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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history!

#EarlyModern 🗃️

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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SculpturalMobilities @saraayres.bsky.social · 1d

Indexers: can I ask your advice? I am writing an index that needs to include the notes. Endnotes however start again after the introduction. How do I indicate in the index which section the note falls into? Is there an established convention for this? TIA for any help/advice! 🙏

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh

Anyway, back to toiling

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 5d

Yeah, the devaluing of collections work (and museums work more broadly) has been a worrying trend - your video reminded me of some criticisms of the recent opening of the V&A Storehouse: artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse

You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit

artreview.com

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Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · Sep 6

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 4d

St Jerome in the Desert, c. 1520, oil on panel, painted by pioneer of landscape genre, Flemish artist Joachim Patinir, died #OTD 1524; friend of Dürer, known for innovative use of colours (brown, green, dark blue, light blue) to suggest recession & atmospheric perspective.
Musée du Louvre

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 7d

Any #earlymodern #skystorians with some knowledge of Vietnamese and its orthography?

I've come across an EIC jurebasso (translator/intermediary) whose name is given as Phuc Ngay, and wondering what the accurate rendering of it would be in a modern text.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 7d

"By looking to stories of seasonality and sustenance, as well as the example of reciprocity between distant peoples that the history of the Choctaw Gift illustrates, we can reconsider our relationships to peoples, plants, and places."

Shelley Angelie Saggar on Recipes for Resilience.

Recipes for Resilience

Discover the history of the Choctaw gift that symbolizes generosity and connection between Indigenous and Irish communities.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 8d

It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 9d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 8d

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 8d

You know, an underrated skill in the workplace is developing a very clear sense of who is the boss of you and who is not the boss of you

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · Dec 17

Any guesses as to what the titular "Shining Dish" is in this poem by Alice Milligan, about visiting Easter Rising prisoners at Frongoch internment camp? Medieval Irish literary reference? Something particular to the prison?

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IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 9d

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.

📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person

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SculpturalMobilities @saraayres.bsky.social · 12d

Oh no! My death is imminent :-( www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Being organised and active may be predictor of longer life, study finds

Researchers find specific self-descriptions predict mortality risks better than broader categories such as extraversion

www.theguardian.com

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 16d

The National Fulm Board's animation division at its peak was unprecedented.

Canadians of a certain age got to see absolute masterpieces on CBC as filler between shows or in class on film reels/VHS tapes.

Wouldn't it be cool if our government poured money into the NFB again?

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 16d

The Blackbird is a simple, masterful gem of stop motion. Only Norman McLaren could've made it.

But the film took him a decade to figure out. We explore the story, and the personal struggles, behind the work:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-little-p...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17d

This should have been a moment of profound national learning - about the corruption that serves our elite - but the Cabinet Office which ran the VIP Lane sought to close the discussion down and Labour unaccountably let them. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money review – a devastating picture of the biggest spending scandal ever

This rigorous look at the Tories’ ‘VIP lane’ for PPE suppliers during Covid raises questions about the motivations of those involved – ones that are almost too disgusting to contemplate

www.theguardian.com

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 19d

Accidentally said “cease and decease” instead of “cease and desist,” and you know what? It works. Quit and die, haters.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 20d

Figures by a Virginal in an Interior, 1634. Jan Miense Molenaer, b. 1609 or 1610, buried #otd 19 Sept 1668 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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Florence Bourgne @florencebourgne.bsky.social · 26d

#medievalsky
Desperately seeking an article in Annuale Mediaevale vol. 20 (1981) : Martin Walsh's "St. Andrew in Anglo-Saxon England", on pages 97-122.
There are only two copies in France, one the Sorbonne remote stacks where they will not fetch anymore for funding issues, the other in Poitiers

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SculpturalMobilities @saraayres.bsky.social · 27d

Why is this happening? We didn’t elect Trump.

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Dr Elena (Ellie) Woodacre @ewoodacre.bsky.social · 28d

If you missed @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social ‘s book launch today, don’t despair—for a limited time her excellent edition of Margaret Tudor’s holograph letters is free to download, such a fantastic resource for queenship/Tudor/Scottish history scholars! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Latest volume | Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series | Cambridge Core

Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series

www.cambridge.org

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Prussian-Stepping Goose @pauldlockhart.bsky.social · Sep 2

Danish friends: I’ll be yakking away in Odense on 24 September. Thanks to @witchykallestrup.bsky.social for making this possible!
#skystorians #earlymodern #danishhistory

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 31

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks

www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers

Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.

www.axios.com

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