Margaret Schotte
@schottemargaret.bsky.social
Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ she/her 🌈
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✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers
gjhilton.github.io
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
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Look what arrived in the post! Now out in paperback so much more affordable, and still looking pretty good, though I say it myself
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Look what arrived in the post! Now out in paperback so much more affordable, and still looking pretty good, though I say it myself
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
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Canadian professors: Do you have grad students who need a conference under their belt? Grad students: want to share your work in a friendly and collegial environment? Submit an abstract and join us in February!
Are you a graduate student? Check out the 2026 McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference Call for Papers! Abstracts are due November 28!
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Canadian professors: Do you have grad students who need a conference under their belt? Grad students: want to share your work in a friendly and collegial environment? Submit an abstract and join us in February!
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Keen to explore maritime environments and histories without going to sea? The Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Fellowship deadline is 18 January 2026.
Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich
Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships
www.rmg.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Keen to explore maritime environments and histories without going to sea? The Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Fellowship deadline is 18 January 2026.
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I'm cited in this piece in the Toronto Star today about the spread of generative AI, the challenges it poses for historians & history education, and the need for digital literacy.
www.thestar.com/news/how-fak...
www.thestar.com/news/how-fak...
How fake AI history is threatening Remembrance Day — with endless YouTube videos glamorizing Nazis
A search for any historical topic is sure to be met with a torrent of fake AI-generated garbage — at real cost to our history.
www.thestar.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I'm cited in this piece in the Toronto Star today about the spread of generative AI, the challenges it poses for historians & history education, and the need for digital literacy.
www.thestar.com/news/how-fak...
www.thestar.com/news/how-fak...
Kneecap to the PSE sector - TOTAL temporary resident target (TFWs plus international students) to be roughly halved, from 670K to 370K.
That's minimum a $2 Billion hit to the sector. Probably more. Will work this out later
That's minimum a $2 Billion hit to the sector. Probably more. Will work this out later
November 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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“Higher education aims to create cognitively mature adults, which in turn requires us to ensure students learn to read, think and write all on their own.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“Higher education aims to create cognitively mature adults, which in turn requires us to ensure students learn to read, think and write all on their own.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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Grad students and early career faculty take note! Money is available for you to do cool stuff! Apply and you might even get some!
We are awarding FIVE tuition scholarships to RSA members who wish to attend the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute on the campus of the Université de Montréal. Apply by November 19, 2025! www.rsa.org/news/712947/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #scholarship #digitalhumanities
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Grad students and early career faculty take note! Money is available for you to do cool stuff! Apply and you might even get some!
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📢 The JHI invites applications for the 2026–27 Critical Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, a 1 year fellowship supporting a recent PhD.
Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers
📅 Apply by Nov 25, 2025 | 4pm EST
🔗 More info: uoft.me/cdh26-27
#digitalhumanities #DH #postdoc #postdoctoral
Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers
📅 Apply by Nov 25, 2025 | 4pm EST
🔗 More info: uoft.me/cdh26-27
#digitalhumanities #DH #postdoc #postdoctoral
October 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📢 The JHI invites applications for the 2026–27 Critical Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, a 1 year fellowship supporting a recent PhD.
Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers
📅 Apply by Nov 25, 2025 | 4pm EST
🔗 More info: uoft.me/cdh26-27
#digitalhumanities #DH #postdoc #postdoctoral
Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers
📅 Apply by Nov 25, 2025 | 4pm EST
🔗 More info: uoft.me/cdh26-27
#digitalhumanities #DH #postdoc #postdoctoral
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Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
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Very sorry to hear of the passing of Tim Cook.
One of Canada's best historians, his books were fantastic. He was nice enough to give me a tour of the Canadian War Museum where he was the chief historian.
A truly great Canadian.
One of Canada's best historians, his books were fantastic. He was nice enough to give me a tour of the Canadian War Museum where he was the chief historian.
A truly great Canadian.
October 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Very sorry to hear of the passing of Tim Cook.
One of Canada's best historians, his books were fantastic. He was nice enough to give me a tour of the Canadian War Museum where he was the chief historian.
A truly great Canadian.
One of Canada's best historians, his books were fantastic. He was nice enough to give me a tour of the Canadian War Museum where he was the chief historian.
A truly great Canadian.
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Happy to see James Seth's book receive a shout out here -
Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe
by Ania Upstill
@folger.edu blog
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe
by Ania Upstill
@folger.edu blog
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Happy to see James Seth's book receive a shout out here -
Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe
by Ania Upstill
@folger.edu blog
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe
by Ania Upstill
@folger.edu blog
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
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Delighted to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on the theme "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (to be co-edited by Scott Berthelette and myself)
CFP and submission guidelines can be found here:
read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
CFP and submission guidelines can be found here:
read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
Submission Guidelines
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special issue of French Historical Studies on European-Indigenous ...
read.dukeupress.edu
October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Delighted to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on the theme "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (to be co-edited by Scott Berthelette and myself)
CFP and submission guidelines can be found here:
read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
CFP and submission guidelines can be found here:
read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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This thread just makes me sad. I hate that teachers are buying into this crap instead of encouraging kids to use their own written and artistic skills. One of my degrees is a teaching degree. I would never have wanted the kids in my classes to use an algorithm to replace their own art. 😔
Yesterday my 5th grader told me their teacher gave them an assignment:
write a description of their own secret garden (apparently they've been reading it)...that she would then feed into ChatGPT to make a picture of it
I hate this so much
write a description of their own secret garden (apparently they've been reading it)...that she would then feed into ChatGPT to make a picture of it
I hate this so much
October 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This thread just makes me sad. I hate that teachers are buying into this crap instead of encouraging kids to use their own written and artistic skills. One of my degrees is a teaching degree. I would never have wanted the kids in my classes to use an algorithm to replace their own art. 😔
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Nous avons hâte de vous voir ce vendredi, 4pm! 🗃️ register s.v.p.: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/unsett...
Our 2nd talk of the fall term will take place on Oct. 24. We very much look forward to welcoming @andreloez.bsky.social for his talk, "Unsettled voters. Invalid ballots in the first elections by universal male suffrage in France"
October 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Nous avons hâte de vous voir ce vendredi, 4pm! 🗃️ register s.v.p.: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/unsett...
Ugh. :-(
So YorkU wants to establish an “AI task force”. Its goal is for “adoption of AI in all aspects of university operations,”
Seems to me that the we haven’t asked where AI shouldn’t be allowed to operate.
Seems to me that the we haven’t asked where AI shouldn’t be allowed to operate.
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Ugh. :-(
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So YorkU wants to establish an “AI task force”. Its goal is for “adoption of AI in all aspects of university operations,”
Seems to me that the we haven’t asked where AI shouldn’t be allowed to operate.
Seems to me that the we haven’t asked where AI shouldn’t be allowed to operate.
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
So YorkU wants to establish an “AI task force”. Its goal is for “adoption of AI in all aspects of university operations,”
Seems to me that the we haven’t asked where AI shouldn’t be allowed to operate.
Seems to me that the we haven’t asked where AI shouldn’t be allowed to operate.
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Interested in global histories of medicine and technology? ⚕️ Archives like Nichibunken hold more than just Japanese sources! Explore their digitized archives of rare European medical books from 1508–1858 in the Noma Collection! shinku.nichibun.ac.jp/NOMA/new/ind...
October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Interested in global histories of medicine and technology? ⚕️ Archives like Nichibunken hold more than just Japanese sources! Explore their digitized archives of rare European medical books from 1508–1858 in the Noma Collection! shinku.nichibun.ac.jp/NOMA/new/ind...
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New book! So pleased to get my author copies of our edition, translation, and study of Gregorio Dati's "La Sfera", a fifteenth-century Florentine poem on cosmology and geography.
This was the brainchild of the unstoppable Carrie Beneš.
It's profusely illustrated and will be great for students.
This was the brainchild of the unstoppable Carrie Beneš.
It's profusely illustrated and will be great for students.
October 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
New book! So pleased to get my author copies of our edition, translation, and study of Gregorio Dati's "La Sfera", a fifteenth-century Florentine poem on cosmology and geography.
This was the brainchild of the unstoppable Carrie Beneš.
It's profusely illustrated and will be great for students.
This was the brainchild of the unstoppable Carrie Beneš.
It's profusely illustrated and will be great for students.
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Actually holding a physical copy of Craft of Historical Research, what a joy! Very much the book I wish I’d had as a student, so happy to see it out in the world. 🗃️ You can find it as an affordable paperback or eBook.
October 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Actually holding a physical copy of Craft of Historical Research, what a joy! Very much the book I wish I’d had as a student, so happy to see it out in the world. 🗃️ You can find it as an affordable paperback or eBook.
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Inventory left: 📚
🏴☠️ Pirates of the Chesapeake: 5 copies
🏴☠️ Pirates & Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay: 15 copies
🏴☠️ The Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: 9 copies
#SkyStorians #PirateHistory #BookSky
🏴☠️ Pirates of the Chesapeake: 5 copies
🏴☠️ Pirates & Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay: 15 copies
🏴☠️ The Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: 9 copies
#SkyStorians #PirateHistory #BookSky
If you enjoy my work, please help me continue to do it. Snag one (or all) of my books as I’m furloughed and help me pay some bills! 🏴☠️📚 DM me! #SkyStorians #PirateHistory
October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Inventory left: 📚
🏴☠️ Pirates of the Chesapeake: 5 copies
🏴☠️ Pirates & Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay: 15 copies
🏴☠️ The Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: 9 copies
#SkyStorians #PirateHistory #BookSky
🏴☠️ Pirates of the Chesapeake: 5 copies
🏴☠️ Pirates & Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay: 15 copies
🏴☠️ The Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: 9 copies
#SkyStorians #PirateHistory #BookSky
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LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?"
Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...
Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...
Generational Data Interviews | Library Innovation Lab
14 Designs for Digital Preservation in 2025
lil.law.harvard.edu
October 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?"
Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...
Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...
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It's super cool to see that, two years on from its publication, Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France is still finding new readers! Also delighted to see @jakedyble.bsky.social's Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe on the list too #MaritimeHistory 🗃️
Our most read Open Access books: 2025
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October 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It's super cool to see that, two years on from its publication, Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France is still finding new readers! Also delighted to see @jakedyble.bsky.social's Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe on the list too #MaritimeHistory 🗃️