@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!
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 ⬇️
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...
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 🧪🗃️
from apnews.com/article/cali...
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
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. 😁
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
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...
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 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!
“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”
🚨 #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
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 ✨
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...
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.
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
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:
recrutement.psl.eu/ew9whsvw8h
recrutement.psl.eu/xlyf3ezcmp
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
