Thomas Hendrickson

But my good trick-or-treater, do we put on such costumes because this night is spooky, or is the night spooky because put on such costumes?

Have you been bereft without MLGB3? It was the essential and much-used online listing of extant books from British medieval libraries. Those good people @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have been working away and have just re-launched it, with the promise of more in the year ahead:
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

This is just a bunch of fake news

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

The yearly update of the Supplementa tertia (v. 6.7) is out! Additions and corrections to the three published volumes of Aristoteles Latinus Codices, with plenty of hyperlinks to digital images! If you know or own other MSS of the medieval Latin Aristotle, please reach out!
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Call for New Committee Members Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early caree…

Happy Monday! A reminder that we're seeking new committee members for Ceræ's 13th volume, including editors, a social media manager, and a fundraising officer. Postgraduate students welcome! See link below for details:

ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...

#medievalsky #academicsky #earlymodernsky

Booklist found in a will from 837 CE. Kind of notable that the daughters are all given books (the sons too, though that's less notable).

👀 Ooo, what are you saying about scholastic philosophy?

My book's not in there...and I'm actually a little offended?

I've gotta say, it would be hard to live up to a name like Exsuperius.

(from Gallagher and Meade "Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity")

Not gonna lie-- catching news like this is one of the main benefits of bluesky for me.

lolsob

Poster's madness? More like imPOSTER syndrome!

The cover of Sarah J. Charles, The Medieval Scriptorium

Look what came in the mail today! Another goodie to share with my manuscripts course that starts next week. #medievalsky

Yeah, I've been getting a lot of these too.

The chatbots claiming to be Jesus: spreading gospel or heresy? Jesus chatbots aren't the only AI technologies seeping into religious practice. Some worshippers don’t agree with the use of them.

The above screenshot from this article (I have no idea why the article starts with Carlo Acutis, who, as far as I know, has nothing to do with AI): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In one of my classes we were just talking about the bit of Exodus where the Israelites were worshipping the golden calf. (There had been an allusion to it in a text we're reading.) Anyways, apropos of nothing, several different companies are now offering an AI Jesus:

I have deleted my account using this workaround.

Anyways, I’m out.

If you want proofs of any of my work, just shoot me an email!
4/4

Granted, many of the academic publishers were themselves loathsome, and their business model was poaching money from universities and labor from scholars. 3/4

I had thought of academia[dot]edu as a place to share scholarship with people who didn't have access. But ultimately it was a for-profit company, whose business model was to poach profits from academic publishers. 2/4

Deleted my academia[dot]edu account, which I should have done years ago.

A quick thread on leaving academia (the site!).
1/4

Yeah, same. This was just the final straw. I also despised their enthusiasm for AI.

Seasons of the year poster in Classical Latin!

What season is your favorite?

Recognize any English words from these?

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Books they stole from me include all my Terra Ignota novels, my two nonfic histories, my dissertation, all my published academic articles & book reviews, & several of my scholarly book chapters; basically everything with a digital version. They really did pirate *everything* that’s online in any way

Tater Tot Casserole This Tater Tot casserole is easy to make with ground beef, cream of mushroom soup, and lots of Cheddar cheese for a tasty comfort food classic.

Not super healthy, but it's this.

(One can add peas and/or carrots and/or green beans to make it slightly less unhealthy) www.allrecipes.com/recipe/22203...

Digital Neo-Latin Studies conference-- registration deadline is tomorrow.

For Applicants

Call for applications: Endangered Archives Programme
eap.bl.uk/applicants

Galen's medical theories may be out of date, but it turns out that not much has changed about academic writing.

(-from "On the Order of my Books" trans. Singer)

Mihi placet!