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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Delighted and honoured to be responding to Vitto’s fantastic new book on design and Montaigne’s essais tomorrow

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Keep reading 'robotaxis' as if it were Greek. A rhetorical figure; when clauses crash into each other maybe?

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Ellis Light @ellislight.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

RQ 77.4!! 🎉🥳 Read about brazen, desirous, grim lady knights; women in early humanist circles; Indigenous authority in the 16th-century Andes; the rhetoric of precarity in early modern politics; & the story of a disabled Roman woman who self-advocated to write her own will. Go check it out!! 😍

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

A few years ago, I found this manuscript which changed the course of my research. Delighted my article on early modern precarity and how 'précaire' went from being an obscure bit of jargon to a contentious buzzword has now been published in Renaissance Quarterly. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

To be modern is to know what is no longer possible

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

2025 OUT: microplastics and forever chemicals IN: Galenic medicine

Guardian headline: bloodletting recommended after PFAS contamination

Quote from article explaining benefits of bloodletting.

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Also recently put up this portrait of hector brought back from Mexico by a friend 🐈‍⬛

Small ceramic tile depicting a black cat

A black cat looking admiringly at his portrait

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Psyching myself up for the start of term

A discarded microwave covered in frost with a handwritten sign saying ‘it works correctly’

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

A guy from Paris, Roger Thiberville, left his fortune to a town called Thiberville. The mayor, Guy Paris, thanks this guy from Paris, Thiberville, for supporting his town, Thiberville. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Tiny French town left €10m fortune by a man who had never been there

Thiberville in Normandy receives windfall worth five times annual budget from a Paris resident who was named after it

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

theguardian.com

Tiny French town left €10m fortune by a man who had never been there

Thiberville in Normandy receives windfall worth five times annual budget from a Paris resident who was named after it

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We had a thriving, even competitive HE system without "market exit", because we were competing a) internationally and b) for knowledge. We don't need to compete against each other for student numbers, or funding, or drive other universities to bankruptcy to be competitive. Academia is collaborative.

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

An owl teaching a cat the art of hunting mice, c. 1700

A host of cats looking at a book with mice on the pages with an owl perched atop

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

I’ve spent the summer writing about precarity and violence, often contra Butler. But keep thinking of this in light of talk of ‘her right’ etc etc

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

This guy has literally never had a good idea about anything. Impressive!

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Me, Lucy, and Lucy’s Infected Thumb going on our holidays

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Actually… Decided to Google and see what he actually looks like. And he does kinda look like he could have been a wrestler???

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Emmanuel Carrere looks way more like a pro wrestler than I would have expected…

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Having said that, here's some complaints about precarity (sort of...) at the Université de Paris, 1616

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

He was there in spirit but we agreed he would have absolutely hated being there in person :( It was his birthday last week — he’s only interested in parties where he is centre of attention.

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

3) not academic but I’m on a roll: I got married last month :)

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

I feel very lucky to be able to continue this work in such supportive conditions (and recognise the irony of how things have lined up). I’m so grateful to Helen, the Senior Tutor, and the GB at Hilda’s!

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

I’ve spent much of the last 18 months thinking about precarity in early modern France. That work has little to do with job insecurity and working conditions etc but all that stuff is undoubtedly there in the background.

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

2) From October I’ll be starting a new (permanent!) fellowship at St Hilda’s. I’ll be Gerard Davis Fellow in early modern french. I owe so much to incredible colleague @poulethelen.bsky.social who has done so much to make this happen.

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

1) I wrote a book! This will be out soon. More details here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-writing... Incredibly grateful to everyone at Edinburgh Uni Pressand series editors @eparpillee.bsky.social @manymanyplies.bsky.social Lorna Hutson and Joe Moshenska

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

I’ve just broken my Twitter silence for the first time in ages, and I’d best do the same here, because I have some ‘I’m delighted to announce…’ posts

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

A Montaignian alexandrine: tournons les yeux par tout: tout crolle autour de nous (everywhere you look, everything is collapsing around us)

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

And in other publication news, my book now has a website! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-writing...

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

I’ve been thinking about early modern precarity for about a year now and I’m delighted to see that the article that set me on that path has now been published academic.oup.com/fmls/advance...

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

experienced commuters know that you have to check national rail and TFL well in advance of leaving (in case you need to set off early) then keep checking up until departure *veteran* commuters know this is pointless. when you get to paddington there will be signal failures around reading anyway

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Just started reading @vincentbevins.bsky.social new book (published today!) and loving it.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

The call is coming from inside the house!!

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 26/09/2023

Very proud of this one. Gonna be a long tail on it.

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Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

No way??? And no, I didn’t! I should go back!

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 26/09/2023

Twitter over last few years is like the western 1/2 of Rome during the 5-7th c, as both didn’t suddenly fall/implode but rather transformed & lost their political/ cultural cache while also being populated by different people so that they’re not as important as they once were in this essay I will…

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