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Keri Cronin
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Historian of Visual Culture. Human-Animal History. Writer. Pteridomaniac. Kayaker. Has a chronic illness you probably haven’t heard of. Fan of #PWHL hockey 😷 🍁 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 she/her

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Everyone thinks rabbits are quiet. 😆 📦 🐇
May 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Is it just me, or does my rabbit look like Poirot? 😆 🐇 🕵️
A split screen image. On the left is a closeup of a grey and white lop eared rabbit. On the right is a closeup of a bald man with a dark elegant moustache. The man wears a fine suit with a bow tie. The rabbit had markings that make it appear he has an elegant moustache. The man is the actor David Suchet playing the role of Agatha Christie’s Poirot.
May 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Finally made it to a @pwhlsceptres.bsky.social game! And we saw Sarah Nurse score! 🏒 #pwhl
May 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Watching @thepwhl.com hockey with this little button. He is cheering for the @pwhlcharge.bsky.social tonight 🐇 🏒

#hockey #pwhl #rabbit #houserabbit
A small grey and white lop eared rabbit sits on a brown cloth bench. He looks curiously at the camera as a hockey game plays on a TV behind him.
April 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Did you celebrate International Pinhole Photography Day today?

#photography #pinholecamera #internationalpinholephotographyday #pinhole_photography #pinholephotography #internationalpinholeday
A blurry, ghostly looking photograph of a two story brick building. It is a historic house. There are trees next to it with only teeny, tiny baby spring leaves on them.
April 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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I think he has a touch of spring fever! ❤️🐇❤️ #houserabbit
April 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Who needs to see a bunny loaf today? 🐰 🍞 #houserabbit
A small grey and white lop eared rabbit is hunched up in a ball with his feet tucked under him. His eyes are closed and he looks like a loaf.
April 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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2 weeks since my last class-I can safely say that I’ve made it through another school year without catching an airborne illness in the classroom. Many students show up sick, but the combination of a mask and air purifiers work. I used to just think getting sick at least once a term was inevitable.
A white middle aged woman wears blue framed glasses, a black face mask, and a grey scarf with gold bunnies on it. She is in a classroom and the image projected on the screen behind her has a white cat at the top.
April 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Let’s gooooo! 🇨🇦

#WomensWorlds #hockey #TeamCanada
An iPad showing a hockey game sits next to a laptop computer, a pile of books, and a mug of tea.
April 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Excited for this tournament! My days are scheduled around the games for the next little while 🏒

#hockey #WomensHockey
An iPad with a women’s hockey game streaming sits next to a full kit of tea and a pile of books with fountain pens on top.
April 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Ok, this is fascinating! I might have to take organize a field trip for my “Animals in Visual Culture” course. #animalstudies #visualculture #niagarafalls
Screenshot of a news article with a headline that reads “Hologram zoo attraction opening in Niagara Falls.” There is an image of people interacting with an elephant, zebra, and giraffe. The animals are digital versions.
April 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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End of term! Our final class meeting for my 19th century visual culture class was all about making terrariums/Wardian cases. Earlier in the week we talked about ideas of nature in the long 19th century, so today we put some of that in to practice and got our hands dirty. 🪴 🌱
A table with several glass jars that have been turned into terrariums with plants, soil, and rocks. A closeup of a terrarium in a glass jar that has a mini yellow rubber duck in it.
April 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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I have to watch that my research assistant doesn’t eat my power cord. 😆

#houserabbit
A Mac laptop sits on a wooden table. There is a white and grey lop eared rabbit looking around the back of the computer at the photographer. There are post-it notes with “to do” lists on the computer. A brown glasses case and and a glass of water sit next to the computer.
April 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Just me and @lmorrison.bsky.social having a ghostly time getting ready for this week’s History of Photography historical investigation!

#historyofphotography #longexposure #pinholecamera #visualculture #teaching #learning #experimentalphotography #pinholephotography
A grainy black and white photograph of a hallway. Sunshine streams in and makes bright rectangles on the floor. Two people are in the image but they are rather ghostly looking due to the process and long exposure time.
March 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Spent the morning at the orchid show at the Floral Showhouse in Niagara Falls (Ontario). So stunning!
Looking through the doorway into a greenhouse that has dozens of orchids on display. A white fountain is in the centre. A display of colourful orchids against a pink pergola backdrop. A closeup of a group of dark pink and white orchids. A closeup of light coloured orchid flowers.
March 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I’ve been trying to bring in hands-on experiential learning to the History of Photography class this term, but it isn’t easy during the dreary winter months. I promised the students that we would head out to use actual sunshine on the first sunny Thursday we had. #cyanotype☀️
Several cyanotypes in progress on the hood of a blue car. Each piece has a piece of paper with flowers and leaves on it and it is covered by a piece of glass held on with clips. The sun is shining brightly.
March 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Sunny days are great for noodling around with wet cyanotypes!

#experimentalphotography #analoguephotography #cyanotypes #cyanotype #wetcyanotype
An image of a fern with white splotches around it. The image is blue and white. An image of 4 leaves and a slice of lemon on the page of an old medical book. The image is in blue and white tones.
March 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Mmm… I love the smell of fixer in the morning.

#photography #darkroom #analoguephotography #glassnegatives #historyofphotography #happyplace
A black and white photograph floats in a tray of liquid in a darkroom. The light is red because the safelights are on.
March 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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In my History of Photography class today we made photographs in the style of Margaret Watkins (early 20th century). I had a ton of fun pulling props together for the students to use.
A black and white photograph of an antique glass juicer. A bowl of eggs and a tin of honey are in the background. An antique clock sits on a piano. The photo is taken from a high angle so you only see a small portion of the piano keys.
February 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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A fun photo find at the antique store yesterday. Photo by William H. Manahan, Jr.

#cat #vintage #antique #oldphoto #visualculture #animalhistory #animalsandvisualculture #historyofphotography
An old framed monochromatic photograph of a light coloured cat in a basket looking up and off to the side.
February 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Holiday Monday vibes.

#rabbit #cute #bunny #houserabbit #flop #minilop #miniloprabbit #sleepy
A white and grey mini lop rabbit flopped on his side on a floor heating vent. The floor is a dark hardwood.
February 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Today my History of Photography class spent time with some of the incredible photographs in the @brocklibrary.bsky.social Archives & Special Collections. From daguerreotypes to Polaroids, we covered a ton of ground. #brocku #teaching #learning #historyofphotography #brockhumanities
A picture of several old black and white photographs laid out on a table. A picture of several old black and white photographs laid out on a table. At the centre is an old stereoscope viewer, an optical device that you looked through to make stereoscopes (side by side double photographs) appear 3D.
February 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Brought some old cameras in for my History of Photography students to explore today. We had been talking about documentary photography so seeing some of these old Press Cameras brought a new perspective to the conversation.

#teaching #learning #camera #historyofphotography #speedgraphic #graflex
An old fashioned press camera with a large circular external flash.
February 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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In my 19th century visual culture class today we did a workshop on scrapbooks. We talked about the social functions these books played and many students tried out making “ghost signatures.”
👻 🖊️

As always, a huge shoutout to Crafting Comminities for the inspiration. www.craftingcommunities.net
5 small pieces of paper with ink blots on them sitting on marbled endpapers of a book.
February 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I’m a little horrified by some of the instructions that came with our new oven. Yikes! 😬
A picture of a page from an instruction manual that came with a stove. This page is about important safety things and at the top of the list it says “never attempt to dry a pet in the oven,”
February 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM