J. Connell Stryker
@jconnellstryker.bsky.social
PhD in History, UT Austin; Pratt Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial University of Newfoundland - Women's Work at Sea, Histories of Maritime, Gender, Labor, Empire, Technology, and the Digital Humanities, etc
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If anyone knows of any cool / interesting red wine things, please let me know, Colin's dad is so hard to buy for! Last year we got him this bonkers barnacle-y red wine that's made under the sea and he loved it.
Vino submarino! underwaterwine.com/en-eu/collec...
Vino submarino! underwaterwine.com/en-eu/collec...
Underwater Wine - Crusoe Treasure, Underwater Winery
Discover underwater wine, aged in our underwater winery. A unique winemaking experience with flavors and aromas enhanced by the ocean.
underwaterwine.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
If anyone knows of any cool / interesting red wine things, please let me know, Colin's dad is so hard to buy for! Last year we got him this bonkers barnacle-y red wine that's made under the sea and he loved it.
Vino submarino! underwaterwine.com/en-eu/collec...
Vino submarino! underwaterwine.com/en-eu/collec...
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Your occasional reminder that @bookshop.org is open for all of your Christmas book shopping needs. Every sale supports independent bookstores, the books arrive beautifully packaged, and they even have gift wrapping options.
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookshops.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookshops.
uk.bookshop.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Your occasional reminder that @bookshop.org is open for all of your Christmas book shopping needs. Every sale supports independent bookstores, the books arrive beautifully packaged, and they even have gift wrapping options.
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
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Nice to see Father Christmas busily giving presents in Puritan England. Looks like someone’s getting a copy of Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy, which is surely top of everyone’s Christmas list. Available in all good booksellers (& also from Santa 😉) #womenwhoruledtheworld
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nice to see Father Christmas busily giving presents in Puritan England. Looks like someone’s getting a copy of Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy, which is surely top of everyone’s Christmas list. Available in all good booksellers (& also from Santa 😉) #womenwhoruledtheworld
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Good historians know that being a true German Protestant pamphletist in #earlymodern Europe included making pejorative jokes with sausage-content to vilify Catholic clergy.
Like this "Ja, ein Leberwurst" comment in a marginalia next to a passage cited from disliked Catholic sermon #skystorians
Like this "Ja, ein Leberwurst" comment in a marginalia next to a passage cited from disliked Catholic sermon #skystorians
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Good historians know that being a true German Protestant pamphletist in #earlymodern Europe included making pejorative jokes with sausage-content to vilify Catholic clergy.
Like this "Ja, ein Leberwurst" comment in a marginalia next to a passage cited from disliked Catholic sermon #skystorians
Like this "Ja, ein Leberwurst" comment in a marginalia next to a passage cited from disliked Catholic sermon #skystorians
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Planning your Christmas menu and looking for inspiration? Look no further than our #LocalStudies library book The Derbyshire Cookbook. A celebration of Derbyshire food with over 40 recipes including the iconic Bakewell Pudding. You can even buy a copy in our bookshop for only £6.00!
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Planning your Christmas menu and looking for inspiration? Look no further than our #LocalStudies library book The Derbyshire Cookbook. A celebration of Derbyshire food with over 40 recipes including the iconic Bakewell Pudding. You can even buy a copy in our bookshop for only £6.00!
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SURVEY 👇
The International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) wants to hear from you! If you work in search and rescue, shipping, fisheries, training, or maritime policy, this is your opportunity to help shape a safe and sustainable global SAR system.
Take part today: https://loom.ly/U-6EOiM
The International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) wants to hear from you! If you work in search and rescue, shipping, fisheries, training, or maritime policy, this is your opportunity to help shape a safe and sustainable global SAR system.
Take part today: https://loom.ly/U-6EOiM
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
SURVEY 👇
The International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) wants to hear from you! If you work in search and rescue, shipping, fisheries, training, or maritime policy, this is your opportunity to help shape a safe and sustainable global SAR system.
Take part today: https://loom.ly/U-6EOiM
The International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) wants to hear from you! If you work in search and rescue, shipping, fisheries, training, or maritime policy, this is your opportunity to help shape a safe and sustainable global SAR system.
Take part today: https://loom.ly/U-6EOiM
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It’s time to captain our year-end fundraiser as class leaders, hand over hand!
Celebrating 90 years on November 10th, our goal is to continue honoring nine decades of recording, preserving, & educating maritime enthusiasts around the world with success.
Donate today at shiphistory.org/support/.
Celebrating 90 years on November 10th, our goal is to continue honoring nine decades of recording, preserving, & educating maritime enthusiasts around the world with success.
Donate today at shiphistory.org/support/.
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It’s time to captain our year-end fundraiser as class leaders, hand over hand!
Celebrating 90 years on November 10th, our goal is to continue honoring nine decades of recording, preserving, & educating maritime enthusiasts around the world with success.
Donate today at shiphistory.org/support/.
Celebrating 90 years on November 10th, our goal is to continue honoring nine decades of recording, preserving, & educating maritime enthusiasts around the world with success.
Donate today at shiphistory.org/support/.
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“Our mid-term goal should be the complete phase-out of Microsoft products, including the Windows operating system. It’s easier than it sounds.”
A cross-party group of lawmakers are pushing for the European Parliament to get off US tech, starting with Microsoft.
A cross-party group of lawmakers are pushing for the European Parliament to get off US tech, starting with Microsoft.
Get us off Microsoft! Lawmakers press EU Parliament to change in-house IT.
“We cannot afford this level of dependence on foreign tech,” lawmakers say in letter obtained by POLITICO.
www.politico.eu
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“Our mid-term goal should be the complete phase-out of Microsoft products, including the Windows operating system. It’s easier than it sounds.”
A cross-party group of lawmakers are pushing for the European Parliament to get off US tech, starting with Microsoft.
A cross-party group of lawmakers are pushing for the European Parliament to get off US tech, starting with Microsoft.
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Our Ocean Centres, a global initiative launched in partnership with the UN Global Compact, is hosting two interactive workshops in December focusing on global-to-local conversation for unlocking Blue Finance.
Session 1 🔗 https://loom.ly/-c6VLL0
Session 2 🔗 https://loom.ly/8mn8Xko
Session 1 🔗 https://loom.ly/-c6VLL0
Session 2 🔗 https://loom.ly/8mn8Xko
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Our Ocean Centres, a global initiative launched in partnership with the UN Global Compact, is hosting two interactive workshops in December focusing on global-to-local conversation for unlocking Blue Finance.
Session 1 🔗 https://loom.ly/-c6VLL0
Session 2 🔗 https://loom.ly/8mn8Xko
Session 1 🔗 https://loom.ly/-c6VLL0
Session 2 🔗 https://loom.ly/8mn8Xko
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Nothing is fun about this fact, but the thread it starts will shock even the most battle hardened trans people/allies.
What the UK press and political class - especially Labour - have allowed to metastacize over the past 10 years is nothing short of a moral panic.
What the UK press and political class - especially Labour - have allowed to metastacize over the past 10 years is nothing short of a moral panic.
Fun fact I couldn't mention until now: At the time Graham Linehan was harassing Sophia Brooks online, I was contacted by her former teachers and School Safeguarding Team to get her latest contact details, as they were worried sick about her being publicly stalked by an abusive alcoholic celebrity.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Nothing is fun about this fact, but the thread it starts will shock even the most battle hardened trans people/allies.
What the UK press and political class - especially Labour - have allowed to metastacize over the past 10 years is nothing short of a moral panic.
What the UK press and political class - especially Labour - have allowed to metastacize over the past 10 years is nothing short of a moral panic.
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Great to read about the Rev Le Fanu’s library in @ria.ie - thanks @rothweeee.bsky.social - @nickdaly.bsky.social will be interested to know that there was mummy material in the family library
Inside Sheridan Le Fanu's spooky world of Gothic ghosts and ghouls. The writer's early life in Dublin and reading material give valuable insights into his ghostly tales and supernatural horror stories, write @rothweeee.bsky.social & Ailbhe Rogers @ria.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Inside Sheridan Le Fanu's spooky world of Gothic ghosts & ghouls
The writer's early life in Dublin and reading material give valuable insights into his ghostly tales and supernatural horror stories
www.rte.ie
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Great to read about the Rev Le Fanu’s library in @ria.ie - thanks @rothweeee.bsky.social - @nickdaly.bsky.social will be interested to know that there was mummy material in the family library
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Join Alexis Wolf, author of Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, and others at the 'Journeys through the Archives' event at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social which looks how archives can recover overlooked stories and figures from the past.
More into & to book 👉
More into & to book 👉
Journeys through the Archives: Bringing the past to life | British Library
This revealing event looks at the extraordinary value and rich possibilities of archives, and their creative potential to recover surprising or overlooked
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Join Alexis Wolf, author of Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, and others at the 'Journeys through the Archives' event at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social which looks how archives can recover overlooked stories and figures from the past.
More into & to book 👉
More into & to book 👉
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The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
royalhistoricalsociety2.beaconforms.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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Highly recommend this @britishacademy.bsky.social scheme: organizing a conference helped consolidate research ideas while making new and serendipitous connections. Would urge applicants to build in cross-disciplinary perspectives from the start, including with the creative arts.
Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Highly recommend this @britishacademy.bsky.social scheme: organizing a conference helped consolidate research ideas while making new and serendipitous connections. Would urge applicants to build in cross-disciplinary perspectives from the start, including with the creative arts.
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Look, women no longer do shit for free is actually at the root of a lot of social disruption. The question is whether you think the solution is women going back to being unpaid and unprotected by their own labor.
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Look, women no longer do shit for free is actually at the root of a lot of social disruption. The question is whether you think the solution is women going back to being unpaid and unprotected by their own labor.
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Free access to British Newspaper Archive
BTW some of you may know this but others won't. If you're in a place that's free WiFi is _TheCloud then it will give you unlimited credits to the BNA.
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Free access to British Newspaper Archive
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would anyone be interested in a copy of LoZ Twilight Princess for the gamecube? complete in box, manuals, everything
tested and works ofc. I can do $170 CAD shipped within Canada!!
#legendofzelda #twilightprincess #loz trying to rehome this TODAY (nov 24) lol. paypal/etransfer accepted!
tested and works ofc. I can do $170 CAD shipped within Canada!!
#legendofzelda #twilightprincess #loz trying to rehome this TODAY (nov 24) lol. paypal/etransfer accepted!
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
would anyone be interested in a copy of LoZ Twilight Princess for the gamecube? complete in box, manuals, everything
tested and works ofc. I can do $170 CAD shipped within Canada!!
#legendofzelda #twilightprincess #loz trying to rehome this TODAY (nov 24) lol. paypal/etransfer accepted!
tested and works ofc. I can do $170 CAD shipped within Canada!!
#legendofzelda #twilightprincess #loz trying to rehome this TODAY (nov 24) lol. paypal/etransfer accepted!
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People always get defensive when I point out (based on a decade + of teaching students in CS/medicine streams) that there seems to be some serious issues in both tech education and the profession in praxis. The arrogance and epistemic contagions, the sense that "tech will fix all social problems,"
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
People always get defensive when I point out (based on a decade + of teaching students in CS/medicine streams) that there seems to be some serious issues in both tech education and the profession in praxis. The arrogance and epistemic contagions, the sense that "tech will fix all social problems,"
Our event is tomorrow! Still happy to discuss the project online if you can't make it in person, as well. Hopefully I can put up a couple of posts about how it went :)
#researchweek2025
#researchweek2025
In St. John's? Come to our event!
ISER Inventories of Life: Material Culture and Life, Death, and Medicine at Sea, death inventories from merchant vessels, 1860-1955! Get a preview of the findings and a personalized tour of the documents from the students who did the research!
#researchweek2025
ISER Inventories of Life: Material Culture and Life, Death, and Medicine at Sea, death inventories from merchant vessels, 1860-1955! Get a preview of the findings and a personalized tour of the documents from the students who did the research!
#researchweek2025
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Our event is tomorrow! Still happy to discuss the project online if you can't make it in person, as well. Hopefully I can put up a couple of posts about how it went :)
#researchweek2025
#researchweek2025
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And we are hiring! We have been incredibly lucky to get this funding and are very grateful for the opportunity to work on this. Please circulate to people who would be interested in applying. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
And we are hiring! We have been incredibly lucky to get this funding and are very grateful for the opportunity to work on this. Please circulate to people who would be interested in applying. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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Historians of South Africa, is there an accessible electronic database of legislation passed during Union of South Africa period? Trying to get exact wording of some Acts from 1910s to 1930s.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Historians of South Africa, is there an accessible electronic database of legislation passed during Union of South Africa period? Trying to get exact wording of some Acts from 1910s to 1930s.
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Just finished reading this & it's terrific (like all of Nancy's work)
A great addition to my Indian Ocean class for multiple reasons: interdisciplinarity, multiple engagements with material culture & presentation of a microhistory of a woman as both a caring mother & an enslaver
A great addition to my Indian Ocean class for multiple reasons: interdisciplinarity, multiple engagements with material culture & presentation of a microhistory of a woman as both a caring mother & an enslaver
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
journalpanorama.org
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Just finished reading this & it's terrific (like all of Nancy's work)
A great addition to my Indian Ocean class for multiple reasons: interdisciplinarity, multiple engagements with material culture & presentation of a microhistory of a woman as both a caring mother & an enslaver
A great addition to my Indian Ocean class for multiple reasons: interdisciplinarity, multiple engagements with material culture & presentation of a microhistory of a woman as both a caring mother & an enslaver
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Divers find ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ pristine shipwreck near the bottom of Lake #Ontario
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Divers find ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ pristine shipwreck near the bottom of Lake Ontario
Long-time diver Heison Chak says he won’t forget the moment his team found the pristine shipwreck at the bottom of Lake Ontario.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Divers find ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ pristine shipwreck near the bottom of Lake #Ontario
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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I blocked someone who quote tweeted this by saying something like “I’m tired of worthless English majors thinking they do better critical thinking than engineers!”
1. A good college education means everybody gets humanities/social science/art/and science regardless of major, making your ed holistic
1. A good college education means everybody gets humanities/social science/art/and science regardless of major, making your ed holistic
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I blocked someone who quote tweeted this by saying something like “I’m tired of worthless English majors thinking they do better critical thinking than engineers!”
1. A good college education means everybody gets humanities/social science/art/and science regardless of major, making your ed holistic
1. A good college education means everybody gets humanities/social science/art/and science regardless of major, making your ed holistic
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One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.