Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

When "female" is a forbidden word, women's colleges are at risk: www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...

Here's our CFP for the Forum again, with ALT text

So excited for @bruceholsinger.bsky.social and his new book Culpability, which in unputownable! www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...

Vegetables in the Middle Ages: From Cabbages to Cardoons www.medievalists.net/2025/06/vege... #vegetables

W.E.B. Du Bois, Harvard’s best grad, said that it took him 90 years to become conscious of himself as a member of the working class. May we get there more quickly. Academics everywhere: join a union or build a union, and if you can’t do either, then organize your coworkers and act like a union.

For those who missed it: The English Short Titles Catalogue (ESTC) has finally been relaunched with the help of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) following the cyber-attack on the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Find it here: datb.cerl.org/estc/

"We are not the elites the billionaires claim we are. Most professors don’t have tenure. The humanities professoriate don’t even have full time jobs, have been known to sleep in their cars. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?" www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

Pope’s Momma is Louisiana.

Catch me on a podcast, talking with Cara Santa Maria about my new book on the long history of abortion. player.fm/episodes/480... book: bit.ly/4iwTsoL

No. You need to send the President you got to jail first. We locked up 7 governors to get this one.

This passage from Tommy Orange’s “There There.”

I've written a blog about Calvin's Case (1608) being used by (some) lawyers to argue against birthright citizenship for "illegal" immigrants, looking at what the immigration legal system looked like in 17thC England historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive...

Forgot to post due to travel: a GEM of a source, and an archival discovery by our very own Carolin Schmitz... an incredible inquisitorial record of five separate prosecutions and one very unique testimony by María Felipa, a sometimes free, sometimes enslaved Black healer on the Canary Isles...

Congratulations to Prof. Miles Grier, whose book Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery won the Early American Literature @early-am-lit.bsky.social 2024 Book Prize and the Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social 2025 First Book Award!

A moving and important letter from Jewish Columbia/Barnard students across the ideological spectrum, coming together to speak out against antisemitism, and the use of false and bad-faith accusations of antisemitism to crack down on free speech & dissent. Please read and share.

FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe... #EarlyModern 🗃️

So excited and grateful to be able to spend AY2025-26 in this scholarly paradise! www.huntington.org/2025-26-awar...

I forgot how much I love RSA! I get to hang out with the best people …@juliadominguez.bsky.social #rsa2025

One week from today, I'm honored to be speaking at the Royal College of Physicians as a part of a transcribathon focusing on women's healing! 3pm GMT/11am EDT March 14. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hiding-in-...

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

These are four-year, paid positions and in a great department. PhD students have access to benefits like paid vacation & parental leave. International applicants are very welcome! Please share widely and Tell your best students and recent graduates to apply! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

I'll be in the UK in a fortnight, honored to be in conversations with @sarahknott.bsky.social and @sbrooksfranklin.bsky.social about my new book!

Chicago-area scholars, Erica Charters (Faculty of the Global History of Medicine at Oxford and head of its medical humanities program @oxmedhum.bsky.social) is speaking on "Knowledge Between War and Peace: Mapping Manpower in Early Modern Colonies" at Loyola on 27 March. Come join us!

Episode 131 on "Pandemic Ends" is now up. Lee and I talked to Erica Charters about how pandemics end, Covid's "end," the large project she ran on the topic, and the place of endemic diseases in this discourse. Give it a listen: infectioushistorians.com/2024/12/19/p... (or via iTunes, Spotify, etc.).

Spring program for the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. The first seminar is by the wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social on Wed 26 Feb, 3-4 pm C.E.T: The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales.

The Worth Library Fellowship scheme is now open: edwardworthlibrary.ie/research-fel... Closing date is 4 April 2025. Please retweet @earlymodhistory.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.bsky.social @historyofscience.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social

(Call for papers) Three positions at the newly established Chair of History of Medicine and Biosciences at the University of Vienna histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/02/post... #histmed

@ncph.bsky.social is currently taking pitches for articles on public history and advocacy for its famed History@Work blog. The hope is to learn from past advocacy work to help us move into the future. Please share! The CFP is here: ncph.org/wp-content/u...

If you find yourself in Chicago this May, please join us at the newly-reimagined Newberry Milton Seminar: www.newberry.org/calendar/joh...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Our next Hist. of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar is on 27 Feb, at 5pm (EST). "Reproductive Healthcare & Conceptions of #Childbirth in #EarlyAmerica" features Prof. Nora Doyle & Jennifer W. Reiss. @sarialtschuler.bsky.social commenting. <https://www.masshist.org/events/childbirth-early-america>

If you can, dump some cash into the Internet Archive. It is the most important piece of internet we have right now. archive.org/donate?origi...

So excited! Do apply!!! 👇

Happily browsing the provisory program for next #RSA, #RSABoston #RSA25 in which I present a paper on the🌳 subterranean🌿life of plants🍄and the politics of plant studies (and fungi). It is part of a nice panel organized by Fabien Montcher & Katarzyna Lecky. #plantstudies #plantpolitics #histsci

Sound and the Senses embodied experiences of hearing, listening and voicing With @racheljwillie.bsky.social & @spparkle.bsky.social www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...

Periodic reminder that if you want to chuck EEBO into the sea, Internet Archive scanned the STC's original high-res films using 2024 tech and they're all available here (and link to Wing in the next post).

A virtual talk at the New York Academy of Medicine on 1/21 by the brilliant Stephanie Shirilan! “Bibliography Week Lecture – Damned Lungs: Plague And The Limits Of Community In Early Modern England” www.nyam.org/events/event...

I guess it’s that time of year when academics proudly share AI policies that demean, belittle, patronize, or otherwise make assumptions about students. My take: if you stop treating students like that, you won’t need the policy.

This is the truest thing ever said about AI.

Some of my favourite ever sources here ✨ thank you @historians.org for the opportunity to share them!

One month left to submit an essay for inclusion in the first of two double issues of the redesigned HLQ, to be published in September 2025. The call for submissions is attached, and also available here. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou... Please share!

Excited to contribute to the first European Conference on Social Medicine in Oslo in Aug 2025 with the aim of gathering a network of peers working at the intersection of biomedical science, social sciences, and the humanities. CfP with deadline Jan 31, 2025. #histmed www.med.uio.no/helsam/engli...

We are still accepting proposals for the 2024 Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Congress! The theme is TONGUES: Medical Humanities across linguistic and cultural frontiers, and it'll take place 21-23 May 2025, ONLINE. We'd love to see you there! Details: wp.lancs.ac.uk/fasshealthhu...

Ok, teaching is over and I am finally about to return to our talk boards to see all the exciting things our volunteers have been highlighting in our #EarlyModern wills! If you would like to join the hunt click here www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... 📜💍👞👗🧀🪑🐮🗡️📚🫖💰🗃️

This looks like a great CFP!

On THE Campus: Universities have a mandate to engage and serve the Indigenous communities whose land they occupy, writes Edward Polanco, who offers techniques for amplifying these voices #AcademicSky #EduSky