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Caroline Marris (she/her)
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Research Program Administrator at Drexel University. PhD in early modern European maritime history, Columbia University. Co-Editor of the H-Maritime network. Mum of twins, occasional musician (gamba, violin), baker, aspiring fiction writer. Views my own.
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Caroline Marris (she/her) @cazmarris.bsky.social · Feb 9
Instead of being excited for the Superbowl tonight, I and grant administrators everywhere spent our day trying to measure the impact of the latest potential NIH disaster for our PIs - and wondering whether we ourselves will have jobs come next month. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
Researchers say it would hurt facilities that work on medical issues such as cancer research and heart disease. Elon Musk contends the old policy was ‘a ripoff.’
www.washingtonpost.com
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
What kind of #earlymodern knee pad would you choose to look fancy around the year 1500? I would totally be wearing number 7 or 10. #skystorians
19 different knee pads, i.e. legplates, from a 1537 pattern book titled "Ein fremdes und wunderbares Kunstbüchlein". Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1863-0725-1537
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
I refuse to lose our Republic to a guy with swollen ankles and a tribble on his head.
A tweet from “Gramps @GrandpaHarris65” reads: “I wonder if the fall of Rome was this stupid.”
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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brepols.net
The International #Bibliography of #Humanism and the #Renaissance (IBHR) has been updated.
3,022 records were added
More Info: bit.ly/4o8eWKH

#EarlyModern #RenaissanceSky #HumanismSky #Bibliographies #DigitalHumanities
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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andreawulf.bsky.social
So excited to share the UK cover of my forthcoming book THE TRAVELLER ... which is about a quite remarkable human being. George Forster, a man who tried to find what connects us rather than what sets us apart - he saw unity behind our diversity, not discord and division.
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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hefinmeara.bsky.social
JOB ALERT! Historic England is looking for a Marine Archaeological Project Officer (Marine Planner). Closing date 7 December 2025 app.beapplied.com/apply/ddfvme... #Maritime #Underwater #Archaeology
Photograph of a flat calm sea, with the turbines of an offshore wind farm on the horizon, underneath a blue but cloudy sky
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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lizcovart.bsky.social
Fun Fact: The Ken Burns team used @bfworld.bsky.social to vet scholars for their new documentary The American Revolution.

Podcasts and public history are powerful tools for scholars and filmmakers.
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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mlobelart.bsky.social
For those who say art history is an esoteric discipline, here's a painting that's looking very relevant if you're tracking the AI bubble right now: Jan Brueghel the Younger, "Allegory of Tulipomania," 1640s. Tag yourself on the right
Setting with lots of monkeys, focusing their activities on tulips Monkeys with tulips, detail of a painted scene
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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boghuma.bsky.social
I never tire of seeing the amazing success of HPV vaccination. We are seeing the elimination of a leading oncogenic virus pathogen in real time
(Source: GAVI)
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!
hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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miriamposner.com
ISTG, the only thing that keeps me from getting cynical amidst the landslide of poisonous edtech, mounting fascism, and admin cowardice is the experience of *teaching actual students* who, whatever you’ve heard, remain curious and smart and funny and good.
clintsmithiii.bsky.social Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 2d
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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stevanzetti.bsky.social
As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental.

www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...
The dangers facing local reporters who cover extremism.
The extremism beat has gone mainstream—but in local markets, it’s still intensely personal.
www.cjr.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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onslies.bsky.social
OMG. Apple is Catholic.
oldenoughtosay.com madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · Dec 31
In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
Screencap showing the jump from Oct 4 to 15
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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misswalsingham.bsky.social
Here’s another fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3

Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
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November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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nemgarrett.bsky.social
If you're interested in Scottish national identity, eighteenth-century fashion, and/or women in politics, you may be interested in the paper I'm presenting at the IHR Parliaments, Politics & People seminar next Tuesday. Best of all, it's online!

#eighteenthcentury #womenshistory #Scottishhistory
histparl.bsky.social History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 1d
On 25 November, Dr Natalie Garrett will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar, where they will be presenting on Jane, duchess of Gordon and the Romanticisation of Scottish Identity in London, c.1780-1812.

Find out more and how to attend below:
‘The Tartan Rage’: Fashion, High Society, and Scottish Identity in Eighteenth-Century London - The History of Parliament
The Tartan rage has at length reached Paris,’ declared the World in June 1787. Demand for tartan fabric and accessories had swept British high society earlier that year, with the Gazetteer and New…
historyofparliament.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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nasawatch.bsky.social
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference DEI Issues Reappear
nasawatch.com/trumpspace/l... #NASA #DEI #DEIA #LPSC
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference DEI Issues Reappear
Update on the next Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) sponsored by USRA's LPI.
nasawatch.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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sarahebond.bsky.social
Law can preserve Roman and medieval anxieties in a weird (but intriguing) type of amber.
terriblemapshq.bsky.social Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 15d
Is it illegal to wear a suit of armour in Parliament in your country?
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
Seems good!
A tweet from Anthropic that reads: "We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyber attack executed without substantial human intervention. It has significant implications for cyber security in the age of AI agents."
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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mbkplus.bsky.social
I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
brookenewman.bsky.social Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 5d
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
A thread by an A&M professor describing how the new rules will impact faculty. Syllabi must be fed into AI to be checked for content not aligned with approved syllabi; students will be encouraged to report faculty for inaccurate content; and young people are now being told they get to decide what a professor should teach.
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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btarrington.bsky.social
For all you fans of the new @netflix.com series “Death by Lightning,” here’s the table of contents for my book “The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880.” It covers much of the ground the series explores.

It’s published by the University Press of Kansas.
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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audrajwolfe.bsky.social
The Mütter’s unveiling its first deanonymizing project, as illustrated in the @inquirer.com (gift link) share.inquirer.com/jsXjJ0
How two Philadelphians’ remains ended up at the Mütter Museum
The Mütter Museum holds the remains of thousands. These are two of their stories.
share.inquirer.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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rezekjoe.bsky.social
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
Logo for Icarus flying academy in Farmingdale, NY
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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roperlou.bsky.social
many thanks, also, for this handy guide (all 'stuff' @memorients.bsky.social in demand in Guinea)
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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eparpillee.bsky.social
We're launching a really exciting new MSt in Creative Translation - details here. Oxford has a wealth of brilliant translator energy and I am excited to see what will come out of this. Please forward to likely sorts! www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
MSt in Creative Translation
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages is delighted to announce the launch of a new course, the MSt in Creative Translation.
www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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drolibetts.bsky.social
Does anyone have any recent reading recommendations on how people (particularly working-class people) adjusted to technological change in the long c19th?

By reading list feels a little dated...

Thanks!
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Access ALL of our OPEN-ACCESS @ucalgarypress.bsky.social Canadian History and Environment titles here: press.ucalgary.ca/series/canad...

#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #books
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM