Only really heard in the remoter parts of Yorkshire these days, sad to say.
But 'gormless' is possibly still North Yorkshire's favourite put down, and, characteristically, can be the friendliest or the harshest criticism.
NEXT MONDAY!
Excited we get to welcome @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social to talk about Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid.
9 March, 17:30 (UK), in person & online -- sign up for the zoom link.
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians #HistSTM #HistMed
#earlymodern
oh! Come to Mile End! And here from these brilliant women!!! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
It's possibly a vanishingly small consolation, but pretty soon, just as you're able to eat, you are going to have the most amazing sense of smell.
Confidently posting such a sentence shows how wonderfully in our own cycling bubble we are.
Final 24 hours. I'm really grateful for the loads of people who've signed up in the last few days.
Things I wish I'd known...
“As early as 1866 the Linguistic Society of Paris specifically banned discussion of the origin of language as being altogether too disruptive for the contemplative atmosphere of a learned association.” (Ian Tattersall in the ever-brilliant @nybooks.com mail)
#linguistics
Chick- #linguistics, anyone?
50 years I argued for a republic, then Trump.
Ten years on from Brexit - our futures are as bound as ever. So, it is in our common interest to be ambitious about our partnership. Because the EU, the UK - in fact all of Europe - we are in this together. And we will always stick together. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
The UK’s rightful place is at the heart of Europe. Let’s return.
Thread to remind us all that we're supporting authors & publishers as well as libraries just by giving a book a home for a while for free.
Do it.
Because #libsky
#englang #linguistics needs Herriot Watt. Please take a minutes to read & sign LINCS' petition.
The Department of Languages at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social is facing serious cuts with a proposal to make 11 of its staff redundant, stop offering undergraduate Chinese and German and eliminate intercultural studies courses.
Please sign this petition: heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/05/s...
#earlymodern #skyhistory 2nd most 'at risk' from A1 - & if we translate texts while we're at it, we're double doomed....
A joy of Bluesky is that this appeared in my feed right by a post asking what you can be thrown out of the British Library for doing.
#libsky (just so our heroic librarians are prepared for all this may bring).
The 🇪🇸 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana is here.
Who takes it?
Preview 👇
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📸 Cor Vos
The initial "G" on a print from 1532. A man sitting in the G and is working with a geographical instrument. This is a detail from "Introductio Geographica Petri Apiani" (Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, 2 LR 18#(Beibd. 2)
Being busy as an academic back then. Sitting in your working spacing (here it's the Initial "G"), wearing your thinking hat, doing scientific stuff with instruments (he's measuring), and forgetting the world outside (in this case a page in Latin about geography). The year is 1523. #academicchatter
Sure he's not just trying to figure out how to work the new barbecue?
There's a new look at Public Books! We’re debuting a brand-new website (we can’t stop looking in the mirror), and a redoubled commitment to the goal we’ve had since the very start: creating a classroom the size of the world.
I think you'll be OK unless anyone finds out. Ah.
I'm so glad! Learning such things makes me feel better about th whole world.
Can't believe it's my second #earlymodern eels repost in three days.
As we used to say, there's a paper in this.
& eels rilly dont stay 'fresh' long....
Where is th
AMEN
button on this thing?
For anyone who thought all that Harry Potter stuff wasn't real.
Fot all its beautiful #etymology, th word 'eel' somehow evokes th darker, slipperier connotations of th thing it names.
If we'd stuck with 'fenn-fysche,' now, we'd surely have had a very different relationship, keeping them as pets and bragging about them to impress our friends at dinner parties.
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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