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Little late in the day, but I just found out that my article on Wayward Sisters has come out in the latest issue of Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia! It feels poetic that an article based on my previous MA is coming out as I am about to finish the second one 🔥
pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fs...

05.11.2025 21:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

These words found me again as I struggle to finish writing my thesis. I know all the words I want to write, and yet... My brain, drowning in the uncertainty of what lies ahead, has decided that it is more comfortable being stuck in 'the known'. Just one of the many ways Rebecca's words hit home.

26.10.2025 13:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🎆 LAUNCH 🎆

The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project have the pleasure of launching the revised & updated

𝗢𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝟯𝗗 database

Where: Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie
When: 12 Sept 2025, 15:30

@maynoothuniversity.ie @uofglasgow.bsky.social in collaboration with @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie

28.08.2025 10:08 — 👍 71    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 0

"I need coffee" I say, as I walk towards the coffee-maker with neither my mug nor my coffee...

16.08.2025 12:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As I sit and try to make sense of the edits and additions penciled in on the original 1930s working copy of the nynorsk dictionary just so I can code them into the digitised version, I am struck by a beautiful thought. I am a modern day scribe! #digitalhumanities

16.08.2025 10:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

10 Medieval Curses to Protect Your Books From Thieves - Medievalists.net If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen.

10 Medieval Curses to Protect Your Books From Thieves www.medievalists.net/2023/08/medi... #curses

15.08.2025 20:17 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2

I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget

and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education

Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities

16.01.2025 12:16 — 👍 3827    🔁 1527    💬 20    📌 44

The connection only exists in my brain, as 'peto' comes from the Latin 'peditum', but now we are all left with the mental image of a disgruntled Roman who somehow made it to South America and thinks tobacco smells like farts. No need to thank me! #lexicography #etymology

13.08.2025 08:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now comes the part where my Italianness (?) and inner child are tickled: reading 'petun' immediately brought me to 'peto', an Italian noun for 'fart' #lexicography #etymology

13.08.2025 08:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Come to find out, petun/petum came into Norwegian through English < French < Tupi-Guaraní. A loanword with a journey as long as the product it refers to. #lexicography #etymology

13.08.2025 08:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(notice also how spelling changes, sometimes it's petun and others it's petum in the sources I have) #lexicography #etymology

13.08.2025 08:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Was working on a card for 'bispetobakk', a type of tobacco used by the bishop. A nice little note saying to look up 'petun' led me to this source card, so rabbithole it is. #lexicography #etymology

13.08.2025 08:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Back in the dictionary office digitising dialect and source cards and I am once again struck by a (non-existing) linguistic connection, so this is OUR problem now. #lexicography #etymology

13.08.2025 08:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still photograph of Judith Butler, wearing a black jacket and shirt, and looking into the camera. On the right of the image, white text is displayed saying: "10-Minute Talks / Gender as framework / with Judith Butler FBA

“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...

11.08.2025 09:15 — 👍 123    🔁 33    💬 5    📌 4

A group picture of the delegates of the 19th saga conference. They are spread out in a horizontal line that continues upwards as some delegates are standing on the stairs to the floor above.

A picture of me giving my paper, taken from the audience.

A serving of delicious pierogi topped with fried onion in a heart-shaped dish, and a glass of a red mixed fruit juice from Kraków.

Picture of a statue in the square of Stare Miasto in Kraków. The statue is a bronze, severed head laying on the side. The head is bandaged. The eyes are missing as the head is hollow and people are encouraged to interact with the sculpture by going inside it.

Sitting at home, thinking back on the amazing week that was the 19th Saga Conference in Katowice and Kraków. Deeply grateful for the excellent papers and atmosphere, my fingers are itching to put some new ideas to paper! #medievalsky

11.08.2025 12:09 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have two hours of sleep in me and about three different headaches piled on top of each other, but!! Hilkea, Cornelius and I made it to Katowice. Saga conference here we come!

03.08.2025 15:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Inni deg er det to ulvar. Dei er Skoll og Hate. Du er gravid med Fenrisulven.

09.03.2025 11:39 — 👍 32    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe the real saga conference is the panicked overpacking we did the night before ✨

02.08.2025 18:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0