Devyn Gwynne
@devyngwynne.bsky.social
PhD student
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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historians, every day:
what the FUCK am i supposed to do with this information???
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
historians, every day:
I don’t want to hear any complaints from montrealers about going into winter. After everything just for laughs gags puts us through each summer you should all know better
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I don’t want to hear any complaints from montrealers about going into winter. After everything just for laughs gags puts us through each summer you should all know better
shirt idea: Metallica band style t-shirt that is actually Agricola's De Re Metallica 1556
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
shirt idea: Metallica band style t-shirt that is actually Agricola's De Re Metallica 1556
Canadian professors: Do you have grad students who need a conference under their belt? Grad students: want to share your work in a friendly and collegial environment? Submit an abstract and join us in February!
Are you a graduate student? Check out the 2026 McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference Call for Papers! Abstracts are due November 28!
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Canadian professors: Do you have grad students who need a conference under their belt? Grad students: want to share your work in a friendly and collegial environment? Submit an abstract and join us in February!
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How long are we going to allow the wealthy to do this to us? Cartoon from 1894...
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
How long are we going to allow the wealthy to do this to us? Cartoon from 1894...
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#MedievalSky #histmed Please welcome Anna Gili (@gi-anna97.bsky.social) to Bluesky. And check out her talk on 11 November, too! She talking about my favorite guy in #MedievalMedicine, Constantinus Africanus.
Reminder
𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
#CSMBR #OnlineLectures #CompoundMedicamentes #ConstantinetheAphrican
𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
#CSMBR #OnlineLectures #CompoundMedicamentes #ConstantinetheAphrican
The Science of Compound Medicaments - CSMBR
This lecture explores al-Majūsī’s "Kitāb al-Malakī" and its Latin translation, showing how Book X on compound medicaments was reshaped into a new synthesis of pharmacology and philosophy.
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
#MedievalSky #histmed Please welcome Anna Gili (@gi-anna97.bsky.social) to Bluesky. And check out her talk on 11 November, too! She talking about my favorite guy in #MedievalMedicine, Constantinus Africanus.
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Most professors aren't in ivory towers. We're in old houses that need lots of maintenance and repairs.
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Most professors aren't in ivory towers. We're in old houses that need lots of maintenance and repairs.
Aging is fun! I’m 27 and still figuring out how to enjoy living and I do think that’s neat
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Aging is fun! I’m 27 and still figuring out how to enjoy living and I do think that’s neat
This is going to revolutionize my office
Hyper-fixating on buying a Chemex
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is going to revolutionize my office
Hyper-fixating on buying a Chemex
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Hyper-fixating on buying a Chemex
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
Lost in the woods
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Lost in the woods
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
This may be a post for a niche of people but why did no one tell me Ludwik Fleck was cooking epistemologically
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This may be a post for a niche of people but why did no one tell me Ludwik Fleck was cooking epistemologically
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We have a new, excellent post up by @donnie-m.bsky.social on Estonia as a space of economic experimentation in the late Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
A Laboratory of Economic Reform: Estonian Experiments with Agro-Industrial Associations in the Era of Late Socialism
Donald MorardIn 1965, the French Communist journal Démocratie Nouvelle, in its special issue on the “young, advanced republic” of Estonia, described the occupied Baltic country as a “laboratory” for t...
www.peripheralhistories.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We have a new, excellent post up by @donnie-m.bsky.social on Estonia as a space of economic experimentation in the late Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
and we have a Master in Management
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities where the cool jobs at
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
and we have a Master in Management
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"Benjamin conceptualized his thinking-in-images as the epistemological principle of modernity."
From our Winter 2015 issue, read Sigrid Weigel's "The Flash of Knowledge and the Temporality of Images": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
From our Winter 2015 issue, read Sigrid Weigel's "The Flash of Knowledge and the Temporality of Images": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Benjamin conceptualized his thinking-in-images as the epistemological principle of modernity."
From our Winter 2015 issue, read Sigrid Weigel's "The Flash of Knowledge and the Temporality of Images": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
From our Winter 2015 issue, read Sigrid Weigel's "The Flash of Knowledge and the Temporality of Images": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert.
recipes.hypotheses.org
recipes.hypotheses.org
Autumn 2025
GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES INTRODUCTION By Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, and Amanda E. Herbert, Editors The early modern globalization of food and medicine was also a globalization of recipes. A...
recipes.hypotheses.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert.
recipes.hypotheses.org
recipes.hypotheses.org
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Applications are open for Folger Library short-term fellowships! Deadline January 15, 2026.
www.folger.edu/research/the...
www.folger.edu/research/the...
Short-term Fellowships | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore.…
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November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Applications are open for Folger Library short-term fellowships! Deadline January 15, 2026.
www.folger.edu/research/the...
www.folger.edu/research/the...
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Grad students: My colleagues and I have organized an interdisciplinary conference! Come join us at Mcgill University in Montréal!
Are you a graduate student? Check out the 2026 McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference Call for Papers! Abstracts are due November 28!
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Grad students: My colleagues and I have organized an interdisciplinary conference! Come join us at Mcgill University in Montréal!
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🇪🇺 📣How have women shaped Europe’s history and identity?
Join us on November 10-11 for Women and Europe, a conference exploring research and sources on women’s roles in European memory and integration.
🔗 loom.ly/ZxYvD-Y
Join us on November 10-11 for Women and Europe, a conference exploring research and sources on women’s roles in European memory and integration.
🔗 loom.ly/ZxYvD-Y
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🇪🇺 📣How have women shaped Europe’s history and identity?
Join us on November 10-11 for Women and Europe, a conference exploring research and sources on women’s roles in European memory and integration.
🔗 loom.ly/ZxYvD-Y
Join us on November 10-11 for Women and Europe, a conference exploring research and sources on women’s roles in European memory and integration.
🔗 loom.ly/ZxYvD-Y
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Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.”
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.”
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
Everyone getting cool woke mayors … but this fucking city and our 36% turn out
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Everyone getting cool woke mayors … but this fucking city and our 36% turn out
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A fascinating look at the things Vermeer owned, and very close to my own research on Italian artists (now just wishing I knew Dutch)
A rare jewellery box identified in Vermeer paintings sheds new light on the artist’s connections
The expensive Indo-Portuguese casket depicted in two works was likely a loan from a wealthy patron, a new book reveals
www.theartnewspaper.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A fascinating look at the things Vermeer owned, and very close to my own research on Italian artists (now just wishing I knew Dutch)