This is why in 2025 I photographed the entirety of the text in all fifty manuscripts I looked at so that I can always go back and double-check things. But did I photograph the other texts? No. So I also need to go and look at a bunch of those as well.

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Little one is magically 7. I wrote this when she was 2 and it still describes her perfectly. www.instagram.com/p/CVTioDfM0N...

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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Exciting professional news: I’ve accepted the position of Curator of Rare Books and Book Arts at the University of Washington Libraries!! 🎉 I’ll be starting in January, and I’m so looking forward to working with UW’s incredible people, collections, and students 📚

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The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for October 2026 is TCD MS 1318 (‘The Yellow Book of Lecan’), containing 3 medical fragments, including the earliest dated copy of a commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms translated in 1403: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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