E.L. Meszaros
@iastranger.bsky.social
Ph.D. in the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity from Brown University (2025). Algorithms, astronomy, mathematics, circus, cats, spiders.
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Apply! Astronomy! The Adler!
At The Newberry!
The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds: mailchi.mp/1222ede5b9c6...
At The Newberry!
The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds: mailchi.mp/1222ede5b9c6...
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Apply! Astronomy! The Adler!
At The Newberry!
The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds: mailchi.mp/1222ede5b9c6...
At The Newberry!
The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds: mailchi.mp/1222ede5b9c6...
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Does anyone want beautiful historical depictions of celestial phenomena? Anyone? Well, here you go publicdomainreview.org/collection/f...
Flowers of the Sky
Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium — in chronological order — of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars.
publicdomainreview.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Does anyone want beautiful historical depictions of celestial phenomena? Anyone? Well, here you go publicdomainreview.org/collection/f...
the ghost sequences is so good!!
It's October! Hurrah!
I've specially curated 5 of our spookier titles, and discounted the eBooks to just $2. Grab a couple, or all 5 for $10. It's your choice.
@seanbirnie.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
I've specially curated 5 of our spookier titles, and discounted the eBooks to just $2. Grab a couple, or all 5 for $10. It's your choice.
@seanbirnie.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
October 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
the ghost sequences is so good!!
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It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.
Gap in your syllabus? Need a talking break? Looking for something novel to do, with activities? Tag me in!!
Need someone to cover a lecture for you this fall? Let me talk about:
✅ Mesopotamia
✅ Astronomy
✅ Mathematics in history
✅ History of science
✅ Archaeogaming
I have references and student evaluations! I have things to say! I have activities and lectures oh my! And good Internet and a headset.
✅ Mesopotamia
✅ Astronomy
✅ Mathematics in history
✅ History of science
✅ Archaeogaming
I have references and student evaluations! I have things to say! I have activities and lectures oh my! And good Internet and a headset.
September 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Gap in your syllabus? Need a talking break? Looking for something novel to do, with activities? Tag me in!!
been out of the game so long I had to search how to add a footnote in a google doc (it's in a submenu now? why haven't i internalized the keyboard shortcut yet?)
September 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
been out of the game so long I had to search how to add a footnote in a google doc (it's in a submenu now? why haven't i internalized the keyboard shortcut yet?)
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Need someone to cover a lecture for you this fall? Let me talk about:
✅ Mesopotamia
✅ Astronomy
✅ Mathematics in history
✅ History of science
✅ Archaeogaming
I have references and student evaluations! I have things to say! I have activities and lectures oh my! And good Internet and a headset.
✅ Mesopotamia
✅ Astronomy
✅ Mathematics in history
✅ History of science
✅ Archaeogaming
I have references and student evaluations! I have things to say! I have activities and lectures oh my! And good Internet and a headset.
September 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Need someone to cover a lecture for you this fall? Let me talk about:
✅ Mesopotamia
✅ Astronomy
✅ Mathematics in history
✅ History of science
✅ Archaeogaming
I have references and student evaluations! I have things to say! I have activities and lectures oh my! And good Internet and a headset.
✅ Mesopotamia
✅ Astronomy
✅ Mathematics in history
✅ History of science
✅ Archaeogaming
I have references and student evaluations! I have things to say! I have activities and lectures oh my! And good Internet and a headset.
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Hi!
I have a PhD and can research and write for academic audiences!
I have professionally worked for websites and can edit and write for general audiences!
I have a 1.5 year old son and have reason to stay loyal and keep healthcare!
I am a quick study and need work!
Hire me??
I have a PhD and can research and write for academic audiences!
I have professionally worked for websites and can edit and write for general audiences!
I have a 1.5 year old son and have reason to stay loyal and keep healthcare!
I am a quick study and need work!
Hire me??
August 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Hi!
I have a PhD and can research and write for academic audiences!
I have professionally worked for websites and can edit and write for general audiences!
I have a 1.5 year old son and have reason to stay loyal and keep healthcare!
I am a quick study and need work!
Hire me??
I have a PhD and can research and write for academic audiences!
I have professionally worked for websites and can edit and write for general audiences!
I have a 1.5 year old son and have reason to stay loyal and keep healthcare!
I am a quick study and need work!
Hire me??
Need someone to cover a lecture for you this fall? Let me talk about:
✅ Mesopotamia
✅ Astronomy
✅ Mathematics in history
✅ History of science
✅ Archaeogaming
I have references and student evaluations! I have things to say! I have activities and lectures oh my! And good Internet and a headset.
✅ Mesopotamia
✅ Astronomy
✅ Mathematics in history
✅ History of science
✅ Archaeogaming
I have references and student evaluations! I have things to say! I have activities and lectures oh my! And good Internet and a headset.
September 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Need someone to cover a lecture for you this fall? Let me talk about:
✅ Mesopotamia
✅ Astronomy
✅ Mathematics in history
✅ History of science
✅ Archaeogaming
I have references and student evaluations! I have things to say! I have activities and lectures oh my! And good Internet and a headset.
✅ Mesopotamia
✅ Astronomy
✅ Mathematics in history
✅ History of science
✅ Archaeogaming
I have references and student evaluations! I have things to say! I have activities and lectures oh my! And good Internet and a headset.
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#CallforApplications 📣
The GHIL awards a number of #scholarships to #postgraduate students, Habilitanden and #postdocs at German universities to enable them to carry out research in Britain. Scholarships are generally awarded for a period of up to three months. 📜
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The GHIL awards a number of #scholarships to #postgraduate students, Habilitanden and #postdocs at German universities to enable them to carry out research in Britain. Scholarships are generally awarded for a period of up to three months. 📜
1/3
September 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#CallforApplications 📣
The GHIL awards a number of #scholarships to #postgraduate students, Habilitanden and #postdocs at German universities to enable them to carry out research in Britain. Scholarships are generally awarded for a period of up to three months. 📜
1/3
The GHIL awards a number of #scholarships to #postgraduate students, Habilitanden and #postdocs at German universities to enable them to carry out research in Britain. Scholarships are generally awarded for a period of up to three months. 📜
1/3
Hi!
I have a PhD and can research and write for academic audiences!
I have professionally worked for websites and can edit and write for general audiences!
I have a 1.5 year old son and have reason to stay loyal and keep healthcare!
I am a quick study and need work!
Hire me??
I have a PhD and can research and write for academic audiences!
I have professionally worked for websites and can edit and write for general audiences!
I have a 1.5 year old son and have reason to stay loyal and keep healthcare!
I am a quick study and need work!
Hire me??
August 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Hi!
I have a PhD and can research and write for academic audiences!
I have professionally worked for websites and can edit and write for general audiences!
I have a 1.5 year old son and have reason to stay loyal and keep healthcare!
I am a quick study and need work!
Hire me??
I have a PhD and can research and write for academic audiences!
I have professionally worked for websites and can edit and write for general audiences!
I have a 1.5 year old son and have reason to stay loyal and keep healthcare!
I am a quick study and need work!
Hire me??
My mom's upset because I enrolled my 16-month-old son in a Mandarin immersion daycare, so that's my vibe today: disappointing daughter
August 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
My mom's upset because I enrolled my 16-month-old son in a Mandarin immersion daycare, so that's my vibe today: disappointing daughter
Remy picked up his first Neugebauer yesterday (Mathematical Cuneiform Texts, natch)
August 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Remy picked up his first Neugebauer yesterday (Mathematical Cuneiform Texts, natch)
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We've gotten a ton of fascinating submissions so far from people who research the past outside of the discipline of history, but we're looking for more! Share widely to help us get this project off the ground.
Face/Off
Lots of scholars from different disciplines study and write about things that happened in the past. So what, if anything, makes history a separate and coherent discipline? While Contingent is a histor...
contingentmagazine.org
July 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
We've gotten a ton of fascinating submissions so far from people who research the past outside of the discipline of history, but we're looking for more! Share widely to help us get this project off the ground.
PSA: get your talented and creative friends to make art for your dissertation (... and pay them!) so that when you're sick of your topic and can't read your own writing ever again you still have something that excites you!!
Collage for @iastranger.bsky.social's dissertation!
This was a lot of fun to do! Thanks, EL!
I still have a ton of collage material I'm trying to use up if you're in the market for something!
This was a lot of fun to do! Thanks, EL!
I still have a ton of collage material I'm trying to use up if you're in the market for something!
July 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
PSA: get your talented and creative friends to make art for your dissertation (... and pay them!) so that when you're sick of your topic and can't read your own writing ever again you still have something that excites you!!
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We're pairing up contingent historians with contingent scholars in other fields for a face off! Click through to learn more and let us know if you want to participate.
Face/Off
Lots of scholars from different disciplines study and write about things that happened in the past. So what, if anything, makes history a separate and coherent discipline? While Contingent is a histor...
contingentmagazine.org
July 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We're pairing up contingent historians with contingent scholars in other fields for a face off! Click through to learn more and let us know if you want to participate.
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📖 Alert : my book "Underground Mathematics" seems to now be available in paperback 🎉 So if you've always been to learn everything about the geometry of mining, mathematical practitioners, their customs and instruments, you can now do that at an almost reasonable price 😋 ... doi.org/10.1017/9781...
June 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
📖 Alert : my book "Underground Mathematics" seems to now be available in paperback 🎉 So if you've always been to learn everything about the geometry of mining, mathematical practitioners, their customs and instruments, you can now do that at an almost reasonable price 😋 ... doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Public presentation of my dissertation is July 10 @ 11:00 a.m. on zoom! Come listen if you wanna hear what I've been up to or ask me difficult questions to prepare me for my defense.
brown.zoom.us/j/91231155478
(but lmk if you're coming so I can give the department admin a heads up)
brown.zoom.us/j/91231155478
(but lmk if you're coming so I can give the department admin a heads up)
June 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Public presentation of my dissertation is July 10 @ 11:00 a.m. on zoom! Come listen if you wanna hear what I've been up to or ask me difficult questions to prepare me for my defense.
brown.zoom.us/j/91231155478
(but lmk if you're coming so I can give the department admin a heads up)
brown.zoom.us/j/91231155478
(but lmk if you're coming so I can give the department admin a heads up)
browsing itch.io for games to play with my archaeogaming class, and all this gm-less storytelling ttrpg shit is exactly my vibe. game designers are really out there just laying my goddam heart bare for all to see.
worldchampgameco.itch.io/press-play
speakthesky.itch.io/this-person-...
worldchampgameco.itch.io/press-play
speakthesky.itch.io/this-person-...
To Care Is To Cairn by Kai Medina
An Artifact Worldbuilding TTRPG
kaimedina.itch.io
June 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
browsing itch.io for games to play with my archaeogaming class, and all this gm-less storytelling ttrpg shit is exactly my vibe. game designers are really out there just laying my goddam heart bare for all to see.
worldchampgameco.itch.io/press-play
speakthesky.itch.io/this-person-...
worldchampgameco.itch.io/press-play
speakthesky.itch.io/this-person-...
I am supposed to travel to Brussels tomorrow, and my passport expires also tomorrow.
Is there anything I can do, or have I doomed myself with poor planning this time?
Is there anything I can do, or have I doomed myself with poor planning this time?
June 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I am supposed to travel to Brussels tomorrow, and my passport expires also tomorrow.
Is there anything I can do, or have I doomed myself with poor planning this time?
Is there anything I can do, or have I doomed myself with poor planning this time?
It was SUCH a joy to be able to play test this -- watch if you can!!
Tonight's Moderation Team:
@circlehunter.withinhubris.com
Forest
@paddington.bsky.social
@raccydaddy.bsky.social
@sirenwillows.bsky.social
@tromboneknuckles.bsky.social
Our TTRPG Playtesters:
Paul Landis
@iastranger.bsky.social
@obsessionist.bsky.social
@justjesscaa.bsky.social
@circlehunter.withinhubris.com
Forest
@paddington.bsky.social
@raccydaddy.bsky.social
@sirenwillows.bsky.social
@tromboneknuckles.bsky.social
Our TTRPG Playtesters:
Paul Landis
@iastranger.bsky.social
@obsessionist.bsky.social
@justjesscaa.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It was SUCH a joy to be able to play test this -- watch if you can!!
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Attention grad students: The deadline for proposals for the JHI's 2025 Graduate Student Symposium has been extended to June 16. There's still time! See here for more information:
JHI Graduate Student Symposium, 2025: “Between the Text and Material History,” Call for Proposals
Now accepting proposals for the JHI Graduate Student Symposium.
web.sas.upenn.edu
June 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Attention grad students: The deadline for proposals for the JHI's 2025 Graduate Student Symposium has been extended to June 16. There's still time! See here for more information:
Check out some some unique Roman numerals! And remember that orthography is never static
Getting closer to my Sooper Seekrit vacation project. Meanwhile, check out this date from Aachen cathedral: 1635= (|).|).XXXIIIIIX.The (|) for M and |) for D are archaic but not really weird. But this is the only example I know of IIIIIX for 5 instead of the usual V. I have theories. Your thoughts?
June 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Check out some some unique Roman numerals! And remember that orthography is never static
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Call for Papers - AAHPSSS Conference 2025
The 2025 AAHPSSS conference will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Queensland from Wednesday 3rd December to Friday 5th December.
Further details, including on submissions, can be found on our website:
aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...
The 2025 AAHPSSS conference will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Queensland from Wednesday 3rd December to Friday 5th December.
Further details, including on submissions, can be found on our website:
aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...
2025 Conference
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 conference of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) will be held in a hybrid format at the Univer…
aahpsss.net.au
June 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Call for Papers - AAHPSSS Conference 2025
The 2025 AAHPSSS conference will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Queensland from Wednesday 3rd December to Friday 5th December.
Further details, including on submissions, can be found on our website:
aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...
The 2025 AAHPSSS conference will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Queensland from Wednesday 3rd December to Friday 5th December.
Further details, including on submissions, can be found on our website:
aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...