A table in a cafe. In the foreground is a semla (cardamom bun cut in half with almond paste and whipped cream in the centre) and a cup of rooibos tea. In the background you can see my mittens, hat, and the tray.
It’s that time of year when I eat a gluten- and lactose-free semla and then sign out of BlueSky for Lent (and maybe the Easter season as well).
Coral background with faint heart illustrations. A glossy male Blackbird with a bright yellow bill faces left. Large title reads: “Birds as bad exes*” Smaller text reads: “*Yes, you read that right.”
Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox
There is a book project on just this topic in progress: Medieval Latin Liturgy: A Research Guide (Brill, eds. Daniel DiCenso, Andrew Irving). Circumstances have delayed it several times, but it is coming!
I think I found them under the resources tab! I volunteered for this project during my MA and it was a foundational experience for me, so it's quite dear to my heart.
www.experienceofworship.org.uk/resources/te...
For clarity: the positions are open as to specialization.
I no longer work at the department, having changed careers, but spend 2.5 happy years there as a Vinnova postdoc and then a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action fellow.
Paid PhDs in musicology are rare, so please share!
Two PhD positions in #Musicology advertised at Uppsala University--and in Sweden a PhD is paid employment! The department is lovely and particularly strong in #EarlyMusic & #MusicalBookHistory. Closing date 26 March 2026; interviews can occur throughout application period.
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
A point I make in my work on this subject is that we need to reject the insistance that convos abt commercial AI products should be about the tech. Determining whether AI is “conscious” is a Smartwashing exercise in solipcism that distracts from the material conditions of the product’s distribution
The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.
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The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
Closeup of a semla in a bakery box. A semla is a cardamom bun cut roughly in half. In the centre is almond paste, which is hidden by cardamom cream. The top is dusted with icing sugar. Surprisingly, for something that sounds very sweet, it is not overly sweet.
Rejoice, for it is Semla Season! A semla is a traditional pre-Lenten Swedish treat. I ordered this delicious specimen from Landings Konditori in Uppsala.
#GlutenFree #TinyJoys
A high percentage of research in Sweden is externally funded, which comes with its own challenges. SULF (author of the report) is actually the union for people employed at HEIs as PhDs, postdocs, lecturers and professors. They do a lot of good work! (Sweden is also highly unionized.)
The Swedish Association of University Teachers and Researchers produced a report in 2021, “The shadow of uncertainty:
external funding, precarious employment
and work environment in higher education”.
Short version in English available here:
sulf.se/app/uploads/...
Three small tins of tea from the Kränku Tea Shop in Visby, Sweden. From left: Monk Tea; Visby World Heritage Tea; Gotlandic Breakfast. In front of them are three packets: Rainbow Tea; Baltic Sea Tea; and Medieval Tea. In front of them is a small box with a tea-steeper. And in front of that is a shiny silver sticker with the Kränku logo, which is a man (farmer, maybe?) with a tall black hat and black work boots drinking a steaming cup of tea.
#TinyJoys: tea delivery from the wonderful tea shop Kränku on Gotland. I ordered so much tea that they sent me a bonus sticker!
#TeaUp
Excellent reading and listening for your Saturday morning!
#EarlyMusic #EarlyModern #BookHistory #TeamNun #Nuntastic #Skystorians
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who's just a TINY LITTLE NEUME hiding away in this binding #fragmentfriday
A photo of Eric Whitmer appears, a white man with short black hair wearing a blue shirt and black pants, smiling at the camera, sitting in a grey staircase close to a pile of books with an open laptop on it. The hands seem in movement as if accompanying a vivid conversation. The text reads “ArtsAbly in Conversation with Eric Whitmer, Episode 55.” The ArtsAbly logo is below.
Check out the episode 55 of our podcast “ArtsAbly in Conversation” with Eric Whitmer, a third-year Ph.D. student in Musicology at the University of Michigan.
Find the podcast episode here: www.artsably.com/episode-55-a...
#ArtsAbly #arts #disability #accessibility #DisabilityArts
Can confirm that I have evidence from 16th C books that were used well into the 18th and even 19th centuries. These later chant sources are an absolute goldmine and have been almost entirely overlooked by researchers for historiographical reasons.
I will not tell them you said that.
Yes! And also the stories other people have been telling you, like "you'll never be happy / fulfilled / intellectually satisfied / doing something worthy if you don't do Job X".
Is there not a Norwegian baked good eaten on Shrove Tuesday? I thought all the Nordic Lands had a semla-equivalent!
A small biskvi made to look like a semla (a sweet bun cut in half, filled with almond paste and cream). This “semla biskvi” has has a ”bun” made from almonds. The cream and almond paste is encased in white chocolate. It was delicious and very, very sweet.
Semla Season has begun in Sweden.
First of the year: a semla-inspired biskvi (gluten-free!). #TinyJoys
Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
#EarlyModern #BookHistory
Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography.
Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.
Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.
Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Read report:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Absolutely. In a similar vein, a well-written grant application should be comprehensible to someone outside the subfield and field (and even domain)!
Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here:
eseh.org/membership/h...
#EnvHist #EnvHum
Sweden:
Grant for recruiting international visiting researchers to Sweden 2026
www.vr.se/english/appl...
The Swedish call will open on February 11, but here’s a news piece about the 2026 call if people want to get an idea about the programme.
www.vr.se/english/just...
Sweden:
Grant for recruiting international visiting researchers to Sweden 2026
www.vr.se/english/appl...
So I know it's a minor detail when the rest of the world is on fire, but can I just say now that @universitypress.cambridge.org is treating my work like garbage - work that was part-funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/element...
