Conan Doyle
@conandoyle.bsky.social
he/him, neurodivergent
Teaches medieval English, researches Latin medical texts. Assistant Prof (Odborný asistantní) FHS UK Prague. Not a "Prof." yet, I haven't even got my 1st Habilitation!
Yes I love every critter that crosses my path.
Teaches medieval English, researches Latin medical texts. Assistant Prof (Odborný asistantní) FHS UK Prague. Not a "Prof." yet, I haven't even got my 1st Habilitation!
Yes I love every critter that crosses my path.
Publication no. 5 of 2025. My contributor's copy of this lovely essay collection finally came home yesterday (no thanks to Česka Posta). Well done to all the authors and editors. I genuinely shed a tear for both Audrey Meaney and Christine Sallazar yesterday...
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Publication no. 5 of 2025. My contributor's copy of this lovely essay collection finally came home yesterday (no thanks to Česka Posta). Well done to all the authors and editors. I genuinely shed a tear for both Audrey Meaney and Christine Sallazar yesterday...
You might as well have just sent a pamphlet out saying "start panicking!"
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
You might as well have just sent a pamphlet out saying "start panicking!"
75 kg? What's that in adult badgers?
October 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
75 kg? What's that in adult badgers?
I finally got my author copies. I'm building a nice little collection in my office.
August 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I finally got my author copies. I'm building a nice little collection in my office.
People who leave their dog outside barking at night are the worst. For the record, this is where my dog sleeps... she's less bothered by the other barking dog than I am. I hate sleeping with my windows closed in summer, but needs must.
August 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
People who leave their dog outside barking at night are the worst. For the record, this is where my dog sleeps... she's less bothered by the other barking dog than I am. I hate sleeping with my windows closed in summer, but needs must.
My panel at @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week. Come for the recipes, stay for an unknown manuscript of the Physica Plinii!
July 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My panel at @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week. Come for the recipes, stay for an unknown manuscript of the Physica Plinii!
I'm very pleased to be able to browse through both of these books. I'm also humbled to have work published alongside such excellent international scholars. #histmed #medievalsky
May 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I'm very pleased to be able to browse through both of these books. I'm also humbled to have work published alongside such excellent international scholars. #histmed #medievalsky
My first foray into biocodicology was fun, but the news-crew kept getting in the way of us collecting samples from the manuscript! We were trying to remove contaminating materials (aka "dirt") from the manuscript for chemical analysis.
Or I was an extra for an unanounced series: CSI Olomouc!
Or I was an extra for an unanounced series: CSI Olomouc!
April 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
My first foray into biocodicology was fun, but the news-crew kept getting in the way of us collecting samples from the manuscript! We were trying to remove contaminating materials (aka "dirt") from the manuscript for chemical analysis.
Or I was an extra for an unanounced series: CSI Olomouc!
Or I was an extra for an unanounced series: CSI Olomouc!
Even my phone got some passable images, but my handshake tended to make them blurry, and they were lower resolution. Example
March 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Even my phone got some passable images, but my handshake tended to make them blurry, and they were lower resolution. Example
Teaching Middle ENglish in the Czech Republic. I might as well use Czech orthography.
March 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Teaching Middle ENglish in the Czech Republic. I might as well use Czech orthography.
1933. Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin!
FIRST, they came for the trans people, and YOU DID NOTHING!
And I a m looking at every single equivocating USA Democrat right now and saying:
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE TRANS PEOPLE. And cowards like you did nothing!
And I hate you for your cowardice!
FIRST, they came for the trans people, and YOU DID NOTHING!
And I a m looking at every single equivocating USA Democrat right now and saying:
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE TRANS PEOPLE. And cowards like you did nothing!
And I hate you for your cowardice!
March 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
1933. Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin!
FIRST, they came for the trans people, and YOU DID NOTHING!
And I a m looking at every single equivocating USA Democrat right now and saying:
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE TRANS PEOPLE. And cowards like you did nothing!
And I hate you for your cowardice!
FIRST, they came for the trans people, and YOU DID NOTHING!
And I a m looking at every single equivocating USA Democrat right now and saying:
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE TRANS PEOPLE. And cowards like you did nothing!
And I hate you for your cowardice!
A wild Old Czech marginal annotation found its way into this rubric in the Physica Plinii. You will notice that the Czech word (dobre) is in a slightly different shade of red ink to the original rubric.
Městské muzeum a galerie Vodňany, MS 5, 15th century.
Transcription in alt text.
Městské muzeum a galerie Vodňany, MS 5, 15th century.
Transcription in alt text.
February 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A wild Old Czech marginal annotation found its way into this rubric in the Physica Plinii. You will notice that the Czech word (dobre) is in a slightly different shade of red ink to the original rubric.
Městské muzeum a galerie Vodňany, MS 5, 15th century.
Transcription in alt text.
Městské muzeum a galerie Vodňany, MS 5, 15th century.
Transcription in alt text.
I feel proud of my academic writing class today. One of them gave me this gem. The whole exercise proved his point. He had Googled for the first female Rector of any university in Czechia. Google showed just the current rector of Charles Univeristy... then Brno.
Popelová: Rektor in Oloumoc in 1950!
Popelová: Rektor in Oloumoc in 1950!
January 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I feel proud of my academic writing class today. One of them gave me this gem. The whole exercise proved his point. He had Googled for the first female Rector of any university in Czechia. Google showed just the current rector of Charles Univeristy... then Brno.
Popelová: Rektor in Oloumoc in 1950!
Popelová: Rektor in Oloumoc in 1950!
Little known fact, the beaker people may not have been the first humans to have red hair, but their language most certainly contained the word "meep!"
December 29, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Little known fact, the beaker people may not have been the first humans to have red hair, but their language most certainly contained the word "meep!"
Of all the beer you could import from czechia, Lidl imports this one :(
December 28, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Of all the beer you could import from czechia, Lidl imports this one :(
Safety is important. Make sure your collie is visible when walking at night. Tara took a little persuading to wear the vest, but loves the walk
December 27, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Safety is important. Make sure your collie is visible when walking at night. Tara took a little persuading to wear the vest, but loves the walk
Apollonius of Tyre in the bath house with Arcestrates, king of Pentapolis.
December 19, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Apollonius of Tyre in the bath house with Arcestrates, king of Pentapolis.
Prague is starting to look festive. One bus driver went above and beyond. This is a shuttle route between my faculty and the nearest metro station.
December 11, 2023 at 4:09 PM
Prague is starting to look festive. One bus driver went above and beyond. This is a shuttle route between my faculty and the nearest metro station.
The sun has set, it's -4 degrees, people are writing Ukranian swearwords in the snow on car windows. Nature is healing.
December 4, 2023 at 5:08 PM
The sun has set, it's -4 degrees, people are writing Ukranian swearwords in the snow on car windows. Nature is healing.
I couldn't resist buying a Berlin leather bear for Renata for the pun value, even if it was ridiculously over priced.
December 3, 2023 at 1:23 PM
I couldn't resist buying a Berlin leather bear for Renata for the pun value, even if it was ridiculously over priced.
Wandering around Tiergarten before my bus home this afternoon..
December 3, 2023 at 10:34 AM
Wandering around Tiergarten before my bus home this afternoon..
Prague right now. Actually, the first photo is from Tuesday. The second is the scrub land between my faculty and the motorway after my old English lecture today.
December 1, 2023 at 1:44 PM
Prague right now. Actually, the first photo is from Tuesday. The second is the scrub land between my faculty and the motorway after my old English lecture today.
According to the British Library social media team, Beowulf is a novel:
October 27, 2023 at 2:05 PM
According to the British Library social media team, Beowulf is a novel:
Meet Rosa. She randomly appeared outside the Café where Renata and I were having a drink after work. As @lauraamalasunta.bsky.social points out, someone must have ordered a Kozel.
October 11, 2023 at 6:59 AM
Meet Rosa. She randomly appeared outside the Café where Renata and I were having a drink after work. As @lauraamalasunta.bsky.social points out, someone must have ordered a Kozel.