Lucy Whelan
@lucywhelan.bsky.social
Art historian of modern France | gender, subjectivity, environments | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc at Sciences Po, Paris
📘 Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision, https://shorturl.at/mvQB0
📍Durham, UK
📘 Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision, https://shorturl.at/mvQB0
📍Durham, UK
In case leaving a post here can help inform someone on MSCA postdocs and maternity leave, here's what to know: 🧵
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
In case leaving a post here can help inform someone on MSCA postdocs and maternity leave, here's what to know: 🧵
Apparently the European commission, a bureaucratic behemoth, do not collect any data on the postdocs who leave before the end of their fellowships. In the world where this sort of data is collected even by my local gym, that seems pretty remiss #pregnantthenscrewed
Talking of nudging the ladder downwards, sitting on the sofa trapped under a baby somehow feels like a very good time to send an FOI request to the European commission about how many women vs men quit their MSCA fellowships...
October 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Apparently the European commission, a bureaucratic behemoth, do not collect any data on the postdocs who leave before the end of their fellowships. In the world where this sort of data is collected even by my local gym, that seems pretty remiss #pregnantthenscrewed
I have spent much of my Marie Curie postdoc getting my head around the fact that Europe's premier fellowship scheme - which requires its applicants to wax about gender equality - has an average age of 36 and basically no provision for paid maternity leave. Just astonishing.
October 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I have spent much of my Marie Curie postdoc getting my head around the fact that Europe's premier fellowship scheme - which requires its applicants to wax about gender equality - has an average age of 36 and basically no provision for paid maternity leave. Just astonishing.
Talking of nudging the ladder downwards, sitting on the sofa trapped under a baby somehow feels like a very good time to send an FOI request to the European commission about how many women vs men quit their MSCA fellowships...
October 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Talking of nudging the ladder downwards, sitting on the sofa trapped under a baby somehow feels like a very good time to send an FOI request to the European commission about how many women vs men quit their MSCA fellowships...
Apparently the application process for research fellowships at Cambridge has FINALLY been streamlined between colleges, and it's no longer a dozen separate websites. And I am absolutely going to fantasize that this is partly because of my attempts while I was there. A celebratory cup of tea for me.
October 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Apparently the application process for research fellowships at Cambridge has FINALLY been streamlined between colleges, and it's no longer a dozen separate websites. And I am absolutely going to fantasize that this is partly because of my attempts while I was there. A celebratory cup of tea for me.
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“Know how to make this work for you.”
This is the last set of posts from the French History Network ECR in 2025*
We asked what advice ECRs would give to other ECRs or PG students.
🗃️
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6695/
This is the last set of posts from the French History Network ECR in 2025*
We asked what advice ECRs would give to other ECRs or PG students.
🗃️
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6695/
ECR in 2025: Part Three- Advice to ECRs – SSFH
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
“Know how to make this work for you.”
This is the last set of posts from the French History Network ECR in 2025*
We asked what advice ECRs would give to other ECRs or PG students.
🗃️
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6695/
This is the last set of posts from the French History Network ECR in 2025*
We asked what advice ECRs would give to other ECRs or PG students.
🗃️
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6695/
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“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
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Reposted by Lucy Whelan
"I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one."
Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.
archive.ph/0dpn2
Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.
archive.ph/0dpn2
July 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one."
Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.
archive.ph/0dpn2
Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.
archive.ph/0dpn2
You'd think feminist scholars already had Balthus covered but, apart from a short plea from Linda Nochlin, it turns out they mostly didn't. So, contrary to all plans, I found myself writing an article, and it's here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Photo of proof stage, assistant included.
Photo of proof stage, assistant included.
June 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
You'd think feminist scholars already had Balthus covered but, apart from a short plea from Linda Nochlin, it turns out they mostly didn't. So, contrary to all plans, I found myself writing an article, and it's here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Photo of proof stage, assistant included.
Photo of proof stage, assistant included.
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It is an obscenity that this has happened and continues to happen. Starvation as a weapon of war, and murdering people queueing for food! Obscene and savage, and continuing with the collusion of countries like the UK and US.
The UN has condemned Israel's 'weaponisation of food' in Gaza as another 21 people are reported killed in the region today.
UN condemns Israel's 'weaponisation of food' in Gaza as another 21 people reported killed
Around 150 people were wounded ‘as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ targeting of gatherings of citizens waiting for aid’, the local civil defence said.
www.thejournal.ie
June 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It is an obscenity that this has happened and continues to happen. Starvation as a weapon of war, and murdering people queueing for food! Obscene and savage, and continuing with the collusion of countries like the UK and US.
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We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.
I am delighted to announce that my new paper with @darrenmacey.bsky.social is now published, entitled 'All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by summarising evidence in mathematics education'
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June 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW IS THIS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN????????
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Dozens of Palestinians killed after Israeli forces open fire near aid delivery point, says Gaza civil defence agency – Middle East crisis live
Israeli forces opened fire on people heading towards aid distribution site run by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, say witnesses
www.theguardian.com
June 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW IS THIS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN????????
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
May 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
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The use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare is prohibited by the 1949 Geneva Conventions. And yet, with US govt support, this war crime by Israel’s govt continues.
'Situation is dire' - BBC returns to Gaza baby left hungry by Israeli blockade www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Situation is dire' - BBC returns to Gaza baby left hungry by Israeli blockade www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC returns to Gaza baby left hungry by Israeli blockade
Malnourished five-month-old baby Siwar is now out of hospital in Gaza - but as we found, she and her family are struggling.
www.bbc.com
May 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare is prohibited by the 1949 Geneva Conventions. And yet, with US govt support, this war crime by Israel’s govt continues.
'Situation is dire' - BBC returns to Gaza baby left hungry by Israeli blockade www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Situation is dire' - BBC returns to Gaza baby left hungry by Israeli blockade www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Writers, if your books have been illegally used to train LLMs sign this. chng.it/YQbkcbXW6N
Sign the Petition
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
chng.it
April 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Writers, if your books have been illegally used to train LLMs sign this. chng.it/YQbkcbXW6N
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This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?
This fellowship, supporting a 'first step towards independence' (aww), is actually for ECRs who have been postdocs for - checks notes- up to 7 years🫠
Yes, I'm sure the reason your applicants don't have permanent posts is that we have not gained any independence in 7 years of fighting for our lives.
Yes, I'm sure the reason your applicants don't have permanent posts is that we have not gained any independence in 7 years of fighting for our lives.
January 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This fellowship, supporting a 'first step towards independence' (aww), is actually for ECRs who have been postdocs for - checks notes- up to 7 years🫠
Yes, I'm sure the reason your applicants don't have permanent posts is that we have not gained any independence in 7 years of fighting for our lives.
Yes, I'm sure the reason your applicants don't have permanent posts is that we have not gained any independence in 7 years of fighting for our lives.
Cannot wait to read this!! 👇
I am delighted to announce that today is my book’s publication day!!! 🎉
📕 Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity is in print (and ebook) with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
It looks gorgeous. It feels chunky. I couldn’t be happier! 😊
📕 Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity is in print (and ebook) with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
It looks gorgeous. It feels chunky. I couldn’t be happier! 😊
📕 My book, Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity, to be published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts @BloomsburyAcad has a cover and has gone to press! 💃
I am incredibly grateful to the 4 reviewers whose lovely comments grace the back cover.😊
🧵1/5
I am incredibly grateful to the 4 reviewers whose lovely comments grace the back cover.😊
🧵1/5
January 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Cannot wait to read this!! 👇
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Naum Gabo, Untitled, 1950
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1115543
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1115543
January 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Naum Gabo, Untitled, 1950
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1115543
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1115543
While the year is still newish, I want to share this print, given to its first owner on New Year's day, 1919.
About a century later, I bought it at a flea market for €15. The thing I love most about it, though, is the frame! It's made out of thick paper, presumably by the artist.
However... 1/3
About a century later, I bought it at a flea market for €15. The thing I love most about it, though, is the frame! It's made out of thick paper, presumably by the artist.
However... 1/3
January 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
While the year is still newish, I want to share this print, given to its first owner on New Year's day, 1919.
About a century later, I bought it at a flea market for €15. The thing I love most about it, though, is the frame! It's made out of thick paper, presumably by the artist.
However... 1/3
About a century later, I bought it at a flea market for €15. The thing I love most about it, though, is the frame! It's made out of thick paper, presumably by the artist.
However... 1/3
Sorry to hear of the passing of Christopher Neve. His book Unquiet Landscape is treasure for anyone who thinks about art-making in terms of process, practice, and thought
Very saddened to discover that painter & writer Christopher Neve has died. I can only find one obituary to him (Times, Dec 7th). I read both Unquiet Landscape & Immortal Thoughts last year & both have extraordinary insight into artists’ practices, interior lives, & relationships with their subjects
January 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Sorry to hear of the passing of Christopher Neve. His book Unquiet Landscape is treasure for anyone who thinks about art-making in terms of process, practice, and thought
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Target is selling some M&S Christmas stuff this year, and I spent so long staring at this bag trying to parse its geography.
Why is there a bus on what appears to be a pedestrian area?
Why is Tower Bridge perpendicular to the other bridges??
It’s gotta be AI, right?
Why is there a bus on what appears to be a pedestrian area?
Why is Tower Bridge perpendicular to the other bridges??
It’s gotta be AI, right?
November 26, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Target is selling some M&S Christmas stuff this year, and I spent so long staring at this bag trying to parse its geography.
Why is there a bus on what appears to be a pedestrian area?
Why is Tower Bridge perpendicular to the other bridges??
It’s gotta be AI, right?
Why is there a bus on what appears to be a pedestrian area?
Why is Tower Bridge perpendicular to the other bridges??
It’s gotta be AI, right?
I'm still finding my feet here, but being stared at wildly from 1958 is a good start to the week already - Jean Cooke (1927–2008)
Jean Cooke, Self-Portrait, 1958
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123421
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123421
November 11, 2024 at 11:14 AM
I'm still finding my feet here, but being stared at wildly from 1958 is a good start to the week already - Jean Cooke (1927–2008)