João Custódio Aldegalega
@joaoaldegalega.bsky.social
PhD student at KCL’s Department of History. Unfreedom in medieval Northeastern Iberia is my current jam.
Birkbeck alumnus 🦉
Born and raised in 🇵🇹🇪🇺, aspiring world citizen.
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Birkbeck alumnus 🦉
Born and raised in 🇵🇹🇪🇺, aspiring world citizen.
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Hi👋🏼 I’m a #PhD student at KCL, interested in the #Mediterranean #MiddleAges, especially #MedievalSpain across religions.
Currently researching the rise of new ways to do #slavery in #medieval #Iberia. Pretty cool, uh? Gimme a follow if that doesn’t sound absurd to you! (Is that enough #?)
Currently researching the rise of new ways to do #slavery in #medieval #Iberia. Pretty cool, uh? Gimme a follow if that doesn’t sound absurd to you! (Is that enough #?)
Mohammed El-Kurd sums up the problem of academia with the Palestinian struggle in a nutshell
October 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Mohammed El-Kurd sums up the problem of academia with the Palestinian struggle in a nutshell
They are too easy, but Edward Watts’ book on the history of the idea is a great read: The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome. Good for reflecting on how MAGA (and now MEGA apparently?) people use it, but also how people across the ideological spectrum do.
Comparisons between the Roman Empire and America are too easy, and not very useful. But the speed with which Musk and Trump are literally breaking the system does feel like a Julius Caesar moment
February 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
They are too easy, but Edward Watts’ book on the history of the idea is a great read: The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome. Good for reflecting on how MAGA (and now MEGA apparently?) people use it, but also how people across the ideological spectrum do.
As sad as I am for all those who endured this torture, I must say I have been submitted to it time after time by my own cat (pictured last) and not one scholar has cared.
(From Fidel Fajardo-Acosta’s chapter in ‘Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age’)
(From Fidel Fajardo-Acosta’s chapter in ‘Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age’)
January 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
As sad as I am for all those who endured this torture, I must say I have been submitted to it time after time by my own cat (pictured last) and not one scholar has cared.
(From Fidel Fajardo-Acosta’s chapter in ‘Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age’)
(From Fidel Fajardo-Acosta’s chapter in ‘Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age’)
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The city of Toledo as colourfully imagined in the Códice Emilianense, c. 990. rbme.patrimonionacional.es/s/rbme/item/...
December 27, 2024 at 4:07 PM
The city of Toledo as colourfully imagined in the Códice Emilianense, c. 990. rbme.patrimonionacional.es/s/rbme/item/...
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We are delighted to launch Essays in Long Late Antiquity: a new #OpenAccess journal in the field of first millennium studies encouraging interdisciplinary and superregional approaches, edited by @calthalas.bsky.social & Jakob Riemenschneider. Find out more: bit.ly/ELLA-blog @unierfurt.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 10:17 AM
We are delighted to launch Essays in Long Late Antiquity: a new #OpenAccess journal in the field of first millennium studies encouraging interdisciplinary and superregional approaches, edited by @calthalas.bsky.social & Jakob Riemenschneider. Find out more: bit.ly/ELLA-blog @unierfurt.bsky.social
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In this #free #online #training (27 Feb 2025), I'll draw on my experience leading RCUK-funded (and smaller) projects, plus wider examples of best practice. We'll go beyond REF & KEF to explore how our research can make a difference, tools / approaches, and why we do it.
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Knowledge Exchange and Impact: What, How, Why?
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December 11, 2024 at 10:59 AM
In this #free #online #training (27 Feb 2025), I'll draw on my experience leading RCUK-funded (and smaller) projects, plus wider examples of best practice. We'll go beyond REF & KEF to explore how our research can make a difference, tools / approaches, and why we do it.
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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NEW: Hear from Prof @rosariataddeo.bsky.social, Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies, @oiioxford.bsky.social @oxsocsci.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social discussing the ethics of #AI in the #defence sector. Find out more: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/pub...
December 10, 2024 at 11:39 AM
NEW: Hear from Prof @rosariataddeo.bsky.social, Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies, @oiioxford.bsky.social @oxsocsci.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social discussing the ethics of #AI in the #defence sector. Find out more: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/pub...
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"Academic authors found themselves fielding increasing numbers of queries from students who had found fabricated references to their work in AI-generated academic summaries; some academics even wrote new manuscripts, based on the AI summaries, to satisfy the demand."
What's happening to academic journal publishing now AI's in the workflow? Year-end reflections and near-future speculations from the editors of Learning, Media & Technology - @discoursology.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1080/1743...
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment
Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)
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December 10, 2024 at 7:11 AM
"Academic authors found themselves fielding increasing numbers of queries from students who had found fabricated references to their work in AI-generated academic summaries; some academics even wrote new manuscripts, based on the AI summaries, to satisfy the demand."
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The @bsrome.bsky.social with @ics.bsky.social is delighted to be offering a Collaborative Doctoral Award, fully funded PhD studentship, through London Arts & Humanities partnership.
Fantastic opportunity to be part of our team studying Falerii Novi!
Details at: www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...
Fantastic opportunity to be part of our team studying Falerii Novi!
Details at: www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...
December 6, 2024 at 11:36 AM
The @bsrome.bsky.social with @ics.bsky.social is delighted to be offering a Collaborative Doctoral Award, fully funded PhD studentship, through London Arts & Humanities partnership.
Fantastic opportunity to be part of our team studying Falerii Novi!
Details at: www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...
Fantastic opportunity to be part of our team studying Falerii Novi!
Details at: www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...
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Universities are in crisis. We have forgotten that the only way to prepare for the future is to imagine the human in situations yet unknown and to explore the boundaries of the human condition. A focus on economic gain loses sight of all that might be possible.
I do not yet have a comment on this but I ask all New Zealand researchers and businesses read this and consider the full impact of this signal #nzpol www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...
Marsden Fund refocused for science with a purpose
Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and c...
www.beehive.govt.nz
December 4, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Universities are in crisis. We have forgotten that the only way to prepare for the future is to imagine the human in situations yet unknown and to explore the boundaries of the human condition. A focus on economic gain loses sight of all that might be possible.
Hi👋🏼 I’m a #PhD student at KCL, interested in the #Mediterranean #MiddleAges, especially #MedievalSpain across religions.
Currently researching the rise of new ways to do #slavery in #medieval #Iberia. Pretty cool, uh? Gimme a follow if that doesn’t sound absurd to you! (Is that enough #?)
Currently researching the rise of new ways to do #slavery in #medieval #Iberia. Pretty cool, uh? Gimme a follow if that doesn’t sound absurd to you! (Is that enough #?)
November 26, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Hi👋🏼 I’m a #PhD student at KCL, interested in the #Mediterranean #MiddleAges, especially #MedievalSpain across religions.
Currently researching the rise of new ways to do #slavery in #medieval #Iberia. Pretty cool, uh? Gimme a follow if that doesn’t sound absurd to you! (Is that enough #?)
Currently researching the rise of new ways to do #slavery in #medieval #Iberia. Pretty cool, uh? Gimme a follow if that doesn’t sound absurd to you! (Is that enough #?)
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If you're a #skystorian who works on digitised archival material - and pretty much all of us do - you should read this new article on #EarlyModern wills by Harry Smith @bhamhistory.bsky.social and Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social, #OpenAccess in the TRHS 🗃️: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 27, 2024 at 8:54 AM
If you're a #skystorian who works on digitised archival material - and pretty much all of us do - you should read this new article on #EarlyModern wills by Harry Smith @bhamhistory.bsky.social and Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social, #OpenAccess in the TRHS 🗃️: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Great petition from Londoners on 23 December 1641, against the king's appointment of Colonel Thomas Lunsford to command the Tower. It calls him a man 'most notorious for outrages'.
November 11, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Great petition from Londoners on 23 December 1641, against the king's appointment of Colonel Thomas Lunsford to command the Tower. It calls him a man 'most notorious for outrages'.
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Explore the epic history of the Crusades and their far-reaching effects—enroll in our course today! https://medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/crusades #Crusades #history #education #onlinecourse #medievalists
The Crusades 1095-1187: A multi-perspective history
This course will offer an overview history covering the Crusades to the Middle East during the period 1095-1187 (from the First Crusade to the Fall of Jerusalem).
medievalstudies.thinkific.com
November 11, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Explore the epic history of the Crusades and their far-reaching effects—enroll in our course today! https://medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/crusades #Crusades #history #education #onlinecourse #medievalists
And for understanding just one of the many ways which got us here, I strongly recommend Indefensible by Rohini Hensman (£2!!!!, it’s £16 on Kindle and this one you can put on any device that reads epub, and as many devices as you want)
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November 9, 2024 at 10:17 AM
And for understanding just one of the many ways which got us here, I strongly recommend Indefensible by Rohini Hensman (£2!!!!, it’s £16 on Kindle and this one you can put on any device that reads epub, and as many devices as you want)