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In college I had a history prof walk into class slam a potato down & say "this is the most important entity here. There is not one person on this campus or even in this city whose significance to human history will prove to be anywhere close to that of a potato" & ykw gotta admit he was 100% right

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Alright, let's see how big this gets! ❤️ 1 Like = 1 Video Game Book 📚

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Thank you for listening!! 🥹 Had such a great time talking about all the fun things I’ve discovered about James Johnstone in Copenhagen!

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"Academia is fit only for those who ‘fit’." Powerful and important piece on being disabled in academia, DEI, and "career blocking" (HT @Dr_Tre_Crew) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01417789241232664?s=09

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What grief do you carry? How do you tend to it? What grief do the people around you carry? How do they tend to it? Creative DIY community approaches to grief & remembrance can sometimes help. www.deadgood.org/blog/mortali... #griefsky #deathsky #deathwork #griefwork #communitydeathwork

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This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

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A long overdue release… My research website is now live! Subscribe, follow, lurk… My Instagram followers got first pick on the kinda content they want to see, but I’ll be releasing updates on my Marie Curie project, DEATHRIT + some fun things discovered in the archives! deathrit.wordpress.com

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Offre d’emploi – PhD position in Medieval History and Digital Humanities (Ghent University) rmblf.be/2025/01/20/o...

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Lev Grossman's Arthuriana fantasy 'The Bright Sword' makes the Saxons climate refugees crossing the channel in small boats (topical), fleeing floods. Can any Early-Englishers give me sources for the climate history this is based on?

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A long overdue release… My research website is now live! Subscribe, follow, lurk… My Instagram followers got first pick on the kinda content they want to see, but I’ll be releasing updates on my Marie Curie project, DEATHRIT + some fun things discovered in the archives! deathrit.wordpress.com

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UK bound end of Jan! My comfy Giza apartment will be up for grabs. Prime location facing the Giza Plateau & a stone's throw from the Grand Egyptian Museum. 2 double bdrms, study, spacious living area & all mod cons. Perfect for exploring ancient wonders! DM for details! #Egypt

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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Inclusive Histories - 12 months)- Royal Holloway, University of London - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI088/p...

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Lovely to receive print copies of my latest essay, “How Disability (re) Invents Poetry” (in SEL @sel1500to1900.bsky.social 64.2).

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I keep thinking about how curiosity is such a powerful part of a critic’s toolkit, but it is paradoxically under more and more threat the more experience & knowledge the critic (and/or academic) has.

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Do you like #horror, #gothic, #occult and #videogames? We've got the event for you! The Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is hosting a 3-day conference btwn 13-15 Aug 2025. The CFP is open and we have some bursaries available. Please share! Details 👇 engerom.ku.dk/english/rese...

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US pre-orders are ready so here I go again Debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, September 2025 A North Korean spy, a Korean CIA Agent, and a South Korean restauranteur get entangled in a spy game. A metaphor for the lives of the diaspora Canada pre-orders: a.co/d/10a8EcM US pre-orders: amzn.to/3DlvSvr

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2 yr Post-doc, Edinburgh-- Leverhulme-funded, ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law, c.1750-present’. Collaboration betw Prof Chloë Kennedy (Edinburgh), Prof Katie Barclay (Macquarie) and Dr Alice Krzanich (Aberdeen). elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #skystorians 🗃️ #c18th #c19th

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More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it: Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains. It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.

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Exciting news to end the semester—I’m delighted to announce I’ll be joining the London-Paris Romanticism symposium on “Romantic Shock & Surprise” in May! I’ll be presenting some work on gore & the Norse-Gothic spectacle to think about resistance & necropower in 18th-century poetry✨🪦✨ #EUFunded

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My department has just advertised 5 salaried PhD positions. Projects within the fields of religion, culture studies, environmental humanities, and/or Asian/Middle Eastern studies are welcome. 3-4 years, full-time, fully funded. Candidates must have finished their MA. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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I got called 'fairy bookmother' today by @sharonchoe.bsky.social and I am so into it. Might rebrand. ✨

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We have posted two tenured positions as assistant professor in #Anthropocene history at our centre, please help share widely: www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... One is in #envhist and one is in history of science.

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A companion to our history lists, here's a list of books, chapters, and articles published in 2024 in lit studies by scholars working off the tenure track. Compiled by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social.

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Sharknado Sharknadas Sharknadat Sharknadamus Sharknadatis Sharknadant

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Back at det KGL. Bibliotek today. I’ve been enjoying spending time with this collection of James Johnstone texts over the last 2 weeks & thinking about translation approaches… also there’s a lot of fun death imagery which is a big win 🪦

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Flagging this up again! More reading, concepts, terms welcome! ✨

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I think I made a starter pack? go.bsky.app/fkgPH6

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I’m giving an online talk in January about this translation/parallel text that does a handful of things that other 18th-century translations of “The Death Song of Ragnar Lodbrok” don’t do. Perhaps not the most exciting translation, but every time I return to it I find something new ✨ Info below 👇🏼

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UK #DisabilityHistoryMonth starts today! I'll be trying to share interesting material & historians throughout. But, as good an introduction as any: last year I spoke on 'Disability & Mobility Aids in Britain 1600–1800' & the video & transcript are here. dremilycock.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/d...

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Excited for this!!

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Dear lit theory/aesthetics people, if you were researching the unrepresentable, or the limits of representation, where would you start? Key thinkers, texts, or concepts?

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Press release makes it Official. cla.auburn.edu/news/article...

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I’m a disability scholar in training (specifically 18th C), but in my postdoc I’m side-stepping into Death Studies to think more about decay, resurrection, & recovery in body politic models. Any Death scholars here? ✨ Any key books, ideas, concepts, terms you would say are important to the field?

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Woo-hoo! The announcement for the opening to our exhibition at Enigma Museum in Copenhagen is now online. If you are visiting Copenhagen from 20 November 2024 onward check out special exhibit, "The History of Player 2"! www.enigma.dk/oplev/arcadeum

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This wave of academics turning to Bluesky feels like a reunion of sorts… maybe this will convince me to be more present on here again 😂 Hi all 🙋🏻‍♀️ I’m definitely a lot more active on Instagram for writing, but it’s great to regain a channel of contact/comms for academic stuff 💕

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