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Francois Soyer
@fsoyer.bsky.social
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Associate Prof of European History, the Inquisition, Antisemitism and Gender/Sexuality at the University of New England in Australia. Hispanophile and Lusophile.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 6d
Catalan article in the newspaper El Pais about my 2023 book The ‘Catalan Hermaphrodite’ and the Inquisition: Early Modern Sex and Gender on Trial. elpais.com/quadern/2026...
L’hermafrodita catalana
François Soyer revela la vida de Maria Duran, natural de Prullans, que va tenir una vida sensacional al segle XVIII
elpais.com

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 8d
Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive
According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.
www.heraldscotland.com

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 14d
Life in regional Australia, where venomous snakes live in car engines. 🐍🤷‍♂️

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 17d
Also an interesting example of how a historian's interpretation of the evidence can change over time. Nearly a decade later, I have revisited the case of Maria Duran in a recent book and have approached it from a very different angle. www.bloomsbury.com/au/catalan-h...

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Dec 1
Love French stamps (strong Spanish theme in this one, though).

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · Nov 25
🚨 #DECRA #DE26 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285

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Reposted by Charles West, Keith Lilley, François Soyer

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · Oct 15
It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) !

📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1

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CoMMA
comma.inria.fr

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Oct 14
The perils of an Australian university campus in the springtime.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Oct 9
Birdlife in Australia is never dull: a discussion in progress at the feeder.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Oct 6
Thank you!

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Oct 6
Ouch: why pay $440,000 for AI work ("including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.")? Then again, why pay $440,000 for a single report anyway? Universities should take note. www.afr.com/companies/pr...
Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report
Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.
www.afr.com

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Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social · Sep 20
1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

Reposted by François Soyer

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · Sep 18
I am not quite sure how this works, but here's a free open source editable historical map that's pretty decent on medieval Europe.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Sep 12
I was sitting at my desk and had a feeling that someone was watching me.

Reposted by Charles West, François Soyer

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matthias mprove @mprove.bsky.social · Sep 11
www.openhistoricalmap.org#map=4/52.78/...
OpenHistoricalMap
OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain.
www.openhistoricalmap.org

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Sep 10
Thank you!

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Sep 10
Thank you, response sent. :-)
They're fairly large birds with a very sharp beak who seem to have a particular loathing for cyclists in the springtime! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JF...
Swooping season: How to stay safe
YouTube video by Australian Academy of Science
www.youtube.com

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Sep 10
Springtime in Australia.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Sep 2
Portugal's foremost twentieth-century poet, Fernando Pessoa, opining on Australia (Portuguese: É-se feliz na Austrália, desde que lá se não vá).

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 18
Receiving my author’s copies of my latest book: always a wonderful feeling but this time also a bittersweet one.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 10
Beware swooping trees.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 5
Just found the longest word in the English language.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 3
Saw some of my fellow inhabitants of Armidale using surfboards as makeshift sleds this morning! #Australia #Armidale

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 2
Certainly have not seen this much snow since I moved there in 2018!

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 2
Siberia Down Under. #Australia #Armidale

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 2
Snow in Australia will always feel strange to me

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 2
Snow Down Under... and it's only getting heavier! #Australia #Armidale

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Jul 28
4. Every other discipline thinks they can do history but they often cannot

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Jul 25
A question for Lusophones. Here is a blasphemous sentence from a inquisitorial trial: “que era puta mui grande e aleivosa farta de cães, gatos e negros." The official meaning of "fartar" is to be "satiated [with food].". Could it have a different (and ruder) meaning?

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Jul 24
Congratulations Una!