I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:
X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
“if you died nothing in my life would change”: a twitter exchange about a pizza
“face god and walk backwards into hell”: a dril tweet about hollering at zoo animals
“you cannot kill me in a way that matters”: a tumblr shitpost about mushrooms
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“If you died nothing in my life would change” remains one of the coldest bars ever posted
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Listen it’s only fair
Looking forward to this #medievalsky
the more interesting thing is that average height decline through early modernity, which matches the fact that teeth were actually better in the early middle ages (in northern europe) than they were under Rome #medievalsky
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New episode Wednesday! Jennifer Jahner talks with @profgabriele.com about medieval techno-optimists — doing SCIENCE to fight the Antichrist. Take that Peter Thiel… #medievalsky
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and in the Mediterranean (Milan) it's very interesting that there's really very little variation in the average height between Rome and modernity
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Rome - 168.7cm
medieval - 169.8
contemp - 168.7
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Podcast Episode · American Medieval · June 10 · 59m
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Scientific Reports - The diachronic trend of female and male stature in Milan over 2000 years
A good take on the Wash/Vandy report on the humanities and social sciences
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The “medieval people were tiny” story doesn’t hold up. Skeletal evidence shows some early medieval Europeans were as tall as or taller than later populations. #History #Archaeology #Science
"Germans discover the south" is a fun new genre of tweet.
People in the Middle Ages were not uniformly shorter than people today, or even shorter than people in later centuries; the best skeletal evidence shows strong regional variation, with early medieval northern Europeans often as tall as or taller than many populations in the 1700s and 1800s. New Light on the “Dark Ages” The simple “medieval people were tiny” story does not fit the data from excavated skeletons or long-run reviews of European stature.
Join us next Wednesday, 10 June, for a lecture in cooperation with the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar (@earliermiddleages.bsky.social), Institute of Historical Research, given by Gerda Heydemann (Freie Universität Berlin ) on 'The Social Life of Carolingian Exegesis'!
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