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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 10h

In the future machines drink their water for them

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 11h

Post comps like you’d describe post injury

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

Allez, on répète après moi :

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

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Mark Rice @markriceny.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 3d

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

Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 3d

One might also say "hiring committees".

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

"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 · 3d

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 · 5d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 5d

What is Steven Pinker’s expertise on systemic discrimination in the awarding of Canadian federal grants?

universityaffairs.ca/news/parliam...

Parliament reviews EDI for research grants - University Affairs

Witnesses testify for and against applying diversity criteria to scientific funding.

universityaffairs.ca

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 5d

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 6d

I am so tired of having my university call in hundreds of militarized police on our students. I am so tired of hearing my students get tear-gassed outside of my classroom for gathering together for what’s right. I am so tired of my city using violence intimidation and weapons of war against us.

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 6d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 6d

*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*

The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

New PhD Student Session

For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.

www.history.ac.uk

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 7d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 7d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 7d

I didn’t read this properly and went to post this

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 7d

Good morning!

[Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, A Soul in Hell, 1670-1700, Wax, 11.5 cm x 10 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)]

A screaming head modeled in wax, surrounded by demons and stylized flames

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 8d

Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️

📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus

🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m

#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies

Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.

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