Dr Keri Thomas
@drkerithomas.bsky.social
Manuscript theorist & wannabe booklicker. Medieval/digital/materiality/resurrection. Joyful spite. ‘Memory & the Digital Manuscript: Resurrection, Divinity & New Materiality’ Routledge (2025 maybe) https://kerilthomas.wordpress.com
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So, I have news! I’m so thrilled to say that my book ‘Memory & the Digital Manuscript: Resurrection, Divinity & New Materiality’ (tbc) will see the light of day in 2025. Excited for you to read my wild theorising! #MedievalSky #DigitalSky
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TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to sign up for my ‘Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing’ workshop, which starts tomorrow!
There’s 1 spot still available—if you’re someone who dreams of winning a Big Fat Grant someday, this is for you!
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There’s 1 spot still available—if you’re someone who dreams of winning a Big Fat Grant someday, this is for you!
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The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing: 4-week workshop starting Thursday 13 November 2025
DATES/SCHEDULE:
Thursday 13 November 2025 4-6pm CET / 3-5pm GMT / 10am-12pm EST / 7-9am PST
Thursday 20 November 2025 4-6pm CET / 3-5pm GMT / 10am-12pm EST / 7-9am PST
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November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to sign up for my ‘Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing’ workshop, which starts tomorrow!
There’s 1 spot still available—if you’re someone who dreams of winning a Big Fat Grant someday, this is for you!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
There’s 1 spot still available—if you’re someone who dreams of winning a Big Fat Grant someday, this is for you!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Applications for the Caird Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich are now open - www.rmg.co.uk/collections/... It looks like a great opportunity to work on a fantastic collection and collaborate with some brilliant staff.
Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich
Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships
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November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Applications for the Caird Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich are now open - www.rmg.co.uk/collections/... It looks like a great opportunity to work on a fantastic collection and collaborate with some brilliant staff.
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The design and reconstructible history of the Mayan eclipse table of the Dresden Codex, www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 #Astronomy #GlobalMiddleAges
October 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The design and reconstructible history of the Mayan eclipse table of the Dresden Codex, www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 #Astronomy #GlobalMiddleAges
One week away from a *slightly* adjusted submission deadline for the book. Just as I start to see light at the end of the tunnel, I’ve started to think about what I’ll be writing about next. What’s wrong with me? #MedievalSky #DigitalSky
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
One week away from a *slightly* adjusted submission deadline for the book. Just as I start to see light at the end of the tunnel, I’ve started to think about what I’ll be writing about next. What’s wrong with me? #MedievalSky #DigitalSky
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British Library staff are out on strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November over pay: please do not undermine their action by attending this exhibition (or any other events at the BL) during that time. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
October 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
British Library staff are out on strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November over pay: please do not undermine their action by attending this exhibition (or any other events at the BL) during that time. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
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The first cries of a newborn black hole
Ringdown
Conrad Shawcross (2024)
🔊 SOUND UP 🔊
Quantum Untangled
Science Gallery, KCL
Ringdown
Conrad Shawcross (2024)
🔊 SOUND UP 🔊
Quantum Untangled
Science Gallery, KCL
October 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The first cries of a newborn black hole
Ringdown
Conrad Shawcross (2024)
🔊 SOUND UP 🔊
Quantum Untangled
Science Gallery, KCL
Ringdown
Conrad Shawcross (2024)
🔊 SOUND UP 🔊
Quantum Untangled
Science Gallery, KCL
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An excellent free day of lectures about ancient Celtic, happening in Aberystwyth next week. One not to miss!
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October 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
An excellent free day of lectures about ancient Celtic, happening in Aberystwyth next week. One not to miss!
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Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.
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China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.
The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.
Excellent
China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.
The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.
Excellent
China enlists solar panels in war to halt desert sands
In arid northern China, dozens of workers prune goji berry bushes that stretch out under the protective shade of thousands of solar panels.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.
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Join us @ the #medievalseminar next Monday, as we welcome @lauramorreale.bsky.social for a talk on the fascinating "Image du Monde" and its digital afterlives! 9/29, 5:30p, Barker 133. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @medievalacademy.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Join us @ the #medievalseminar next Monday, as we welcome @lauramorreale.bsky.social for a talk on the fascinating "Image du Monde" and its digital afterlives! 9/29, 5:30p, Barker 133. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @medievalacademy.bsky.social
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Don't forget to register for my hybrid #Voynich lecture on Friday, Sept. 26, at 2:30 PM Eastern at the University of Toronto! After a year of work, Colin Layfield & I have important data- and material-results about the original structure of the manuscript!
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/lisa-...
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Lisa Fagin Davis, The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript | Centre for Medieval Studies
The Centre for Medieval Studies welcomes Lisa Fagin Davis (Executive Director, Medieval Academy of America) to present "The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript", a talk on her recent work using fore...
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September 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Don't forget to register for my hybrid #Voynich lecture on Friday, Sept. 26, at 2:30 PM Eastern at the University of Toronto! After a year of work, Colin Layfield & I have important data- and material-results about the original structure of the manuscript!
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/lisa-...
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/lisa-...
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47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 38 of 2025
A total of forty-seven manuscripts were digitized in the past week, which is slightly above average when comparing to recent weeks. Also in-line with the patterns of recent weeks, the most manuscripts...
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September 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
What are the odds of me being Raptured next week? Just debating whether to pay the rent or not.
September 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What are the odds of me being Raptured next week? Just debating whether to pay the rent or not.
Small just asked me what a DVD is.
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September 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Small just asked me what a DVD is.
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This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else
Michael Gove, "Reform voters are very close to, in their general views, with the British public"
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September 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else
One cannot underestimate the power of a proficient cervical screening nurse.
September 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
One cannot underestimate the power of a proficient cervical screening nurse.
I probably watch Tom Holland’s Lip Sync Battle version of Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’ at least once a month. It brings me incredible joy.
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September 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I probably watch Tom Holland’s Lip Sync Battle version of Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’ at least once a month. It brings me incredible joy.
My God the world is hard. Every road & path in it is filled with tears.
August 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My God the world is hard. Every road & path in it is filled with tears.
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The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
August 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
August 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
I’ve just killed 3,000 words. Went off on the most enormous tangent about polytheism & I don’t think it even works in this chapter. Saved them to a separate page, but. Fuck. Plus side, I found Matthew lurking on f66r of the St Francis Missal, & thought him worth sharing.
#MedievalSky
#MedievalSky
August 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I’ve just killed 3,000 words. Went off on the most enormous tangent about polytheism & I don’t think it even works in this chapter. Saved them to a separate page, but. Fuck. Plus side, I found Matthew lurking on f66r of the St Francis Missal, & thought him worth sharing.
#MedievalSky
#MedievalSky
Small & I have had the BEST summer together. It can frequently get intense, as it’s mostly just the two of us, & alone time is virtually non-existent. But my goodness, when the sun is shining & we’ve got the giggles, there’s not much finer in life.
August 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Small & I have had the BEST summer together. It can frequently get intense, as it’s mostly just the two of us, & alone time is virtually non-existent. But my goodness, when the sun is shining & we’ve got the giggles, there’s not much finer in life.
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Volunteers are welcome to join the project to help in the transcription! All volunteers will be named as co-editors, whether you contribute a line or multiple pages. For more info, contact the project lead, Aaron Allen, on administrator@kirkwalltailorsproject.co.uk
#palaeography #Orkney
#palaeography #Orkney
August 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Volunteers are welcome to join the project to help in the transcription! All volunteers will be named as co-editors, whether you contribute a line or multiple pages. For more info, contact the project lead, Aaron Allen, on administrator@kirkwalltailorsproject.co.uk
#palaeography #Orkney
#palaeography #Orkney
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fuck I'm so excited to find out what I'm like when I'm no longer writing this fucking book
August 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
fuck I'm so excited to find out what I'm like when I'm no longer writing this fucking book
Prynhawn Da pawb, I’ve got a Big Question for you on this sunny day. What does spirituality mean to you, or to be spiritual? I don’t necessarily mean religion: anything from your own lives, pop culture, music, nature, from which you get a sense of yourself. Gonna cite it in the book! #MedievalSky
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August 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Prynhawn Da pawb, I’ve got a Big Question for you on this sunny day. What does spirituality mean to you, or to be spiritual? I don’t necessarily mean religion: anything from your own lives, pop culture, music, nature, from which you get a sense of yourself. Gonna cite it in the book! #MedievalSky
Small & I got to see the amazing Tudor bibles on display at @librarywales.bsky.social today.
@suzpaul.bsky.social Small was #TeamHenry!
3rd 📸: title page of the Great Bible, from a @theconversation.com article by Eyal Poleg & Paolo Ricciardi.
theconversation.com/how-thomas-c...
#MedievalSky
@suzpaul.bsky.social Small was #TeamHenry!
3rd 📸: title page of the Great Bible, from a @theconversation.com article by Eyal Poleg & Paolo Ricciardi.
theconversation.com/how-thomas-c...
#MedievalSky
August 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Small & I got to see the amazing Tudor bibles on display at @librarywales.bsky.social today.
@suzpaul.bsky.social Small was #TeamHenry!
3rd 📸: title page of the Great Bible, from a @theconversation.com article by Eyal Poleg & Paolo Ricciardi.
theconversation.com/how-thomas-c...
#MedievalSky
@suzpaul.bsky.social Small was #TeamHenry!
3rd 📸: title page of the Great Bible, from a @theconversation.com article by Eyal Poleg & Paolo Ricciardi.
theconversation.com/how-thomas-c...
#MedievalSky