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Daniel Beaumont
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Phd @aucklanduni.bsky.social. Medical, gender, emotions history in 18th c. England. My thesis examined melancholy in women's writing across 5 genres. Public history at earlymedwomen.auckland.ac.nz.
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April 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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So excited to be organising this workshop with the @danielbeaumont.bsky.social and Erin Griffey!! We can’t wait to host you at @aucklanduni.bsky.social
ANZAMEMS Seminar: Documenting Medieval and Early Modern Women #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
April 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Come one, come all! @amforsyth.bsky.social, Erin Griffey and I can't wait to have you at @aucklanduni.bsky.social!
ANZAMEMS Seminar: Documenting Medieval and Early Modern Women #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
April 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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New post (1/3) on the “important reasons to reject most commonly discussed uses of AI” for arts and hums.

Scheduled 2nd post is about all the practical things this tech cant do (THINK, KNOW, inspire, summarize, plan, write etc): open to more suggests
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CurAIous? (1) Fundamental Objections to AI
This is the first of three posts about the use of generative AI, playing out the arguments against using it, at all, with very limited exceptions. So: you’ve heard about this new ‘gener…
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January 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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i have seen the theory that Trump is so obsessed with Greenland because he doesn't understand the Mercator projection and i cannot stop laughing. one hundred percent that's what's going on
January 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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2 yr Post-doc, Edinburgh-- Leverhulme-funded, ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law, c.1750-present’. Collaboration betw Prof Chloë Kennedy (Edinburgh), Prof Katie Barclay (Macquarie) and Dr Alice Krzanich (Aberdeen). elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #skystorians 🗃️ #c18th #c19th
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
We are seeking a post-doctoral research fellow to work on a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary project titled ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law’. The project is a collaboration between Prof Chl...
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December 17, 2024 at 5:51 AM
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A #CFP for the southern hemisphere's premier #medieval and #earlymodern studies conference - what more could you want for Christmas?! Hosted in Melbourne from 3-5 Dec 2025, our website is now open for paper and panel proposal with a deadline of 14 Feb.

conference.anzamems....
December 16, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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Chat GPT may yet have its uses, but, speaking as a historian interested in how young people learn about the past, it utterly terrifies me. It is a bespoke garbage howitzer
Well this is grim
December 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Postdoc Opportunity!

The Dept. of History at UT San Antonio, early modern or modern Europe, 2-year appointment.

Seeks expert who builds upon dept. strengths in transnational histories of empire, borderlands, and migration, though all will be considered.

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December 11, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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December 8, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you
- have never published anything
- have no readers
- didn't write anything this month
- didn't write anything this year
- can't articulate words anymore
- can only float and mournfully wail
- were murdered ten years ago on this very spot
December 2, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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In the most direct statement yet that NZ's hard right government is totally opposed to any research that might challenge the social order they support, they have stripped the Humanities & Social Science panels from the largest fund for innovative research in the country.
December 4, 2024 at 1:14 AM