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Neil Kaye @neilrkaye.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Trading Places: Greenland and Mexico swap locations in the Mercator Projection #dataviz #maps #mapping #GIS

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

the original multitasking included doing things while riding an angry looking elephant

a printed image of 1509, from Thomas Murner's Logica memorativa, showing a man sitting on an elephant, and among other details, dogs are fighting and barking, etc.

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson was born OTD in 1860. He conceived of organismal form as primarily a matter of physical forces, rather than natural selection. He used diagrams to represent how networks of physical forces could deform one body plan into another. 🧪🌱🐋🦋🦫🐡 #HistSTM

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

A new piece on sea ice, material agency in the Arctic and James Cook’s third voyage: www.bssi.org.uk/reetta-sippo...

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Reetta Sippola on Sea Ice — Blue Sustainability and Society Initiative

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Good morning! Here is a three-day old sea-otter pup, snoozing on their Mama. The image is by one my favourite wildlife photographers, Suzi Eszterhas, who runs girlswhoclick.org - an organisation that mentors girls and young women interested in nature photography. Feel free to share.

A little fuzzy, dark brown sea-otter pup, sleeping peacefully on top of their Mama's belly, as she floats on her back.

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

We're pleased to note that Björn Billing's recent article in 'Environment and History', "Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770", is now available #openaccess: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #icebergs

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Missed the Challenging Maps and Exploration Symposium? Don’t worry, the videos of the panels are now live! Enjoy all the discussions of #maps, #empire, Indigeneity, archives, and contemporary exploration. #skystorians 🗃️

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Sunderland Collection Map Symposium at RGS - 30 October

The Sunderland Collection Symposium at the Royal Geographical Society, 30 October 2025

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Keen to explore maritime environments and histories without going to sea? The Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Fellowship deadline is 18 January 2026.

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Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich

Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

“Oh what a treat of a source detail! I’m revealing it here because it won’t fit into my dissertation. #mondaymotivation The #explorer Thomas James decided one November morning in 1633 to cut his hair and #beard short, because it was rather annoying that his face was constantly full of #icicles:

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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I want to go!

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Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

HMS King George V on arctic duty in WW2. Churchill called the convoy route to Murmansk in the Soviet arctic the “worst journey on earth,” with good reason. U-boats, air attack, surface raiders and of course the cold. My novel 'The Wolves in Winter' is set here. #Arctic #WW2 #RoyalNavy

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Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Corner of a hand-stitched sail from the 1800s. Every warship had a sailmaker who played a vital role in making and maintaining the huge number of sails required to power the ship in all weathers. #Ageofsail #RoyalNavy #Tallships

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Golden Age of Piracy @goldenageofpiracy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Also known as a back quadrant or Davis staff, the backstaff was used for measuring the altitude of the sun. It had a significant advantage over the earlier cross-staff: it allowed the user to measure the altitude of the sun without looking directly at it. #maritimehistory #AgeOfSail #history

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Hannu Salmi @hansalmi.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Perustimme blogin, jossa julkaisemme 800 tarinaa Turun historiasta vuoteen 2029 mennessä. Tervetuloa seuraamaan! #turku800 blogit.utu.fi/turku800/

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800 tarinaa Turun historiasta | Ihmisiä, hetkiä, tarinoita

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

#SaturdayScholar play with #aiimage depicting my #PhD chapter on #animalagency #walrus! Can you spot the one who is not part of the Royal Navy but appointed to the #Cookvoyage to draw pictures? I love the way AI figured out the meaning of different style hats on the officers of the ship. #chatCPT5

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Fascinating work of Dr. Sara Caputo will be discussed online next Weds evening (6:30pm London time)! My #posthumanistic research has been quite inspired by her views on the #tracks on the water and on #seacharts. www.rgs.org/events/upcom... #HakluytSociety #maritimehistory

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Lightning at sea in the 18th and 19th centuries

Dr Sara Caputo's EGR Taylor lecture 2025 will discuss how lightning shaped the maritime world drawing on sources from Britain and western Europe.

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

This rearly seen draft image of the #walrushunt scene by #JohnWebber (1778) received delightful discussion in #maritimebritain conference last week. 🦄 'Sea horse' was widely used to mean 'walrus' in the 17th and 18th C English; compare with Norwegian and Icelandic words like morse and rosmarus

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I was trialing my #PhD arguments last week in the @MaritimeBritain project´s conference in #Southampton. Thanks all delegates for allowing me to pick your brains about #counternarrative to #heroism using #animalhistory #captaincook #incookcompany #maritimehistory #18thC

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

#faffe Kiinnostava tutkimus Suomessa parin vuosisadan aikana bongatuista lajeista tänään ulkona! Julkaisun yhteydessä luennoitiin digitutkimuksen teosta ja tulosten merkityksestä samalla teosta slaideilla selaillen - onpa kaunis kirja! Onnea!! @utu.fi #kulttuurihistoria #sanomalehtiarkisto

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢 Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images. 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

Screenshot of the front page of British Printed Images to 1700. Printed images border the screen on both sides, in the centre is the website title and various links: About, Search, Resources, Research.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Finished a draft chapter today for my little book Listening to #EarlyModern Travel writing. The chapter is 'Earwitnessing and the authentication of experience' and it argues that travel writing was not just an eyewitness genre; that 'seeing' was a multisensory experience... (1/2)

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Another fascinating #EarlyModern #Bookhistory conference to apply for, this time held at the National Library of Lithuania. Deadline: 30th of April! 💙📚📜 #rarebooks #printhistory

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Asian kulkua kun jatkuvasti pohditaan: tässä eräs tiiviisti esitetty kommentti pituuspiirin mittaamisesta 1700-luvulla #longitude #earlymodern #seacharts journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/chro...

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Chronometers, charts, charisma: on histories of longitude - Science Museum Group Journal

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Kun eurooppalaiset aina nimesi ‘uusia’ paikkoja kaveriensa tai tapahtumien mukaan, niin arvaa missä Cook sai reissun parhaan dinnerin? #inCookCompany #maphistory

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Shirley Siluk @ebishirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is such a good thread, and meshes with the reasons I don't use GenAI tools to even brainstorm, much less write first drafts of anything. Why would I want to steer my thinking away from my own unique ideas and toward some probabilistic algorithm trained on who knows what parts of the internet?

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 26/01/2025

Library of Congress launches History of the Book post series blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/...

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History of the Book | Bibliomania

Bibliomania

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Come and hear all about “Food history as history of knowledge: preservation technologies in the #EarlyModern #LowCountries” from the fab @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social Friday 31 January, 17:30 (UK time), @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom. All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/events/food-...

Painting of an early early modern looking kitchen with two women and a baby. One of the women sitting and seemingly plucking a chicken, the other is showing her something on a plate

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Note that what is being tested here is not even what most academic historians would recognize as worth asking, but just basic ‘facts’ (compiled by a research team then cross compared to genAI multiple choice responses). It can’t pass school rote learning, it sure AF can’t do independent research 🗃️

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 23/01/2025

Paint me Like one of your French girls

Male otter exposing himself on the ice, with a little of Soda Butte Creak on the bottom left.

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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

And for the history nerds, I wrote about the idea of agency in environmental history, in a retrospective of Walter Johnson’s stunner On Agency academic.oup.com/jsh/article-...

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On the Agency of Environmental History

Abstract. Twenty years ago, Walter Johnson warned historians not to rely on a concept that let both user and audience alike feel better without doing bette

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Tim Soens @tsoens.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Monday! Book presentation of our new textbook Environmental History. Online and free, welcome #envhist @eseh.bsky.social

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I study #human-walrus encounters as a part of my doctoral research, thus all the #walrus things in my feed. #animalhistory #animalagency

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

If you were to say that the main benefit of time-travel would be to go back 5-10 million years to see Odobenocetops - the #whale with one tusk like a #walrus - I would not argue.

An Odobenocetops skull, with one massive backwards-facing tusk, on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, along with an illustration of the animal.

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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Through the good graces of school.ai this morning, I had a chat with Anne Frank. I had a helluva time trying to get her to say a bad word about Nazis. Here's our conversation in this thread. #history #skystorians #historysky #holocaust

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

📢 Seminar Announcement! 👉 "Spatial big data research for fair and sustainable societies: Celebrating 15 years of the Digital Geography Lab" When: 7 Feb Where: Unioninkatu 33, Helsinki (+ online!) Program 👉 buff.ly/3Cek6ms Register: 👉 buff.ly/4hjVYOc

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

After I read about what these keynote speakers have been writing on #earlymodern nature and agency, I think i need to travel here #cfp

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

My chapter in this volume may be of interest to historians of #navalhistory: 'The Loneliness of Leadership Royal Naval Officers in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars' www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

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The Loneliness of Leadership | 27 | Royal Naval Officers in the Revolu

This chapter concentrates on the loneliness of leadership experienced by active Royal Navy officers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, specifically

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Interesting group powered research.

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BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

📢 Rediscover natural history! The Linnean Society of London invites historians, archivists, curators, and artists to (re)visit natural history. 🗓️ Tuesday, February 11 · 9:30am - 7pm GMT - London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-... Supported by BSHS through a small events grant! 🌟

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Symposium | (Re)discovering Natural History

A symposium with historians, archivists, curators & artists to discuss ways of finding and telling the best stories in special collections.

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Charlotte Abney @abney.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Applications are now open for 2025-26 fellowships at @scihistoryorg.bsky.social! We offer postdoc, dissertation, distinguished & short-term fellowships for researchers from anywhere in any fields w/ projects that can make use of our collections. Questions? Ask here!

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Science History Institute Fellowships

The Institute is home to the largest private fellowship program in the historical study of science, medicine, and technology in the United States.

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

📢📢📢 Hakluyt Society ECR Essay Prize 2025 📢📢📢 Essays (6k-8k) are invited by ECRs on the history of travel, exploration, cultural encounter or their effects, or that critically engage with the work of the Society. 1st prize £1250 & 2nd prize £250. * Enter by 1/3/25 * www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Unicorns were a popular feature in European medieval crests because it was believed their horn could cure poisoning. They’re still listed in this book of drugs from 1694. Find out more in our free #Edinburgh #animalhistory exhibition 👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/wil...

We are looking at the open page of a book. It is turned horizontal. On it are five illustrations of unicorns, They have different lengths of horns, one with two horns, different proportions and different coats. The unicorn on the top left has webbed feet in place of its back hooves.

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Reetta Sippola @reettasippola.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hello Bluesky! I am a doctoral candidate in Cultural history and looking to interact on topics such as #animalhistory, history of science, #knowledge, #maritime #exploration, the Arctic, #materiality, #digitalhumanities, #agency and #spatiality.

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