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Devyn Gwynne

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PhD student Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · Aug 16

Another semester starting again

Un bar aux Folies Bergère. By Manet (1882).

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Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 2h

This is a great article! I'm always very happy to see more research about trumpets happening.

Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to see James Seth's book receive a shout out here -

Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe
by Ania Upstill
@folger.edu blog
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

www.folger.edu

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 2d

Join us next Thursday (30/10, 5.30 pm) for Dr Emily Vine’s (@emilymayvine.bsky.social) talk on ‘Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London’! You can sign up to join in-person (IHR Wolfson Room, NB02) or online via Zoom here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London

Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar- Session 2

www.history.ac.uk

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 1d

Huzzah! The PhilSci preprint archive for #philsci papers is finally on Bsky! Give them a follow to keep up with latest work in field ⬇️
@philsci-archive.bsky.social

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 1d

Guillermo del Toro remains the GOAT gizmodo.com/guillermo-de...

Guillermo del Toro on Generative AI: 'I'd Rather Die'

The Oscar-winning director likened AI tech bros championing

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 3d

Improved homosexuality

Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations!

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Tom Ashbyトム ∙ アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 4d

Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)

The first page of "Of Man" with extensive marginalia

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 3d

But SOCIETY

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justingraeber.bsky.social @justingraeber.bsky.social · 3d

It's like watching Tom Brady throw a football or Shohei Ohtani hit a baseball. Just happy to be alive at the same time as the greatest poster of all time.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

you think it's "gay" to be associated with anything left of center ...

*opens manilla envelope*

... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ...

*slides 8x10 photo across table*

... you wore the tutti frutti

CIAsandman on Twitter writes: "Leftist friend got called “fuckin lib” by a foid at a bar last night. Their cultural grip is slipping. It’s cringe and gay to even be associated with anything left of center."

On January 21, 2025, CIAsandman tweets: "White boy fuel." There's a photo showing him holding a half-eaten piece of bread a bottle of water. On his wrist is a white Swatch watch.

An eBay auction for the Swatch says: 1996 Vintage Swatch Watch TUTTI FRUTTI GW109 Working Swatch Watches Women

A detective looks down at a suspect while a light is shining above the suspect's head.

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 6d

11th-century University of Paris professor Raymond Diocrès, considered a saint at his death, returns to life at his funeral to warn he has been condemned to Hell for his sins

[Vicente Carducho, Saint Bruno’s Conversion before the Body of Diocrès, 1626-1632, oil on canvas (Museo Nacional del Prado)]

"Raymond Diocrès, a notable professor at the University of Paris, was already considered saintly when he died in 1082. At his funeral, he himself spoke to the attendees three times to inform them that God had accused, judged and finally condemned him for his sins. This first work from the series shows the deceased’s horror as well as the surprised visage of Bruno of Cologne (1035-1101), who was also a Paris University professor at that time. And here, it is clear that Vicente Carducho drew on the series that Juan Sánchez Cotán had painted for the charterhouse in Granada between 1615 and 1617. Both artists conceived this scene in a similar manner, with the deceased speaking from his position at the center of a majestic architectural setting. Some details are the same in both works, such as the clergyman wearing glasses (who appears on opposite sides of the two painting), or the mourning cross on a velvet-covered base" https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/saint-brunos-conversion-before-the-body-of-diocres/3ad3fd61-69b1-488a-a65c-c4416ee54f54

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 5d

They’re stealing something from the public! Makes you think about what else is being stolen in plain sight due to austerity

Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 5d

The louvre heist being a product of austerity is so on the nose

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you (:

Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 6d

Birthday at the end of the week and i feel older already

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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social · 6d

Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿

Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.

www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...

The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany

This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...

www.biblhertz.it

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 6d

That’s why he’s white boy of the year

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 6d

So much wisdom hidden in such a simple sentence

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 6d

Yes i am watching the two towers

Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 6d

Nobody cares for the woods anymore

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 6d

The old world will burn in the fires of industry— ai guys

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7d

It's not a ceasefire if they're sending air attacks. What is wrong with everyone

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7d

BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh

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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 6d

The syllabus for my Winter semester course, “Work and Gender in Political Thought (18th–19th c.),” is now online: atesuslu.com/genel/syllab...

For now, it includes only the main readings and will be expanded with additional materials throughout the semester.

WORK AND GENDER IN POLITICAL THOUGHT (18TH–19TH CENTURIES) – Ateş Uslu

atesuslu.com

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 7d

This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️

We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges

S5 E11 - Steven Shapin on the Social Life of Scientific Knowledge

Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 19/10/2025 · 50m

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 7d

Timmy chals said it best, “you can get lost in the sauce, but without that sauce you are lost”

Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 7d

Took my first reading week that i can remember off only to confirm that time off is indeed not for me

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 7d

I’ll never use my degree for evil (experimental psychology or business)