I didn’t read this properly and went to post this

Good morning! [Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, A Soul in Hell, 1670-1700, Wax, 11.5 cm x 10 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)]

Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️ 📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus 🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m #HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies

I bet people were hooting and hollering when Ockham said, “what Aristotle said about this, I don’t care”

you have to be sincere and you have to get weird with it

JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy. #PhilJobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW474/a...

Apparently the Merovingians “were absolutely goated” and Charlemagne’s biographers were “glazing him”

Marilyn Moments... In Modern and Early Modern flap prints! This blank skirt on Jenny Schmid's Disembodied Reembodied print cycle intriguingly channeled the Becker Medical Library repaired copy of Johannes Remmelin and Lucas Kilian's interactive Eve! #Flaptastic #movablebooksociety 1/2

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians. Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Please let us know if there are gaps. #Skystorians 1/2

Pleased to announce that so far I am having an amazing time teaching this semester and it’s a wonderful feeling

Just in case any of you are in rhe Midwest and want to attend this Medieval Monsters conference, I'm giving the keynote on Oct 17! www.dom.edu/medieval-mon...

i love to write "aforementioned" like, yep, i mentioned that afore

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Maybe I lost my posting mojo; but i am free

I strongly believe that philosophy is therapy—a way of spending a ridiculous amount of money to become more self-involved

Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!) doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...

Writing a cfp on crisis and really playing the game how many times can one cfp say crisis

My writing career summed up in one image:

Jobs For Medievalists Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (Full-time) The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...

It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.

PERSONAL FUNDING SEASON IS OVER!!!!

Core seminar in economic and social history - Michaelmas Term 2025: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series... 5.15 pm on Thursday 17 October (Room 6, Faculty of History @CamHistory): Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford) - Servanthood and the European Marriage Pattern, 1500-1900

15 9/11s and 4 Nobel prizes: idioms for a stupid age

'History and Archives in Practice, 2026': call for participation now open bit.ly/4pITZrs HAP26 takes place @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social on the theme of 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives & Historical Research'. With @ihr.bsky.social & @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

Call for Papers: Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference Next year’s Art History conference will be held 8-10 April 2026 in collaboration with the History of Art department at the University of Cambridge. ⬇️

Historians, archivists, librarians and historians working in the field of labour history. A starter pack to get you going… go.bsky.app/CUqdx9a

Call for applications! 📣 The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝 1/3

@ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social are partnering with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to run a new series of public lectures, featuring the chance to see the original records first hand. First lecture by @patrickwallis.bsky.social on "Apprenticeship and the Rise of London", Weds 15th October!

Hate to admit it but i will watch a wes anderson movie and say “i needed this”

WHAT

An amazing opportunity to serve the field at a defining moment

Very cool! Pair this read with "Wilderness as Marketing Strategy: Joseph Whitson on the Outdoor Industry, Colonialism, and Land Back Futures" by @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/07/24/w... #envhist #outdoorrecreation

I’m always saying one day of the week you should be leaving your house and spending 200$

I love spending 200$

Canada Post workers hit the picket lines in Ottawa

Here is a question for #HistoryEducation. What makes a good Teaching History article? A short thread for #historyteacher s. Teaching History is a journal published by @histassoc.bsky.social and read by thousands of teachers. (Is that the right 'number'?) 1/n 🧵

10 days until the #CFP deadline for the online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

When do we think all these shenanigans started?

In today’s post, Abigail Beckett (@abbybeckett.bsky.social) explores the Indigenous and colonial history behind Jean de Brebeuf’s Feast Day, celebrated on September 26th.

Check out @abbybeckett.bsky.social @activehist.bsky.social on Jean De Brébeuf’s Feast Day and how his remains were used to medically heal the sick shortly after his death! activehistory.ca/blog/2025/09...

Seems like a good time to remind people that Canada Post will deliver any piece of mail to federal elected officials for FREE. No stamp necessary! Just a reminder in case you, oh I dunno, wanna send your elected officials a sternly worded letter a day for a year or something.

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network. This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

In a greater era this would have prompted great poetry

This is where I post from

One of my classrooms this semester has an inexplicable “poets’ corner”

That’s what’s up!

Look what we have here then.