Kyrie E. Bouressa
@kyrieb.bsky.social
PhD student in Music Technology and Musicology at McGill University.
I study scribal communities and the transmission of chant within Nidaros (especially Iceland and Norway)!
Machine learning, networks, scribal attribution, and script classification!
I study scribal communities and the transmission of chant within Nidaros (especially Iceland and Norway)!
Machine learning, networks, scribal attribution, and script classification!
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In light of this, I want to share some resources on trans people in the medieval and early modern period, for anyone who might be interested. There is a thriving field of research into the lives, identities, and experiences of trans people globally before the advent of modern medicine (a 🧵)
April 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In light of this, I want to share some resources on trans people in the medieval and early modern period, for anyone who might be interested. There is a thriving field of research into the lives, identities, and experiences of trans people globally before the advent of modern medicine (a 🧵)
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Digital ownership matters for preservation of the published record - libraries can’t preserve what we don’t own.
Check out what BRIET is doing to help libraries build lasting digital collections ⬇️
Check out what BRIET is doing to help libraries build lasting digital collections ⬇️
Hello! #librarians, would you be interested in buying (for real buying, not licensing) digital books and other high quality texts and artworks via BRIET, an innovative project of the @flaminghydra.com cooperative??
It'll be fun!
Get in touch with us at hello **at** flaminghydra **dot** com.
It'll be fun!
Get in touch with us at hello **at** flaminghydra **dot** com.
July 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Digital ownership matters for preservation of the published record - libraries can’t preserve what we don’t own.
Check out what BRIET is doing to help libraries build lasting digital collections ⬇️
Check out what BRIET is doing to help libraries build lasting digital collections ⬇️
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Job alert! We're advertising for a full-time, permanent Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in 20thC American History at Edge Hill. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX206/l...
Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in American History at Edge Hill University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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July 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Job alert! We're advertising for a full-time, permanent Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in 20thC American History at Edge Hill. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX206/l...
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Another new paleogenetics study that is also (potentially) presenting evidence for plague's presence in northern Europe in the 13thC, as much as a century before it's "supposed" to be there. Here's the citation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #MedievalSky #aDNA 🧪🗃️
Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland
We investigated ancestry, kinship, and health in individuals from three cemeteries in Finland: Tampere Vilusenharju and Pälkäne Ristiänmäki (11th–12th…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Another new paleogenetics study that is also (potentially) presenting evidence for plague's presence in northern Europe in the 13thC, as much as a century before it's "supposed" to be there. Here's the citation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #MedievalSky #aDNA 🧪🗃️
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July 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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We have many USB’s and other lost property which wants to be reunited with its owner! ☹️
Please email imc@leeds.ac.uk if you think you have left something behind.👍
#SkyStorians #MedievalSky
Please email imc@leeds.ac.uk if you think you have left something behind.👍
#SkyStorians #MedievalSky
July 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We have many USB’s and other lost property which wants to be reunited with its owner! ☹️
Please email imc@leeds.ac.uk if you think you have left something behind.👍
#SkyStorians #MedievalSky
Please email imc@leeds.ac.uk if you think you have left something behind.👍
#SkyStorians #MedievalSky
What a spectacular time at #IMC2025! And thanks especially to the wonderful folks at #DigitalMedievalist for organizing so many cool panels (and letting me present my neume script classifying project—POSSUMM*!). More notes to come.
*the Paleographic Object Sorting System Using Machine Methods. 😁
*the Paleographic Object Sorting System Using Machine Methods. 😁
July 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
What a spectacular time at #IMC2025! And thanks especially to the wonderful folks at #DigitalMedievalist for organizing so many cool panels (and letting me present my neume script classifying project—POSSUMM*!). More notes to come.
*the Paleographic Object Sorting System Using Machine Methods. 😁
*the Paleographic Object Sorting System Using Machine Methods. 😁
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Looking forward to our three sponsored sessions today by @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social on digital approaches to materiality of manuscripts w/ @kakapitan.bsky.social!
#IMC2025 #DigitalMedievalStudies #DigitalManuscriptStudies #DigitalMedievalist
tinyurl.com/DMatIMC2025
#IMC2025 #DigitalMedievalStudies #DigitalManuscriptStudies #DigitalMedievalist
tinyurl.com/DMatIMC2025
July 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Looking forward to our three sponsored sessions today by @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social on digital approaches to materiality of manuscripts w/ @kakapitan.bsky.social!
#IMC2025 #DigitalMedievalStudies #DigitalManuscriptStudies #DigitalMedievalist
tinyurl.com/DMatIMC2025
#IMC2025 #DigitalMedievalStudies #DigitalManuscriptStudies #DigitalMedievalist
tinyurl.com/DMatIMC2025
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TRAVIS COUNTY
If you're free at all this week, Leander desperately needs volunteers for food and water distribution, and cleanup.
They need chainsaws, ATVs, wood chippers, any equipment for moving debris. And people who know how to use them.
www.kxan.com/independence...
If you're free at all this week, Leander desperately needs volunteers for food and water distribution, and cleanup.
They need chainsaws, ATVs, wood chippers, any equipment for moving debris. And people who know how to use them.
www.kxan.com/independence...
www.kxan.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
TRAVIS COUNTY
If you're free at all this week, Leander desperately needs volunteers for food and water distribution, and cleanup.
They need chainsaws, ATVs, wood chippers, any equipment for moving debris. And people who know how to use them.
www.kxan.com/independence...
If you're free at all this week, Leander desperately needs volunteers for food and water distribution, and cleanup.
They need chainsaws, ATVs, wood chippers, any equipment for moving debris. And people who know how to use them.
www.kxan.com/independence...
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Publication – « Social Network Analysis and Medieval History », éd. Matthew Hammond
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Publication – « Social Network Analysis and Medieval History », éd. Matthew Hammond
Social network analysis is revolutionizing our understanding of business, politics, public health, and now history. In this book, the first collection of network analysis case studies dedicated to …
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June 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Publication – « Social Network Analysis and Medieval History », éd. Matthew Hammond
rmblf.be/2025/06/17/p...
rmblf.be/2025/06/17/p...
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Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social. Pls advertise, @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social
medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...
medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Project Researcher – Oxford Medieval Studies
medieval.ox.ac.uk
June 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social. Pls advertise, @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social
medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...
medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...
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The White House took down a website hosting the nation's top report on how climate change is affecting the United States.
The White House took down the nation's top climate report. You can still find it here
The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States.
n.pr
July 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The White House took down a website hosting the nation's top report on how climate change is affecting the United States.
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Manuscript from Mont-St-Michel rediscovered. Something for everyone in this codex!
June 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Manuscript from Mont-St-Michel rediscovered. Something for everyone in this codex!
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“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”
Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 1945 | Critical Inquiry: Vol 51, No 4
Abstract The devastation of World War II left German libraries partly in ruins, collections and catalogs lost or destroyed, prompting a need to reconstruct and reimagine the library system. This artic...
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June 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”
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Canada has a VERY TEMPORARY legal situation allowing anyone with provable CA ancestry to claim Canadian citizenship w/ no generational limit. It may be overruled, but it’s real now. Colin and I both have French Québécois ancestors so you bet yer ass that I’m doing a LOT of rush document requests now
June 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Canada has a VERY TEMPORARY legal situation allowing anyone with provable CA ancestry to claim Canadian citizenship w/ no generational limit. It may be overruled, but it’s real now. Colin and I both have French Québécois ancestors so you bet yer ass that I’m doing a LOT of rush document requests now
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Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”
April 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”
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🚨 #Medievalsky news you can use! 🚨 It turns out the PIMS journal _Mediaeval Studies_ vols. from 1939-2006 are available to download for free at archive.org/details/Medi... !
Mediaeval Studies : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Mediaeval StudiesMediaeval Studies is the annual journal published by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. The journal was established in 1939 and...
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April 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
🚨 #Medievalsky news you can use! 🚨 It turns out the PIMS journal _Mediaeval Studies_ vols. from 1939-2006 are available to download for free at archive.org/details/Medi... !
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We are delighted to announce the launch of The Guild of Medievalist Makers (GuMM), a community for academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work.
Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com
Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com
The Guild of Medievalist Makers
www.guildmedmak.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We are delighted to announce the launch of The Guild of Medievalist Makers (GuMM), a community for academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work.
Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com
Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com
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🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨
Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...
Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...
The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections
Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others
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April 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨
Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...
Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...
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A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
April 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
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Thanks, @rmac.bsky.social, for recommending @securedrop.org for potential leakers and whistleblowers, and thanks, Laura, for writing this timely article.
➡️ Check out our video on how to leak sensitive information to media outlets securely and anonymously:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FR...
➡️ Check out our video on how to leak sensitive information to media outlets securely and anonymously:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FR...
April 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Thanks, @rmac.bsky.social, for recommending @securedrop.org for potential leakers and whistleblowers, and thanks, Laura, for writing this timely article.
➡️ Check out our video on how to leak sensitive information to media outlets securely and anonymously:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FR...
➡️ Check out our video on how to leak sensitive information to media outlets securely and anonymously:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FR...
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Just FYI in case you haven’t heard: El*n just sold X to xAI, which means if you still have an X/Twitter account all your public and private conversations are now fair game for training AI.
Delete your X account immediately.
Delete your X account immediately.
How to Delete Your X / Twitter Account - A Step-by-Step Guide - MOR10
Here’s how I deleted my X/Twitter account while retaining control over my handle so nobody else can take it. Caution: Following this step-by-step
mor10.com
March 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Just FYI in case you haven’t heard: El*n just sold X to xAI, which means if you still have an X/Twitter account all your public and private conversations are now fair game for training AI.
Delete your X account immediately.
Delete your X account immediately.
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Women played an important role in policing 13th-century England. Women couldn't be in frankpledge or sit on juries, but they were still required to raise the hue & cry, they chased criminals when need be, and were required to attend trials when they witnessed crime or discovered bodies. 🧵1/5
March 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Women played an important role in policing 13th-century England. Women couldn't be in frankpledge or sit on juries, but they were still required to raise the hue & cry, they chased criminals when need be, and were required to attend trials when they witnessed crime or discovered bodies. 🧵1/5