Alexandre Simon-Ekeland
@asimonekeland.bsky.social
Academic librarian at the University of Oslo and historian of exploration in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly interested in the polar regions, the history of celebrity and the history of emotions
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Google quietly updated their ngrams viewer again this year. The books used appear to be extremely different yet again--the rate of the words "she said" are about 60% what they were in the 20th century compared to the 2019 release, and just 20% compared to 2009. But there's a catch:
December 11, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Google quietly updated their ngrams viewer again this year. The books used appear to be extremely different yet again--the rate of the words "she said" are about 60% what they were in the 20th century compared to the 2019 release, and just 20% compared to 2009. But there's a catch:
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Call for Abstracts - ‘Epistemic Frontiers’? Geoscientific Knowledge, Authority, and Politics of Participation in Arctic and African Exploration - Oslo, 22–24th April 2025: www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english... #histsci
Call for Abstracts - ‘Epistemic Frontiers’? Geoscientific Knowledge, Authority, and Politics of Participation in Arctic and African Exploration
- Department of Archaeology, Conservation and H...
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.hf.uio.no
December 2, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Call for Abstracts - ‘Epistemic Frontiers’? Geoscientific Knowledge, Authority, and Politics of Participation in Arctic and African Exploration - Oslo, 22–24th April 2025: www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english... #histsci
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How did the natural history museums in Paris, Bergen and Copenhagen build their whale collections 1860s-1910s? New publication lead by @asimonekeland.bsky.social in Nordic museology🥳🧪🐳 journals.uio.no/museolog/art...
Whales as a Nordic speciality: Collecting cetaceans for Natural History Museums (1860s–1910s)
| Nordisk Museologi
journals.uio.no
July 9, 2024 at 11:08 AM
How did the natural history museums in Paris, Bergen and Copenhagen build their whale collections 1860s-1910s? New publication lead by @asimonekeland.bsky.social in Nordic museology🥳🧪🐳 journals.uio.no/museolog/art...
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Next Friday, 12 January 2024, I discuss Games and Environmental History with @scoutblum.bsky.social in the ASEH Connects series. While based in environmental history, the boardgames crowd is more than welcome! Zoom link in poster. #envhist #envhum
January 7, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Next Friday, 12 January 2024, I discuss Games and Environmental History with @scoutblum.bsky.social in the ASEH Connects series. While based in environmental history, the boardgames crowd is more than welcome! Zoom link in poster. #envhist #envhum