Lucy Pick
@lucykpick.bsky.social
Medieval historian by day, historical novelist by night. My historical novel #Pilgrimage is now out from Cuidono Press. Jackal. Princess. She/her. Banner is Muhammed Sami.
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Lucy Pick
@lucykpick.bsky.social
· Oct 9
Lucy Pick, "The Queen’s Companion" (Cuidono Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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Fun interview about my latest novel, with lots of history — Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Secnd Crusade, the Templars etc, including the burning question: did or didn’t she sleep with her uncle?
(Fun to do. Still haven’t dared listen. Tell me what you think)
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(Fun to do. Still haven’t dared listen. Tell me what you think)
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newbooksnetwork.com/the-queens-c...
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
Sulzberger. Bingo.
👀 "And they won't be the last. My buddy, Lorin Stein, who runs the Paris Review [...] just went down [...] the playright Israel Horovitz--whacked. Big names on the horizon: Michael Douglas, Larry Gagosian, and still my favorite, Arthur Sulzberger." Michael Wolff to Jeffrey Epstein, 12/11/2017
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Sulzberger. Bingo.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
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A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
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November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
“Franklin was an equal member in a group of four scientists working on the structure of DNA. She was recognized by her colleagues as such, although that acknowledgement was both belated and understated.”
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 11:50 AM
“Franklin was an equal member in a group of four scientists working on the structure of DNA. She was recognized by her colleagues as such, although that acknowledgement was both belated and understated.”
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While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
This changes everything.
Extremely niche news for medievalists: Big Bird’s given name is Abelard?!
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This changes everything.
I love these figures but her work looks completely different. Hard to believe it’s the same artist. www.kleurkeramiek.com/webshop/
November 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I love these figures but her work looks completely different. Hard to believe it’s the same artist. www.kleurkeramiek.com/webshop/
The only way to stop this is to delete your Academia account. “Opting out” only stops you from seeing ai slop; other people will still be offered the ai slop they make from your work.
What the French-fried fuckity fuck?
I emphatically did not opt IN to this and now I have to log in and opt OUT?
When you’ve already done a thing I not only disapprove of, but that also makes literally no sense?
You can’t turn my old paper into an analogy. That’s not how papers or analogies work
I emphatically did not opt IN to this and now I have to log in and opt OUT?
When you’ve already done a thing I not only disapprove of, but that also makes literally no sense?
You can’t turn my old paper into an analogy. That’s not how papers or analogies work
November 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The only way to stop this is to delete your Academia account. “Opting out” only stops you from seeing ai slop; other people will still be offered the ai slop they make from your work.
And consent for seizing Venezuelan resources, and distracting Americans from hungry kids, deportations of working parents, and rising costs for everyone.
Someone should tell them how the Iraq war ended up.
Someone should tell them how the Iraq war ended up.
The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.
November 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
And consent for seizing Venezuelan resources, and distracting Americans from hungry kids, deportations of working parents, and rising costs for everyone.
Someone should tell them how the Iraq war ended up.
Someone should tell them how the Iraq war ended up.
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The Trump administration’s lawlessness cannot be ignored.
Period.
Period.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The Trump administration’s lawlessness cannot be ignored.
Period.
Period.
Yeah, I saw this coming weeks ago.
October 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Yeah, I saw this coming weeks ago.
God don’t like ugly.
You can't drop thst bomb and exit stage left...
L.A. Dodgers Owner’s Ties to Private Prisons and Surveillance Spark Backlash from Latino Fans - The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint share.google/GQh1uVXfxqcD...
L.A. Dodgers Owner’s Ties to Private Prisons and Surveillance Spark Backlash from Latino Fans - The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint share.google/GQh1uVXfxqcD...
L.A. Dodgers Owner’s Ties to Private Prisons and Surveillance Spark Backlash from Latino Fans
As thousands of Latinos and immigrant families pack Dodger Stadium night after night, the team’s billionaire owner has faced growing scrutiny over financial connections to companies profiting from …
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October 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
God don’t like ugly.
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A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto
She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card
Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.
She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.
It’s retaliation & it’s wrong
She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card
Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.
She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.
It’s retaliation & it’s wrong
October 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto
She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card
Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.
She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.
It’s retaliation & it’s wrong
She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card
Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.
She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.
It’s retaliation & it’s wrong
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La Universitat de Xicago busca algú per a un contracte de 4 anys, cofinançat per l'Institut Ramon Llull, d'Assistant Instructional Professor in Catalan and Spanish
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Academic Jobs | The University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private, nondenominational, culturally rich and ethnically diverse coeducational research university located in Hyde Park, Chicago.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
La Universitat de Xicago busca algú per a un contracte de 4 anys, cofinançat per l'Institut Ramon Llull, d'Assistant Instructional Professor in Catalan and Spanish
academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/17...
academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/17...
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Communities are being gassed despite having a restraining order
Chicago
Chicago
October 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Communities are being gassed despite having a restraining order
Chicago
Chicago
If you want to see Doug Ford’s Reagan anti-tariff ad, here it is. Trump hates it, so it would be a shame if you shared it, esp with your GOP relatives.
Ontario launches the perfect ad. Canadians are true brothers 💙🇨🇦
October 24, 2025 at 4:48 AM
If you want to see Doug Ford’s Reagan anti-tariff ad, here it is. Trump hates it, so it would be a shame if you shared it, esp with your GOP relatives.
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My article is in the new issue of the Jrnl of Medieval Iberian Studies. Its aims are two-fold: 1) show how this text leveraged ethnic and religious IDs to construct a local, city ID, and 2) challenge historians to *show* local ID mattered, not just assume it did. tinyurl.com/5e5arv2e #medievalsky
Local identity in the Lives of the Fathers of Mérida: when ethnicity and religion aren’t the point
While scholarship on early medieval Europe often centers ethnicity or religion over other forms of identity, they were not always the most relevant form of identification for contemporaries. In the...
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October 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My article is in the new issue of the Jrnl of Medieval Iberian Studies. Its aims are two-fold: 1) show how this text leveraged ethnic and religious IDs to construct a local, city ID, and 2) challenge historians to *show* local ID mattered, not just assume it did. tinyurl.com/5e5arv2e #medievalsky
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It looks like a bomb went off.
Seems like a bad idea. White House is an inalienable possession and you don’t mess with inalienable possessions except very carefully.
H/t Annette Weiner
Seems like a bad idea. White House is an inalienable possession and you don’t mess with inalienable possessions except very carefully.
H/t Annette Weiner
October 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
It looks like a bomb went off.
Seems like a bad idea. White House is an inalienable possession and you don’t mess with inalienable possessions except very carefully.
H/t Annette Weiner
Seems like a bad idea. White House is an inalienable possession and you don’t mess with inalienable possessions except very carefully.
H/t Annette Weiner