Well, I know what I'll be wearing next time I visit 😁🖤 @helleborezine.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Today in #museumlife : thinking about the fact that plastic is the worst to conserve.

THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL

When I submitted a paper to AI & Society the email confirmation sent me to a website that told me my language quality score was only 3/10 but RUBRIQ could fix it. I study this stuff, so uploaded my paper to RUBRIQ, which proceeded to introduce scientific fabrication and change scientific terms.

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

The birth of the author

Wet, pretty, and probably not historically correct cobblestone #museumlife

Today: revision of the toy collection at @norskfolkemuseum.bsky.social . Some toys are more cursed than others! #academicsky #foklore

Warm and wet november, climate change will probably not do our church good. But it does look nice and dramatic! #museumlife

How can a microhistory about cooking and kitchen implements inspire speculative fiction? Here's @r-emrys.bsky.social on how "Consider the Fork" may change the way you think about the technological and cultural aspects of food 🍴

Generative AI is literally destroying knowledge

Føniks destroying my #wfh ambitions.

Trying a new mantra as I edit down another 14000 word draft article: Every article doesn’t need to include every archival nugget you have discovered on the topic Every article doesn’t need to include every archival nugget you have discovered on the topic Every article doesn’t need to include…

Join us at our first Critical Digital Humanities discussion, where we will explore @goran-gaber.bsky.social's recent paper Mind the gap: On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age. More & registration: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/critic... #digitalhumanities

The 23rd Nordic Migration Research conference will take place at the Södertörn University, Sweden on 12-14 August 2026. Call for proposals:

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Not long now until the Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award, & we're really looking forward to it! We're delighted that this years lecturer is Professor Terry Gunnell, & after the lecture we'll announce the winner of this year's book award. Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...

Ellen Clapsaddle (1865-1934) was a US illustrator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is recognized as the most prolific souvenir postcard and greeting card artist of her era. #WomensArt

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

Spent a lovely Halloween evening (and some late night hours) solo, writing about Christmas, only interrupted by some trick-or-treaters. #academicsky

Happy pig at @norskfolkemuseum.bsky.social during lunch break #museumlife

Best part of this weekend's Halloween at @norskfolkemuseum.bsky.social (apart from amazing fiddle players): when blasé tweens get really, really frightened 😁

I’m sure I saw a few of these at Camden Market in the early 00s.

it's job application season in academia. If you need last-minute developmental editing to get your humanities sample chapter or research proposal in order, I have some room in my schedule. I offer discounts for self-pay and grad students. #academicsky

Old log houses are very #halloween -friendly. #museumlife 1/x

A Brief History of Baseball is Dying 🧵

At the EXITNORWAY end-conference! 🥳

Article in the Norwegian newspaper for higher education on AI and the Anthropic settlement includes some quotes from me. One point I make is that it is unacceptable that universities are buying into AI tools even though the tools have been built so unethically. www.khrono.no/akademikere-...

So many people are trying to figure out what's happening with kids and schools. I don't know any big-picture answers. But from my n=2 sample, one big problem is the constant jankiness of doing schoolwork on Chromebooks and Google Classroom. Math apps where you can't see the diagram and the

Open air museums provide good strolls for stressed-out museum researchers. Especially in autumn! #museumlife

Ever wondered what really goes on behind the scenes in a museum?? Find out the SHOCKING TRUTH* for yourself on our new store-tour: 🏛️ 5th November 🔗 www.readingmuseum.org.uk/new-behind-s... *we have a lot of objects. like really a lot. and we will nerd out about them for as long as you listen.

Had a brief exciting moment, thinking I'd found a big data historian job. Odd for Linkedin, but you never know 🤷‍♀️ Nope... just making AI more fascist

A major US academic conference is offering a special info session with immigration attorney for int’l attendees. Sad it’s necessary and great they’re doing it. But it’s always been tough for some people (eg “Global South” scholars). So this should have always been happening.

feels good, man

Happy folklorist cutting open Reidar Th. Christiansens Migratory Legends (arrived from FF Communications today) 🥳 #folklore

Great news! I have just signed a new contract with The History Press to republish A Feast of Folklore! Look for the new paperback next year. Can't wait for it to be back in the world.

It has been a loooong week, and I wonder if anybody would notice if I stole a 1940s cigarette from the collection? #museumlife 🗃 (Of course I would never do that!) (Also, I would probably die inhaling 80 year old super dry tobacco.)

Excellent and disturbing interview, please read it all.

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame. tinyurl.se/crR

I have excellent colleagues who send me great #notalion 😁 #museumlife

Check out this very interesting CfP on "InterQueer: Crossing Queer and Intersectional Lenses in Historical Practice" if you are interested in "how queer and intersectional approaches can help us to interpret the past in a fuller and more complex manner." gender.eui.eu/wp-content/u...

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

We got a really nice review of our Play-Ritual book 🥰

📢 New deadline for #DHNB2026, Aarhus, March 9-13, 2026 Lost in Abundance: Encounters with the Non-Canonical Submission deadline: October 29th CfP at dhnb.eu/call-for-pap... #digitalhumanities #glam

Perks of working at an open air museum: meeting Mons on a regular basis. #museumlife

Note the wording.. Ms. Machado receives the prize for: - promoting democratic rights - struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition - At a time when democracy is under threat - where democracy is in retreat - more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norm www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en

On my way to lunch: autumn! #museumlife