Stephanie J. Lahey PhD

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Oschinsky Research Associate, Cambridge University Library & Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge · PhD: UVic (2021) · #MedievalManuscripts cataloguer & researcher · #Parchment #QuantitativeHumanities 📜

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Fascinatingly strange painting of the Virgin of Atocha (1634) by Juan Bautista Maíno, commissioned by then papal nuncio to Spain, Cardinal Cesare Monti, now in the Galería de las Colecciones Reales. Not at all typical of Maíno's style.

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There is a new article on “A new approach to locate, characterise and restore in 3D polychromy of Apollo’s temple at Delphi (4th century B. C.),” which is pretty stunning. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌈 🎨 They used machine learning to analyze photos to isolate pigment remains then analyze.

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What an incredible fragile find www.theguardian.com/culture/arti...

Rare examples of 17th-century paper-cutting ‘saved from skip’ to go on displaywww.theguardian.com Decorative artefacts saved from skip 30 years ago amid debris at former ‘ladies’ university’ Sutton House in London

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Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume

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dont let zlib die. i have found local history books on there that i know for a fact you don't have a snowball's chance in hell of finding anywhere else. they exist moulding in some old person's home, MAYBE in our (dwindling) libraries that won't digitize them, £70 on ebay once & then gone.

Godspeed you, brave z-librarians. Never surrender. 💪📚

"Two Russian citizens arrested for running the pirate e-book site Z-Library have reportedly escaped house arrest in Argentina and vanished after a court approved their extradition to the United States." May they remain free. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Report: Z-Library admins on the lam ahead of US extradition; officials shockedarstechnica.com Z-Library defends admins and vows to expand access after domain seizures.

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Report: Z-Library admins on the lam ahead of US extradition; officials shockedarstechnica.com Z-Library defends admins and vows to expand access after domain seizures.

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Sure yes Salisbury Cathedral is nice I guess but the REAL highlight of the town is St. Thomas, with its spectacular 15c fresco of the Last Judgement (with Rainbow-Friendly Christ), its intact medieval ceiling, and of course its oversized organ.

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Courtesy of Cambridge University Library’s Special Collections: A #medieval bookmark that won’t go missing! #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts 📜 📚

#TIH #OTD 14 Jul 1774: Happy birthday Francis Lathom (d. 1832 May 19), British gothic novelist & playwright, best known for The Midnight Bell (1798), 1 of the 7 “horrid novels” recommended by the character Isabella Thorpe in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. #BookHistory 📚

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“I am in the middle of licking my foot. You take photographs of ladies performing their ablutions, do you? Are there no depths to which you will not stoop?”

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Today I stand in the presence of immortality #ea-nasir

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For those people who are into stamps The Royal Mail are doing a series of stamps and other things to celebrate D&D's 50th anniversary featuring some classic monsters ❤️ shop.royalmail.com/special-stam...

Dungeons & Dragons stamps and collectiblesshop.royalmail.com Celebrating 50 years of epic adventures - Dungeons & Dragons stamps

The missing leaf from the Getty Museum’s Hours of Louis XII has been tracked down www.getty.edu/news/acquiri... #MedievalManuscripts 📚 📜

Finally, the Other Half of the Storywww.getty.edu Missing for nearly 180 years, a manuscript page, only half of an illustration, travels from France to Getty for a happy reunion

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Christendom Professor Earns Prestigious Prize from Canadian Society of Medievalistswww.christendom.edu Christendom professor Dr. Alessia Berardi has been awarded the Leonard Boyle Dissertation Prize by the Canadian Society of Medievalists.

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Great article. Applying concepts from business to schools and teacher education since the 1980s has been hugely damaging. I like the argument that a scholarly approach to a concept might help thinking about research!

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"Disruption in the knowledge economy requires a marginal or new market....Who are these marginal purchasers? They certainly aren’t the governments, businesses, and charitable foundations who currently buy knowledge from universities....these buyers are an established core market."

Let’s stop talking about disruptive research | Wonkhewonkhe.com Gavin Miller explains why the idea of “disruption” shouldn’t be carelessly tossed about as a marker of research quality

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I got to visit the old reading room in the British Museum!

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Pondering the consistent pattern, pretty much everywhere I've worked, where the people who do attention-grabbing stuff but are a nightmare to work with are celebrated and promoted, while the competent people who just quietly do consistently good work are ignored until they burn out and leave.

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imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists

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It’s so cool when game creators branch out into other media. For example, the creators of Myst designed the shower controls in this AirBnB.

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Every August, typeface designers flock to the middle of the desert for a week of sex & drugs, and they erect a large wooden word with all the spacing fucked up. They call it Kerning Man

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the cycle of the months of Torre Aquila in the Buonconsiglio Castle #Trento with the first depiction of a snowball battle (late 14th century)!

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Rare sighting of Nessie at Loch Ness!!!!

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Jayne Headstone Carving, Marblehead, Massachusetts Ansel Adams, 1948. www.philamuseum.org/collection/o...

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Every generation must learn for themselves to think backwards when printing 📚 🖼️ 🎨

Uni delivering a rousing political speech

Uni :3

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#Practice, practice! Evidence of a book artisan perfecting their technique in the margin of this @theul.bsky.social statute book. #MedievalManuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Law #Art 📜 📚

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I'm slowly developing a heuristic for whether or not to trust LLMs. I've found it pretty reliable and wanted to share it: Did the answer come from an LLM? Yes: You should fact-check the answer. No: You should still fact-check the answer. I hope you find this as helpful as I have.