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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 1d

Great (paid) PhD opportunity. Excellent environment, conditions, and supervisors. And a topic close to my heart. (Selfish reason for promoting this: I fear there won't be enough concerts for retired me to go to. Geen dag zonder Bach.) vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...

PhD position "Is the audience for classical music concerts fading out?"

vacatures.knaw.nl

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 18h

This in no way surprises me!

Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 18h

Two thoughts.

1. Someone's wrapped Måns in catering clingfilm.
2. I do love me a man in vintage Adidas trainers.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 19h

Makes me think of the 'we played Mozart to plants/babies/dogs and they were more/less whatever than before' news stories: total lack of nuance.

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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 22h

Homophobia 🤝 transphobia

Growing up in the 70s, 80s, & 90s we heard the exact same stuff - word for word - being said about gays and lesbians.

#transrightsarehumanrights

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, very good.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 23h

"And now for some material from my new album ... "
"No! Play the Canon!"

I can imagine.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

*Points vaguely and inexpertly*

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

It looked like an extra i crept into the bit after the @, but we're all sorted now. :)

Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughts by me about the place of libraries, what makes them amazing and what makes them troublesome. #GLAM #rarebooks #libraryhistory 📚

RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

To celebrate the launch of exhibition 'A Body of Knowledge', lead curator & rare books librarian Katie Birkwood shares her thoughts reflecting upon a career in libraries, the RCP library specifically & the exhibition:

👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/librari...

@rcphysicians.bsky.social #BodyOfKnowledge

Katie Birkwood delivering a speech in the Dorchester Library.

An open book showing illustrations of roosters in a display case.

The smallest book in the RCP library open showing an illustration of a skeleton.

Katie Birkwood standing next to the famous displayed anatomical text by Andreas Vesalius in the exhibition.

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RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

To celebrate the launch of exhibition 'A Body of Knowledge', lead curator & rare books librarian Katie Birkwood shares her thoughts reflecting upon a career in libraries, the RCP library specifically & the exhibition:

👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/librari...

@rcphysicians.bsky.social #BodyOfKnowledge

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this incredibly funky Z (for 'Zelentides', birds that eat plagues of locusts) from the Hortus Sanitatis of 1499. #rarebooks #GLAM 📚

A captial letter Z made of four elongated tear-drop shapes. If you didn't know it was from 1499 you might think it was from the 1970s.

Woodcut illustration of two birds on a rock above some text in Latin starting with the funky Z.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, I hope it's the intriguing and interesting sort of blobs-in-a-field!

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

It's a sort of prayer book, I think -- so sort-of similar in that it's the rudiments of religious observance, but not exactly the same.

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 1d

Learn to knit like a Victorian in the gorgeous Linnean Society library - exploring the history of knitting, decoding original patterns, and giving the craft a go with the skilled help of historical archives expert and keen knitter, Sarah Walpole

🗓 11 Nov
🕑 2–5pm
📍In person only

buff.ly/bDFHigl

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

I've heard primmer in UK English for early-modern religious books.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

It took gmail a good 24 hours to send a bounce notification (wtf) or I'd have been on it sooner! Glad to know it *is* you :)

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 2d

That's pretty quick. I still take care at the bottom of stairs in the dark in case there's a dog lying there, and I haven't had the dog that liked to lie at the bottom of the stairs at night since 2002.

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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 3d

YEF!

Two hoardings with words on placed next to each other to make nonsense: SAUARE
IS TAPTER
IN A AND
YEF
REIT

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no, not Antony Cat! I'm so sorry.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 4d

#EarlyModern meme! #BookHistory

The bottom of a page of printed text, showing three hands (or printers' fists) pointing at each other.

The spiderman meme: three spidermen pointing at each other.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, scene of my youth.

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RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

Join us for #half-term fun!
⭐27 Oct 'Tales from the doctors library' with storyteller Vanessa Woolf @londondreamtime.bsky.social
⭐28/29/30 Oct 'Patterns, pages & prints' creative family crafts.
⭐31 Oct 'Perilous patterns & ghoulish prints' - #Halloween family crafts!

history.rcp.ac.uk/events

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 4d

Book now for a family storytelling session with the absolutely amazing @londondreamtime.bsky.social based on the history of the wonderful RCP library, 27 Oct. Designed for ages 5 – 11 but all welcome!

RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

Join us for #half-term fun!
⭐27 Oct 'Tales from the doctors library' with storyteller Vanessa Woolf @londondreamtime.bsky.social
⭐28/29/30 Oct 'Patterns, pages & prints' creative family crafts.
⭐31 Oct 'Perilous patterns & ghoulish prints' - #Halloween family crafts!

history.rcp.ac.uk/events

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 4d

I've been trying not to say anything because they've been through a lot and all that, but it really does.

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