Janice Liedl
@jliedl.bsky.social
Historian at Laurentian University (Canada). Researching early modern crime and urban women's lives, but I can never stay away from questions of popular culture & history. Gamer, fan, fibre artist.
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Liberal Arts is hiring an assistant professor (tenure-track) in Law & Justice at Laurentian University (Sudbury, Ontario) with a preferred start date of 1 July, 2026 (Apply by 15 February, 2026).
Come and be my colleague!
laurentian.ca/about/career...
Come and be my colleague!
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STAND WITH LUFA
If an agreement cannot be reached in mediation this weekend, LUFA will be on strike MONDAY 🪧
Let's kick off day one with a rally of picketers and supporters at the main campus entrance ✊
Come out and show our collective power 📢
Monday, January 19th
12pm Noon
Main Campus Entrance
If an agreement cannot be reached in mediation this weekend, LUFA will be on strike MONDAY 🪧
Let's kick off day one with a rally of picketers and supporters at the main campus entrance ✊
Come out and show our collective power 📢
Monday, January 19th
12pm Noon
Main Campus Entrance
January 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
STAND WITH LUFA
If an agreement cannot be reached in mediation this weekend, LUFA will be on strike MONDAY 🪧
Let's kick off day one with a rally of picketers and supporters at the main campus entrance ✊
Come out and show our collective power 📢
Monday, January 19th
12pm Noon
Main Campus Entrance
If an agreement cannot be reached in mediation this weekend, LUFA will be on strike MONDAY 🪧
Let's kick off day one with a rally of picketers and supporters at the main campus entrance ✊
Come out and show our collective power 📢
Monday, January 19th
12pm Noon
Main Campus Entrance
No writing or research today. But I've supervised a thesis student, caught up on admin duties with a colleague, and wrangled huge tasks for our Faculty Union as we prepare for a strike as soon as next Monday. Almost 200 have scheduled their picket times!
yoda is standing in a hallway with the words yoda approves below him
Alt: Yoda stands in a hallway, readying his lightsaber, with the words "Yoda approves" below him
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January 13, 2026 at 9:32 PM
No writing or research today. But I've supervised a thesis student, caught up on admin duties with a colleague, and wrangled huge tasks for our Faculty Union as we prepare for a strike as soon as next Monday. Almost 200 have scheduled their picket times!
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I've been commissioned to write a piece about games based on real places that changed peoples' perception of that place or had some kind of local impact - are you a dev who made a game like this? Or are you a player who has a story about a game that inspired you to visit somewhere? Let me know!
January 13, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I've been commissioned to write a piece about games based on real places that changed peoples' perception of that place or had some kind of local impact - are you a dev who made a game like this? Or are you a player who has a story about a game that inspired you to visit somewhere? Let me know!
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I missed this last week, y'know, in the midst of the news that dominated, which was the fascist, criminal ICE organization murdering a citizen.
globalnews.ca/news/1155832...
globalnews.ca/news/1155832...
‘Fantastic news’: Ford welcomes ICE plan to order Ontario armoured vehicles | Globalnews.ca
Reports emerged this week of U.S. government procurement plans to order 20 Senator vehicles for its ICE officers, a move worth roughly $10 million.
globalnews.ca
January 12, 2026 at 7:22 PM
I missed this last week, y'know, in the midst of the news that dominated, which was the fascist, criminal ICE organization murdering a citizen.
globalnews.ca/news/1155832...
globalnews.ca/news/1155832...
Feeling down? Whatever you do, do NOT prepare & consume Hannah Wolley's 1670 recipe for "Melancholy water" which she described as "good for Women in Child-bed if they are faint."
January 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Feeling down? Whatever you do, do NOT prepare & consume Hannah Wolley's 1670 recipe for "Melancholy water" which she described as "good for Women in Child-bed if they are faint."
Click-through & add your voice telling Doug Ford's gov't & our own board of governors that you support our union!
Laurentian University faculty are working towards a new Collective Agreement (after our last one was imposed under a hostile insolvency action). We could use your support. @ocufa.bsky.social
Act Now: End the CCAA Exit Loan Controls — Let LUFA bargain freely
Join LUFA in calling on the government and the Laurentian University Board of Governors to lift the remaining CCAA Exit Loan Agreement restrictions to allow for free and fair collective bargaining.
actionnetwork.org
January 12, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Click-through & add your voice telling Doug Ford's gov't & our own board of governors that you support our union!
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256 words today, mostly transcribing the Tables of Contents in "The Queen-Like Closet" (1670). This helps to compare with recipes in her earlier collection but also shows how the table was generated: collect & list recipes by letter of the alphabet, going backwards. Fun & educational!
January 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
256 words today, mostly transcribing the Tables of Contents in "The Queen-Like Closet" (1670). This helps to compare with recipes in her earlier collection but also shows how the table was generated: collect & list recipes by letter of the alphabet, going backwards. Fun & educational!
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Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things. This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/h...
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things. This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/h...
Today's 639 words were (new) course prep. I'll teach a survey on crime, deviance, and law next fall which begins with the Ancient Near East. Along with the usual suspects, it incorporates Nanni's complaint to Ea-nāṣir as an example of everyday concerns for justice.
Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 8, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Today's 639 words were (new) course prep. I'll teach a survey on crime, deviance, and law next fall which begins with the Ancient Near East. Along with the usual suspects, it incorporates Nanni's complaint to Ea-nāṣir as an example of everyday concerns for justice.
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Time is running short to pre-order the Dana watch on Kickstarter, featuring 12 global and historical numerical notations co-designed by (ahem) a very well-known professional numbers guy. Imagine how cool you'll be with such a unique text / artifact on your wrist!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan...
Dana Timepieces: A Watch Featuring A Journey Through Time
A timepiece that reveals the global majesty of numbers and highlights the deeply historical and cultural ways we think about time.
www.kickstarter.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Time is running short to pre-order the Dana watch on Kickstarter, featuring 12 global and historical numerical notations co-designed by (ahem) a very well-known professional numbers guy. Imagine how cool you'll be with such a unique text / artifact on your wrist!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan...
Today's word count is only 262 but every step forward counts, so I am grateful for that progress.
January 7, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Today's word count is only 262 but every step forward counts, so I am grateful for that progress.
Are you ready to make a Potato Pie? Potatoes were still a novelty in English cuisine when Hannah Wolley shared this recipe in 1664. Start with scalded, peeled potatoes. Set up a good store of mace, cinnamon, butter, and sugar, along with some marrow, white wine, & egg yolks.
January 7, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Are you ready to make a Potato Pie? Potatoes were still a novelty in English cuisine when Hannah Wolley shared this recipe in 1664. Start with scalded, peeled potatoes. Set up a good store of mace, cinnamon, butter, and sugar, along with some marrow, white wine, & egg yolks.
Laurentian University faculty are working towards a new Collective Agreement (after our last one was imposed under a hostile insolvency action). We could use your support. @ocufa.bsky.social
Act Now: End the CCAA Exit Loan Controls — Let LUFA bargain freely
Join LUFA in calling on the government and the Laurentian University Board of Governors to lift the remaining CCAA Exit Loan Agreement restrictions to allow for free and fair collective bargaining.
actionnetwork.org
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Laurentian University faculty are working towards a new Collective Agreement (after our last one was imposed under a hostile insolvency action). We could use your support. @ocufa.bsky.social
Here's where some have gotten angry at my "start on day one" guidance (by which I generally mean, exploring the parameters to better understand what's expected as well as identifying possible research questions and sources, all of which definitely counts as preliminary research).
Topdown edict to provide guidance to students as to when to *start* researching/writing each assignment. A timeline from essay prep to submission mooted. I'm very much against this kind of instrumentalising of the process (obv informally seminars mention deadlines a lot). But happy to be argued down
January 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Here's where some have gotten angry at my "start on day one" guidance (by which I generally mean, exploring the parameters to better understand what's expected as well as identifying possible research questions and sources, all of which definitely counts as preliminary research).
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The parallels between the Red Scare of the 1950s and today’s assault on higher ed remind us of the need to join communities of resistance.
Read Joan Wallach Scott (former chair of AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure) on the stakes of defending higher ed as a public good.
Read Joan Wallach Scott (former chair of AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure) on the stakes of defending higher ed as a public good.
A General Air of Anxiety
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
www.bostonreview.net
January 5, 2026 at 4:34 PM
The parallels between the Red Scare of the 1950s and today’s assault on higher ed remind us of the need to join communities of resistance.
Read Joan Wallach Scott (former chair of AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure) on the stakes of defending higher ed as a public good.
Read Joan Wallach Scott (former chair of AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure) on the stakes of defending higher ed as a public good.
Today's word count: 553! I'm almost done with "The Cooks Guide". Next up is "The Queen-Like Closet" from 1670. It willbe fun for new recipes but many re-appear in slightly revised forms. And who knows, maybe time for a taste test?
a green cartoon character is wearing a chef hat
Alt: a green cartoon character stands in a kitchen and wears a chef's hat while licking something as a taste test.
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January 6, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Today's word count: 553! I'm almost done with "The Cooks Guide". Next up is "The Queen-Like Closet" from 1670. It willbe fun for new recipes but many re-appear in slightly revised forms. And who knows, maybe time for a taste test?
Here's a recipe for puff pastry (a very quick way) from Hannah Wolley's"The Cooks Guide" (1664). It assumes some savvy to recognize the pastry's readiness, but also helpfully emphasizes the importance of keeping the butter cold. I'm also struck by the sheer quantities used of butter & flour!
January 6, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Here's a recipe for puff pastry (a very quick way) from Hannah Wolley's"The Cooks Guide" (1664). It assumes some savvy to recognize the pastry's readiness, but also helpfully emphasizes the importance of keeping the butter cold. I'm also struck by the sheer quantities used of butter & flour!
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Hello! I would love to speak to women who are fans of Heated Rivalry, including those who are new to MM romance and those who aren't, for an article I'm working on exploring the genre's appeal to women.
My DMs are open or I'm at juliacarriewong.11 on Signal and julia.wong@theguardian.com on email
My DMs are open or I'm at juliacarriewong.11 on Signal and julia.wong@theguardian.com on email
January 6, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Hello! I would love to speak to women who are fans of Heated Rivalry, including those who are new to MM romance and those who aren't, for an article I'm working on exploring the genre's appeal to women.
My DMs are open or I'm at juliacarriewong.11 on Signal and julia.wong@theguardian.com on email
My DMs are open or I'm at juliacarriewong.11 on Signal and julia.wong@theguardian.com on email
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This year, History Workshop Journal will celebrate two milestones: its 50th anniversary and its 100th issue.
To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.
To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.
HWJ in the Classroom
From histories of the French Revolution, to policing in Early Modern England, to LGBTQ+ histories, these reflections highlight HWJ as a valuable resource across many different classrooms.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
January 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM
This year, History Workshop Journal will celebrate two milestones: its 50th anniversary and its 100th issue.
To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.
To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.
714 words today: good progress after two weeks' vacation. The notes that I left to myself paid off!
Tomorrow I'll pick up with the contrast of traditional English taste against some explicitly foreign recipes in Wolley's second book.
Tomorrow I'll pick up with the contrast of traditional English taste against some explicitly foreign recipes in Wolley's second book.
January 5, 2026 at 8:03 PM
714 words today: good progress after two weeks' vacation. The notes that I left to myself paid off!
Tomorrow I'll pick up with the contrast of traditional English taste against some explicitly foreign recipes in Wolley's second book.
Tomorrow I'll pick up with the contrast of traditional English taste against some explicitly foreign recipes in Wolley's second book.
If you work with legal subjects in some way, here's a tenure track post. Open to historians, philosophers, political scientists, criminologists, and more!
Liberal Arts is hiring an assistant professor (tenure-track) in Law & Justice at Laurentian University (Sudbury, Ontario) with a preferred start date of 1 July, 2026 (Apply by 15 February, 2026).
Come and be my colleague!
laurentian.ca/about/career...
Come and be my colleague!
laurentian.ca/about/career...
January 5, 2026 at 4:45 PM
If you work with legal subjects in some way, here's a tenure track post. Open to historians, philosophers, political scientists, criminologists, and more!
Another version of Dr. Stephens Water, this from a 1659 edition of "The Queens closet opened incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c." (p. 21)- again, do not prepare or consume. Presented for research purposes only!
January 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Another version of Dr. Stephens Water, this from a 1659 edition of "The Queens closet opened incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c." (p. 21)- again, do not prepare or consume. Presented for research purposes only!
My sabbatical is over but I'm not teaching this term thanks to a wealth of "banked credits" accumulated over the last several years. I'm taking up more service obligations this term while I continue to supervise two undergraduate thesis students, but, other than that? Research & writing galore!
January 5, 2026 at 3:11 PM
My sabbatical is over but I'm not teaching this term thanks to a wealth of "banked credits" accumulated over the last several years. I'm taking up more service obligations this term while I continue to supervise two undergraduate thesis students, but, other than that? Research & writing galore!
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You can read a bit more about it on my website, and follow links to an academic book review and a couple podcasts that were kind enough to interview me about it: samuelrutherford.com/book/
Book
My first book, Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939, was published by Oxford University Press in April 2025. You can buy it here, or access it online (…
samuelrutherford.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
You can read a bit more about it on my website, and follow links to an academic book review and a couple podcasts that were kind enough to interview me about it: samuelrutherford.com/book/