Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place)
@drjannmatlock.bsky.social
Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit!
@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.
Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.
Apply 👇
@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.
Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.
Apply 👇
Job opportunity: Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics
The UCL Department of Political Science and Constitution Unit are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics. The successful candidate will join the senior team at the Unit.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit!
@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.
Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.
Apply 👇
@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.
Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.
Apply 👇
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What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
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New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
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Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
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How did I miss this!?!?! @noctambulate.bsky.social was audacious enough to support me, a young scholar writing in a foreign language, by editing/publishing my first book. A truly remarkable human being with a trajectory worthy of very few! He's done more than most to keep the humanities alive.
University of Minnesota Press Director Retires
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, ...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
How did I miss this!?!?! @noctambulate.bsky.social was audacious enough to support me, a young scholar writing in a foreign language, by editing/publishing my first book. A truly remarkable human being with a trajectory worthy of very few! He's done more than most to keep the humanities alive.
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Art history A-level is extinct in Scotland and Wales and nearly extinct in England. The UK has the third-biggest art market in the world ($11bn-ish), if you need a business case to prove its value.
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Art history A-level is extinct in Scotland and Wales and nearly extinct in England. The UK has the third-biggest art market in the world ($11bn-ish), if you need a business case to prove its value.
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First Issue of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy
The first issue of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy is out. This new journal is published online as an annual volume, with articles published on a rolling basis. Volume one so far contains…
The first issue of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy is out. This new journal is published online as an annual volume, with articles published on a rolling basis. Volume one so far contains…
First Issue of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy
The first issue of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy is out. This new journal is published online as an annual volume, with articles published on a rolling basis. Volume one so far contains articles on Shepherd, Roza Egipciaca, and Margaret Cavendish, as well as translations of work by Nisia Floresta and Amalia Holst, and several articles on the practice of translation.
feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
First Issue of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy
The first issue of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy is out. This new journal is published online as an annual volume, with articles published on a rolling basis. Volume one so far contains…
The first issue of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy is out. This new journal is published online as an annual volume, with articles published on a rolling basis. Volume one so far contains…
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Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
Native American actress gave ICE agents her tribal ID. They called it 'fake,' she says
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
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This is what happens when political thought is driven by the demagogic rhetoric of Nigel Farage, amplified by thousands of Russian bots circulated by Elon Musk, with a response from Labour which is sheer nit-wittery. The truth is suffocated.
The British Public Thinks Immigration Is Up. It’s Actually Down, Sharply.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is what happens when political thought is driven by the demagogic rhetoric of Nigel Farage, amplified by thousands of Russian bots circulated by Elon Musk, with a response from Labour which is sheer nit-wittery. The truth is suffocated.
Congratulations!
I'm thrilled to have received the Natalie Zemon Davis Award from @sfhs.bsky.social for my paper on Tamil consumers, caste, and mechanical timepieces in 18C Pondicherry. NZD is such an inspiration to early modernists and it's a huge honor to receive this award!
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Congratulations!
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There's still time to apply to contribute a chapter to our edited volume 'L’Éducation et l’Autre pendant le long XVIIIe siècle (1693–1811)'. The deadline for submitting abstracts (c.500 characters) is December 15th. We will accept submissions in both French and English! More info: bit.ly/4ol1vXE
Regards croisés sur l’enfance, l’altérité et les pratiques éducatives dans les récits de voyage pendant le long XVIIIe s.
L’Éducation et l’Autre pendant le long XVIIIe siècle (1693–1811) : Regards croisés sur l’enfance, l’altérité et les pratiques éducatives dans les récits de voyage Les sociétés européennes sont marquée...
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
There's still time to apply to contribute a chapter to our edited volume 'L’Éducation et l’Autre pendant le long XVIIIe siècle (1693–1811)'. The deadline for submitting abstracts (c.500 characters) is December 15th. We will accept submissions in both French and English! More info: bit.ly/4ol1vXE
This is really important--and terrifying.
This scenario—your therapy sessions, psychiatry appointments, ob-gyn checkups, STI testing, lab results, etc all available for use—seems to me to be the single biggest privacy threat and most useful reservoir of information for technofascism imaginable.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is really important--and terrifying.
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Coming up @goetheuni.bsky.social and @dfg.de Graduiertenkolleg "Konfigurationen des Films" / "Configurations of Film" from January 29 through 31, 2026:
MOVING IMAGE REMAINS: ON THE REFUSAL TO DISAPPEAR
An International conference – Campus Westend, Kino Naxos, Orpheus Erben in Frankfurt
MOVING IMAGE REMAINS: ON THE REFUSAL TO DISAPPEAR
An International conference – Campus Westend, Kino Naxos, Orpheus Erben in Frankfurt
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Coming up @goetheuni.bsky.social and @dfg.de Graduiertenkolleg "Konfigurationen des Films" / "Configurations of Film" from January 29 through 31, 2026:
MOVING IMAGE REMAINS: ON THE REFUSAL TO DISAPPEAR
An International conference – Campus Westend, Kino Naxos, Orpheus Erben in Frankfurt
MOVING IMAGE REMAINS: ON THE REFUSAL TO DISAPPEAR
An International conference – Campus Westend, Kino Naxos, Orpheus Erben in Frankfurt
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What great news! My colleague & I had submitted an abstract based on a class we designed and co-taught (public health in the francophone world) to the Society for French Historical Studies. They will create a special roundtable session! “French History in the Small Liberal Arts College Classroom”
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
What great news! My colleague & I had submitted an abstract based on a class we designed and co-taught (public health in the francophone world) to the Society for French Historical Studies. They will create a special roundtable session! “French History in the Small Liberal Arts College Classroom”
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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The docs also reveal the number of hours the FBI devoted to the project, which required some agents to work nights and weekends. The FBI paid personnel $851,344 in overtime for working on the Epstein files between March 17 and March 22.
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The docs also reveal the number of hours the FBI devoted to the project, which required some agents to work nights and weekends. The FBI paid personnel $851,344 in overtime for working on the Epstein files between March 17 and March 22.
I can't believe *Scientific American* wrote this tripe. Haven't they seen the *West Wing* ep. abt the Butterball Hotline? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQsv... That hotline still exists!We don't need AI to tell us to hallucinate incorrect ways to make turkey.Hotline links here: www.bhg.com/butterball-t...
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I can't believe *Scientific American* wrote this tripe. Haven't they seen the *West Wing* ep. abt the Butterball Hotline? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQsv... That hotline still exists!We don't need AI to tell us to hallucinate incorrect ways to make turkey.Hotline links here: www.bhg.com/butterball-t...
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Hello historians 🗃️! Planning on attending #AHA26 and have book ideas in mind?
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hello historians 🗃️! Planning on attending #AHA26 and have book ideas in mind?
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
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My new & first book, Selling Out Santa, is Open Access!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
Selling Out Santa
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34 th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My new & first book, Selling Out Santa, is Open Access!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
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dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
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Saturday morning someone sent me a screenshot of Google AI discussing the Cal-Stanford Big Game. It closed by saying that Cal had won it.
The game had not been played yet.
And when it was, Cal lost :-(
"Demand," my ass. No one wants their garbage.
The game had not been played yet.
And when it was, Cal lost :-(
"Demand," my ass. No one wants their garbage.
Google’s AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat, a vice president at Google Cloud, recently presented slides to employees indicating the company needs to scale “the next 1000x in 4-5 years.”
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand
Google’s AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.
arstechnica.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Saturday morning someone sent me a screenshot of Google AI discussing the Cal-Stanford Big Game. It closed by saying that Cal had won it.
The game had not been played yet.
And when it was, Cal lost :-(
"Demand," my ass. No one wants their garbage.
The game had not been played yet.
And when it was, Cal lost :-(
"Demand," my ass. No one wants their garbage.
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Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
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Finally:
🚨The link above is for the consultation document, however the actual consultation can be accessed via the link below.
🚨Use your own judgement. I am a policy specialist with academic qualifications in refugee law, not a lawyer. 11/
www.gov.uk/government/c...
🚨The link above is for the consultation document, however the actual consultation can be accessed via the link below.
🚨Use your own judgement. I am a policy specialist with academic qualifications in refugee law, not a lawyer. 11/
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Finally:
🚨The link above is for the consultation document, however the actual consultation can be accessed via the link below.
🚨Use your own judgement. I am a policy specialist with academic qualifications in refugee law, not a lawyer. 11/
www.gov.uk/government/c...
🚨The link above is for the consultation document, however the actual consultation can be accessed via the link below.
🚨Use your own judgement. I am a policy specialist with academic qualifications in refugee law, not a lawyer. 11/
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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🚨The supporting consultation document is riddled with errors, misinformation, and flat out lies, all wrapped up in some truly heinous and biased rhetoric. That seems to clearly be to generate a particular response from people who are not deeply aware of the issues in the existing system. 3/
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🚨The supporting consultation document is riddled with errors, misinformation, and flat out lies, all wrapped up in some truly heinous and biased rhetoric. That seems to clearly be to generate a particular response from people who are not deeply aware of the issues in the existing system. 3/
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If you are U.K. based and angered by Shabana Mahmood's latest efforts to make migrants lives even more difficult (and I know some of you will be), please do take the time to submit a response to the Home Office consultation.
Dan's advice below is excellent as a guide on how to respond.
Dan's advice below is excellent as a guide on how to respond.
I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
If you are U.K. based and angered by Shabana Mahmood's latest efforts to make migrants lives even more difficult (and I know some of you will be), please do take the time to submit a response to the Home Office consultation.
Dan's advice below is excellent as a guide on how to respond.
Dan's advice below is excellent as a guide on how to respond.