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Any other Sferisti on Bluesky?

New book! So pleased to get my author copies of our edition, translation, and study of Gregorio Dati's "La Sfera", a fifteenth-century Florentine poem on cosmology and geography.
This was the brainchild of the unstoppable Carrie Beneš.
It's profusely illustrated and will be great for students.

For shame, Steffen. And you with the medieval monster as your Bluesky banner!

I'm actually envious of all the MTG folks here who got to fill out this survey. I was actually rejected after filling out the initial questions. Any idea why? I wonder if its ageism.

Wouldn't a dragon have a cloaca, not a butthole? Ahem, numsehull.
(Says the serious scholar, who had to handle this exact question in our latest D&D campaign.)

Thrilled to have completed my first turtle patrol for the Canadian Sea Turtle Network. Volunteers look for stunned or (sadly) dead sea turtles on Nova Scotia beaches in the fall after high tide. If nothing else it gives a great reason for a morning walk on gorgeous beaches.
seaturtle.ca

For Indigenous People's Day, spend some time getting to know the paintings of Kent Monkman (aka Miss Chief Eagle Testickle) one of Canada's greatest living artists.

www.kentmonkman.com/paintings-ga...

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

On Indigenous Peoples' Day I'm re-sharing the episode of @thisguysucked.com on which I spoke with host @ceaubin.bsky.social about why, even in his own day, people thought Christopher Columbus sucked.

💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #renaissance #maps #geography #cartography #empire 1/2

Thanks. I'd love to hear updates on this project as it progresses, especially I'm also looking specifically at what medical texts are specific to monasteries, pre-1200 at least.

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

Nope not me. But that sounds useful. Monica Green has made some more specific hand lists of Salernitan manuscripts and women’s medicine manuscripts.

#CFP : Star Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance Imagination

cmrs.osu.edu/events/cfp-s...

Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History
Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...

#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Getting great support as a professor in 2025.

One part of admin tells us they take AI writing very seriously and will treat it as plagiarism if not allowed in the course.

Student submits an all-AI essay and I begin the plagiarism investigation, only to be told AI writing can't be proven.

Sigh.

New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Keepin' it Old School this time

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

She is holding a book! 📖
Currently writing a section on visual evidence for book use in medieval Scotland - so this could not be better timed...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yes, the Anthropic settlement is go.
If you've written a book, check the website and database-- easy to use. One of my books is listed, and I filed a claim.
Make sure you know what kind of "owner" you are of a book (I'm a "beneficial owner" meaning the press holds copyright but I get royalties).

Rest in peace, Jane Goodall.
You taught us that kindness is a form of strength and that respect for life in all its forms is the truest measure of humanity. You will be dearly missed.

Will-o’-the-wisps, the fleeting flames occasionally seen above swamps and graveyards, may be tiny lightning bursts jumping between microscopic bubbles of methane. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

15,000+ searchable charters from the early Middle Ages...