Matt Aiello
@maiello.bsky.social
Junior Fellow | Harvard Society of Fellows
Trauma; Manuscripts; post-Conquest England
Trauma; Manuscripts; post-Conquest England
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Introducing TAMAR: our new open-access web tool lets you display digitised manuscripts side-by-side with transcriptions or additional info. Originally developed in a project on Biblia pauperum manuscripts, TAMAR is adaptable for a wide range of research purposes:
uhh.de/csmc-tamar
uhh.de/csmc-tamar
New Web Tool: Transcriptions and Annotations for Manuscript Research
uhh.de
June 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Introducing TAMAR: our new open-access web tool lets you display digitised manuscripts side-by-side with transcriptions or additional info. Originally developed in a project on Biblia pauperum manuscripts, TAMAR is adaptable for a wide range of research purposes:
uhh.de/csmc-tamar
uhh.de/csmc-tamar
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For LA residents who are not used to protesting, please remember to turn off location and Face/Touch ID on your phone. If you do not, police can legally force you to unlock it for them. US v Brown 👇🏽
media.cadc.uscourts.gov
June 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
For LA residents who are not used to protesting, please remember to turn off location and Face/Touch ID on your phone. If you do not, police can legally force you to unlock it for them. US v Brown 👇🏽
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A spec. iss. of EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH, ed. S Fein and T Goodmann, in honour of late Osage poet & medievalist Carter Revard, is now live!: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54946. (A stand-alone book version is forthcoming from @archumanities.bsky.social—but u can reach out if you need access.) So proud of this one.
Project MUSE - Early Middle English-Volume 7, Number 1-2, 2025
muse.jhu.edu
June 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A spec. iss. of EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH, ed. S Fein and T Goodmann, in honour of late Osage poet & medievalist Carter Revard, is now live!: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54946. (A stand-alone book version is forthcoming from @archumanities.bsky.social—but u can reach out if you need access.) So proud of this one.
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“Preserving art, literature, and philosophy will require no less than the creation of an environment totally and uncompromisingly committed to abolishing the linguistic alienation created by AI and reintroducing students to the indispensability of their own voice.“
Opinion | What I Learned Serving on My University’s AI Committee
What I learned serving on a university AI committee.
www.chronicle.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
“Preserving art, literature, and philosophy will require no less than the creation of an environment totally and uncompromisingly committed to abolishing the linguistic alienation created by AI and reintroducing students to the indispensability of their own voice.“
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Digital galleys are HERE for Close Reading for the 21C, which I co-edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. You know you want it, want to review it. Write to barbara_tonetti [at] press [dot] princeton [dot] edu. Look at that gorgeous slate of contributors! Get it!
May 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Digital galleys are HERE for Close Reading for the 21C, which I co-edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. You know you want it, want to review it. Write to barbara_tonetti [at] press [dot] princeton [dot] edu. Look at that gorgeous slate of contributors! Get it!
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I’d say rather this confirms that Chicago is canon
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I’d say rather this confirms that Chicago is canon
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Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages is available now! Please ask your libraries to order: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... It’s been an honor to work with @aspencerhall.bsky.social and Stephanie Grace-Petinos on this collection of exciting and groundbreaking work in medieval disability studies.
Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holi...
www.aup.nl
April 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages is available now! Please ask your libraries to order: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... It’s been an honor to work with @aspencerhall.bsky.social and Stephanie Grace-Petinos on this collection of exciting and groundbreaking work in medieval disability studies.
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“It’s understandable that some people may be fearful,” Professor Yarbrough said. “But what we’ve done is to focus on something that’s within our control: to ally with each other.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...
This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump
Two professors from Rutgers University in New Jersey went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for Big Ten schools. Their effort is gaining steam.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“It’s understandable that some people may be fearful,” Professor Yarbrough said. “But what we’ve done is to focus on something that’s within our control: to ally with each other.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...
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Futhark runic alphabet and a cipher
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 270; Educational manuscript; second half of the 9th century; St. Gall; f.52 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 270; Educational manuscript; second half of the 9th century; St. Gall; f.52 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
April 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Futhark runic alphabet and a cipher
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 270; Educational manuscript; second half of the 9th century; St. Gall; f.52 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 270; Educational manuscript; second half of the 9th century; St. Gall; f.52 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
I snipped the tip of my finger off using a mandoline slicer and unfortunately for me that’s the finger that is attached to all of my Touch ID passwords
April 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I snipped the tip of my finger off using a mandoline slicer and unfortunately for me that’s the finger that is attached to all of my Touch ID passwords
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NEW TODAY: 200 college and university presidents band together to condemn “unprecedented government overreach” in higher education and reaffirm the “essential freedom to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
NEW TODAY: 200 college and university presidents band together to condemn “unprecedented government overreach” in higher education and reaffirm the “essential freedom to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
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I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
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A list of the 86 American colleges and universities (p. 8-9) that signed on to an amicus brief in support of the AAUP's lawsuit against "Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech." Among them are Rutgers, Michigan State, and the whole Maryland system
www.presidentsalliance.org
April 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A list of the 86 American colleges and universities (p. 8-9) that signed on to an amicus brief in support of the AAUP's lawsuit against "Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech." Among them are Rutgers, Michigan State, and the whole Maryland system
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Boston is not a city that tolerates tyranny. We will not sit by while Donald Trump and his billionaire friends dismantle the protections that our families count on.
Thank you to the thousands of people who came out today to tell this administration #HandsOffBoston!
Thank you to the thousands of people who came out today to tell this administration #HandsOffBoston!
April 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Boston is not a city that tolerates tyranny. We will not sit by while Donald Trump and his billionaire friends dismantle the protections that our families count on.
Thank you to the thousands of people who came out today to tell this administration #HandsOffBoston!
Thank you to the thousands of people who came out today to tell this administration #HandsOffBoston!
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No NEH summer stipends this year. Shocked face.
March 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
No NEH summer stipends this year. Shocked face.
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Thanks for absolutely nothing, Columbia and Harvard. Two of the wealthiest universities with the most cultural clout in the world, but rather than fighting, they laid down like doormats and let the government walk over them to destroy the rest of the sector.
Ivy League universities are destroying their Middle East studies departments one by one, in capitulation to Trump. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
www.thecrimson.com
March 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thanks for absolutely nothing, Columbia and Harvard. Two of the wealthiest universities with the most cultural clout in the world, but rather than fighting, they laid down like doormats and let the government walk over them to destroy the rest of the sector.
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Harvard and Columbia in a race to see who can dismantle academic freedom fastest.
Some of the nation’s most prestigious universities have effectively appointed Trump as Provost. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
www.thecrimson.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Harvard and Columbia in a race to see who can dismantle academic freedom fastest.
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Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268...
#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky
#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky
March 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268...
#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky
#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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my superpower for predicting things? paying attention to what people with power say and do
People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:
NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot.
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
my superpower for predicting things? paying attention to what people with power say and do
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I love this poster—the first time I have ever seen a faculty member’s position of a bargaining team listed so prominently!!
south florida friends!
two days of talks, seminars, and office hours start tomorrow!
two days of talks, seminars, and office hours start tomorrow!
February 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I love this poster—the first time I have ever seen a faculty member’s position of a bargaining team listed so prominently!!
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The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.
February 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.
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Hundreds in Philly braved the freezing temps to rally for our healthcare, research, and jobs! ❄️💪
Workers & students from CCP, Drexel, UPenn, Rutgers, Temple, Jefferson, Arcadia, Rowan, Moore—alongside elected leaders & union presidents—made it clear: We won’t back down. #LaborForHigherEd
Workers & students from CCP, Drexel, UPenn, Rutgers, Temple, Jefferson, Arcadia, Rowan, Moore—alongside elected leaders & union presidents—made it clear: We won’t back down. #LaborForHigherEd
February 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Hundreds in Philly braved the freezing temps to rally for our healthcare, research, and jobs! ❄️💪
Workers & students from CCP, Drexel, UPenn, Rutgers, Temple, Jefferson, Arcadia, Rowan, Moore—alongside elected leaders & union presidents—made it clear: We won’t back down. #LaborForHigherEd
Workers & students from CCP, Drexel, UPenn, Rutgers, Temple, Jefferson, Arcadia, Rowan, Moore—alongside elected leaders & union presidents—made it clear: We won’t back down. #LaborForHigherEd
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“The study of English involves more than reading. It includes written expression and the cultivation of an authentic voice. But the comprehension of literature, on which the study of English is based, is rooted in the pleasure of reading” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...
Opinion | Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives. (Gift Article)
Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“The study of English involves more than reading. It includes written expression and the cultivation of an authentic voice. But the comprehension of literature, on which the study of English is based, is rooted in the pleasure of reading” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...