeoFINS pots that lack 🐟! Implication with the human isotopes is that the Vikings adapted to local cuisine & left their fishy ways behind! doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England
doi.org
February 13, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Great new study on early medieval foodways, specifically a lack of fish in cooking pots! Glad it's not just our #ArchaeoFINS pots that lack 🐟! Implication with the human isotopes is that the Vikings adapted to local cuisine & left their fishy ways behind! doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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It’s unreasonably important to me that people know JewBelong isn’t some big org, it’s just Archie Gottesman, a hugely shitty racist rich white woman who used to make billboards for her daddy’s company and pivoted to vomiting her bullshit racist crybullying onto them in the name of “antisemitism”
This is the pet project of one rich AF Jewish nepo baby white lady who lives on the upper east side and claims to speak for all Jews and throws her money around to control the messaging and it is a fucking nightmare
February 13, 2026 at 7:44 PM
It’s unreasonably important to me that people know JewBelong isn’t some big org, it’s just Archie Gottesman, a hugely shitty racist rich white woman who used to make billboards for her daddy’s company and pivoted to vomiting her bullshit racist crybullying onto them in the name of “antisemitism”
This is criminal.
The Israeli government has advanced the registration of territory in the occupied West Bank as state land in a move that Palestinians have decried as “de facto annexation.” https://cnn.it/46bUqmd
February 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
This is criminal.
the whole damned thread. PS, to those who want to complain that it was all in Spanish... I had a pretty good idea what was going on, because Puerto Rico is part of the US, and I pay attention,
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
the whole damned thread. PS, to those who want to complain that it was all in Spanish... I had a pretty good idea what was going on, because Puerto Rico is part of the US, and I pay attention,
If anyone can gift me a copy of the front page article on Bezos’s torture and dismantling of WaPo, I would truly appreciate it.
Also, if you aren’t mad, go watch a movie based on a huge WaPo story
Also, if you aren’t mad, go watch a movie based on a huge WaPo story
February 4, 2026 at 11:56 PM
If anyone can gift me a copy of the front page article on Bezos’s torture and dismantling of WaPo, I would truly appreciate it.
Also, if you aren’t mad, go watch a movie based on a huge WaPo story
Also, if you aren’t mad, go watch a movie based on a huge WaPo story
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My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
February 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
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Maybe we should stop letting there be billionaires.
Elon Musk bought Twitter and broke it
Larry Ellison bought into TikTok and is ruining it
Lex Luther bought the Washington Post and is now dismantling it
Maybe we should stop letting billionaires buy up methods of information dissemination?
Larry Ellison bought into TikTok and is ruining it
Lex Luther bought the Washington Post and is now dismantling it
Maybe we should stop letting billionaires buy up methods of information dissemination?
Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Maybe we should stop letting there be billionaires.
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"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
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I just signed. #MedievalSky 🗃️ #Humanities
I know that these things generally make little difference, but I would advise medievalists to sign the petition to save Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary. #medievalsky c.org/gGvyrHcwYt
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Save Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary!
c.org
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I just signed. #MedievalSky 🗃️ #Humanities
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The GOP is outraged that Jack Smith, with judicial search warrants, accessed the phone records of half a dozen GOP Senators who Trump and his people called on or around J6.
Meanwhile, DHS is doing the same thing to thousands, or 10s of thousands, of people right now, without a real warrant.
Meanwhile, DHS is doing the same thing to thousands, or 10s of thousands, of people right now, without a real warrant.
New territory. Must read story from a colleague. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:33 PM
The GOP is outraged that Jack Smith, with judicial search warrants, accessed the phone records of half a dozen GOP Senators who Trump and his people called on or around J6.
Meanwhile, DHS is doing the same thing to thousands, or 10s of thousands, of people right now, without a real warrant.
Meanwhile, DHS is doing the same thing to thousands, or 10s of thousands, of people right now, without a real warrant.
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Want to help? Check out Stand With Minnesota! This directory of places to donate to comes from activists on the ground, plugged into the situation.
@wisdems.org @indivisible.org @columbiacowidems.bsky.social @indivisiblebaraboo.bsky.social @indivisiblesaukpr.bsky.social
www.standwithminnesota.com
@wisdems.org @indivisible.org @columbiacowidems.bsky.social @indivisiblebaraboo.bsky.social @indivisiblesaukpr.bsky.social
www.standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
www.standwithminnesota.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Want to help? Check out Stand With Minnesota! This directory of places to donate to comes from activists on the ground, plugged into the situation.
@wisdems.org @indivisible.org @columbiacowidems.bsky.social @indivisiblebaraboo.bsky.social @indivisiblesaukpr.bsky.social
www.standwithminnesota.com
@wisdems.org @indivisible.org @columbiacowidems.bsky.social @indivisiblebaraboo.bsky.social @indivisiblesaukpr.bsky.social
www.standwithminnesota.com
@democrats.senate.gov @houserepublicans.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social
In addition to body cams for all ICE and CBP agents in the field, as well as removal of masks, please require that all agents wear uniforms & carry equipment that are clearly labeled ICE or CBP. “Police” is misleading
In addition to body cams for all ICE and CBP agents in the field, as well as removal of masks, please require that all agents wear uniforms & carry equipment that are clearly labeled ICE or CBP. “Police” is misleading
February 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
@democrats.senate.gov @houserepublicans.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social
In addition to body cams for all ICE and CBP agents in the field, as well as removal of masks, please require that all agents wear uniforms & carry equipment that are clearly labeled ICE or CBP. “Police” is misleading
In addition to body cams for all ICE and CBP agents in the field, as well as removal of masks, please require that all agents wear uniforms & carry equipment that are clearly labeled ICE or CBP. “Police” is misleading
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More of this, please!
Trump pulled the US out of WHO. Two states took matters in their own hands. Illinois just joined GOARN, which provides info/resources to help control outbreaks & public health emergencies.
California was the first. Isolationist agenda will backfire.
🧪 archive.today/fj8nT
Trump pulled the US out of WHO. Two states took matters in their own hands. Illinois just joined GOARN, which provides info/resources to help control outbreaks & public health emergencies.
California was the first. Isolationist agenda will backfire.
🧪 archive.today/fj8nT
Illinois joins World Health Organization network, after Trump administration withdraws from group
Joining the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network is the state’s latest move into an area that was previously the domain of the federal government, before the…
www.chicagotribune.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:47 PM
More of this, please!
Trump pulled the US out of WHO. Two states took matters in their own hands. Illinois just joined GOARN, which provides info/resources to help control outbreaks & public health emergencies.
California was the first. Isolationist agenda will backfire.
🧪 archive.today/fj8nT
Trump pulled the US out of WHO. Two states took matters in their own hands. Illinois just joined GOARN, which provides info/resources to help control outbreaks & public health emergencies.
California was the first. Isolationist agenda will backfire.
🧪 archive.today/fj8nT
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According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals.
That amounts to $456,621 per hour.
But how are you doing?
That amounts to $456,621 per hour.
But how are you doing?
February 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals.
That amounts to $456,621 per hour.
But how are you doing?
That amounts to $456,621 per hour.
But how are you doing?
Btw… I would not be unhappy if a certain leader of (New) Labour & PM showed up in the Epstein files.* Might get him out of the BS Board of Peace, and off to where he can do less harm.
*I doubt it, even w/ Mandelson’s being an Epstein buddy. Can’t really see Cherie allowing it.
*I doubt it, even w/ Mandelson’s being an Epstein buddy. Can’t really see Cherie allowing it.
February 3, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Btw… I would not be unhappy if a certain leader of (New) Labour & PM showed up in the Epstein files.* Might get him out of the BS Board of Peace, and off to where he can do less harm.
*I doubt it, even w/ Mandelson’s being an Epstein buddy. Can’t really see Cherie allowing it.
*I doubt it, even w/ Mandelson’s being an Epstein buddy. Can’t really see Cherie allowing it.
Part of me thinks there’s a strong possibility that the DOJ deliberately redacted the suspects’ names & left visible victims’ unique identifiers for two reasons:
They’d be able to pull a lot pages down w/o ppl tracking.
Intimidating the victims while protecting the suspects.
They’d be able to pull a lot pages down w/o ppl tracking.
Intimidating the victims while protecting the suspects.
February 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Part of me thinks there’s a strong possibility that the DOJ deliberately redacted the suspects’ names & left visible victims’ unique identifiers for two reasons:
They’d be able to pull a lot pages down w/o ppl tracking.
Intimidating the victims while protecting the suspects.
They’d be able to pull a lot pages down w/o ppl tracking.
Intimidating the victims while protecting the suspects.
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A feature in Nature reports how research shows that ‘exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death. #medsky 🧪
The surprisingly big health benefits of just a little exercise
‘Exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death.
go.nature.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:48 PM
A feature in Nature reports how research shows that ‘exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death. #medsky 🧪
Every single one of the people involved in this, whether they actively participated in these horrors, or just enabled them and were complicit in their silence. Any of R*pestein’s friends, associates, and/or guests, no matter who, who knew and did nothing needs to be treated as a pariah.
Burn it all down.
This level of disgusting racism and cruelty didn’t exist in a vacuum, and it didn’t end with Epstein.
Epstein files:
“JEFF wanted, ‘young, fresh meat girls. Virgins.’ He told ■, ‘Don’t bring me any n*ggers.’”
Epstein files:
“JEFF wanted, ‘young, fresh meat girls. Virgins.’ He told ■, ‘Don’t bring me any n*ggers.’”
February 1, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Every single one of the people involved in this, whether they actively participated in these horrors, or just enabled them and were complicit in their silence. Any of R*pestein’s friends, associates, and/or guests, no matter who, who knew and did nothing needs to be treated as a pariah.