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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 9h

And there's always Lille with a nice Beaux-Arts and lots of museums, and the Louvre Lens nearby.

Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 9h

If Nantes, do visit the small but charming printing museum, and try to take a ride on the Elephant.

Aix has great museums too, esp. if you're into Picasso.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 10h

Nantes in November sounds windy and rainy. But from Paris it's only a few hours by TGV to Aix-en-Provence.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 13h

I often tell students that one of the major differences between modernity and pre-modernity is that pre-modernity regarded "innovation" as a very bad thing.

Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 1d

The Innovation Illusion: Most of what’s worth knowing in education isn’t new, and most of what’s new isn’t worth knowing.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 13h

Enjoy it - it's your party!

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Bieke Purnelle @biekepurnelle.bsky.social · 15h

Mijn boekje/essay is nu ook te beluisteren op de Luisterpuntbibliotheek. Wie goed luistert hoort Walter in de achtergrond snurken.
daisybraille.bibliotheek.be/catalogus/bi...

De geknevelde vrouw : hoe macht en moraal het vrouwenlichaam bepalen

In dit vlijmscherpe esay stelt de auteur dat het vrouwenlichaam nooit neutraal is, maar een strijdtoneel. Achter elke wet over abortus, elk verbod op een hoofddoek en elke norm over hoe een vrouw zich...

daisybraille.bibliotheek.be

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Denktank Minerva @denktankminerva.be · 16h

“We moeten besparen. België geeft te veel uit. Vooral aan sociale bescherming en zorg. Nieuwe belastingen? Kan niet. We zijn al belastingkampioen! En die raken enkel de middenklasse & schaden de economie.”

De onuitgesproken uitgangspunten van de begrotingsdiscussie. Kloppen ze? 🧵

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 14h

Typographic apparitions 👻

Spotted in a 1498 Cologne missal: a case of off-set printing, where ink from the forme (or from another printed page?) accidentally transferred onto these printed page.

#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Detail of a page with musical staf printed, added music by hand, and off-set printing of other type in the margins

Detail of a page with liturgical text printed, and off-set printing of other type in the margins

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 15h

Moreover, the collection belongs to the City of Antwerp (and its inhabitants). Selling or removing items from it can only be done by decision of the City Council, which involves a lot of administration.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 15h

No. We consider our collection as a whole (esp. early printed books) as heritage, just like the individual items. Our items were also described throughout the years in publications and databases. We see them a bit like holotypes in biology.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 16h

Ik dacht dat Walter de baas was.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 19h

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

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SHOC VUB @shoc-vub.bsky.social · 2d

VACATURE voor een doctoraatsonderzoeker aan de VUB (onderzoeksgroep Social History of Capitalism) en de UGent (Vakgroep Geschiedenis) in het FWO-project “Beschuldigingen en smaad op de dorpsvergadering: rurale perspectieven op sociale controle in Vlaanderen, ca. 1400–1600”.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 19h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 17h

New incunable acquisition: 👍👍👍

Provenance marks indicating that it's a sold duplicate from the Royal Library in The Hague: 👍👍👍👍👍

This #NewAcq is a permanent loan, from small but exquisite collection. Expect more to come! 📚💙 📜

Epistola de miseria curatorum. [Antwerp : Back, 1493-1495], EHC 913027

Mounted title page, showing the text 'Epistola de miseria curatorum' and two library stamps of the Royal Library in The Hague, one indicating the sale of duplicates.

Printer's mark of Govaert Back, a woodcut with a large bird cage against a black background. Inside the cage is the capital letter 'M', the initial of Back's father-in-law, Matthias van der Goes.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19h

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 19h

A submission for early modern name of the day: Jewell Sparke, who subscribed in 1712, and signed his name with added sparkle

Close up photograph of eighteenth century manuscript, showing signature of Jewell Sparke with the ink forming glittery particles

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 1d

Michaelina Wautier Broke Through the Barriers
By Heleen Debruyne, translated by Kate Connelly
www.the-low-countries.com/article/mich...

Michaelina Wautier Broke Through the Barriers - the low countries

Heleen Debruyne takes female painters out of oblivion and gives them the honour they deserve.

www.the-low-countries.com

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Rebecca Frost @rebeccafrostwrites.com · 1d

A Millennial’s Guide to Breast Cancer: The Beginning

I turned 40 earlier this year and decided to go ahead and get a mammogram. The American Cancer Society says women can start annual screening at 40, but should definitely start at 45. Considering my family history, I opted to start just to be…

A Millennial’s Guide to Breast Cancer: The Beginning

I turned 40 earlier this year and decided to go ahead and get a mammogram. The American Cancer Society says women can start annual screening at 40, but should definitely start at 45. Considering my family history, I opted to start just to be sure. Unfortunately, we were quickly sure that I had breast cancer. On the plus side, I was surrounded by all kinds of support.

rebeccafrostwrites.com

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 1d

just learned about the paradoxical frog (yes, that’s its real name), which is so named because the tadpoles are bigger than the adult frogs. can you imagine if we had giant babies that turned into regular-sized adults? wild

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

At least the rats are having fun...

[Attributed to Ferdinand van Kessel, The Dance of the Rats, 1681, Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 47 cm (Städel Museum, Frankfurt)]

A painting of rats dancing in a circle with what's surmised to be a carved table leg behind them. Likely cut out of a larger canvas.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

CLUE is, in many ways, one of our best games about how we’d all like any excuse to wander around other people’s houses checking for weird shit.

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De Morgen @demorgen.be · 2d

Gillian Mathys is hoofddocent Afrikaanse geschiedenis aan de UGent. De auteur schrijft dit opiniestuk samen met een tiental ondertekenaars.

Ondersteuning voor het IOB schrappen: Vlaanderen schiet zichzelf in de voet

www.demorgen.be

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

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