10 year old daughter: "If you study #gesture, do you study the #earlymodern middle finger?" Me: *Makes mental note to check out potential funding sources

Jooooiiiin ussssssss...

Coming up this Saturday, our June speaker is...us! #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #WomensHistory #Religion #ReligiousHistory

Don't forget about our awesome online hangout this Saturday for people interested in #body studies. We'd love to hear about what you're working on. #MedievalSky ##MedievalHistory #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #WhatsHistory

Seriously, we have a great time.

In our latest, @francescasq.bsky.social reflects on her experience at the 17th Annual Midlands #Viking Symposium. #MedievalSky ##MedievalHistory #NorseHistory #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #Bodies #Embodiment #HistoricalFiction

Come join us as we host Dr Chris White!

Join us for our June talk! This time we're putting ourselves on the spot by sharing our own research ahead of our Leeds roundtable. #MedievalSky ##MedievalHistory #WomensHistory #EarlyModernHistory #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #Religion tinyurl.com/3xap2zck

The best way to spend a Saturday morning!

Shout out to my sister for the gift she gave me in my dream last night of a handmade clay panini press that doubles as a stereo.

If I was a psychologist, I would open a practice called Baggage Claim.

Leaving a bookstore with your arms full of books has big "look at these cool rocks I found" energy

Just picked up The Social Life of the #earlymodern Protestant Clergy to read on my Easter holiday away. I'm excited to see many chapters relevant to my interest in clergy wives and daughters. What are you reading this weekend?

Had our first online colloquium today for @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social. I'm stoked to get writing again. Is there any felicity superior to meeting fellow nerds and gesticulating wildly? What gets you revved up for writing and research? #AcademicSky #EarlyModern #MedievalSky #HistorySky #Skystorians

We are always interested in hearing from scholars of all levels of experience. Want to deliver a talk for our online speaker series? Or maybe just write a blog post? Hit us up! bodiesandbeing.com/get-involved/ #AcademicSky #HistorySky #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #EarlyModernHistory

Fully funded PhD project researching #earlymodern Netherlandish objects at the Museum of the Home - looks like a really interesting project.

Wow. Just like that, NEH? All of us thrown under the bus without a fight.

Here's me talking about my work.

@nvandeusen.bsky.social we need to get you into a Scandinavian starter pack! And medieval and Iceland and Viking, etc.

Yes - bsky.app/profile/altc...

The Canadian Society of #Medievalists is hosting its 2nd Annual Online Research Forum. Give a 7min talk on any research-in-progress! Open to scholars globally. Early career scholars and grad students encouraged. #medieval #earlymodern #Skystorians www.canadianmedievalists.org/The-CSM-Online

The water-gulpinge glorifiede autocorrect beinge solde as the next big thinge ys no more "Artificial Intelligence" than a mailer daemon ys an imp wyth a forked tale or a websyte cookie a delicious baked goode.

BEHOLD! Our website is up and running! Stay tuned as we add more information, blog entries, events, etc. #premodern #medieval #earlymodern #AcademicSky #WhatsHistory #HistorySky #materialculture bodiesandbeing.com

Knitting break at Swiss 2 Go. I've cast on for the Knot Bad sweater and am currently working the German short rows that shape the shoulders and neckline. #KnitSky #Knitting

This was SO much fun last year. Hope you can join us! #medieval #earlymodern #WhatsHistory #AcademicSky #HistorySky #MedievalSky

#Knitting this gauge swatch really has confirmed that I chose the best color. This is Gepard Wild and Soft, a fingering weight silk and merino blend, colorway is Forest Green (866). Based on this swatch it looks like I'll be knitting this sweater on 2mm needles (US size 0).

We've reached the moment on BlueSky where we all get an onslaught of new followers generously offering us a preview of their OnlyFans.

I want to see so many people posting wins. Like the tiniest wins. The biggest wins. A nice flower. Whatever. It is vitally important to the work of changing systems to believe that joy is possible and good things exist. And even without an algo, it's so much easier to go negative.

We are early career scholars focused on material culture who feel like we don't need permission to create our own consortium, hold events, and generally take up space as we face a precarious academic job market. Website coming soon! #AcademicSky #Medieval #WhatsHistory #EarlyModern

Being a historian means having your phone autocorrect "Merry Christmas" to "Merry Wiesner-Hanks". A very Merry Wiesner-Hanks to you all! #AcademicSky #WhatsHistory #Medieval #EarlyModern

And I would love to read it

Want to avoid wrapping those last few presents? Boy do we have a way for you to procrastinate: write a proposal for our #medieval and #earlymodern studies conference! Themed 'possibilities', it will be hosted in Melbourne on 3-5 Dec, proposals due 14 Feb. conference.anzamems....

📣 Do you love reading? We're looking to start a History Book Club in 2025. Would you like to join? If so, please fill in our questionnaire and we’ll add you to the book club mailing list 📚 us4.list-manage.com/survey?u=65e...

Michael Jackson told everyone to beat it and that fighting was wrong, all while getting out of bed and rocking straight up to the fight to provoke angry gangs with his pelvic thrust.

Heading back to Leeds in 2025 to talk about how religious ideas about womanhood were transmitted in Reformation England. @imc-leeds.bsky.social Suppression and Celebration: Exploring the Role of Women in Medieval and Early Modern Religious Discourse - A Round Table Discussion #HistorySky

This is my absolute favorite MR James story. 😍

Yet another starterpack you might be interested in... #earlymodern #skystorians go.bsky.app/FpG69cP

3rd Jan - 28th. do you know anyone who wants a last minute writing retreat with bonus evil cat? House is: v close to university library, ~20 mins walking distance to the centre of town, a little garden.

The latest "AI" (plagiarism-fraud-ecocide machine) crime against culture & human flourishing: fake resources on Indigenous languages. Anishinabek Nation’s Anishinaabemowin Coordinator McLeod-Shabogesic had this to say about it: 1/2 #Skyhistorians #VastEarlyAmerica #IndigenousStudies

Fellas, is it woke to profess the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father? *St Nicholas enters, rolling his sleeves up*

Best Books Of is my favorite season of the year. #BookSky #AcademicSky #MedievalSky

I don't know about you but I'm looking forward to a winter break filled with days reading seventeenth century polemic. 😍 #AcademicSky #Skystorians #HistorySky #EarlyModern #Reformation

Me: I will just relax for a few minutes by playing a mindless game on my phone Phone: Cool, every 90 seconds you will just need to watch a little animated snuff film featuring a mother and child freezing to death, or a king slowly being crushed against a spiky wall by piles of falling rubble

Got eclipsed by the manifesto but today I also published talking points UnitedHealthcare is giving employees to instruct them on how to defend the company:

Prestigious, well-connected facultye wyth clout at "elite" universityes neede to activelye support programs under threat of budget cuts at other instituciouns. Thei neede to speake up, reach out, and see how thei kan helpe. A fielde wyth programs being cut lefte and righte hath no future.

Young Black women aged 18-30 are invited to join an exciting new hybrid programme for budding archivists and curators. Open until 9th December. Please share :)

I keep posting abt my latest read (Anthony Trollope's The Claverings) and now I'm curious if you also have an author you turn to over the years as a sort of mental security blanket? A book you reread every few years? Something the equivalent of watching the 1995 BBC P&P after a tough day? #BookSky

Here is a starter pack of institutional accounts of societies and centres for medieval and early modern studies, broadly defined. Let me know if there are others! #medievalsky #earlymodernsky #medievalstudies #earlymodernstudies

I ignored my Trollope last night so I'm taking her out for lunch to make up for it. #AnthonyTrollope #BookSky