📢 Submit your paper for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference (@bjsociology.bsky.social) by Monday 20 October - three weeks today. There is no predetermined theme. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts relating to any aspect of sociology. Find out more: www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

Albert Einstein la surnommait “la femme scientifique la plus importante du XXᵉ siècle”. Lise Meitner découvre la fission nucléaire mais, pacifiste, refuse la bombe et ne reçoit jamais le Nobel (coucou l'effet Matilda 👋) . Un destin brillant… et éclipsé. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/deO

Netherlands is going to give the Dubois fossil collection back to Indonesia www.government.nl/latest/news/...

On Friday, I went to see The Midnight at De Roma in Antwerp, and someone had got the memo that the music is reminiscent of the soundtrack to the film 'Drive'.

de notre quotidien et, malheureusement, ce monde y est très mal adapté. Ma fille est donc sensibilisée à l’accessibilité. Que le manque d’accessibilité l’angoisse parfois, je le reconnais volontiers. Que ce soit mon handicap qui l’angoisse, non. J’en ai ras le bol d’entendre ça.

J’en ai un peu marre que, dès que l’Enfant évoque un point d’accessibilité devant des valides (comme: "Cette voiture est mal garée: ma maman ne pourra pas passer sur le trottoir"), ces derniers.ères me sortent: "Votre fille est angoissée en raison de votre handicap." NON ! Le handicap fait partie

SCOOP: The anonymous French artist known as Invader filed a lawsuit against Julien Auctions over the sale of pixelated mosaic tile artworks that were allegedly stolen and listed for sale without his knowledge or consent: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Wow, reconnu MDPH c'est encore plus grave que reconnu CAF je crois. Et plus sérieusement, puisqu'il faut encore le rappeler, les personnes ayant des troubles psy : - Commettent statistiquement moins de violences de ce type que la moyenne. - En SUBISSENT infiniment plus.

Look what came in the mail! Cc @mariafarrell.bsky.social

I was today years old when I learned that "freelance" comes from the term for a knight who lost his lord and had to become a "free lancer" aka mercenary www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/fre...

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Getting ready for my lecture for Dartmouth’s Family Weekend tomorrow! They’re getting the #DataEmpire sneak peek 🤩

Today's mood is to write the chart to knit those cursing socks whose pattern is no longer available. And do Émilie Deseliène's writing exercice based on Claude Ber's text (Il y a des choses que non, 2017).

Henriette Kohlrausch (1781 – 1842) was a German botanist and naturalist known for collaboration transcribing Alexander von Humbolt's Kosmos lectures. She was also the lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Hanover, Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. #WomenInSTEM

It's for classes about 'finding queer lives in the archives' (early modern), including on the ethics of working with criminal records as well as with literary records, and I like how these ladies allow for a discussion of their own words their broader lives lived. But a non-UK exmp would be great.

Firstly, I’m all for not projecting our assumptions and morals on the past, but these “good friends” named their dog Sappho… Secondly: is there a non-British equivalent of this diary? A loving record of the fullness of a life shared created by possibly queer women?

Our first Misfits class is on Thursday! We've got 17 participants from across NYC's libraries, universities, municipal agencies + arts orgs; we're visiting Storefront, ABCNoRio, the NY Botanical Garden, the Ctr for BookArts, etc. Here's our website! 🤗 crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/

Our research on Microsoft’s data centers is out and it’s 😬 💡Huge energy demand (as much as New England by 2030!) 
⛽️ Fossil fuel reliance (most data centers in states with ≥50% FF grids) 
🏫Local impacts (data centers used to justify more gas) Learn more and take action: stand.earth/microsoft-ai

*humming in 1534* … I like big books an´ I can not lie. You otha brothas can´t deny. #bookhistory

En route vers Arras et le fucking fabulous colloque sur "Profanity: Redefining the Limits The F-Word Across Linguistics, Translation and the Arts", où @claireplacial.bsky.social et moi parlerons des traductions de "Fuck Neoliberalism" de Simon Springer. poke @acme-geography.bsky.social , with love.

trying to beast thru revisions on my LAST unpublished dissertation chapter. 2 babies, 3 jobs and 6 years later! data is data baby! its still an solid paper. publishing is about persistence never give up! a revise/resubmit from a good journal and worth it! pumping up myself and others if they need it

Est-ce que certain.e.s d'entre vous ont déjà entendu parler de Lingua Franca et, si cela ne vous dérange pas de m'expliquer, dans quel contexte ?

Any recommendations for key scholarship at the intersection of productive gardens/agriculture and health institutions like sanatoriums, leprosariums, and convalescent homes?

I met Dr. David Ho! He’s responsible for the fact that HIV is no longer a death sentence and his work has saved tens of millions of lives. Why he doesn’t have a Nobel Prize is beyond me. AMA.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style. So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️

Move info on this website: olivia.science/ai by @olivia.science QR code goes here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Join me for a workshop on archival research in the Environmental Humanities at The National Archives! We're seeking early career participants - apply to attend to hear from speakers, view original documents, and help test our research guidance. #envhum #envhist www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-r...

The scientific community (this time the US National Academy of Sciences) for the umpteenth time: "the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused greenhouse gases is beyond scientific dispute" #climatechange nap.nationalacademies.org/initiative/c...

I'm working in a café while waiting for a medical appointment (gravity is brutal, a keyboard is handy when your hand is out of action). Two dudes are talking about law, cases, lectures and how they use Claude and ChatGPT all day long. My idea of hell.

Great interview with Baroness Lady Hale, first female president of the supreme court, from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

ALT: Drawing by @purrinink.bsky.social, a black cat with big eyes and a blep, holding a yellow flower in its paw and the text: « Some days you just gotta randomly blep at the world and move on with your life ».

I can‘t believe people are getting so mad about @angryblacklady.bsky.social saying that you shouldn’t register for a protest. Just show up. Don‘t register.

The conclusions are stark: 1. Israeli authorities and security forces have committed and continuing to commit 4 of the 5 genocidal acts detailed in international conventions (e.g. 1948 Genocide convention)

Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair our inter-university research seminar is pleased to invite you to the Paris Book Launch of @profdanhicks.bsky.social Dan Hicks's 2025 banger *Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting*. 15th Oct, 5 pm. undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com

I've finished and published my Crustacean Cushion pattern. As ever, I put a hidden quote on the reverse for visitors to discover. 🧶🦐 #knitting #knitsky #bskyknits #sealife #prawn #crab #seahorse www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Went to see the exhibition ‘Trots and Troost (Pride and Solace) - medieval books of hours and their readers’ at the Groeningemuseum in Bruges (thanks to @svanimpe.bsky.social for sharing the information!). Appreciated the work done to highlight women in the documents and contextualisations.

Lucy Qinnuayuak (1915–1982) was an Inuk graphic artist and printmaker. Known for her renderings of Arctic birds, Qinnuayuak's work has exhibited extensively in and outside of Canada. Owls of Baffin, c. 1982. #WomensArt

"The destruction of Palestine’s seed banks reveals ecocide as a weapon of temporal control — a strategy for extending genocide beyond the present moment into an undeterminable future."

⚡ ⚖️ 🌐 happening now: #ClimateLitigation court hearing in Zug, Switzerland 🇨🇭, in 𝐴𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑣. 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑐𝑖𝑚. This civil law case seeks to hold one of the largest carbon major accountable for climate harms. 🧵 live reporting from the Court house, with summary of legal arguments and key elements of context👇

#SkyStorians: Who can I talk to about the *history* of #lgbtqia archives or collections?

#BookHistory someone posted recently (let's say the last few months) about a recent publication from Brill and it was related to genres. I am checking the Library of the Written Word series but cannot find it. Any tips?

I miss my friend, Helen. It would have been her birthday today. Please consider donating to the fundraiser for her kids: www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...

📚💻💰📝 If you are thinking about applying for an ERC grant and want inspiration, I've updated my paper where I tell how I got mine. It now includes the application (B1+B2), the manuscript for the presentation I gave at my interview, the slides, and the nine peer reviews. pure.au.dk/portal/en/pu...

Hailed as “some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced,” Gee’s Bend quilts constitute a crucial chapter in the history of American art and are in the permanent collections of over 30 art museums. Willie "Ma Willie" Abrams, 1897 - 1987 www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/willi...

Le voilà donc officiellement sorti 🥸

At a recent gathering, there were calls for progress on returning African relics held at the National Museum of Ireland. Most are weapons, taken as souvenirs of colonial wars, said Olusegun Morakinyo, Africologist and former visiting scholar at the TCD.

The internet forgets. You don’t have to. 📥 Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to capture and preserve the sites you care about. 🕰️ Try it here ➡️ web.archive.org/save #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine @Archive.org

What a day at #SAiL2025! Sunshine, curious guests, and lots of opened & folded letters. Together we dived into stories of ships, captures & connections from 250 years ago. Thanks for the great chats – history truly comes alive when being shared! #earlymodern #maritimehistory #publichistory 🗃️