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Joanna Lillis @joannalillis.bsky.social · 4h

Silk Mirage, my book on #Uzbekistan, will be on the shelves a month today! Join launch events in November in London/online, inc Clifton LitFest w @peterleonard1.bsky.social, Pushkin House with Ibrat Safo, Royal Society for Asian Affairs with Sophie Ibbotson + more open.substack.com/pub/joannali...

Silk Mirage on tour

Silk Mirage, my new book on Uzbekistan, is out on 13 November. Please join me at the following events (in person in the UK and online) taking place during the Silk Mirage tour in November/December.

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 22h

Very glad to finally see

Exoticizing Consumption: European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740

Featuring a chapter by yours truly, make its way into the world

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Exoticizing Consumption - University of Pittsburgh Press

|9780822948704|European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740|Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, m...

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 21h

Fun fact: nutmeg is a hallucinogen, provided you take enough

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 22h

My chapter contemplates - in an era when Russia did not technically have the term “exotic”/“ekzotichnyi” but was importing foreign goods from far-flung lands, did Russians have the same kind of *idea* of “exotic” as their Western neighbors

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 22h

Very glad to finally see

Exoticizing Consumption: European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740

Featuring a chapter by yours truly, make its way into the world

upittpress.org/books/978082...

Exoticizing Consumption - University of Pittsburgh Press

|9780822948704|European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740|Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, m...

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 3d

He can still hold a musket so everything’s fine

two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .

Alt: two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 3d

Reading the kind of military medical document that describes someone having their face burnt off but doesn’t list that as a “serious” injury

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 4d

Where can I get IT support gor fixing our IT support?

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 4d

The web form we are supposed to use to report classroom tech issues doesn’t work and I just

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 5d

Mid semester like spending my “lunch break” reading a 17 page document I got this morning ahead of a meeting this afternoon

Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 6d

There’s a reason they call them email chains

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 7d

I call him *mister* squirrel

Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 7d

Being overheard by a student when having an extended conversation with a squirrel #MondayGoals

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 11d

Tempted to pitch Putin’s Monsters: Russian Propaganda and the Creation of Ukrainian Villains but instead I will look forward to what will certainly be a fascinating collection of monsters by contingent academics

Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 12d

It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Alison Laurence @dinostalgia.bsky.social · 12d

The monster is a friend, or so we @contingent-mag.bsky.social suggest in our CFP... a fiend to historians especially, though not exclusively.

Pitch us an essay about your historical monster, whatever form that monster takes, by October 20!

Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 12d

It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 13d

IU Bloomington is very happy to welcome Prof. Serhii Plokhii this Fall as this semester’s Patten Lecturer patten.indiana.edu/lecturers/pr...

Serhii Plokhii: Profiles: Lecturers: The William T. Patten Foundation: Indiana University Bloomington

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 13d

Don’t illegally cross into a country that has a substantial track record of detaining foreign citizens for extended periods even if you really feel like cycling there

Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 13d

Look at a certain point people just need to make better choices

The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · 13d

A Russian court on Tuesday ordered a French cyclist who was detained during a record-breaking cross-continental trip to be held in jail until at least November 3.

Russia Extends Jailing of French Cyclist - The Moscow Times

A Russian court on Tuesday ordered a French cyclist who was detained during a record-breaking cross-continental trip to be held in jail until at least November 3, state media reported.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 13d

⚡️Europe 'no longer at peace' with Russia, Germany's Merz says.

"Let me put it in a sentence that may be a little shocking at first glance ... we are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sept. 29.

Europe 'no longer at peace' with Russia, Germany's Merz says

"Let me put it in a sentence that may be a little shocking at first glance ... we are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sept. 29.

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 13d

Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October.
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Conference Funding

The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine. Applicants should note that grants are not retrospectively awar…

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 13d

🦸 New #StudentJob!
Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" seeks a #StudentAssistant with classical #Chinese language skills.
The role focuses on #YuanDynasty textile archeology and involves research and #DigitalHumanities support.

🗓 Deadline: Oct 30, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4

#HistSci #Archeology #DH

Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows the glass façade of the institute at dawn (setform 2017). The third shows people reading in the institute's library (setform 2017).

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 13d

Multiple unhoused people were assaulted in Bloomington IN over the weekend. One of them died

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Local News, Bloomington, Indiana - The Bloomingtonian

Bloomington News, News, local news, Bloomington, Indiana. Bloomington Local News, Indiana, visual journalism, photojournalism, local journalism

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 13d

Sitting outside a CVS answering emails on my phone because I need my prescriptions and getting them ready when they were supposed to be was apparently too much trouble

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 13d

I have an attendance policy that allows for absences and carries only a small percentage of their grade but then means I can keep track of them both for academic and young-people-in-our-care reasons

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Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social · 14d

As if Astana winters weren’t long and dark enough already

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