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Devyn Gwynne

@devyngwynne.bsky.social
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PhD candidate 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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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
It's decorative gourd season, motherf*ckers. (Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Autumn, 1573, Musée du Louvre)
A work by Arcimboldo, who, being a complete and wonderful weirdo with the patronage of Holy Roman Emperors, spent his time painting absolutely nutso “portrait busts” of abstract concepts including seasons, archetypes, and elements. This one is Autumn made up of autumnal fruits, foliage, and, of course, gourds.
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My quest for you, should you be interested, is finding out if your institution has people and how many
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Historians of medicine and science: does your institution have people* (defined as any parts of the body) in their collections/possession and if so how many? McGill has ~1000 in our natural history museum and 1000s in our anatomical museum and anatomical program
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A day in the life of a university lecturer in Gaza #academicsky www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘First there’s the gruelling task of trying to charge my laptop’: a day in the life of a university lecturer in Gaza
As the war in Gaza approaches its fourth year, the Guardian follows five ordinary Palestinians as they go about their lives. Each tells the story of their day, revealing the terrible toll of the confl...
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Reverse side of a painting, 1670, Oil on canvas, 67 x 87 cm (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen)
A trompe l'oeil painting of the back of a canvas, and a little (illusionistic) tag attached with a wax seal that says "56)
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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our entire roundtable on "Cross-Contextualization as Method", co-edited with @mikahyman.bsky.social, is out now in FirstView in @historicaljnl.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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Cross-Contextualization as Method | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
Cross-Contextualization as Method
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ms Frizzle couldn’t do what she did today due to wavers and decreased social acceptance of child labour and their role in scientific experiments
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Early Modern Research Centre, 1450-1850 (Birmingham) @bhamcrems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Watching, Reading, Listening: The Early Modern Audience and Their Entertainments (1400-1800) at UoB, 13-14 January 2027 Call for papers open until 13 November! Submit abstracts here: linktr.ee/earlymodaudc... Contact: earlymodaudconfm4c@gmail.com
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
THEY GOT TO 2000 SUPPORTERS! Now in need of 3000 more in just under a year. LETS GO! #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Visiting fellowship for PhD students in medical humanities at Upsala www.uu.se/en/centre/me...
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Call for applications: Visiting PhD-student position in Medical Humanities, Uppsala University, spring semester 2027 – Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH) – Uppsala University
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Erin Rowe @erinkathleenrowe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨🚨 Job Alert: Johns Hopkins Dept of History is accepting applications in Mediev European and/or Mediterranean History, 400-1500, associate or advanced assistant rank: apply.interfolio.com/193938. 🚨🚨
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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fantastic job opportunity at the University of Jyväskylä! ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Philosophy / History of Political Thought
[The Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy](https://www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/yfi) is seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Philosophy / History of Political Thought starting 1 ...
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Proposals by 20 Sept. ⏰ 👇#MedievalSky
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How I feel strolling up to lecture/ How my students see me lecturing
Hudson williams 2026 outdoors smoking looking maybe the coolest anyone has looked. Charlie day mind map scene from it’s always sunny.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe...
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨the Department of History at the University of Toronto (St George campus) is hiring an Assistant Professor in the history of early modern or modern South Asia jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor - South Asian History
Assistant Professor - South Asian History
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Best part of academia is knowing a buddy working on it
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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scott Berthelette adds historical context to discourse around the 'renaming' of Lake Ontario by exploring seventeenth-century history and maps. Cross-posted with @nichecanada.bsky.social for their series exploring environmental history and the current US administration
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Before “Lake America,” There Was “Lake Frontenac”
By Scott Berthelette On August 27, 2026, President of the United States Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. federal government to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.” The order…
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026
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PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What is the Register of British Slave Traders and whom does it identify? Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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What is the Register of British Slave Traders and whom does it identify?
Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
teachers of Bluesky: it is officially France, Haiti, and CLR James week in my Revolution philosophy class and...things are going to escalate pretty dramatically. any tricks or habits you all have developed around teaching particularly violent periods of history?
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s just one more funding application I swear
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I feel like I am just in a perpetual “just one more funding application” loop
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I haven't been posting much recently as I have been too busy disseminating research findings to decision-makers
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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're on the lookout for some PhD students who would like to give a Lightning Talk at our seminar on 12 November! Open to early modernists working on any geography, talks are 3-5 minutes! Get in touch via BlueSky or email tmt29@cam.ac.uk with a short summary of PhD and bio by 12 October! ✨🥳
Poster on Lightning talks:

PhD Lightning Talks: Society, Culture, and Belief Seminar, 1500-1800, Institute of Historical Research. Deadline: 12 October, Event: Thursday 12 November, 5.30 pm

The Society, Culture, and Belief Seminar is inviting applications for lightning talks from PhD students on their research. We ask that these talks be 3-5 minutes. This is a fantastic opportunity to talk through your research with a broader audience of fellow students and more seasoned academics, as well as test out some ideas in a comfortable and welcoming environment. The talks will be followed by a brief Q&A session.

The seminar was founded in 1979, hosting papers on themes ranging from witchcraft and piracy to early modern medicine and urban religious practices. We look to create an open and welcoming atmosphere and are always excited to hear a broad range of papers and geographies.

The event will take place on Thursday 12 November 2026, from 5.30 pm onwards. For those presenting in-person, we typically continue the conversation after the seminar over drinks or dinner. We’re open to applications from students working on any geographical region between 1500-1800. 

If you would like to participate, please email: tmt29@cam.ac.uk by 12 October 2026 with a 300-word thesis summary and a brief bio. If you would like to attend the seminar, do keep an eye out on our webpage (very soon to be updated with our events for this term) or you can always follow us on Bluesky @ihrscb.bsky.social. We tend to meet on Thursdays during term time at 5.30 pm — all are welcome!
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The best thing ever!
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My methodology? Gather up the sources I can find and go insane
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026
them: we need you to get with the program, be expert tech-embracers me: i have a literal PhD in something literally called Science & Technology Studies and i actually think this tech is bad them: not like that (it's almost funny to me. *almost*)
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026
We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.
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Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern
The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2027/Volume 22.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Generations.
In keeping with the Journal’s tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 22.1, we invite contributions on **women and generations in the early modern world**. Papers might include examinations of intergenerational relationships among and between women, how gender shapes the expression of generational knowledge and status, how women preserve and protect the generations ahead of and behind them, how representations of generations are gendered, etc. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world. 
At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum.
Submissions are due October 1, 2026 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed. 
If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu.
Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about.
See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum
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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New job: Head of the Library (Florence, Italy) Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70314
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 02/09/2026
RIP 1.5
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
i know a lot of your classes are taught by people who insist on being called 'professor', but i'm really not like that. i just think it's so hierarchical and artificial and that's not the atmosphere i want to cultivate in this class. so please, just call me 'unc'
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have got to get more normal, I mutter under my breath alone
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Say no to cognitive offloading, say yes to declension onboarding!
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
has anyone asked lorraine daston to chime in on this map renaming situation
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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
has anyone encountered any good critical history of writing in the university? especially as it concerns labor
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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How do you do fellow knowledge mobilizers
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/08/2026
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Paul Noth.
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
That time of year again
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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
you can feel this happening in real time in graduate school
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
'hey, has anyone tried refuting race science on theoretical and empirical grounds?'—guy who just woke up from a 100 year coma, presumably
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. They told YOU to recycle better while they polluted more. Don't fall for it. Hold systems accountable. #ClimateCrisis
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🧵 Medieval Inquests & Bail Records I’ve been working on Inquests & writs of bail (C144 records) for nearly a decade. They’re a great source for many aspects of medieval life, not just the law. For instance, they reveal causes of death unrelated to crimes, e.g. drunkenness. bsky.app/profile/kfdu...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.
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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
They’re doing this to me next week
Katsushika Hokusai “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” 1831.
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