Virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY @ucpress.bsky.social, hosted by @srsrensoc.bsky.social! Weds Feb 19th 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 5:30pm GMT / 6:30pm CET. Register now! Pub date Feb 4. 1/15 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #HAMH www.crowdcast.io/c/monsters-h...

Happy New Year everyone!! My first deed of the year was accidentally snapping a bowl right in half when I was stacking them to clean up. Hopefully this isn’t a sign… (Does anyone know a good clue I can use? Is this fixable?)

How many of the people making this decision themselves benefited from state funding of their post-graduate education? (It just wouldn’t have been on my menu of possibilities if there wasn’t a full grant for fees and maintenance to apply for.)

Enzo Rossi and Uğur Atcay with a message. #WOinActie #StopDeBezuinigingen #EppoCiao

Today 20.000+ people came together in The Hague to protest the proposed cuts in education funding. To protest against layoffs. Against a penalty for study delays. Against the closure of degree programmes. And to fight for academic freedom, equal opportunities, and the right to study. #WOinActie

When you don’t have time to make a sign from scratch (‘cause workload) and you want to be sustainable: recycle the poster #WOinActie #protest

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

Just created a starter pack for people interested in early modern women! Somewhat random and definitely incomplete, so please suggest more people to add (including yourself) go.bsky.app/Cqqbspt

A thread of Historian Starter Packs to help find your communities. First Pop Culture and Media: bsky.app/profile/herm...

Thank you for creating another starter pack. I would love to be added, if possible. And here comes mine: go.bsky.app/9i1XbVC

Given the X-odus (see what we did there? A true fire bird): which other #earlymodern centres have arrived here already? We've got a starter pack for easy following, but keen to hear about more: go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b #skystorians

I'm starting a pack for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers working on any aspect of Historical Studies! go.bsky.app/95yTEM3

With the twitter exodus: welcome, and here are some #earlymodern historians posting about early modern stuff (though I should update it now it’s more than 50 in those things) go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF

My birthday present to myself arrived (very) early. This collection has a poem for every day of year. A wonderful way to (re)discover poets. This coming year will likely be one of insecurity, instability, and big decisions for me. But at least I can be sure of one thing: there will be poetry.

A student gave me a card with a wax seal on the envelope. Day made!

So disappointed in the Dutch election results…

Just witnessed the rarest of phenomena: a train that leaves too early.

Because of a Big Deadline, I put off a bunch of stuff thinking “that’s November-me’s problem”. November-me is not amused…