But Sleepy Joe!

How to Feel: An Ancient Guide to Minding Our Emotions is a new translation of the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness—and how it can help us to be less controlled by our emotions. Available 18 November. Preorder your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Philosophy #Buddhism

Next week, Nov 13 at 4:00pm EST, the @taftcenter.bsky.social welcomes @kateclancy.bsky.social for a discussion of her revolutionary book, Period, which challenges the myths and false assumptions that have long defined the study of the uterus. Register for this free, in-person event: buff.ly/v50JoXw

CfP 📣 We are pleased to co-organize the workshop “Indifference: Religious Boundaries in Question, 1650–1750”. 📅 28–29 May 2026 | 🌍 Goethe University Frankfurt We warmly invite you to circulate the call and submit your proposal. ⏰ Application deadline: 10 November 2025 #Earlymodern

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

🧙‍♀️ Performing Magic in the Pre-Modern North Conference 💻 Online | 🗓️ 13–14 Nov 2025 ✅ Register to attend: docs.google.com/forms/d/1G93... 🔗 Program & info: performingmagicinthepremodernnorthconference.wordpress.com/upcoming%20c...

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

Princeton is hiring some early-career fellows/visiting scholars in African American Studies networks.h-net.org/jobs/69306/p...

✉️🌎On 20-21 Nov. we'll host the workshop Letters& emotions in early modern/modern empires. With Carlotta Sorba-Mónica Burguera-Judith Farré-Xavier Andreu-M'hamed Oualdi-Alexia Yates-Pablo Hdez.Sau-Amelia Almorza- Elisa Heinrich-Ângela Barrero Xavier and our fantastic researchers and MWP fellows.

Game board with 20 squares representing different episodes of the decline of a married couple, from wedding to penury, each marked with for a different throw of the dice. 1691, Giuseppe Maria Mitelli The question is, who would actually play this game? (British Museum)

I'm very pleased to have all three versions of my book now out. #reformationinthelowcountries

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs. www.vogue.com/article/teen...

Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway. For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!

I want to include some bottom up perspective on women's political power in #earlymodern Europe. I have some sources, but am looking for some visual representations of women's action, involvement in political uprisings, etc. Can you help me?

PhD in #History & #Civilisation – European University Institute, Italy Fully funded 4-year doctoral programme in European & Transnational History. Eligibility: Master’s Deadline: 15 January 2026 🔗 higherjobz.com/fully-funded... #PhDPosition #Europe #ResearchJobs #AcademicJobs #Humanities

This is spooky 😨😨 17thc hair #Malta #HappyHalloween #skystorians

How do we talk about justice when it's erased from the story? In this #EUIUpFront episode, Revital Madar and Caitlin Procter (@eui-schuman.bsky.social) reflect on Gaza’s fragile ceasefire and the role of academia. 🎥 Watch: https://loom.ly/cN-w4Y0

Planning on hollowing out some pumpkin for Halloween? HA! Once more our ancestors did something better. May I introduce; a (model) of an Edwardian Hallowe’en ‘ghost turnip’ lantern from the Irish Folklife Collection at the @nmireland.bsky.social He lives under your bed, he mumbles.

International Conference: Women’s and Gender History in Times of Challenges to Democracy, Diversity and Responsibility Bielefeld University, 9 to 11 September 2026 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...

Very glad to be part of this special issue of Reformation on bodily practices and the European reformations, edited by the wonderful Iryna Klymenko and Alex Walsham. Great intro and articles, all OA! #earlymodern #reformazing #bodyhist #relhist www.tandfonline.com/toc/yref20/c...

There’s a reason you sometimes wake up in the middle of the night.

To mark the annual @16csociety.bsky.social conference, there is 50% off and free shipping on all the books so far published in the series. Enter the code BB151 here: boydellandbrewer.com/books/series... #skystorians #Jesuits #nuntastic #Inquisition @imems.bsky.social @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Just two days to go! If you haven't already, remember that you can still register to attend as a non-speaker - it's free, and you can join us online or in-person and for as many or as few panels as you like ⚔️ Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our jam-packed programme is ready to go! Keep reading for more ⬇️

"Convenience is like sex: Once you’ve had it, it’s hard to forget how good it is to have it," @elcush.bsky.social writes. So it has gone with restaurants and delivery—and the results are...not great.

On Friday 21 November we host the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture given this year by Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin): bit.ly/48NJHR5 ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘ 6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians

Many young Ukrainians are too isolated and anxious to imagine a future after three years of war, Robert F. Worth writes. That's why a movement has sprung up to create new forms of social life, many of them literally underground.

The impracticality is clear. I also bet you dollars to donuts that admins intend to use an AI tool to analyze all these new, incoherent metrics to discipline academic labor and rationalize labor cuts.

The reform party nativity scene. No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation. And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

"The economic disaster that is Brexit" (A lot worse than I had thought) Will Hutton in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Family Life?

The November issue of History Today is in all good newsagents now! Featuring #medieval Mongols, slavery in #AncientRome, #Elizabethan theatre, #SecondWorldWar air quality, and more. Find out what else is inside and where to get it at www.historytoday.com/magazine

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Join us next Thursday (30/10, 5.30 pm) for Dr Emily Vine’s (@emilymayvine.bsky.social) talk on ‘Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London’! You can sign up to join in-person (IHR Wolfson Room, NB02) or online via Zoom here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Democrats can just run this clip as an ad

Need people to understand the difference between "this is a social construct" and "this is not real"

Changes in social media and private messaging have made real relationships start to look a little bit parasocial. Julie Beck on what happens when friendships feel like content to consume: https://theatln.tc/OWD8HJTv

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

“This is a moment, if he wants, to do right by Virginia and the rest of us.” Epstein survivor Annie Farmer speaks to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social and calls on Prince Andrew to provide information on “what he saw” in Epstein’s mansions and on his jet. #Newsnight

Missed last night’s 2025 British Academy Book Prize Shortlist Event? Catch up on a fascinating discussion chaired by Rosie Goldsmith, featuring this year’s shortlisted authors exploring the ideas shaping our world. Stay tuned for the winner's announcement tonight! Watch now: https://bit.ly/42R3iMr

They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights. What was life really like for the men who took to the Roman stage? 🗝️ This article is free to read https://bit.ly/3IQ8ysV

American students are falling behind, and the most common explanations overlook the main problem, Idrees Kahloon argues. https://theatln.tc/pB2mYbVS

The new Thematic Collection in the Journal of the British Academy, 'Decolonising Gender Knowledge in Sub-Saharan Africa' highlights the under-representation of Global South scholars, particularly early career researchers, in gender knowledge production. Find out more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eSnNbUPN

📌Friday, 24 October Presentation of “Chimere: Research Network on Cultural Histories of Magic”, launching a new seminar series on magic, folklore, and esotericism. 📍 University of Verona |🕚 11:50 💻Join on Zoom : univr.zoom.us/j/82097215327 Details on the speakers 👇

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

Interesting that in this edition the gender of the witches has shifted from the original feminine (maleficArum) to masculine/neuter (Orum). Any ideas when that shift was made or what it means?

It looks even worse by video 😢

Just because he's acting like he's never leaving is no reason for you to act like he's never leaving.