Now that's a new way of #catfishing - play to the academic's vanity and grab them by their self-love 😅 #skystorians

There we go: our two weeks of summerschools just started... #earlymodern #skystorians

Having a great time at #reforc2025 with a great paper yesterday by @giovannigellera.bsky.social and right now a fascinating one on Osiander by @ruthatherton.bsky.social Looking forward to the rest of it... #earlymodern #skystorians

It was great to attend the valedictory lecture of @dettwiler.bsky.social Thank you Andreas for everything you have done for the faculty (and beyond)! #academicsky

Next Monday, our PhD candidate Christian Martens will present his thesis research “François Hotman (1524-1590): humanisme juridique, historiographie et engagement politique”. See you at 12 PM in Uni Dufour (U365), Geneva! Presentation in French. More details on www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/accue...

🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳 🖊️🧪 Yeehaw, it is out: my 100th publication! 🖊️🧪 (and, at the same time, my first one in Italian) 🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳 btw, more than 80% are open access, see here: archive-ouverte.unige.ch/contributor/... #earlymodern #skystorians

There are several job openings in Geneva you might be interested in: - a post-doc and a doctoral position as part of @giovannigellera.bsky.social 's project on John Mair (1467-1550) - a lecturer position in Church history at the Faculty of theology See the thread for links #earlymodern 🗃️

Looking forward to welcoming @jpowellmcnutt.bsky.social in Geneva in ten days!

Thanks for sharing widely #earlymodern #skystorians

Bad news indeed. We will miss you excellent scholars coming abroad! #skystorians #academicsky

Really useful, thanks for creating this!! #earlymodern #skystorians

A G-rated impression from our recent PhD-Lunch: @jebbb.bsky.social presenting his research on #OriginalSin in #16thCentury exegetical debates, which we announced in such graphic detail that #bsky censored us (poor #Eve, but there is no such thing as prelapsarian fig leaves...) #earlymodern

Looking very much forward to listen to @julienleonard.bsky.social in Geneva!

The Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) readvertizes its portal on "Cultures and Societies": if you're interested in learning more about jobs, events and publications in the SSH (mainly, but not exclusively in a Swiss context), have a look at it: www.cult-soc.ch/en/cult-soc/ 🗃️

Today was a good day for some #MentalDiversification. We have a new wardrobe now! #DoItYourself

You "occasionally" get angry? Great wordplay 🤭 #earlymodern #puns

#NRW hat neue Zahlen zur "Entfristungsquote der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigten" an Hochschulen vorgelegt (Vorlage 18/3369). Und da staunt man nicht schlecht über das Eigenlob: der Anteil an Unbefristeten sei von 54% (2017) auf 70% (2023) gestiegen! -Wie das möglich ist? Lest selbst. #IchBinHanna

I've a problem with #emojis here on #bluesky: if I'm on the phone, I have to use the phone's set of emojis which are different from the standard bluesky ones (compare 🗃 with 🗃️). Some #feeds depend on the standard set, though, and posts written on the phone will not be loaded. Any #workaround?

I'm a bit confused about their opening statement: "While historians have been able to digitize physical typewritten documents using [...] (OCR), handwriting, with its individual styles, has until recently resisted recognition by computers." Aren't we doing this for more than a decade now? #dh 🗃

It's true students are less religiously literate nowadays. But the Reformation still has much to teach them about ideas, fights over ideas and consequences of ideas. Studying the social, cultural and political management of difference remains as relevant as ever. #reformazing

One for the #Reformation experts: I reread #Luther ’s Assertio (1520) with the passage below on #FreeWill (🇬🇧 in the ALT text). Isn’t this a deliberate provocation of #Erasmus, four years before their famous dispute broke out? SecLit seems to be silent about it. Thoughts, hints? #Earlymodern 🗃️

I've just come across a new-to-me category of #earlymodern convent employee. It's women who are entrusted w/carrying letters to and from the convent. They seem to be well-compensated. Wondering if any of you have ever come across something similar. #nuntastic #conventhouseholds #archives

#earlymodern #skystorians

The unmistakable effect of a three-day hackathon for #earlymodern 🗃️ PhD students: +60 commits to our textbase +60 new commentaries in the repertory +750 lines of code for the web interface -12l of coffee -467 fruit gums Check the additions and the new advanced search tool on ihr-num.unige.ch/rrp

A beautifully arranged small exhibition the Bernese theologian Benedikt Aretius (c1522-1574) opened today at the University Library of #Bern. Informative about both Aretius' life and intellectual context - take a look if you're in the area #earlymodern 🗃 www.ub.unibe.ch/service/auss...

Busy week ahead! The IHR has the pleasure to welcome 3 researchers: Patricia Eichel-Lojkine for a masterclass on Tuesday, Mathilde Monge and Oriane Manigault for a digital seminar on Thursday. More info on www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/accue... #reformation #earlymodern #geneva #womeninresearch

I don't agree about the historical role you attribute to the humanities. But as far as their future is concerned...

Opening today: "Albrecht Dürer. Defying Norms, Setting Standards" Graphische Sammlung, ETH / Zürich #earlymodern #arthistory #prints 🏛️ gs.ethz.ch/en/current/

The final session of the Council of Trent concluded on December 4, 1563. It reaffirmed Catholic doctrine amid the Protestant Reformation, shaping Church practices. Key figures included Pope Paul III and St. Charles Borromeo, marking a pivotal Counter-Reformation moment.

Some impressions from our latest IHR PhD Lunch: Sonia Solfrini presenting her work on Matthieu Malingre (ca. 1500-1572) #earlymodern #16thc #reformazing. We obviously need a bigger room with so many people attending these days...

Welcome Giovanni! #earlymodern #skystorians

A fly named Buz gets caught in a spider web, and starts arguing with a spider about Catholics and Protestants. In the end this leads to a battle. The image shows this battle of flies, ants, spiders and butterflies. Printed was this story from John Heywood in 1556. #skystorians 1/2

I have just had the pleasure of looking through @drchrishiggins.bsky.social's amazing 'Wide Wandring Weemen' database that shows 2000+ journeys of English women throughout Europe and West Asia. #EarlyModern Women MOVED everyone - check it out! 🗃️https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/#

I would put this even more strongly: open source AI is probably our only realistic chance to avoid a terrifying increase in concentration of power. I do not want to live in a world where the people with all the money also have all the intellectual power.

I always wondered why Swiss reformers of the late #16thc were so well informed about #medieval #CanonLaw. And now I've come across this: doi.org/10.3931/e-ra... Great job, Johannes Haller... #earlymodern #reformazing #e-rara

We are organizing a #hackathon / coding days at @unil.bsky.social next week. If you feel the need for some social warmth while you write your code, come and join us at IDHEAP (free lunch for CUSO members if they register here: theologie.cuso.ch?id=877&tx_di...)

One of my doctoral students came across this French edition and glosses of the Pauline Epistles (Paris, Antoine Verard, 1504; 2nd ed 1507). The translator is "un docteur en theologie de l'ordre de saint Augustin" – any idea who this might be? #earlymodern #exegesis gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

It is on: the Thomas Institute at the University of Cologne is looking for a new director #medieval #philosophy #academicjobs: berufungen.uni-koeln.de

Now they just need to give the site (and especially the search) a responsive layout and it will be another great web experience

Postdoc advertised at UCL to work on the project ‘Connecting Histories, Connecting Heritage: Early Modern Cities and Their Afterlives’ !! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Ami-e-s marseillais-e-s, Je présenterai mon livre, Survivre, à la librairie la La Touriale - Bouquinerie des cinq avenues, ce jeudi 28 novembre à 19h. Venez nombreux, j'aurai plaisir à vous y retrouver et merci si vous pouvez diffuser l'information dans vos réseaux !

Un historien-résistant au Panthéon, c'est bien. De la reconnaissance et des postes pour les historiens d'aujourd'hui, c'est mieux.

Never forget it was not all invented in #earlymodern times (rather the opposite)

On reposts: Given that there is no algorithm here, for posts to get seen across a longer period of time & by a wider audience they require reposts: these are much more important than retweets. Accordingly, if you like a post do consider reposting it as well *especially* those by smaller accounts!

Join us this Friday (11/22) at 12:15 pm CST for a lecture by Dr. Ute Lotz-Heumann. Co-sponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies. In person and online. 🔗 in bio for Zoom registration.

Full of surprises, the 16th cent: came across Jacopo Sadoleto's Romans commentary (1534/35) in my Latin class. An amazing work: composed as a Platonic dialogue, written in Ciceronian style and bristling with anti-scholastic polemics. See ihr-num.unige.ch/rrp/X1107 #earlymodern #exegesis

There we go: "Although Threads is more than ten times as big [as Bluesky], it mainly offers entertainment in the form of memes. Already now, the most committed discussions are to be found on Bluesky." www.derbund.ch/elon-musk-vi... #bleusky #x-odus

For a staff of just 20 people, @bsky.app is doing some amazing work. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/t...

Just added #Castellio 's Annotations on #Romans IX to our database of 16th-century commentaries on the #PaulineEpistles. We're now at 80 commentaries for the Letter to the Romans alone, without having really looked at printers outside the Swiss area so far: ihr-num.unige.ch/rrp #earlymodern