Marie VC, PhD
@marievc.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher (elle/she) • Social & Climate Justice • Internet & Cultural Studies • Arts & Crafts • Gardening • Brussels Sprouts Appreciation Society • FR/EN (Belgium/Luxembourg)
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Huit femmes à l’assaut du trophée Jules-Verne : « Le bateau a fait ses preuves, à nous d’être à sa hauteur »
Huit femmes à l’assaut du trophée Jules-Verne : « Le bateau a fait ses preuves, à nous d’être à sa hauteur »
Alexia Barrier, skippeuse française de 46 ans, a lancé, il y a deux ans, « The Famous Project CIC », un projet de record du tour du monde sans escale et sans assistance avec un équipage 100 % féminin qui doit quitter Brest.
www.lemonde.fr
November 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Huit femmes à l’assaut du trophée Jules-Verne : « Le bateau a fait ses preuves, à nous d’être à sa hauteur »
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The present will be copiously preserved in the archaeological record. It's just more likely future people will know us by our pull tabs rather than our philosophical texts
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics
The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics investigates the archaeology of the contemporary world through the lens of its most distinguishing and problematic material.
Plastics are ubiquitous ...
www.routledge.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The present will be copiously preserved in the archaeological record. It's just more likely future people will know us by our pull tabs rather than our philosophical texts
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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Another wave crashing over iceberg.
Love taking these photos - very challenging to get the shutter speed right, split-second timing right, hoping that the iceberg doesn't move even an inch while all this is happening. But when it works, it's pretty satisfying!
Fellsjara, Jökulsárlón #Iceland
Love taking these photos - very challenging to get the shutter speed right, split-second timing right, hoping that the iceberg doesn't move even an inch while all this is happening. But when it works, it's pretty satisfying!
Fellsjara, Jökulsárlón #Iceland
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Another wave crashing over iceberg.
Love taking these photos - very challenging to get the shutter speed right, split-second timing right, hoping that the iceberg doesn't move even an inch while all this is happening. But when it works, it's pretty satisfying!
Fellsjara, Jökulsárlón #Iceland
Love taking these photos - very challenging to get the shutter speed right, split-second timing right, hoping that the iceberg doesn't move even an inch while all this is happening. But when it works, it's pretty satisfying!
Fellsjara, Jökulsárlón #Iceland
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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📣 Call for papers (Special Issue): Ethnographies of Learning and Teaching Across Different Cultural Contexts
[Cargo. Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology]
⌛ Deadline: January 15, 2026
✉️ More info: cargojournal.org/index.php/ca...
#CallForPapers
[Cargo. Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology]
⌛ Deadline: January 15, 2026
✉️ More info: cargojournal.org/index.php/ca...
#CallForPapers
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
📣 Call for papers (Special Issue): Ethnographies of Learning and Teaching Across Different Cultural Contexts
[Cargo. Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology]
⌛ Deadline: January 15, 2026
✉️ More info: cargojournal.org/index.php/ca...
#CallForPapers
[Cargo. Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology]
⌛ Deadline: January 15, 2026
✉️ More info: cargojournal.org/index.php/ca...
#CallForPapers
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Dolphins
Northern gannets
Puffins
Kingfishers
Cats
Dolphins
Northern gannets
Puffins
Kingfishers
Cats
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Dolphins
Northern gannets
Puffins
Kingfishers
Cats
Dolphins
Northern gannets
Puffins
Kingfishers
Cats
ALT: Three people carry a Christmas tree wrapped in a white cover, under the supervision of a Nightjet attendant.
Like the previous years, the Christmas tree for the European parliament arrived by NightJet in Brussels today
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
ALT: Three people carry a Christmas tree wrapped in a white cover, under the supervision of a Nightjet attendant.
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What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
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New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
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If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
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Watching Columbo for the first time and as someone with a working class chip on his shoulder, seeing all these smug, monied elitists sneeringly underestimating and then being utterly destroyed by a shabby, brilliant little guy is absolutely cathartic.
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Watching Columbo for the first time and as someone with a working class chip on his shoulder, seeing all these smug, monied elitists sneeringly underestimating and then being utterly destroyed by a shabby, brilliant little guy is absolutely cathartic.
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My line was that I reserve the right to pull my name from the project or paper if I learn that it is LLM produced.
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My line was that I reserve the right to pull my name from the project or paper if I learn that it is LLM produced.
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CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
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Another reason to love Luxembourg. Tipptopp.
This #Thanksgiving, impress your family and friends with your foreign language knowledge by casually dropping the Luxembourgish word for 🦃 into the conversation.
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Another reason to love Luxembourg. Tipptopp.
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My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums came out this month!
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos. Would make a fantastic gift for any animal lover or museum goer.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos. Would make a fantastic gift for any animal lover or museum goer.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums came out this month!
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos. Would make a fantastic gift for any animal lover or museum goer.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos. Would make a fantastic gift for any animal lover or museum goer.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Quand je dis que Heinich et la bande de l'observatoire de Sterin nous mettent en danger c'est parce qu'ils et elles participent à rendre ce genre de situations possibles
Aujourd'hui, 3 députés RN se sont introduits à l'Université avec des journalistes d'extrême-droite, et filmé des étudiant·es malgré leur refus explicite. L'idée ? Prouver notre islamisation totale, en surfant sur une histoire marginale de prières pendant les intercours. Nous sommes très en colère.
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Quand je dis que Heinich et la bande de l'observatoire de Sterin nous mettent en danger c'est parce qu'ils et elles participent à rendre ce genre de situations possibles
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New challenge for busy researchers who lament that they don't have time to think these days:
For 2026, plan for thinking time, or time to do nothing (which is when some of the best ideas happen). Protect it. Make it sacrosanct.
If you don't take your thinking time seriously, no-one else will.
For 2026, plan for thinking time, or time to do nothing (which is when some of the best ideas happen). Protect it. Make it sacrosanct.
If you don't take your thinking time seriously, no-one else will.
This banger from the academia / writing / research meme stash definitely has wider applicability but I do really like using it for coaching, mentoring, and workshop activities when we talk about the importance of saying 'no' to things as researchers. #academicchatter #academicsky #PhDchat
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
New challenge for busy researchers who lament that they don't have time to think these days:
For 2026, plan for thinking time, or time to do nothing (which is when some of the best ideas happen). Protect it. Make it sacrosanct.
If you don't take your thinking time seriously, no-one else will.
For 2026, plan for thinking time, or time to do nothing (which is when some of the best ideas happen). Protect it. Make it sacrosanct.
If you don't take your thinking time seriously, no-one else will.
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These #worms fell down from the sky, maybe, in 1672 Europe, and lived for another couple of days. However fantastic the #earlymodern story of the falling "Würmer" is, I do like the alien-freakish styled insects a lot. Zoom in and choose your favorite:
September 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
These #worms fell down from the sky, maybe, in 1672 Europe, and lived for another couple of days. However fantastic the #earlymodern story of the falling "Würmer" is, I do like the alien-freakish styled insects a lot. Zoom in and choose your favorite:
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
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📣 Call for papers (Special Issue): Ethnographies of Learning and Teaching Across Different Cultural Contexts
[Cargo. Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology]
⌛ Deadline: January 15, 2026
✉️ More info: cargojournal.org/index.php/ca...
#CallForPapers
[Cargo. Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology]
⌛ Deadline: January 15, 2026
✉️ More info: cargojournal.org/index.php/ca...
#CallForPapers
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
📣 Call for papers (Special Issue): Ethnographies of Learning and Teaching Across Different Cultural Contexts
[Cargo. Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology]
⌛ Deadline: January 15, 2026
✉️ More info: cargojournal.org/index.php/ca...
#CallForPapers
[Cargo. Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology]
⌛ Deadline: January 15, 2026
✉️ More info: cargojournal.org/index.php/ca...
#CallForPapers
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I guess for some people, junior scientists are like eggs. If you have a dozen, you can break most of them because you only need a couple to produce an omelet.
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I guess for some people, junior scientists are like eggs. If you have a dozen, you can break most of them because you only need a couple to produce an omelet.
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OUT: Thinking outside the box
IN: Calling a carrot a carrot
IN: Calling a carrot a carrot
An old lady steps from the queue. “it’s a carrot,” she says. Glares defiantly at the assistant. The assistant wilts. Enters the radish as a carrot. The elderly Polish gentleman leaves triumphant. Life resumes.
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
OUT: Thinking outside the box
IN: Calling a carrot a carrot
IN: Calling a carrot a carrot
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Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
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Help! @frenchhistory.bsky.social really wanted this for journal cover next year (we’ve got exciting things coming on quantitative and computational methods) but it’s a challenge finding higher res versions/rights holder.
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Help! @frenchhistory.bsky.social really wanted this for journal cover next year (we’ve got exciting things coming on quantitative and computational methods) but it’s a challenge finding higher res versions/rights holder.
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
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This is absolutely the type of hard hitting reporting I want to see in my local news. Dive deep. Tell us everything.
Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is absolutely the type of hard hitting reporting I want to see in my local news. Dive deep. Tell us everything.