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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 27d

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 3d

Just your periodic reminder that there is an early modern pub night once a month for PhDs and ECRs and anyone else who'd like to join in London. If you'd like to be added to the mailing list please DM me.

Woodcut of four individuals around a table which has tankards of ale on it and a candle in a candle stick. One individual on the right as you look at the image is smoking a pipe and standing. The others are sitting. They are dressed in late Elizabethan or early Stuart clothings with some hats with feathers. One individual may be a woman the other three are male.

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 3d

Ahahahaha I have never noticed that before!!! 😂😂😂😂

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 3d

How it started vs how it’s going

Happy three year anniversary to my lovely @alfredso.bsky.social ! Our elopement was one of the best days of my life.

Thankfully he’s never dragged me away from a museum (especially not my fav @surgeonshall.bsky.social), or I wouldn’t have made it down the aisle!

Distracted boyfriend meme

THE SURGEONS’ HALL MUSEUM

ME (distracted boyfriend looking at surgeons hall museum)

ROMANTIC HOLIDAY WITH My boyfriend (looking at ‘me’)

Kate in her wedding dress leaning away from her husband towards the surgeons hall museum. Her husband holds her by one arm to tug her away

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 4d

Mum? Can you come pick me up? The ‘we are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn’t burn’ girlie pops are being really fucking weird again. This is so gross.

Besides, everyone knows the true challenge would a PB chest press challenged called ‘More weight’.

Advert for a salem themed walking challenge with the tag line ‘walk virtually in Salem and lose weight’

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 4d

It’s finally cold, which means it’s the perfect weather for layering up on couch with a hot water bottle and blanket and eat super cold chunky ice cream. Sensory heaven.

a small dog wrapped in a blanket on a bed .

ALT: a small dog wrapped in a blanket on a bed .

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 5d

Just spent five minutes googling whether these little robot guys actually existed or whether I had a key stage 2 fever dream

A ‘roamer’ robot with a tag saying ‘easily the best part about primary school’

Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 6d

over time. Also - my biggest piece of advice is 'if in doubt, ask!' <3 How exciting!

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 6d

this!!! It saves you so much time!! If you have time making an excel sheet of the items you've called up so you can add notes as you go. Sometimes I think 'oh I'll remember that this page is missing' and I never do. I would also screenshot/Wayback Machine catalogue records incase they change

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 6d

not very - its a lot less of a sexy trade!

Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 7d

When I explain that one of the few reasons to wear gloves handling books is if the book is dangerous to YOU. All these medical doctors were like

a baby in a suit and tie is standing on a wooden floor and says wow

ALT: a baby in a suit and tie is standing on a wooden floor and says wow

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 7d

One of the best things about accompanying my husband to his medical work events is he always goes 'This is Kate. She works with old books. Guys, did you know that wearing gloves when handing manuscripts is A LIE?'

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 7d

Flemish painter Catarina Ykens II, mostly known for still her lifes, puts the EEK in Ykens in this memento mori. Signed and dated: "Catharina ykens. filia Devota f. 1688" (Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp).

A painted bust of a woman whose head is a skull, adorned by flowers and a bird pecking at a branch

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 8d

Fellow immigrants: if you are on the ILR visa and citizenship is available to you, please consider locking that down before a disastrous Reform electoral win, which would outstrip many of us of our rights. Anyone who thinks this isn't a possibility isn't paying attention to global politics.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 8d

A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 8d

Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 8d

I miss my girl Tallulah so much. I love how her St Tallulah tattoo is on my dog petting arm, so I can pass on a blessing with each pat.

A beagle sitting on a wooden floor. Kate’s right hand reaches down to pet the dog, showing a tattoo of her late dog, Tallulah, with a halo

A small whippet cross with big ears sat on an orange rug

A dog with large ears sat on a chair at a dining table

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 12d

Gives me the ick to see social media history girlies do press with Rylan. They preach empathy and ethics in the portrayal of history + the representation of marginalised people and then do press with someone who recently said very awful things towards refugees. Empathy pending 70+ years post death??

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 15d

So precious 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 15d

I hope the parents who dress their babies up in fluffy animal clothes understand their positive impact on my life 🙏

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 16d

Boo!

Happy looking ghost annotation at the top right of a printer page.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 17d

Tomorrow: DEAD ENDS comes out in the US! Aimed at kids aged 8-12, @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I think everyone will love this grisly romp through medical history. Please consider ordering a copy, and enjoy the weird stories we've uncovered that prove failure is essential to scientific progress.

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 21d

When does death begin?

In the 18th century, no one could agree—some said when the pulse stopped, others when the body began to rot. Out of that debate came a century of strange experiments on severed heads.

Learn more in our kids’ book DEAD ENDS (w/ @tealcartoons.bsky.social): shorturl.at/FS3nd

A cartoon by Adrian Teal that depicts a guillotine and a severed head, with a modern-looking doctor holding a stethoscope to the head.

The cover of DEAD ENDS featuring a cartoon man being electrocuted back to life

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 20d

a cartoon of a rabbit with the words " stap it " above it

ALT: a cartoon of a rabbit with the words " stap it " above it

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 20d

So great to be back at The North Wing to celebrate its reopening and the hard work of the teams who made it all happen. 💕 ✨

Kate standing at the top of the Hogarth Staircase looking at the painting of the Pool of Bethesda on the wall opposite her

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 21d

This sounds like a medical school interview question 😂😂😂

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 23d

Could be done as a chaser to the vampire blood…or, if the vampire blood needs to incubate a little, a few days later. Bada bing bada boom irreversible transformation that isn’t reliant on the vamp2B making a kill. I watch this yearly and have done since I was 12 and only just had this thought.

a close up of a man 's face with the words fun huh below him

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Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social · 23d

If in The Lost Boys you turn into a half vampire by drinking vampire blood and then a full vampire by drinking human blood, why couldn’t David give Michael his blood wine and then at another point give him wine with human blood in it?

a woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee with the words let 's talk written below her

Alt: Lucy, the mum from Lost Boys, is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee with the words let 's talk written below her

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