Craig M Nakashian
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Craig M Nakashian
@themedievalprof.bsky.social
A Baystate medievalist in the Lone Star State.
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Happy Beaujolais Nouveau Day to all who celebrate!
Beaujolais Nouveau Day: Your guide to the best bottles of red hot off the (wine) presses
Beaujolais Nouveau Day: Your guide to the best bottles hot off the (wine) presses
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Ivy Leaguers: stop trying to reinvent racism. Challenge level: impossible.
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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This, again, is an impeachable offense.

No kings. No monarchs.

We are not England. We are not Rome.

America has no throne to sit on.
It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy. Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
By Alan Rappeport

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Holy shit
September 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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This regime clearly wants to abuse its power and begin policing speech throughout our country.

Let today, Constitution Day, be a reminder that our Constitution affirms it is our fundamental right as Americans to speak freely, even if those in power don’t like what we’re saying.
September 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later.

Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.

Many implications for knowledge 🧪
September 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Job offer for medievalists at the University of Warsaw: historia.uw.edu.pl/en/job-offer....

My dear friend & colleague Grzegorz Pac is looking for a postdoc to join his project Recognising Saints in the High Middle Ages.
Job offer for postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Medieval History – Faculty of History
historia.uw.edu.pl
August 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Hello! For a mere 50k per student I will also provide you a school with no teachers.
At this $65,000 a year AI-driven school, there are no teachers.

Students study for two hours a day using apps and personalized lesson plans and spend their afternoons on life skills such as financial literacy.
For $65,000 a year, a teacher-less AI private school comes to Virginia
At Alpha School, a new private school in Northern Virginia, students will study for just two hours a day using adaptive apps and personalized lesson plans.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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This Friday marks the The Battle of the Standard, sometimes called the Battle of Northallerton, a battle during the Civil War of Stephen and Matilda. It took place on 22 August 1138. The exact site near the town has been much debated with variations in source texts and .
August 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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This is pathetic even if it wasn't an incomprehensible betrayal of our allies.
He had the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Ukraine, the EU and NATO in the White House and he made them wait while he went to get instructions from Putin ...

For forty minutes?!
BREAKING NYT:

Trump paused his meeting with European leaders and Zelenskyy this afternoon to call Vladimir Putin.

The Kremlin has since confirmed the call. It lasted for 40 minutes.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
August 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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The whisker admirer has logged on. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
August 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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This week we announced a vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA

The Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date 8 Sept #Skystorians
Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator - RHS
The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop...
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August 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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12-week research post available in medieval and early modern landscape, focusing on West Horsley near Oxford: www.tss.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
Researcher in Oxford City Centre | Oxford University
View details and apply for this Researcher Temporary Assignment in Oxford City Centre. To apply for this role you must have: Proven experience in high-level research, ideally at adva...
www.tss.ox.ac.uk
August 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Attention all Norman postgrad scholars! Here are the details for the Marjorie Chibnall Prize 2026. The Battle Conference will be in Swansea next year. Supervisors, please talk to your students and encourage them to submit. battleconference.wordpress.com/marjorie-chi... #skystorians #medievalsky
Marjorie Chibnall Prize 2026
The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize: call for submissions The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize, offered in memory of the former director of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies and co-founder o…
battleconference.wordpress.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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"nine of the ingots – accounting for nearly a third of the hoard’s silver – were geochemically matched to silver minted in the Islamic Caliphate"
August 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Job Opportunity!

Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history)

networks.h-net.org/jobs/68930/p...
Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history) | H-Net
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August 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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“The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) strongly condemns the removal of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and the unfounded accusations leveled against the work of the agency…

A totally apolitical group.

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August 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...
Assistant/Associate Professor of Medieval History (1100-1500) - University of Tenn, Knoxville job with University of Tennessee Department of History | 37862790
The Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville invites applications for a tenure-track professor of medieval history (1100-1500).
jobs.chronicle.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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If you happen to be in Cambridge before 7 Dec, you have to drop in to see the FREE exhibition

A must see for anyone with an interest in medical science or medieval mss!

True: I filled a slip for their 21st century Curious Cures, and recognised many already there!

www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitioncu...
July 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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July 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Tomorrow is the deadline for registering for this year’s Harlaxton, on the theme of ‘The Medieval City’. Join us!!! Register here: harlaxtonmedievalsymposium.org
📚 #medievalsky #skystorians
July 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM