Apropos of universities jumping on the AI bandwagon. Are we not supposed to be, you know, trying to come back from the brink of extinction? Rather than increasing emissions by 50%? FIFTY per cent? Delusional. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Dismay as Derbyshire council removes Pride flag after Christians complain

Looking forward to reading this book 👇

Wrote this piece for Harpers Bazaar about the life, legacy, and hate-induced murder of Jonathan Joss through the eyes of being a Two-Spirit Native person this Pride. I hope you take a read. For Him. For all of us. 🪶

Botanical Architecture: Plants, Buildings and Us is a new book by @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social "...this book asks what might be required to design with plants and for us to become more attuned to vegetal life in our structure." Publisher @reaktionbooks.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

My big Shire boy stretching his legs this morning…😍❤️

Waffles for lunch, & some beer. And a small mountain of butter! Fine menu selection from Georg Flegel, d. OTD 1638.

🍃 Le simple, le juste et le vrai, selon Sorj Chalandon. ⁠ ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/yMK

In today's think piece, Parker Cotton discusses how utopian fiction of the extra-terrestrial influenced emergent ideas of tolerance in the early modern era.

yes, please

'We must not let advanced linguistic and cultural skills slip away out of a misinformed sense that technology will solve all our problems or that colonialism’s legacy will always fatally undermine efforts to promote better transnational understanding'

this is a really great starter job in early modern French - in a wonderful place to work in that field. please circulate! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

Many caricatures capture Trump the moron. Few capture his evil as brilliantly as this. This has been shared a lot recently, but mostly without crediting the artist. The artist goes by the name of WeFail. Based in Manchester, UK, here’s a link to his incredible work 👉 wefail.art

The world's botanic gardens have evolved from medicinal gardens to scientific institutions. They hold 41% of all cultivated plant species – but that’s not enough to stop extinctions. It’s time for a smarter approach | Prof Samuel Brockington @eastangliabylines.co.uk @docbroc.bsky.social

*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

Des années 1950 aux années 1980, le remembrement a profondément transformé les paysages agricoles français en regroupant et en agrandissant les parcelles dans une logique de rentabilité. Mais cette politique s'est souvent opérée au détriment des "petits" paysans. ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/gdF

Added to reading list

Postdoc opportunities at Manchester

Looking forward to the recording

Great read.

Call for abstracts for the Northern Seminar in Late Modern Philosophy in Durham. feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/c...

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now! It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life. Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇

Added to my reading list.

Also, this collaborative PhD opportunity looks *amazing* - great supervisors, great collection to work with, really fascinating topic. Jealous I can't do it myself.

Great opportunity for ECRs in French history!

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!

Settling accounts Before he was famous, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Louise Dupin’s scribe. It’s her ideas on inequality that fill his writings. by Rebecca Wilkin via @aeonmag https://aeon.co/essays/inequality-was-a-feminist-idea-before-it-was-rousseaus #books #literature

PhD studentship: The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750): A data-driven approach to social justice in library catalogues of small and medium heritage collections Chetham Library, Manchester Apply by January 24, 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Great pollinator

Next Tuesday Dec 17 at 3.30 PM (Italy time), you’re welcome to join me online on Zoom (or in Venice, if you’re there) to explore cosmographical developments and different concepts of space with Prof Tessicini and Prof Sgarbi. Event will be in English. Write me for the Zoom link.

'a coherent, shapely and insightful introduction to the fascinating scientific pioneer.' 📌 loom.ly/EysyY5k 📚 loom.ly/guskHMs

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Coming up in February 2025. Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

THIS FRIDAY! Join us for our last #LowCountries seminar before Christmas with a talk about "Agnes Block's collection of flower drawings and her male-dominated botanical network" by Henrietta Ward (emodcam.bsky.social) All welcome, in Bloomsbury or on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/events/agnes...

Vient de paraître : Olympe de Gouges, Le Prince philosophe Première édition annotée et préfacée de ce roman sur le pouvoir des rois (et des reines). Premier ouvrage de la collection « Nouveaux classiques en science ouverte ». Disponible en HTML, EPUB et PDF. opus.u-paris.fr/catalog/book...

‘People are rooting for the whale’: the strange American tradition of Moby-Dick reading marathons

"Smart, funny, packed with tales of scientific feuds, enraged politicians, outsized adventure, and egos..." —Deborah Blum It's never too late to pick up Michael Ohl's superb 2019 book "The Art of Naming": https://buff.ly/3Zph0n2

New issue of FHS! Forum: Framing Muslims in the Making of France, 1300–1800 read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Nature in early modern France cfp www.semfs.org.uk/conference/ #histsci #planthumanities #naturalhistory #gardenhistory

Together with Sarah Lentz from the @unibremen.bsky.social, I am organising an exciting workshop at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg from 7 to 9 July on Transient Communities and Spaces of Mobility, 1500-1900. The CfP for the event is now open. www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve... #earlymodern #history 🗃️

The Economist is really very good at first pages. 😶

Day 4 of our advent calendar explores English national identity and the environment, spanning agriculture, nature and culture.

Immensely excited to launch MA Arts, Culture and the Environment (MA ACE) at UoM! Our first intake will be in 2025. Details on content and applications are here: www.manchester.ac.uk/study/master... Please share widely with anyone who might be interested! #envhums #envhist #envcrit #ecocrit

I just got this! It is not real-real yet, but going to be soon. The history of theriac in early modern Italy and beyond www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #earlymodern #histmed #histsci #theriac #histpharma

Small migrant communities in Amsterdam ca. 1650-1660 part 3: Afro-Brazilians-Africans (red), Icelanders (blue), and Canarians (green) #migrancity #Amsterdam #maps

When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses. But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.