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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I started my PhD 1000 days ago today. Above all, I have learnt one thing: I don't know what I'm doing.

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sometimes the keywords tell you you're in for a wild ride

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I had a wonderful opportunity to talk briefly about @archaeorattus.bsky.social at the IMC in Leeds last week with fellow ratty and mousey historians! Thanks so much to Sven Gins and Alice Choyke for the invitation (photo: Sven Gins)

Me using my hands to discuss the migratory history of brown rats

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Scarlett Stevens @scarlettstevens.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Experiencing Relief in Early Modern Britain: 1500-1800 We welcome papers from ECRs, PGRs, and established scholars. For more info (e.g., how to submit a paper) please see our website: earlymodernreliefconference2027.wordpress.com #earlymodern #earlymodernists #AcademicSky

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

After months of planning, York got to host the wonderful Yuck workshop in collaboration with the Northern Environmental History Network! Thanks so much to everyone who attended and contributed to the amazing discussions! It was so good to bring together so many people studying yucky living things🍄🐀🌱

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

It's world rat day and @archaeorattus.bsky.social has a new blog post to celebrate! Read it on the project's site: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/r...

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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🚨Call for Papers! 3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026!

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Sometimes I wonder if they wonder what I'm thinking about too

My rats, Enkidu and Gilgamesh, pondering underneath a blanket

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Just a few days left to apply for the Yuck workshop organised in collaboration with @northernenvhistory.bsky.social! Come talk about all that wriggles, invades, infects, disgusts and/or steals in York!

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

LAST PAPER OF THE SEMESTER MARKED WOOOO

An excel spreadsheet that shows that 100% of my papers have been marked

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

York is talking pests, vermin, weeds and germs next april! If you know anyone interested in historical approaches to these maligned beings, please send them this CFP (or apply yourself!)

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

A little while ago my very first publication came out - a chapter in a book on life in Amsterdam through the ages. It's based on a bit of my master's research on dogs in the Dutch capital. It explores methods of uncovering animal history and shows a glimpse of dogs' lives. Open access is pending!

Front cover of "Amsterdam Diaries, Life Writing and Identity: Urban Lives"

First page of my chapter, titled "fetching dogs from depositions"

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The move to a new desk begins...

A small wood carving of a murid sits on an otherwise empty desk

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

After two weeks of travel I'm finally reunited with my rats :D

Gilgamesh the rat and me the human making eye contact

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Dutch insurance advertisements used to hit different (translations in the alt texts)

A print depicting a man reading in a train with a ghostly devil next to him. The text reads "Danger forever remains your invisible travelling partner. Insure yourself against travel accidents with Fatum" (my translation)

A print depicting a city in disarray: a bus drives into a pit, a car hits a lamp post, a piano is about to fall onto a pram, a man is falling out of a window, and many more disasters. Above it all hangs a bloody sword marked "accidents". The print is captioned "this sword hangs over all your heads! Insure yourself in a timely fashion with the M-Z" (my translations)

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,  made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

All geared up for a weedy, verminy and ratty discussion at session 12-06 this afternoon at #ESEH2025 🌱🐀🐾

Title page for a rat presentation, titled "Rats! Changing perceptions of (Early) Modern Britain and NL". The image depicts a medieval miniscule of rats rowing a boat

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Rapt multispecies audience this morning at the histories of soils and pesticides session at #ESEH2025

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Great roundtable session on early modern art as sources for climate change! Tons of thoughts on its applicability to other "invisible" environmental processes, like invasive species 🤔 #eseh2025

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

An amazing pair of keynotes to kick off #ESEH2025 excited for the rest of the conference!

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Last month was the @archaeorattus.bsky.social project's annual meeting and we realised that we're halfway through the project! Read all about it on our blog! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/r...

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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026 ‼️ The 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' network welcomes papers which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the conference theme of ‘temporalities’, c.500-1500! Get in touch by 15 September

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Back home with my boys 🐀🐀❤️

Enkidu (a rat) napping in a hammock, his brother's butt is in the background

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

From Zeeland to Scotland, Middelburg to St Andrews, conference to conference to learn all about histories of animal-borne diseases

Conference programme booklet on a notebook

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I got to speak about rat history with some amazing people at the RIAS-DEHN conference in Middelburg this week! (Thanks to @chrmeijer.bsky.social for the photo!)

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It's #worldratday! To celebrate, I wrote a pretty fun post for the @archaeorattus.bsky.social project blog about #rats nibbling on #archive material. Check it out! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/r...

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RATTUS Project - Blog

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

My beautiful sign and I have become the face of #antifa in English rightwing media this weekend after a peaceful protest against #ReformUK in #York! I couldn't be more proud :)

A screenshot of a news broadcast featuring a photo a group of protesters, with me prominently in the centre holding a sign that says "Rich Tice? I'd rather have head lice"

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Today marks one year since I moved to the UK to start my ratty PhD journey! Since you can't do a PhD alone, I finally decided to get a friend! Meet Gilgamesh! (Don't worry, he has a brother - bonus points if you can guess his name) #rats

An adorable young rat peeks out of a hoodie

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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I think it’s time I finally introduce myself on these blue skies. I’m Daan, a PhD candidate in Rat History at the RATTUS project in York! If you’d like to know more about me, check out this post on the RATTUS blog: the-rattus-project.blogspot.com/2024/11/meet...

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Meet the Team - Daan

Hello! I’m Daan, the resident historian (and only PhD-student) on the RATTUS project. I studied history at the VU in Amsterdam, focusing on ...

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