Prof. Ben Pohl

Truly excellent move by @manchesterup.bsky.social, as a result of which two of my own articles in BJRL are now Open Access, effective immediately: doi.org/10.7227/BJRL... and doi.org/10.7227/BJRL...

Amazing! Thank you!

This is excellent news. Will OA be applied retroactively to past issues and articles therein? (Asking for a friend… 😉)

Including one of the latest titles from our Bristol Studies in Medieval Culture series with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @bristolcms.bsky.social

That’s a massive relief!

It is, and I don’t think I implied the opposite?

Exactly. Very worrying indeed.

I’m aware of several recent examples in which well-established journals have left these presses or are in the process of doing so. I’m less interested in commercial publishers… 😉

The latest but by no means the only example of an alarming trend in which the UK’s foremost academic publishers are haemorrhaging highly prestigious journals at a rate of knots…

It’s what we do best at @bristolcms.bsky.social: celebrating community and world-class research!

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Here’s the image by itself:

Becky Barnicoat on the growth of fascism in Britain – cartoon The far right never seizes power. It’s always politely invited in by nice people

A depressingly well observed cartoon by Becky Barnicoat on the growth of fascism in Britain www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Took me a second or two to realise that KLM’s napkins show a pair of windmills, rather than a crudely sketched crucifixion scene!

Wait, are you saying this ISN’T your office??

Home is where a LIDL is!

One happy @bristolcms.bsky.social family!

Hwæt?! The amazing Old English Reading Group is BACK and with a new friend?!?

Join Hattie and Co for Old English Reading Group at 3pm Friday in Hattie’s office, followed by the brand new Old Norse Reading Group at 4pm! No prior knowledge or experience needed, and everybody welcome!

It really is just relentless the constant dehumanisation in this country. Prove you deserve to be here. Prove you deserve to be cared for. Prove your gender. Prove you deserve to have human rights. Prove you deserve to stay after a whole decade. It just chisels away at your humanity

We're so excited for the first Centre for Medieval Studies Research Seminar of the year!

Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after!

All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians

I’m sick to the back teeth of this so-called progressive govt spouting utter xenophobic nonsense & throwing migrants under the bus to curry favour with the lowest of the low. We’re not your scapegoat. We’re not the enemy. We’re what’s holding this community together. With all due respect: F*CK YOU!

Joey and Phoebe meme. Phoebe instructing Joey to say "Fix the economy and public services" with him at the end instead saying "Digital national ID cards!"

ChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.

The future of our profession 👇

Anyone know the collective noun for a reunion of medieval PGRs?!

One of the things we’re proudest of at the CMS is our amazing PGR community! We have such an active, supportive, and accomplished group of PGRs. We can’t wait to see what they get up to this academic year! #medievalsky

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Yes, yes they would.

Likewise. I enjoyed it much more from Book II onwards, mainly because I found the frequent changes in layout and typography throughout Book I annoying and unnecessary. The well-worn trope of the pervert monk was a minor gripe. But yes, to be recommended as a whole.

🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians

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Robert of Torigni? Never heard of him! 😉 Congratulations, Gabriele! I’ll make sure to pre-order a copy for our library, entirely selflessly, of course…