Nahyan Fancy
@fancynahyan.bsky.social
Professor; University of Exeter; Historian of Science and Medicine in Premodern Islamic Societies; Love Urdu poetry
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We are not a serious country, at all.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We are not a serious country, at all.
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I heard the most amazing presentation this morning. The folks at the @intbocced.bsky.social explained their ambition to create a new, open-access critical edition of all of Boccaccio's writings based on a single principle: altruism. B/c it will make us good people to do good & generous things. ♥️♥️♥️
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I heard the most amazing presentation this morning. The folks at the @intbocced.bsky.social explained their ambition to create a new, open-access critical edition of all of Boccaccio's writings based on a single principle: altruism. B/c it will make us good people to do good & generous things. ♥️♥️♥️
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paging @wthrockmorton.bsky.social
Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take."
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
paging @wthrockmorton.bsky.social
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Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.
October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.
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I worked for an architecture firm in NY in the early 2000s that was an early adopter of the “cloud.” Then, on August 29, 2005, our entire website disappeared. Gone. Bu-bye.
Turned out our “cloud” was a server in New Orleans, which was swept away when Hurricane Katrina broke the levees…
Turned out our “cloud” was a server in New Orleans, which was swept away when Hurricane Katrina broke the levees…
Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I worked for an architecture firm in NY in the early 2000s that was an early adopter of the “cloud.” Then, on August 29, 2005, our entire website disappeared. Gone. Bu-bye.
Turned out our “cloud” was a server in New Orleans, which was swept away when Hurricane Katrina broke the levees…
Turned out our “cloud” was a server in New Orleans, which was swept away when Hurricane Katrina broke the levees…
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Great news for Lancaster members. Well done!
Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies.
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Great news for Lancaster members. Well done!
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I am very pleased and grateful to share this announcement of our recent award from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social for a project on history of smallpox and measles #histmed #histsci news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... The project will be based @exeter.ac.uk @cceh-u24.bsky.social led by ... 1/2
Exeter scholars secure significant research funding to investigate the early history of Smallpox and Measles
The early histories of smallpox and measles – and the insight they might offer to contemporary health and medicine – will be under the microscope of a new research project. Pustules, Palaeogenetics an...
news.exeter.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Fabulous news: a major project has been funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social on the history of smallpox & measles in the ancient & early medieval work. At last! A proper edition & translation of Rhazes' 10thC text on these diseases. A transitional moment in infectious disease history. #EpiSky
...the amazing Rebecca Flemming, and included in the team are myself and Siam Bhayro from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, and David Leith and Dan King from Classics and Ancient History. Stay tuned for announcements concerning post-docs and PhDs. 2/2
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Fabulous news: a major project has been funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social on the history of smallpox & measles in the ancient & early medieval work. At last! A proper edition & translation of Rhazes' 10thC text on these diseases. A transitional moment in infectious disease history. #EpiSky
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Christian Henderson (Leiden) will be speaking at our next CGS Seminar Series (25 November, 17:00-18:30 London time) on Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf states in the global food system. To see more details and register, please go to www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai...
Christian Henderson - Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf states in the global food system
www.exeter.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Christian Henderson (Leiden) will be speaking at our next CGS Seminar Series (25 November, 17:00-18:30 London time) on Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf states in the global food system. To see more details and register, please go to www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai...
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This has been quite a long route from marginal text missing from a photograph to connections to the "slow pandemic" that was leprosy in the Middle Ages (constantinusafricanus.com/2025/01/26/l...). But that's how #histmed works in an interdisciplinary mode. Thanks to all who have contributed!
Leprosy in the Global Middle Ages: A Slow Pandemic
In August 2024, Jordan became the first country to officially eliminate leprosy.1 Countries participating in the World Health Organization (WHO)2 have committed not simply to bringing percentages o…
constantinusafricanus.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This has been quite a long route from marginal text missing from a photograph to connections to the "slow pandemic" that was leprosy in the Middle Ages (constantinusafricanus.com/2025/01/26/l...). But that's how #histmed works in an interdisciplinary mode. Thanks to all who have contributed!
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My thanks to all who have been engaging w/ this 🧵 about retrieving the work of the ♀️ healer Trota out of this (itself digitally retrieved) medical manuscript from the 12th century. Here's a mini-🧵 w/ some follow-up info, the kind of connections that come from shared expertise. #WomensHealth #histmed
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
My thanks to all who have been engaging w/ this 🧵 about retrieving the work of the ♀️ healer Trota out of this (itself digitally retrieved) medical manuscript from the 12th century. Here's a mini-🧵 w/ some follow-up info, the kind of connections that come from shared expertise. #WomensHealth #histmed
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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lee's monograph has been published open-access with @archumanities.bsky.social. Read The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body now! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270039... [3/4] #medievalsky #histmed
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lee's monograph has been published open-access with @archumanities.bsky.social. Read The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body now! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270039... [3/4] #medievalsky #histmed
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Some good news is always worth grabbing to these days
I am very pleased and grateful to share this announcement of our recent award from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social for a project on history of smallpox and measles #histmed #histsci news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... The project will be based @exeter.ac.uk @cceh-u24.bsky.social led by ... 1/2
Exeter scholars secure significant research funding to investigate the early history of Smallpox and Measles
The early histories of smallpox and measles – and the insight they might offer to contemporary health and medicine – will be under the microscope of a new research project. Pustules, Palaeogenetics an...
news.exeter.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Some good news is always worth grabbing to these days
I am very pleased and grateful to share this announcement of our recent award from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social for a project on history of smallpox and measles #histmed #histsci news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... The project will be based @exeter.ac.uk @cceh-u24.bsky.social led by ... 1/2
Exeter scholars secure significant research funding to investigate the early history of Smallpox and Measles
The early histories of smallpox and measles – and the insight they might offer to contemporary health and medicine – will be under the microscope of a new research project. Pustules, Palaeogenetics an...
news.exeter.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I am very pleased and grateful to share this announcement of our recent award from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social for a project on history of smallpox and measles #histmed #histsci news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... The project will be based @exeter.ac.uk @cceh-u24.bsky.social led by ... 1/2
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"This is why I cant have a conversation with younger Jews about Gaza. I want to have a conversation about data and facts and all they are seeing is this wall of carnage. And I sound obscene"
Well. Yeah, Sarah.
Well. Yeah, Sarah.
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"This is why I cant have a conversation with younger Jews about Gaza. I want to have a conversation about data and facts and all they are seeing is this wall of carnage. And I sound obscene"
Well. Yeah, Sarah.
Well. Yeah, Sarah.
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Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
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Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies- Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin - School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK381/a...
Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies- Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin - School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK381/a...
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
And not to be missed (open-access), Engelhardt's excellent article "From Private Libraries in Late Ottoman Palestine to "Abandoned Property": Reconstructing the Dajānī Family Manuscript Collections in the National Library of Israel" (seized as abandoned property after Nakba)
New issue of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the @sims-mss.bsky.social Vol. 10, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55895 #openaccess @pennpress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @lisafdavis.bsky.social @borizzle.bsky.social @teachingcodex.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
And not to be missed (open-access), Engelhardt's excellent article "From Private Libraries in Late Ottoman Palestine to "Abandoned Property": Reconstructing the Dajānī Family Manuscript Collections in the National Library of Israel" (seized as abandoned property after Nakba)
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Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Here is a thread of my feelings
a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Here is a thread of my feelings
For those who understand Urdu/Hindi, a nice video from my colleague and friend from @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, Salman Hameed and his YouTube channel, Kainat. The video is a good historical contextualization of the Galileo Affair #histsci #history
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHoR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHoR...
[Urdu/Hindi] Galileo: Science, Religion & The Truth Behind His Trial! 🔭📜✨| Kainaati Gup Shup |
YouTube video by Kainaat Astronomy in Urdu
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
For those who understand Urdu/Hindi, a nice video from my colleague and friend from @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, Salman Hameed and his YouTube channel, Kainat. The video is a good historical contextualization of the Galileo Affair #histsci #history
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHoR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHoR...
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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All of Congress should get onboard with this 💔 🇵🇸
Rep Rashida Tlaib and 20 other members of Congress—all Democrats—have put forth a resolution to recognize “the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza,” something the United States has consistently refused to do, even in the face of U.N. evidence. trib.al/MFBNqqG
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
All of Congress should get onboard with this 💔 🇵🇸
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Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Black Knights
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...
press.uchicago.edu
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...