Animal writing fans will see this and think "hell yeah"

While the terrifying Pomeranian has you here... Looking for anyone who's had a successful #MSCA postdoc fellowship who'd be willing to share an application with me. Please RT and/or share if you know someone who could help. #EarlyModern #LiteraryStudies #AnimalStudies #Ecocriticism #History

Welcoming the weekend like... #earlymodern #17thC

More Lady Anne Southwell drip feed (from meditation on the 8th commandment): Methinks my neighbour’s dog that barks at me/And his own tongue that doggedly doth rail/Is all alike, I can no difference see -/Both with confused noises my ears assail”

See, what happens when you're not in academia circles full time and out of the loop is that you miss cfps for conferences like this which look sick AF & you literally have work on nonhuman resistance and (in)justice in the book project Positively frothing with FOMO 😭 looks incredible!

Saw #Hamnet last night and I know you will all be relieved to know it has a properly decent number of #earlymodern animals in it so on that basis it's a paws/hooves/talons up from me.

5 minutes ago I saw an fox riding a Knight-uber now this?!! A great day to be me.

Today I am a modern animals and their trainers fan account #animal

The Danish population rn

January 1625 - Richard Napier briefly owns a swan. 3 Jan: 'Mr Grub sent me a Cygnet ... I gave him 2s'. 8 Jan: 'My Cygnet did flye away'. #otd #earlymodern

Love an accident of early modern spelling, which on the final line has given way to a pun so drippily acidic that modern English could only dream of it Gascoigne on the health benefits of hunting:

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

Back to my chapter on Gascoigne & let me get a tea towel for I am once again drooling over the sexy, sexy type of the 1561 edition of Du Fouilloux's La Vénerie: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

Found the 'people named after birds' page of the will register

Today is #WorldSoilDay and I am thinking about that EM gardening text I read which said burying onions and garlic would keep moles away. In reality, of course, the moles were likely underground making bolognese with the ingredients delivered to their door.

Taking my writing on Hester Pulter to the next level at this writing retreat by attempting to get "snowed in" at this particular "countrey grange"

Neither an early modern animal nor a writer but "a real handsome man" is absolutely sending me today. Howling. www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo...

Shout out for this one!

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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Le cochon dormant Marcu de Bye, 1657. (Musée du Louvre)

Never not thinking about the Wile E. Coyote slapstick of Lion vs. Unicorn (Edward Topsell, Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes, 1607)

Imagine being Mr Pulter, like Dearest wife, how goes the poetry? Ok so there is a LARK & the LARK's NEST gets CHOPPED IN HALF by a mower & some of the CHICKS get CHOPPED IN HALF & others get BEHEADED and 1 CHICK gets MUTILATED but SURVIVES & is then DRAGGED ABOUT by the mower's son and then DIES.

This is a later version, 1670, of a print originally made around 1642-1646 to advertise the performances of the elephant 'Hansken' which was drawn by Rembrandt around 1637. (British Museum)

Stop normalizing grind culture and normalize whatever this is

Scowling at you since 1663, dear human reader. #caturday #catcontent

I'm feeling vindicated in acknowledging my cats' opinions in my dissertation. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #Cats #CatSky

[Somewhere in Egypt, allegedly] "What's the time?" "Time you checked if the baboon has had a wee yet."

First time I've seen Dürer's rhino rampant!

[Somewhere in C16 Americas] New arrival: *sweating, furiously trying to tie 5 or 6 substantial and very angry winged bugs into a bundle* and you're definitely sure this is the best light source around here? Local: *stifling laughter* yeah, absolutely, we have them in our house too, keep trying👍

Writing today and am thinking about the colleague who got frustrated when I didn't spot British-isms in copy because "the browser puts red lines under them". I didn't know how to explain that when you work with certain literature for so long red lines become meaningless and completely ignorable...

The rarest of rare things has happened and I'm looking at an empty weekend to be filled with #writing, beginning as of this minute. Tips for making sure the chapter writing happens, accountability and solidarity are all eagerly sought and welcomed.

I live in constant fear that one day the Literature Authorities will discover that I don't own a Daunt Books tote and I don't even know where the shop is.

AHahahahahaha yeeeeeees

But most importantly, he was and will always be Naked Cat Man 😻

Absolutely fascinating phenomenon

👏👏👏👏👏 If you're not prepared to keep people to time, a literal chair could manage the panel just as effectively.

Coming back after using APA for work - the relief is like getting into a lovely warm bath

You know you have a well-established personal brand when you arrive at work and the first thing a colleague says "Have you seen the New Zealand herpes advert? You'd love it"

We're offering a travel bursary! BUT You have to pay for your own travel up front!!! AND The bursary does not cover the full costs of the travel!!!!!!!!! AND You can only submit a claim at or after the event!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND The event is in many months time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some #climate fun for you this morning! Met Office are asking for new storm names: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o... Why not submit big oil giants for consideration (see suggestion). After all, it's because of them we need more names! www.linkedin.com/posts/jen-ga... #ClimateAction #Protest

Why study humanities? Well, in the end, it's so you know how stupid it is to even *cogitate* things like this, never mind put it out on the internet for everyone so they can see exactly how eye-rollingly stupid you are.

Prepping a presentation on how to use LinkedIn for research scientists. dw though, am shoe-horning in a couple of Bosch and Van Eyck triptychs just to feel something

I gave a social scientist colleague some suggested reading as there was research crossover and they asked "are you sure you don't want to be a researcher?" Well it's this. Staring down the barrel of this as I finished up the PhD. This thread is exactly why I chose not to/felt unable to continue.

Senior colleague has asked if they could "touch base" re: "synthesizing documentation" inc. their "event concept note" and a "proposed timeline Gantt chart" and I

🪦 R.I.P. Michael Drayton (1563-1631) you'd have loved this anthropomorphic earth science popping off on LinkedIn 💔 www.linkedin.com/posts/elenad...

- So AVB what was it that pushed you over the edge to join BlueSky? - needed to rejoin the community that would understand my distress with #ebooks ... goddamn #ebooks I swear down, why has this not been solved. I wish to cry