Kyrie E. Bouressa

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 🧵)

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 ⬇️

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...

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...

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…

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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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

Some hungry rabbits carousing on a green lawn, in front and to the left of a large oak tree; a sidewalk in the background leads to a large silver building.

An orange conference tag for the International Medieval Congress 2025, identifying the poster—Kyrie Bouressa— and her affiliations with McGill University and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology.

A red banner indicating the presence of the International Medieval Congress hung over the white bring entrance of a red brick building.

a possum, mouth open, looking at the camera in hopes of sharing her enormous neume script knowledge

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. 😁

Poster for a set of sesssions sponsored by the Digital Medievalist. The image features a photo of a manuscript, logo of the organisation and the contents that can be found here https://tinyurl.com/DMatIMC2025

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
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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.

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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 …

Publication – « Social Network Analysis and Medieval History », éd. Matthew Hammond

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Hello Leeds and hello #IMC2025– kicking things off with a bunny sighting! 🐇

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...

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.

The White House took down a website hosting the nation's top report on how climate change is affecting the United States.

Manuscript from Mont-St-Michel rediscovered. Something for everyone in this codex!

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...

“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.”

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

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”

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...

🚨 #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... !

#MedievalSky

The Guild of Medievalist Makers

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

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

🎉✨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...

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,

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...

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

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.

The image shows two people atop one house point behind a third person atop another house who is holding a hammer. The background to the image is gold leaf, and the houses are small, appearing as if the people are too small for them to do anything but stand upright in them. Reference: Vidal Mayor, Ms. Ludwig XIV 6 (83.MQ.165), fol. 153v (1297-1305).

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

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

Two RSE jobs at @psl-univ.bsky.social & @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social are open for applications.
Check them out if you’re interested in working on #digitalhumanities projects in diverse fields, from medieval studies to cultural evolution:
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Save the Date! Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 July 2025. Be inspired by love, charity and care to consider gendered literary, political/historical, and theological texts and responses, all forms of religious belief and none, and social/socio-economic, and environmental explorations of the subject from caring to apocalyptic climate emergency. Topics might include: • Religious devotion and almsgiving globally (including generosity in Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism (d̄āna), • Jewish philanthropy (tzedakah) and Islamic charitable giving (sadaqa) • Gift-giving and donations in texts, documents, material culture, drama and depictions from saints to chuggers, lay piety, and non-normative medieval beliefs, including the opposites of charity and care - cupidity and neglect. • Charitable locations: leperhouses, hospices and hospitals, and the care of the sick and dying, childbirth and childcare. • Charity in urban and rural domestic settings and gardens, guilds, church ales and help ales. • Charity and care for bodies, feelings and nature: emotions, senses, sensualities, sex, chastity, and inclusive genderings. • Convenor: Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Centre for Kent History & Heritage, Canterbury Christ Church University • Kindly email abstracts and questionsto GMS 2025 Liaison Dr Diane Heath, Diane.Heath@ScienceMuseum.ac.uk • AbstractDeadline: Monday 31 March 2025 PLEASE PUT ‘GMS 2025 ABSTRACT’ IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL – THANK YOU • Abstracts 200 words max (+ bio) for papers (20 mins); panels, poetry, performance, posters and art also welcome • ECR travel bursary aid available on receipt of tickets (post attendance) via the Kate Westoby Fund. • Location: Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU • Conference begins Wednesday 2 July; Conference Dinner on Thursday; Conference ends Saturday am.

This year's conference is organised by @medievalcanter.bsky.social at Canterbury Christ Church, 2-5 July. Theme is "Gender: Charity and Care". Plenty of time to get your abstract in--they're due March 31

Full info 👉 medievalgender.co.uk/2025-canterb...

#MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️ #CfP

How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.