Alison Purnell is chasing that PhD!

Copper alloy Roman zoomorphic brooch in the form of a seated greyhound.
1st/2nd century AD, found in Lincolnshire.
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Join us on March 18th @fordham.edu for a talk with Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social on her latest book!
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The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

Holy shit: the guy who cut millions in grants because they were DEI cannot form a coherent explanation of what DEI is bsky.app/profile/lmrh...

Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?

They look so cool!

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The March 15, 2025, killing of Ruben Ray Martinez drew almost no public attention.

But Martinez is now the first known American citizen shot to death by federal immigration agents during President Trump’s second term. https://wapo.st/4lbpGYC

Your Data Will Be Used Against You (and not just by ICE/CPB). All these technologies will make their way to ordinary law enforcement.

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

It might in fact BE the metaphor. Something laughably futile is like going to Northern Ireland to escape politics!

Around all the AI argument circles this basic fact - our evolved brains do, on 1500 kcal a day, something that exceeds by multiple orders of magnitude what whole warehouses full of hot-running chipsets can do.

It is not *physically possible* to make those warehouses full of chips "intelligent".

Google "Hard problem of consciousness". Start reading. Check back when you're ready to give up.

White House X post showing Trump as Superman

If any novelist had their fictional US President post images of himself in Superman guise to the nation, they’d be derided, quite rightly, for mocking their readers’ credulity.

3/ Until day 6, investors still thought it was going to be a short war, with limited impacts. On Friday — almost a week after the bombing started — was when Mr Market finally woke up to the prospect of a Long And Regional War instead of their Short War scenario. Thread:
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The inability of very stupid people to understand that other people make their own decisions and do not just react the way you want them to in your ideal scenario remains undefeated in producing generational level shitshows

The Historiography of a Construct: “Feudalism” and the Medieval Historian - Medievalists.net Was medieval Europe truly a "feudal" society, or is feudalism a modern construct imposed on the past? This article explores how historians have debated, redefined, and even rejected the term, shaping…

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Monumental Roman Forum Discovered Beneath Barcelona Hotel Forces 90-Degree Rewrite of Ancient City Barcino - Arkeonews Archaeologists uncover a monumental 2,000-year-old Roman forum pavement beneath a Barcelona hotel, revealing a 90-degree shift in the ancient city plan of Barcino.

Monumental Roman Forum Discovered Beneath Barcelona Hotel Forces 90-Degree Rewrite of Ancient City Barcino - Arkeonews
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EVERYONE is welcome!!! Come to @salisburycathedral 6.30pm tonight for a fiery insight into the legendary women of the past this #internationalwomensday

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

Where you can find Medievalists.net on social media - Medievalists.net We thought it would be a good time to let you know where you can find us on social media. Medievalists.net posts at a few different places:

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"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people.

If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.

Wine must yields as indicators of May to July climate in Central Europe, 1416–1988 Abstract. The paper explores to which extent narrative documentary records on wine production in Central Europe can be used as a proxy for summer temperatures. Here, we compiled 11 regional series spa...

Note the historical b*mb dropped in the last sentence of abstract: "Overproduction induced wastefulness, while crop failures sometimes triggered witch hunts."

This will likely be a hugely influential paper in continuing debates on "consilience" in paleosciences: cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Enchantment and Hidden Forces: Music in Medieval Europe Step into medieval Europe, where music was believed to hold real power over the body, soul, and cosmos. From soaring sacred chants to lively dances, explore the hidden forces behind sound, its…

Not just background noise — medieval music could feel otherworldly 🎧✨ Learn how sound and song connected to ideas of enchantment. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/ench... #MedievalMusic

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.

I'm serious, read it all please

The Guardian has posted a piece on human remains, and as an osteologist I want to add some thoughts. First off I agree that the legacy of colonialism is a problem, and that there are issues surrounding certain collections.

But

The numbers in that piece are massively inflated for two reasons

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

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New Medieval Books: Authentically Medieval - Medievalists.net A collection of ten essays that examines how the Middle Ages is portrayed in novels and modern literature. It aims to answer the question how to bring a true-to-life medieval world in fiction.

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