Caroline Marris (she/her)
@cazmarris.bsky.social
Research Program Administrator at Drexel University. PhD in early modern European maritime history, Columbia University. Co-Editor of the H-Maritime network. Mum of twins, occasional musician (gamba, violin), baker, aspiring fiction writer. Views my own.
Pinned
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
Researchers say it would hurt facilities that work on medical issues such as cancer research and heart disease. Elon Musk contends the old policy was ‘a ripoff.’
www.washingtonpost.com
Instead of being excited for the Superbowl tonight, I and grant administrators everywhere spent our day trying to measure the impact of the latest potential NIH disaster for our PIs - and wondering whether we ourselves will have jobs come next month. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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C'mon guys surely we can manage a Voynich theories Advent Calendar, one every day until 24 December
Total number of #Voynich solutions received in November = 18. Can we break that record in December? I've received two already this month, so I'm well on my way...
December 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
C'mon guys surely we can manage a Voynich theories Advent Calendar, one every day until 24 December
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New monograph: Piracy Mythmaking in the Eighteenth Century Criminality, Human Nature, and Civil Government by Richard Frohock
Publication date: May 8, 2026 by Routledge
#maritimehistory #navalhistory #earlymodern
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Publication date: May 8, 2026 by Routledge
#maritimehistory #navalhistory #earlymodern
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My former prof at OkState wrote a new book that sounds pretty amazing! 🏴☠️⚓️
Excited that this piratastic monograph by Richard Frohock - Piracy Mythmaking in the 18th Century
Criminality, Human Nature, & Civil Government - is latest monograph from 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' series from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - out 8 May 2026!
www.routledge.com/Piracy-Mythm...
🏴☠️☠️🏴☠️
Criminality, Human Nature, & Civil Government - is latest monograph from 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' series from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - out 8 May 2026!
www.routledge.com/Piracy-Mythm...
🏴☠️☠️🏴☠️
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
New monograph: Piracy Mythmaking in the Eighteenth Century Criminality, Human Nature, and Civil Government by Richard Frohock
Publication date: May 8, 2026 by Routledge
#maritimehistory #navalhistory #earlymodern
👇
Publication date: May 8, 2026 by Routledge
#maritimehistory #navalhistory #earlymodern
👇
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This episode of @empirepoduk.bsky.social with @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social about Jane Austen's links to African chattel enslavement is another fascinating listen too
open.spotify.com/episode/4Jxf...
open.spotify.com/episode/4Jxf...
307. Austen vs Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
open.spotify.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This episode of @empirepoduk.bsky.social with @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social about Jane Austen's links to African chattel enslavement is another fascinating listen too
open.spotify.com/episode/4Jxf...
open.spotify.com/episode/4Jxf...
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The winner of the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 is…
Hannah Durkin for 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'. @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social
A big congratulations to Hannah!
Hannah Durkin for 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'. @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social
A big congratulations to Hannah!
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The winner of the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 is…
Hannah Durkin for 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'. @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social
A big congratulations to Hannah!
Hannah Durkin for 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'. @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social
A big congratulations to Hannah!
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This is the essence of the story: three billionaires with no understanding of higher education are seeking to force Harvard to pay a bribe.
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is the essence of the story: three billionaires with no understanding of higher education are seeking to force Harvard to pay a bribe.
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Applications now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII
Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months. Closing date: 31 Jan 2026 #Skystorians
Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months. Closing date: 31 Jan 2026 #Skystorians
Society launches call for new Applied History Fellowships, with the Institute of Historical Research and DC Thomson - RHS
In November 2025, the Society joins with partners the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson to launch a new Applied History Fellowship programme to support recent post-doctor...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Applications now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII
Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months. Closing date: 31 Jan 2026 #Skystorians
Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months. Closing date: 31 Jan 2026 #Skystorians
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Deadline approaching for the ISHMap Prize for Projects in Map History.
In 2024 or 2025, did you participate in a neat map history project that wasn't a book or an article? Submit it for a shiny prize!!
Nominations due 31 Dec 2025.
#maps #maphistory #skystorians #GIS 🗃️
In 2024 or 2025, did you participate in a neat map history project that wasn't a book or an article? Submit it for a shiny prize!!
Nominations due 31 Dec 2025.
#maps #maphistory #skystorians #GIS 🗃️
Prize for Projects in Map History 2026
The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) is pleased to invite nominations and self-nominations for its Prize for Projects in Map History. The ISHMap Prize in for Pr…
ishmap.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Deadline approaching for the ISHMap Prize for Projects in Map History.
In 2024 or 2025, did you participate in a neat map history project that wasn't a book or an article? Submit it for a shiny prize!!
Nominations due 31 Dec 2025.
#maps #maphistory #skystorians #GIS 🗃️
In 2024 or 2025, did you participate in a neat map history project that wasn't a book or an article? Submit it for a shiny prize!!
Nominations due 31 Dec 2025.
#maps #maphistory #skystorians #GIS 🗃️
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Proud to say, my former PhD student Jack Bouchard, now at Rutgers University, has published an outstanding new work in Atlantic history: *Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World*, with Yale University Press. Congratulations, Jack!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Proud to say, my former PhD student Jack Bouchard, now at Rutgers University, has published an outstanding new work in Atlantic history: *Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World*, with Yale University Press. Congratulations, Jack!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #highered #stem #research
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #highered #stem #research
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trying to think of good UK-Based Nature Phenomena. so far I got:
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
trying to think of good UK-Based Nature Phenomena. so far I got:
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
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A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
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wonderful little thread
Last week I went on a 'research walk', a new thing for me. I was attempting to 'beat the bounds' of the parish of Portishead, which is the central case study in my current book project about everyday life in 17th century villages. A good start; it was a dry day... 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
wonderful little thread
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Interested in old maps? My new @ihr.bsky.social 'Discovery' Short Course will introduce the history of cartography, how to find and work with old maps online, and even how to georeference historical maps! We'll also get hands-on with map collections, plus lecture from @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
Announcing IHR Discovery Courses: Historic Maps, Townscape & Architecture, and Archaeology for Historians. Suitable for historians working in all contexts, or anyone looking for new learning experiences, and inspiration. www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Interested in old maps? My new @ihr.bsky.social 'Discovery' Short Course will introduce the history of cartography, how to find and work with old maps online, and even how to georeference historical maps! We'll also get hands-on with map collections, plus lecture from @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
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PLAYING CARDS!
For day two of our Advent fun, here's one of the Newberry's many sets of playing cards. It's incomplete, but I love it anyway! (Wing ZX 547 .B4) It's by 16th c. German artist Sebald Beham and the acorns, pomegranates, and flowers suit me just fine!
December 2 (2/24) #AdventCalendar
For day two of our Advent fun, here's one of the Newberry's many sets of playing cards. It's incomplete, but I love it anyway! (Wing ZX 547 .B4) It's by 16th c. German artist Sebald Beham and the acorns, pomegranates, and flowers suit me just fine!
December 2 (2/24) #AdventCalendar
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
PLAYING CARDS!
For day two of our Advent fun, here's one of the Newberry's many sets of playing cards. It's incomplete, but I love it anyway! (Wing ZX 547 .B4) It's by 16th c. German artist Sebald Beham and the acorns, pomegranates, and flowers suit me just fine!
December 2 (2/24) #AdventCalendar
For day two of our Advent fun, here's one of the Newberry's many sets of playing cards. It's incomplete, but I love it anyway! (Wing ZX 547 .B4) It's by 16th c. German artist Sebald Beham and the acorns, pomegranates, and flowers suit me just fine!
December 2 (2/24) #AdventCalendar
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🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊
Check out @sonya-schoenberger.bsky.social (Stanford Uni)’s review of @helenczerski.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk)’s book _The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works_, pub 2023 @wwnorton.com
#oceans
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Check out @sonya-schoenberger.bsky.social (Stanford Uni)’s review of @helenczerski.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk)’s book _The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works_, pub 2023 @wwnorton.com
#oceans
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊
Check out @sonya-schoenberger.bsky.social (Stanford Uni)’s review of @helenczerski.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk)’s book _The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works_, pub 2023 @wwnorton.com
#oceans
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Check out @sonya-schoenberger.bsky.social (Stanford Uni)’s review of @helenczerski.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk)’s book _The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works_, pub 2023 @wwnorton.com
#oceans
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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You can get my book, The Craft of Historical Research, for $17.99 (either eBook or paperback) right now. Very much the book I wish I’d had when I was starting out. 🗃️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The Craft of Historical Research
This textbook demystifies the task of historical research and writing for both undergraduates and graduate students with a wide range of engaging examples.
link.springer.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
You can get my book, The Craft of Historical Research, for $17.99 (either eBook or paperback) right now. Very much the book I wish I’d had when I was starting out. 🗃️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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My manuscript after integrating all the peer-review comments: a rhino with panther patterns.
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My manuscript after integrating all the peer-review comments: a rhino with panther patterns.
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#OceanOptimism funded by
🌊 🇩🇪 @bmz.de
🌊 🇳🇴 @norad.no
🌊 🇫🇷 @afd-france.bsky.social
🌊 🇮🇪 @irishaid.bsky.social
🌊 🇸🇪 @swedishmfa.bsky.social
List of our investments ➡️ ogy.de/mlsp
🌊 🇩🇪 @bmz.de
🌊 🇳🇴 @norad.no
🌊 🇫🇷 @afd-france.bsky.social
🌊 🇮🇪 @irishaid.bsky.social
🌊 🇸🇪 @swedishmfa.bsky.social
List of our investments ➡️ ogy.de/mlsp
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
#OceanOptimism funded by
🌊 🇩🇪 @bmz.de
🌊 🇳🇴 @norad.no
🌊 🇫🇷 @afd-france.bsky.social
🌊 🇮🇪 @irishaid.bsky.social
🌊 🇸🇪 @swedishmfa.bsky.social
List of our investments ➡️ ogy.de/mlsp
🌊 🇩🇪 @bmz.de
🌊 🇳🇴 @norad.no
🌊 🇫🇷 @afd-france.bsky.social
🌊 🇮🇪 @irishaid.bsky.social
🌊 🇸🇪 @swedishmfa.bsky.social
List of our investments ➡️ ogy.de/mlsp
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Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026?
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
Jobs and volunteering - Mary Rose
Jobs, academic placements and volunteering opportunities at the Mary Rose Trust.
maryrose.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026?
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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What kind of #earlymodern knee pad would you choose to look fancy around the year 1500? I would totally be wearing number 7 or 10. #skystorians
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
What kind of #earlymodern knee pad would you choose to look fancy around the year 1500? I would totally be wearing number 7 or 10. #skystorians
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I refuse to lose our Republic to a guy with swollen ankles and a tribble on his head.
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I refuse to lose our Republic to a guy with swollen ankles and a tribble on his head.
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The International #Bibliography of #Humanism and the #Renaissance (IBHR) has been updated.
3,022 records were added
More Info: bit.ly/4o8eWKH
#EarlyModern #RenaissanceSky #HumanismSky #Bibliographies #DigitalHumanities
3,022 records were added
More Info: bit.ly/4o8eWKH
#EarlyModern #RenaissanceSky #HumanismSky #Bibliographies #DigitalHumanities
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The International #Bibliography of #Humanism and the #Renaissance (IBHR) has been updated.
3,022 records were added
More Info: bit.ly/4o8eWKH
#EarlyModern #RenaissanceSky #HumanismSky #Bibliographies #DigitalHumanities
3,022 records were added
More Info: bit.ly/4o8eWKH
#EarlyModern #RenaissanceSky #HumanismSky #Bibliographies #DigitalHumanities
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So excited to share the UK cover of my forthcoming book THE TRAVELLER ... which is about a quite remarkable human being. George Forster, a man who tried to find what connects us rather than what sets us apart - he saw unity behind our diversity, not discord and division.
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
So excited to share the UK cover of my forthcoming book THE TRAVELLER ... which is about a quite remarkable human being. George Forster, a man who tried to find what connects us rather than what sets us apart - he saw unity behind our diversity, not discord and division.