Reposted by Wouter WagemakersCraig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 13h"the Italian Renaissance, broadly defined historically as the period ranging from the 14th to the 17th centuries and geographically to include transnational dialogues between Italy and other cultures (e.g. Latin American, Mediterranean, African, Asian etc.)" i.e. NOT just Italy, so go for it 095
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersSandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social · 14h📢Fully funded PhD position in #earlymodern history! At University of Roma Tre, in collaboration with the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento, in the framework of my project "Travellers' interactions in early modern Italy." isig.fbk.eu/en/news/deta... Deadline 16 October 2026! #skystorians 0812
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersJesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Job: Associate Professor of Art and Architecture of the Medieval World at Johns Hopkins University #medievalskyarthist.netAssociate Professor of Art and Architecture of the Medieval World, BaltimoreLauren Crabtree. Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 01.07.2027, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.10.2026 02531
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 260184054869
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersKarl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Wow, I think someone even wrote a rather good book about that! 🧐 052
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 02/10/2026‘It is hard to imagine any other painter or sculptor, living or dead, ever attracting this kind of attention, but it is equally hard to attribute it to Leonardo’s artistic talent.’ Charles Hope on the commoditisation of Leonardo da Vinci. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukCharles Hope · Lilies in the Lion: The Leonardo Industry 092
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersJesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Job Opening: Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art History, College Park, Maryland #earlymodernarthist.netAssistant Professor of Early Modern European Art History, College ParkAlicia Volk, Univ. of Maryland. University of Maryland, College Park, 01.07.2027, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.10.2026 01522
Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026@fgeerdink.bsky.social Gefeliciteerd! Wat een mooie overwinningen deze week 010
Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026What do you mean the sun sets at 19:19?! 150
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersArchitects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 27/09/2026Two years after fire ravaged the 17th-century Børsen building, the public can watch its reconstruction from a visitor centre that displays and celebrates traditional crafts. Mark David Flynn visitsarchitectsjournal.co.ukRestoration drama: Copenhagen’s Børsen resurrected as live public showcaseRestoration drama: Copenhagen’s Børsen resurrected as live public showcase 11710
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's one small thing about this. His wife and his staff absolutely know his phone number and his address. I guarantee it. The "Offloading" is always on loaded to other people and AI is never going to change that for those people. 932266
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersDr 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.orgHistory is a human craft | Historical Transactions 611657
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersJan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Dutchies! I recently discovered this excellent (Dutch) #hextag podcast on the last witches of Schiedam whose trial brought the #earlymodern witch-hunt to an earlier end in the Dutch Republic. Definitely worth a listen! stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/podcast/podc...stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nlHeksen in Schiedam - Stedelijk Museum Schiedam 03210
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersKristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 21/09/20266-year fully funded research and teaching assistant job at University of Ghent in the fields of English literature/cultural theory, history/translation history, linguistics, language acquisition, communication. Own projects are welcome! Details: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-As...jobs.ugent.beAssistant EnglishAssistant English 13856
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Wallonia. One of the few party systems left in Europe where there is no successful radical right party. In a post-industrial region where the radical right thrives in other countries. What's different in Wallonia? There is a full political and media cordon sanitaire around the radical right. 9253100
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic. 984461969
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersCatherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 18/09/2026If I was paying over £9k a year plus interest to be taught by world-leading researchers and then found those researchers were delivering generic courses rather than discussing their world-leading research, I might well wonder why 1407
Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026For the Leiden Medievalists Blog I wrote a post about the Ferragosto heist in Messina where 5 works by Antonello da Messina were stolen. #art #renaissance www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/ant...leidenmedievalistsblog.nlAntonello Who?Last summer, four works by the Italian renaissance painter Antonello da Messina were stolen from a regional museum in Messina, Sicily. This blog post explains the significance of Antonello’s paintings... 0153
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I love re-upping this: for decades the main library at UCLA had the generic name University Research Library because the person most responsible for getting it built was an English professor named Hugh G. Dick and the university refused to name it after him. 713006833
Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026@markreid90.eurosky.social Weet jij wat er bij het Lipsius aan de hand is? 110
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersJosh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The professors and instructors who turn classrooms back into spaces for reading and discussion, are going to leave the biggest legacies in this world. Everyone one else will disappear into LLM wallpaper proxies and derivatives.  427754
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersRachel Healy @rachelhealyleckey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Email venetianahg@gmail.com to attend the next Venetian Art History Research Group online conference on 24 October 2026 023
Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026Here is @rachelhealyleckey.bsky.social's wonderful article on Titian's Portrait of a falconer, in which she argues for a new identification of its sitter and a new dating, based on innovative methods. 142
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And while you luxuriate in our superb back catalogue, you should also consider submitting your next article to Renaissance Studies. We offer expert review, efficient turnarounds, and a swift route to publication after acceptance. Any questions, get in touch! 174
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026For the last nine months it's been my pleasure & privilege to be the editor of Renaissance Studies, and I think we're well overdue a romp through some fantastic articles we've published this year. See below for some of the finest new research in the interdisciplinary study of the Renaissance! 👇 210337
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026ANTHONY GRAFTON IN THE HOUSE!!! #earlymodern #skystorians In person in the Warburg but with nice online access! 12718
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersToni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Lower-class individuals are less likely to initiate negotiations. When lower-class individuals do negotiate, they face stronger social backlash than their higher-class counterparts www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 023
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersNadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026careers.universiteitleiden.nlPhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language SectorPhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector 24557
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia. 5953724913397
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersJosh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Feels like universities might also want to wait to liquidate hundreds of years of educational practice before transforming themselves into single-corporation stewarded data centers.cbsnews.comAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "For too long the industry lied" about AI risksThe head of the artificial intelligence company calls the exponential rate of AI developments a "warning sign," with risks for humanity, and says, "We need to slow down." He talks with "Sunday Morning... 12383117
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"Crypto investor pardoned by Trump [after criminal conviction] gives £36 million to Farage" is obvs a perfectly legit news headline about the largest donor in British politics, as where the money is from + what he might want are legit public debates www.channelnewsasia.com/business/cry...channelnewsasia.comCrypto investor pardoned by Trump donates £36 million to Farage's Reform UKLONDON, Sept 11 : Crypto investor Ben Delo said on Friday he would donate a record £36 million ($48.7 million), or £1 million a month before the next national election, to Britain's populist Reform UK... 22513
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersSimon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Whitby, looking east inside the chancel of the Abbey church. 38415
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersSander Schimmelpenninck @schimmelpenninck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Een kabinet van LinkedInLiberalen en AI-verslaafde middelmanagers. De grootste neergang in leesvaardigheid van heel Europa. Het boeit de meute geen bal. ‘Iedereen gebruikt AI’, ‘is toch handig?’ Nederland is een volwaardige idiocratie aan het worden. 2538862
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersEric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 11/09/2026It's obvious now that the concerns being articulated about AI have broken through to the mainstream and to at least certain members of Congress. And to other leaders and places around the world. The open question is if society's capable of confronting this moment. 64011
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is I. Have never even been to the website, for the same reason that I wouldn't eat an arsenic sandwich. 69618
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersTHE NERVE @thenerve.news · 10/09/2026“This is the museum event of the decade, possibly the century so far. Are we really to believe that a more ethical partner would not have jumped at the chance to be involved?” @benlukeart.bsky.social on the #BayeuxTapestry at the British Museum. www.thenerve.news/p/bayeux-tap... 39241
Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026@nieuwsuur.nl Waarom vragen jullie niet of de bewindslieden bij defensie staatsgeheimen in chatgpt gooien om een stuk te schrijven? Want dat zijn de echte risico’s 011
Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026*chuckles* www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.comA constipated baby and a kid that looks like Boris Johnson: why would anyone bother stealing a Renoir?The chocolate boxiest of all the impressionists has long had his haters – even Manet thought he was rubbish. Little surprise then that the thieves ditched two works on the way out 180
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersIvo Wolsing @ivowolsing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is really worrying: the PISA scores on high school student performance are in. Notice the steep decline across disciplines between 2018 and 2025. In the Netherlands, 40% of 15-year olds apparently can't read well enough to function in society. 40%! (Source: nos.nl/l/2630148) 1156
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersPhilippe Prudent @phprudent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Une semaine importante débute aujourd'hui : celle de la reprise de la saison culturelle et artistique avec, notamment, la nouvelle exposition du musée Jacquemart-André consacrée au génial Tintoret (ouverture au public dès ce vendredi). L'impatience monte... #HDA 0124
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Ich will keine Bilder von fröhlichen Nazis sehen, ich will keine Bilder von feiernden Nazis sehen, ich will keine Bilder von triumphierenden Nazis sehen. Jedes dieser Bilder ist Werbung für den Faschismus – und als solche gemeint, egal ob von WELT, ZEIT oder Tagesschau 11642126
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 07/09/2026With some delay, my op-Ed on the dramatic Saxony-Anhalt election. It is high time we focus our political struggle on strengthening democracy, rather than merely weakening the far right. To do this, we must show realism, resilience and restraint.theguardian.comThe AfD’s win in Germany is a dark day for Europe. Time is running out to stop the far right | Cas MuddeThis party is among the most extreme in Europe. To protect our democracies, liberal parties must urgently change their tactics, says Cas Mudde, author of The Far Right Today 19350174
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersYale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2...irishtimes.comChristine Casey obituary: Architectural historian an intellectual powerhouse with a wry twinkle‘Deeply caring’ internationally renowned scholar envisaged architecture as a social endeavour 043
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this. 11915243
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026You cannot publish the phrase “reverse decades of structural disinvestment in public higher education” at the New York Times. It’s illegal. You’d be arrested. 131535
Reposted by Wouter WagemakersCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Thoughts and prayers for the media that were clearly pining for an AfD majority. 010814