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Dr. Liz Hebbard
@lizhebbard.bsky.social
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Medieval Occitan & French; vernacular lyric; music & text; history of the book; medieval book arts; binding fragmentology. PI of the Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social 📜
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
This scribe did such a good job erasing a mistake that it proved difficult to add the correct words back in… 😬

Berea AC 170.9

#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragment
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
lizhebbard.bsky.social
Completely charmed by the impatient decorator who put wet ink of facing-page initials against this page—whoops!

Berea Art Collection 170.98

#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragments
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
lizhebbard.bsky.social
Heads up, manuscript fans! I’m starting site visits for our second round of grant work and SO EXCITED. I’ll be sharing images of fun stuff I’m looking at that is part of our @peripheralmss.bsky.social project! Today I’m at Berea college Art Collection!

#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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pieterbeullens.bsky.social
One book, two very different pastedowns. Leaf from a MS of the Breviarium in psalmos (Ps 107), attributed to Augustine or Jerome or Anonymous (Migne 26). And an attractive leaf from a later prayer book (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, G 1057)
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November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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neillewisjr.bsky.social
"...appear to be typical of an investment strategy whereby donors, aided by university administrators and regents, circumvent faculty governance in order to treat universities like incubators or, worse, as click-farms to inflate the user data seemingly keeping the AI investment machine humming."
October 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
lizhebbard.bsky.social
@lauramorreale.bsky.social your Newberry workshop looks amazing!!
October 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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metalclassicist.bsky.social
Stolen from the Latin teacher FB group.
French textbook La Famille Chat Le supermarché Latin textbook NUNTIUS TERRIBILIS EX GERMANIA
October 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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charliejgardner.bsky.social
Here's something that's not talked about enough

The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year

1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24d
If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.
October 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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uoftcms.bsky.social
"Too Catholic, Too Medieval" by CMS Professor Emeritus, David Townsend.

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Too Christian, Too Medieval
As a scholar of medieval literature, I’m long used to writing books that only a few people read and that make virtually no money.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools.

AI is another version of colonial extraction.
heatherrandell.bsky.social Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 25d
“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.”

🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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iamkristine.bsky.social
Details of a fragment from an Abbasid Qur’an 📚

Iron gall ink on perfect parchment 🐑

@theul.bsky.social MS Add.1118, 3/4th century AH/ 9/10th century CE

#IslamicManuscript #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #Parchment #JummahMubarak
October 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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laurajcleaver.bsky.social
Our online Winter School is now open for booking! We’re offering online courses on a range of topics for those interested in pre-modern books. Courses begin on 26 January. Check it out 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
IES: LIPS & LRBS Winter School | 2026
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October 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
lizhebbard.bsky.social
A very maker-medieval few days 😍😍 #makermedieval #medievalistmaker #medievalsky #naturalink #pokeberryink #dropspindle #spinningflax #marigoldflowers #marigoldink

@guildmedmak.bsky.social 👀
Two small bottles labeled Pokeberry, containing bright pink natural ink A twist of handspun linen yarn Marigold flowers on an enamel tray
October 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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embracehistoria.bsky.social
I've been researching wine production and distribution in the middle ages and one of the earliest depictions I've found is on the Bayeux tapestry.
This is the Victorian British tapestry at the Reading museum, my own photo.
#medievalsky
October 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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sarahloleet.bsky.social
Excited to be giving a talk about the Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social at WashU later in the month! WashU is a round 2 partner, and we are thrilled to have them on board! library.washu.edu/events/medie...
Medieval Manuscripts at WashU - WashU Libraries
Tens of thousands of medieval manuscripts and documents have made their way from Europe to collections across North America. The Peripheral Manuscripts Project (2020-present) seeks to advance the stud...
library.washu.edu
October 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
New Medieval MiniComics Prize Just Dropped!

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Cartoon Crest for Newberry Library in a medievalizing style. Art by Lucy Bellwood.
September 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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liber-ray.bsky.social
Fun first morning of a medieval group jolly to the incredible Très Riches Heures and library of the Duc de Berry exhibition at Chantilly! 📜🎉
September 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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manuscripta.bsky.social
We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky
manuscripta.se – A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden — manuscripta.se A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden
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September 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
lizhebbard.bsky.social
For those following along, here is the “finished” version (for now… I’m not sure I’m really finished!) 💚 #medievalsky #skystorians #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux #medievalmaking
A red-on-white image of the Indiana University Sample Gates surrounded by trees and creatures in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry
September 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
lizhebbard.bsky.social
Working on something as part of the Bayeux Tapestry from Scratch Project (booklab.indiana.edu/lab-work/cur...). I’m calling it the B’IU Tapestry 🙃

I’m taking notes—what do you think so far? #medievalsky #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux @guildmedmak.bsky.social
A digital drawing of an Indiana University landmark, the Sample Gates, in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry
September 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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nehafge3403.bsky.social
Seems like a great day to share this again: National Endowment for the Humanities staff are/were* responsible stewards of #taxpayer $$, and the benefits for the American public are incalculable. #NEH

*two-thirds of staff were fired in June.
btskinner.io ben @btskinner.io · Apr 29
As an elder millennial, I could trade my lifetime of tax contributions to the NEH for one month of Netflix and have just enough left over to get some avocado toast if I split it with two other people
Line graph titled "What's my share of NEH appropriations" with a caption: "Between its founding in 1965 and fiscal year 2024, the National Endowment for the Humanities received congressional appropriations totaling $7.37 billion. NEH used this funding to support thousands of individuals and cultural organizations - both directly through various grant programs and indirectly through funds disbursed by the 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils. Beyond these appropriations, grantees raised millions of dollars more from non-federal donors as part of grant matching requirements. To put NEH appropriations in perspective, this chart shows cumulative annual per capita contribution to NEH by age, that is, the total dollar amount the average taxpayer has given to NEH over their lifetime. A few relevant purchases are helpfully included to show what a person could have bought instead, had they kept their personal NEH contribution for themselves..." The x-axis ranges from 0 to 59 years old. The y-axis ranges from $0 to $30. At three ages, items that could have instead been purchased with an individual's lifetime NEH contribution are shown. At 13 years, an egg is plotted on the line with a dollar amount of $6.41 and the caption reads, "Just in time to feed a growth spurt, a person at 13 years old has contributed enough to NEH that they could instead purchase one dozen eggs ($6.23/dozen)." At 36 years, a popcorn bucket is plotted with a dollar amount of $18.20 and the caption reads, "Millennials who are at least 36 years old could exchange their nearly four decades worth of NEH support for a one month subscription to Netflix ($17.99/month)." At 50 years, a gasoline pump is plotted with the dollar amount of $26.00 and the caption reads, "Those 50 years old or older - who have been contributing to the agency for nearly its entire existence - could instead have saved that money to purchase about a half tank of gas (8 gallons at $3.23/gallon)."
August 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.
La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center
Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.
www.kplctv.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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carinr.bsky.social
Today is the feast of Bernard of Clairvaux, d. 1153. I've picked out some 12th c. MSS for his day. This is Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 272, 2v, Bernard on the Song of Songs. Mid-12th c. from the Cistercian abbey of Engelszell. I liked the birdie-beast in the initial A.
Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 246, 2v, detail showing initial A with curvy bird-creature. Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 246, 2v
August 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Please help circulate widely!
Assistant Professor (T-T) UC Berkeley, Language Revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Seeking candidates with research specialization in language revitalization and a broad intellectual engagement in linguistics and related fields @soclinganth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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August 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM