Celine Camps
@celinecamps.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science & Technology, Art & Material Culture | Columbia University, NYC |📍Nuremberg
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Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of objects of art & science in the early modern German-speaking lands
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Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of objects of art & science in the early modern German-speaking lands
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February 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Home ❤️ I grew up with this #Medievalsky church & have seen its use change over time: I've celebrated Carnival here, marvelled at a snake exhibit, and stored my bike there. But its present use is hands down my favorite—celebrating both books & he historical structure within which they are housed 🗃️ 📚
February 4, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Home ❤️ I grew up with this #Medievalsky church & have seen its use change over time: I've celebrated Carnival here, marvelled at a snake exhibit, and stored my bike there. But its present use is hands down my favorite—celebrating both books & he historical structure within which they are housed 🗃️ 📚
5 Classes I took as an undergrad:
1. History of Ideas, Philosophy & Ethics
2. Knowledge and Criticism (History of Science)
3. History of Technology
4. Philosophy of Mind
5. Sociology of Science (independent study)
These were coupled w/ (required) research & writing skills-training classes.
1. History of Ideas, Philosophy & Ethics
2. Knowledge and Criticism (History of Science)
3. History of Technology
4. Philosophy of Mind
5. Sociology of Science (independent study)
These were coupled w/ (required) research & writing skills-training classes.
All hail liberal-arts studies, and I'll do the five-classes thing too:
1. Writing for the Theatre
2. Principles of Paleontology
3. Contemporary Africa
4. Literature of Confinement (gulags, camps, cheerful stuff)
5. Organic Chemistry (great teachers, *loved* it)
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1. Writing for the Theatre
2. Principles of Paleontology
3. Contemporary Africa
4. Literature of Confinement (gulags, camps, cheerful stuff)
5. Organic Chemistry (great teachers, *loved* it)
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Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 AM
5 Classes I took as an undergrad:
1. History of Ideas, Philosophy & Ethics
2. Knowledge and Criticism (History of Science)
3. History of Technology
4. Philosophy of Mind
5. Sociology of Science (independent study)
These were coupled w/ (required) research & writing skills-training classes.
1. History of Ideas, Philosophy & Ethics
2. Knowledge and Criticism (History of Science)
3. History of Technology
4. Philosophy of Mind
5. Sociology of Science (independent study)
These were coupled w/ (required) research & writing skills-training classes.
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Dear history fans, what objects would you like to see in an exhibition on privateering & life at sea in the 18th century? Everyday objects, letters, navigational instruments, or something unexpected? It will also explore forced migration. I’d love to hear your thoughts #earlymodern #maritimehistory
January 25, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Dear history fans, what objects would you like to see in an exhibition on privateering & life at sea in the 18th century? Everyday objects, letters, navigational instruments, or something unexpected? It will also explore forced migration. I’d love to hear your thoughts #earlymodern #maritimehistory
Timeline cleanse.
A video of one of my favorite New York moments: two cardinals, male and female, eating out of my hand on a cold, snowy day, back in February 2022—Central Park, New York. @birdcpk.bsky.social
A video of one of my favorite New York moments: two cardinals, male and female, eating out of my hand on a cold, snowy day, back in February 2022—Central Park, New York. @birdcpk.bsky.social
January 24, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Timeline cleanse.
A video of one of my favorite New York moments: two cardinals, male and female, eating out of my hand on a cold, snowy day, back in February 2022—Central Park, New York. @birdcpk.bsky.social
A video of one of my favorite New York moments: two cardinals, male and female, eating out of my hand on a cold, snowy day, back in February 2022—Central Park, New York. @birdcpk.bsky.social
Shout out to 19th-century German archivists and their handwritten finding aids ❤️ 📜🗃️
January 23, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Shout out to 19th-century German archivists and their handwritten finding aids ❤️ 📜🗃️
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Call for Papers – Special Issue of Art Journal
Divine Visions: A Global Exploration of Devotional Art and Iconography, c. 1200–1700
Deadline March 1.
Link for submissions:
Https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/04HI99RN7A
Divine Visions: A Global Exploration of Devotional Art and Iconography, c. 1200–1700
Deadline March 1.
Link for submissions:
Https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/04HI99RN7A
January 23, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Call for Papers – Special Issue of Art Journal
Divine Visions: A Global Exploration of Devotional Art and Iconography, c. 1200–1700
Deadline March 1.
Link for submissions:
Https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/04HI99RN7A
Divine Visions: A Global Exploration of Devotional Art and Iconography, c. 1200–1700
Deadline March 1.
Link for submissions:
Https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/04HI99RN7A
Oh my god! Today, I looked at a letter from the very screwmaker who got me to my dissertation topic! Seeing his signature was so overwhelming, I got emotional, wiped my tears with my manuscript-dirt-covered fingers & I now have a red eye as a souvenir. But it was worth it! #EarlyModern #HistSTM 📜 🗃️
January 21, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Oh my god! Today, I looked at a letter from the very screwmaker who got me to my dissertation topic! Seeing his signature was so overwhelming, I got emotional, wiped my tears with my manuscript-dirt-covered fingers & I now have a red eye as a souvenir. But it was worth it! #EarlyModern #HistSTM 📜 🗃️
Archival research technologies—take your pick!
January 20, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Archival research technologies—take your pick!
Back in paradise ❤️
January 18, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Back in paradise ❤️
#SkyStorians & curators: I'm looking for scholarship that reflects on the nature of museum displays of objects of ( #EarlyModern ) art, science & technology, and how their display reveals something about how we (tend to) think about the nature/history of these topics. 🗃️ 🏛️ #HistSTM. Any suggestions?
January 17, 2026 at 8:17 AM
#SkyStorians & curators: I'm looking for scholarship that reflects on the nature of museum displays of objects of ( #EarlyModern ) art, science & technology, and how their display reveals something about how we (tend to) think about the nature/history of these topics. 🗃️ 🏛️ #HistSTM. Any suggestions?
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New paid doctoral position with the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project in Munich, for students researching Arabic or Latin texts related to Ptolemy's astronomical or astrological material; dissertation can be in English or German, apply by March 31st. ptolemaeus.badw.de/start #HistSTM #MedievalSky
January 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
New paid doctoral position with the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project in Munich, for students researching Arabic or Latin texts related to Ptolemy's astronomical or astrological material; dissertation can be in English or German, apply by March 31st. ptolemaeus.badw.de/start #HistSTM #MedievalSky
Reflections of Nuremberg 🤍❄️
January 11, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Reflections of Nuremberg 🤍❄️
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Early career historians (< 3 year post PhD) of science, art and ideas: the Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Foundation awards one three-month visiting fellowship annually, hosted by our department @huygensknaw.bsky.social. Deadline for the 2027 fellowship is 15 May: www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/open-call...
Open Call: Thijssen-Schoute Fellowship 2027 - Huygens Instituut
Jaarlijks wordt een fellowship toegekend aan een jonge onderzoeker die onderzoek op dit gebied wil ontwikkelen. Het fellowship wordt aangeboden in samenwerking met de onderzoeksgroep Kennis- en kunstp...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Early career historians (< 3 year post PhD) of science, art and ideas: the Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Foundation awards one three-month visiting fellowship annually, hosted by our department @huygensknaw.bsky.social. Deadline for the 2027 fellowship is 15 May: www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/open-call...
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Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.
They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.
Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.
Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
January 8, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.
They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.
Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.
Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
We are picking a new meeting date for this month, so if anyone wants to join, or knows of someone that might, let me know! 🙂
It's a small group of 9 people, and we offer a warm, informal and safe space to share your work. #SkyStorians #HistSci #MaterialCulture #EarlyModern #MedievalSky 🗃️
It's a small group of 9 people, and we offer a warm, informal and safe space to share your work. #SkyStorians #HistSci #MaterialCulture #EarlyModern #MedievalSky 🗃️
I've been hosting online meetings for PhD students & postdocs who work on #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern metal. We're meeting once a month to informally discuss our work (e.g. a chapter, article, presentation draft). If anyone wants to join: let me know! 🙂 We're reconvening in January 🗃️ #SkyStorians
January 8, 2026 at 12:26 PM
We are picking a new meeting date for this month, so if anyone wants to join, or knows of someone that might, let me know! 🙂
It's a small group of 9 people, and we offer a warm, informal and safe space to share your work. #SkyStorians #HistSci #MaterialCulture #EarlyModern #MedievalSky 🗃️
It's a small group of 9 people, and we offer a warm, informal and safe space to share your work. #SkyStorians #HistSci #MaterialCulture #EarlyModern #MedievalSky 🗃️
I did my undergraduate at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social and—to this day—it has been hands down the best education and training I’ve received. The skills I was taught there have been invaluable to my work as a historian and a scholar. #HistSci #HistTech #HistSTM
we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
January 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM
I did my undergraduate at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social and—to this day—it has been hands down the best education and training I’ve received. The skills I was taught there have been invaluable to my work as a historian and a scholar. #HistSci #HistTech #HistSTM
I'm not a big fan of snow, but snow-covered, post-holiday Nuremberg at dawn is magical ❄️ 🤍
January 2, 2026 at 9:04 AM
I'm not a big fan of snow, but snow-covered, post-holiday Nuremberg at dawn is magical ❄️ 🤍
If there’s one thing that AI can never replace or replicate, it’s this 👇🏻 The historical sensation & experience of working w/ historical records: the smell of parchment, the feeling of animal skin, the cracking sound when trying to keep it open & the ability to see your actors‘ writing in person ❤️
Whose ears can I scream into?! I’m looking at the handwriting of a 16th-century screwmaker & there’s no one in the archive who’d be remotely interested in me sobbing and gushing over just how much this means! And the parchment smells so good too! 🫠🔩 #EarlyModern #HistSci #HistTech 📜 🗃️
December 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
If there’s one thing that AI can never replace or replicate, it’s this 👇🏻 The historical sensation & experience of working w/ historical records: the smell of parchment, the feeling of animal skin, the cracking sound when trying to keep it open & the ability to see your actors‘ writing in person ❤️
Whose ears can I scream into?! I’m looking at the handwriting of a 16th-century screwmaker & there’s no one in the archive who’d be remotely interested in me sobbing and gushing over just how much this means! And the parchment smells so good too! 🫠🔩 #EarlyModern #HistSci #HistTech 📜 🗃️
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Whose ears can I scream into?! I’m looking at the handwriting of a 16th-century screwmaker & there’s no one in the archive who’d be remotely interested in me sobbing and gushing over just how much this means! And the parchment smells so good too! 🫠🔩 #EarlyModern #HistSci #HistTech 📜 🗃️
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Utrecht University professor Sven Dupré has been appointed the new Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. He succeeds Marieke de Goede, who has decided to continue her academic career.
www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...
www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...
Sven Dupré appointed new Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
www.folia.nl
December 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Utrecht University professor Sven Dupré has been appointed the new Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. He succeeds Marieke de Goede, who has decided to continue her academic career.
www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...
www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...
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Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities. It opens new frontiers for scientific research and collaboration with the humanities.
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
Seeing Old Science
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities
foundhistory.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians
I love finding these glimpses of the past: remnants of ceiling and wall paintings in sixteenth-century artisan houses that have survived the war, largely unscathed. #EarlyModern 🗃️
December 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I love finding these glimpses of the past: remnants of ceiling and wall paintings in sixteenth-century artisan houses that have survived the war, largely unscathed. #EarlyModern 🗃️
Are there any historians of #EarlyModern, especially sixteenth-century, German arms and armor on here that I could ask an armor-terminology question? 🗃️ #SkyStorians
More specifically it relates to jousting and tournaments.
More specifically it relates to jousting and tournaments.
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Are there any historians of #EarlyModern, especially sixteenth-century, German arms and armor on here that I could ask an armor-terminology question? 🗃️ #SkyStorians
More specifically it relates to jousting and tournaments.
More specifically it relates to jousting and tournaments.
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Page proofs of Necessary Inventions: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science. Holy crap, I did it!
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Page proofs of Necessary Inventions: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science. Holy crap, I did it!