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Introduction to Latin Palaeography

Back by popular demand, Introduction to Latin Palaeography will run online in February 2026 #MedievalSky 👇

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We are SO excited to announce that applications are now open for this year's Medieval Studies Summer School! 🎉 Please do pass this information on to anyone you think might be interested!

We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks!

#medievalsky #skystorians

anyone in the area needs to attend this- the original was next-level and this one is not to be missed!!

Our brilliant PGRs are at it again! After last year's inaugural and highly-successful brat symposium (organised by CMS PGRs Shauna Roach, Sarah Collinson, Harry Lewis, and Isla Dawson), this year's committee is once again inviting Bristol PGRs to consider how 'brat' connects with their own research.

IES: LIPS & LRBS Winter School | 2026

Our online Winter School is now open for booking! We’re offering online courses on a range of topics for those interested in pre-modern books. Courses begin on 26 January. Check it out 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Denne utlysinga bør berre lesast med Mr Nelson-stemme og med 'Pernille' lagt til etter kvar setning. Eit linkedIn dokketeater for å skremme nye generasjonar med ungar.

University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues]

Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university

Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here

This. Also, I spent an embarrassingly long time in utter confusion until I arrived at the insight that Lonergan uses 'classical' and cognate terms in a technical sense of his own.

'Our University would do well to stop neglecting the threats to humanities education, and start publicly taking up the banner of the humanities.'

Could (and should) be said of so many universities, across the globe.

Happy Bobby G day!

Periodic reminder that hostility to 'useless' arts and humanities degrees is another (though much, much longer-standing) area of Labour/Conservative consensus.

This has overwhelmingly also been my experience.

a fascist president, a corrupt president, a vindictive president, a senile president we might endure — but a pelagian president?

I was about to post this; glad I checked first. Brilliant, brilliant song.

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.

Niche but spot on.

Congratulations!

🤩 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

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

Breaking news: OpenAI researchers use actual intelligence to discover that bears shit in the woods! Stay tuned for their “landmark study” on the pope’s religious affiliation. (PSA: it is a category mistake to call the generation of falsehoods “hallucination”.) www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

A lot of learning is a dangerous thing How university expansion split western societies

Good (albeit dismal) reading. With a a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/4gzymFV

The point of going to university is to explore research and knowledge, not to start an effing business. The skills and experiences gained might help you start a business, as might the interactions with the people you meet, but it is not the purpose of a degree.

Fed up of this manure.

do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated

it’s important to remember that in general these people are not “folding” or “surrendering” — they’re maximizing shareholder value

One thing I wish would come up in common discourse on justifying why it's good to learn ancient languages is it gets you used to the idea that a dictionary entry is a repertory of a lot of meanings which are defined by lots of contexts and we often don't know exactly what all or any of them mean

Are we waiting for a new – and doubtless very different – St Athanasius? Or a series of ecumenical live hangouts?

Den stora kyrkflytten – Första dagen I direktsändning följer vi den världsunika flytten av Kiruna kyrka, från gamla stadskärnan till dess nya plats, fem kilometer bort. Den stora kyrkflytten tar två dagar och är en del av den omfattande ...

-Those bells are getting louder.
-Oh, look, the church! It's getting closer! It's coming down the hill!
-Now it's opening the gates!
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William of Malmesbury gave his Gregory the Great mix tape the title Defloratio Gregorii, and while I don't have my notes to hand, I think he inserts some florid prose in his preface too. I half remember the shelfmark of the only extant copy to be Cambridge UL Ii.3.20.

Congratulations – I look forward to reading it!