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Kyna Bullard (she/her)
@kynabullard.bsky.social
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History PhD Student at CU Boulder || Currently focusing on Early Modern Medicine, Midwifery, and Trial Testimony in the Iberian Peninsula || I’m just here because I miss Academic Twitter
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artherstory.bsky.social
Lady while you are young, and beautiful…, c. 1836–37, by #SarahMappsDouglass (American, 1806-82). From the Elizabeth Smith Friendship Album, held at Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard Univ; source, artherstory.net/visual-feast... #artherstory #womenartists #BlackHistoryMonth
A drawing on paper, contained in an album, of a rose, a rosebud, two violas, and a sprig of a plant with small blue flowers. At the bottom of the page are three lines of text in cursive, and the writer's initials.
February 1, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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etreharne.bsky.social
Scribal joy! (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ch. Oxon 13, c. 1220)
January 30, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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ucwcolorado.bsky.social
Last week, three CU Regents announced support for UCW’s campaign for collective bargaining. This marks a historic step toward bringing us in line with peer institutions and recognizing the right of campus workers to have a real voice in their working conditions.

www.cpr.org/2026/01/23/c...
Several CU Regents announce plan to grant collective bargaining rights to university faculty and staff
If passed, the move would expand coverage to between 45,000 and 53,000 additional workers statewide at all four campuses.
www.cpr.org
January 28, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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artherstory.bsky.social
Art Herstory created a blank lined journal to commemorate the 400th anniversary (in Nov 2025) of the artist's passing in 1625. Copies are still available at

- the Art Herstory online store, artherstory.net/product/sofo...; and

- Art Herstory's Etsy store, www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
Front cover of a journal - it depicts an oval self-portrait of the young Sofonisba Anguissola holding a gold medallion with a monogram. The background is black. At the bottom, the attached ribbon bookmark is visible emerging from the book.
January 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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yaleclassicslib.bsky.social
CERÆ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Vol. 12 (2025) ceraejournal.com/volume-12-20... #openaccess
@ceraejournal.bsky.social @ashleycastelino.bsky.social @kynabullard.bsky.social @agmendez.bsky.social
Volume 12 (2025)
Dreams, Visions, and Utopias Download Ashley Castelino – Editor’s Foreword “The chief end of the constitution is to allow the people as much time as is necessary for the improvement of …
ceraejournal.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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onslies.bsky.social
TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩

#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
Hamilton_Book award - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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abeldelorenzo.bsky.social
"The two listed here are the clearest examples of women reporting such crimes, but they are by no means the only ones..."

theconversation.com/written-acco...
Written accounts reveal how sexual assault claims were dealt with in the middle ages
Written medieval records clearly show that women publicly and successfully reported men to the local authorities for sexual assault.
theconversation.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
kynabullard.bsky.social
I, for one, look forward to 2 am shredded cheese fistful in the all revealing light of day.
ericthefred.bsky.social EricTheFred @ericthefred.bsky.social · Nov 2
We should keep daylight savings time but it goes back an hour every time
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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artherstory.bsky.social
Marie Antoinette [who was born #otd, Nov 2] in a Muslin Dress, 1783, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842). Held by Schloss Wolfsgarten; image found at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... #womenartists #artherstory
A 3/4 length portrait of a white woman with powdered hair, wearing a white gown with a gauzy ruffle at the neckline and a gauzy gold sash at the waist, tied in the back. On her head is a brimmed straw hat with a pale blue ribbon and a large fluffy blue feather. She stands at a small (barely visible) desk on which sits a bowl of cut flowers. She holds a rose isn her left hand, around the stem of which she wraps a blue ribbon with her right hand.
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt
October 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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thricebitten.bsky.social
Wood Duck
#birds
Wood Duck standing on a plank of wood, looking a bit disheveled with a feather tuft in beak and legs pointing toward each other.
October 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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denvermuseumns.bsky.social
🕵️‍♀️🦬 Mystery solved! Our missing 650-pound Museum bison has returned after 50 years. Learn about its journey back to the Museum in #Catalyst. https://dmns.mobi/47bCc43
October 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
rolandmcs.bsky.social Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · Sep 23
Fundamentally, the headbanging Right doesn't believe Autism (or ADHD) exists. Or in so far as it does exist, a human conspiracy has created it.

We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'

'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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juliametraux.bsky.social
"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people."

From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
www.motherjones.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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drmjwarren.bsky.social
Bird place-name of the day 90: HARLOW HILL (Northumbs). OE higera + hlaw. ‘Magpie or jay hill’. www.birdsandplace.co.uk/jay-1 #birdandplace #naturewriting
Magpie Eurasian jay in flight OS map showing Northumbrian village of Hawlow Hill.
September 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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devezer.bsky.social
Took out the clarinet after a 3-month break and boy, does it hate me now! I'm being mercilessly shamed by a 2-lb piece of grenadilla.
August 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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nursingclio.bsky.social
This week @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social argues that in a post Roe vs Wade world “Women who lose pregnancies, even before viability, are targeted in ways that strongly resemble early modern infanticide investigations.” nursingclio.org/2025/08/20/m...
Miscarriage is a Crime Again
In 1650, a young, single English servant named Anne Greene miscarried into the privy and did not tell anyone. We know her story because she was arrested for infanticide, convicted despite exonerati…
nursingclio.org
August 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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gregjenner.bsky.social
Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain
August 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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wokestudies.bsky.social
Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland: Arthur’s Seat Coffins
#history
www.discoverbritain.com/heritage/myt...
August 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'The 3 Graces' on the River Adur' stained glass and driftwood sculptures by UK artist Louise V Durham #WomensArt
Three oart sculture created with vertically sited pieces of driftwood inlaid with circles of coloured stained glass, placed on a riverbank against a gooden sky
August 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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nursingclio.bsky.social
Today for NC, Katherine McKenna explores how Jill Burke’s monograph HOW TO BE A RENAISSANCE WOMAN reveals centuries of cosmetic labour, resistance, and knowledge-sharing among women—from Venetian piazzas to 2025 mirrors. #beautyculture #historyofscience nursingclio.org/2025/08/13/b...
Beauty, Knowledge, Patriarchy, Power
Somewhere in Missouri, Spring 2025: It’s morning, and I’m rushing to pack a stack of books, notes, and binders into my stylishly tiny and oh-so-impractical backpack and get to class. Before braving…
nursingclio.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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historians.org
AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel appeared on @wbur.org's Here & Now today to speak about the sweeping review of the Smithsonian ordered by President Trump. 🗃️
What one historian says White House vetting of Smithsonian means for U.S. cultural institutions
The White House said it wants to ensure the museums show the "unity, progress and enduring values that define the American story."
www.wbur.org
August 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
kynabullard.bsky.social
I watched a preteen girl at the book shop pick up The Hunger Games and Watership Down. I wish that girl a very lifechanging week of reading.
August 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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melaniekiechle.bsky.social
Today on @nursingclio.bsky.social, I share an account of falling ill and dying before germ theory and modern medicine. This #histmed is a peek into my current project, and an experience that I want everything thinking about health to know.

nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...
Dying Before Germ Theory
As RFK questions germ theory, and measles ravages unvaccinated children, Americans need to know what is at risk. Americans died at higher rates and younger ages before the introduction of germ theo…
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July 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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saracharles.bsky.social
Such a treat for medievalists at #IMC2025 - a fashion show by Tanya Bentham. So wonderful to see these costumes in real life 🥰
Early medieval dress Anglo-normal dress Anglo-normal dress Late medieval dress
July 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM