Sara Caputo
@saracaputo.bsky.social
History Senior Research Fellow & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge; British Academy PDRF. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
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Sara Caputo
@saracaputo.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hello sky! 👋
I'm Sara, a historian of maritime spaces and communities. I teach, read, and write at the University of Cambridge, UK. I'm interested in the history of maritime labour, migration, mapping, and medicine.
I look forward to meeting more of you here!
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sa...
I'm Sara, a historian of maritime spaces and communities. I teach, read, and write at the University of Cambridge, UK. I'm interested in the history of maritime labour, migration, mapping, and medicine.
I look forward to meeting more of you here!
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sa...
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@saracaputo.bsky.social I saw your book and thought, that would be an excellent read for our sailing trip in Croatia. Was not disappointed, great book!
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
@saracaputo.bsky.social I saw your book and thought, that would be an excellent read for our sailing trip in Croatia. Was not disappointed, great book!
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We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too
Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!
Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!
Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
The Scottish History Society
scottishhistorysociety.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too
Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!
Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!
Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
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Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.
scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...
Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.
scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...
SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
scottishhistorysociety.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.
scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...
Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.
scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...
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"Ocean routes’ complicated beginnings."
Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @saracaputo.bsky.social & @uchicagopress.bsky.social!
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Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @saracaputo.bsky.social & @uchicagopress.bsky.social!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
September 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"Ocean routes’ complicated beginnings."
Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @saracaputo.bsky.social & @uchicagopress.bsky.social!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @saracaputo.bsky.social & @uchicagopress.bsky.social!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The latest special issue of @scottishhistreview.bsky.social, on Scotland's Environmental History, is out!
Thanks to the guest editors, Rebecca Main, Richard Oram & Annie Tindley, for their fantastic work.
Read the issue on the @edinburghup.bsky.social website: www.euppublishing.com/toc/shr/104/2
Thanks to the guest editors, Rebecca Main, Richard Oram & Annie Tindley, for their fantastic work.
Read the issue on the @edinburghup.bsky.social website: www.euppublishing.com/toc/shr/104/2
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - shr: Vol 104, No 2
www.euppublishing.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The latest special issue of @scottishhistreview.bsky.social, on Scotland's Environmental History, is out!
Thanks to the guest editors, Rebecca Main, Richard Oram & Annie Tindley, for their fantastic work.
Read the issue on the @edinburghup.bsky.social website: www.euppublishing.com/toc/shr/104/2
Thanks to the guest editors, Rebecca Main, Richard Oram & Annie Tindley, for their fantastic work.
Read the issue on the @edinburghup.bsky.social website: www.euppublishing.com/toc/shr/104/2
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Did a seagull write these
August 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Did a seagull write these
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So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
August 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
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Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.
July 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.
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People don't seem to know that anyone can buy an interrail pass which makes European train travel much cheaper. Please tell them!
www.interrail.eu/en
www.interrail.eu/en
Interrail.eu | 1 rail pass, 33 countries
Travel across Europe and discover 33 countries by train with Interrail. Enjoy the best rail travel experience in Europe with our Interrail Pass!
www.interrail.eu
July 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
People don't seem to know that anyone can buy an interrail pass which makes European train travel much cheaper. Please tell them!
www.interrail.eu/en
www.interrail.eu/en
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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Excited to be giving the keynote address for this on Thursday afternoon, entitled 'Making and Unmaking the World of the Early English East India Company'. The talk involves a lot of drinking, multilingual cursing, and things going up in flames. And that's if it goes well!
#earlymodern #skystorians
#earlymodern #skystorians
Very excited for the Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern #conference at Aberystwyth, 12-13 June 2025.
For #skystorians interested in joining, please see the form for more information below. Looking forward to seeing y’all next month.
forms.gle/wC5oA5NFJE15...
For #skystorians interested in joining, please see the form for more information below. Looking forward to seeing y’all next month.
forms.gle/wC5oA5NFJE15...
June 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Excited to be giving the keynote address for this on Thursday afternoon, entitled 'Making and Unmaking the World of the Early English East India Company'. The talk involves a lot of drinking, multilingual cursing, and things going up in flames. And that's if it goes well!
#earlymodern #skystorians
#earlymodern #skystorians
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Really enjoyed speaking to Julian Clover for Cambridge Radio's Cambs Politics
cambridge105.co.uk/cambs-politi...
cambridge105.co.uk/cambs-politi...
Cambs Politics 08/06/2025
Julian Clover and Trevor Dann present the June edition of Cambs Politics; featuring Lucy Nethsingha, the Lib Dem leader of Cambridgeshire County Council, Mike Davey, the former leader of Cambridge …
cambridge105.co.uk
June 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Really enjoyed speaking to Julian Clover for Cambridge Radio's Cambs Politics
cambridge105.co.uk/cambs-politi...
cambridge105.co.uk/cambs-politi...
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There's no doubt that editors for academic publishing need more help and support to keep things going.
But my god, this isn't it.
I've published in a number of OUP outlets. This would force me to reconsider. I suspect other #SkyStorians will, too.
But my god, this isn't it.
I've published in a number of OUP outlets. This would force me to reconsider. I suspect other #SkyStorians will, too.
Oxford University Press and Hum sign agreement to pilot Alchemist Review
Oxford University Press partners with Hum to pilot Alchemist Review, an AI-based editorial assistant that will enhance manuscript assessment while reducing a...
www.alpsp.org
June 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
There's no doubt that editors for academic publishing need more help and support to keep things going.
But my god, this isn't it.
I've published in a number of OUP outlets. This would force me to reconsider. I suspect other #SkyStorians will, too.
But my god, this isn't it.
I've published in a number of OUP outlets. This would force me to reconsider. I suspect other #SkyStorians will, too.
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So happy to see this out! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... #CoastalHistory
‘It's an Ill Wind that Blows Good to Nobody’ | 28 | The Environment, S
Coastal inhabitants of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Archipelago witnessed a larger number of shipwrecks, driven by increased storm frequency and intensity at
www.taylorfrancis.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
So happy to see this out! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... #CoastalHistory
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Wrath keeps overtaking me everytime I think about RFK. Why? I'm a type 1 diabetic. I got it when I was 14. Guess what you need if you're a type 1 diabetic? Insulin. Or you die. But my family believed that it could be cured with herbs & faith healing. I had a near death experience when I was 14. 🧵
May 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Wrath keeps overtaking me everytime I think about RFK. Why? I'm a type 1 diabetic. I got it when I was 14. Guess what you need if you're a type 1 diabetic? Insulin. Or you die. But my family believed that it could be cured with herbs & faith healing. I had a near death experience when I was 14. 🧵
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Applications now invited for the Society's Masters' Scholarships 2025-26 bit.ly/4bJs8je
Scholarships support history students, from groups currently underrepresented in academic history, to undertake a Masters' degree at a UK university. Closing date for Stage 1 applications: 6 June #Skystorians
Scholarships support history students, from groups currently underrepresented in academic history, to undertake a Masters' degree at a UK university. Closing date for Stage 1 applications: 6 June #Skystorians
May 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Applications now invited for the Society's Masters' Scholarships 2025-26 bit.ly/4bJs8je
Scholarships support history students, from groups currently underrepresented in academic history, to undertake a Masters' degree at a UK university. Closing date for Stage 1 applications: 6 June #Skystorians
Scholarships support history students, from groups currently underrepresented in academic history, to undertake a Masters' degree at a UK university. Closing date for Stage 1 applications: 6 June #Skystorians
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A very succinct summation of why AI isn't going to be the thing they say it is. There's no road to there from where we are.
In other words, when you ask for example “do vaccines cause autism?” you are looking for information about whether a thing in the world (a vaccination) produces an outcome (autism). But the LLM can only answer “what words could sound right after this?”
April 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A very succinct summation of why AI isn't going to be the thing they say it is. There's no road to there from where we are.
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Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right?
No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming.
🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bas.ac.uk
No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming.
🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bas.ac.uk
Change in iceberg calving behavior preceded North Sea ice shelf disintegration during the last deglaciation - Nature Communications
Massive tabular icebergs broke off of the UK during the last ice age. The widespread break-up of the ice shelves which produced these giant icebergs can be traced to around 18,000 years ago, and likel...
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right?
No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming.
🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bas.ac.uk
No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming.
🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bas.ac.uk
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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
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🌊🌊🌊New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊
Check out Sijian Wang (Uni of Hawaii at Manoa)’s rvw of @saracaputo.bsky.social (@cambridgeuni.bsky.social)’s bk _ Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, & Maritime Travel_pub 2024 @uchicagopress.bsky.social
#oceans
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Check out Sijian Wang (Uni of Hawaii at Manoa)’s rvw of @saracaputo.bsky.social (@cambridgeuni.bsky.social)’s bk _ Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, & Maritime Travel_pub 2024 @uchicagopress.bsky.social
#oceans
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org
April 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🌊🌊🌊New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊
Check out Sijian Wang (Uni of Hawaii at Manoa)’s rvw of @saracaputo.bsky.social (@cambridgeuni.bsky.social)’s bk _ Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, & Maritime Travel_pub 2024 @uchicagopress.bsky.social
#oceans
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Check out Sijian Wang (Uni of Hawaii at Manoa)’s rvw of @saracaputo.bsky.social (@cambridgeuni.bsky.social)’s bk _ Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, & Maritime Travel_pub 2024 @uchicagopress.bsky.social
#oceans
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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The @royalhistsoc.org reports on the tragic and stupid cuts to university History provision in the UK. The RHS alone has worked with 23 depts in trouble, and 90% of post-92 History groups have made cuts. Madness. royalhistsoc.org/rhs-presiden...
April 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The @royalhistsoc.org reports on the tragic and stupid cuts to university History provision in the UK. The RHS alone has worked with 23 depts in trouble, and 90% of post-92 History groups have made cuts. Madness. royalhistsoc.org/rhs-presiden...