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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 5h

Punching my ticket to Kalamazoo

Graphic labelled "Types of Medievalist Paper" based on xkcd.com/2456/. 12 pictures of 'papers' appear with overlaid titles:

You Won't Believe What Nuns Were Up To
HEY, I FOUND A TROVE OF OLD RECORDS! THEY DON'T TURN OUT TO BE PARTICULARLY USEFUL, BUT STILL, COOL!
The Silk Road Is Not Just A Website for Buying LSD
Niche Tax Documents in Provence, 1370-1373
Everything That Happened in Asia, 622-1914
Ships Might Be Very Important
Introducing "Spatula' The New Journal for Medieval Studies
Globalizing the Middle Ages: An Examination of England *and* France
How l Got the University to Pay for My Trip to Venice
Did You Know? Arabs Had Science and Culture Too
We Remembered Spain And It's Right Where We Left It
More Viking Shit Found in Unexpected Place

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 23h

Looking at about 110~120 items or so in two weeks wish me luck

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")

Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is —my colleagues and I believe— something going on this semester where students and teachers alike are just let’s say tired

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Going on my first official archive trip to London in a few days, not staying too long but am very excited to finally go to the british library and royal society of london archives

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is why, as a knowledge mobilizer, I am committed to getting knowledge to knowledge users so they can like my posts

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If we had better history of science education this would get more likes

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Learning languages for this alone

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fuck off, JSTOR

A picture of jstor showing an AI tool next to the article.

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I highly recommend! I just got one for travel and it’s very good when you use the inverse method— but, it is entirely engineered around creating a manual vacuum that brews the coffee

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The early royal society would have loved an aeropress

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026

Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In related news, how did I not know that a new open-access English translation of Kepler's Dioptrice (1611) -- his second major optics work, and the first detailed printed theory of how telescopes work -- just came out last year? books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru... #HistSTM #EarlyModern

Cover image for Søren Larsen's Engish translation of Johannes Kepler's 1611 book Dioptrice.

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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

I’m seeing this next month I can’t wait!

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Even though my work isn’t related to human collections I find it an endlessly fascinating part of the history of medicine and science

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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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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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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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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

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ve got a team of guys* (GENDER NEUTRAL)

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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

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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 · 13/09/2026

Shadowbanned for being too hehe haha

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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

Books articles and sources all at my fingertips in ways much of my literature couldn’t imagine

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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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