Devyn Gwynne
@devyngwynne.bsky.social
PhD candidate
Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Pinned
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New podcast for you today: the revival of atomism in the 17th century! We look especially at Gassendi and Basso.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/revival-atom...
#philsky #atomism #gassendi #philosophy #earlymodern #podcast
www.historyofphilosophy.net/revival-atom...
#philsky #atomism #gassendi #philosophy #earlymodern #podcast
December 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
New podcast for you today: the revival of atomism in the 17th century! We look especially at Gassendi and Basso.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/revival-atom...
#philsky #atomism #gassendi #philosophy #earlymodern #podcast
www.historyofphilosophy.net/revival-atom...
#philsky #atomism #gassendi #philosophy #earlymodern #podcast
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There's a £2.5k prize offered for a piece of writing (1000-1500 words) on #sculpture by an early career scholar, deadline 4 May 2026, all the details here so please circulate widely
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
There's a £2.5k prize offered for a piece of writing (1000-1500 words) on #sculpture by an early career scholar, deadline 4 May 2026, all the details here so please circulate widely
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
Cooking in a way people just don’t do anymore (outdated, generally seen as undesirable)
I fear I have a theory article in me I have to write
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Cooking in a way people just don’t do anymore (outdated, generally seen as undesirable)
I fear I have a theory article in me I have to write
December 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I fear I have a theory article in me I have to write
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
My criteria is pretty simple: looks familiar like an older book, doesn't take up a weird amount of room, italics look good and are legible, and not created by a pedophile
trying to find a new font
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My criteria is pretty simple: looks familiar like an older book, doesn't take up a weird amount of room, italics look good and are legible, and not created by a pedophile
soft launching Cochin
trying to find a new font
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
soft launching Cochin
trying to find a new font
December 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
trying to find a new font
There’s a lot of sources here I say about the only three I found over a 25 year span
December 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
There’s a lot of sources here I say about the only three I found over a 25 year span
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So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
December 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
It’s so over ———> we’re so back—-> it’s so over— the cycle repeats
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It’s so over ———> we’re so back—-> it’s so over— the cycle repeats
I love being a candidate it’s like being a student but i get a title
December 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I love being a candidate it’s like being a student but i get a title
Slowly slowly marxism bleeds more into my life (just read about metabolic rifts)
December 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Slowly slowly marxism bleeds more into my life (just read about metabolic rifts)
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Tomorrow! For any interested #skystorians #earlymodern
For any interested #earlymodern #skystorians:
I've the pleasure of speaking at the Moved Apart Project's seminar series this coming Monday at 9am GMT/10am CET!
The talk (ca. 30 mins) will be 'Time Apart in the early English East India Company', and it's entirely online!
All welcome!
I've the pleasure of speaking at the Moved Apart Project's seminar series this coming Monday at 9am GMT/10am CET!
The talk (ca. 30 mins) will be 'Time Apart in the early English East India Company', and it's entirely online!
All welcome!
The Moved Apart team are happy to present Dr Mark Williams of Cardiff University, who is invited to hold a presentation called "Time Apart in the early English East India Company". The prese...
The Moved Apart team are happy to present Dr Mark Williams of Cardiff University, who is invited to hold a presentation called "Time Apart in the early English East India Company". The presentation is...
www.linkedin.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Tomorrow! For any interested #skystorians #earlymodern
I love being in love with my work
In the most romantic period of my dissertation (right before actually starting writing it)
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I love being in love with my work
In the most romantic period of my dissertation (right before actually starting writing it)
December 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
In the most romantic period of my dissertation (right before actually starting writing it)
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-15 c not a cloud in sight walking to work, life couldn’t be better
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
-15 c not a cloud in sight walking to work, life couldn’t be better
I have already been suggested Eco’s How to Write a Thesis
Thinking a lot about a term we all love dearly: feasibility.
Anyone have resources or suggestions on making your diss (especially in History) a feasible thing?
Anyone have resources or suggestions on making your diss (especially in History) a feasible thing?
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I have already been suggested Eco’s How to Write a Thesis
Thinking a lot about a term we all love dearly: feasibility.
Anyone have resources or suggestions on making your diss (especially in History) a feasible thing?
Anyone have resources or suggestions on making your diss (especially in History) a feasible thing?
December 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Thinking a lot about a term we all love dearly: feasibility.
Anyone have resources or suggestions on making your diss (especially in History) a feasible thing?
Anyone have resources or suggestions on making your diss (especially in History) a feasible thing?
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Le département de philosophie de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) embauche! Poste de professeur-e en épistémologie, surtout l’épistémologie appliquée. Date limite 17h le 30 janvier 2026. Détails et contact: www.rhu.uqam.ca/AffichagePro...
philo.uqam.ca
philo.uqam.ca
www.rhu.uqam.ca
December 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Le département de philosophie de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) embauche! Poste de professeur-e en épistémologie, surtout l’épistémologie appliquée. Date limite 17h le 30 janvier 2026. Détails et contact: www.rhu.uqam.ca/AffichagePro...
philo.uqam.ca
philo.uqam.ca
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📣 #CfP Reminder 📣
Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence?
📜 Check our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇
⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2025
📣 #genderhistory #genderstudies
Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence?
📜 Check our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇
⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2025
📣 #genderhistory #genderstudies
Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
📣 #CfP Reminder 📣
Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence?
📜 Check our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇
⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2025
📣 #genderhistory #genderstudies
Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence?
📜 Check our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇
⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2025
📣 #genderhistory #genderstudies
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"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." This was my rationale for saying no GenAI in our MA; others disagreed. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." This was my rationale for saying no GenAI in our MA; others disagreed. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Registration is now open for my 13 Jan 2026 public lecture, "The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories: Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses," csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin.... Sponsored by @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social. #histmed #aDNA #PandemicThinking
Infectitious Disease Histories - CSMBR
In this lecture, Monica Green explores how pathogen palaeogenetics, through ancient microbial genomes, is transforming our understanding of the evolution and global circulation of premodern infectious...
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Registration is now open for my 13 Jan 2026 public lecture, "The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories: Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses," csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin.... Sponsored by @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social. #histmed #aDNA #PandemicThinking