Dr Kathleen Neal
@kbneal.bsky.social
Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
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It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
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It doesn’t have to be this particular blend, but should be something that lights the professor’s and student’s brains on fire. Life is too short for the kind of dour death-march learning that is proposed by the corporate incursion of “deliverables” and “competencies”
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It doesn’t have to be this particular blend, but should be something that lights the professor’s and student’s brains on fire. Life is too short for the kind of dour death-march learning that is proposed by the corporate incursion of “deliverables” and “competencies”
Serotonin (5HT) is a sneaky bitch. It has a bajillion different receptor (sub)types & they are EVERYWHERE, doing all the things, including contradictory things, all of the time. This is one reason why lots of 5HT-targeting medicines have varying impact & weird side effects in multiple body systems!
TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Serotonin (5HT) is a sneaky bitch. It has a bajillion different receptor (sub)types & they are EVERYWHERE, doing all the things, including contradictory things, all of the time. This is one reason why lots of 5HT-targeting medicines have varying impact & weird side effects in multiple body systems!
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Is there anyone here that can help me turn a spreadsheet (prices and sellers codes of two batches of books) into something approaching a legible table/visualization?
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Is there anyone here that can help me turn a spreadsheet (prices and sellers codes of two batches of books) into something approaching a legible table/visualization?
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Now out! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath the Giant.
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
NEW EPISODE! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant | TIME TEAM (Dorset) 2025
YouTube video by Time Team Official
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November 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Now out! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath the Giant.
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
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In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky
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Heads up for the very non technical folks.
This is a new scam with links
This is a new scam with links
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Heads up for the very non technical folks.
This is a new scam with links
This is a new scam with links
Tonight's vegetarian experiment: stuffed capsicum, with spiced lentils and goat cheese
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Tonight's vegetarian experiment: stuffed capsicum, with spiced lentils and goat cheese
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Hi #MedievalSky, does anybody have a copy of Lisi Oliver's 2003 chapter “Who was Æthelberht’s Laet?” from Linda Hall's Confrontation in Late Antiquity?
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Many thanks in advance! 😁
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Hi #MedievalSky, does anybody have a copy of Lisi Oliver's 2003 chapter “Who was Æthelberht’s Laet?” from Linda Hall's Confrontation in Late Antiquity?
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Do this! I just spent my morning filing away almost 300 pages of excellent materials on undergrad and postgrad teaching and skills, curriculum development & assessment design for reference... Horrifying to think all that expertise and effort will all just end up in a digital graveyard.
Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on.
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
November 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Do this! I just spent my morning filing away almost 300 pages of excellent materials on undergrad and postgrad teaching and skills, curriculum development & assessment design for reference... Horrifying to think all that expertise and effort will all just end up in a digital graveyard.
Enjoying the us timeline discovering the art of the AFL mark 😂
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Enjoying the us timeline discovering the art of the AFL mark 😂
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The shelters are being overwhelmed right now with pets whose owners never come home after being deported. Some aren’t rescued in time. Please consider finding room in your family for one extra if you are able to do so. Or consider a small donation to your local pet rescue or shelter. 😿
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The shelters are being overwhelmed right now with pets whose owners never come home after being deported. Some aren’t rescued in time. Please consider finding room in your family for one extra if you are able to do so. Or consider a small donation to your local pet rescue or shelter. 😿
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Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on.
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on.
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
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Happy Friday! Monday is the last day to express interest in joining the committee for Ceræ's thirteenth volume. We hope to see you join in.
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky
ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky
ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...
Call for New Committee Members
Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early caree…
ceraejournal.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Happy Friday! Monday is the last day to express interest in joining the committee for Ceræ's thirteenth volume. We hope to see you join in.
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky
ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky
ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...
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10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.
Anakin/Padme meme:
So you're going to implement deep environmental protections locally and give them regulatory teeth, right?
RIGHT?
So you're going to implement deep environmental protections locally and give them regulatory teeth, right?
RIGHT?
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Anakin/Padme meme:
So you're going to implement deep environmental protections locally and give them regulatory teeth, right?
RIGHT?
So you're going to implement deep environmental protections locally and give them regulatory teeth, right?
RIGHT?
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This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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We're looking for our January speaker for our speaker series. Is it you we're looking for? For details, go to Bodiesandbeing.com
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
Bodies and Being
The Pre-Modern Body Project
Bodiesandbeing.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We're looking for our January speaker for our speaker series. Is it you we're looking for? For details, go to Bodiesandbeing.com
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
The real news today is the announcement of the Aus squad of 15 for the coming Ashes. The bowling looks strong despite Cummins' injury. It's batting where the vulnerabilities are. Notably, the Q of the opening pair is still *ahem* open, & there is a log-jam contest for No. 3 & middle order spots.🏏
November 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The real news today is the announcement of the Aus squad of 15 for the coming Ashes. The bowling looks strong despite Cummins' injury. It's batting where the vulnerabilities are. Notably, the Q of the opening pair is still *ahem* open, & there is a log-jam contest for No. 3 & middle order spots.🏏
Thank goodness jr sosige went missing for 20 minutes this afternoon or I might not have achieved my steps target for the day... 😬
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Thank goodness jr sosige went missing for 20 minutes this afternoon or I might not have achieved my steps target for the day... 😬
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Preference will be given to candidates experienced in online learning, chairing departments full of inveterate enemies who long ago gave into a prevailing sense of nihilistic despair, and an understanding of what the words "assessment" or "digital humanities" mean???
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Preference will be given to candidates experienced in online learning, chairing departments full of inveterate enemies who long ago gave into a prevailing sense of nihilistic despair, and an understanding of what the words "assessment" or "digital humanities" mean???
FIFTH book, and still on the hamster wheel! Just one example among the many bright minds condemned to contributing less to knowledge than their full potential and/or burning out doing it, because of a stupid system that we have the power to change.
my next steps include finishing my fifth book, preparing the next issue of the journal that I am co-editing, watch a few texts and volumes get finally published, and do my teaching load, but new plans, new projects, new topics will not happen, as temporary employment means working with a hand brake.
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
FIFTH book, and still on the hamster wheel! Just one example among the many bright minds condemned to contributing less to knowledge than their full potential and/or burning out doing it, because of a stupid system that we have the power to change.