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Eduardo Fernández

@apocalypsisnova.bsky.social

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historian working on early modern prophecies, belief and reading practices | «Τὸ 'χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά' δοκῶ μοι εἰδέναι». https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9864-8734

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · Nov 15

New wine into new wineskins! Joining the conversation on late medieval / early modern religious history, book history and cultural history with a strong philological focus. Currently looking at the intellectual collaboration between Ethiopians & Europeans in the 16th c.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19h

'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News

Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 2d

What's Your Wayback?

We've archived 1 trillion pages. Now we need your help! Share the top 5 web pages or sites you want to preserve for future generations.

We'll start:
1️⃣ The first ever web page at CERN
2️⃣ Wikipedia
3️⃣ GeoCities
4️⃣ WebArchive 96
5️⃣ Wayback Machine

🔗 ⬇️
#Wayback1T #WhatsYourWayback

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Karin Sennefelt @karinsennefelt.bsky.social · 22d

The Word made Flesh is out today! I've not seen it in the flesh myself yet, but this is a happy day after many years of work.
#EarlyModern #medhist #histmed #bodyhistory

Cover of the book The Word made Flesh: Lutheran Bodies, 1600-1720 by Karin Sennefelt. The over image shows an etching of a young woman in a dress but bare foot flying through the air during a lightning storm.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 5d

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 5d

PhD and postdoc positions within the Cluster of Excellence Cross-Cultural Philology (LMU München)

Deadline: 21 October 2025
www.lmu.de/crosscultura...

Planned Research Projects

Here you can find an overview of all research projects and the corresponding job vacancies in the Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster of Excellence.

www.lmu.de

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 6d

It *has* to be on purpose...

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LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social · 7d

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social · 9d

New open-access publication: Discover how a multidisciplinary approach helped identify and contextualise three Qurʾānic parchment fragments from the University of Münster collection, revealing their shared origins in an Umayyad Qur’an:
www.nature.com/articles/s40...

From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad Qur’ān - npj Heritage Science

npj Heritage Science - From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad Qur’ān

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 10d

Newly digitised Gəʽəz manuscript just dropped

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 11d

This has serious implications. Transcriptions and ground truth are often core research outputs. Using them without explicit consent or attribution is basically what AI companies are doing to human textual production. Even if in like with their T&C's.
Source: www.facebook.com/share/p/19vG...

Redirecting...

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 11d

Despite years of messaging that "your data is yours," @transkribus.bsky.social uses all transcriptions (private or not) for model training. Staff can review your uploads, and your work may be retained and reused indefinitely, even if you delete it..

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks!

Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 13d

Question for those working in Ethiopian studies: what universities outside Ethiopia offer at the moment Gəʽəz courses in person?

I have seen Marburg, Hamburg, Rome (Sapienza and PIO), Madrid and Uppsala. Am I missing something?

Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 14d

(It is so painful to see cases used wrong, be it in inflected languages or not.)

Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 14d

Question for the Latinists: if repeating a concept in Latin from a text quoted above, do you quote it in nominative or do you keep it in the case it was in?

E.g.
<<"... armorum violentia, temporum longitudine confirmata". This "temporum longitudo" comprises what...>>

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

Manuscript Data Curation Fellow

University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 25d

Horrendous and absurd new Terms of Service is causing people to terminate their use of #Academia
What are people using instead?
I'd be sad to lose contact with my c. 6K followers.
leeds.academia.edu/DrIanMcCormick
#Highered #Edchat #University #research
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 21d

Academia.edu has always been a scam to gamify & monetize the psychic damage of twilight-phase academic neoliberalism: this person looked you up, that person mentioned you, your work matters. Intellectual as individual brand-builder. The rights stuff is awful but the basic concept is bad enough

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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social · 21d

Almost two years ago, we opened our exhibition (Un)chained Knowledge, subtitled “Fake news, censorship and information around 1500 and today”. The digital version of this exhibition is still available online. Why are we putting this exhibition back in the spotlight now?

(Un)chained Knowledge

In the mid-15th century, at the time when Dieric Bouts (ca. 1410-1475) settled in Leuven as a town painter, access to scientific knowledge was very limited. Professors could afford manuscripts, while ...

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · Sep 14

After the London protests of last Saturday, I find myself thinking of this poem by Joan Margarit:

"yet fear has never left me either /
for life has shown me the faces /
of those who could be my assassins."

Àvila, juliol del trenta-sis:
ell va gravar els seus noms a la muralla.
El cel lluent d’estiu el travessaven
les bales negres de les orenetes
amb les notícies dels primers morts.
És l’èpica que em queda: anys més tard,
sota la por que vaig sentir d’infant,
vaig aprendre a callar i a somiar
sentint aquelles veus: Tindràs la teva guerra.

Ja no queda ningú dels qui m’ho deien.
Mai no he gravat cap nom en una pedra,
però tampoc m’ha abandonat la por,
perquè la vida m’ha mostrat els rostres
dels qui podrien ser els meus assassins.

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Sep 13

Ooh, exciting! If you fancy something I wrote about inventories and catalogues (in case this isn't the thing you're citing), I have a chapter in the expanded edition of Paula Findlen's Early Modern Things: www.routledge.com/Early-Modern...

Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500-1800

Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made – came to define some of the key developments of the...

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · Sep 3

Justo. Por lo visto hay también un deponente baubari. Güagüar.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · Aug 28

Someday I want to see a historian pretend to be a scientist and get published in Nature, a magazine that is very good at publishing scientists pretending to be historians.

Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · Aug 28

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology

The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology

Nature - The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

www.nature.com

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · Aug 22

Being told I got a fellowship I didn't really qualify for two months after sending an email to withdraw through a request to submit additional documents for HR. Spanish bureaucracy.

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · Aug 20

Digitization & cataloging is complete for the 35 Ethiopic manuscripts microfilmed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, including Aethiop. 16 (HMML project number 24994), which is of particular importance to the study of the Ethiopic Bible.

Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

Madonna and Child, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus. Aethiop. 21, preserved by HMML as microfilm 24990

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