Catrin Haberfield
@catrinh.bsky.social
Medievalist and B2B copywriter | PhD candidate @Stanford | Old English, manuscript studies, DH, and UX approaches to textual cultures of the Insular world (they/she)
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We are now accepting submissions for Vagantes 2026, hosted by The University of Rochester, April 9-11!
See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested.
Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.
See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested.
Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.
September 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
We are now accepting submissions for Vagantes 2026, hosted by The University of Rochester, April 9-11!
See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested.
Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.
See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested.
Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.
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Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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This is phenomenal 😂
If you’re at @imc-leeds.bsky.social right now, reply w/a screenshot of your filled-out version of my comedy bingo card (link below) and I’ll enter you into a drawing to receive a free, signed copy of my Chaucer biography (it has pretty pictures!)! #IMC2025
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Academic Conference Paper Bingo: Humanities Edition
“Does anybody have a dongle?”
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July 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This is phenomenal 😂
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NEW from the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine... our handlist of the 198(!!!) pre-1000 manuscripts with medical texts not included in the standard catalogues.
It's been a productive first phase for the project... but a lot of work still to do!
#medievalsky
It's been a productive first phase for the project... but a lot of work still to do!
#medievalsky
Handlist – Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine
cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
June 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
NEW from the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine... our handlist of the 198(!!!) pre-1000 manuscripts with medical texts not included in the standard catalogues.
It's been a productive first phase for the project... but a lot of work still to do!
#medievalsky
It's been a productive first phase for the project... but a lot of work still to do!
#medievalsky
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I'm constantly thinking about the fact that despite all the focus on 'impact', they don't seem to count the context in which we have the most impact of all: teaching students, and especially those from a wide range of backgrounds
June 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I'm constantly thinking about the fact that despite all the focus on 'impact', they don't seem to count the context in which we have the most impact of all: teaching students, and especially those from a wide range of backgrounds
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Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
June 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
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Today is the feast of Saint Alban, Britain's protomartyr, who is dear to me for many reasons. I grew up on Mount Saint Alban (DC), and in the 1980s I dug with the Biddles at St. Albans (Herts), where I learned to tell rusted Roman hobnails from the earth that turned red with the martyr's blood. 🕯️🧵
June 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Today is the feast of Saint Alban, Britain's protomartyr, who is dear to me for many reasons. I grew up on Mount Saint Alban (DC), and in the 1980s I dug with the Biddles at St. Albans (Herts), where I learned to tell rusted Roman hobnails from the earth that turned red with the martyr's blood. 🕯️🧵
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please don't tell me kids need to learn how to use AI "for their future"
The Simple Truth About These Miserable Heat Waves
Much of the country is facing brutal, potentially deadly heat. The reasons for such extreme events are not complicated.
newrepublic.com
June 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
please don't tell me kids need to learn how to use AI "for their future"
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When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman.
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families
Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care
19thnews.org
June 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman.
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
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'Hidden optical secrets of the Parthenon revealed by Oxford archaeologist'
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
archaeologymag.com/2025/05/hidd...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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Hidden optical secrets of the Parthenon revealed by Oxford archaeologist
Oxford archaeologist Juan de Lara used 3D tech to reveal how light dramatically illuminated Athena’s statue in the ancient Parthenon.
archaeologymag.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
'Hidden optical secrets of the Parthenon revealed by Oxford archaeologist'
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
archaeologymag.com/2025/05/hidd...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
archaeologymag.com/2025/05/hidd...
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Thomas Aquinas has entered the chat and wishes to remind you that even if you are smarter and better educated, that yiayia might nonetheless know God a lot better than you do, though
A [Greek Orthodox] Priest I had talked about the challenge of getting people to distinguish theology from “yiayialogy” [yiayia = grandma].
No matter what’s written down, there’s always going to be a whole lot more people vaguely remember learning from grandma or from the nuns or…
No matter what’s written down, there’s always going to be a whole lot more people vaguely remember learning from grandma or from the nuns or…
May 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Thomas Aquinas has entered the chat and wishes to remind you that even if you are smarter and better educated, that yiayia might nonetheless know God a lot better than you do, though
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More meta text: the scribe emerges in the margin from the line-filler to write the text.
Bodleian Library MS. Douce 6; Psalter; c.1320 CE-1330 CE; Flanders (Ghent) f.61r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Bodleian Library MS. Douce 6; Psalter; c.1320 CE-1330 CE; Flanders (Ghent) f.61r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
More meta text: the scribe emerges in the margin from the line-filler to write the text.
Bodleian Library MS. Douce 6; Psalter; c.1320 CE-1330 CE; Flanders (Ghent) f.61r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Bodleian Library MS. Douce 6; Psalter; c.1320 CE-1330 CE; Flanders (Ghent) f.61r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
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I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months.
The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.
The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.
May 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months.
The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.
The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.
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You can't really do this though, can you. You can say that there was no intention to echo Powell, but you can't say that comparing the Powell speech with Starmer's speech is itself inherently wrong.
May 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
You can't really do this though, can you. You can say that there was no intention to echo Powell, but you can't say that comparing the Powell speech with Starmer's speech is itself inherently wrong.
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Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians
April 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians
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I could point out what’s theologically wrong with this, but actually I’m most struck by how this managed to be both tasteless and yet somehow very touching, which takes a writer of rare skill.
“Our autopsy found the Holy Father had a substantial amount of Eucharist in his system— roughly four times the legal limit—at the time of death,” said Fernando Ruini
theonion.com/vatican...
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Vatican Coroner Confirms Eucharistic Overdose
VATICAN CITY—In a stunning discovery that revealed the full extent of the pontiff’s addiction, Vatican coroner Fernando Ruini released a report Thursday confirming Pope Francis died of a eucharistic overdose. “Our autopsy found the Holy Father had a substantial amount of Eucharist in his system— roughly four times the legal limit—at the time of death,” […]
theonion.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I could point out what’s theologically wrong with this, but actually I’m most struck by how this managed to be both tasteless and yet somehow very touching, which takes a writer of rare skill.
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Call for Proposals: AHR Special Issue: Methods for Archival Silence in Early History
Call for Proposals
AHR Special Issue: Methods for Archival Silence in Early History
Due September 16, 2025
The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pro...
Call for Proposals
AHR Special Issue: Methods for Archival Silence in Early History
Due September 16, 2025
The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pro...
April 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Call for Proposals: AHR Special Issue: Methods for Archival Silence in Early History
Call for Proposals
AHR Special Issue: Methods for Archival Silence in Early History
Due September 16, 2025
The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pro...
Call for Proposals
AHR Special Issue: Methods for Archival Silence in Early History
Due September 16, 2025
The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pro...
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99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research.
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
March 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research.
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
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ChatGPT firm reveals human leader that is easily entertained.
ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’
ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’
As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output
The company behind ChatGPT has revealed it has developed an artificial intelligence model that is “good at creative writing”,…
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
ChatGPT firm reveals human leader that is easily entertained.
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attacking higher education is economic sabotage
the largest employer in 10 states + 60 of the 100 top cities
“The local impact would reach far and wide: In 2022, Johns Hopkins affiliates accounted for over 93,600 jobs+over $15 billion in economic output in Maryland.”
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
the largest employer in 10 states + 60 of the 100 top cities
“The local impact would reach far and wide: In 2022, Johns Hopkins affiliates accounted for over 93,600 jobs+over $15 billion in economic output in Maryland.”
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
attacking higher education is economic sabotage
the largest employer in 10 states + 60 of the 100 top cities
“The local impact would reach far and wide: In 2022, Johns Hopkins affiliates accounted for over 93,600 jobs+over $15 billion in economic output in Maryland.”
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
the largest employer in 10 states + 60 of the 100 top cities
“The local impact would reach far and wide: In 2022, Johns Hopkins affiliates accounted for over 93,600 jobs+over $15 billion in economic output in Maryland.”
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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We can add to this being asked to do things that result in the reply 'I would love to do this, but please understand that I have to reapply for my own job before the end of this month so may not be able to fulfil this obligation in the next academic year'.
I can't pretend I'm ok with this anymore.
I can't pretend I'm ok with this anymore.
One of those days when the drip, drip of nonsense at an institutional level combined with a national HE crisis makes everything I do seem utterly worthless.
March 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We can add to this being asked to do things that result in the reply 'I would love to do this, but please understand that I have to reapply for my own job before the end of this month so may not be able to fulfil this obligation in the next academic year'.
I can't pretend I'm ok with this anymore.
I can't pretend I'm ok with this anymore.