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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My book comes out next month and I'd love to talk to your research group/seminar series/PGRs about it! Potential talk topics: Why do we think natural history museums are for kids? How public are our public museums? Truth and fiction in the museum Looting: empire in the museum...

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Just back from brilliant Snake Summer event at Hunterian Museum of Zoology, big thanks to @tattersdill.bsky.social and @jordankistler.bsky.social. Bothrodon pridii, lost worlds, cryptid snakes and snake diversity and biology. Thanks to those who bought my tsuchinoko stickers :)

Giant model snake skull up high on a cabinet.

Giant Retic python (over 7m long .. but this not necessarily original length) on show at Hunterian Museum of Zoology.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Hugely bittersweet to see all the wonderful doctoral projects that have received AHRC funding this year in Scotland - 50 in total! - and to know that the introduction of the Landscape Awards for 2026 will mean a 58% reduction in funding for Scottish institutions.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I just feel like I'd have trouble taking news from this source seriously.

Masthead for the newspaper Boon's Lick Times, from 1845.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Want to know how baseless the claim that em dashes indicate GenAI use is? I just had to change all my book's em dashes to en dashes to fit house style (SOB), which means I now know that I used 275 em dashes in this book. Of course, I also named my rabbit Em Dash, so perhaps this isn't a surprise.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Very pleased that my article 'Facts and Fictions: Emotional Authenticity and Narrative in Natural History Exhibitions', which close reads the displays of the NHM and the Loch Ness Centre, has been published today! journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/mas

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Absolutely lovely feeling of Friday 5 o'clock (nearly) coinciding with the completion of the last chapter of my book! There's still a conclusion to be written and the notes and the index (shudder) to sort out, but that's still 90,000 words drafted!

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David Wilson @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Come join @tanjabueltmann.net and I at Strathclyde for a funded PhD on built heritage and Glasgow’s slaving links, centred around Tobacco Merchant’s House. Excellent ops to engage with heritage industry via co-supervision by Scottish Civic Trust! Details below! Any questions - get in touch!

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The problem with comical nicknames for your pets is that you call for "stinky baby" and "darling horror", and that's at least several of them, if not all of them.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I visited the Museu Martorell in Barcelona last week and can't get over the spectacular taxidermy they currently have on display, by Antonio Perez Rodriguez. A genuine feat of engineering, I can't quite work out how he did it!

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Victorianist friends: I'm looking for appearance of the Egyptian Hall Piccadilly in fiction. Any ideas?

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

For very important research reasons, I need to know everyone's favourite cryptid (not just nessie). @tetzoo.bsky.social ?

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A new obstacle to work has appeared in my life

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The BSLS is now on bluesky! Give us a follow for all the latest lit and science news. @thebsls.bsky.social

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I love that the Stardew Valley update allows me to blow half a million on a purple tortoise. Living my best Des Esseintes life.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It's nearly time for the BSLS Winter Symposium! Interested in the medical humanities? Narratives about bodies? Intersections between fatness, race, queerness, and disability? Register here for 'Fat Fictions', January 25 (online)

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BSLS Winter Symposium 2024/25

‘Fat Fictions’ is a free one-day digital symposium hosted by the BSLS and the University of Strathclyde.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

What is life like for people who don't struggle with word count? Who have never spent hours deleting every word that can possibly be spared? Who haven't wondered if "the" is really REALLY necessary? You must feel so light and free.

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 01/01/2025

Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:

celestemdavis.substack.com

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?

We would rather talk about literally everything else.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

A great start to a new year's pleasure reading. Sea monsters galore!

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Abstract deadline extension: The BSLS winter symposium on 'Fat Fictions' will accept paper abstracts up until 5 January - if you missed the earlier deadline, please do submit an abstract now! www.bsls.ac.uk/2024/11/cfp-...

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CFP: Fat Fictions (BSLS Winter Symposium, 25 January 2025) – The British Society for Literature and Science

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Frankly, should I even correct this? It gives all the important information

Incomplete footnote that just reads "Ruskin being a dick about sending the light out into the world"

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Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Hello to all #academics! The #Neurodivergent #Humanities Network, is now on Bluesky! We've got many exciting events lined up for 2025, including the relaunch of our NDHums #mentorship scheme! Follow us here for important updates, and join the network via our website. #AcademicSky #PhD

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Excited to announce that Prof Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Dr Francis Ray White will be giving keynotes at this year's symposium! Prof Piatti-Farnell's work marries the Gothic with literary food studies, while Dr White's work focuses on queer, trans, and fat embodiment and activism.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Incredible Frankenstein cover spotted in the wild today.

Book cover with a swooning woman in a low-cut dress. Behind her is a male figure who is probably Frankenstein's monster, but he's wearing a polo shirt and chinos like he's about to hit the links.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Imagine failing to become famous during your lifetime and then more than ten years after your (untimely) death, people are STILL bodying you like this in the press.

An unkind review of the works of the poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Just over a week left to get in your abstracts for the BSLS winter symposium! Work in the medical humanities, environmental humanities, post-colonial studies, or any thoughts about the fictions we tell about bodies welcome!

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

We didn't provide cool name badges, but the participants made their own! Thanks so much for coming and sharing some monsters with us, @tetzoo.bsky.social

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Had a blast at a ‘Fantasy and Museums’ workshop hosted by the University of Strathclyde / University of Glasgow Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic ✨ My head is full of ideas, I’ve learned so much about using fantasy in museum contexts - thanks so much @jordankistler.bsky.social and Will! 🧚🏻‍♀️🐉🦄🧝‍♀️🦑🦕

A photo of a projector screen showing a title slide of a complex illustrated black and white scene depicting many icons of fantasy - a labyrinth, monsters, a human head made of books in a library, etc.

A photo of a projector screen showing a “haggis”

An old building in Glasgow at night, illuminated with peppermint patterns for Christmas. A modern sphinx-like lion statue in the foreground. Beams of light extend from a tower on the building.

Eight people sat at a rectangular table smiling at the camera. An arched display case of various red wine illuminated in the background. Christmas crackers, wine and beer are on the table.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A conversation with a former student/current friend today has given me the only teaching statement I will ever need:

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The British Society for Literature and Science (not yet on bluesky) is excited to announce the 2025 Winter Symposium on 'Fat Fictions', which will take place online on 25 January. The deadline for abstracts is 20 Dec. www.bsls.ac.uk/2024/11/cfp-... Please spread the word!

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CFP: Fat Fictions (BSLS Winter Symposium, 25 January 2025) – The British Society for Literature and Science

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This is how I'm working all this week 🥶

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