First page of the proofs of the article "The Place of Medieval and Early Modern Literature in Iberian Studies: the Catalan Case"
My first foray into disciplinary reflection coming up soon in this volume: brill.com/display/titl...
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
#OTD: Jocelyn Bell Burnell made the first discovery of a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star, on 24 February 1967 - but it was her supervisor who won the Nobel. Read about her at infinite-women.com/women/jocelyn-bell-burnell
#science #history #sciencehistory #physics #astronomy #astrophysics
Poster for a talk that includes the following text: University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies and the Centre for the History of Ibero-America (CHIA) present: Núria Silleras-Fernández (University of Colorado, Boulder): ‘When the Political is Personal: Gendering Mourning in the Royal Courts of Castile and Portugal’ Wednesday 4 March, 4 pm GMT (online only via zoom). Please register at https://forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d The image background is of an elaborate monastic cloister - specifically the one at Batalha in Portugal dating to the 15th century (author Raph)
If you are interested in queenship, gender studies, or the history of death and grief, please join us on 4 March for an online only talk at 4 pm GMT. Please register at forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d #medievalsky #earlymodern #historyofemotions #historyofdeath #queenship #kingship
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
Loving that "as little as 0%". Such a gentler way of saying zero. Except it's beyond zero, isn't it, because when the crash comes, the negative effect on growth will be off the scale. Will we accidentally get the anti-growth economy that our overheating climate desperately needs from us?
I’m fortunate that I was able to carve an opportunity to get out (and that my american partner wanted out too). but I feel so bad for everyone there, for several reasons. the child in me wishes she could bring everyone over here to this nicer playground.
report shows that the building where our TA offices are (+ many other classrooms & offices) has detectable asbestos in multiple spots. admin won't do zip about it. I knew moving to the US was a hazard, but I had in mind shootings, savage capitalism & anti-intellectualism. not asbestos and fascism.
blastóporo-wannabes! tom zé did it better.
Final-final-final-draft-at-last-usethisversion.doc
“The merging of humanistic work and activism represents a surrender to the utilitarian logic that measures the worth of knowledge by its direct impact on “the real world.””
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
thank you!
snagged it! ✨
Yes to this thread. AI “creates a permission structure” designed to concentrate power at the top, dramatically enhance the power of disinformation by destabilizing images and information, and hollow out the power of labor through deskilling while providing cover and impunity.
Close-up of a stone altar featuring the bust of Luna with a serene facial expression, and draped cloak. Perforated crescent moon above her head.
Close-up of a stone altar featuring the bust of Sol with long curly hair, serene expression, and draped cloak. Perforated radiant above his head. The upper part of the altar is missing.
Two perforated altar reliefs from the Mithraeum at Mundelsheim. One depicts Sol, the sun god, with the radiant. the other shows Luna, the goddess of the moon, with the crescent.
In Roman times, they were illuminated from behind, creating a striking play of light and shadow that must ...🧵1/2
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Deadline to submit: 12th April 2026
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700).
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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If you’ve been waiting to read a comprehensive, well-researched piece on Heathcliff’s ethnicity and the Brontës’ own experience of race and identity, it’s finally landed. This is really impressive, hats off to @yorkshirebylines.co.uk 👏🏼
same! I’ve done some reading of her foundational work (& cited it in budding papers) but there’s still so much to explore :)
Margaret Cavendish! (b. 1623)
post a tree you photographed
a cat sleeps on a thin sleeping mat that’s in a still empty living room. outside and visible through one of theee vertical, fixed pane windows is a man removing too-dark film from car windows. but back to the cat: his name is pizzicato, aka pizzi, aka pizziboy, aka pizzicat. he is dark gray with white patches in his undercarriage and paws. he is wearing a newborn-sized tropical print tee. are we extra? never. he really loves his tees and gets calmer and more cuddly when wearing them.
happy caturday! our lovely pizzicato sleeps peacefully while my valentine takes care of the car outside. we don’t really celebrate the date. it’s our 1st v-day since we thankfully moved to my home country and away from a dictatorship. the house is still full of possibilities. it’s a good one today.
screenshot of excerpt of interview with Jessica Barr that says: “In what way is the book you wrote different from the book you set out to write? Did any findings challenge your thesis? When I started this project, I thought that there would be a clearer difference between male-authored texts about women and what women wrote about their own attitudes towards death. My expectation was that, while male clerics interpreted their female subjects as eagerly wanting to die, women themselves would demonstrate more ambivalence or even aversion towards death. But, while there is a distinction, it isn’t that sharp. Instead, what we find is a subtler difference of emphasis: In both sets of texts, death is ultimately desirable, but in the women’s visionary texts and devotional guides, what’s more important is how you live up until your death. For some, this involves a patient yearning for God; for others, it means using one’s lifetime to grow in love.”
and here’s an interesting interview about it: undpress.nd.edu/blog/2026/01...
New book by Prof. Jessica Barr, who I’m lucky enough to have in my dissertation committee.
Rapidly becoming an account that shares cool books I find: #medievalsky
Including mine on developing software to build structural models of medieval manuscripts! Much DEI. Another reason for me to hate ChatGPT.
A screencap of a panel from Frank Miller's Dark Knight (don't know enough about each comic to know which one exactly sue me). It shows Batman breaking a shotgun which is labeled "AI (even if you're making fun of it)." Batman is saying "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it"
Do not use AI, even for funny joke.
Its Theft, its wasteful, its trash.
So they're creating a Department of 'We' Studies (Europe) and a Department of 'Other' Studies where the latter includes Africa, the (Central, South and Indigenous) Americas, and Women.
Like...pardon me...but come the fuck on.
