Dot Porter
@leoba.bsky.social
Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker.
I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
See also @sims-mss.bsky.social
I speak for myself and not for my employer
I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
See also @sims-mss.bsky.social
I speak for myself and not for my employer
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Dot Porter
@leoba.bsky.social
· Apr 3
I love EVERYTHING about manuscripts but mostly I love that they were made by people - that every part of them, from the substrate to the ink to the ideas behind the words on the page to the thread that holds the codex together - were made by the hands and minds of people.
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Read the actual text of the exhibition that the regime tore down in Philly in @literaturegeek.bsky.social's excellent zine: zinebakery.com/assets/homem...
zinebakery.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Read the actual text of the exhibition that the regime tore down in Philly in @literaturegeek.bsky.social's excellent zine: zinebakery.com/assets/homem...
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still time to catch our latest episode! we talk with Nancy Thebaut & Melanie Holcomb, curators of the @metcloisters.bsky.social exhibition SPECTRUM OF DESIRE: LOVE, SEX, & GENDER IN THE MIDDLE AGES
have a listen...
taste: www.youtube.com/shorts/S5U7H...
full ep: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
have a listen...
taste: www.youtube.com/shorts/S5U7H...
full ep: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Medieval sex??? Yup, they had it. #medieval #podcast #history
YouTube video by American Medieval
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:49 PM
still time to catch our latest episode! we talk with Nancy Thebaut & Melanie Holcomb, curators of the @metcloisters.bsky.social exhibition SPECTRUM OF DESIRE: LOVE, SEX, & GENDER IN THE MIDDLE AGES
have a listen...
taste: www.youtube.com/shorts/S5U7H...
full ep: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
have a listen...
taste: www.youtube.com/shorts/S5U7H...
full ep: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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At Wordsworth conferences, a laughing band of dancing daffodils rush the stage and carry the over-speaker off on a couch
At Woolf conferences, over-speakers are struck by an epiphany* about the beauty of life and are quietly led off stage
* represented by a sponge purple wedge of darkness
* represented by a sponge purple wedge of darkness
At Victorianist conferences, Marley and Marley should sing a song about how terrible your paper is when you go over time
February 16, 2026 at 10:01 AM
At Wordsworth conferences, a laughing band of dancing daffodils rush the stage and carry the over-speaker off on a couch
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At Austen conferences Mr Bennet appears to tell an over-speaker “you have delighted us long enough”
At Wordsworth conferences, a laughing band of dancing daffodils rush the stage and carry the over-speaker off on a couch
At Woolf conferences, over-speakers are struck by an epiphany* about the beauty of life and are quietly led off stage
* represented by a sponge purple wedge of darkness
* represented by a sponge purple wedge of darkness
February 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
At Austen conferences Mr Bennet appears to tell an over-speaker “you have delighted us long enough”
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at digital library conferences, over-speakers are pelted with curly brackets by a mutant JSON schema
At @imc-leeds.bsky.social over-speakers are chased off the dias by someone dressed in full armor, wielding a sword ⚔️
At Wordsworth conferences, a laughing band of dancing daffodils rush the stage and carry the over-speaker off on a couch
February 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
at digital library conferences, over-speakers are pelted with curly brackets by a mutant JSON schema
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AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.
“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
February 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM
AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.
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Don't forget this CFP cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers: Forgotten Libraries: Lost, Dispersed, and Marginalised Manuscript Collections - Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures
The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) is pleased to invite Oxford-based researchers to participate in the workshop Forgotten Libraries to be held at The Queen’s College (Oxford)...
cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk
February 16, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Don't forget this CFP cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk/call-for-pap...
At @imc-leeds.bsky.social over-speakers are chased off the dias by someone dressed in full armor, wielding a sword ⚔️
At Wordsworth conferences, a laughing band of dancing daffodils rush the stage and carry the over-speaker off on a couch
At Woolf conferences, over-speakers are struck by an epiphany* about the beauty of life and are quietly led off stage
* represented by a sponge purple wedge of darkness
* represented by a sponge purple wedge of darkness
February 16, 2026 at 11:37 AM
At @imc-leeds.bsky.social over-speakers are chased off the dias by someone dressed in full armor, wielding a sword ⚔️
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This Valentine's Day, we are loving this little 15th c. collection of scientific, alchemical, and medical works from Germany, mostly unattributed. It includes many marginal notes, symbols, corrections and comments in various later hands (UPenn Ms. Codex 69) #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/40s1U2a
🔗: https://bit.ly/40s1U2a
February 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
This Valentine's Day, we are loving this little 15th c. collection of scientific, alchemical, and medical works from Germany, mostly unattributed. It includes many marginal notes, symbols, corrections and comments in various later hands (UPenn Ms. Codex 69) #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/40s1U2a
🔗: https://bit.ly/40s1U2a
Spotted by a friend at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg, VA
February 14, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Spotted by a friend at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg, VA
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Finally! It's Here! Happy Valentine's Day from the clowns at Die Laughing Mag. We're hoping to win your hearts with six hilarifying tales the likes of which you've never seen before (because love is blind, and all that). Get the full issue for $5 here! ko-fi.com/s/222d278cc8
February 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Finally! It's Here! Happy Valentine's Day from the clowns at Die Laughing Mag. We're hoping to win your hearts with six hilarifying tales the likes of which you've never seen before (because love is blind, and all that). Get the full issue for $5 here! ko-fi.com/s/222d278cc8
Including mine on developing software to build structural models of medieval manuscripts! Much DEI. Another reason for me to hate ChatGPT.
DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
ChatGPT cuts in action
www.politico.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Including mine on developing software to build structural models of medieval manuscripts! Much DEI. Another reason for me to hate ChatGPT.
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bunnies in #bookhistory
What's up, Doc? Channeling his best Bugs, a bunny bashes the cymbals in the top margin of f. 313v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4qhgXWu
🔗: https://bit.ly/4qhgXWu
February 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM
bunnies in #bookhistory
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What's up, Doc? Channeling his best Bugs, a bunny bashes the cymbals in the top margin of f. 313v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4qhgXWu
🔗: https://bit.ly/4qhgXWu
February 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM
What's up, Doc? Channeling his best Bugs, a bunny bashes the cymbals in the top margin of f. 313v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4qhgXWu
🔗: https://bit.ly/4qhgXWu
Twice in the past week I've received emails from people, followed by another email the next day asking if I've received the first email. These weren't emergency messages, and they aren't from regular correspondents. Is this normal? I've never experienced this before.
February 13, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Twice in the past week I've received emails from people, followed by another email the next day asking if I've received the first email. These weren't emergency messages, and they aren't from regular correspondents. Is this normal? I've never experienced this before.
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Are you interested in learning new ways to study medieval manuscripts and early modern books? Check out some of RBS’s 2026 summer courses on these topics!
Apply by the first-round deadline of 17 February: rarebookschool.org/schedule/
#RareBooks #BookSky #MedievalSky
Apply by the first-round deadline of 17 February: rarebookschool.org/schedule/
#RareBooks #BookSky #MedievalSky
February 12, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Are you interested in learning new ways to study medieval manuscripts and early modern books? Check out some of RBS’s 2026 summer courses on these topics!
Apply by the first-round deadline of 17 February: rarebookschool.org/schedule/
#RareBooks #BookSky #MedievalSky
Apply by the first-round deadline of 17 February: rarebookschool.org/schedule/
#RareBooks #BookSky #MedievalSky
This morning I saw, for the first time, THE MOST AMAZING NEW ACQUISITION @sims-mss.bsky.social (courtesy of the hard work of Schoenberg Curator Nick Herman). I can't tell you ANYTHING about it but please trust me, it's gonna knock your socks off.
February 10, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This morning I saw, for the first time, THE MOST AMAZING NEW ACQUISITION @sims-mss.bsky.social (courtesy of the hard work of Schoenberg Curator Nick Herman). I can't tell you ANYTHING about it but please trust me, it's gonna knock your socks off.
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Music and Musicians in the Medieval Persianate World www.medievalists.net/2025/11/musi... #medievalmusic
Music and Musicians in the Medieval Persianate World - Medievalists.net
Explore how medieval Persian musicians blended art, theory, and performance through two remarkable texts that reveal the sounds and social world of music.
www.medievalists.net
February 9, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Music and Musicians in the Medieval Persianate World www.medievalists.net/2025/11/musi... #medievalmusic
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Two weeks left! The deadline for ACH 2026 proposals is February 23, 2025.
We welcome submissions on all topics related to digital humanities, computing, and the humanities. Short papers, long papers, posters, panels, and workshops all encouraged!
Submit here:
We welcome submissions on all topics related to digital humanities, computing, and the humanities. Short papers, long papers, posters, panels, and workshops all encouraged!
Submit here:
ACH 2026 CFP
Submit a proposal: ACH 2026 ConfTool
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Two weeks left! The deadline for ACH 2026 proposals is February 23, 2025.
We welcome submissions on all topics related to digital humanities, computing, and the humanities. Short papers, long papers, posters, panels, and workshops all encouraged!
Submit here:
We welcome submissions on all topics related to digital humanities, computing, and the humanities. Short papers, long papers, posters, panels, and workshops all encouraged!
Submit here:
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Last week's #CoffeeWithACodex was very fun: a selection of fragments of books of hours! #medievalsky
youtu.be/wHrUAV5g9ek
youtu.be/wHrUAV5g9ek
Coffee with a Codex: Fragments of Books of Hours
YouTube video by SchoenbergInstitute
youtu.be
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Last week's #CoffeeWithACodex was very fun: a selection of fragments of books of hours! #medievalsky
youtu.be/wHrUAV5g9ek
youtu.be/wHrUAV5g9ek
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“Don't touch the ink.”
“Don't touch the ink.”
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"What do you have in your mouth?!"
"What do you have in your mouth?!"
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"You can use your words to ask for what you want."
"You can use your words to ask for what you want."
February 8, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“Don't touch the ink.”
“Don't touch the ink.”
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It has to be "The Muppets Take Medieval Studies," because Kalamzoo is objectively the funniest place name for anywhere an academic conference takes place.
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 6:16 PM
It has to be "The Muppets Take Medieval Studies," because Kalamzoo is objectively the funniest place name for anywhere an academic conference takes place.
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Another day another press release for an AI grifter posing as news. Thanks to my friend (redacted here) for texting me this new one.
February 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Another day another press release for an AI grifter posing as news. Thanks to my friend (redacted here) for texting me this new one.
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
February 7, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.