From deep-sea trenches to your home garden, gastropods are among the most diverse and successful animals in Earth history. This episode, we explore the incredible evolutionary story of Snails and Slugs.

I'm lowkey obsessed with the Common Descent Podcast. A little bit because I grew up near the Gray Fossil Site, but more because it's a fantastic science podcast about evolution and I learn a lot from it :) Huge fan :) @commondescentpod.bsky.social

Had a great time at the Exhibiting the Domestic Past symposium @rijksmuseum.bsky.social today. Great to see friends and engage with current research! #ArtHistory #WomensHistory Exhibition: www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/zien-en-d... Program: www.rijksmuseum.nl/assets/356f2...

The New Netherland Institute offers the short-term Charles W. Wendell Research Grant for work on the Dutch experience in North America and the Dutch Atlantic World. Deadline Feb 15. www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/res...

CFP: 16th International Illustration Research Symposium 13-14 November 2026, Arts University Plymouth, UK Theme: 'Failure & Resistance' illustrationresearch.org/failure-resi... Deadline: 28 February 2026

Here's the moment slowed down. Watch the men in front of the car.

New edited volume from Brepols! Perspectives on the Music of György Kurtág: Performance, Language and Memory Eds. Rachel Beckles Willson & Gergely Fazekas www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Journal of Applied Arts & Health 16.2-3 is out! Special Issue: ‘Creativity, the Arts and the Environment’ focuses on a growth area for creative and expressive applied arts in healthcare practice in clinical and non-clinical settings. www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-a...

Snow in the Netherlands! The infrastructure/handling of these few inches has been astoundingly bad (looking at you, KLM & NS), but it sure is pretty. And the dog is PSYCHED 🤣😍

Latest issue of Artibus et Historiae: No. 91 (XLVI), 2025, Papers in Honour of Catherine Puglisi, Part I Guest editors: Lisandra Estevez, Patricia Zalamea and William Barcham artibusethistoriae.org/issue92.html

Scholars, please cite yourselves when relevant! You are creating a body of work, a world even, and we want to know where all the pieces are, and how they fit together.

The International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association (ISHWRA) has just published its seminar schedule for spring 2026! Looks awesome. Seminars are all online. #nuntastic #WomensHistory for contact info: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

🤩 The #LowCountries seminar programme is up! Would you look at this exciting line-up! Fridays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (you don't have to register if you come in person, but if you do it helps with showing numbers so appreciated!) #SkyStorians

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

The Springer book series Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences (WHPS) invites new book proposals that contribute to cutting-edge research on women’s work in philosophy, the sciences, and interdisciplinary fields. historyofwomenphilosophers.org/journals/jou...

CFP: The second International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2026) will be held 28-30 July 2026, Manchester, UK. Conference proceedings will be published open access with an ISBN. Submission deadline: 30 April 2026 glecc.org/2026

Schwarznasenschafe Valais in der Schweiz

Coming soon! Mycology for Architecture: Methods and Applications of Mycelium Materials in the Built Environment edited by Dilan Ozkan 📖 Learn more ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/2wfkch7f #myceliumbasedmaterials #biodesign #biofabrication #circulardesign #regenerativematerialsystems

January (detail), Castello del Buonconsiglio (Trento, Italy), c. 1400

"The congregation agreed the sermons had definitely improved this Xmas"

In 1478, the abbots of St. Bernard's in #Hemiksen, St. Michael's (#Antwerp), and St. Gertrude's (#Leuven) all made a pledge to lend their help to the Beguines of the Low Countries, and to protect them from anyone who tried to violate their historic rights. #WomensHistory

📅 Planning to attend From Forests to Heritage 2026? Here’s what to expect in Klagenfurt, Austria (May 18-23, 2026): 🌲 May 18 – Forest excursion 🎤 May 19–22 – Conference sessions 🌿 May 21 – In-conference excursion 🧭 May 23 (optional excursions): • Hallstatt • Ljubljana Moor • Ribnica

With some wonderful articles on the history of anxiety ( #EmoHistory), maritime communities, and an #AngloDutch couple: emlc-journal.org The #LowCountries have something for all #SkyStorians.

At the beginning of the 14th c, #Mechelen Beguines complained about nighttime vandelism and theft at the Grand Beguinage, including cutting down their trees. The bishop ordered that the perpetrators be excommunicated and publically shamed. #WomensHistory #nuntastic

Acquistions alert! The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social now owns A Red, White, and Yellow Parrot Tulip, a Butterfly, and a Beetle, n.d. (C18th), by Barbara Regina Dietzsch museum.cornell.edu/collections/...

Can't believe I published 3 books this year. - yes, I'm exhausted! - no, I'll never do that again. - above all, I'm hugely grateful to my co- authors, collaborators, contributors, editors, reviewers... No one creates a book alone!

Excited that my article "Hanc te volo diligentiam adhibere. Late-Medieval Fragmentary Instructions on Housekeeping" came out in Fragmentology. It is a really fascinating document on housekeeping, not my expertise at all. Looking forward to reading your reactions #medievalsky doi.org/10.24446/dpf5

Dear Dutch historians, I'm trying to find Amsterdam price currents in the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia. McCusker (1991) says that there are dozens of them, starting in 1734. I searched the website and did not find much, and what I did find I could not access. Any advice?

Medieval Shoes, a Sock, and a Coin Hoard Unearthed in Berlin www.medievalists.net/2025/12/medi... #archaeology #Germany #Berlin

For the last couple of months I've been doing archival research on the #Mechelen Beguines for the @HofvanBusleyden Museum. So much fun, and exciting new discoveries. Updates coming soon!

Program is up for the Annual Conference of the Association for Art History (UK), Cambridge, 8-10 April 2026! Early bird tickets available until 8 February 2026 forarthistory.org.uk/conference/2...

What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Amazing how many of these papers are about “ethical use of AI in education.” It’s harsh, I know, but I do think if you incorporate a hallucinated reference it should be incredibly damning for you. There should be professional penalties.

My dogs are so perfect and every day I just want nice things to happen to them.

I feel like I'm being gaslit. When did citing things you haven't read become a thing?

al die boeken op die eindejaarslijstjes ook zo beu? kom morgen ook: het zal gaan over een boek dat op werkelijk geen ENKEL lijstje staat, zo verfrissend!

Here is another copy of these superb paper crowns that made it through time, in a book from the HAB Wolfenbüttel:

Fashion plate from 1789 showing a man wearing a pink and white striped jacket, embroidered waistcoat and yellow breeches. Woman wearing a pink Pierrot, white skirt and pink hat. From the Magasin des Modes Nouvelles Françaises et Anglaises. #FashionPlateFriday #dresshistory #18thc

Was just talking with a new editing client (and former student :) ) yesterday about this type of thing. We can't stop scholars from asking LLM's for content; the pressures to publish will always be too strong for some. Is an official universal database, i.e. Worldcat but better, a possibility?

CFP: Craft History Workshop Spring 2026 seminars www.crafthistoryworkshop.com Craft History Workshop is a virtual works-in-progress seminar for interdisciplinary histories of making that aims to expand the temporal, geographic, & methodological scope of research in craft history. Deadline Jan 31

Anyone here using Leo for archival transcription? www.tryleo.ai I signed up, but am not (yet?) seeing advantages over Transkribus (www.transkribus.org) - Transkribus gives a LOT more free credits (i.e. free images processed). Its Dutchess model is only maybe 65% accurate for me, though... thoughts?

Deadline approaching: 21 December!!! The Historical Network Research Conference 2026 will take place in Turin, Italy, July 20-22, at the University of Turin. historicalnetworkresearch.org/reminder-cal...

The German Association for Art History, together with the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), announces the 38th German Congress for Art History, from 25 to 28 February 2026. kunstgeschichte-kongress.de/programm/pro... #wissen2026

Together with the Fondation Custodia, the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History) is seeking a Jacoba Lugt-Klever Fellow (36 hours per week) starting March 1, 2026. Deadline 5 Jan. www.codart.nl/careers/job-...

Reminder for anyone wanting to submit an abstract before the holidays!

15 Dec 1611: The sisters of the #English Benedictine Convent of #Brussels submit their #nuntastic draft statutes to Archbishop Matthias Hovius of #Mechelen #otd

If you have some time, please help PhD student Marta Guidotti with this survey on reading comfort. You'll be asked to adjust different parameters for texts in languages you can and cannot read to improve reading comfort of texts. The test takes about 10 minutes at most. comfortread.framer.ai

The Low Countries Beguines had a particular interest in St. Alexis, as he was known for choosing a life of chastity 'in the world' - just like them! The Mechelen Beguines dedicated their church to him, and those at Bruges had a confraternity.

Awesome postdoc opportunity with a fantastic PI! Phylogenetic comparative methods, morphological diversification, and biodiversity of fish: how cool is that?!