AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.

The Word made Flesh is out today! I've not seen it in the flesh myself yet, but this is a happy day after many years of work. #EarlyModern #medhist #histmed #bodyhistory

Classical music, always and only. Probably not the first thing you thought of when I said classical music, but something more contemporary. Stephen Glass maybe.

The greatest comedy for television, by the proverbial country mile. "while television may have evolved since 1975, Fawlty Towers was born fully formed. It still lives in a world of its own." www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Like many others, it seems, you can no longer find me or my work on Academia.edu. You can still find my stuff on Hcommons, or as always just email or DM me if you don't have institutional access to an article or chapter I have published and I'll send you a PDF.

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods 📍Institute of History, University of Bern (🇨🇭) 📆Deadline: 19 October 2025 ▶️ Information: tinyurl.com/56ywncuj #Medievalsky #DigitalHumaniities

Coming up Sept 16 at @notredame.bsky.social - Art, Politics, and Ritual in the Clementine Jubilee Year 1525 A talk by by Sheryl E. Reiss arts.nd.edu/events/2025/...

"These companies might even lay off workers or slow their hiring because they are convinced—like the software developers from the METR study—that AI has made them more productive, even when it hasn’t."

"Why worry about actually learning anything when you can get an A for outsourcing your thinking to a machine?"

I have been assigning episodes of In Our Time as additional listening for students for years: a smart, accessible conversation between scholars. Melvyn Bragg can be a little annoying (to me anyway) but he never lets the discussion flag or get sidetracked and he keeps the guests honest!

(Call for applications) Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Medieval History (Global), Department of History, Baylor University histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/08/post... #histmed

A group of economists train AI to prove what art historians have already established: more non-historians producing naïve, simplistic work b/c they have no understanding of historical methods or analysis. news.artnet.com/art-world/ai...

Technologist Miller Prosser sees a future where students expand creativity and critical thinking by reading and writing, all without a single subscription to a faulty techbro app.

"Raphael: Sublime Poetry" coming to the Met March 29–June 28, 2026

The inner circle of every historian…

New issue of Renaissance Studies Vol. 39, No. 4 (2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14774658... @srsrensoc.bsky.social Renaissance Humanism and the Venetian Empire @lukaspoljaric.bsky.social @clemencerevest.bsky.social @stuartmcmanus.bsky.social

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The American University of Paris - Assistant Professor of Art History: memorients.com/news/the-ame...

"Almost half of Australia’s universities have restructured in the past year, leading to the merging or disbanding of more than 50 schools of study and drastic reductions in course options for students, particularly in the humanities." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

🎺 Job alert! 🎺 Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time! Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...

For the cynics who think it doesn’t matter, that the compensation for authors whose work was stolen will be so low it’s not worth fighting, I personally think it’s worth making the monetary punitive damage these companies suffer as big as possible to deter similar theft in the future.

New job: Tenured Associate/Full Professor in History, Deinard Chair in Early Modern/Modern Jewish History University of Minnesota - Minneapolis jobs.h-net.org/jobs/68974

"This hair analysis adds another piece of evidence to the growing belief that khipu production and literacy might have been more widespread in the Inca Empire than the Spanish colonizers assumed and recorded in their accounts." www.npr.org/2025/08/13/n...

“Our system of higher education cannot do these crucial things with leaders who undervalue the humanities, who fail to broaden our approach to the liberal arts beyond the scientistic vision of higher education pioneered in the 19th century.” www.chronicle.com/article/they...

Research Associate in Early Modern Global History, University of Manchester: memorients.com/news/researc...

Princeton University - Assistant Professor, High Medieval European History (tenure track): memorients.com/news/princet...

Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European History): memorients.com/news/pomona-...

New job: Assistant Professor, High Medieval European History (tenure track) Princeton University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/68949

I'm still looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Microhistory in the Era Global History for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F. Send me your proposal asap! See www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.

I'm still looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Microhistory in the Era Global History for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F. Send me your proposal asap! See www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.

#CfP: Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Exeter, 30-31 October 31, 2025. Abstracts by September 5, 2025 @earlymodernwar.bsky.social #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents #MiseryOfCivilWar www.rensoc.org.uk/event/confli...

This is not, in fact, what the CNBC report says. Yes, charges are going up *for people who need a visa*. That is not *all visitors*.

According to the report, the fee only applies to visitors who require a nonimmigrant visa. So, not all visitors. Visa waiver holders presumably don't need to pay. But for anyone who needs a B visa, this is an additional up-front cost (it is reimbursed after visa expiration).

I'm looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Time and Money ( #earlymodern economic cultures) for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F: papers exploring the values, meanings, understandings of eco. exchange. Send me your proposal asap! See: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.

Late #medieval and #earlymodern folks: my friend Ricardo Padrón is assembling a couple of panels on #cartography for #RenSA26, the next @rsaorg.bsky.social conference, in San Francisco in February 2026. Send Ricardo your abstract by 30 July. Details below! 🗃 www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

“You’ve got more languages students setting up successful start-ups than you do maths graduates, and the same number of history students setting up start-ups as engineers, so there’s a bit of myth busting that needs to go on.” www.ft.com/content/3162...

RSA 2026 in San Francisco. As History discipline rep, I still looking for the following: 1 paper on animal/interspecies history (to run two panels) 1 paper on economic cultures 1-2 papers on microhistory in a global era See www.rsa.org/page/RSAAnnu... for details #earlymodern #renaissance

Nominations for the 2026 Dan David Prize are open📣 Nominate bold & creative early or midcareer scholars & practitioners in any discipline related to history and the human past 🏆Winners are awarded $300K each 👩‍💻Anyone can nominate ⏳Deadline: Sept 24, 2025 dandavidprize.org/nominate/

RSA 2026 in San Francisco. As History discipline rep, I still looking for the following: 1 paper on animal/interspecies history (to run two panels) 1 paper on economic cultures 1-2 papers on microhistory in a global era See www.rsa.org/page/RSAAnnu... for details #earlymodern #renaissance

It's real!! Spot The State Drug. What was theriac anyway? #earlymodern #histmed

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️

I can't quite believe I'm saying this but: I wrote a book! And it's being published this May! It's about Rome, its enduring appeal, the many different ways it has been interpreted, and how understanding this helps us see both the past and the world today more clearly. geni.us/AllRoadsLead...

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓 Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions. A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... #Renaissance #OpenAccess

Our June issue, 29.3, is now available online! The issue opens with an open-access article from Shai Zamir, "Lima Produces Saints for Spain and the Caribbean: The Miraculous Case of Antonio de San Pedro" brill.com/view/journal...

I'm currently in a visiting position in the US, but this is my home institution. Nick Harrigan, quoted toward the end of piece, sums is up best: "That is simply stealing from students." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Punk lives on a different, shorter timetable." This is a wonderful piece about what makes WTF so special. I started listening around the same time as @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social & This American Life also brought me to it. It's the only podcast I listen to religiously. defector.com/there-will-n...

Imagine what 15b could do in other research areas - humanities, arts, core STEM, social science

JOB: We are looking for a new colleague for our working group on early modern global history at @unituebingen.bsky.social - PhD position, 3+1 years. Please spread the word (also beyond Germany!) and do not hesitate to get in touch! Deadline: 20 June. @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social