I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Wax sculptor Daniel Neuberger (1621-1680) made this "Kaiserautomat" a life-size automaton of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, constructed out of wax, human hair, silk, and wood, that could apparently move via a series of internal clockworks (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

New post on the #ArtHerstory blog! Sofonisba’s Impact by Howard Burton, @ideasroadshow.bsky.social artherstory.net/sofonisbas-i... Howard discusses Renaissance Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola's influence on other Italian #womenartists, including her own sisters.

#Newbookannouncement! Lavinia's Wondrous Portraits by Emanuele Lugli, Chiara Palillo corraini.com/en/lavinia-w... Lavinia’s wondrous portraits brings children closer to the work of Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), a professional artist from Bologna who was famous above all as a portrait painter.

🌷 "Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is." (Lord Tennyson) 🌸 The Dutch National Library & De Gruyter Brill @dgb-mem.bsky.social warmly invite you to the festive book presentation of...

This is gorgeous!

Not even a week after academia.edu's new TOS claiming the right to use all content to create AI slop (negating the former opt-out), they "cite" me on an SCSC panel w/ which I had nothing to do. My paper existed. The panel existed. The panel organizer did not mention me. Account deleted.

Just deleted my academia.edu account after 17 (!) years -- the company's exploitative new terms of use are outrageous, and it's a shame such a blatant commercial sell-out is able to operate under the .edu top-level domain. If you are still on academia.edu, please consider deleting your account too.

Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style. So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️

I hate to talk about Christmas at a time like this (it being only Sept.), but if you're thinking about commissioning a gift map for Christmas...'tis the season! I've done a number of gift maps over the last few years, and they take a while. So now's the time to get in line!

Prepping a manuscript on #ModernArt? Leonard A. Lauder Spring Publication Grants support new work in the field. Max award $12,000. Deadline September 30, 2025. Info: buff.ly/gG8jWKp #ArtHistory

If you're in Florence next weekend, this looks amazing! And fabulous poster, kudos to the graphic designer :) Conference: "Early Modern Mansplaining! Male-Authored Histories Of Women" 25-26 September 2025 Palazzo Alberti, Via de’ Benci 10, Florence

What Did Dinosaurs Actually Look Like? www.thamesandhudson.com/blogs/all-ne... #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Plaeontology #JurassicWorld

The Call for Applications for the Center for Netherlandish Art, MFA Boston Research Fellowships 2026-2027 is now open. The program supports young scholars (MA through postoc level). www.mfa.org/collections/.... Deadline December 1, 2025.

The Harry Ransom Center @UTAustin 2026–2027 research fellowships support projects in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, women's and gender studies. Online info sessions coming up: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/

Like a scene from "Ben Hur": For #ReliefWednesday a terracotta relief depicting an accident at a chariot-race at the Circus Maximus. The famous circus in #Rome can be recognised due to the seven movable dolphins on the central dividing barrier, the... 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

Henry VIII loved to receive cryptic gifts, but the so-called horned helmet given by the Emperor Maximilian I is perhaps the most bizarre! In @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, Grace Waye-Harris analyses its long-disputed iconographical significance. muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...

A new #OpenAccess resource for teaching world/global history is almost ready. The module "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta," is in final editing & should be "live" by the beginning of September. A preview here: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07...

Surprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon! brill.com/display/titl... #NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers

✨ #Ambizione: The SNSF is awarding 76.4 million Swiss francs to 92 early-career researchers. They will receive an average of 830,000 francs to lead their first independent research project at a higher education institution in Switzerland. 🚀 ℹ️https://buff.ly/WGvNr7E

A new episode of The British Food History Podcast is out now! This week, I spoke with @alexbamji.bsky.social of the University of Leeds about a rare, newly discovered Early Modern pamphlet on cheese. Available on all podcast platforms open.spotify.com/episode/1We5...

Empezamos libro nuevo 😁 (Ojalá uno como este, pero enfocado en España 🥺)

I've registered! Have you??? #WomensHistory #EarlyModern #BookHistory

Postdoc Opportunity! Dr. Anna Grasskamp at Oslo seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in the early modern Philippines to investigate the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Excited about my first ever poster presentation!

Most fascinating C13 porch illuminated by atmospheric late afternoon light at Hellington, St John the Baptist church. Norman round tower and spectacular inner doorway.

#OTD 1585 Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, rides into Antwerp through St. George's Gate. A girl, dressed as the Virgin of Antwerp, presents him with the key to the city. The people welcome the general with joy. First, Farnese visits the cathedral for the Te Deum.

#ManagingMaximilian lädt für das kommende Wintersemester zur Ringvorlesung an der @univie.ac.at ein. Wir freuen uns auf viele Studenten und Gäste! ufind.univie.ac.at/de/course.ht... @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social

Read all about the artist in Stephanie Dickey's guest post "Rachel Ruysch: The Art of Nature," artherstory.net/rachel-ruysc...

A Curatorial Roundtable on Collecting and Presenting Women Artists of the Low Countries, with Jacqueline Coutré, Katrin Dyballa, Virginia Treanor, Maureen Warren & Laurien van der Werff Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, Vol 17.1 jhna.org/articles/jhn...

Pope Gregory XIII has a coin struck to celebrate the massacre of the Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day (23-24 August 1572). #1572ayearintheendofchristendom #earlymodern 🗃️

A wickerwork basket found in a waterlogged site close to Zurich and now on display in the Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum in Zurich. Amazingly, it’s around 3000 years old #archaeology #zurich #prehistory #prehistoric

Wolfram Wintzer-Essling (Germany) - specialist in medieval archaeology for LWL-Archäologie für Deutschland. Driving force behind the research excavations at the women's monastery at Dalheim. #TeamNun loves archaeologists who uncover medieval women's religious communities!

Lunds domkyrka, Sweden, with a Romanesque crypt that’s out of this world!

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

TWO MONTHS from TODAY, we will be welcoming you into DAY ONE of #FiLiA2025 ♀️ We are so busy with the preparations and are looking forward to seeing all of you 💜🤍💚 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets When Women Gather, Magic Happens! 🔮 #Sisterhood and #Solidarity 👭👭👭

So, remember when (way back yesterday) I noted that I had dug the Y. pestis isolates out of that big huge pan-Eurasian aDNA study? If you'll notice, one sample is dated to the 13thC (800 BP). Poor quality retrieval, so not a lot can be inferred from the genome. But guess what I just found today?

Delighted @breerob-kirk.bsky.social and @louiseduckling.bsky.social volume Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange is available for pre-order! I contributed a mini piece on Mary Anne Canning’s 188 page letter-memoir shaping 18thc. motherhood identity www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-and... #skystorians

I'm trying to remember whether I have ever come across an Open Call for MPI directorships before. In any case, should be a great opportunity for top researchers, in whatever field!

Art in art: self-portrait painting fiddler of her work Merry Company, 1633, by Judith Leyster, Dutch Baroque artist, one of first women artists admitted to Haarlem painters’ guild, baptised #OTD 1609; many of her works were later attributed to Frans Hals or Jan Molenaer. NGADC | Private Collection

Should add: fully #OpenAccess! 🥳 #HoeraHuizinga! #MedievalSky #SkyStorians #LowCountries #EarlyModern (cool dissection of how he saw Rembrandt and his attention & care for fellow humans)

Egyptian blue pigment found in Augusta Raurica, Switzerland. The pigments were used in wall paintings. In Roman times, Egyptian blue was distributed throughout the Empire in a more or less standardised form of small balls of 15-20 mm in diameter. 🧵 1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️ We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚 #REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory [See images for details & how to apply.]

Exciting news - Nivaagaards Malerisamling has acquired 'Two flower arrangements' by the Flemish painter Catharina Ykens II! Only 6 works by the artists are known to survive. Ykens II is the first Flemish woman artist in its collection. via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...

Corner of a hand-stitched sail from the 1800s. Every warship had a sailmaker who played a vital role in making and maintaining the huge number of sails required to power the ship in all weathers. #Ageofsail #RoyalNavy #Tallships

Last call! Deadline is tomorrow (but if you need an extra day or two, let me know...)

#SHEAR2025 presidential plenary kicks off! Slavery emancipation in the early American republic. @profmsinha.bsky.social introducing Mia Bay, Lin Fisher, @sethrockman.bsky.social ventriloquizing @adamrothman.bsky.social, Jim Oakes.

Laten we #HetIsGeenFamiliedrama groot maken. Ik ben het echt spuug en spuug zat dat er gem. elke 8 dagen een vrouw vermoord wordt in Nederland (nu weer Gouda) door een partner, ex-partner of iemand die hen begeert en we dat bagatelliseren. Geen drama, gewoon moord: #Femicide!

Métis Rose by contemporary artist Kristi Bridgeman & Métis artist Lisa Shepherd. The five-petal rose represents Métis women. Mixed media: sepia ink, watercolour, pastel sgrafitto, Moose hide, glass beads #womensart