Christian Callisen
ctcallisen.bsky.social
Christian Callisen
@ctcallisen.bsky.social
Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈
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A (long) thread of (anglophone) #StarterPacks and #feeds of interest to #EarlyModern #skystorians.

The first two posts list a sample of hashtags for which Bluesky feeds currently exist. The following forty-two(!) posts list starter packs for scholars of various aspects of early modern history.
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En av frågorna Jimmie Åkesson tog upp i sitt tal var återvandring. Jag tror detta kommer bli en av nästa mandatperiods viktigaste frågor för SD. Och det är en tidsfråga innan ordet ”frivillig” stryks.

En spaning från SD:s landsdagar i Örebro www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/gka...
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Den här mannen har överhuvudtaget ingen moral: Statsministern bevistade idag SD:s pågående landsdagar i Örebro och berömde och tackade partiet för dess insatser och detta bara några år efter att Kristersson lovade Hédi Fried att han aldrig skulle inleda ett samarbete med SD.
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Om den här får fjorton likes prankar jag ställningsföretaget med en bortskänkes mot avhämtning-annons
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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“I hope people take away the fact that it is possible to have a different sort of life” - Jane Goodall
October 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Pretty blown away by this #review from Templer Award winner Kevin Linch,who put me on his list for the Society of Army Historical Research Annual Book list. #History #books #Blackhistory
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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CFP: Yale graduate student conference "Ephemera & Place in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Worlds," April 17, 2026.

This event will investigate how pre-modern art and architecture shaped and was shaped by ephemeral activities. Deadline Jan 9.
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Job Klaxon:

Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - History, subject, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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The world’s first fully-automatic photographic machine debuted in New York City in 1925. Anatol Josepho's "Photomaton" was so popular that people lined up for hours to try it out. At the time, photo strips cost 25¢ and took eight minutes to process and print.

www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
[Man, woman, and children] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
[Man, woman, and children] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); about 1950–1960; Unknown; Gelatin silver print; Image: 4.8 × 4 cm (1 7/8 × 1 9/16 in.); 2009.141.381.4
www.getty.edu
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Jag föreslår inte att vi ska försämra föräldraförsäkringen. Dagens nivåer innebär att befolkningen minskar. Det är bra.

Och det vi behöver jobba med är hur ekonomin ska fungera bra när befolkningen minskar.
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I would super love it if every time I google a female historian (a daily if not hourly task), google didn’t offer “Is [female historian name] married?” as a “people also ask” option. 🤬
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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The fellowship application I was writing while this went down just got accepted.

Next year, I will be working as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Deutsches Museum in Munich for several months, researching the "Arts of Early Modern Screwmaking."

On the merits of my project! 💪
I just had my work publicly ridiculed by a tenured prof. To all senior scholars who need to hear this: Please don't do this to students (or anyone else for that matter). You have no idea how painful it is. Yes, my topic is unusual & you may not get it, but that doesn't mean it should be made fun of.
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Only two more weeks left to submit an abstract for "Ecosystems of the Mind," a conference on new approaches in intellectual history / history of knowledge!!
Please circulate widely, and reach out if you have any questions.
CFP also on H-Soz-Kult: lnkd.in/eid2tX9N
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Sjukt att tänka att alla mina förfäder fick ungar, varenda en från människans ursprung till nu, varenda en skaffade barn. Svindlande.
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Reposting this for the weekday crowd in case more Persianists are about
Who on here can recommend me the best translations of Hafez? (needed for research, so relatively faithful with explanatory notes useful, but y'know - still actually poetry not translationese if possible!)
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Is it 'online training course'?
June 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Bara en vecka? 🤔
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Assistance round 2, please: In 1648, WIC hope new 'lodge' at Aja (Gold Coast) will divert gold from English thanks to their preferred 'Leytse Sayes'. This strikes embarrassingly ignorant 'historian' as another variety of cloth but am again most grateful for guidance #earlymodern #maritimehistory
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Har alldeles nyss köpt mina biljetter till pre- och after-partyna samt bokat hotell på Melfest WKND 2026! Nu börjar det bli förväntansfullt 🕺😁

#Melodifestivalen #Eurovision @melodifestivalen.se
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Looks like she died by falling into a giant Viennetta.
slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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More of this everywhere: "the Australian government have said: creative works are not raw material for algorithms without consent."

That tech CEOS, by contrast, think they should be allowed to make billions from the IP of creatives while ruining the planet is why they are bad-faith actors. 💙📚 🗃
November 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Såg att regionpolitikern Annika West (L) intervjuades i Rapport angående L:s omsvängning när det gäller vinstdriften i skolan. Inslaget hade mått bra av om vi också informerats om att West tidigare gjort jobb åt friskolornas Riksförbund/Almega Utbildning.
klagget.nu/2025/10/17/f...
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Our PhD studentship applications are open for 2026 entry and I'm keen to hear from outstanding candidates in history of early modern conflict and/or creative histories.
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Does anyone out there visit the Clark library and if so would you be prepared to take a single photo for me ( of an almanac title page) ? #earlymodern
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM