On Monday, Switzerland is expected to reach Glacier Loss Day, one of the earliest ever recorded. By then, all this winter’s snow will have melted away. From that point on, every day of summer heat means the loss of ancient glacier ice, built up over centuries. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Demain, Simonne Vidal va entrer au Panthéon aux côtés de son mari Marc Bloch. Elle sera la 7e femme panthéonnisée et la 2e en tant que "femme de". Je comprends les familles ne voulant pas séparer, même symboliquement, les couples, ms quelle tristesse de voir qu'elle reste finalement ds l'ombre 1/11

#Skystorians, looking for examples of historical research where ‘the subject’ did not want to be studied, and/or tried to interfere with the study. Also looking for examples where individuals and communities minimized their role/agency in historical sources, interviews or their own curated history.

Utility company website: Are you a robot? Me: No, but if there are robots trying to pay my utility bills, mind your own business.

Portraits of Unbelonging is a profound examination of how photographs can both sever and connect, tracing the paths of Ottoman Armenians across state and family archives. "A luminous and stunning work." —Leti Volpp, coeditor of Legal Borderlands https://ow.ly/wLSv50Zc6qK

#OtD 11 June 1936 Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists attempted to hold an impromptu rally in Tonypandy, Wales. 6,000 locals forced the fascists to flee in what would become known as the 'Battle of De Winton Field' stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8322...

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

89 years ago, on the 4th of June 1937, the shopping cart was introduced in a Humpty Dumpty supermarket in Oklahoma. The invention by Sylvan Goldman didn't find wide appeal until he hired several male and female models to push the carts around his store, demonstrating their utility. #otd #history 🗃️

What can we learn about queer lives and queer history from the call logs of the UK's first LGBTQ+ helpline? @tashwalker.bsky.social and @adamzmith.bsky.social discuss their award-winning podcast The Log Books with @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social 🎙️

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Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Doctoraat ingediend! ... Wat nu?

Really does not feel like this is the moment in history to be cutting Religious Studies education.

Did I mention he also won Paris-Roubaix in the same year ;-) #parisroubaix #pr54 #pr26

A crater that caught my eye when I was watching: Kovalevskaya, with the magnificent peak in this shot. It's named for the Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya, the first woman to get a PhD in math. More about her: daily.jstor.org/science-in-d... #histSTM 🗃️ www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

The two types of librarian conflict management as illustrated by Richard Scarry. Which are you?

Had a lot of fun teaching today about things that I love: women, wikipedia, the library! The students will write a short wikipedia page about a woman who doesn't have a page yet. Check out the IG @religiousherstory to follow their adventures! ✨ @kuleuventheology.bsky.social @3sbos.bsky.social

Vacature!⭐ Doctoraatsbursaal (100%) voor het FWO-project “Labore et Constantia. Continuïteit en verandering in de werkritmes in de Plantijnse drukkerij (ca. 1580–1840)”, onder leiding van Gerrit Verhoeven. 👉Meer info en solliciteren: www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

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.