Katherine Ibbett
@eparpillee.bsky.social
Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
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This is one of the threads I went back and reread before deleting my account on Twitter.
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is one of the threads I went back and reread before deleting my account on Twitter.
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Je devrais écrire une liste de conseils de rédaction concise en anglais pour les francophones.
Conseil numéro 1: La plupart des "Note that" et des adverbes en début de phrase ne servent à rien.
Conseil numéro 1: La plupart des "Note that" et des adverbes en début de phrase ne servent à rien.
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Je devrais écrire une liste de conseils de rédaction concise en anglais pour les francophones.
Conseil numéro 1: La plupart des "Note that" et des adverbes en début de phrase ne servent à rien.
Conseil numéro 1: La plupart des "Note that" et des adverbes en début de phrase ne servent à rien.
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There's a £2.5k prize offered for a piece of writing (1000-1500 words) on #sculpture by an early career scholar, deadline 4 May 2026, all the details here so please circulate widely
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
There's a £2.5k prize offered for a piece of writing (1000-1500 words) on #sculpture by an early career scholar, deadline 4 May 2026, all the details here so please circulate widely
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
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Unboxing my author copies to finally hold the finished book in my hands. What a feeling! I started this research during my MA in 2016, and 1 PhD and 2 research fellowships later it’s finally here. Coming soon to a research library near you! ✨
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Unboxing my author copies to finally hold the finished book in my hands. What a feeling! I started this research during my MA in 2016, and 1 PhD and 2 research fellowships later it’s finally here. Coming soon to a research library near you! ✨
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
I'm on/in? a working party to think about a New Thing for the curriculum. Not usually the stuff of good dreams, but last night I dreamt about a class for such a New Thing, talking excitedly around a big kitchen table, with messy evidence of cooking and thinking together 😍
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I'm on/in? a working party to think about a New Thing for the curriculum. Not usually the stuff of good dreams, but last night I dreamt about a class for such a New Thing, talking excitedly around a big kitchen table, with messy evidence of cooking and thinking together 😍
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'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.'
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Want a younger brain? Learn another language
A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.'
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
As of this evening I have six chapters and an introduction and I’m calling this the first draft of the book. Now to make them six better chapters…
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
As of this evening I have six chapters and an introduction and I’m calling this the first draft of the book. Now to make them six better chapters…
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May we do the "black page" beyond Tristram Shandy thread again please? It's so interesting.
I love Róisin's example (wow!) & I wanted in this connection, too, to share this amazing page spread in Kate Beaton's graphic memoir Ducks. It evokes the moment of the protagonist Katie's sexual assault.
I love Róisin's example (wow!) & I wanted in this connection, too, to share this amazing page spread in Kate Beaton's graphic memoir Ducks. It evokes the moment of the protagonist Katie's sexual assault.
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
May we do the "black page" beyond Tristram Shandy thread again please? It's so interesting.
I love Róisin's example (wow!) & I wanted in this connection, too, to share this amazing page spread in Kate Beaton's graphic memoir Ducks. It evokes the moment of the protagonist Katie's sexual assault.
I love Róisin's example (wow!) & I wanted in this connection, too, to share this amazing page spread in Kate Beaton's graphic memoir Ducks. It evokes the moment of the protagonist Katie's sexual assault.
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Join us for what promises to be a fascinating session this week
After a great discussion on lace workers last week, join us this Wednesday 12 Nov to hear Melissa Percival (Uni of Exeter) on 'Toile de Jouy - French printed textiles in cultural memory', 11.10am Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Join us for what promises to be a fascinating session this week
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This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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This is a really fascinating discussion of changing linguistic conventions and how women are expected to write differently.
debuk.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/e...
debuk.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/e...
Enough already!!! Punctuation, silly women and soundbite science
One of last week’s media talking points was a study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (JESP), which attracted attention mainly because of its claim that women use exclamati…
debuk.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This is a really fascinating discussion of changing linguistic conventions and how women are expected to write differently.
debuk.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/e...
debuk.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/e...
I got an email from Audible and am thrilled to share the news that George Eliot has released a brand new title
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I got an email from Audible and am thrilled to share the news that George Eliot has released a brand new title
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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
Mum, hating the SUVs parked in her little street: “Look at these big stupid cars. I would like to scratch them with my poppy pin.”
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Mum, hating the SUVs parked in her little street: “Look at these big stupid cars. I would like to scratch them with my poppy pin.”
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Fascinating to see this 800 year old sealskin binding - with fur intact!
What a great find! As a paleographer, I can't help but observe that if this were French I would have dated the not-yet-Gothic script to the mid-12th century. In Norway, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic happens later, hence the tentative 13th-c. date. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Fascinating to see this 800 year old sealskin binding - with fur intact!
Wait on radio 3 they just said Nottingham has paused all admission in music and modern languages. Nottingham! Is this right?
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Wait on radio 3 they just said Nottingham has paused all admission in music and modern languages. Nottingham! Is this right?
Full and excited house for @brdemuth.bsky.social talking about the Yukon River watershed at @envhumsoxford.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Full and excited house for @brdemuth.bsky.social talking about the Yukon River watershed at @envhumsoxford.bsky.social
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If you are in the UCL /Euston area & you have a calculator that I can borrow this morning, please get in touch urgently!!!
I have a maths exam (10am), and my two have both just died!
Needs to be NOT internet connected; just old simple one.
Oh my life....
I have a maths exam (10am), and my two have both just died!
Needs to be NOT internet connected; just old simple one.
Oh my life....
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If you are in the UCL /Euston area & you have a calculator that I can borrow this morning, please get in touch urgently!!!
I have a maths exam (10am), and my two have both just died!
Needs to be NOT internet connected; just old simple one.
Oh my life....
I have a maths exam (10am), and my two have both just died!
Needs to be NOT internet connected; just old simple one.
Oh my life....
Yes, yes, this!
Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Yes, yes, this!
Ok I'm back on my bear business. Basically in inviting the bear to this Oxford Ministry for the Future event on the Arctic @vbivar.bsky.social made me a very happy woman. Here is Bjorn arriving in the Levine lobby at Trinity. I love him terribly.
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Ok I'm back on my bear business. Basically in inviting the bear to this Oxford Ministry for the Future event on the Arctic @vbivar.bsky.social made me a very happy woman. Here is Bjorn arriving in the Levine lobby at Trinity. I love him terribly.
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
This astounding event on the Arctic now featuring a sleep and hibernation
specialist, Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, who says “At the moment about two billion people are asleep” - and is responding to @brdemuth.bsky.social’s work on whales, from a sleep perspective
specialist, Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, who says “At the moment about two billion people are asleep” - and is responding to @brdemuth.bsky.social’s work on whales, from a sleep perspective
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This astounding event on the Arctic now featuring a sleep and hibernation
specialist, Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, who says “At the moment about two billion people are asleep” - and is responding to @brdemuth.bsky.social’s work on whales, from a sleep perspective
specialist, Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, who says “At the moment about two billion people are asleep” - and is responding to @brdemuth.bsky.social’s work on whales, from a sleep perspective
Best day ever: I met a polar bear
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Best day ever: I met a polar bear