Justine Firnhaber-Baker

This is a good game. I will add:
- a cashmere sweater, whose pilling I removed with excessive vigour
- the approval of several men, whose arguments‘ weaknesses I noted aloud
- my child’s happiness, every time I ask him to unload the dishwasher

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

There is, of course, 2011's Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy in the interim.

Please to all the gods that ever were or might be, make this happen

[Parution] Agata Poirot (dir.), Établissements ruraux médiévaux. De l’Antiquité tardive au XIIIe siècle, Infolio éditions, 440 p.
#archéologie
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I, the Catholic schoolgirl turned medieval historian, am so HERE for this post.

The movie analogy here articulates something I’ve been trying to put my finger on since my oldest left home. Good advice in the thread too.

Fantastic analogy and advice. Thanks!

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To be a person of consequence is to matter. If you matter, you have rights, and your words serve those rights and give you the power to bear witness, make agreements, set boundaries. If you have consequence, your words possess the authority to determine what does and does not happen to you, the power that underlies the concept of consent as part of equality and ­ self-​­ determination. Even legally women’s words have lacked consequence: in only a few scattered places on earth could women vote before the twenti- eth century, and not so many decades ago, women rarely became lawyers and judges; I met a Texas woman whose mother was among the first women in their region to serve on a jury, and I was an adult when the first woman was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Until a few decades ago, wives throughout much of the world, including the United States, lacked the right to make con- tracts and financial decisions or even to exercise jurisdiction over their own bodies that overrode their husbands’ ability to do so; in some parts of the world, a wife is still property under the law, and others choose her husband. To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say some- thing and have it not matter than to be silent.

To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.

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Wir suchen eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in für unser Zentrales Fundarchiv in Rastatt.

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There should be a law against forcing people into subscribing to things like software and movies that they used to buy and then removing access to them.
I'm looking at you, Claris, and the way you pulled the version of FileMaker Pro that my Uni purchased just 25 months ago.
#ripoff #capitalism

Blue and black book cover with gold lettering : Nemesis: Medieval England’s Greatest Enemy

An advance copy of Cath Hanley’s new book arrived today. It’s about one of my favourite French kings, and as I say on the back cover, it’s lively and learned and a must read if you love medieval history. #medievalsky #booksky

Glad to see Lisa Demets’s good work highlighted and happy to have another nail pounded into the coffin of ´medieval women weren’t involved in warfare’.

Photo of half page of this week’s issue of the TLS - the summer ‘bumper issue’, so well worth the cover price - with Justine Firnhaber-Baker’s review of Helen Carr’s ‘Sceptured Isle: A new history of the fourteenth century’.

Not for the first time in recent days, I thank an informed reviewer for reading/watching something so that I don’t need to. I’m sure that @medievalrevolt.bsky.social is right to suggest that such books find ‘an enthusiastic readership’, though I do wonder whether that really means ‘listenership’.

And Open Access, too! 😁

Just the tag, but they did come from the Moomin museum itself.

Finland is a very charming place.

I keynoted a conference in Finland and the organisers gave me Moomin mittens as a thank you. Sometimes academia is a-okay.

Job in British history 1500-1900!
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Making the Medieval Archive: Celebrating Elizabeth A. R. Brown at Penn This day-long symposium will commemorate Elizabeth (Peggy) A. R. Brown’s extraordinary legacy in the field of Medieval Studies and will mark the official launch of the Elizabeth A. R. Brown Medieval H...

Making the Medieval Archive: Celebrating Elizabeth A. R. Brown at Penn In-person & online conference Sept. 12 2025 Penn Libraries www.library.upenn.edu/events/makin...

Graduate outcomes and incomes as well as course satisfaction in History are all actually strong. Suggesting that Humanities degrees are not 'career-related' is simply bizarre. 2/2

Send some of those vibes my way!

I’m sorry to hear that

Funding universities via fees that stay flat for years is the main reason higher education is broke but doing stupid shit like this doesn’t help. I wish I could say it’s an isolated case.

At my own institution, where we had often been awarded 3 PhD scholarships in History, there will now only be 3 scholarships for the entire university.

one of the most effective and highly bought corporate propaganda campaigns ever was convincing individual people that turning off the lights and recycling were the solutions to climate change and not dismantling corporate polluters brick by brick and demanding policy and regulation