Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD

Folklorist, flâneuse. The rest is history.

[Andrew Nadeau @TheAndrewNadeau]

Just saw onto the sidelines, they literally have enough footballs for all the players, they’re making them fight over that one for no reason.

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message from it.

[Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD @Tenthcentury]

@buitengebieden I'd bet my bottom dollar this is AI. I know, it's cute and all, so who cares, right? But I'd rather see real animals than have my emotions manipulated.

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

Absolutely insane gold thrymsa from Norfolk in the latest @CurrentArchaeo. Never seen anything like this

[Dr. Alex Zawacki @achillghost]

Underappreciated element of the medieval romances is the way they sometimes verge on surrealist nightmare. The world is basically incomprehensible and generally hostile. Spinning castles of glass, dead knights who war by moonlight, the country an empty place populated by horrors

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

Kids these days don’t even read Hermes Trismegistus. Because of Woke.

[Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD @Tenthcentury]

@mysticalady683 @Brink_Thinker Believe me, there were predators.

[Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD @Tenthcentury]

@grahamscheper This is wonderful but I think it might be even better with a Hwæt!

[Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD @Tenthcentury]

@dramdarcy My father, who was a journalist, passed on an instruction that every time you want to use "very," you have to substitute "damn" (very good > damn good), and then you have to take it out because you can't use "damn" in the newspaper. (In the olden days when that was true.)

[Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD @Tenthcentury]

@AChillGhost I think 1816, the "Year Without a Summer," also known as "Eighteen-hundred-and-starve-to-death," is an equal contender — the result of the eruption of Mt Tambora in Indonesia, the most powerful eruption in the last 10,000 years.

[Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD @Tenthcentury]

@KelliB4Thee @_CLancellotti Not many scholars doing deconstruction any more. One important recent discipline is eco-criticism, which certainly holds that there is an objective world out there — that underlies the whole point.

[Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD @Tenthcentury]

@JPHilllllll As a person who went to school in Gary myself, I can tell you that utter chaos will break out in a classroom with no teacher physically present. And not just in Gary. Total disaster. It's also telling that they can't pay teachers enough to attract fully licensed ones to the city.

[Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD @Tenthcentury]

@PeterOuld @JamesCarville This line is from the Smothers Brothers. There's a clip of it on YouTube.

[Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD @Tenthcentury]

@Kulambq A costermonger in 1851: "Love and murder suits us best.... Of Hamlet... nine out of ten of us would like it to be confined to the ghost scenes, and the funeral, and the killing off at the last. Macbeth would be better liked, if it was only the witches and the fighting."

[Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD @Tenthcentury]

The sneaky magic of buttocks-bread and other nefarious medieval bread magic, on our Early English Bread Project blog: https://t.co/U8XNJtH1Bf

[inefficient rhubarb snackowski @snackowska]

eventually it’ll just be one humanities department: the Department of Applied Humanities, where you learn how to write ads for multinational corporations

[Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD @Tenthcentury]

@MiltonFriedom5 @ppyowna In fact hunter-gatherer societies work far fewer hours than industrialized societies. When settlers encountered Native Americans, they were appalled that their lives did not have the work & hardship to count as the suffering that was supposed to come with expulsion from Eden.

[Dr. Martha Bayless, PhD @Tenthcentury]

@DrBeachcombing @shuclarke The Seven Whistlers are a feature of Mrs Henry Wood's novel Edina (1876).

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academic articles may pay nothing and take years to publish but at least they're read by virtually no one

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

“I’ll take care of it in June”

June: