Devyn Gwynne
@devyngwynne.bsky.social
PhD candidate
Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Pinned
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'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
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I wrote in @contingent-mag.bsky.social about how a chance encounter with monsters in the archives led to my two books on monsters, science, exploration, maps, and culture.
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #archives #libraries #arthistory
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #archives #libraries #arthistory
Can the Archive Make a Monster of a Historian?
A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster...
contingentmagazine.org
December 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I wrote in @contingent-mag.bsky.social about how a chance encounter with monsters in the archives led to my two books on monsters, science, exploration, maps, and culture.
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #archives #libraries #arthistory
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #archives #libraries #arthistory
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#MedievalSky #histSTM #histmed CFP: “The Science of Natural Properties: Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice
(6th – 15th century)” (Bologna, June 17-19, 2026). Transportation to Bologna is covered for speakers of accepted papers. Deadline: 15 Jan 2026. www.academia.edu/145294551/Ca...
(6th – 15th century)” (Bologna, June 17-19, 2026). Transportation to Bologna is covered for speakers of accepted papers. Deadline: 15 Jan 2026. www.academia.edu/145294551/Ca...
Call for Papers: The Science of Natural Properties Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice (6 th -15 th century), Bologna, 17-19 June 2026
The conference will explore how theoretical and technical knowledge of natural properties was shaped through transmission, translation, and adaptation, as well as the impact of its practical applicati...
www.academia.edu
January 3, 2026 at 9:01 AM
#MedievalSky #histSTM #histmed CFP: “The Science of Natural Properties: Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice
(6th – 15th century)” (Bologna, June 17-19, 2026). Transportation to Bologna is covered for speakers of accepted papers. Deadline: 15 Jan 2026. www.academia.edu/145294551/Ca...
(6th – 15th century)” (Bologna, June 17-19, 2026). Transportation to Bologna is covered for speakers of accepted papers. Deadline: 15 Jan 2026. www.academia.edu/145294551/Ca...
I mean look, things could be worse you could be on a date in a coffee shop with a 21 yo who lives at home
January 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I mean look, things could be worse you could be on a date in a coffee shop with a 21 yo who lives at home
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At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!
How 2026 was depicted in the sci-fi classic 'Metropolis' (1927)
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 AM
At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!
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January 2, 2026 at 7:39 PM
That time of year again
January 2, 2026 at 5:59 PM
That time of year again
How does 2026 look to 1926? Not great
How 2026 was depicted in the sci-fi classic 'Metropolis' (1927)
January 1, 2026 at 11:35 PM
How does 2026 look to 1926? Not great
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Has anyone done this yet
January 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Has anyone done this yet
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Anytime some yahoo says, “all serious historians agree…” I want to say:
1. What is a “serious” historian?
2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.
1. What is a “serious” historian?
2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.
January 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Anytime some yahoo says, “all serious historians agree…” I want to say:
1. What is a “serious” historian?
2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.
1. What is a “serious” historian?
2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.
Happy new calendar year people in my phone!
January 1, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Happy new calendar year people in my phone!
This is where I’m at in my diss
December 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is where I’m at in my diss
He has a depression in his eyes, the kind you only see in people who just got back from twelve days with their parents
December 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
He has a depression in his eyes, the kind you only see in people who just got back from twelve days with their parents
While my peers celebrate the year ending I’m reflecting on my lack of publications
December 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
While my peers celebrate the year ending I’m reflecting on my lack of publications
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hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
June 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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#philsky
Funded postdoctoral positions (FCT) at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto – Call for expressions of interest:
https://ifilosofia.up.pt/news/funded-postdoctoral-positions-fct-if-ceec-8 https://bsky.app/profile/dfaria.eu/post/3mb5rvkayq22q
Funded postdoctoral positions (FCT) at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto – Call for expressions of interest:
https://ifilosofia.up.pt/news/funded-postdoctoral-positions-fct-if-ceec-8 https://bsky.app/profile/dfaria.eu/post/3mb5rvkayq22q
December 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
#philsky
Funded postdoctoral positions (FCT) at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto – Call for expressions of interest:
https://ifilosofia.up.pt/news/funded-postdoctoral-positions-fct-if-ceec-8 https://bsky.app/profile/dfaria.eu/post/3mb5rvkayq22q
Funded postdoctoral positions (FCT) at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto – Call for expressions of interest:
https://ifilosofia.up.pt/news/funded-postdoctoral-positions-fct-if-ceec-8 https://bsky.app/profile/dfaria.eu/post/3mb5rvkayq22q
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Happy to share my glowing review of the 100Ballads.org site, which has just been published in Early Modern Digital Review: jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/em...
It's a fantastic site for anyone interested in early modern English ballads. Check it out!
It's a fantastic site for anyone interested in early modern English ballads. Check it out!
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Happy to share my glowing review of the 100Ballads.org site, which has just been published in Early Modern Digital Review: jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/em...
It's a fantastic site for anyone interested in early modern English ballads. Check it out!
It's a fantastic site for anyone interested in early modern English ballads. Check it out!
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In an essay in the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Nate Holdren elaborates three levels of analytical abstraction at which intellectual historians invoke the term "political economy," turning our attention to the way that capitalism structurally conditions ignorance of the social totality.
Three Meanings of Political Economy: Reflections on Intellectual History, Marxism, and Capitalism’s Unthought
by Nate Holdren
This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum, “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
December 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In an essay in the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Nate Holdren elaborates three levels of analytical abstraction at which intellectual historians invoke the term "political economy," turning our attention to the way that capitalism structurally conditions ignorance of the social totality.
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Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom
August 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom
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"Quiet quitting" by professors when it comes to AI and student writing is a serious risk.
The temptation to give up (in effect) instead of devoting *substantial* resources (of time, energy, and emotional investment) to what can seem like an unwinnable fight is real.
But it *is* the good fight.
The temptation to give up (in effect) instead of devoting *substantial* resources (of time, energy, and emotional investment) to what can seem like an unwinnable fight is real.
But it *is* the good fight.
Given the rates of faculty burnout and interest in quittng that various surveys were reporting even before the AI bullshit showed up I gotta figure a major faculty reaction to AI stuff has to be just going 'whatever, fuck it, do what you want' - basically quiet quitting. I think rn administrators
Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!
December 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Quiet quitting" by professors when it comes to AI and student writing is a serious risk.
The temptation to give up (in effect) instead of devoting *substantial* resources (of time, energy, and emotional investment) to what can seem like an unwinnable fight is real.
But it *is* the good fight.
The temptation to give up (in effect) instead of devoting *substantial* resources (of time, energy, and emotional investment) to what can seem like an unwinnable fight is real.
But it *is* the good fight.
Peak bookstore experience (Macleod’s in vancouver)
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Peak bookstore experience (Macleod’s in vancouver)
At 6k followers I’ll reveal my top tips on how to lose funding applications
December 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
At 6k followers I’ll reveal my top tips on how to lose funding applications
Make a Bond movie academic
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Committee Royale
Committee Royale
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No Time To Write
No Time To Write
December 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Make a Bond movie academic
Dr. No Funding
Dr. No Funding