Kristof Smeyers
@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Dienstmededeling voor volk in Maaseik en omstreken: er zijn nog enkele plaatsen vrij voor een lezing over raven en wolven (en ook wel mensen), donderdagavond in de bibliotheek
maaseik.bibliotheek.be/agenda/lezin...
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Lezing: Raaf en wolf - een dierengeschiedenis | Bibliotheek Maaseik
Historicus Kristof Smeyers neemt ons in deze lezing mee op een tocht door de geschiedenis van de mens, gezien door de ogen van de raaf en de wolf.
maaseik.bibliotheek.be
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Dienstmededeling voor volk in Maaseik en omstreken: er zijn nog enkele plaatsen vrij voor een lezing over raven en wolven (en ook wel mensen), donderdagavond in de bibliotheek
maaseik.bibliotheek.be/agenda/lezin...
maaseik.bibliotheek.be/agenda/lezin...
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
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Or like it said at the end of a labor song I liked a lot when I was a kid: what I mean is, take it easy, but take it.
- Charles Mingus
- Charles Mingus
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Or like it said at the end of a labor song I liked a lot when I was a kid: what I mean is, take it easy, but take it.
- Charles Mingus
- Charles Mingus
preparing a class on animal histories
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
preparing a class on animal histories
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“I brought a couple of friends, I hope that’s cool.”
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“I brought a couple of friends, I hope that’s cool.”
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Everyone, please remember this endearing crustacean family
July 3, 2023 at 7:12 PM
Everyone, please remember this endearing crustacean family
ahh, to live in a place where people spend their Sunday morning shaking their fist at a tree shedding its leaves
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
ahh, to live in a place where people spend their Sunday morning shaking their fist at a tree shedding its leaves
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Hi hi, my article is out too, it's called 'Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium' and it's about how myths narratively reshape and manipulate macroeconomic realities in past, present (and future)
If you want a pdf let me know!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you want a pdf let me know!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Hi hi, my article is out too, it's called 'Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium' and it's about how myths narratively reshape and manipulate macroeconomic realities in past, present (and future)
If you want a pdf let me know!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you want a pdf let me know!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hi hi, my article is out too, it's called 'Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium' and it's about how myths narratively reshape and manipulate macroeconomic realities in past, present (and future)
If you want a pdf let me know!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you want a pdf let me know!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Hi hi, my article is out too, it's called 'Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium' and it's about how myths narratively reshape and manipulate macroeconomic realities in past, present (and future)
If you want a pdf let me know!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you want a pdf let me know!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
misschien moet ik maar valken beginnen africhten
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
misschien moet ik maar valken beginnen africhten
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Now we know where all that Spotify money is going. Not to the artists - perish the thought. No, the CEO has invested it all in AI weaponry designed to kill humans. I wish this were a joke.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Spotify boycott: Artists leave 'garbage hole' platform after CEO invests in AI weapons
Daniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal."
www.latimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Now we know where all that Spotify money is going. Not to the artists - perish the thought. No, the CEO has invested it all in AI weaponry designed to kill humans. I wish this were a joke.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Really happy to participate in this conference on psychiatry photography in Paris in two weeks! historypsychiatry.com/2025/11/06/c... it's mostly in French but my panel on ethics it's in English. Check out the fantastic programme here #histmed #photohist
Conference: Les clichés de la folie: usages de la photographie en psychiatrie (XIXe–XXIe siècles), Paris (20–21 November 2025)
Dear Hmadness readers, We are happy to share the programme of the international conference Pictures of madness: uses of photography in psychiatry (19th–21st centuries) that will take place in …
historypsychiatry.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Really happy to participate in this conference on psychiatry photography in Paris in two weeks! historypsychiatry.com/2025/11/06/c... it's mostly in French but my panel on ethics it's in English. Check out the fantastic programme here #histmed #photohist
Hot from the press! 🗃️
Anat Rosenberg's article on the history of 'magical economics of something-for-nothing' in a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, on enchantment in the history of capitalism (this is us: economic-enchantments.net)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anat Rosenberg's article on the history of 'magical economics of something-for-nothing' in a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, on enchantment in the history of capitalism (this is us: economic-enchantments.net)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing
This article brings together cultural studies and legal history to address a particular mode of historical enchantment, namely, the economic magic of something-for-nothing. Considered within the ea...
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Hot from the press! 🗃️
Anat Rosenberg's article on the history of 'magical economics of something-for-nothing' in a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, on enchantment in the history of capitalism (this is us: economic-enchantments.net)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anat Rosenberg's article on the history of 'magical economics of something-for-nothing' in a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, on enchantment in the history of capitalism (this is us: economic-enchantments.net)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Random midnight query: what is the hertz frequency of a cat’s purr?
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Random midnight query: what is the hertz frequency of a cat’s purr?
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Wacht maar af....
arkrewilding.nl/diersoorten/....
arkrewilding.nl/diersoorten/....
Kroeskoppelikaan
Tot het eind van de middeleeuwen kwam deze pelikaan in Nederland voor maar verdween daarna door jacht en vernietiging van zijn leefgebied.
arkrewilding.nl
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Wacht maar af....
arkrewilding.nl/diersoorten/....
arkrewilding.nl/diersoorten/....
good morning everyone
If that's owling, this is definitely full pelican 🪶
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 AM
good morning everyone
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November 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Heil satan! Vandaag aangekomen!
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Heil satan! Vandaag aangekomen!
Dear English native speakers, can you say individual pieces of writing 'crystallise around' a topic?
(Having a discussion with another non-native speaker for Much Too Long about this but to me it just doesn't sound right)
(Having a discussion with another non-native speaker for Much Too Long about this but to me it just doesn't sound right)
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Dear English native speakers, can you say individual pieces of writing 'crystallise around' a topic?
(Having a discussion with another non-native speaker for Much Too Long about this but to me it just doesn't sound right)
(Having a discussion with another non-native speaker for Much Too Long about this but to me it just doesn't sound right)
you guys, I pulled it off!!!
somehow, in a job full of stresses, I find making a very big pot of coffee for a workshop the most nerve-wracking
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
you guys, I pulled it off!!!
somehow, in a job full of stresses, I find making a very big pot of coffee for a workshop the most nerve-wracking
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
somehow, in a job full of stresses, I find making a very big pot of coffee for a workshop the most nerve-wracking
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Oproerpolitie, waterkanon en pepperspray bij vreedzame (en relatief kleinschalige) wekelijkse protesten tegen de genocide in Gaza.
Ondertussen het voetbal:
Ondertussen het voetbal:
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Oproerpolitie, waterkanon en pepperspray bij vreedzame (en relatief kleinschalige) wekelijkse protesten tegen de genocide in Gaza.
Ondertussen het voetbal:
Ondertussen het voetbal:
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Anne Carson, Plainwater
November 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Anne Carson, Plainwater