Maite De Beukeleer
@beukeleir.bsky.social
Historian | PhD at KU Leuven 🇧🇪 | Women, Catholicism, memory, identity, lived religion | Neurodivergent | Kringwinkelnerd | Unapologetic bicycle lobbyist. 🚲
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Maite De Beukeleer
@beukeleir.bsky.social
· Nov 16
YESSS! In 2021, Maarten Larmuseau and I wrote "In her footsteps" (in Dutch), at the crossroad of gender, genetics and genealogy. 👇
Eindelijk mocht ik eens iets in het Nederlands schrijven over mijn doctoraat. Ontdek wie 'mijn' medewerksters van het Apostolaat zijn, vanaf pagina 32 👉 kadoc.kuleuven.be/koorts/numme... (1/7)
June 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Eindelijk mocht ik eens iets in het Nederlands schrijven over mijn doctoraat. Ontdek wie 'mijn' medewerksters van het Apostolaat zijn, vanaf pagina 32 👉 kadoc.kuleuven.be/koorts/numme... (1/7)
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Medieval story time! Let’s talk about Isabel, who stabbed a priest when he told her to shut up in church (relatable)
So Isabel lived in London in 1330.
So Isabel lived in London in 1330.
May 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Medieval story time! Let’s talk about Isabel, who stabbed a priest when he told her to shut up in church (relatable)
So Isabel lived in London in 1330.
So Isabel lived in London in 1330.
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Yes writing emails is a pain so instead of hiding behind an AI to do it for you like a coward you need to simply have the courage of your convictions and stand up for what matters and simply not reply to them like the rest of us
April 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Yes writing emails is a pain so instead of hiding behind an AI to do it for you like a coward you need to simply have the courage of your convictions and stand up for what matters and simply not reply to them like the rest of us
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This morning I travelled to Mechelen for a visit to the (relocated and thoroughly renewed) Speelgoedmuseum / Museum of Toys. There was going to be a press conference about a loan from the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library to the Museum of Toys.
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April 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This morning I travelled to Mechelen for a visit to the (relocated and thoroughly renewed) Speelgoedmuseum / Museum of Toys. There was going to be a press conference about a loan from the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library to the Museum of Toys.
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Just remember that the co-founder and creative genius behind Studio Ghibli--without whom AI would have nothing to rip off in order to make those images currently circulating--thinks AI is an insult to life itself
March 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Just remember that the co-founder and creative genius behind Studio Ghibli--without whom AI would have nothing to rip off in order to make those images currently circulating--thinks AI is an insult to life itself
📆 Mark your calendar for the public program of 'Breaking Cultures of Silence', with workshops and an in-depth discussion on bystander behavior and sexual violence in Catholic Church contexts. More info and registration: theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...
March 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📆 Mark your calendar for the public program of 'Breaking Cultures of Silence', with workshops and an in-depth discussion on bystander behavior and sexual violence in Catholic Church contexts. More info and registration: theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...
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It's WAY overused these days, but Tolkien nailed it. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
January 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
It's WAY overused these days, but Tolkien nailed it. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
✨ This Friday, @nunezbargueno.bsky.social and I are invited to the Ruusbroec Institute in Antwerp to share our work on Catholic women's history. Come join us!
More info 👉https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/onderzoeksgroep/ruusbroecgenootschap/info/rg100/
More info 👉https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/onderzoeksgroep/ruusbroecgenootschap/info/rg100/
February 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
✨ This Friday, @nunezbargueno.bsky.social and I are invited to the Ruusbroec Institute in Antwerp to share our work on Catholic women's history. Come join us!
More info 👉https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/onderzoeksgroep/ruusbroecgenootschap/info/rg100/
More info 👉https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/onderzoeksgroep/ruusbroecgenootschap/info/rg100/
Hoera, het nieuwste nummer van Tijd-Schrift viel net in de bus! Deze keer wel zes megaboeiende artikelen over het thema 'thuis'. Bonus: een vrouw op de cover (kunstenares Louise De Hem) én een inleiding van mezelf! ✨
February 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Hoera, het nieuwste nummer van Tijd-Schrift viel net in de bus! Deze keer wel zes megaboeiende artikelen over het thema 'thuis'. Bonus: een vrouw op de cover (kunstenares Louise De Hem) én een inleiding van mezelf! ✨
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Jan 29 1925: dog teams set out from Nenana, Alaska to bring diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, where the disease was spreading. 20 teams & mushers carried the serum over 674 miles in under 130 hours.
Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year
Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year
January 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Jan 29 1925: dog teams set out from Nenana, Alaska to bring diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, where the disease was spreading. 20 teams & mushers carried the serum over 674 miles in under 130 hours.
Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year
Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year
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I found a book from 2014 on deconnection for 1 euro. Very entertaining: some predictions came true, other times the author was completely wrong (in retrospect). This passage made me close the book for a few minutes, and take a deep breath.
January 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I found a book from 2014 on deconnection for 1 euro. Very entertaining: some predictions came true, other times the author was completely wrong (in retrospect). This passage made me close the book for a few minutes, and take a deep breath.
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Studying and teaching history is a form of resistance. 🗃️
January 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Studying and teaching history is a form of resistance. 🗃️
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![Picture from the book A Passion for History, by Natalie Zemon Davis, page 67.
Denis Crouzet asks: Do you defend history because you see it as a source of social or ethical utility, in the sense it could help orient us in history...
Natalie Zemon Davis: I was say 'useful' in a very special sense. What human beings have done in the past, in the enormous range in ways of living and possible actions, is a source both of hope and despair. How fascinating it is to consider this variety in human events. We can draw hope from it in the sense that if things have been different in the past, perhaps we're in a position to make them a little different today [laughter] -- at least a little bit different. When I say 'usefulness', I don't mean that history offers us models that we can apply -- the details of different situations are too unlike each other. History offers us ideas, points of view, perspectives, landmarks, indices, possibilities.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2xh3ekkjbuyi3e5pbfnakuyt/bafkreidoy3ec3emop6uikgscip7syjurfrguivyaak56wwspbgzp7qifnq@jpeg)
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Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
December 8, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
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Interestingly, the reopening ceremony of Notre Dame de Paris this evening (live broadcast here www.youtube.com/c/FRANCE24/l...) is *not* the rededication. The Archbishop will open the doors an bless the organ and the building, but the dedication of the altar is reserved for Sunday.
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December 7, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Interestingly, the reopening ceremony of Notre Dame de Paris this evening (live broadcast here www.youtube.com/c/FRANCE24/l...) is *not* the rededication. The Archbishop will open the doors an bless the organ and the building, but the dedication of the altar is reserved for Sunday.
A letter to the Belgian nuncio from a woman who believed that the Belgian fascist and later collaborator Degrelle was the Messiah: "[J]e suis convaincue que Léon Degrelle est celui dont parle les prophéties, et qui viendra sauver le pays." (1938)
#ickyarchives #skystorians
#ickyarchives #skystorians
#IckyArchives throwback to the unmarked envelope that contained a mystic's toenails (dozens and dozens)
The little folded paper packets of hair that a magician’s clients sent him in 1916! is now the time to revive #IckyArchives ?
December 7, 2024 at 3:44 PM
A letter to the Belgian nuncio from a woman who believed that the Belgian fascist and later collaborator Degrelle was the Messiah: "[J]e suis convaincue que Léon Degrelle est celui dont parle les prophéties, et qui viendra sauver le pays." (1938)
#ickyarchives #skystorians
#ickyarchives #skystorians
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Where universities don't support staff to be open about their own neurodiversity, it leaves neurodiverse students unable to see that they can succeed and be supported.
Whether deliberate or not, this is a conversation the uni is entering into.
#RemovingBarriers
Whether deliberate or not, this is a conversation the uni is entering into.
#RemovingBarriers
December 6, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Where universities don't support staff to be open about their own neurodiversity, it leaves neurodiverse students unable to see that they can succeed and be supported.
Whether deliberate or not, this is a conversation the uni is entering into.
#RemovingBarriers
Whether deliberate or not, this is a conversation the uni is entering into.
#RemovingBarriers
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Imagine an issue. Wrong, it's more complicated than that
November 10, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Imagine an issue. Wrong, it's more complicated than that
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If only the peer reviewers (I presume not historians) had informed the author of the difference between ‘the past’ and ‘historical narratives’. It’s not ‘the past’ that has been questioned. How could it be? It’s simply what happened. It’s White supremacist narratives about it.
December 5, 2024 at 12:06 PM
If only the peer reviewers (I presume not historians) had informed the author of the difference between ‘the past’ and ‘historical narratives’. It’s not ‘the past’ that has been questioned. How could it be? It’s simply what happened. It’s White supremacist narratives about it.
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By far and away, my favourite thing about this spectacularly dumb post...
Is that that's THE MATTERHORN
Is that that's THE MATTERHORN
December 3, 2024 at 10:17 PM
By far and away, my favourite thing about this spectacularly dumb post...
Is that that's THE MATTERHORN
Is that that's THE MATTERHORN
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.
A Place of Joy.
A Place of Joy.
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
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wish my local library had merch
December 2, 2024 at 5:36 PM
wish my local library had merch
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2 December 1941 | The Auschwitz concentration camp's inventory report for November mentioned, for the first time, the delivery of 3,000 kilograms of Zyklon B transported by rail from Dessau.
December 2, 2024 at 1:00 PM
2 December 1941 | The Auschwitz concentration camp's inventory report for November mentioned, for the first time, the delivery of 3,000 kilograms of Zyklon B transported by rail from Dessau.