Dr Eleanor Janega
@goingmedieval.bsky.social
That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
https://eleanorjanega.com/
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Frog knocked at Toad’s door. “Toad, wake up,” he cried. “Come out and see how wonderful the winter is!”
“I will not,” said Toad. “I am in my warm bed.”
“I will not,” said Toad. “I am in my warm bed.”
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Frog knocked at Toad’s door. “Toad, wake up,” he cried. “Come out and see how wonderful the winter is!”
“I will not,” said Toad. “I am in my warm bed.”
“I will not,” said Toad. “I am in my warm bed.”
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I know this might come as a shock to you, it always does to you people, but making your entire social media presence revolve so heavily around "orange man bad" that you are berating people from, just to repeat myself, OTHER COUNTRIES about daring to post anything but "orange man bad" is bad for you.
December 2, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I know this might come as a shock to you, it always does to you people, but making your entire social media presence revolve so heavily around "orange man bad" that you are berating people from, just to repeat myself, OTHER COUNTRIES about daring to post anything but "orange man bad" is bad for you.
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A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
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I am unironically loving people doing serious technical analysis of the Roger Sterling being sick scene in Mad Men.
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I am unironically loving people doing serious technical analysis of the Roger Sterling being sick scene in Mad Men.
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while we are at it: regular reminder that in scotland, legally, both under older legislation and uncrc, parents do not have *rights* they have *responsibilities*. it's children who have rights.
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
That MSPs are now openly saying stuff like this is chilling. "Controversial groups like LGBT Youth Scotland"? LGBTYS didn't need to be in my schools for me to be gay, but they sure as hell would have helped me avoid 9 years of fear and self-loathing if they had been. Despicable stuff.
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
while we are at it: regular reminder that in scotland, legally, both under older legislation and uncrc, parents do not have *rights* they have *responsibilities*. it's children who have rights.
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
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to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
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“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick
December 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
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You can explore the data in this great report. My point is not to set one subject against another but that the stereotypes about humanities employability need a bit of probing, and shouldn’t be the thing that put someone off what they want to study
graduatemarkettrends.cdn.prismic.io/graduatemark...
graduatemarkettrends.cdn.prismic.io/graduatemark...
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
You can explore the data in this great report. My point is not to set one subject against another but that the stereotypes about humanities employability need a bit of probing, and shouldn’t be the thing that put someone off what they want to study
graduatemarkettrends.cdn.prismic.io/graduatemark...
graduatemarkettrends.cdn.prismic.io/graduatemark...
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So kid, in your heart you want to study humanities but you worry about your job prospects? Let’s play a game.
On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad?
WRONG!
On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad?
WRONG!
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
So kid, in your heart you want to study humanities but you worry about your job prospects? Let’s play a game.
On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad?
WRONG!
On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad?
WRONG!
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Frankly, this is political pseudoscience. Postulations of intra-group unity and intergroup incommensurability are as facile and cartoonish when framed in terms of "civilisations" as they are when framed in terms of "races". Thankfully, IR as a discipline is moving on from this sort of nonsense.
Amid the liberal internationalist optimism of the late 1990s, Samuel Huntington foresaw a world marked by continued conflict.
Samuel Huntington Is Getting His Revenge
The idea of a global “clash of civilizations” wasn’t wrong—it was just premature.
foreignpolicy.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Frankly, this is political pseudoscience. Postulations of intra-group unity and intergroup incommensurability are as facile and cartoonish when framed in terms of "civilisations" as they are when framed in terms of "races". Thankfully, IR as a discipline is moving on from this sort of nonsense.
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On advance access: "Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome"
by Nicholas S M Matheou (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Nicholas S M Matheou (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome*
Abstract. The modernism debate in the historiography of nationhood and nationalism has fizzled out to a curious détente: the idea that nationhood and natio
doi.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
On advance access: "Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome"
by Nicholas S M Matheou (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Nicholas S M Matheou (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
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Anyway last thing I’ll say on this is that I got my shit rocked all the time in college and I never cried to the media. TPUSA is their own concept of DEI for aggrieved white evangelical pussies and the fact that any group disproportionately wields this much power on campuses is fucking dumb
December 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Anyway last thing I’ll say on this is that I got my shit rocked all the time in college and I never cried to the media. TPUSA is their own concept of DEI for aggrieved white evangelical pussies and the fact that any group disproportionately wields this much power on campuses is fucking dumb
Blessed by a busker playing careless whisper in Tottenham Court Road Station. Signs and wonders.
Five is not enough but:
Freedom 90
Freeeek!
Outside
Careless Whisper
Fast Love
Freedom 90
Freeeek!
Outside
Careless Whisper
Fast Love
In this strongly pro-George Michael space, tell me, what are your Top 5 Wham!/George tracks
December 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Blessed by a busker playing careless whisper in Tottenham Court Road Station. Signs and wonders.
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This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
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On #Crustmas we celebrate the entire diversity of crustaceans, especially the ones few people have ever seen before!
Don't forget to follow the hashtag or the crab feed for them
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Don't forget to follow the hashtag or the crab feed for them
bsky.app/profile/did:...
there's an entire superorder (very big category) of crustaceans called Syncarids, and like 99% of them are tiny white eyeless sub-millimeter things living in cavewater, except in Tasmania, where they just casually live on the surface world like regular shrimp. infuriating
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
On #Crustmas we celebrate the entire diversity of crustaceans, especially the ones few people have ever seen before!
Don't forget to follow the hashtag or the crab feed for them
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Don't forget to follow the hashtag or the crab feed for them
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Every day is George Michael day.
And if you would like to hear a podcast with me and Dr J talking about this Sex Jam, here you go. (Sexy java refers to his cup of coffee, not javascript)
m.soundcloud.com/culturesexre...
m.soundcloud.com/culturesexre...
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Every day is George Michael day.
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Imagine deliberately denying yourself one of the best Christmas songs ever, written and sung by one of the soundest people to ever live. Couldn’t be me, because I’m a good person.
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Imagine deliberately denying yourself one of the best Christmas songs ever, written and sung by one of the soundest people to ever live. Couldn’t be me, because I’m a good person.
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Actually doing Whamageddon at Christmas is a moral failing, you should be listening to Last Christmas at least once a day if not ten
December 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Actually doing Whamageddon at Christmas is a moral failing, you should be listening to Last Christmas at least once a day if not ten
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Do you think George Michael died on Christmas Day so you could avoid him? Grow up
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Do you think George Michael died on Christmas Day so you could avoid him? Grow up