Surprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon! brill.com/display/titl... #NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers

Ha leuk, onze workshop in de PZC! Komen jullie ook? Op 19 september praten we met allemaal toffe mensen in de bieb in Middelburg over oral history en de verhalen van gewone Zeeuwen. Info & aanmelden: dezb.op-shop.nl/8592/verteld...

Had a great time talking about my book with the wonderful Dimitri Gondicas, director of the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University #earlymodern #skytorians hellenic.princeton.edu/research/dir...

Come work with us! A 2,5 years postdoc on critical university heritage: you'll contribute to two curated heritage interventions, based on (1) physical anthropology collections and (2) botanical history. You'll join an international, interdisciplinary team. #skystorians #heritage #histofscience

The position is part of COLUMN, a collaborative research project about Colonial Legacies of Universities, funded by the EU under their Horizon scheme. Feel free to reach out with any questions about this job! @richardcalis.bsky.social Gert-Jan Plets and I are happy to answer any questions!

Had great fun talking about my new book for the Turkey Book Talk podcast #earlymodern #skystorians

From last week 📚👇 Richard Calis (@richardcalis.bsky.social) on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius” (@harvardpress.bsky.social) 🎧🎧 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/05/13/r...

Check out this Wonderful CfP!

One for the Dutch university administrators

In meme form:

New episode 🚨🚨 Richard Calis (@richardcalis.bsky.social) on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius” (@harvardpress.bsky.social) 📌📌 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/05/13/r...

Artwashing AI includes such perverse efforts as this: using a tool whose energy needs are so extractive that it contributes to climate change, which threatens the survival of endangered species...in order to "really make ya think" about endangered species.

Meet author #BenjaminLeathley at the launch of The Open Door to Hidden Paganism in conversation with #PeterBisschop @richardcalis.bsky.social #JoanPauRubiés #CarolienStolte chaired by #JosGommans Curious to find out more? Event: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... Book: lup.nl/publications...

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

The second international History of Knowledge Conference will be held in Lund, 8–10 October, 2025. The deadline for abstracts is approaching: 1 May. newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/t...

Having fun preparing for today's Descartes Centre Colloquium. Eric Jorink and I will present our new books and reflect on how we can write histories of science. Date/location: 15:30-16:30 at the UniversityMuseumUtrecht - followed by drinks! www.uu.nl/en/events/de... #earlymodern #historyofscience

*New University History Fellowship!* Are you interested in university history? Do you want to explore the history of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and its collections? Apply for this new #fellowship that we managed to create with support of the University Library and the Descartes Center!

It’s me! I’m the expert! Had lots of fun writing this piece on The White Lotus and Shakespeare. Please read and share! #Shakespeare #TheWhiteLotus

Thrilled that the @lrb.co.uk published Alexander Bevilacqua's wonderful review of my book on The Discovery of #Ottoman Greece www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #earlymodern #skystorians

oh, this is good, ye #earlymodern folk and language nerds 🐦🐦

‘Crusius studied spoken Greek carefully, treating his visitors as crucial primary sources. Yet he regarded modern vernacular Greek as a corrupt version of its classical ancestor.’ Alexander Bevilacqua on the German cleric who invented modern Grecomania: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

One week left to apply for this wonderful position in our #EU project on Botanical Gardens #skystorians #historyofscience Please share!

*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

Join us today for a roundtable on 'embodied scholarship': on how the social lives of Renaissance scholars shaped their ideas! #RenSA2025 #RSA2025

Also very excited for later today when I get to see my book for the first time in the wild at the RSA book fair and the @harvardpress.bsky.social table with the fantastic Emily Silk! #RSA2025 #Ren2025 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Very excited for #RSA2025 to start! Join us for a series of panels on ‘Religion in the History of Scholarship’! #earlymodern #skystorians #RenSA25

📣 Call for Abstracts 📣 Special issue of Galilæana edited by Raffaele Danna & Francesco Brusori: "Knowledge in Use. Practices and Practitioners in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (14th-17th centuries)". More info here: shorturl.at/8IgM3

Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its index. (From my Inventing the Renaissance)

Still a few weeks left to submit an abstract for our wonderful conference in November! ☟ ☟ ☟ #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Job alert! Two salaried PhD positions @uvahumanities.bsky.social in Amsterdam within the Daily Bread Project lead by my colleague @maartjegelder.bsky.social on food protests in the Early Modern Dutch Republic and Northern Italy ⬇️ werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

the United States right now: HUMANITIES BAD - THROW IN TRASH Europe:

Postdoctoral Researcher role: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens...more below \/\/\/

A really interesting botanical humanities job.

Absolute dream job here!

Come work with us on this project! We're looking for a postdoc interested in intellectual history, history of botany and/or colonial history. This project brings together Dutch and Surinam perspectives on botanical knowledge circulation. Drop me or Richard a line if you have any questions.

Dream job alert!

#HPS #HPBio

Looks like an amazing postdoc 🌺🌳

Postdoc Opportunity!

Sounds like a great post

Very cool postdoc opportunity with @richardcalis.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

Donderdag 6 maart organiseert @athenaeum.nl een avond rondom mijn nieuwe boek "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece". www.athenaeum.nl/agenda/athen... Aanmelden kan via de website of door mij een bericht te sturen. Datum: donderdag 6 maart Start interview + discussie 17.00 Borrel 18.15 Einde 19.00

Collega-historici: de nieuwe website van het Stadsarchief Amsterdam wordt onbruikbaar voor historisch onderzoek. Geef dus alsjeblieft feedback! Voordat andere archieven besluiten dit voorbeeld te volgen.

KNHG lanceert fonds voor historisch onderzoek historiek.net/knhg-lanceer...

This offers us a helpful deadline as well, removing ourselves collectively from X. From the 21st of February, we'll be only here, but just as enthusiastic about #EarlyModern things ever, if not more. #SkyStorians

Glad we're moving away from the fascist forum, but our follower number on this website is still half of what it is on the other one. Can you all increase the number a bit to help make #EarlyModern scholarship visible?

We are advertising for an Assistant Professor in Early Modern History. The deadline for applications for this open-ended, full time post is 27th March 2025. For full details see the link below. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...