Jane Tynan
@janeym.bsky.social
Cultural historian - 20th C design & material culture | researching textile ecologies & the recent history of waterproof clothing | Design Cultures @VU Amsterdam | immigrant | 🇮🇪 in 🇳🇱
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Jane Tynan
@janeym.bsky.social
· Oct 16
Look out for my book #TrenchCoat tells stories of stoicism and survival. Detectives, writers, reporters, anarchists, intellectuals & fashionistas belt up to face an unforgiving world. #design #war #filmnoir #fashion #military #water #proof
www.bloomsbury.com/us/trench-co...
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"An epistemic crisis is a crisis in the production and delivery of knowledge...We face, alongside a global threat to our life-support systems, a global threat to our knowledge-support systems." George Monbiot in The Guardian
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"An epistemic crisis is a crisis in the production and delivery of knowledge...We face, alongside a global threat to our life-support systems, a global threat to our knowledge-support systems." George Monbiot in The Guardian
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Only an institution in irreparable, terminal decline can think that Wes Streeting might be a solution to its problems. Real death cult stuff now.
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Only an institution in irreparable, terminal decline can think that Wes Streeting might be a solution to its problems. Real death cult stuff now.
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1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️
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The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
Trench-coated anarchist Quico Sabaté in 1955. What a great image! 🧥
Famous image of anarchist anti-Francoist guerilla Quico Sabaté firing a mortar loaded with propaganda leaflets over Barcelona in 1955.
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Trench-coated anarchist Quico Sabaté in 1955. What a great image! 🧥
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Could you be our new Student Ambassador? If you have a strong interest in the history of design or related fields and a commitment to equal opportunities and inclusive practices we want to hear from you! To find out more visit our website: buff.ly/JCbTcey
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Could you be our new Student Ambassador? If you have a strong interest in the history of design or related fields and a commitment to equal opportunities and inclusive practices we want to hear from you! To find out more visit our website: buff.ly/JCbTcey
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🎃 Happy Halloween!
Take a look at this chilling illustration by Harry Clarke, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum.
The story focuses on the effects of pure psychological terror, captured in Clarke’s tense composition around the titular pit.
#CrawfordArtGallery #SpookySeason
Take a look at this chilling illustration by Harry Clarke, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum.
The story focuses on the effects of pure psychological terror, captured in Clarke’s tense composition around the titular pit.
#CrawfordArtGallery #SpookySeason
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🎃 Happy Halloween!
Take a look at this chilling illustration by Harry Clarke, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum.
The story focuses on the effects of pure psychological terror, captured in Clarke’s tense composition around the titular pit.
#CrawfordArtGallery #SpookySeason
Take a look at this chilling illustration by Harry Clarke, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum.
The story focuses on the effects of pure psychological terror, captured in Clarke’s tense composition around the titular pit.
#CrawfordArtGallery #SpookySeason
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Through their efforts, AI boosters are re-configuring and diminish how people understand the human, human flourishing, our capacities and potential, and why we bother being alive at all.
"By deciding what robots are for, we are defining what humans are." Excerpt from my HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY:
"By deciding what robots are for, we are defining what humans are." Excerpt from my HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY:
We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI
Machines It’s 2019. I’m in a bar in Providence, Rhode Island, chatting with graduate students and researchers with PhDs. One of them, who holds a PhD in Latin American literature, observed approvin…
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June 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Through their efforts, AI boosters are re-configuring and diminish how people understand the human, human flourishing, our capacities and potential, and why we bother being alive at all.
"By deciding what robots are for, we are defining what humans are." Excerpt from my HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY:
"By deciding what robots are for, we are defining what humans are." Excerpt from my HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY:
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Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale, West Berlin, 1984
(Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)
(Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)
October 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale, West Berlin, 1984
(Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)
(Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)
Busy day with MA Design Cultures students at #DutchDesignWeek in Eindhoven. Ended the day with United Cowboys a live art space with performances and installations.
October 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Busy day with MA Design Cultures students at #DutchDesignWeek in Eindhoven. Ended the day with United Cowboys a live art space with performances and installations.
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PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”
(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
October 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”
(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
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I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
September 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
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Auntie Zelda stung by jellyfish and shed her skin.
October 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Auntie Zelda stung by jellyfish and shed her skin.
Protesters formed a 250,000 strong #rodelijn around the Vondelpark today marching in solidarity with the Gazan people. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
October 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Protesters formed a 250,000 strong #rodelijn around the Vondelpark today marching in solidarity with the Gazan people. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Meer dan 250 Dolle Mina's uit het hele land sloten zich vandaag aan bij het Minablok bij de rode lijn demonstratie in Amsterdam vandaag. Feminists against Genocide! ✊🏼
October 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Meer dan 250 Dolle Mina's uit het hele land sloten zich vandaag aan bij het Minablok bij de rode lijn demonstratie in Amsterdam vandaag. Feminists against Genocide! ✊🏼
Free Greta Thunberg & all flotilla members
As news comes out that Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other flotilla members are being tortured in Israeli 'prisons'.
I ask you.
Do you stand with Greta Thunberg?
Spread the message Free Greta Thunberg if you do.
I ask you.
Do you stand with Greta Thunberg?
Spread the message Free Greta Thunberg if you do.
October 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Free Greta Thunberg & all flotilla members
Sad to hear of Manchán Magan's passing. This time last year we were witnessing my father's decline. An old hippie found hope in Magan's books and documentaries, his creative approach to environmental justice and living a good life.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
Manchán Magan: Writer and documentary maker dies aged 55
Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair
www.irishtimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Sad to hear of Manchán Magan's passing. This time last year we were witnessing my father's decline. An old hippie found hope in Magan's books and documentaries, his creative approach to environmental justice and living a good life.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
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At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....
Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Science
The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for one and possibly two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science w...
werkenbij.uva.nl
September 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....
Made a visit to V&A East. A depot full of designed things open to the public. A strange absence of narrative but maybe that’s the point. Think I’ll book in next time to see some objects up close.
September 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Made a visit to V&A East. A depot full of designed things open to the public. A strange absence of narrative but maybe that’s the point. Think I’ll book in next time to see some objects up close.
Back in Hackney Wick yesterday for the first time in ages. #EastLondon #Hackney
September 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Back in Hackney Wick yesterday for the first time in ages. #EastLondon #Hackney
We're seeking a PhD researcher interested in outdoor gear and how people dress for the weather. ☔ 🧥 This 4-year student position based at VU Amsterdam is part of the NWO-funded project 'Synthetic Adventures' supervised by me! #fashion#outdoors#weather#sustainability
#waterproof Apply here:
#waterproof Apply here:
Vacancy — PhD position in Design Cultures
Are you interested in the impact of synthetic textiles on the environment? Do you want to interview people about what clothing means to them? You will connect with people and discover how dressing for...
workingat.vu.nl
September 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We're seeking a PhD researcher interested in outdoor gear and how people dress for the weather. ☔ 🧥 This 4-year student position based at VU Amsterdam is part of the NWO-funded project 'Synthetic Adventures' supervised by me! #fashion#outdoors#weather#sustainability
#waterproof Apply here:
#waterproof Apply here:
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all my online time is spent on pants, so im only given to pants extremism
What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart
September 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
all my online time is spent on pants, so im only given to pants extremism
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Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
September 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should