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Daniel Bellingradt
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Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Apr 14
This is how your email finds me.
A man sitting and looking towards the viewer of the engraving. The man leans his arm on a parapet and is surrounded by female personifications of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture as well as a winged angel with fanfare trumpets (Glory), Father Time with his scythe and the skeletal figure of Death clutching an arrow; a putti holds aloft a wreath and carries a palm. The image is part of a larger engraving, made around 1600, and nowadays at the BM 58490001 (Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/58490001 ).
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nevillemorley.bsky.social
Higher education has been in crisis since students stopped wearing hats.
dbellingradt.bsky.social Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1h
Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
The image of 1612 shows an academic scene of early modern Europe: a lecture hall with a professor on a professorial chair at the upper centre, a large groups of students present. This is one from a series of eighteen plates by the workshop of Crispijn van de Passe, depicting scenes of academic life, more here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1972-0722-6-3
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
The image of 1612 shows an academic scene of early modern Europe: a lecture hall with a professor on a professorial chair at the upper centre, a large groups of students present. This is one from a series of eighteen plates by the workshop of Crispijn van de Passe, depicting scenes of academic life, more here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1972-0722-6-3
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
For now, I will occasionally pop up, post a thing or two and enjoy reading your posts, but mainly will stay quiet and think about my (academic) future.
dbellingradt.bsky.social Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 7d
I am shutting down for a while, blue skies, contemplating my job decisions in current academia. Take care.
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
Just two lads from 1675 on a broadside ballad, holding sticks with flags, providing space for social media text inserts, and a comment on the difference between 'history' and 'historiography'. #skystorians for the win.
A detail from a broadside ballad of 1675 showing two men singing to each other, and holding each a stick that forms a text bubble out of a flag at the end of the stick. One flag features "history" and the other "historiography". The detail is taken from this print: Lawrence White, All things be dear but poor Mens Labour; Or, the sad Complaint of Poor People (1675). Bodleian Ballads Online, Wood E 25(119). Roud no.V8906
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
Just two lads from 1675 on a broadside ballad, holding sticks with flags, providing space for social media text inserts, and a comment on how broken current academia is.
A detail from a broadside ballad of 1675 showing two men singing to each other, and holding each a stick that forms a text bubble out of a flag at the end of the stick. The detail is taken from this print: Lawrence White, All things be dear but poor Mens Labour; Or, the sad Complaint of Poor People (1675). Bodleian Ballads Online, Wood E 25(119). Roud no.V8906
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
I am shutting down for a while, blue skies, contemplating my job decisions in current academia. Take care.
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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themedievaldrk.bsky.social
There is a weird Protestantism that hangs about contemporary academia. We have festschrifts for retirees but absolutely no customs to manage losing SO MANY from our communities before we reach that point.
There is no churching when contracts are renewed, no Placebos when careers are lost.
November 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
what a week. 2 more job rejections on my already a decade covering list of failed applications to stay within academia. the time to say goodbye is in sight.
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
what a week. 2 more job rejections on my already a decade covering list of failed applications to stay within academia. the time to say goodbye is in sight.
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
A timeline cleanse. Just images of pages of digitized old books that went wrong...
Oops-a-daisy! What a nonsense happened here? The poor book.
October 31, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
I am celebrating #ReformationDay with this sticker I spotted recently in the lovely city of Heidelberg.
A sticker with Luther saying I am sorry.
October 31, 2024 at 10:53 AM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
About the order of authors in academic publications ...
A well dressed woman playes the organ, likely in the seventeenth century, and someone behind the organ - hidden almost - is helping along by providing the air for the instrument. The image is from: Alter und Neuer Music- Gespenst- und Lieder-Calender (1679), source: http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/ne-kapsel-7-7/start.htm
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
An old post from late in my Twitter days. I'm going to have to update this in some fashion for the post-generative AI context, but in that context I think something like it remains important -- perhaps is even more so. I do not think these are skills that should be outsourced, even if they could be
Reading advice for young historians
This is a sheet of reading tips I’ve developed over the past few years for my first-year students in history. I posted it on Twitter yesterday, as a png image and a tweet thread, and it got q…
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October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
A urine-doctor, holding a urine bottle, examining the urine, just like every #earlymodern urinoscopist would do. For reasons. #histmed
October 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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rhiggitt.bsky.social
For another spotty-breeched Academic Macaroni by W. Hutchinson, lamenting the cutting off of his queue (pigtail) ready to take holy orders, see www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
dbellingradt.bsky.social Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 12d
Consider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter
A 1773 brush drawing in grey wash, with pen and grey ink showing "The Academic Mac"; a man standing, wearing a hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, a spotted suit and checked tights. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1865-1014-459
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
Consider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter
A 1773 brush drawing in grey wash, with pen and grey ink showing "The Academic Mac"; a man standing, wearing a hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, a spotted suit and checked tights. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1865-1014-459
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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heavyredaction.bsky.social
New preprint alert! 🚨

“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln Abstract This article examines the expansion of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) into higher education. We argue that genAI’s incursion into university systems represents an effort by Silicon Valley to capture lucrative new markets for their products, as well as enhanced credibility by association. Drawing on our experience as faculty in the California State University (CSU) system—the first university system to contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu system-wide—we assess the rhetoric that justifies and legitimizes genAI contracts in higher education. We suggest that the uncritical adoption of genAI in higher education poses problems for labor conditions, the integrity of intellectual property, and student learning on campuses, particularly under the conditions of austerity that are commonly found in public universities.
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
“What do you think of AI?”

“One of the best guards ever to play in the NBA. Allen Iverson is a legend.”
October 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
Historians and humanities folks have switched to the blue skies long ago, at least this is my impression. #eXit was a good thing.
October 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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porticolibrary.bsky.social
🧵 Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into lovingly repairing historic books from The Portico's 19th-century collection...
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Schools in Europe were social spaces of learning and teaching, and above all, schools were a paper world: contact zones for pupils with papers of all sorts. Let's have a look at this 1670 painting by Jan Steen. A thread for #PaperHistory and #BookHistory #earlymodern #skystorians #BlueLZ

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A painting from 1670 by Jan Steen titled "A school for boys and girls". You see a crowded room full of pupils paying, learning, reading, and lots of papers present.
September 16, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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donauschwalbe.bsky.social
Der Großteil hier dürfte noch nie ~richtig~ ein Buch aufgeschlagen haben: Uralte Bücher haben oft Scharniere, Klappen & Schlösser. Ist das Schloss weg, schlug man mit der Faust auf die Klappen & der Verschluss sprang auf. Voilà – das Buch ist aufgeschlagen!
youtu.be/foh_TNfVWDc?...
October 29, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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ivanhoe76.bsky.social
Rituale. Schlüssel zur Welt hinter der Keilschrift tinyurl.com/2cwm8w49 #freeaccess
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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kitmarlowe1564.co.uk
Eye glasses were the essential fashion accessorie whether thou passt the day poring o'er vseless bookes or striking a bargain with Mephistopheles!
#HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast
Woodcut: "Of Useless Books" from Stultifera Navis (Ship of Fools - Basel, 1498), Jacob Locher's Latin edition and translation of Sebastian Brant's original Das Narrenschiff (Basel, 1494) [University of Houston Digital Collections] Poster: Richard Burton as Doctor Faustus (1967) wearing eye glasses and a skull pressed to his ear. Image: A lobby card for the 1967 film Doctor Faustus starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Durden.
October 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM