Registration is now open for my 13 Jan 2026 public lecture, "The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories: Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses," csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin.... Sponsored by @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social. #histmed #aDNA #PandemicThinking

Just me vs “feasibility”

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

You’ll take lists from my cold dead hands

Reading marxist epistemology and I fear I may have been a secret marxist all along

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

"iT's BegiNNning To LoOk a LOt LikE ChRistMAs..."

This will come to canadian institutions if we don’t denounce this stuff

oh if you're deciding if you need to use AI for your project, heres a handy graph:

But it is so much funnier if you do

Fiers d’été icitte

Ever since I was a kid I knew I wanted to drink irish cream on ice

Useful ideas for teaching students how to read history.

Smoking that Methodological Horrors OG

Any amount of 9/11s as a quantifier is hilarious to me

RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved Papal Audience Black Friday deals.

I’m methodologically smoking

I firmly believe that if you as an institution pay your phds they should get an office. This should be a requirement.

I have to get “it’s joever” out of my lexicon

Giambologna, Turkey, 1567, Museo Nazionale del Bargello #gobblegobble

People: you owe your phds an office

And here’s my office where I am losing my sanity in

As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.

Procrastination level: I am making a post-its board of my primary authors/sources

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus. Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... #history #envhistory #earlymodern

Call for Papers: TALKING STONES – OBJECT AND MATERIALITY IN EARLY MODERN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE International Conference – Prague, 17–18 April 2026. See H-Sicily for the full Call for Papers: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

any scholars of early modern hair care on here? i just realized they managed these curls without shampoo or conditioner.

Want to get a PhD in Yiddish or Hebrew? Or Yiddish AND Hebrew? We are accepting applications for the PhD in Jewish Languages & Literatures! Please help me get the word out! @jhuartssciences.bsky.social

That’s me in the corner That’s me in the spotlight Losing my citations

I gotta be the only one up reading Woolgar’s Science: the very idea (1988) with a glass of côtes du rhône rn

NEW PUBLICATION Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

The Last Drop / The Gay Cavalier, c. 1629, by #JudithLeyster (Dutch, 1609–1660). Held by the Phila Museum of Art, philamuseum.org/collections/...; on view now in "Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, nmwa.org/exhibitions/... #womenartists #artherstory

I just applied to teach my own class for the summer session and all I will say is that I am more ready than ever

"A new urban environment built mainly of wood," pre-1666 London has entered the chat

How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.

I have moved my office into an old building and these are the vibes at night

Call for papers! We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka. Abstract deadline 15 Jan Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies

Post (guest) lecture blues

1620: seeking predictions from an angel, Richard Napier asks whether one of his clients will 'live long & prosp[er]' #earlymodern 🖖

OMFG. I feel you. Here’s some beautifully written hate. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

Final Curve, Langston Hughes #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

the index from Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy” asks some good questions.

indeed, for every academic abuser and enabler: i promise there’s an amazing grad student out there who is doing work that’s as good or better. we’ve let the myth of the lone genius guy carry on too long. it’s caused so much harm, in so many ways.

I’m a historian of science; and I think I need to start making 10x more jokes about that

UNESCO has launched an impressive Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects - an immersive digital space that brings together over 240 stolen and missing cultural objects in 2D and 3D from 50+ countries — and the voices of the communities they were taken from. www.linkedin.com/posts/unesco...