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Music and Musicians in the Medieval Persianate World - Medievalists.net Explore how medieval Persian musicians blended art, theory, and performance through two remarkable texts that reveal the sounds and social world of music.

Music and Musicians in the Medieval Persianate World www.medievalists.net/2025/11/musi... #medievalmusic

ACH 2026 CFP Submit a proposal: ACH 2026 ConfTool

Two weeks left! The deadline for ACH 2026 proposals is February 23, 2025.
We welcome submissions on all topics related to digital humanities, computing, and the humanities. Short papers, long papers, posters, panels, and workshops all encouraged!
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YouTube video by SchoenbergInstitute Coffee with a Codex: Fragments of Books of Hours

Last week's #CoffeeWithACodex was very fun: a selection of fragments of books of hours! #medievalsky

youtu.be/wHrUAV5g9ek

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

“Don't touch the ink.”

It has to be "The Muppets Take Medieval Studies," because Kalamzoo is objectively the funniest place name for anywhere an academic conference takes place.

Another day another press release for an AI grifter posing as news. Thanks to my friend (redacted here) for texting me this new one.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Today we're looking at a 14th c. copy of a purported letter from Hippocrates to Caesar. It's a short collection of medical advice in prose, comprised of recipes followed by a guide to astronomical movements. Written in Middle French! (UPenn Ms. Codex 421) #medievalsky

🔗: https://bit.ly/4rnDOQu

Jewish Worlds and Words in Medieval England | British Library Rare manuscripts can give an insight into the Jewish population and presence in medieval England, and some of the most remarkable and important of all have

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Coffee with a Codex: Book of Hours Fragments An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

For #CoffeeWithACodex on February 5, curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out a variety of fragments and leaves from books of hours, from the 15th and 16th centuries and written in France, the Netherlands, and England. #medievalsky

Register here: https://bit.ly/4swKo8S

Yes please!

I still think about this too! I should get a template out there and see what folks come up with 🤔 also +1 on book arts as #DHmakes

“Screenshot of a promoted Reddit post by u/AYAGDOS. The post reads: ‘Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18–25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have YOUR experience reflected in the science.’ Below is a banner graphic with the Northwestern University logo and the text ‘TRANS OR GENDERQUEER? SHARE YOUR STORY.’ The image shows a close-up of a hand with light pink nail polish, partially painted blue, held up against a blurred background. A link to ayagdos.org and a ‘Learn More’ button appear at the bottom, along with Reddit vote and share icons.”

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

What! may it be that even in heavenly place
That busy archer his sharp arrows tries?
-William Shakespeare

A dog fires a bow and arrow at a chicken in the bottom margin of f. 313v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky

🔗: https://bit.ly/4qhgXWu

YouTube video by unvmebad86 George Washington

I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

Why should I watch something that a director didn't even bother to make?

YouTube video by Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Winter Lecture Series: Building a Digital Library

Here's the @visithmml.bsky.social webinar from yesterday. It was especially interesting on the process of moving digital images from the field to tagged, backed up, and usable MS facsimiles, and on details of the photographic process in the question period at the end. youtu.be/CXR18p1M1sc?...

every Signal chat of laypeople is losing their minds over the wildest opsec advice imaginable and every Signal chat of security professionals is like “dude wtf”

The vast majority of problems can be avoided by not being foolish, being aware of your surroundings, and using common sense

I hate to tap the sign but again: this is all made to make in-person education and access to knowledge transfer a preserve of the elite. Human education for the few, bots for the many.

Next week: part of the Digital Humanist's Helpdesk series, this hour-long workshop with @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social introduces the #DHMakes movement, combining digital humanities with arts and crafts. We will make cool things like zines, bookmarks, & more. Open to all, no previous experience required!

Lecturer in Early Medieval History | King's College London

Very exciting job announcement! Permanent early medieval (Britain and/or Europe) teaching post at KCL. I know first-hand that this is a great opportunity to work with amazing colleagues and students. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

A little stop motion video I made of an almanac in the University of Rochester collection to try and give viewers an idea of how it functions 😊

(Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Tweet from Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun: "Ignorance like this cheapens the horror of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally and abided by Dutch law. She was hauled off to a death camp because of her race and religion. Her story has nothing to do with the illegal immigration, fraud, and lawlessness plaguing Minnesota today. Our brave law enforcement should be commended, not tarred with this historically illiterate and antisemitic comparison."

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."

In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests

- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact

“If you can remember a world before ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,’ you can remember a world without the Department of Homeland Security. And so you can imagine a future without it as well.”

CFP: DLC+ Presents Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference: "Slop" and "Nostalgia" We are excited to announce the second installment of our Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture series, mini-conferences devoted to studying the most pressing and emerging concepts actively shap...

Check out the CFP for this pair of VIRTUAL mini-conferences on SLOP and NOSTALGIA, held by DLC+. I attended some of the previous mini-conference they put on it and it was great. Highly recommend. Keynote by the great Tess McNulty @dlcplus.org docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...