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Eleanor Choo

@eleanorchoo.bsky.social
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She/her | @SWWDTP funded PhD candidate | @UniofExeter and @BathSpaUni | Environmental History of Submarine Telegraph Cables | Gutta-Percha Conservation 1850 - 1939 |

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Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Video now also on Youtube: Includes some of my favourite bits from my #envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern research into Alpine & Animal history, like the mysterious exploding pigs Andeer & retirement homes for cows from the title & more, like the iron eating cows of Disentis youtu.be/t3xiWUfztmk
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Exploding Pigs & Retirement Homes For Cows: Alpine Human-Animal Relations in the Late Middle Ages
YouTube video by Joschka Meier
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Gregg Mitman @greggmitman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
On the history of the primate trade and colonial/postcolonial ecologies of extraction, conservation and care. Thanks to my co-editor Tara Suri and all who contributed to this Focus section in Isis. FREE ACCESS! #envhist #sts #conservation #primates www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Eleanor Choo @eleanorchoo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The previous post reminded me of the magical Wayang Kulit shows I watched as a child, in the brief years I lived in KL. I'm sad that it has been less prevalent in recent years and grateful to the artists fighting to keep the art alive. #wayangkulit hyperallergic.com/preserving-t...
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Preserving the Age-Old Art of Malaysian Shadow Puppetry
In the north of the country, Wayang kulit Kelantan is being revitalized through contemporary storytelling and the long-overdue inclusion of women.
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MIA: Chinese, South and Southeast Asian Art (Bot) @miachsouthasia.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Shadow Puppet Head collections.artsmia.org/art/95472
one from a collection of 117 shadow puppet heads. 58 pairs and two single heads placed in glassine envelopes. Heads measure 2-5 in., each. Note Later measuring revealed 57 pairs and three single heads, #24, the heads are attached by a string to each other.
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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Wombats have the largest brain of any #marsupial. Their blank expressions are just a reflection of the fact that they know they can outsmart you.🧠 #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombats #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombat
A large wombat stood on grass, staring blankly into the mid-distance
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SEA Junction @seajunction.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Next planned event SEA-Junction in collaboration with ILO, Ship to Shore program
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Axolotl "have feet and hands like lizards, and the tail, and also the body, like an eel, they have a very broad mouth, and a beard in the neck. It is very good to eat. Food of the señores (the ruling class)" Today it is not food, it is Critically Endangered Same as the European eel, still eaten👇🏽
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Thanks, @dbellingradt.bsky.social ! If you're interested in something that deals specifically w paleography & the complexities of how we treat records as evidence, institutional priorities, etc then this piece will be of interest...it's v long, I'm afraid! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Connoisseurship, Art History, and the Paleographical Impasse in Middle English Studies | Speculum: Vol 97, No 2
Abstract Over the last two decades, paleographers of manuscripts produced in late medieval England have sought to identify the scribes responsible for copying manuscripts of major literary texts by Ge...
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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 27/01/2026
What do Djinn want when making a deal? It depends. Some seek material wealth, some carnal knowledge. Many will achieve this through possession, demanding that humans let them live in their body. They may not be intrusive but they can take over at any time #FairytaleTuesday
A group of Djinni meeting, all with animal heads or at least with horns or fur. The central figure, likely Shaitan, has three heads stacked on top of one another.
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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This book is coming in March with a chapter by Yours Truly 😁: Chapter 12. ‘ “Every Single Verse Seems to Be Speaking to the Contemporary Chinese”: Perceptions of the Greek Revolution of 1821 in Japan and China’
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
EU and Brazil adopt data protection adequacy decisions for each other ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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The EU and Brazil conclude agreements to create the biggest area of free and safe data flows in the world
Today, the European Commission and Brazil adopted mutual adequacy decisions, confirming that their levels of data protection are comparable. Recognising the high data protection standards that protect...
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The oldest Muslim community in Bangkok predates the city by a century Established in 1688, Ban Ton Son was founded by Chams, a Sunni Muslims from Vietnam who were displaced by Kinh Viet expansion Known for their seamanship, Chams who made their way to Bangkok often served as sailors in Siam's navy
A view of Masjid Ton Son, a mosque with a light brown exterior and green domeAn elderly Cham Muslim woman in Vietnam wearing a white hijabA map showing the location of "Champa," the ancestral Cham homeland along Vietnam's central and southern coastA map of central Bangkok showing the location of ethnically Vietnamese settlements (Flag of Vietnam) and ethnically Cham settlements (America-looking flag with star and crescent)
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Chams have played a notable role in Bangkok's culture Due their naval prowess, Cham oarsmen were historically responsible for paddling the royal barges Away from the water, the Cham weavers of Ban Khrua are responsible for the "Thai silk" that was popularized by US fashion designer Jim Thompson
The Royal Bathing Ceremony "แพลงสรง พ.ศ. ๒๔๒๙" (in Thai) was held on 14 January 1886, for Vajirunhis, the Crown Prince of Siam, during the reign of King Rama V. This event was captured in a photograph album given to Mrs. Bertha Honoré Palmer by Queen Savang Vadhana, the Queen of Siam, in commemoration of the Siamese Exhibit in the Woman's Building at the World's World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, United States of America. The exposition was held from May 5 to October 31, 1893.[17]Royal Barge Anantanakkharat (2nd-nearest), flanked by escort barges Phali Rang Thawip (nearest) and Sukhrip Khrong Mueang (3rd), as the procession passes by the Grand Palace during dress rehearsals in 2012The US fashion designer Jim Thompson inspects fabric with a Thai Cham man next to a canalThe sales outlet at the JiM Thompson House, with many elaborately designed silk clothing on display
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Solilequn @selwyndavis.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I’m working on a piece about the growth of mass nihilism over the last 16 years or so. Using examples such as change in “hacker culture”, niche far right groups spilling out into wider society etc etc. if you have a personal experience I would love to hear from you.
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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#FrescoFriday - A real favourite! The paintings from the Fullonica of Veranius Hypsaeus, Pompeii (VI.8.20), showing the stages of the laundry process, with an owl (symbol for the Fullers) atop the 'viminea cavea'. #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺 Image: MANN (9774). Link - mann-napoli.it/numismatica/...
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy
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Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction
Can we do philosophy by writing fiction, drawing, designing a game, or telling a story? Submit work to this special issue honouring the legacy of Helen De Cruz.
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Would you like to read something about Greenland that isn't about geopolitics, but is instead about love, and grief, and gyrfalcon nests? Here's a story I wrote once for @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social. richarddsmyth.com/2021/10/01/s...
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Short story: Hannah Rensenbrink’s Postcards From Qasigiannguit
A story first published in The Lonely Crowd.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/01/2026
The level of humility it takes to do the unglamorous, non-confrontational work is a story that people need to think about more. The shops that don’t get raided and might not be under threat! The people who follow ICE cars so they can’t do surprise stops. The people who you will never see.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
CFP: Negations and Interruptions As World-Building, University College Dublin, 21-22 May 2026 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
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cfp | call for papers
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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 23/01/2026
How The Philippine Star covered this story vs how SCMP did.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Ursula K. Le Guin died #OTD in 2018. First female author to win both the Nebula & Hugo awards for Best Novel for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 (1970). In total, she won 8 Hugo & 6 Nebula awards. Second woman Grand Master of the #ScienceFiction & Fantasy Writers of America. #scifi #literature #booksky
Black-and-white photograph of Ursula K. Le Guin in her later years, seated comfortably in a wicker chair in front of a bookshelf filled with books. The acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author has short white hair, warm eyes, and a gentle smile as she gazes directly at the camera. She wears a dark long-sleeved shirt, her arms crossed and resting on her lap, with a bracelet on one wrist and a ring on her finger. To the right of the portrait is the vibrant cover of the 50th Anniversary Edition of her novel The Left Hand of Darkness, featuring a bold blue starry gradient background with the title in white text and her name prominently displayed.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
New data out today is remarkable. mRNA technology first proven at scale during COVID can now cut melanoma recurrence and deaths almost in half by teaching the immune system to target cancer. A powerful reminder of why we invest in science and support mRNA platforms.
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 23/01/2026
I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.
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summerghost @asummerghost.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Bear In Snow. #Art © Takeuchi Seiho
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#jobs #publishing #booksky #humanities
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Editorial Assistant (12 Month Maternity Leave Cover) - Polity Press - Cambridge
Editorial Assistant (12 Month Maternity Leave Cover) - Polity Press - Publisher - Editorial - Competitive salary
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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨Reminder: the Deadline was extended! If you’re interested in participating in XIV PBCS, you can still send your proposals until 1st February. More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
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XIV PBCS Madrid 2026 - CFA
Young researchers (Master’s and PhD students, as well as scholars who defended their PhD dissertations within the last three years) are encouraged to submit their work, present their ideas, and partic...
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Extending New Narratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Postdoc opportunity: ERC Research Associate in History of Philosophy (48 months) University College Dublin Project BMoral (18th-century British moral philosophy & women philosophers) Start: Sept 1, 2026 Deadline: Feb 10, 2026 Details & apply: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... #philsky #philjobs
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Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The @northernenvhistory.bsky.social's first seminar of the year is fast approaching! 27/1 2pm GMT Sign up below! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snake-word...
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Snake Words in Estonia: Nature and Nationalism in Andrus Kivirähk
The Northern Environmental History Network is thrilled to welcome Dr Alfie Howard to present on Snake Words in Estonia!
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Com join the Consortium for the History of Science's #oceanhist #marine #maritime group at 1-2:30 CT as we discuss Karen Pinto's article “All the World’s an Island: A Taussigian Reading of Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Maps with an Islamicate Twist” www.chstm.org/group/histor...
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History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Sustainability in action with Falmouth Exeter Plus on Penryn campus! One student accommodation block is now fully heated and supplied with hot water by air source heat pumps, cutting carbon emissions and eliminating mains gas use. 👉 fxplus.ac.uk/eco-block-pi... #Sustainability #GreenCampus
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Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security
This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I am the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social and always looking for new review pitches. If you’d like to review a recently published book on imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), please get in touch: evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au. Authors, get in touch too!
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My barber told me on Friday that him and his friends have cancelled going to the world cup. He was saying it's not really a protest more he doesn't want to end up in prison/die.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets. The Tablet: (Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)
Wooden board (with iron handle for hanging) inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad.
Cultures/periods
Late Roman
Production date
400-500
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot: Egypt
Africa: Egypt
Materials
wood
iron
Dimensions
Length: 40.64 centimetres
Inscriptions
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription subject
educational
literary
Curator's comments
TM 61042; Mertens-Pack 00611.000
Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS) 29 (1909), p. 39 (Kenyon, Frederic G.); Chronique d‘Égypte (CdE) 68 (1993), p. 145-154 (Cribiore, Raffaella); Allen, Sutton, and West 2001: 131; Debut 1986: 260, no. 161; Cauderlier 1992: 90, no. 272.
Bibliographic references
Cribiore 1993 / A Homeric exercise from the Byzantine schoolroom (pp. 145-154)
Location
On display (G69/dc7)
Exhibition history
Exhibited:

2019-2020 21 Nov-8 Mar, London, BM, SEG, Troy
Associated names
Associated with: Homer
Acquisition name
Donated by: British School of Archaeology, Egypt
Acquisition date
1906
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1906,1020.2
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number: TM 61042 (Trismegistos)
Conservation
treatment: 24.4.19 British Museum
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Look what just arrived in my mailbox 👀 Can’t wait to read this @yvanprkachin.bsky.social ! #histmed #histsci #histstm
Cover of the book “Wired Together: The Montreal Neurological Institute and the Origins of Neuroscience” by Yvan Prkachin
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#envhist and environmental humanities folk near Lake Erie, this event may be of interest to you! Wyandotte storytellers will narrate their stories inspired in their ancestral homelands in northern Ohio. Sat. Feb. 21st, 2–3pm in Wintergarden Woods Nature Preserve, Bowling Green, Ohio.
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school. Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The scribe emerges in the margin from the line-filler to write the text. Bodleian Library MS. Douce 6; Psalter; c.1320 CE-1330 CE; Flanders (Ghent) f.61r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
There are gloves. And then there are GLOVES! These beautifully madly extravagant gloves in verdant velvet are pure #Schiaparelli, early #1950s and utterly de trop #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A mannequin wearing huge and voluminous dark green velvet gloves that extend up the arm in giant proportions to the shoulders
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares  - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.
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Security Studies Program MIT @ssp-mit.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Are you a PhD student, junior faculty member or early/mid-career national security practitioner interested in using wargaming as an analytic or teaching tool? Apply for the 2026 Summer Wargaming Lab Institute! Learn more and apply: bit.ly/49DlhZj
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project. www.uis.no/en/research/...
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Lauren Rosewarne @laurenrosewarne.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"Now you can prepare so many deliciously different summer meals... Asparagus Strudel... Summer Layer Salad... Oriental Asparagus Salad..." (x.com/LaurenRosewa...) Edgell Asparagus Cuts "From an Edgell Country Garden". New Idea, 1976.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 15/01/2026
One of fascism’s most effective weapons is the idea of inevitability. It tells you that events are already decided, that resistance is pointless, & that there aren't alternatives. Once people accept that story, they stop imagining change, & when imagination disappears, so does the power to oppose.
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Science History Institute @sciencehistory.org · 15/01/2026
Long before railroads stitched continents together, mules and their Afro-Indigenous arrieros moved silver, sugar, cotton, and environmental knowledge across borders. In Distillations, @roguechieftan.bsky.social traces the mule as a tool of empire and a symbol of Black and Indigenous resistance. ⬇️
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Mule Power
Unpacking empires and diaspora in Mexico and the United States.
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BMoral ERC Project @bmoralproject.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We are hiring! BMoral #erc project is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate hosted by @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social (University College Dublin, Ireland). For further details/how to apply: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... #jobfairy #hiring #recruitment #jobopening #PostdocJobs #ResearchJobs #Philosophy
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 13/01/2026
The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm
Blue and grey text on white background. Early Career Fellowships. Three images and current project titles in the arts and humanities, social sciences and sciences. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL media.leverhulme.ac.uk/features.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
So there is this “truthstorian” word, and I think that historians should know this. #skystorians #truthstorians
Screenshot from a series called “The Lowdown”, Ethan Hawke plays Lee Raybon, a writer, and he calls himself a truthstorian.
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