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Devyn Gwynne

@devyngwynne.bsky.social

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PhD student Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · Aug 16

Another semester starting again

Un bar aux Folies Bergère. By Manet (1882).

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 4h

Having my boomer parents stay with me for the week makes me feel like a combination of dealing with nightmare roommates and babysitting with a strong strain of aging

Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 9h

Just found out my 70 yo dad and I are listening to the same bands, brutal

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 6h

What is Steven Pinker’s expertise on systemic discrimination in the awarding of Canadian federal grants?

universityaffairs.ca/news/parliam...

Parliament reviews EDI for research grants - University Affairs

Witnesses testify for and against applying diversity criteria to scientific funding.

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 9h

Just found out my 70 yo dad and I are listening to the same bands, brutal

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 14h

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 1d

I am so tired of having my university call in hundreds of militarized police on our students. I am so tired of hearing my students get tear-gassed outside of my classroom for gathering together for what’s right. I am so tired of my city using violence intimidation and weapons of war against us.

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 1d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 1d

*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*

The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

New PhD Student Session

For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.

www.history.ac.uk

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 1d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t read this properly and went to post this

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning!

[Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, A Soul in Hell, 1670-1700, Wax, 11.5 cm x 10 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)]

A screaming head modeled in wax, surrounded by demons and stylized flames

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 2d

Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️

📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus

🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m

#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies

Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · Jun 14

I bet people were hooting and hollering when Ockham said, “what Aristotle said about this, I don’t care”

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❤️jamie p!💚 @jamies.page · 5d

you have to be sincere and you have to get weird with it

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 4d

This diva

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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 5d

JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy.
#PhilJobs
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW474/a...

Associate Professorship or Professorship of Philosophy - Philosophy APTFC at University of Oxford

Explore an exciting academic career as a Associate Professorship or Professorship of Philosophy - Philosophy APTFC. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently the Merovingians “were absolutely goated” and Charlemagne’s biographers were “glazing him”

Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 5d

Pleased to announce that so far I am having an amazing time teaching this semester and it’s a wonderful feeling

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 5d

Marilyn Moments...

In Modern and Early Modern flap prints! This blank skirt on Jenny Schmid's Disembodied Reembodied print cycle intriguingly channeled the Becker Medical Library repaired copy of Johannes Remmelin and Lucas Kilian's interactive Eve!
#Flaptastic #movablebooksociety
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Jenny Schmid artist book with white flap skirt.

Johannes Remmelin Eve Anatomy with a white replacement modesty flap.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 5d

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.

Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd

Please let us know if there are gaps.
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 5d

Pleased to announce that so far I am having an amazing time teaching this semester and it’s a wonderful feeling

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 15d

Just in case any of you are in rhe Midwest and want to attend this Medieval Monsters conference, I'm giving the keynote on Oct 17! www.dom.edu/medieval-mon...

Medieval + Monsters Conference | Dominican University

www.dom.edu

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 6d

i love to write "aforementioned" like, yep, i mentioned that afore

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PD Dr. Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 6d

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen)

Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invites ap...

www.hsozkult.de

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe I lost my posting mojo; but i am free