Architecte du Palais qui porte son nom à Paris, Charles Garnier est né il y a 200 ans tout juste, le 6 novembre 1825. L'occasion de revenir sur ses rapports, riches et nombreux, avec la musique et les compositeurs de son temps.

THIS IS GORGEOUS LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO

Esta joyita de la poetisa malagueña del siglo XIX Carmen Núñez Rodríguez:

UK publication day! www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/chris...

It's almost like Bourdieu was right about misrecognition 🙃

Look what just arrived in the Mail! Finally the three volumes Cambridge Urban History of Europe (general editor Maarten Prak) is out!

I did my homework. Very informative. Thanks ! @randyallenharris.bsky.social @hiphilangsci.bsky.social hiphilangsci.net/2024/11/01/p...

Boudon (2003) Y a-t-il encore une sociologie?

FRESH WORK After 10 years of work on the sentence-based version of my History of Philosophy, I created an auxiliary interactive visualization, a force-directed graph with philosophers as nodes. Link: denizcemonduygu.com/philo/philos... Detailed post: www.denizcemonduygu.com/philo/new-fo...

Un diálogo músico-literario Teo Sanz escribe en @zendalibros.bsky.social un artículo a modo de 'making of' sobre el proceso de creación de su libro LA LITERATURA DE LA MÚSICA EN FRANCIA www.zendalibros.com/un-dialogo-m...

It is not often that a new flow cytometry protocol makes the newspaper! I also got a kick out of seeing our science tagged as "quirky"! www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/fairy-l...

JUST PUBLISHED!!!! A major azhdarchoid phylogeny paper coauthored with @skyemcdavid.com - the fruit of years of work - is now out in @journalsystpal.bsky.social! New clades, reconstruction of size evolution, and more. Full thread to come soon! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bom Dia, Portugal! My little book (Lessons From Cats For Surviving Fascism) is now available in Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy!

Publication : Claes Gejrot, Kurt Villads Jensen, Kirsi Salonen & Benoît-Michel Tock (eds.), Testaments as Historical Documents. Papers from the 17th Congress of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique, Stockholm, 2025, accessible en ligne : olinfoundation.com/rs-33/

Words cannot express how I feel today: my books have earned me just €2.19 in Irish PLR. That's less than half a pint of Guinness.

For your next Paris trip ;) @olawikander.bsky.social

My author copies have arrived! @iucrjournals.bsky.social

road injuries are massively underreported - their estimated cost to UK is over £55 billion a year actionvisionzero.org/2025/10/29/a...

Un inédit du jeune Bourdieu, présenté par Victor Collard. (Merci à F.R.) journals.openedition.org/rhsh/11635

#Incredible ! There is good evidence that Greek literacy was relatively widespread among the ancient Arabs east of Ḥawrān. Here, our #Safaitic author partially writes out the Safaitic letters in the Greek order, omitting vowels! Find more on #OCIANA: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...

Decisión lógica y de justicia.

How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread Paper: Mamluk Maqāmas on the Black Death. (2025). Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 25(4), 151-181. doi.org/10.5617/jais...

📣 We’re back this Thursday, 6/11, for the second session of HISTEPS! 📍Join us online for more thoughtful conversations on the philosophy and history of science, featuring Adam Tamas Tuboly on: “Otto Neurath's Emigration: Planning Logical Empiricism in the British Muddle” 🔗 Registration link below

It's out! Six volumes of a superb 'Cultural History of Higher Learning', from antiquity to the present day, written by 67 authors from all around the world. I am delighted to see this wonderful collective work published and to have had the opportunity to take part in it.

Packing my books up AGAIN to move house, would recommend this - Omar Ibn Said‘a narrative is one of the few slave narratives written in a language acquired in Africa - it includes English translations and his original hand-written Arabic

Posting Kevin Hart’s hilarious ‘Oh no, baby’ clip 😂😂 … just to remind myself how much of a disappointment I am. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPAu...

Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️

So pleased to get my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War". @HurstPublishers publishers have done a wonderful job in producing it. Advanced copies available thru www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels... with 25% off with code TRAVELS25. Otherwise 20 November in UK/Europe and 5 Jan for US, etc

@amoatti.bsky.social (C'est en pensant à votre ouvrage, que je vais acheter prochainement.)

Faites-vous du bien, cet après-midi 🔽

Welcome to November! Here's a look at how temperatures have changed around our planet over the last four decades... Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

My book, Things of the Past: A Modern Yearning, is now available for free download from CUP, until November 13. It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America. Please share and comment!

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Dans "Monsieur de Saint-Georges – Un Rival de Mozart", Alain Guédé retrace la vie hors du commun de Joseph Bologne, compositeur noir à la cour de France, violoniste virtuose et figure exceptionnelle trop longtemps oubliée de l’histoire musicale ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/hUy

On ne le dira jamais assez: Sidonie Kellerer est d'un courage intellectuel peu commun, de nos jours. @johnraimo.bsky.social

Walt Disney, 2025

I did some math for today's @majorityreport.bsky.social newsletter.

@ireneer.bsky.social @arnaudsaint-martin.bsky.social

Pierre Larcher's rejoinder 😧 (in Folia Orientalia - journals.pan.pl/for/131573#t... )

🦟 🍄‍ Un hongo modificado para oler a flor promete convertirse en el nuevo enemigo de los mosquitos que propagan enfermedades mortales. Su perfume dulce, irresistible para los insectos, podría ser la trampa biológica «perfecta» para frenar la malaria y el dengue. www.rexmolon.es/rexmolon-pro...

I collect inspirational footnotes and share them from time to time:

New Blogpost! In this blog post, Marieke Rotman shares how the platform CODECS is the perfect resource for Celtic students. She shows some of its basic (and very cool) features and how it can help you in your research and studies! celticstudents.blogspot.com/2025/10/code...

This day is called the feast of Crispian! Actually Crispin and Crispinian, missionaries and cobblers, martyred in Belgic Gaul in 285 or 286. 🕯️ Here are two copies of their Passion, one 9th c (Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 161) and one 15th (Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 163).

@medievalmiddleeast.bsky.social @sasanianshah.bsky.social

Coming soon: first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad. Books 1 and 2. www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza detected in a poultry farm (161,000 layer hens) in Dodewaard, Gelderland, The Netherlands. All these hens are being killed to prevent further virus spread. There are 26 poultry farms in a 10 km radius around the farm.

Y en una semana se presenta en el Instituto Francés de Madrid.