Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker.
I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
See also @sims-mss.bsky.social
I speak for myself and not for my employer
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From a gradual at the University of Rochester
Gorgeous 😆
Any 15th century German linguistic experts out there. Our librarian at the royal observatory Edinburgh would love to hear from you.
We have a beautiful manuscript in our Crawford collection which we would love to read and find out more.
Prepping for my next history of medicine class. Don't tell them all the answers are right here:
The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.
I'm so old.
Also, "where it's at"
How can X-rays help us understand written artefacts and other cultural treasures? A workshop we organised together with DESY brought together experts from various domains to discuss the use of X-ray-based methods in cultural heritage research
uhh.de/csmc-desy
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 A 4, containing texts on uroscopy copied in the 16th century by Aodh Ó Cendamháin, physician to the O’Flahertys in Co. Mayo:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
randomly thought about and re-read this story about Charles Barkley and a guy from Iowa, an all timer of a heartwarmer
www.wbur.org/onlyagame/20...
#Juneteenth is a good time to remember that enslaved people did not passively wait around for proclamations. They resisted in many ways.
(There are LOTS of books on resistance. This is just a summary.)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_r...
Dot Porter
Dot Porter
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
