Last week in Istanbul with @ulastuna.bsky.social and @luiscamposribeiro.bsky.social after our panel at Scientiae2025 “Prognostication, fortune, and risk: How people navigated material fortunes through almanacs and astrological consulations in the e.m world.” Thank you both and Scientiae organisers!

Will be going to this!

Casebooks Therapy is back! Here’s our schedule for 2025-2026. As usual, everyone is welcome to bring cases to read from the digital edition casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk or to simply come along and enjoy! Our first session is next month, 29 October. For the zoom link, please dm or email me

Tomorrow (21 May 15:00-16:00 Florence time) is our final session of casebooks therapy for this academic year. If you’d like to join dm me for the zoom link! #skystorians #casebooks #astronomy #astrology @laurenkassell.bsky.social

Amazing workshop on #earlymodern #almanacs It was great to meet old and new friends in this amazing place #Fribourg

Happening later this week -- Kepler, Kircher, Grynaeus, Bruno, and more: 😃 👇 #earlymodern #histsci

Happy to see my review of @luiscamposribeiro.bsky.social’s book, Jesuit Astrology, to be out in the JHA today. Congratulations again, Luís! #skystorians #astronomy #astrology

Today (25 April), I’m joining the Writing Technologies team for an informal workshop to chat about the properties of stones in a medieval Arabic handbook of recipes for remedies and wonders by the 13th alchemist al-ʿIrāqī, and my tentative steps into thinking about stones and generation 💎

How did #almanacs provide orientation for a "New World"? I'll be talking about Spanish-American almanacs in this fantastic workshop in Fribourg, Switzerland organised by Vitus Huber. If you are interested in #earlymodern uses of #time take a look at the programme #histsci

Heading to Fribourg🇨🇭in mid-May for a phenomenal seminar on time and writing in early modern almanacs, organised by Vitus Huber. Another chance to revisit my PhD dissertation (2018), where I first developed and introduced archaeology of care as an interpretative method.

Emotion in Early Modern Science? Join us for a 2-day conference at the Warburg Institute exploring how Kepler, Kircher, and Boyle used pathos, praise & wonder in their scientific writing. 📅 15–16 May 🎟️ Free (in person or online)

Very much looking forward to this symposium next month organised by Vitus Huber! Writing-calendar galore ✍️

The next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday 19 March - we’ll be reading the casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier. Thanks to @jakubochocinski.bsky.social for organising. dm or email him @eui-history.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social

Our next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday!

Some news! I am writing a book about everyday bewitchment using, among other records, Napier's casebooks, which I spent four years transcribing. I want to move away from sensationalist narratives. I am super glad to have met Fabienne who is amazing. I've had a can of Red Bull to celebrate.

📣Thrilled to be joining Bluesky conversations with my most recent publication on Scottish midwifery! Many thanks to @sshmedicine.bsky.social and @sgsah.bsky.social!! doi.org/10.1093/shm/...

#otd 1627 Napier records a visit by 'on[e] Mr Eastworth a yorkesheerman' who 'should have broght me Mres Kays letter for the taking of physick against melanch[oly] but forgot it & the token of gold in it & left it behind him in yorke sheere'. He 'will send it if he can'.

The next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday 19 March - we’ll be reading the casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier dm or email me for the zoom link @eui-history.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social