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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 · 06/09/2025

Едва я вымолвил эти слова, поводья терпения выскользнули из рук дервиша, и он, обнажив меч своего языка, пустил коня красноречия на поле дерзости и, погнав его на меня, воскликнул

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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

После разлуки с ним я твёрдо решил свернуть на весь остаток жизни ковёр страсти

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

Прошло оживление на базаре его красоты

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

Не держись рукой своих укоров за полу моей злой судьбы

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

Успокоив дэвов своего желудка, он заснул

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

Про тусовку с друзьями в заведении с очень плохой музыкой: Слишком поздно призывает нас к молитве муэдзин - Он не ведает, насколько эта ночь была длинна.

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

О сынок, выкинь из головы безрассудные мысли и подбери ноги воздержания под полу спокойствия, ибо мудрецы говорят: "Счастье даётся не по труду", и потому лучше причинять себе меньше волнений

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

На днях под видом дервиша к нам подошёл один вор и нанизал себя на нитку нашего общества

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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

I think SAS should just start slapping all non-EU citizens at the boarding like we deserve

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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

The internet says that if eaten, salpa causes hallucinations similar to the effects of LSD. Albert's description of salpa is based on the wrong translation of Pliny, but perhaps he was also referring to salpa's containing toxins

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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

Also look at this poor guy with an arrow in his eye - his dog is very indignant on his behalf

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

Something that can happen to anyone - being bitten by a wilde toade

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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

What was really disappointing is that Historiska museet overall seems to use machine translation for English-language posters. Here's from another exhibition

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

They also had an AI-generated pic of a yawning goat

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

So we went to an exhibition on witches at Historiska museet. It was a disgrace as most of it was made by AI. You can see it in the posters, which look like they've been written by an undergrad

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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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