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Daan Jansen

@daancjansen.bsky.social
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Animal historian working with rats 🐀 in early modern cities University of York I try to be creative too: artist, writer, videomaker and more

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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 · 10/08/2026
💤🐀
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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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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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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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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 · 26/12/2025
I am 11,111 days old today
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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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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
No sleep till Breukelen
A screenshot of google maps showing a train ride of 11+ hrs passing by the Dutch town Breukelen, which gives its name to Brooklyn, NY
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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 · 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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Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Rat-nap
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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 · 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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