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Julia Gebke

@juliagebke.bsky.social
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Historian addicted to premodern stuff, especially to bodies and knowledge...

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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is still body-mind-blowing to me to learn more about how body and mind are intertwined and deeply affect each other. Humanities' 'affective turn' will benefit a lot from collaborating with neuroscience. #AcademicSky, #NeuroSky, #SciSyk Are there any transdisciplinary works u can point me to?
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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really pleased to see Rosamund Oates's new 'Silent Histories' out. For a taster, Rosamund is giving a talk on the work at at the IHR (hybrid) on Oct. 1, as well as a talk at the Chelsea History Festival on Oct. 2 (links with details below). #earlymodern
Image of book cover for 'Silent Histories: Defness in Early Modern England' by Rosamund Oates, showing two hands as depicted in an early modern sign language manual.
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A carved "pillar-biter" from the church of St. Bavo in Haarlem, from 1509-1517. With roots in Medieval iconography, pillar-biters represented hypocrisy and false piety. More here: www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/dev...
A polychrome wooden carving of a man in pilgrim's garb with a priminent rosary grotesquely gnawing on a church column
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.' Leaps and bounds forward in our understanding of the histories of the British enslaved. #Skystorians
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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Words For That @forloulou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you're going to get distracted from th bits of #earlymodern history you're supposed to be working with...
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Levke Harders @levkeharders.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Call for Papers der Zeitschrift #FeminaPolitica zum Thema "Dis_abling Politics: Die anwesende Abwesenheit von Behinderung in der Politik(wissenschaft)". #DisAbilityStudies Deadline: 30. November 2026. budrich-journals.de/index.php/fe...
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Zukünftige Ausgaben & Call for Papers | Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft
Kritischem Denken Raum zu geben – das ist der Anspruch der Femina Politica, der einzigen deutschsprachigen Fachzeitschrift für feministische Politik und Politikwissenschaft.
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oct 1st, Save the date! Rosamund Oates will be talking about ‘Silent Histories: Deafness in Early Modern England' at @ihrscb.bsky.social in-person @ihr.bsky.social & online. #EarlyModern 🗃️ Booking details will soon be on: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/ihr-seminars/society-culture-belief-1500-1800
Rosamund Oates (Manchester Metropolitan University)
‘Silent Histories: Deafness in Early Modern England’

1 October 2026, in-person and online
Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800, at the Institute of Historical Research, London

Rosamund Oates shares previously untold stories of deaf men, women and children, showing how their experiences reveal contemporary beliefs about disability and humanity in early modern England.  Drawing on archival sources, she will explore how far deaf people were integrated into their communities, and show how Catholic and Protestant churches adapted to include sign language users from the medieval period onwards.  Lastly, she will explore the influence that deaf signers had on the broader culture of the period, showing their impact on artists, scientists and philosophers, including Christopher Wren and John Locke.

Venue and booking details will be available soon on our webpage:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/ihr-seminars/society-culture-belief-1500-1800
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 – and the history of sign as a legal language theconversation.com/the-deaf-bla... #DisabilityHistory #DeafHistory #DisHist by @rosamundoates.bsky.social
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The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 – and the history of sign as a legal language
The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf people.
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Forthcoming fascinating book on medieval guide dogs #DisHist #DisabilityHistory #DisabilityStudies
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An urgent appeal to sometimes just do nothing — and do it with verve! "It’s not that we killed play; we captured it and harnessed it to a productivity framework. Then we packaged and sold it for passive consumption. The magic circle was instrumentalised into a dopamine hit." aeon.co/essays/play-...
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Play is doing its work even if we’re not keeping score | Aeon Essays
We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#earlymodern
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Netzwerk für Gute Arbeit in der Wissenschaft @ngawiss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
68.000 Unterschriften haben wir schon! 👉 weact.campact.de/petitions/st...
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Wissenschaft: Dauerbefristung abschaffen!
Wissenschaftler*innen in Deutschland brennen aus 👩‍🎓🚨 Der Grund: Kettenbefristungen. Nun liegt ein neuer Gesetzentwurf vor. Doch der greift zu kurz. ➡️ Jetzt WeAct-Petition von Gewerkschaften und Wis...
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thank you for sharing! The different uses of the drops for men and women sound fascinating 👏. The place where you can buy them also reveals a great deal about the versatility and flexibility of the #earlymodern medical market.
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.euronews.com/culture/2026... This story gives me the creeps. The way Google handled books for its project Google Books was bad enough, but this... As a historian, I cannot understand such blatant disrespect for the past (and its contemporaries) and for our future without this past.
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Project Panama: How Anthropic shredded books to train its AI chatbot
Recently unsealed court documents reveal how Anthropic secretly bought, destroyed and scanned books to train its AI chatbot, Claude.
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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...
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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If the devil appears as a horrible deformed black person to Europeans then he must appear to the Moors as a lily white Englishman - or they wouldn't be scared of him! So argues Cornelius Loos in his delightfully sarcastic 1592 anti-witchcraft treatise De Vera er Falsa Magia. #earlymodern #hextag 🗃️
CAP. LIX.
Porro quod malus spiritus, cum sit deformis et ferox, nigra delectetur forma: quis aethiopum, quos medium orbis clima tenet, solis aestu torridos, nigredine candicantes illud crediderit? Ubi diaboli effigies eo depingitur pulchrior, quo albore fulgenti, et candore splendenti, oculis illorum obicitur deformior. Quin iam chamaeleontis in modum pro diverso solo, pellem commutare, asserunt diabolum. Ut qui S. Machario in specie nigri Mauri apparuit, idem Mauris in specie albicantis Angli compareat. Ab huius enim coloris pulchritudine, prae ceteris notatam esse gentem Anglicanam,
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"To save expertise, we need to resist technocracy. In the case of international organisations, this requires that we demythologise their origins, that we acknowledge they have never been independent from politics, and that we refrain from technocratic wishful thinking."
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Professorship! The European University Institute (my PhD alma mater) in Florence, Italy, is seeking a new Chair in Intellectual History, 1500–Present. Deadline: 10 September www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
An cloistered courtyard with a tree centre and a tower to the right
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A different insight into #WomensWork. All three of the women named by Thornton were servants in her household (Mary a former servant, Hannah a current one, as was Barbara, albeit for Thornton's niece who was staying with them). #EarlyModern
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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
20 July 1668 #OTD Thornton fell ill on hearing of rumours circulating about her: 'Barbara Todd, did impudently accuse, before my face, my servant (Hannah Ableton) for telling her from one Mary Breakes of several stories —which were very great lies and falsehoods against myself' (Bk Rem, 122). 🗃️
A woodcut, lightly coloured in. It shows 'the several Branches of Gossiping' by depicting women in various places: at a childbirth; at the market; at the church; at the baths; at the ale house; at the bakehouse; washing clothes at the river.
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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Very pleased to find not one but two great new books waiting for me on my return to the office: Philippa Carter, Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
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Frenzy in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - Frenzy in Early Modern England
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Daniel Blackie @danielblackie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Finally got my hands on this #DisHist nugget from @profdavidturner.bsky.social. Congratulations, David - smashing to see it out in the wild!
Photo of the book Disability: A History of Resistance
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Check out our new July releases, including "Inside the Body of Black Feminism" by @samanthapinto.bsky.social, which connects historical studies of medical racism with Black feminist theories of the body. buff.ly/zs9RK2C
Cover of Inside the Body of Black Feminism: Science, Race, Culture by Samantha Pinto.The cover features a piece of art made with paint and oil pastels. It features a black figure against a deep red circle. The figure is outlined in multiple colors and their insides are drawn abstractly in different colors and with different textures. The title appears to the right in a yellow sans serif font. The subtitle is below in white. The author’s name is below this in a pale pink.
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Dr. Samantha Pinto’s book release date is today. Please join me in congratulating @samanthapinto.bsky.social 💐💐💐💐
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Just some fascinating #earlymodern archival tidbits with a lot of insights for #DisabilityHistory and now I cannot stop wondering what really happened...
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ERC PARISH @erc-parish.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The PARISH ERC CoG project is now on Bluesky – follow us for updates! We are also recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers to study #earlymodern parish communities in the Dioceses of Olomouc and Transylvania. Please share the call! Spread the word! #ERCCoG www.abtk.hu/en/positions...
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Postdoctoral Positions in the PARISH Project
The Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow to collaborate on the ERC-funded pr...
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Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The PARISH #ERCCoG project is now on Bluesky, dedicated to #earlymodern parish communities! Please follow the project’s BSky account! We are recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers to study the Dioceses of Olomouc and Transylvania. Please share the call!
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"One of the most interesting moments in historical research is not when you find an answer, but when the answer unravels or hits a wall." So true! But I seem to constantly need a friendly reminder of this because I tend to forget how lucky I am when I hit that wall. #earlymodern
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New #OpenAccess article by @helenaaeberli.bsky.social on pica, a lesser-known eating disorder, and its gendered associations with pregnant women and pubescent girls in early modern England. #EarlyModern #Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistMed onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CYRU3R...
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Reader environment loaded
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
#earlymodern
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 18/06/2026
Convent lending formed part of the everyday functioning of Vienna’s economy in the 15th century.
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Before banks, nuns lent money: how convents helped power medieval Vienna’s economy
Convent lending formed part of the everyday functioning of Vienna’s economy in the 15th century.
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Words For That @forloulou.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Exeter historians need #earlymodern ists.
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Claudia Zettel @claudiazettel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Heute komm ich zum Provozieren und behaupte: Was im Silicon Valley geschieht, ist nicht (mehr) innovativ. Wieso ich das sage? Lest ihr hier im neuen Keine Frauen-Newsletter
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#12 Rolle rückwärts im Silicon Valley
Liebe Leser:innen, Seit knapp 20 Jahren sind Technologie und Innovation Kernthema meines journalistischen Schaffens. 10 Jahre lang habe ich eine Redaktion geleitet, die…
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Please consider submitting something! The next Forum theme is Early Modern Women and Generations (full cfp in the quoted post). Our Forum is a great home for shorter pieces. Submissions are peer-reviewed and accepted manuscripts will appear in the spring 2027 issue. #earlymodern
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Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian @elizabethstjohn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A dear friend gave me Queen James, and it totally ignited my present WiP (a novel starring Gorgeous George Villiers). I am off to watch this with great anticipation and joy! #EarlyModern www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Queen James review – a fabulous documentary about the male lovers of Britain’s first king
Historian Gareth Russell has a gift. He’s entertaining and endlessly amusing in this confident TV transfer of his book about James I’s intimate companions
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Das BAföG reicht kaum zum Leben, der Nebenjob wird zum Hauptjob. Trotzdem will Ministerin Bär die versprochene Erhöhung kippen und rät: einfach mehr arbeiten. Tausende protestieren schon. Mach mit – unterschreib & teile! 👉 weact.campact.de/petitions/ve...
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Versprochen ist versprochen - BAföG jetzt retten!
Im Koalitionsvertrag von CDU/CSU und SPD wurde eine Erhöhung der Wohnkostenpauschale auf 440 Euro pro Monat, eine Dynamisierung der Freibeträge sowie eine dauerhafte Anpassung des Grundbedarfs an das ...
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#earlymodern
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Let's just say, this pretty yellow and amazing volume came out this week in print, and will be available in open access soon (likely in June): www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Schreibkalen... It is about #earlymodern almanacs of German-speaking Europe: the #Schreibkalender
A yellow book with the title: Schreibkalender der Frühen Neuzeit
Druckwerke mit Raum für handschriftliche Eintragungen (1540-1800)
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Freelance work is coming in for the summer with people's research fund pots needing using up; so do contact me via www.joanneedge.co.uk sooner rather than later for your archive/transcription/editing needs! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
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Dr Joanne Edge
Historian and writer
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Congratulations to the volume editors, contributors and series editors on the publication of - Cultural Perceptions of Health, Illness and the Body in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Edited by Anni Hella, Anu Korhonen Blurb and table of contents: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Per...
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
#earlymodern
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
All about Adolf Ludvig Couschi Badin: "The image of him is everywhere but no one seems to hear or read his own voice.” (Salad Hilowle)
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
What do the #earlymodern chess-playing automaton, the "Mechanical Turk" from 1770, and today’s AI have in common? There’s still more of a human touch to AI than you might think or expect. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ki-menschlic...
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KI und die vorgetäuschte Automatisierung - Der moderne Schachtürke sitzt in Kenia
KI gilt als autonom, doch im Hintergrund leiden Millionen Clickworker. Warum Künstliche Intelligenz ohne Ausbeutung von Menschen nicht funktioniert.
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Austrian History Yearbook (AHY) @ahy-history.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It's no secret! Arno Strohmeyer's new article about Habsburg-Ottoman espionage practices is now available online. Read it in public or private on FirstView! #History #AcademicSky #Ottoman #Habsburg #Austria #Diplomacy #EarlyModern #Skystorians tinyurl.com/H-O-secrecy
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The Hidden Dimensions of Early Modern Diplomacy: Habsburg Envoys in Constantinople in the Seventeenth Century | Austrian History Yearbook | Cambridge Core
The Hidden Dimensions of Early Modern Diplomacy: Habsburg Envoys in Constantinople in the Seventeenth Century
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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Working on the history of hair? Or just found a hairy case study you would like to explore? We are looking forward to it! Please answer our CfP on „Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026“ and join us in Lucerne this October! #skystorians #earlymodern
CfP Global Histories of Hair
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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#CfP 📢 "Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies", eds. Mary Katherine Newman and Rana Banna Seeking chapter proposals on how language and the senses shaped evidence in the #earlymodern world (c.1492–1700). ⏰ Deadline for abstracts: 12 April 2026 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #HistoryOfKnowledge
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Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#earlymodern
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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If you're new to our service you should know that we are more than just St Bartholomew’s. We hold over 145 collections, including over 35 hospitals as well as NHS authorities, medical & nursing schools, charities, and much more You can find a list of collections we hold here - tinyurl.com/d9ds6nhv
Photograph of two female records clerks at the London Hospital, both wearing work coats; one on a ladder is retrieving or returning an x-ray from the shelf in a wallet which reads "x-ray wallet"; the other appears to be checking files against a paper list. c1970s [RLHLH/P/2/41/6]
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Fella from Prague @fellafromprague.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It's happening. european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...
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European alternatives for popular services | European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Mark Watkins of the Chronicle of Higher Ed says faculty should spend 90 mins a week to teach ourselves about AI & unis are now sending out emails w his recommendation. I write here about the gift of having someone admit that automation intensifies labor sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2026/...
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One Cool Trick to Increase Your Workload: AI "Literacy" for Faculty — Sonja Drimmer
A refrain among the profiteers of automation is that the technology they’re selling will decrease everyone’s workload. But it has been shown time and again that automation intensifies labor: whether i...
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