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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I have been neglecting my academic social media, but here is some news that my podcast on my most recent obsession - St Christopher Cynocephauls - is out (has been out for a while)

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Really enjoyed chatting about medieval zombies on the Resurrectionists podcast. What a productive week I'm having! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyd-...

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The Dead Wouldn’t Stay Buried: Medieval Horror Stories

YouTube video by The Resurrectionists Podcast

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I'm in this picture and I like it! My article ‘The Legend of the Serra Revisited: Identifying the Composite Creature’ has just been published with Preternature. Big thank you to the editors for their hard work 🦭

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

In 2022 my amazing colleague Emelie and I went on a trip to Östersund to see the Nordic Myths exhibition at Nationalmuseum Jamtli. We then wrote an article, which later grew into two articles. Super happy to see Part 1 published today, check it out, there are pictures! kb.osu.edu/items/8e0974...

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Nordic Myths Exhibition at Nationalmuseum Jamtli in Östersund, Sweden, Part I: Nature, Medievalism, and The Construction of Space

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Binged One Piece up to the ongoing episodes, what a time to be alive!

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

My colleague and I are launching a new podcast series called Memory and Nature. If you are a researcher in environmental humanities, we will probably want to interview you! To express interest, send us an abstract by 1 February 2026. See the cfp for details ⬇️

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

When people say that German or any other language is romantic, Dr. Daruwalla thought, all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language (c) John Irving, 'A Son of the Circus'

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Watched Puss in Boots 2 bc a friend of a friend said it's the best animated film ever. Well, Puss meets the personification of death and reassesses his life by making meaningful connections w/ others. In other words, very Irvin Yalom-y

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

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Open-Access Teaching Module on the Black Death Now Available

Free, new materials for teaching the Black Death

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Tell me this job was created for a friend w/o telling me this job was created for a friend

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Finished Wednesday's 2nd season. Why does a late-autumn motorcycle road trip with Uncle Fester suddenly look so good?

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Любимые формулировки из Гулистана Саади (перевод Рустама Алиева): Однажды ночью, о минувших годах размышляя и даром погубленную жизнь в памяти оживляя, камни дома сердца своего я подтачивал алмазами слёз

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Environmental medievalists, we want to see you at the animal sessions at the IMC 2026! Please submit your abstracts by 10 September 🦔 @imc-leeds.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

1st day back from my conference Eurotrip - @imc-leeds.bsky.social (where we've plotted forthcoming sessions w/ Medieval Animal Data-Network) and @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social in Prague (where I've tried out medieval studies from the memory perspective). Now let's catch up on this pile of emails

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Travelling to the UK w/ a visa (duh). SAS puts me on the spot by calling me together w/ several other holders of uncool passports to their desk through the fucking intercom. This is besides the fact I can't check in online bс again my passport is uncool.

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Publications are like buses... My article on representations of fish in medieval children's literature has just come out and it's in OA: ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/ha...

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Human-Fish Relationship in Medieval Literature for Younger Audiences | Research Network for Interspecies Relations in Children's Cultures

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I struggle a lot with American English I realise

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Today I have sent out two documents: a publishing agreement for my article and a presentation pic for a pole dancing competition 🤘

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Prioritising AI over - well - natural intelligence is a perfect example of how ✨some people✨ want to see humans as expendable materials. I said what I said.

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

That moment in a romcom when an ugly girl shows up in her prom dress #akademiskahögtiden #Sweden

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Love that autocorrect tries to replace godkänd with goddamn

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Writing a Black Death lecture fighting the temptation to say 'this is yersinia pestis, it might be small but it's got big plans'

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Spotify needs to introduce a repeat mode, but like THE SONG - some different song - THE SONG again- another different song and so on so I can avoid complete degradation

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Do you think one can regress from Purgatory i.e. go to Hell instead of Heaven? Like by behaving particularly badly?

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Albertus Magnus on salpa: according to Pliny the salpa is an obscene, vile, marine fish. It can in no way be cooked unless it is first beaten very forcefully and broken down with a club or stick. What did salpa ever do to Albert?

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

John Arderne's scroll (National Library of Sweden X118) contains first-aid advice on what to do if you have a spear stuck in your bum

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My article on beavers' bodies and souls has been published in February's issue of @HistoryToday.com

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Pov: five boring white men decide if you and your friend are witches (hail Satan) @museiolga.bsky.social

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A friend introduced me to basketball tonight (and Norrköping won!)

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I am delighted to announce that I have been elected to SULF/LiU styrelsen for 2025. Let us hope for a productive year

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Please #squidgame stop giving me ideas for a dress-code appropriate faculty marshal outfit for the graduation ceremony

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This New Year's Eve we watched the #aurora (my phone also captured a pic of an ancient Nordic monster) #Umeå

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Today my friends' cat twice got on the table and left some valuable comments in my job application

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Yes, I am the person who bought nail polish because it was #AttackOnTitan themed

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

My university is not paying me 30% of my salary in December ho-ho-ho Merry Christmas!

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Spending Saturday in the best possible way - by wandering around cathedrals and castles

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

#Lufthansa is teaching me to cast away the material things and be satisfied w/ less by forgetting my suitcase in Stockholm.

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I can see how meeting a bunch of small kids dressed in white robes w/ one wearing a crown of burning candles at 7 am could be disturbing for a tourist... #Lucia #Sweden

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Bc this is a new social media I feel more freedom to share fun facts about me. Like I dance pole. Or like my university has not paid me for my teaching hours in November, which means I received only half of my salary last month lol

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Culture Unbound journal is planning a new exciting special issue on monsters (understood broadly) and law. Check out the #cfp 👾⚖ cultureunbound.ep.liu.se?fbclid=IwY2x...

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Culture Unbound

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