Karl Galle
@karlgalle.bsky.social
Historian of science, mostly medieval to early modern astronomy & mathematical arts. Things German, Polish, Egyptian, or hey that looks interesting. Ex public policy + occasional tuba. Copernicus book in progress. Don't get long covid, it sucks.
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Karl Galle
@karlgalle.bsky.social
· Sep 22
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I have likewise joined the exodus from academia-dot-edu in the wake of their new terms of service. For more on my background and work, you can now find me at Knowledge Commons: hcommons.org/members/karl...
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Call for Papers: TALKING STONES – OBJECT AND MATERIALITY IN EARLY MODERN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE International Conference – Prague, 17–18 April 2026.
See H-Sicily for the full Call for Papers: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
See H-Sicily for the full Call for Papers: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Call for Papers: TALKING STONES – OBJECT AND MATERIALITY IN EARLY MODERN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE International Conference – Prague, 17–18 April 2026.
See H-Sicily for the full Call for Papers: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
See H-Sicily for the full Call for Papers: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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The rise of the scientific societies to discuss the new developments in natural philosophy in the 17th century #histsci
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November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The rise of the scientific societies to discuss the new developments in natural philosophy in the 17th century #histsci
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FEATURED JOB: Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art - District of Columbia
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#edusky #academicsky #art #arthistory #history
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#edusky #academicsky #art #arthistory #history
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
FEATURED JOB: Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art - District of Columbia
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#edusky #academicsky #art #arthistory #history
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#edusky #academicsky #art #arthistory #history
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Hello #MESA2025! We hope to see you at our booth
If you miss us in person, you can still enjoy our Virtual Book Exhibit showcasing our new authors and award-winning books
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@mesa1966.bsky.social
If you miss us in person, you can still enjoy our Virtual Book Exhibit showcasing our new authors and award-winning books
www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hello #MESA2025! We hope to see you at our booth
If you miss us in person, you can still enjoy our Virtual Book Exhibit showcasing our new authors and award-winning books
www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
@mesa1966.bsky.social
If you miss us in person, you can still enjoy our Virtual Book Exhibit showcasing our new authors and award-winning books
www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
@mesa1966.bsky.social
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Thank you to @mesa1966.bsky.social and all #MESA2025 attendees for a wonderful conference in Washington DC!
Our website where you can save 40% off our latest Middle East Studies books will remain up for a limited time: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
See you all for #MESA2026!
Our website where you can save 40% off our latest Middle East Studies books will remain up for a limited time: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
See you all for #MESA2026!
Middle East Studies Association 2025
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Thank you to @mesa1966.bsky.social and all #MESA2025 attendees for a wonderful conference in Washington DC!
Our website where you can save 40% off our latest Middle East Studies books will remain up for a limited time: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
See you all for #MESA2026!
Our website where you can save 40% off our latest Middle East Studies books will remain up for a limited time: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
See you all for #MESA2026!
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Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
Carolingian Biodiversity
How Interdisciplinary Can and Should Work
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November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
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On 24 November 1639 the British astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree became the first observers to record a transit of Venus. #histsci
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An important anniversary in the history of science.
The 24th of November is a very significant date in the history of science. On this date an event took place that would contribute to a major change in the way humanity viewed the world and its plac…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
On 24 November 1639 the British astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree became the first observers to record a transit of Venus. #histsci
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NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
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Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
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The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
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November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
Bacurau! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKTe...
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Bacurau! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKTe...
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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
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#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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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...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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
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#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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Here's my promised thread of threads on every episode of "Death by Lightning." Again, it's totally legit to diverge from history to craft this satisfying (and manageable) show. I'm simply providing the real historical context, as best I can. Plus a final thought at the end.
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Just watched ep. 1 of “Death by Lightning.” For a screen adaptation, great job. Superb casting.
The problem: Everyone’s white. Black delegates played a big role in GOP conventions. There were still Black congressmen! Hollywood is bad with Black people in history with power & their own interests.
The problem: Everyone’s white. Black delegates played a big role in GOP conventions. There were still Black congressmen! Hollywood is bad with Black people in history with power & their own interests.
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Here's my promised thread of threads on every episode of "Death by Lightning." Again, it's totally legit to diverge from history to craft this satisfying (and manageable) show. I'm simply providing the real historical context, as best I can. Plus a final thought at the end.
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Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
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I've been hosting online meetings for PhD students & postdocs who work on #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern metal. We're meeting once a month to informally discuss our work (e.g. a chapter, article, presentation draft). If anyone wants to join: let me know! 🙂 We're reconvening in January 🗃️ #SkyStorians
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I've been hosting online meetings for PhD students & postdocs who work on #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern metal. We're meeting once a month to informally discuss our work (e.g. a chapter, article, presentation draft). If anyone wants to join: let me know! 🙂 We're reconvening in January 🗃️ #SkyStorians
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My med students and my undergrads today both had a conversation about how systems would look differently if we valued “caring” professions that are overwhelmingly read as feminine and unspecialised
I’m sorry that I don’t have anything intelligent to say right now because I am so fucking angry
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Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
My med students and my undergrads today both had a conversation about how systems would look differently if we valued “caring” professions that are overwhelmingly read as feminine and unspecialised
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A #GiftLink, to help you save a few pennies: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A #GiftLink, to help you save a few pennies: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...
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This evening, I’ll be in conversation with George Monbiot about political dysfunction and ecological collapse, and I want to tell you all briefly about a ritual involving an ancient Hittite king, a throne, and a tree from 3,000 years ago @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This evening, I’ll be in conversation with George Monbiot about political dysfunction and ecological collapse, and I want to tell you all briefly about a ritual involving an ancient Hittite king, a throne, and a tree from 3,000 years ago @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, Kristen Leer discusses Egyptomania in Europe. Then, mapping tarot cards and Platonic philosophy, opium in Ancient Egypt, @profarumpark.bsky.social discusses Classics and Asia, new ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social, and much more.
Pasts Imperfect (11.20.25)
This week, media psychology and classical reception specialist Kristen Leer discusses Ancient Egypt in horror movies and the problems surrounding "Egyptomania." Then, mapping the thousands of miles of...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, Kristen Leer discusses Egyptomania in Europe. Then, mapping tarot cards and Platonic philosophy, opium in Ancient Egypt, @profarumpark.bsky.social discusses Classics and Asia, new ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social, and much more.
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🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉
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(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
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(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
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Programs - School of Advanced Study
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November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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was fun to work on this with @rhigarthjones.bsky.social - about choosing different ways to talk to different publics
In #AHAPerspectives, Rhiannon Garth Jones and Matthew Gabriele argue for moving away from the traditional bibliography in trade books and toward something more conversational to engage with the wider public. 🗃️
Bibliographies for the People – AHA
Embracing alternative citation help the public better engage with trade history books.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
was fun to work on this with @rhigarthjones.bsky.social - about choosing different ways to talk to different publics
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My best advice for other writers: read everything and anything you want!
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Author Ellen Muehlberger on Building a Book
Author Ellen Muehlberger on her path to writing THINGS UNSEEN.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My best advice for other writers: read everything and anything you want!
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Historian of Germany and Poland here, JD -- what happened to a huge number of those people turned down for emigration to the U.S. during the 1920s and 1930s, and do you agree that this was a good and desirable outcome? 🤔
VP JD Vance is now fully embracing the 1924 racist National Origins Act to justify his administration’s white nationalist immigration policy.
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Historian of Germany and Poland here, JD -- what happened to a huge number of those people turned down for emigration to the U.S. during the 1920s and 1930s, and do you agree that this was a good and desirable outcome? 🤔
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JOB POSTING!
Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu
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Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu
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Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints
The Folger Shakespeare Library knows that an exceptional staff is the backbone of any great organization. We hire exceptionally qualified individuals who are committed to the mission, vision, and valu...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
JOB POSTING!
Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu
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Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu
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OMG. Apple is Catholic.
In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
OMG. Apple is Catholic.