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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion
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• Research Coordinator at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Musicologist & book historian
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · Nov 17
I like to say that I'm a musicologist (cultural historian of music and books) by training and a research coordinator by profession.

Here's a little interview about how I changed careers, what I do now, and my very best grant writing tip!

internt.slu.se/en/support-s...

#EnvHum #EnvHist
Meet the Grants Office: Marianne | Medarbetarwebben
Marianne Gillion joined the SLU Grants Office as a Research Coordinator in April 2024. She comes to us from the world of social sciences, humanities, and musicology!
internt.slu.se
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kfduggan.bsky.social
PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.
February 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
mcegillion.bsky.social
Rejoice, for it is Semla Season! A semla is a traditional pre-Lenten Swedish treat. I ordered this delicious specimen from Landings Konditori in Uppsala.

#GlutenFree #TinyJoys
Closeup of a semla in a bakery box. A semla is a cardamom bun cut roughly in half. In the centre is almond paste, which is hidden by cardamom cream. The top is dusted with icing sugar. Surprisingly, for something that sounds very sweet, it is not overly sweet.
February 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM
mcegillion.bsky.social
#TinyJoys: tea delivery from the wonderful tea shop Kränku on Gotland. I ordered so much tea that they sent me a bonus sticker!

#TeaUp
Three small tins of tea from the Kränku Tea Shop in Visby, Sweden. From left: Monk Tea; Visby World Heritage Tea; Gotlandic Breakfast. In front of them are three packets: Rainbow Tea; Baltic Sea Tea; and Medieval Tea. In front of them is a small box with a tea-steeper. And in front of that is a shiny silver sticker with the Kränku logo, which is a man (farmer, maybe?) with a tall black hat and black work boots drinking a steaming cup of tea.
January 31, 2026 at 5:43 PM
mcegillion.bsky.social
Excellent reading and listening for your Saturday morning!

#EarlyMusic #EarlyModern #BookHistory #TeamNun #Nuntastic #Skystorians
continuoconnect.bsky.social Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 10d
"I have documents that show exactly what the Archbishop of Florence was down with and what he was not" 🕵️

Musica Secreta Director Laurie Stras takes us deep into the world of Renaissance musical detective work...

Part one 🔗 https://go.continuoconnect.com/sisters-of-polyphony-part-one
January 31, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs

Turn it off, now.
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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who's just a TINY LITTLE NEUME hiding away in this binding #fragmentfriday
January 23, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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artsably.com
Check out the episode 55 of our podcast “ArtsAbly in Conversation” with Eric Whitmer, a third-year Ph.D. student in Musicology at the University of Michigan.

Find the podcast episode here: www.artsably.com/episode-55-a...

#ArtsAbly #arts #disability #accessibility #DisabilityArts
A photo of Eric Whitmer appears, a white man with short black hair wearing a blue shirt and black pants, smiling at the camera, sitting in a grey staircase close to a pile of books with an open laptop on it. The hands seem in movement as if accompanying a vivid conversation. The text reads “ArtsAbly in Conversation with Eric Whitmer, Episode 55.” The ArtsAbly logo is below.
January 23, 2026 at 3:16 PM
mcegillion.bsky.social
Semla Season has begun in Sweden.

First of the year: a semla-inspired biskvi (gluten-free!). #TinyJoys
A small biskvi made to look like a semla (a sweet bun cut in half, filled with almond paste and cream). This “semla biskvi” has has a ”bun” made from almonds. The cream and almond paste is encased in white chocolate. It was delicious and very, very sweet.
January 18, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social
Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
Call for applications: LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027
www.kuleuven.be
January 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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altibel.bsky.social
#EarlyModern #BookHistory
janblo.bsky.social Jan Blonski @janblo.bsky.social · 27d
Post-doc position at the University of Warsaw
in a project on #earlymodern protestant printing centres operating in Poland-Lithuania and Prussia

konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document... (English version starts at page 7).

Applications are accepted until 9 March 2026.

#history
konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl
January 14, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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statesofprecarity.bsky.social
Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography.

Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.

Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.

Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Read report:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography
Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.
www.rgs.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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eseh.bsky.social
Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here:
eseh.org/membership/h...
#EnvHist #EnvHum
January 12, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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mcegillion.bsky.social
Sweden:

Grant for recruiting international visiting researchers to Sweden 2026

www.vr.se/english/appl...
Grant for recruiting international visiting researchers to Sweden 2026
The purpose of the grant is to give higher education institutions and other research organisations the opportunity to develop and strengthen a research field by recruiting, in the near future, a promi...
www.vr.se
January 12, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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lauriestras.bsky.social
So I know it's a minor detail when the rest of the world is on fire, but can I just say now that @universitypress.cambridge.org is treating my work like garbage - work that was part-funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Music at a Florentine Convent
Cambridge Core - Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music - Music at a Florentine Convent
www.cambridge.org
January 10, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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onslies.bsky.social
And the extension pack, get more #EarlyModern #Skystorians. Collect them all. go.bsky.app/K2gp9GK
January 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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onslies.bsky.social
Here's the second one, with equally excellent #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 2/3
January 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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onslies.bsky.social
Another exodus from the other site, from the sounds of it? If you're looking for the #EarlyModern gang, we've got three starter packs that compile a bunch of them. I can keep adding to the third, just poke.

Here's the OG: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 1/3
January 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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svanimpe.bsky.social
First #bookhistory post of the year. Some books simply scream for a thread!

We have two copies of the same #EarlyModern edition. Why would we want to collect two copies of the same book, you ask? Read on!

EHC Antwerp, K 54092 copy 1 and 2.

[1/16] 📜 💙📚
Two title pages of the same book, showing their likeness.
January 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM
mcegillion.bsky.social
#TinyJoys: minuscule perfect snowflakes on my mitten.
Close up of a mitten made with deep blue and black yarn. You can see several tiny snowflakes in their geometric perfection. They are a max of 3 millimetres in size, but some are smaller.
January 4, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to.

Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
(also available via many standard podcast listening services)
Greenhouse Book Talks. Hosted by Dolly Jørgensen & Finn Arne Jørgensen. A pair of hands holds up a pot with a plant growing into a book
January 1, 2026 at 8:41 AM
mcegillion.bsky.social
This fantastic book is also the first full gradual printed in the Italian peninsula! Fantastic to learn of another extant copy.

Professionally, it's also the book that ignited my love of early modern plainchant & music printing (cf my diss + articles from 2019 and 2020!)

#MusicalBookHistory
jaymoschella.bsky.social Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social · Dec 30
Last BPL new acquisition of the year is a copy of the very rare gradual printed by Johann Emerich for Lucantonio Giunta in Venice in 1499. This is the largest book (by dimensions) printed during the 15th century and it required a custom-manufactured paper stock to print. 1/8
A sample page of red and black printed music on four-line red staves, woodcut initial, and type; on the right, an image of the blind tooled pigskin binding
December 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
mcegillion.bsky.social
I'm a beguine.

(On brand, #BringBackBeguinages)
cmdrsue.bsky.social Sue London @cmdrsue.bsky.social · Dec 29
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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disabledinstem.bsky.social
Extending application deadline to early January so still time to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM
disabledinstem.bsky.social DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · Oct 20
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!

Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...

Applications due December 5th!
Promotional graphic for the DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Program. The background is a dark blue gradient with flowing wave-like patterns in blue and gold. At the top, white text reads: “DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Applications Now Open.” Below, a yellow box with black text says: “Seeking Disabled Mentees and Dedicated Mentors to Champion Inclusion in STEM.” At the bottom, white text states: “Applications due December 5th.” In the lower right corner, there is the DisabledInSTEM logo.
December 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM