Rebecca Shores

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.

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...

@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!

📢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

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

Medieval deaf communication Communicating with hand signs has a long history. Researcher Jude Seal examines the evidence for signing in Medieval Europe among both deaf and hearing communities.

My latest post for the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on #deafness, #communication, and sign language in the Middle Ages
wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi...
#medievalsky #skystorians

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

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)

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

This was going to be my response! Also, McCann’s Twist.

@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

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#medievalist #paleography
#MedievalSky

#medievalsky #medievalmanuscript

New find!
What do we think abt the script? Tag said 15th but I’m not so sure.

RAGE

“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

YESSSSSS

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?

The translation depicted in Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert contained within the British Library manuscript Yates Thompson MS 26.

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.

So excited for this! I’m reminded of the time I argued that *actually* Nicholas was not an obvious choice for Wm I’s new church once he got to England.

Ooooooohhhhhh 👀

Map showing the find-spots of the documents in the Invisible East digital corpus. Map shows locations in modern day Iran, Afghanistan, central Asia and China.

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

For HS seniors in the US: 7th-14th, Bede -Chaucer. All in modern translation.