J. Connell Stryker
@jconnellstryker.bsky.social
PhD in History, UT Austin; Pratt Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial University of Newfoundland - Women's Work at Sea, Histories of Maritime, Gender, Labor, Empire, Technology, and the Digital Humanities, etc
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Spending on consultants.
There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.
There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Spending on consultants.
There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.
There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.
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Re-reading Lord of the Rings at the moment, and I'd forgotten how relentlessly Gandalf drags Hobbits.
"Of course, The Enemy has overlooked one thing: dipshits such as yourself, Frodo. Buffoons with fat feet and shithole burrows. Yes, perhaps your painful loser energy may surprise Sauron yet!"
"Of course, The Enemy has overlooked one thing: dipshits such as yourself, Frodo. Buffoons with fat feet and shithole burrows. Yes, perhaps your painful loser energy may surprise Sauron yet!"
December 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Re-reading Lord of the Rings at the moment, and I'd forgotten how relentlessly Gandalf drags Hobbits.
"Of course, The Enemy has overlooked one thing: dipshits such as yourself, Frodo. Buffoons with fat feet and shithole burrows. Yes, perhaps your painful loser energy may surprise Sauron yet!"
"Of course, The Enemy has overlooked one thing: dipshits such as yourself, Frodo. Buffoons with fat feet and shithole burrows. Yes, perhaps your painful loser energy may surprise Sauron yet!"
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In fact, the Mary Rose wreck site had only recently been rediscovered when this was being filmed.
Fortunately, the Sea Devils left our divers alone...
Fortunately, the Sea Devils left our divers alone...
December 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
In fact, the Mary Rose wreck site had only recently been rediscovered when this was being filmed.
Fortunately, the Sea Devils left our divers alone...
Fortunately, the Sea Devils left our divers alone...
Announcing a workshop on women and the sea, taking place in St. John's, Newfoundland, April 29th-May 1st, 2026!
www.swaan.org
Supported by a Lloyd's Heritage Foundation grant, the SWAAN project focuses on women in ocean industries in history and today. The workshop is the first of 2 gatherings...
www.swaan.org
Supported by a Lloyd's Heritage Foundation grant, the SWAAN project focuses on women in ocean industries in history and today. The workshop is the first of 2 gatherings...
SWAAN | Seafaring Women Ashore and Abroad Network
Women have always been at sea. Here at SWAAN, we look to the past to push for a future where women have opportunities to work in maritime industries on land and at sea with our partners. We will build...
www.swaan.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Announcing a workshop on women and the sea, taking place in St. John's, Newfoundland, April 29th-May 1st, 2026!
www.swaan.org
Supported by a Lloyd's Heritage Foundation grant, the SWAAN project focuses on women in ocean industries in history and today. The workshop is the first of 2 gatherings...
www.swaan.org
Supported by a Lloyd's Heritage Foundation grant, the SWAAN project focuses on women in ocean industries in history and today. The workshop is the first of 2 gatherings...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
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CFP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500–1750
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
CFP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500–1750
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
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In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
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it's gutting to see access and widening participation initiatives being binned across the university sector. ELCE here at Bristol, Essex Pathways here. nothing pushes my personal, visceral buttons like the idea of denying academic study to someone whose life it could change
In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
December 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
it's gutting to see access and widening participation initiatives being binned across the university sector. ELCE here at Bristol, Essex Pathways here. nothing pushes my personal, visceral buttons like the idea of denying academic study to someone whose life it could change
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Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecords essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecords essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM
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70 years ago today my father took these photographs with his mother's camera. He was 13 years old at the time. This rescue operation led to the establishment of local rescue service ("Eiðis bjargingarfelag") which runs to this day.
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
70 years ago today my father took these photographs with his mother's camera. He was 13 years old at the time. This rescue operation led to the establishment of local rescue service ("Eiðis bjargingarfelag") which runs to this day.
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New poster! Only two weeks until my workshop “Sails, Silk, and Ancient Seas”. I am happy that so many students have taken an interest in ancient Mediterranean and Chinese seafaring. Reviewing their work and helping them refine their posters has taught me a lot about Chinese maritime history as well.
November 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
New poster! Only two weeks until my workshop “Sails, Silk, and Ancient Seas”. I am happy that so many students have taken an interest in ancient Mediterranean and Chinese seafaring. Reviewing their work and helping them refine their posters has taught me a lot about Chinese maritime history as well.
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"The Baltic world and Nordic region have never figured prominently in the historiography of medieval & early modern Europe." My 1 semester at Uppsala was a reality check about the scale of this marginalization!
This book by @adamgeorgie.bsky.social looks like a welcome part of the correction.
This book by @adamgeorgie.bsky.social looks like a welcome part of the correction.
Paul Douglas Lockhart reviews 'Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century', by Adam Grimshaw @adamgeorgie.bsky.social
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@dgb-history.bsky.social
Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century, by Adam Grimshaw
The Baltic world and the Nordic region have never figured prominently in the historiography of medieval and early modern Europe. This imbalance—which tradi
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December 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"The Baltic world and Nordic region have never figured prominently in the historiography of medieval & early modern Europe." My 1 semester at Uppsala was a reality check about the scale of this marginalization!
This book by @adamgeorgie.bsky.social looks like a welcome part of the correction.
This book by @adamgeorgie.bsky.social looks like a welcome part of the correction.
Crew Agreement Advent Calendar '25, Day 7: Victoria Drummond
Now I am cheating, because I meant to have a photo of one of Drummond's agreements before I wrote this thread, but when I got to the archive I got distracted trying to trace epidemics. Such is life, if you're lucky! #crewagadvent25
Now I am cheating, because I meant to have a photo of one of Drummond's agreements before I wrote this thread, but when I got to the archive I got distracted trying to trace epidemics. Such is life, if you're lucky! #crewagadvent25
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Crew Agreement Advent Calendar '25, Day 7: Victoria Drummond
Now I am cheating, because I meant to have a photo of one of Drummond's agreements before I wrote this thread, but when I got to the archive I got distracted trying to trace epidemics. Such is life, if you're lucky! #crewagadvent25
Now I am cheating, because I meant to have a photo of one of Drummond's agreements before I wrote this thread, but when I got to the archive I got distracted trying to trace epidemics. Such is life, if you're lucky! #crewagadvent25
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Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
Crew Agreement Advent Calendar, Day 6: "Atting"
I said I would try to get a little more into this, but we would probably be dissatisfied with the answers, and what can I say, I delivered on this promise of dissatisfaction.
The situation remains weird, but that's about it. #crewagadvent25
I said I would try to get a little more into this, but we would probably be dissatisfied with the answers, and what can I say, I delivered on this promise of dissatisfaction.
The situation remains weird, but that's about it. #crewagadvent25
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Crew Agreement Advent Calendar, Day 6: "Atting"
I said I would try to get a little more into this, but we would probably be dissatisfied with the answers, and what can I say, I delivered on this promise of dissatisfaction.
The situation remains weird, but that's about it. #crewagadvent25
I said I would try to get a little more into this, but we would probably be dissatisfied with the answers, and what can I say, I delivered on this promise of dissatisfaction.
The situation remains weird, but that's about it. #crewagadvent25
Crew Agreement Advent Calendar, Day 5: Promise I'm not cheating
Oh ho ho, what's this? Posting another account of a pilgrim? (truly these can hardly be called accounts, but they are ~evidence~ sometimes that's the best you're gonna get) It's not cheating, I swear! It's intriguing!
#crewagadvent25
Oh ho ho, what's this? Posting another account of a pilgrim? (truly these can hardly be called accounts, but they are ~evidence~ sometimes that's the best you're gonna get) It's not cheating, I swear! It's intriguing!
#crewagadvent25
December 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Crew Agreement Advent Calendar, Day 5: Promise I'm not cheating
Oh ho ho, what's this? Posting another account of a pilgrim? (truly these can hardly be called accounts, but they are ~evidence~ sometimes that's the best you're gonna get) It's not cheating, I swear! It's intriguing!
#crewagadvent25
Oh ho ho, what's this? Posting another account of a pilgrim? (truly these can hardly be called accounts, but they are ~evidence~ sometimes that's the best you're gonna get) It's not cheating, I swear! It's intriguing!
#crewagadvent25
Crew Agreement Advent Calendar '25: The Hajj
Okay we're finally going to get into the log
SO I did mention the Suez Canal earlier, and how it helped business, steam vs sail, yadda yadda yadda but look, there's actually a lot more interesting reason to pay attention to it. #crewagadvent25
Okay we're finally going to get into the log
SO I did mention the Suez Canal earlier, and how it helped business, steam vs sail, yadda yadda yadda but look, there's actually a lot more interesting reason to pay attention to it. #crewagadvent25
December 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Crew Agreement Advent Calendar '25: The Hajj
Okay we're finally going to get into the log
SO I did mention the Suez Canal earlier, and how it helped business, steam vs sail, yadda yadda yadda but look, there's actually a lot more interesting reason to pay attention to it. #crewagadvent25
Okay we're finally going to get into the log
SO I did mention the Suez Canal earlier, and how it helped business, steam vs sail, yadda yadda yadda but look, there's actually a lot more interesting reason to pay attention to it. #crewagadvent25
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Thanks to the generosity of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social alumni Dominic Christian we are pleased to offer in 2026 The Dominic Christian #MaritimeHistory Scholarship to study for an MA in @ueahistory.bsky.social - further details & t&c here:
www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a... ⚓
Deadline to apply: 8/6/26
www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a... ⚓
Deadline to apply: 8/6/26
December 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Thanks to the generosity of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social alumni Dominic Christian we are pleased to offer in 2026 The Dominic Christian #MaritimeHistory Scholarship to study for an MA in @ueahistory.bsky.social - further details & t&c here:
www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a... ⚓
Deadline to apply: 8/6/26
www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a... ⚓
Deadline to apply: 8/6/26
Unintended break in the yuletide glee of #crewagadvent25
I visited the archive and my brain got snarfed.
I'll try to make it up to you this evening!
I visited the archive and my brain got snarfed.
I'll try to make it up to you this evening!
December 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Unintended break in the yuletide glee of #crewagadvent25
I visited the archive and my brain got snarfed.
I'll try to make it up to you this evening!
I visited the archive and my brain got snarfed.
I'll try to make it up to you this evening!
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#EarlyModern recipe books reflect collective medical knowledge. Anyone of any gender, ethnicity, or status could practise medicine. But the founding of the RCP in 1518 was an attempt to stamp out this inclusive culture and ensure that only wealthy men could be doctors
#ExploreArchives #EYAInclusion
#ExploreArchives #EYAInclusion
December 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
#EarlyModern recipe books reflect collective medical knowledge. Anyone of any gender, ethnicity, or status could practise medicine. But the founding of the RCP in 1518 was an attempt to stamp out this inclusive culture and ensure that only wealthy men could be doctors
#ExploreArchives #EYAInclusion
#ExploreArchives #EYAInclusion
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🧵 A dean is abruptly removed. Her account goes viral. At first, it looks like a fight over the humanities. But the more I reported on the University of Tulsa, the clearer it became: this controversy was just the entry point for a far larger institutional unraveling. (1/14)
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🧵 A dean is abruptly removed. Her account goes viral. At first, it looks like a fight over the humanities. But the more I reported on the University of Tulsa, the clearer it became: this controversy was just the entry point for a far larger institutional unraveling. (1/14)
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Good opportunity!
📣 #CfP Reminder 📣
Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence?
📜 Check our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇
⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2025
📣 #genderhistory #genderstudies
Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence?
📜 Check our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇
⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2025
📣 #genderhistory #genderstudies
Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Good opportunity!
Crew Agreement Advent Calendar '25 Day 3: Who is doing what now?
Now we're taking a stroll through the other details. Worried about the <1600 ton ship having only eight crew?
Don't be! It's 8 'sailors' - there's lots of other crew! Let's look at some of them! #crewagadvent25 #maritimehistory
Now we're taking a stroll through the other details. Worried about the <1600 ton ship having only eight crew?
Don't be! It's 8 'sailors' - there's lots of other crew! Let's look at some of them! #crewagadvent25 #maritimehistory
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Crew Agreement Advent Calendar '25 Day 3: Who is doing what now?
Now we're taking a stroll through the other details. Worried about the <1600 ton ship having only eight crew?
Don't be! It's 8 'sailors' - there's lots of other crew! Let's look at some of them! #crewagadvent25 #maritimehistory
Now we're taking a stroll through the other details. Worried about the <1600 ton ship having only eight crew?
Don't be! It's 8 'sailors' - there's lots of other crew! Let's look at some of them! #crewagadvent25 #maritimehistory
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#Skyhistorians #MilitaryHistory
I need help finding out about #WW2 #medals for the UK merchant navy: why some people seemed to get 1939-45 star, Atlantic star, war medal & colleagues on same ship did not.
I need help finding out about #WW2 #medals for the UK merchant navy: why some people seemed to get 1939-45 star, Atlantic star, war medal & colleagues on same ship did not.
December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
#Skyhistorians #MilitaryHistory
I need help finding out about #WW2 #medals for the UK merchant navy: why some people seemed to get 1939-45 star, Atlantic star, war medal & colleagues on same ship did not.
I need help finding out about #WW2 #medals for the UK merchant navy: why some people seemed to get 1939-45 star, Atlantic star, war medal & colleagues on same ship did not.