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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion

@mcegillion.bsky.social
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• Research Coordinator at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences • Musicologist & book historian • MSCA Alumna • Opinions mine • She/her

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 12h
This is one of my top pieces of advice to early career researchers. You will likely be internationally mobile in your career, and your uni pages will be deleted. Similarly, have a professional sounding email address not linked to your institution.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For colleagues who do research in Belgium: the new Flemish government austerity budget cuts 47 million Euros in support to cultural institutions like archives, libraries and museums. It sounds truly awful. 🗃️ www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2340...
brusselstimes.com
'Difficult measures needed': Flemish government presents €2 billion in cuts
The Flemish government has approved nearly €2 billion in spending cuts, rising to €3 billion by 2029, to balance the region’s budget over the next three years.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
News on last week’s discourse: today an extra €210+ million in additional funding has been allocated to Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in 2026 and 2027. More info: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne... #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
Over €210 million boost for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions to support more researchers in Europe
The additional funding was announced as part of the Commission’s Choose Europe initiative. It will strengthen the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships and Doctoral Networks in 2026 and 2027 to enable more th...
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 29/09/2026
Research evaluation faces growing pressure: demand for competitive research funding is rising, while AI is rapidly changing how proposals can be written and assessed. In this context, the ERC & Science Europe had a workshop with research funding and performing organisations from 5 continents.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/09/2026
I'm so glad they are making this point (not for USA consumption because I think you basically pay nobody properly but tenured profs) — I got so sad hearing this as the answer: > ‘You can always say that more money needs to go to research, but it’s a myth that more money will solve all the problems’
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A quarter of academics experience symptoms of depression or anxiety, especially young researchers - Vox magazine
One in four academics in the Netherlands experiences symptoms of depression and/or anxiety, according to research by The Young Academy. 'We’ve created a culture of hypercompetition in academia', says ...
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As someone with a liberal arts undergrad, I fully concur. My BA has had inestimable value, both in my academic career (humanities postgrad, postdocs) and in my current career as a research coordinator at an agricultural sciences university. I wish liberal arts programmes existed in more countries!
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In an undergraduate early music history paper I wrote, “the tenants of the Catholic faith”.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’re looking for a Research Coordinator to join our team at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences for two years! If you’re a pre-award specialist in collaborative proposals (esp. Horizon Europe), this might be the role for you! Apply by October 9th. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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Research Coordinator | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Apropos of today’s discussion: 2024: 29% increase in proposals from the previous year. 2025: 64.6% increase in proposals. 2026: 26.7% increase in proposals. Figures are published annually! See also: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/resources/ms...
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
MSCA in statistics & data
Become familiar with the main sources where you can find statistics and data on projects and proposals funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA).
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have decided that it’s been too long since I sang at historians. Whether they want me to sing at them is to be determined. #MusicalBookHistory #EarlyModern #GirlsGotPlainchant
Screen grab of part of a conference abstract submission form. 
Your submission 
Thematic strand: Object-based Research 
Type of submission: Individual paper (15-20 minutes)
Title, max 250 characters: I am Bad at Titles
Abstract: max 1,500 characters.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Defense of the humanities has to include all of the branches and areas of study that other people defended for years until they didn't have jobs and voices anymore.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In honour of meeting two funding deadlines within a week I bought myself a dress printed with tiny foxes. A Reynard Dress, if you will. #TinyJoys
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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The next World Congress is now announced! We hope to see you all in Toronto, Canada, in 2030. The venue will be at York University, Toronto, and Toronto Metropolitan University and McMaster University will also be a part of the planning, which is headed by Jennifer Bonnell. Read more below! #envhist
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The Fifth World Congress of Environmental History — ICEHO
The next World Congress of Environmental History is set to take place in York, Canada, in 2030.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In panel one, we see a man sitting at a restaurant table. He is sweating. He says "Y-you have beautiful eyes".
The second panel zooms in on the man's face. He says, "I'm sorry. I'm just so nervous."
In panel three we see that a biblically accurate angel is sitting on the other side of the table.
In panel four we zoom in on the angel's face, who says "BE NOT AFRAID".
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE (185!!!) PEOPLE CAME TO HEAR US SING CHANT. Absolutely buzzing. 185 people now know about beguines and their devotional music. There is nothing better than making music in community.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE (185!!!) PEOPLE CAME TO HEAR US SING CHANT. Absolutely buzzing. 185 people now know about beguines and their devotional music. There is nothing better than making music in community.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Tonight is the night: early modern beguine chant in Uppsala! Also there are some delightful performance elements indicated in the manuscript that the schola will be exploring. (As an aside, very tempted to write that RenSoc abstract now…) #EarlyMusic #MusicalBookHistory #EarlyModern
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Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
EU and Canada working toward new, all-encompassing relationship ranging from trade to security Canada actively looking at everything short of EU membership, said a Canadian official who spoke on condition of anonymity @afpal.bsky.social @albertonardelli.bsky.social @brianplatt.bsky.social
bloomberg.com
EU and Canada Plan Far-Reaching Alliance to Strengthen Partnership
The European Union and Canada are working toward a new, all-encompassing relationship that will range from trade to security, as the transatlantic partners seek to build a new alliance to offset the g...
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 03/09/2026
📣 Good news! 📣 Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out! Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN 🧪 #ERCStG #FrontierResearch #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Let me set the scene: You are in Glorious Antwerp. You research in the fabulous collections of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in the morning. You have frietjes for lunch. Then you spend the afternoon in the wonderful collections of the Hendrik Conscience Library. Ultimate #BookHistory bliss. Apply!
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel, we see two stick figures. Text above them labels one as "book smart" and one as "street smart".
In the second panel we zoom out and see the two stick figures in nature next to a tree. There is a sign pointing out of the panel that says "LIFE".
In the third panel we see the street smart stick figure take the hand of the book smart stick figure. The street smart stick figure says "Come, I will guide you".
In the fourth panel we zoom out again and see the two stick figures walking in the direction of the "LIFE" sign. The book smart street figure looks back at the tree as they are walking and says, "I know a lot of facts about that tree".
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Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just a heads up for those who use JSTOR...
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I get so sick of being told that there has been no gender-based prejudice against women musicians. So here are some genuine reviews written about women, between 1893 & 2021, with a couple words/letters changed to make them about men.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Are you curious about #EarlyModern #beguines? Specifically their musical worship? Do you love #plainchant? Are you in Sweden? Come to Saint Lars’ Catholic Church on Culture Night (Sept. 12) for a little concert of beguine music followed by compline! kulturnatten.uppsala.se/program/even...
kulturnatten.uppsala.se
Gregoriansk sång - Kulturnatten uppsala
som ovan
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If Dior gifts me, an early modernist who works at an agricultural sciences university, a ruff I solemnly promise to wear it to work and confuse the scientists. Or maybe start a trend among the scientists, who knows?
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“But Marianne!” I hear you exclaim. “That says ‘bassus’, the lowest voice part!” Indeed it does!
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A little Sunday afternoon beguine research for an exciting good cause! More soon ... Antwerp, Henrik Conscience Heritage Library, F 84072:1. #BookHistory #EarlyModern #GirlsGotPolyphony #MusicalBookHistoryMystery #BringBackBeguinages
A page from a 17th century songbook. There are five lines of mensural (rhythmic) notation and two stanzas of text. The book is held by the Henrik Conscience Heritage Library in Antwerp. Shelfmark F 84072:1.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Do I live in Sweden’s fourth largest city or do I live in a movie set, hard to tell sometimes.
I am standing on a little stone bridge over a little river, looking towards another stone bridge in the middle distance. Leafy trees line both sides of the embankments. It is early evening, variably cloudy, and the light is fantastic. The river is clear as glass and you can see everything in mirror image. This is not AI, and I did not use any filters. I hate that I have to write that.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Do I live in Sweden’s fourth largest city or do I live in a movie set, hard to tell sometimes.
I am standing on a little stone bridge over a little river, looking towards another stone bridge in the middle distance. Leafy trees line both sides of the embankments. It is early evening, variably cloudy, and the light is fantastic. The river is clear as glass and you can see everything in mirror image. This is not AI, and I did not use any filters. I hate that I have to write that.
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Found this in the European Research Council Work Programme 2027: "Experts will be contracted to support and inform the discussions of the Scientific Council on the use of AI as a tool to aid the work of evaluation panels, particularly when managing large volumes of proposals" (3.1.2, p. 46)
3.1.2 Enhancing ERC Evaluation Processes through AI
Experts will be contracted to support and inform the discussions of the Scientific Council on the use of AI as a tool to aid the work of evaluation panels, particularly when managing large volumes of proposals.
The actions covered under this heading will be defined in agreement with the Scientific Council. Potential activities may include (but are not limited to): an assessment of current AI-based evaluation support models within and outside Europe, feasibility studies on integrating AI tools to assist panels in the evaluation processes of the ERC, exploration of AI-supported workflows designed to enhance efficiency and scalability – in manner which complements and does not compromise the core role of the panels.
Type of action: Expert contract action.
Indicative budget: EUR 500 000 from the 2027 budget.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Found this in the European Research Council Work Programme 2027: "Experts will be contracted to support and inform the discussions of the Scientific Council on the use of AI as a tool to aid the work of evaluation panels, particularly when managing large volumes of proposals" (3.1.2, p. 46)
3.1.2 Enhancing ERC Evaluation Processes through AI
Experts will be contracted to support and inform the discussions of the Scientific Council on the use of AI as a tool to aid the work of evaluation panels, particularly when managing large volumes of proposals.
The actions covered under this heading will be defined in agreement with the Scientific Council. Potential activities may include (but are not limited to): an assessment of current AI-based evaluation support models within and outside Europe, feasibility studies on integrating AI tools to assist panels in the evaluation processes of the ERC, exploration of AI-supported workflows designed to enhance efficiency and scalability – in manner which complements and does not compromise the core role of the panels.
Type of action: Expert contract action.
Indicative budget: EUR 500 000 from the 2027 budget.
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Research databases are not preserved. There is no system in place in the UK (or anywhere else, so far as I know) to ensure that research outputs are officially preserved in perpetuity, as though they were books, when they are in the form of a database. " lukemckernan.com/2026/06/28/l...
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Lost resources
To lose one database is a misfortune; to lose four feels like a conspiracy. Recently three online databases and one audiovisual digital archive with underlying database, on each of which I worked f…
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ERC PARISH @erc-parish.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We're recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for our ERC #ERCCoG project PARISH to study #earlymodern parish communities, confraternities and poor relief in the Archdiocese of Vienna & the Viennese Officialate of Passau. Please share with your colleagues! www.abtk.hu/images/allas...
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Henrike Lähnemann @hlaehnemann.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nuntastic job opportunity! Research positions on the nuns’ letters project available from 1 October at the HAB Wolfenbüttel. Deadline for applications 15 September. Very happy to answer informal inquiries medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php/20...
medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk
Opportunity: Research Position for the Lüne Letters – Medingen Manuscripts
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
One of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
West Coast Canadiana.
The Pacific Ocean. There is low cloud but some blue sky on the horizon. In the distance are low islands.
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
this whole issue see also, universities
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Edible Canadiana.
A box of poutine (fries, cheese curds, and gravy). Poutine is the most delicious thing ever.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Canadiana.
View of a lake with tree-covered mountains sloping down towards the shore. It is a variably cloudy day. A flock of Canadian geese are paddling on the water. Although it is a cooler day (c. 16C), the lake water is quite warm.
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Canadiana.
View of a lake with tree-covered mountains sloping down towards the shore. It is a variably cloudy day. A flock of Canadian geese are paddling on the water. Although it is a cooler day (c. 16C), the lake water is quite warm.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026
AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/
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Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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CFI | FCI @innovation.ca · 22/07/2026
We're looking for an Engagement Specialist & Content Strategist 📢 If you're passionate about communications, research and innovation, join the CFI and help grow the Research Facilities Navigator! bit.ly/4wjBtsP 📍Ottawa (Hybrid) 🕒 One-year contract 📅 Apply by August 10, 2026
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...
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The Odyssey
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Acclaimed actress Claire Danes burnishes an epic story of heroes, gods, and monsters in a groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, the first great adventure story in the Western literary tradition. When the wily warrior-king Odysseus sets off for home ...
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Used ChatGPT as my search engine” 👀 🫠 Editor-in-Chief of Science
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DACT Fragments @dact-fragments.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
leaf containing #chant for the feast of the Assumption, now at Princeton University #fragmentfriday
antiphon for Assumption, in which the S of Sicut has a bunch of little people watching Mary sigh out a tiny, younger Mary in a toga, who appears to be frowning at the gathered crowd as she gets swooped heavenward. the chant is about smelling like cinnamon and balsam, which really makes one wish scratch-n-sniff had already been invented.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The owner of a local, tiny, independent bookshop allowed her store to become a third space for me and my friends. She even let us carefully read parts of books, knowing we would spend our allowances there. She also gave me my first part-time summer job. An amazing person; sorely missed.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 12/07/2026
Hello from academia
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