When your past self forgot that they booked first-class Eurostar tickets, you get better seats, and you happen to be in London at the right time to visit Present & Correct, what more could you ask for on a Saturday? (Sent from under the sea.)

Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair invites you to an online session on Black Studies in Europe. The three editors discuss their recently published anthology. Friday, 13th February 5.30 pm (Paris time). Online. Registration link👇🏽 undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/ Spread the word.

Excited to be speaking at the IHR Food History seminar on 12 February 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm. Book a place to hear about cheesemaking and women’s dominance of the dairy in early modern England. Online via Zoom so no real cheese this time I’m afraid.

[2/3] Les fouilles menées par Eleanor Scerri révèlent foyers, outils lithiques et ossements de cerfs. Ces groupes étaient des chasseurs-cueilleurs sans agriculture ni technologies avancées. Cette preuve contredit l’idée que seuls les agriculteurs maîtrisaient la navigation maritime à la Préhistoire.

ALT: Book cover of “Working Nature. A History of the Energy Economy” by Daniela Russ.

Good enough oranges ✅️ "Good enough" regulations ❎️

we need more responses from the north of england! it takes under 10 minutes and you will contribute to science! thank you!

As a specialist in British Bronze Age lithics, i am happy to confirm this identification

Hey #earlymodern Anglo-world history friends: Is there an English-language version of TESORO de Covarrubias or the RAE DICCIONARIO HISTORICO for Spanish or ARTFL for French? Like, searchable databases of 17th/18th/19th-c definitions and connotations of words?

Sharing from Alice Wong's IG account. Alice's Celebration of Life will be on March 25, 2026.

"Everybody - wake up! It's the #BigGardenBirdwatch!" Will you be taking part today? 👀🌳

First office hours of the new semester, and there was already a queue when I entered Barker Center this morning.

Moths are excellent pets as they ask for nothing and all you have to do to acquire lots of them is open a window and switch on seven lamps and put a classic early Leonard Cohen LP on at a pleasant volume.

Just a regular fox taking an #earlymodern Uber. Nothing to see here. #skystorians

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

"No one has ever been charged or prosecuted for the killing of Patrice Lumumba, but a lot of people have been considered responsible for it." Excellent write up by Professor Foluke Adebisi. Pair it with Césaire's *A Season in the Congo* (1966).

Maria van Oosterwijck (1630–1693), also spelled Oosterwyck, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, specialising in richly detailed flower paintings and other still lifes. Portrait of Maria van Oosterwijck, 1671, by Wallerant Vaillant. Vanitas with Sunflower and Jewelry Box, c. 1665. #WomensArt

A coffee with milk on a plastic chair, on Guernsey Island, perfect.

Small, groundbreaking exhibition on 16th-century painter Catharina van Hemessen coming to Antwerp and London next year

Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026

CALL: seminar funding for 2026 The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for. Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking. ➡️

Trying to find a resource to explain a mending technique and coming across this AI-generated site, the planet really can't take any more of this crap.

what are the words for ’solidarity’ in your language and how do they differ, semiotically from ‘solidarity’? Especially interested in non-euro languages

My book lurking at the OUP exhibit @ #AHA26 next to a Pulitzer (E Fields-Black's remarkable _Combee_)! The introduction is "Genealogy as Statecraft." Excited for more opportunities this year to engage with readers about this meaningful and powerful practice in early America -- and since.

Très joli vidéo de réponse aux ouin ouin

There are always Trumps. And so that is why the United States constitution has checks and balances for the misuse of presidential power. The real story of Trump’s presidency is not only what he has done, but also what Congress and the Supreme Court have not done.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

"Value(s) in Practice: Impact and Sustainability in XR" = CFP for the inaugural issue of the Immersive Impact Review: "A new open-access publication dedicated to advancing knowledge at the intersection of immersive technologies & social good."

Oysters in Paris #FossilFriday Roman pillars, repurposed in the Church of Saint-Pierre de Montmartre (Paris)

Le centre d'archives SAICOM spécialisé en archives minières et industrielles recrute un.e archiviste En tant qu'administrateur et ayant consulté énormément de fonds qui s'y trouvent, je vous confirme que c'est un cadre de travail très agréable Plus d'info ici: kdrive.infomaniak.com/app/share/17...

@emilianotrere.com @tbonini.bsky.social I really enjoyed your book and have it on my syllabus. Thanks for your work. I wrote a review of it for Critical AI: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Anyways, all of this non-climate stuff has direct links to climate stuff. A direct line can almost always be drawn.

Does anyone know where the red light district was in 19thC Leicester? I will trade you knowledge of the red light district in Peterborough.

Don't forget the deadline is looming for submitting proposals for the PrintNetworks/CPHC annual conference which this year is in Cornwall. The theme is Print, Printing and Industrial Heritage (surfboards welcome!) www.cphc.org.uk/updates/2025...

First fjord ice commute of the season. -10°C

Reading “The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing” theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

Leuven Centre for Health Humanities organises a yearly lecture series. Join online (or on campus, at KU Leuven) This series explores entangled relations between nature and health with perspectives from medical history, psychology, disability & colonial studies, & environmental humanities. #histmed

Solar panels: now in goat-resistant flavor

Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2] redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/

Cette surimpression Zinn/Prévert sonne bizarrement ce matin

The Organization of American Historians is conducting an oral history open to those who worked for the federal government or were contractors. This includes those who retired or were forced to leave because of changes since January. www.fecohp.org

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Couple of years ago I had a PhD proposal about AI translating knitting patterns and trying to get the student's Ravelry community to knit the results. It didn't happen in the end but I imagine it would have looked like this.

May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.

Bon anniversaire à toutes les personnes à qui l'administration française a attribué le 1er janvier comme date de naissance par défaut ; bonne année à tous et toutes ❤️

Too many book reviews are like “this is a well-informed study of the history of citrus-growing up and down the Italian peninsula. Unfortunately, the author fails to explain how this knowledge helps us to break the power of the Dark at its midwinter height.”

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.