Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊
@sauthoff.bsky.social
Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology.
Assistant Professor at HKBU.
News junkie with a journalism past.
https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
Assistant Professor at HKBU.
News junkie with a journalism past.
https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
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As someone who's been doing conferences for 29 years, my all-purpose rules (which others have mentioned) are:
1. Comfortable shoes.
2. Eat what you can when you can – don't think in terms of normal meal schedules. Carry snacks/water as backup.
3. Do your best to experience the city you're in.
1. Comfortable shoes.
2. Eat what you can when you can – don't think in terms of normal meal schedules. Carry snacks/water as backup.
3. Do your best to experience the city you're in.
okay, friends, let's do something community-oriented and helpful. #sblaar25 veterans, drop your best conference advice for first-time attendees. be sure to signal boost so folks across bluesky can add on/peruse.
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
As someone who's been doing conferences for 29 years, my all-purpose rules (which others have mentioned) are:
1. Comfortable shoes.
2. Eat what you can when you can – don't think in terms of normal meal schedules. Carry snacks/water as backup.
3. Do your best to experience the city you're in.
1. Comfortable shoes.
2. Eat what you can when you can – don't think in terms of normal meal schedules. Carry snacks/water as backup.
3. Do your best to experience the city you're in.
Take a walk away from the conference and eat something local. Never go to a city for a conference and don’t see any of the city!
okay, friends, let's do something community-oriented and helpful. #sblaar25 veterans, drop your best conference advice for first-time attendees. be sure to signal boost so folks across bluesky can add on/peruse.
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Take a walk away from the conference and eat something local. Never go to a city for a conference and don’t see any of the city!
Reposted by Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊
man we should bring back the pamphlet
Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
man we should bring back the pamphlet
If things work out, I should have a transcript of a Sanskrit work in magic tricks to play around with at some point in the future.
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
If things work out, I should have a transcript of a Sanskrit work in magic tricks to play around with at some point in the future.
The head of FIFA attending a dinner for MBS really makes that FIFA peace prize seem legit.
Who Attended Trump’s Dinner for the Saudi Crown Prince?
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The head of FIFA attending a dinner for MBS really makes that FIFA peace prize seem legit.
Postgrad students and early career researchers in History, there’s a great symposium in Hong Kong you should submit to! shs.history.hku.hk?fbclid=PARlR...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Postgrad students and early career researchers in History, there’s a great symposium in Hong Kong you should submit to! shs.history.hku.hk?fbclid=PARlR...
Damn. William here is about to ruin Babar for me. I loved it as a kid and have not returned because I know it’s super problematic. Time to face the facts.
New from @EmpirePodUK
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Damn. William here is about to ruin Babar for me. I loved it as a kid and have not returned because I know it’s super problematic. Time to face the facts.
When the ocean was being churned by the gods and daityas, the froth and foam, agitated and expelled from the mouth of Vāsuki, fell to the earth with a hissing sound. Therefore, it is called ahiphena (opium).
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November 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
When the ocean was being churned by the gods and daityas, the froth and foam, agitated and expelled from the mouth of Vāsuki, fell to the earth with a hissing sound. Therefore, it is called ahiphena (opium).
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They didn’t steal my book but maybe they stole yours!
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
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November 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
They didn’t steal my book but maybe they stole yours!
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Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Few people are aware that the Library has not yet recovered from the cyberattack and the impact this has had on the research community. This has been disastrous for university teaching, research and publication in many humanities disciplines.
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 6:45 AM
Few people are aware that the Library has not yet recovered from the cyberattack and the impact this has had on the research community. This has been disastrous for university teaching, research and publication in many humanities disciplines.
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As good a political economy analysis as any from an Ivy League professor
November 17, 2025 at 5:36 AM
As good a political economy analysis as any from an Ivy League professor
Oh man. The nice lady who walks my favorite neighborhood dog needs a new job because her family is getting a new helper and now I’m sad about the realities of Hong Kong.
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Oh man. The nice lady who walks my favorite neighborhood dog needs a new job because her family is getting a new helper and now I’m sad about the realities of Hong Kong.
Seriously, these yoga people need to chill out with the animals.
Yoga with animals — goats, dogs and cats — has become popular in recent years.
But chicken yoga is another version, offered in a neighborhood where dozens of wild chickens roam the streets, courtyards and sidewalks.
But chicken yoga is another version, offered in a neighborhood where dozens of wild chickens roam the streets, courtyards and sidewalks.
Rescued chickens wearing diapers join monthly Florida yoga class
The chickens mostly walk around the room, cluck at one another and sit on the floor and yoga mats. Sometimes they lounge on people’s stomachs.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Seriously, these yoga people need to chill out with the animals.
What is the Sanskrit word for xxx is always the wrong question, tv people.
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What is the Sanskrit word for xxx is always the wrong question, tv people.
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Good morning.
This is your reminder to get to the gym so that you can beat up racists if you have to.
This is your reminder to get to the gym so that you can beat up racists if you have to.
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Good morning.
This is your reminder to get to the gym so that you can beat up racists if you have to.
This is your reminder to get to the gym so that you can beat up racists if you have to.
Reposted by Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊
Reposted by Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊
Fewer profiles of journalists continuing a genteel kind of work despite their abject disgrace, more interest in journalists forced to leave the field in dejected poverty
November 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Fewer profiles of journalists continuing a genteel kind of work despite their abject disgrace, more interest in journalists forced to leave the field in dejected poverty
Watching The Player with my movie buddy.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Watching The Player with my movie buddy.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I had to turn a Maple skateboards tshirt inside out once because the morons at my high school insisted it was a pot leaf.
A reader told me she was asked to take off her Hellebore “Wind in the Willows” jumper before entering Westminster Abbey. The reason given was that it depicts the devil and might offend people. The reader explained it was the Greek god Pan, but the security guard didn’t backtrack. Satanic panic 2025.
November 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I had to turn a Maple skateboards tshirt inside out once because the morons at my high school insisted it was a pot leaf.
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You know it’s been a big news week when “DNA sequencing proves Hitler had a micropenis” doesn’t even rank.
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
You know it’s been a big news week when “DNA sequencing proves Hitler had a micropenis” doesn’t even rank.
Yay! Just last night I was saying that I can't listen to My Bloody Valentine on the stereo anymore because it makes my cat go crazy and today I find out they'll be in Hong Kong in a few weeks. www.clockenflap.com/2025lineup
2025 Lineup
2025 Lineup
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November 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Yay! Just last night I was saying that I can't listen to My Bloody Valentine on the stereo anymore because it makes my cat go crazy and today I find out they'll be in Hong Kong in a few weeks. www.clockenflap.com/2025lineup
I’m giving a public talk this week. Come on by.
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I’m giving a public talk this week. Come on by.