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Just published: a very generous review of the volume I edited,🍀 Plants in 16th and 17th century🌿, written by Jose-Pardo Tomas on Nuncius @manipulatingflora.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social I am flattered!!! Hope you like it brill.com/view/journal...

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We're thrilled to have moved across to BlueSky! 🦋 By way of introduction, we are the Society, Culture & Belief Seminar, 1500-1800. We host papers each term at the Institute of Historical Research (@ihr.bsky.social) in London – all are welcome! Keep an eye out for upcoming events #earlymodern

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Member News: AFCEMS Best Book in Medieval Art 2024 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

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Come join us at @historytcd.bsky.social

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Very pleased this came out! I investigate epistemic values of texts, images, and objects in seventeenth-century microscopy. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Find this and more in The State Drug. All you always wanted to know about theriac, but also all you did not even know was related to theriac and in fact is!

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If you are interested in #earlymodern make sure you follow all 3 lists! And thank you @liesetiawan.bsky.social

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We are very proud to be able to offer a number of fellowships and awards this year. Many of them have a deadline of the 1 February. Find all the details here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a... #BSECS2025 #18thC

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FRIDAY 31 JAN 5:30 GMT, Marieke Hendriksen on “Food history as history of knowledge: preservation technologies in the early modern Low Countries,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, online and in person at IHR NB02. To attend/for Zoom link register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/food-...

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Hospital and Household Medicine 16: A Scene of Domestic Bloodletting, 18th century Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu, Accession number 44718i, Wellcome Collections, London. #CSMBR #Bloodletting #Medicalhistory

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Excited to launch Thinking With Moss, an NEH-funded project that I've been working on for the past few years with @tega.bsky.social + @aansari86.bsky.social. Bringing in collabs from around the world in a series of workshops, we asked what it might mean to think with moss / www.thinkingwithmoss.net

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🚨 Job Klaxon 🚨 1 PhD position for 3 years a the German Mining Museum Bochum in the interdisciplinary DFG/AHRC funded project "Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall". More details: karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/2.... Please share!

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Looks fake doesn't it? This reconstruction of Medieval Bologna shows how Italian towns used to be a forest of towers, dense as Manhattan skyscrapers! Here's a stable blog-formatted version of my thread from yesterday about the lost towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline wars www.exurbe.com/the-lost-tow...

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favourite alternative search engine to google, now that google results are shit? I want a search engine that delivers hits to the indie web, not just paid content

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On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.

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This is huge news, especially for scholars who don't have institutional access (FrEEBO!)--and even for those who do, this interface is way better Thank you for sharing, @themedievaldrk.bsky.social !!!

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I honestly think we are experiencing the end of the internet as those of us born in the 20th c understand it. Smaller, siloed communities like discord servers and newsletters will persist, but the idea of the global public square is dead, as is “the information superhighway.” VCs killed it.

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British Journal for the History of Science (Themes) vol. 9, “The History of Science and the ‘Big Picture’”, guest edited by James Poskett.

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📢Job Claxon📢 Permanent Contract UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) seeks to appoint one Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society to undertake teaching, research and related academic support duties. #histmed #histSTM

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“Academics from poorer backgrounds are both more likely to not publish and to have outstanding publication records. Academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, but are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Ideally I'd like it engaged throughout but it's good to see this research framed from the beginning as supporting traditional indigenous knowledge. Thus, these are not new discoveries, but freshly evidenced. That's a good distinction for many of us to keep in mind.

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Getting ready for the New Year [“Nature Forging a Baby,” British Library, Harley 4425 (Roman de la Rose), fol. 140, Bruges, c. 1490-c. 1500.] #earlymodern #newyears #allegoryfail

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Do you have any students in Museum Studies? We have scholarships available for our great 2-year MA!

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We’ve got five stellar paid internship opportunities in our conservation department, varied levels from undergraduate/pre-program to graduate, working with objects, paintings, or frames. recruiting.ultipro.com/CLE1004CMA/J...

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@bsky.app Exciting position at Cambridge - deadline 30th January 2025 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49315/

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When & where did syphilis emerge? When & where did the bacteria evolve into its sexually transmitted form? Has the epidemiology’s most enduring mystery—and controversy—been resolved? Great articles by @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com and @ @spoke32.bsky.social @science.org 🧵

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Truest thing ever written.

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Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Japanese instrument to dry mulberry tree leaves, how to do without? #histsci

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Rearing silkworms in a traditional Japanese straw hut according to a 19th century Italian book! #histsci

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A book of anagrams based on the names of Neapolitan noblewomen by Giambattista Basile. Making a living as a poet is tough! #earlymodern

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My writing process is usually: a) I got this b) well, fuck c) wait that part was real good d) wait no that part sucks e) I am a god of this place f) the fuck is this shit, who do I think I am, why am I here g) oh man I just figured it all out h) mistakes were made I) existential dread

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Just started this new book and it looks like it might become one of my favorite reads of 2024.

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The week after Sept 11th, my (Marxist-trained) history prof/advisor brought in multiple copies of the NYT' list of the 1000s of reported deaths and pointed out that they were organized by profession, with all the I-bankers in 1 column and all the restaurant staff & janitors on a different page.

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And a whole section of #petdragons too www.loc.gov/free-to-use/...

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M. F. Lewis' Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods.

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3 things about hope work--something many of us know intimately--exposed: Hope labour can lead to exploitation Hope might never be fulfilled The distribution of labour can be skewed www.lexacademic.com/blog/living-...

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Queen Njinga leading her troops in style. #Angola #earlymodern #africanhistory #17thcentury #textilehistory #ivory #africanqueen

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Does everyone know about Project Gutenberg? E-books for free. The world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for free. Digitized and diligently proofread by thousands of volunteers. Please share.

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#Histmed, are you out there?! AAHM is now on Bluesky 💙 We will no longer use our Twitter account, so follow along here for announcements, updates on our centennial meeting, and an ✨occasional✨ plea for donations.

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Porsche wants to destroy an oak forest in Puglia to build a new test track, and local authorities are allowing this. #environment Please share www.robinwood.de/eichen-schue... www.robinwood.de/eichen-schue...

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"Models can be black boxes" great when great scientists use #histsci concepts John Ioannidis from Stanford Uni lecturing at Bologna today bolognamedicine.it

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Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

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How many of us who are historians today started by reading Marc Bloch and Carlo Ginzburg? I certainly did, not very original, I admit. Below you find both of them in conversation. Enjoy #earlymodern #skyhistorians legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2024/06/2...

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