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Amplifying this bat signal—the Beef & Sheep Lab has skins for us we can use to make inking balls & we need help from folks who know how to work with animal skins

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 11h

God I love nerds. I love this is a perfectly legitimate question in these circles, and yet the start of a horror story investigation in others. #PrintHistory

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 18h

GREAT EXCITEMENT! This tome was waiting for me on campus. And even just the first few pages on the way back confirmed that this is going to be LUSH. Bring me all the 1381 rebels, in truly mesmerising colour. Get your copy here: granta.com/products/doo...

Picture of a hand holding a very big books entitled Doom Painting by A. K. Blakemore.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16h

www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Screenshot of Times Literary Supplement note on Anchit Sathi’s article “AI and the crisis of the author” stating that “We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the writing and editing process. The author states that he was unaware of the policy.”

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 11h

Poetry does seem to win in the end…

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 17h

#MedievalSky, get your fix of 1381 here: granta.com/products/doo... Either to prep for the movie, digest the movie, or ostentatiously read outside of the movie theatre, I don't care, just read it.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was amazing. I love it when colleagues are comfortable with keeping a conversation going and pushing each other to further insight, questions, and actions simply by generously sharing their immense brains and different expertises. 🥰

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The duality of QMUL historians. Guess which design’s mine and which @kimatiwagner.bsky.social? (Looks great and with a great set of talks!)

Picture of the current programme for the history research seminar at QMUL. It is black with a faded ghost of Carlo Ginzberg looking at us from behind the text

Last term’s programme, which has all the colours in the rainbow to show Marc Bloch

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Mirella Marini @mirellamarini.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Met yours truly als één van de panelleden 😊 Heel erg vereerd om door jullie uitgenodigd te worden, merci @onslies.bsky.social Ik ga mijn uiterste best doen om zinnige dingen te zeggen 😉 emlc-journal.org/announcement...

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EMLC celebrates its 10th anniversary on 4 December 2026 in Mechelen | Early Modern Low Countries

Early Modern Low Countries

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Early Modern Low Countries is celebrating its 10th anniversary. #earlymodern

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

attention historians of 'Insolence'! #earlymodern

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Steve Cook @pearsall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Private profit, socialize risk, is always the demand of big business.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Librarian caught me taking a blissful sniff of the Duke Humfrey's Library... In my defence, it smells (a) really nice and (b) of the Leuven University Library and therefore of pure nostalgia. I aim to befuddle at least one person a day, just to keep everyone on their toes. Achieved for today.

calvin and hobbes cartoon. the pair is taking in a deep breath through their noses and smiling contentedly at the delicious air and possible smell . We can barely see their eyes, so much are their chins up and their smiles taking over their entire face

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FEEST! @emlcjournal.bsky.social bestaat tien jaar en dat verdient taart! Als ook een panelgesprek over de toekomst van onderzoek naar de vroegmoderne Nederlanden, en een museumbezoek met flitspresentaties door auteurs van ons jubileumnummer. Gratis registratie: www.eventbrite.com/e/tienjarig-...

invite for the 10 year anniversary of the Early Modern Low Countries journal at the Hof van Busleyden (in Mechelen) on 4 December between 13:00 and 17:00

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A programme! A veritable programme! Would you look at these cool talks for our Autumn line-up, with dream team @bobpi.bsky.social, @ninondubourg.bsky.social, and @ewatson.bsky.social Join us at the @ihr.bsky.social (or on zoom) on Fridays at 17:30 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries

Autumn term programme for the Low Countries seminar at the Institute f Historical research on Fridays at 17:30

23 Oct Bob Pierik (Brussels), ‘Water, Space and Environmental Inequality in Early Modern Amsterdam’

20 Nov Ninon Dubourgh (Cologne), ‘Between Old Age, Illness, and Disability: Everyday Care in the Hospitals of Late Medieval Liège’

18 Dec Elise Watson (Edinburgh), ‘”For women by women”: Gendered Networks in Operation in the Dutch Book Trade’

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was somewhat delayed, but we've now got a booking link for Rosamund Oates's talk on deafness on Thursday! Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

history.ac.uk

Silent Histories: Deafness in Early Modern England

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gee, I wonder why they suddenly claim the risks of their plagiarism machines should be carried by governments and taxpayers…

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This was absurdly cute. Until I realised she didn’t cover her little nose for the cold but to defend herself against the vile fart she was about to do… 🤢

Picture of a completely innocent cat napping with her paw over her snout. Not visible: the smell issuing from the other side of her tiny body…

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“The crunchy bits require no lobbying.” Dammit. I better not walk by an M&S any time soon.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2yrs after I finished my MA History at Goldsmiths, my research rights were bought and I was hired to work as historical consultant on this TV show. It's had BAFTA and International Emmy nominations. I got a book deal, too. Goldsmiths: "No point in MA History, let's fire everyone and delete it."

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wrote to my MP using this template, he responded thoughtfully, and with my permission he has passed this on to the Education Secretary directly... I await her reply...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Offended. Brooding. Plotting. (I, and every person who passed by in the two minutes I was fussing over him, REALLY want to know the story now. Absolutely excellent way of encouraging exchanges in your street.)

Picture of a black cat looking at a door with a sign on it

Picture of the door with the sign. The sign reads “please don’t let the black cat in here” in all caps and with threee quotation marks

Picture of the same black cat looking away from the door, with a slight frown on his little face. Brooding.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actually saw @celinecamps.bsky.social talk about screws! And now I will be seeing screws, hidden or not, for the next couple of weeks… Lovely to actually meet in real life, @celinecamps.bsky.social! such exciting research!

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

✏️ Mark your diaries! Next month @cemskcl.bsky.social, Kerry Apps, Hannah Dawson, Catharine MacLeod, & ME will be talking about Restoration women, their libertinism, their consumerism, & their contact with the expanding world. Book here & spread the word 🌍 kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/world...

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

Worldly Women at the Court of Charles II: Exile, Excess, and the Expanding World — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for a conversion on women and the Restoration, featuring Dr. Annalisa Nicholson, Dr. Kerry Apps, Dr. Hannah Dawson, and Catherine MacLeod.

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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Having just started teaching new undergraduates at uni, I think we're missing a key issue in the debate about AI: these kids do not know how *not* to use AI, full stop. We assume they are 'digital natives' but they are not and a Google Scholar search is as alien to them as an archival card-index.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that the deadline for proposals for @srsrensoc.bsky.social is TODAY folks! So get your #earlymodern abstracts in! rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

rensoc.org.uk

SRS 12th Biennial Conference | Society for Renaissance Studies

Promoting the study of the Renaissance since 1967

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

May or may not have been thinking of midnight rather than noon as the deadline. Luckily I had extra hands/paws to help out. Submitted and excited about this conference!

Picture of a cat on a desk very critically studying the submission form for potential typos and other infelicities

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GO SIMON! What a brilliant event, getting to hear about Piratical States and the way this fab book is shaping conversations in world history, Indian Ocean history, history of capitalism, & of empires. You’re gonna want to read this. Get your (library’s) copy here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

Picture of an extremely full Royal Asiatic Society venue of people listening to a brilliant panel

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.

blog.royalhistsoc.org

History is a human craft | Historical Transactions

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow is the day! Get those abstracts submitted post haste! #earlymodern #skystorians

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On my way! Though being reminded why we put the real tube *underground*. Let’s hope there are some nibbles left by the time I reach London.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The humanities take bold new steps in their defence strategies.

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Katherine Jane Wright @katherinejanew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Secretly crossing my fingers for the Tarantino ending where the '68ers win and lynch the bastard

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TONIGHT! Join us in PIRACY! 🏴‍☠️

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"No one goes to Bellini’s I Puritani to learn about the English Civil War. But once a film claims to portray history, things become more complicated."

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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Was booking a ticket and my wife pointed out they'd missed a trick by not having a big de Gaulle head popcorn bucket. His képi could flap back!

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Dr Dean Irwin @medievaljews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The first part was excellent! The book too!

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For nearly a week now, my lap has become a battleground. The mum often wins, quietly sneaking in while her daughter is still crashing about. The look of disappointment in her beautiful blue eyes 🥺😭

Picture from the vantage point of a coach. In the foreground you can see one leg of a lap, the rest of the lap covered by a snoozing Siamese cat. In the middle distance, you can see see another Siamese cat, distinctly not snoozing and not on a lap, and looking very forlorn about that situation. Her head is tilted upwards to the snoozing cat and her beautiful blue eyes convey sadness.

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The posters for this, in Paris, were fantastic: De Gaulle, with the banner headlines over him saying RÉSISTER DÉSOBÉIR ESPÉRER

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Charismatic Frontman @westerberghs89.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Producers, DEUX GAULLE was right there for the sequel

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ok, I will grant that Oxford can be rather pretty.

Picture of a park at sunset, beyond the tree and the fallen trunk, you can see the spires of Oxford bathing in warm orange light.

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow. To have a movie made of your book… and it might mess up the interpretation… but to have Simon Abkarian playing the lead! 😆 I might even take that bargain! 🗃️

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you think it’s good for a university when an employment lawyer giggles and says things like ‘surely they know this stuff’ and ‘it’s unbelievably obvious’ and ‘anyone could take this apart’?

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