It feels like Anglo-saxon historiography is : bold hypothesis, three cases, done. French historiography : twenty years of mumbling over parish records to confirm it - and arrive fashionably late to the conversation. 🗃️

In a month we are going to present the Invention of the scientific power couple in 18th century France with @meghankroberts.bsky.social in this exciting workshop! Glad to get to travel after this long writing period and listen to those great papers! couples.hypotheses.org @zoethomas.bsky.social

Conseil pratique pour @francetelevisions.bsky.social @lciofficiel.bsky.social @bfmtv.com @franceinfo.fr : Non mais ne vous emmerdez plus pour le second tour, mettez directement vos caméras dans la salle à manger du père Duhamel pour le rôti du dimanche en famille.

Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...

LABOR IS A LIFE-DESTROYING ACTIVITY

Job alert! This is a reminder that I'm looking for a team member to work on a book history project 📚 that explores the networks 🕸️ of Protestant book agents in Poland-Lithuania and Prussia! Details: konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document... (EN version at p. 7). Send an application by 9.03!

Tell me you are french without telling me you are french. (Pomodori done this week)

a phd

I’ve had the pleasure to contribute to the last Mixtape of the @jwsfh.bsky.social by putting together 5 of my best reads of the year in Early Modern History. Here is my list as well as the great ones by @jean23bean.bsky.social and Emily Marker !

9. The 2025 edition of the JWSFH MIXTAPE, featuring selections of rad work from 2024-25 by @jean23bean.bsky.social @vlvde.bsky.social & @thewsfh.bsky.social Past President Emily Marker (with amazing original art by @tgpeterson.bsky.social) journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...

I travelled to NYC to help launch (last night) Joanna Stalnaker's astonishing new book _The Rest is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death_. The book is a treasure, humane and moving: a vindication both of the #18thc philosophes and of what literary studies scholarship can do with them.

#AcademicSky #sociology #AcademicChatter #postdoc #hiring #HigherEd

The “Feminist Utopias at Work. Reorganise, Redefine, Abolish” conference is coming up soon! Join us in #Strasbourg (& online) on 6–7 November. 👉 Full programme available here: we-coop.eu/en/2025-symp... We look forward to welcoming everyone! #sociology #work #gendersky #feminism #utopia @unistra.fr

We’re delighted and honoured to host Prof. Jessica Gordon Nembhard (CUNY) as keynote speaker. She’ll give a talk on “Building Co-op Utopias: Black American Women Cooperators’ Journeys.” Join us in #Strasbourg (& online) on 6 Nov, 5–6 p.m. 👉 More info: we-coop.eu/en/2025-symp... @cuny.edu @unistra.fr

Our plane to Spain is in the air! 🙌🙌 Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

La pétition contre la loi Duplomb est en train d’exploser depuis hier ! On est déjà proche du seuil au-delà duquel elle sera mise en avant sur le site de l’Assemblée. Toutes les signatures ne se valent pas, celle-ci peut compter.

Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.

Last call for the international conf on Feminist Utopias at Work as part of my ERC StG www.we-coop.eu Looking forward to your submissions & to welcoming you at @unistra.fr ! DL: 1 June #Gendersky #Academicsky #SocialSciences

Queering Foucault

Just a few more weeks left to submit an abstract. We look forward to learning more about your research! DL: 1 June More info: we-coop.eu/en/2025-symp... #Gendersky #Academicsky #SocialSciences

The music that kept me going today is Weyes Blood - The Worst is done Feel free to share yours under my post! I love to discover new things! #NTS open.spotify.com/track/2P2b0z...

Remember Anthony Weiner? @tyrangiel.bsky.social does. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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 🗃️

When I've finally drafted that conference abstract #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter

Delighted to see this excellent new book from Ben Jackson out this week from the Gender in History series at @manchesterup.bsky.social. Historians of the 18thc, Britain, or masclinity or material culture, here's one for you!

There’s no shortage of tyrants and no shortage of fools 🎶

(New Issue) Global Histories of Menstruation and Menopause histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/03/hist... #histmed #histbody

Why is it always a dickhead in a tesla?????

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 David H. Pinkney Prize has been awarded to Jennifer N. Heuer for her book The Soldier’s Reward: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2024! Congratulations! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Thrilled to see the news on @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social that the '25 @sfhs.bsky.social Pinkney Prize for Best Book in French History went to... my 🗃️ bestie @jenniferheuer.bsky.social's THE SOLDIER'S REWARD: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon! 🥳 So proud of my friend!! 💙

There’s been a great many capitalist dystopian books and art, but most failed to imagine something as grim and pathetic as the President of the United States hawking his oligarchical puppet master’s shitty cars on the White House lawn.

My alcohol consumption after reading the news these days #Archive 🗃️

Entre 1796 et 1800, la quasi-guerre envenime les relations entre les deux jeunes républiques. Corsaires, scandale diplomatique et guerre maritime... Un épisode méconnu de l’histoire ! ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/8cP

La grande historienne des femmes,Yvonne Knibiehler nous a quitté Elle avait créé le Centre d’Etudes Féminines de l’Université de Provence, premier groupe féministe universitaire de France. Ses travaux sur la maternité, sur les infirmières ont fait date au revoir madame

🔴 Communiqué du père de Rémi Fraisse suite à la reconnaissance de la responsabilité de la France dans la mort de Rémi, tué par une grenade offensive lancée par un gendarme, le 26 octobre 2014 sur la zone de Sivens ⬇️

I don’t know exactly what the response to this is, but I find it terrifying.

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.

J’ai eu le plaisir d’intervenir dans Le Cours de l’histoire ce matin au sujet du célibat des savants au XVIIIe siècle aux côtés de @julietteeymeoud.bsky.social qui a récemment publié une histoire du célibat des nobles ! 🕺🏼😎 Merci à @xaviermauduit.bsky.social pour l’invitation !

Delightful chat with Whitney Dirks about Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early modern England. #skystorians #earlyModern #EnglishHistory #Monsters @amsterdamupress.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/monstrosity-...

Just published a new article in Clio on speech and masculinities in the academies of science during the Enlightenment. It’s in French ! 👇🏼 🗃️ Thanks to the editors @ulkrampl.bsky.social Chloe Tardivel and Capucine Boidin shs.cairn.info/revue-clio-f...

The TraitorsUK but we have to find the tax evaders and banish them

Publication day!

We now have a cover for Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (CUP 2025), eds. @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me. Many brilliant contributors give alternative genealogies and futures for social medicine - never so necessary, so urgent as now #histstm #histsci #STS

New from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social - Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, & Material Culture Ed. @sarahabendall.bsky.social & @serenadyer.bsky.social aup.nl/en/book/9789... Read the intro (no paywall!) here: assets.ctfassets.net/4wrp2um278k7...

Absolutely delighted about the publication of UNCONQUERED STATES (Oxford University Press), which looks at the global history of non-European powers in the imperial age.

The Centre for European Research at the @goteborgsuni.bsky.social that I am associated with is recruiting 3 postdocs, and I couldn't recommend it more (I did my postdoc there 10 years ago and it was a great time).I especially encourage sociologists to apply, as we need more of you here in Göteborg!

now that you can undo sending with the Mail app, I can't send even the simplest email without undoing it multiple times to check for mistakes…

i was a bit off the apps because I am teaching like crazy in those last two weeks of the term, but here is a music that kept me going in the early hours of the morning walking to uni. #Music 🗃️ youtu.be/Uo2xhyGIzak?...

Excellent new resource on the history of love across time. www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-...