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Rebecca Shores
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Maritime medievalist (PhD on saints at sea/on boats), HS teacher, mom to humans and dogs.
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This is pretty cool.

I wonder how this might be used to do better climate work — e.g., for addressing emissions linked to buildings, and mapping infrastructure for climate adaptation work?

interestingengineering.com/innovation/f...
World's buildings mapped for the first time in high-resolution 3D map
Technical University of Munich researchers have just unveiled GlobalBuildingAtlas, a new 3D map that captures every building on the planet.
interestingengineering.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
@mariadahvana.bsky.social still teaching your amazing translation and loving all the parallels. Clare Danes talking about violence “cradling” grief and “midwifing” unspeakable hopes suggests that your work continues to be widely read. There was even a mention of life being on loan in an earlier ep!
hey #medievalsky, has anyone watched The Beast in Me? Was it cowritten by MD Headley?? That last episode felt like it was taken right out of her Beowulf translation!
December 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
hey #medievalsky, has anyone watched The Beast in Me? Was it cowritten by MD Headley?? That last episode felt like it was taken right out of her Beowulf translation!
December 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Woruldhord
📲 english.web.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord
✍️Project Director: Stuart Lee
📝Research Officers: Anna Caughey and Tom Birkett
©️University of Oxford
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Need help from a medievalist: what do we do with these obscenely large PDFs from the MGH? How do you search them? How do you make them smaller? Venantius Fortunatus poems are 1000MB!! Please help! #medieval #medievalsky #lateantique
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lee's monograph has been published open-access with @archumanities.bsky.social. Read The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body now! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270039... [3/4] #medievalsky #histmed
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Very good mail day: @ryancordell.org @deliadraws.bsky.social & other @skeuomorphpress.org students' gorgeous handmade (book, letterpress, illustrations>lino) edition of Ursula K Le Guin's "A Rant about 'Technology'" #DHmakes Some poster versions from the book may still be available? (link in QT)
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
@tcddublin.bsky.social have I missed a resource? It’d be great to know for certain which letters are where (esp in breves causae, etc)
Stoked to introduce Book of Kells to my students but cannot find transcription ANYWHERE. Tricks/sources for identifying letters in breves causae, etc? I’m out of practice! #medievalsky #irishsky
August 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Stoked to introduce Book of Kells to my students but cannot find transcription ANYWHERE. Tricks/sources for identifying letters in breves causae, etc? I’m out of practice! #medievalsky #irishsky
August 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
New find!
What do we think abt the script? Tag said 15th but I’m not so sure.
June 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
New find!
What do we think abt the script? Tag said 15th but I’m not so sure.
June 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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“He who doesn’t know how to write doesn’t see the labor. Three fingers write, the whole body works. If you read this, pray for me.”
Revisiting Lucie Doležalová's contrubution in 'Medieval Humour' and giggling: buff.ly/h6pA4vW 📖 @labnf.bsky.social , MS Latin 9561 fol. 81v.
#medievalsky #manuscripts
June 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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A suggestion for "Hug a Medievalist Day" 2025: write to your favorite medievalist and tell them which of their works (book, article, blogpost, tweet/skeet) you've used in teaching or shared w/ friends/family/community. What inspired you to think about the world differently?
March 31, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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St Cuthbert’s grave in St Peter’s, Lindisfarne, was opened #OTD in 698 for the translation of his remains. The brethren clothed his incorrupt body in new vestments and lay it in a wooden coffin engraved with angels and apostles. This was placed above ground near the high altar.
March 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Ooooooohhhhhh 👀
It's a big day for early medieval inscriptions - the Pool ogham inscription from Orkney is significantly redated here and the language pretty much confirmed as Old Norse. #MedievalSky
🏺For this month's #OG_H_AM blog, I've written about our investigations into the ogham stone from Pool, Orkney - a team viewing of the 3D model and a trip to the excavation archive appear to have brought this inscription from the 6th century to the 9th! ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
February 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Why not explore our #digitalcorpus by find-spots!

Learn more about each subset of #documents, categorised by language and location, by clicking on the place markers on the map: bit.ly/find-spots

#skystorians #documents #medievalsky
February 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM