Eindelijk mocht ik eens iets in het Nederlands schrijven over mijn doctoraat. Ontdek wie 'mijn' medewerksters van het Apostolaat zijn, vanaf pagina 32 👉 kadoc.kuleuven.be/koorts/numme... (1/7)

Medieval story time! Let’s talk about Isabel, who stabbed a priest when he told her to shut up in church (relatable) So Isabel lived in London in 1330.

Yes writing emails is a pain so instead of hiding behind an AI to do it for you like a coward you need to simply have the courage of your convictions and stand up for what matters and simply not reply to them like the rest of us

This morning I travelled to Mechelen for a visit to the (relocated and thoroughly renewed) Speelgoedmuseum / Museum of Toys. There was going to be a press conference about a loan from the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library to the Museum of Toys. 1/5

Just remember that the co-founder and creative genius behind Studio Ghibli--without whom AI would have nothing to rip off in order to make those images currently circulating--thinks AI is an insult to life itself

📆 Mark your calendar for the public program of 'Breaking Cultures of Silence', with workshops and an in-depth discussion on bystander behavior and sexual violence in Catholic Church contexts. More info and registration: theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

It's WAY overused these days, but Tolkien nailed it. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

✨ This Friday, @nunezbargueno.bsky.social and I are invited to the Ruusbroec Institute in Antwerp to share our work on Catholic women's history. Come join us! More info 👉https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/onderzoeksgroep/ruusbroecgenootschap/info/rg100/

Hoera, het nieuwste nummer van Tijd-Schrift viel net in de bus! Deze keer wel zes megaboeiende artikelen over het thema 'thuis'. Bonus: een vrouw op de cover (kunstenares Louise De Hem) én een inleiding van mezelf! ✨

Jan 29 1925: dog teams set out from Nenana, Alaska to bring diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, where the disease was spreading. 20 teams & mushers carried the serum over 674 miles in under 130 hours. Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year

I found a book from 2014 on deconnection for 1 euro. Very entertaining: some predictions came true, other times the author was completely wrong (in retrospect). This passage made me close the book for a few minutes, and take a deep breath.

Studying and teaching history is a form of resistance. 🗃️

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

Interestingly, the reopening ceremony of Notre Dame de Paris this evening (live broadcast here www.youtube.com/c/FRANCE24/l...) is *not* the rededication. The Archbishop will open the doors an bless the organ and the building, but the dedication of the altar is reserved for Sunday.

A letter to the Belgian nuncio from a woman who believed that the Belgian fascist and later collaborator Degrelle was the Messiah: "[J]e suis convaincue que Léon Degrelle est celui dont parle les prophéties, et qui viendra sauver le pays." (1938) #ickyarchives #skystorians

Where universities don't support staff to be open about their own neurodiversity, it leaves neurodiverse students unable to see that they can succeed and be supported. Whether deliberate or not, this is a conversation the uni is entering into. #RemovingBarriers

Imagine an issue. Wrong, it's more complicated than that

If only the peer reviewers (I presume not historians) had informed the author of the difference between ‘the past’ and ‘historical narratives’. It’s not ‘the past’ that has been questioned. How could it be? It’s simply what happened. It’s White supremacist narratives about it.

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By far and away, my favourite thing about this spectacularly dumb post... Is that that's THE MATTERHORN

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

wish my local library had merch

2 December 1941 | The Auschwitz concentration camp's inventory report for November mentioned, for the first time, the delivery of 3,000 kilograms of Zyklon B transported by rail from Dessau.

Reminder: you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it, you don’t have to get better at it, you don’t have to monetize it, and it doesn’t have to be useful.

Let that sink in: in the occupied territories, ru has destroyed “750 libraries, 120 museums, 38 theaters, cinemas, and philharmonics, as well as more than 1,179 cultural heritage objects. Additionally, Russian forces have destroyed over 200 million Ukrainian books.”

Right-wingers: We need more history! Historians: [do their job] Right-wingers: No, not like that, that's uncomfortable!

"Every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable" (Etty Hillesum diary) 30 November 1943 | Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish diarist and author perished in #Auschwitz. She was deported there from Westerbork on 7 September 1943.

The unexpected places of religious expression that research on consecrated life in the world uncovers. Behold the Rooygem Spinning Mill, once the starting point, and, for some years, the center of the 'little factory circle of penance'. ©️https://id.erfgoed.net/afbeeldingen/205589

Got myself a Dorothy Day graphic novel at #sblaar24 😍

I share an office with Leen Deflem, but I still learned a lot at #sblaar24 about her important work on bystandership and sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Excited to announce that Leen Deflem will present first insights from her interviews with 54 respondents on bystandership in historical cases of abuse in the Belgian Catholic Curch at the upcoming Contextualizing the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis Seminar! #sblaar24

A bit nervous but also very happy that I can share my work on the auxiliaires with the world! #sblaar24

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Historian: The cup, 1789-1914

In love with the @ucpress.bsky.social badges at #sblaar24 😍

As you're all planning your day at #sblaar, don’t miss Jade Willaert presenting her brilliant work on LGBTQ+ Catholics in Flanders in the Queer Studies in Religion and Religion and Memory Studies Units panel! Cheering from afar!

Unexpectedly found a biblical action figure while strolling in San Diego, and now I'm secretly looking for a way to sneak this into my own research. How cool is this! #sblaar24

KU Leuven has arrived in San Diego! To fight our jetlag, we had bacon pancakes and went to the beach and a local church. Now ready for #SBLAAR24! ✨

If you’re going to AAR- come to the Vatican 2 Studies Unit! We are hosting two sessions. Here’s the info on one of them:

American airports be like

This year, the Maurits Sabbe Library at KU Leuven celebrates its 50th birthday. My colleague Sr. Lilly and I had to honour to share with the world what our library means to us. 👇 youtu.be/2--w1Kxrejc

good for him! work-life balance is so important

Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a procrastination activity you indulge in instead of writing & 2) your favourite food to stress eat 1) Finding the perfect playlist to listen while writing (instead of actually writing) 2) cheese

It's me, a gull on a mysterious quest for potato chips. ✨

Deleting twitter felt fine in the end but it’s hard to overstate how much it mattered in allowing me to make a career. It feels so silly to say.

YESSS! In 2021, Maarten Larmuseau and I wrote "In her footsteps" (in Dutch), at the crossroad of gender, genetics and genealogy. 👇

"Ahaha ik had daar eigenlijk niet bij stilgestaan"