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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unboxing day! Over a decade in the making, NECESSARY INVENTIONS: ROGER BACON, THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE (PENN Press) is a material object. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way. For sale on October 20. @pennpress.bsky.social

Photo of a box filled with multiple copies of the book. The cover is ochre, and has different images of Bacon, from manuscripts and printed books.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s not necessarily the em dash anymore, but the logic of grouping things in threes that gives me a hint of AI writing. Rather than building a more logically demanding connection between two things, AI writing simply juxtaposes three things in a row +

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New book: Aztec Science upcolorado.com/university-p...

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You may think this is some postmodern art, but it is actually a seventeenth-century representation of a mandrake root in humanoid form evoking female body.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ooo there's a webpage up for my little book Listening to #EarlyModern Travel Writing, and I see that expected publication is 6 October! Exciting! 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The title page of Purchas His Pilgrimes, which is lavishly described and discussed in my forthcoming Element 'Listening to Early Modern Travel Writing' - so you'll have to read all about it there!

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I am so honored and delighted to have my first book talk at Penn State. So grateful for the invitation, and I’m very much looking forward to it!

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“This year, FEEGI will award two research grants of $1000 each to support travel to archival or other field sites. This award is open to all FEEGI members in good standing but is intended especially for graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty.”

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I am teaching Food, Health, and Society this fall, and these are some of the assigned readings 🍽️ 🍅🍇🧆🍬🫖

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I am writing about sweetness (and sugar), and does anyone have any good recommendations beyond Mintz’s “Sweetness and Power”? I am particularly interested in sweetness as a taste. Thanks!

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

And here is the table of contents: We will walk through the many lives of tulips, palm trees, sea coconuts, coffee, mummies and those who remade knowledge about them: naturalists, physicians, flower breeders, bazaar artists, Orientalist scholars, and enslaved Muslims.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So happy to finally share the news that my book, “A History of Uncertainty: Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” will be out in Spring 2027 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. I still can't believe it's now beyond my hands and on its way to meeting its readers.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A smiling snake with sunglasses from the 17th century (or maybe I'm just a bit jet-lagged).

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Monica Azzolini @m-azzolini.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I am not here much these days - life runs too fast to be here regularly. But let’s go back to the time honoured tradition of the now defunct #twitter: #FF! For more top #histsci follow: @pratik-hstm.bsky.social @duyguyildirim.bsky.social @mackenziecooley.bsky.social @simondolet.bsky.social

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Also, a good review of Medicine on a Larger Scale, ed @ahlie.bsky.social Jeremy Greene and me, available open access @universitypress.cambridge.org A collection on the global history of social medicine (which can still be taught outside the US) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #histstm

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My review of Robert Morrison’s “Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe,”in Isis: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/74…

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I am very pleased and honored to serve on the organizing team of The Commission on History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societies (CHOSTIS) as a counselor for the coming years. Here is the info about CHOSTIS: islamsci.org

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Islamic Science

Commission on History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societies

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Journalists, let’s be careful about the language we use when writing or talking about AI. Here’s a thread — @emilymbender.bsky.social, I know you pay attention to this, too, so feel free to chime in. (1/x)

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Andrew Lea, MD, PhD @andrewlea.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Delighted to share that my book DIGITIZING DIAGNOSIS (@hopkinspress.bsky.social) has been awarded CBI's Human-Computer Interaction History Prize! Especially honored to follow last year's winners, Tom Mullaney and Brad Myers. Grateful to CBI for the award and for supporting work in computing history!

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Two of the many images that will be featured in my forthcoming book. So this is really happening!

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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

University of Pittsburgh Press are having a sale for this month, so you can pick up a copy of my book, The Age of Mammals, for a standard hardback price of $42 (rather than the usual more academic price of $70) Link here, and code is 29INT40 : upittpress.org/books/978082... #FossilFriday

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The Age of Mammals - University of Pittsburgh Press

|9780822947806|International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century|When people today hear “paleontology,” they immediately think of dinosaurs. But for much of the history of the discipline, dram...

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Anita Guerrini's review of "Culinary Texts in Context, 1500–1800" is a feature review, free to read, in the latest RQ issue! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... The book is edited by Sarah Peters Kernan & Helga Müllneritsch; it's published in the series Food Culture, Food History before 1900.

The front cover of a book; the feature image on the upper portion is a detail from an early modern manuscript.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Normalize reviewing as a form of procrastination.

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Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore @barbarasplendor.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I started looking at this reversal between Venice and the Ottoman Empire in The State Drug but more research is needed on the global commerce of theriac!

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Even when we look at just three key items, we can see the Ottoman Empire’s place within the global economy at the beginning of the 18th century: first, theriac, a valuable medicinal compound, initially moved from the Ottoman Empire to Italy, but later this direction was reversed. +

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Call for Papers: "Technologies of Making and Knowing" Hosted jointly at Getty, LACMA, and UCLA Los Angeles, California, March 4 - 6, 2027 www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...

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Technologies of Making and Knowing - HIAA

Beyond its modern conceptualization, technology has always informed artistic production...

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Just signed my academic contributor contract for the Cambridge History of Medicine, and I’m truly excited! Looking forward to bridging the Ottoman world with conversations on indigeneity and exoticism in the long 18th century in relation to science and medicine.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Excited to share my fall course: Food, Health, and Society in the Middle East! 🍎🍉🧄🥫☕️🍽️

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I don’t think AI will create equal opportunities in higher education.It’ll cause bigger inequalities.In the age of AI, universities may increasingly become spaces where interpersonal communication and small-scale learning will be more valued.Yet access to them will be limited to the most privileged.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

My review of Robert G. Morrison’s “Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe,” (Stanford, 2025) at Isis www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Robert G. Morrison, Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe. Stanford University Press, 2025. Stanford Ottoman World Series. | ...

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Our panel, “Translating Technologies and Images: a Context for Textual Knowledge-Making across Early Modern Cultural Spheres,” has been accepted for the upcoming 2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting to be held at the University of Edinburgh. Who else is going to be there?

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I am very delighted to share that my article, “From Abstinence to (Un)Civility: Seventeenth-Century European Engagements with the Question of Wine Prohibition in Islam” has been accepted at the Historical Journal. Hope it stimulates further discussions on this perennial topic.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

So excited to talk about my forthcoming book today!

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

One word in Turkish, one sentence in English. Konuşamadığımızdandır = It may be because we have been unable to speak to each other.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Western-style illustration of female reproductive organs in a 17th-century Ottoman manuscript on anatomy.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It is ironic how AI has turned into a fortune-telling tool in an almost occultist way.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

An interesting imagery of “a Turk” in Emily Dickinson’s poem, “she died at play”

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

First day at I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. An extraordinary place to work as an academic, or simply to be mesmerized by the atmosphere to get inspired (peak Renaissance energy)

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

As the new year begins, a new adventure starts for me. Beginning next week, I will be a Berenson Fellow at Harvard’s I Tatti through June. I’m honored and excited for this opportunity, and I’m looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones. A presto, Firenze!

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Historians here: Anyone up for joining a panel on early modern translation practices in science and medicine with me and the wonderful Sare Arıcanlı? It’ll be for the 2026 ESHS–HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh. Let me know!

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It seems that throughout history, highly educated people from modest origins have almost always faced the same challenge: finding financial stability—be it in ancient China, the Ottoman Empire of the sixteenth century, or our own time.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I’d heard so much praise for this book and finally found time to read it. It’s a fascinating read that pushes us to reconsider the Eurocentric nature of Marxist accounts of production that often erase the history of medieval slavery.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

We don’t often think about how, after the Morisco expulsion, no free Muslim communities remained in Western Europe. For many premodern Europeans, the only Muslims they saw in their lives were enslaved ones in brutal conditions; an imprint on Europe’s memory that can’t be denied…

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

On day one of teaching Ottoman history, a student asked me who my favorite sultan is. I just realized I’d never actually thought about it before. 😃

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I just heard from our editor that the Bloomsbury - A Cultural History of Technology is set for publication next year! I contributed with a chapter on seventeenth-century food technologies and can’t wait to see this comprehensive volume in print soon!

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Are there any historians here working on the history of wine? I'm currently writing an article on the topic and would be glad to exchange ideas or drafts if anyone is interested. 🍇

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Just submitted my book for peer review. It has grown into something quite different from my dissertation with new research, thinking, and lots of writing, supported by a postdoctoral fellowship and an ACLS fellowship. Grateful to those who believed in this project from the start.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Proofreading is basically gaslighting yourself over typos.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Historians of science and art historians: has anyone written about why some flower illustrations were left uncolored in Fuchs’ De historia stirpium? I have some hypotheses, but I'd love to know if there's already an argument or discussion on this.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

In my book chapter, I wrote about the randomness of early modern knowledge exchanges. One comment captured it perfectly: “like the kind of exchange you have while picking up a bagel at your local shop, knowledge is made not just in conferences, but in everyday encounters” 🥯

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