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Devyn Gwynne

@devyngwynne.bsky.social

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PhD student Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · Aug 16

Another semester starting again

Un bar aux Folies Bergère. By Manet (1882).

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 16h

C17 commonplace book index belonging to Whitelock Bulstrode (MS 3244, container 1.1) @ransomcenter.bsky.social. Can’t help but think immediately of @djbduncan.bsky.social and his splendid work on the history of the book index

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 17h

Diagnosed existentially restless

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 19h

Two weeks ago we lost a giant of the movie posters world, Renato Casaro. Today we lost a modern Master of movie posters: DREW STRUZAN. I can guarantee you have at least seen 5 of his posters in your lifetime. The man has put his art on some of the most popular movie franchises (Indiana Jones, 1/4

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 18h

[day 2 of vacation]

Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 18h

I’m whatever the opposite of a homebody is— get me out of here

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 21h

What are hobbies? What is reading and writing for fun? And other such rehabilitations

Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 1d

Post comps like you’d describe post injury

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 23h

How will the billionaires explain this to the children? We did this for you. We needed AI more than a safe and beautiful planet. Or maybe this will be forgotten knowledge in a few decades. Will it even be memorialised like the dodo, when all we have is propaganda media?

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 2d

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 1d

In the future machines drink their water for them

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 1d

Post comps like you’d describe post injury

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 3d

This makes me so happy! 🐢

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

www.bbc.com

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Florie @floriemarie.fr · 4d

Allez, on répète après moi :

ChatGPT 👏👏
n’est pas 👏👏
un moteur 👏👏
de recherche 👏👏

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Mark Rice @markriceny.bsky.social · 3d

From Pepe to Portland: The Evolution of Frog Memes in Twenty-First Century American Culture

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 4d

I wonder if Dutch philosophy departments in the 1630s were only hiring in the philosophy of tulips.

Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 4d

One might also say "hiring committees".

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 6d

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩‍🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)

Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉

socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...

Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

Call for Papers Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence 22 May 2026 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts th…

socialhistory.org.uk

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 4d

Moving quickly to a world where students use AI to complete work, profs use AI to grade it, no one learns anything and we will live in a world of mediocrity and incompetence where only the billionaires benefit.

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 4d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

"In my own travels around Quebec as a teenager, one such story reached me: the tale of a woman who was caged and hanged for witchcraft, only for her ghost to haunt the island every Samhain eve." - Adrian Deveau

niche-canada.org/2023/10/03/c...

#samhain #halloween #folklore #quebec #envhum

Consultation with the Devil: Witchcraft and Stolen Land in the Quebecois Colonial Imaginary

Folklore is embedded in the heart of Quebecois culture.

niche-canada.org

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 4d

I love spotting grad students on campus it’s like that student looks old and stressed that’s one of ours

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Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria @horrorstudies.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder - Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University
t.co/QK7DDTdeNb

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 5d

CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026.

About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.

Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.

conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

Call for Proposals | Poetry's Environments

conferences.leeds.ac.uk

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 5d

Brilliant Colleague's
New Book Alert!

Buy Chris Fletcher's latest,
hot off the presses or read the OPEN ACCESS version online!
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096...

Arc Humanities book cover for "Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis."

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 6d

Having my boomer parents stay with me for the week makes me feel like a combination of dealing with nightmare roommates and babysitting with a strong strain of aging

Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 6d

Just found out my 70 yo dad and I are listening to the same bands, brutal