@robertordt.bsky.social
Old English language and literature, Digital Philology, Digital Humanities scholar. EVT software development. Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦. Retweet ≠ endorsement. All views my own.
Postdoc position – King’s College London, UK
ERC-funded COALA project in #ComputationalLinguistics
Eligibility: PhD
Deadline: 02 December 2025
Details: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral...
#AcademicJobs #UKJobs #PostdocJobs #NLPResearch #DigitalHumanities @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
A few more days left to apply 📢 If you have a relevant PhD, demonstrable #digitalhumanities experience, & are interested in supporting open access scholarship, I'd be interested to hear from you!
19.11.2025 10:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📣 Kemble Lecture 2025 #TOEBI #medievalsky
📜‘Myths and Monsters: Beowulf and the Etymologists’
🗣️Prof. Richard Dance, University of Cambridge
📅Thursday, 13 November 2025, 5pm
🏫Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
💻Register for Zoom: tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Thread on the Agas map of #London.
Download a high res version from BHO's github repository:
github.com/ihr-digital/...
#History #Maps
Workshop of the ATLAS PRIN PNRR project:
10.09.2025 07:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A new Cambridge Element volume on Linear A by Ester Salgarella, free to download for a limited window - grab it now!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
13.08.2025 22:29 — 👍 29572 🔁 11620 💬 749 📌 741
RFK Jr. is targeting mRNA technology, a major scientific advancement that allowed for the rapid development of coronavirus vaccines. wapo.st/4lhtvKe
06.08.2025 20:54 — 👍 8063 🔁 2692 💬 1327 📌 445Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.
06.08.2025 15:46 — 👍 18274 🔁 3041 💬 392 📌 288🚨 BREAKING: Kherson is on track to become the first city in history under full drone siege.
As human safari is raging.
There’s still time to act.
Huge thanks to Ivan Antypenko, a Ukrainian journalist and photographer, for reporting and sounding the alarm.
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
#Latin #Medieval
25.07.2025 05:30 — 👍 251 🔁 77 💬 17 📌 18
190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my!
We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
Russian terrorists attacked Kyiv with a missile carrying cluster munitions in order to kill as many people as possible
"This can only be described as genocide," the capital's mayor, Vitalii Klychko,said.
The number of people injured on Kyiv has risen to 114.
68 people were taken to hospitals
White text on a light green background reads ‘EXETER MEDIEVAL ONLINE’. Below this are three book covers, from left to right the books are: ‘The Battle of Maldon: A New Critical Edition', 'The Old English Gnomic Poems: Maxims I and Maxims II', and 'Animalia: Animal and Human Interaction in the Early Medieval World'. Below the books on the right side of the image is a red banner with text that reads ‘2025 new additions’.
Exeter Medieval Online now offers over 100 volumes of leading medieval scholarship in one perpetual access digital collection.
Browse the collection> bit.ly/exetermediev...
It's officially out in the last issue of the "International Journal of Lexicography": "Current Trends in Online Sign Language Dictionaries", academic.oup.com/ijl/article-... (sorry it's not open access...)
17.06.2025 14:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Per chi fosse interessato, ho messo online le nostre slide per AIUCD 2025. Molte grazie agli organizzatori, e a tutti i partecipanti, per l'ottima riuscita della conferenza! Come sempre un ottimo momento di incontro e discussione.
drive.google.com/file/d/1HSqh...
#AIUCD2025 #EVT
PhD funding available on a very exciting project for a medieval Latinist.
21.05.2025 11:26 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Anyone tempted to welcome Putin’s proposed talks needs to remember that there is only one “root cause” for this war - Russia invaded a peaceful neighbouring country. But what Putin means by “eliminating the root causes” is destroying Ukraine as a sovereign state & bringing it under Russian control.
11.05.2025 06:24 — 👍 95 🔁 34 💬 4 📌 0
They lie about everything!!!
After Trump and Rubio claimed they mediated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, India’s foreign ministry contradicted them, saying the ceasefire was arranged directly between the two countries.
Negli ultimi giorni sta circolando l’estratto di un’intervista che papa Leone XIV fece nell’aprile del 2022 in cui parlava della guerra in Ucraina
ilpost.link/0RBrcy834q
We bombed a Palm Sunday service without consequence. So we do this. Without consequence.
17.04.2025 10:44 — 👍 914 🔁 253 💬 8 📌 7
Looking forward to this workshop next week! 😄
www.lorentzcenter.nl/seeing-the-d...
As expected, the NEH DH Advancement Grant funding the VCEDitor 2.0 project has been terminated by DOGE. VCEDitor 2.0 continues development of software to model & visualize codex manuscripts. As described in our award announcement, the funded work would include... 1/6
viscoll.org/2024/08/28/v...
You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
Tomorrow in Venice 😄
31.03.2025 12:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pubblicato il bando per il prossimo ciclo del Dottorato FROID - Filologia Romanza e Italiana Digitale, scadenza per la presentazione delle candidature: 17 aprile.
L'annuncio si trova qui: www.sns.it/it/concorso-..., il bando qui: www.sns.it/sites/defaul....
📢 Job Klaxon! #DigitalHumanities #DH
The deadline approaches (23 March 2025) to apply to 1 of 2 PhD contracts we're offering in the ERC project LostMa, hosted @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social
On our website, learn more about the project & find a link to the job description: lostma-erc.github.io/news#0
Incontro di studio sul Vercelli Book la prossima settimana:
05.03.2025 07:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sadly, it’s time to revive this 2017 TIME cover.
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Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
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