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@fourredshoes.bsky.social hello! My PhD supervisor is trying to contact you re external examining.

Indeed. I am used to breathing in cat hair after all.

White cat with black forehead being comfy on my chest, incidentally smooshing his furry body into my face and nose.

Goodnight from Tristan who likes to lovingly suffocate me. #CatSky

Management's threat to make £140million of cuts at the University of Edinburgh is shocking.

Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised.

The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.

I am pondering what to focus on for next month's publication recs related to dress history. Shall March be about (medieval) textile embellishments and techniques?
#MedievalSky

When writing alt text, focus on what's truly important. In an image with text about a canceled event, the borders of the image are not nearly as vital as conveying that this event is now canceled. A decorative border can be mentioned, but it's not the most important element.

Micro Analysis on Hallstatt Textiles: Colour and Condition - Microchimica Acta Due to the special conditions in the Bronze Age and Hallstatt Period salt-mines of Hallstatt, Austria, a large number of archaeological textile fragments, dated from 1400 to 400 BC, can be found. Text...

The last Hallstatt one for now: Joosten, I., Van Bommel, M. R., Hoffmann-de Keijzer, R. and Reschreiter, H. (2006) 'Micro Analysis on Hallstatt Textiles: Colour and Condition', Microchim Acta, 155, pp. 169-174. doi.org/10.1007/s006...

White men's Jenga

Coloured Hallstatt Textiles: 3500 Year-old Textile and Dyeing Techniques and their Contemporary Application From 2008 to 2012 a multi- and transdisciplinary research project was undertaken in co-operation between several European institutions1. The aim of the project was to increase the knowledge of prehist...

(2013) 'Coloured Hallstatt textiles: 3500 year-old textile and dyeing techniques and their contemporary application', in Banck-Burgess, J. & Nübold, C. (eds.) The North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles XI: Vol. XI NESAT. Rahden: Marie Leidorf, pp. 125-129. tinyurl.com/bp4sd8py

The following early dyeing rec compliments Hoffmann-de Keijzer et al. rec from 02.07.25
Hoffmann-de Keijzer, R., Van Bommel, M. R., Hartl, A., Grömer, K., Rösel-Mautendorfer, H., Reschreiter, H., Kania, K., Joosten, I., Proaño Gaibor, A. N., Erlach, R., Lachner, E., Wandl, M. and de Keijzer, M. 1/2

The Hidden Colours of Lengberg Castle, Austria. In: NESAT XII. Archaeolingua 33 (Budapest 2015), 51-63. In the course of extensive reconstruction, starting in July 2008, at Lengberg Castle, East-Tyrol, archaeological investigations of several parts of the building were carried out. During the research a...

Nutz, B. & Vanden Berghe, I. 'The Hidden Colours of Lengberg Castle, Austria.', NESAT XII: Aspects of the Design, Production and Use of Textiles and Clothing from the Bronze Age to the Early Modern Era, Hallstatt, Austria 21-25 May 2014. Budapest: Archaeolingua Foundation, 51-63 tinyurl.com/2jrh27kk

Yesterday was a dark day.
I made sure to vote by postal vote, so did my whole family no matter from which country. I suppose had we not, then it would have been even worse. I can't go protest on the streets, I am not in the country, but once I am, I will. Germany, of all countries!

I don't just think that you do, I KNOW that you do 😉

Multidisciplinary investigation reveals the earliest textiles and cinnabar-coloured cloth in Iberian Peninsula - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Multidisciplinary investigation reveals the earliest textiles and cinnabar-coloured cloth in Iberian Peninsula

Very early & Spain today: Gleba, M., Bretones-García, M. D., Cimarelli, C., Vera-Rodríguez, J. C. and Martínez-Sánchez, R. M. (2021) 'Multidisciplinary investigation reveals the earliest textiles and cinnabar-coloured cloth in Iberian Peninsula', Scientific Reports, 11(1). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Science being "apolitical" or "objective" is an illusion. If we do not act when fascists and liars are actively working to supress facts and eradicate institutions and humans, we are complicit in their agenda. Just speaking from experience as a German.

folie: Große Schwerter, große Namen? Digitale Korpusanalysen der Schwertnamen in der mittelhochdeutschen Literatur Große Schwerter, große Namen? Digitale Korpusanalysen der Schwertnamen in der mittelhochdeutschen Literatur

We're doing a thing! ⚔️ @luiseborek.bsky.social @ladidalisa.bsky.social

Book cover of "The mineral and the visual: precious stones in medieval secular culture", which has the image of a manuscript as background, with coloured roundels and the names of the gems they represent

My Sunday is sorted. This is a great book, very enjoyable read.
Buettner, B. (2022) The mineral and the visual: Precious stones in Medieval secular culture. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. #MedievalSky

White cat with Dalmation spots is sitting on a small kitten sized scratching mini post (with colourful dots on the pale blue fluffy fabric), looking attentively out of the window

Happy #Caturday evening from the Sentinel of the House.
Tristan uses his baby kitten scratching post as a plinth. I think he's quite majestic, aye? #CatSky

A fun romp through the Archaeology of Dr Who, including a name check for @durotrigesdig.bsky.social.

Clapping when your plane lands now seems appropriate again

Sadly I am far too busy with full time uni job and last throes of PhD. When I'm retired, you betcha! (Not all that much longer, a handful of years)

Were I 30 years or more younger and at the start of my career I'd do this one in a jiffy. Fabulous.

A visual of the front cover of the book Women Artists & Designers at the National Trust, with text and a few objects of material culture against a light blue background.

New book announcement!

Women Artists & Designers at the National Trust
by Rachel Conroy with an introduction by Sandi Toksvig
shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/women-artist...

Spanning six centuries, this book looks at some of the many women artists and designers represented in its vast collections.

😀

Transcribing Old and Middle French (1300-1500)

There’s still time to book for this online short course next month. It is for anyone who wants to work with texts in medieval French 🇫🇷📖📝 #medievalsky👇

ies.sas.ac.uk/events/trans...

Screenshot from a scan of page 289 of an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote. The text is set in two columns. In the left column, we read in part “thou hast hit the point, Sancho, which can alone shake my resolution”, and on the right “thy share of the booty would would have been at least the emperor’s crown of gold”; by coincidence, these align so that the phrase “shake my booty” can be read across the columns.

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

A 19th century painting featuring a woman holding a book in one hand and resting her head on the other. In the background sits a man reading a paper. He says: What in the world radicalised you? She says: Reading history books and being born with basic human empathy

Empathy and kindness are not weaknesses, they’re acts of solidarity and resistance

For all of you weird people who like rhubarb.
Personally, as a kid in the 70s all of our neighbours in the wee village had rhubarb in their gardens and they always had surplus they handed to my mum. I have never liked rhubarb, no matter what she made from it.
But good on you if you like it.

These look extremely important to us. Stunning bindings too! Brava!

Closeup of very pink and very adorable toe beans of a young white cat with Dalmation spots. He is snoozing on a pale turquoise pad, his equally rosy pink nose is a bit blurred in the background. I used portrait mode because of course.

Rosy pink toe beans! #CatSky