J. Connell Stryker
@jconnellstryker.bsky.social
PhD in History, UT Austin; Pratt Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial University of Newfoundland - Women's Work at Sea, Histories of Maritime, Gender, Labor, Empire, Technology, and the Digital Humanities, etc
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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New archive to follow on Bluesky 🎉
Welcome to Oxfordshire History Centre @oxhistcentre.bsky.social !
Catch up with more UK and Irish archive accounts at bsky.app/profile/did:... - check the 'People' tab to see who's listed or pin for a readymade archive feed 📜📲
Welcome to Oxfordshire History Centre @oxhistcentre.bsky.social !
Catch up with more UK and Irish archive accounts at bsky.app/profile/did:... - check the 'People' tab to see who's listed or pin for a readymade archive feed 📜📲
Hello all, the Oxfordshire History Centre is now on Bluesky!
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
New archive to follow on Bluesky 🎉
Welcome to Oxfordshire History Centre @oxhistcentre.bsky.social !
Catch up with more UK and Irish archive accounts at bsky.app/profile/did:... - check the 'People' tab to see who's listed or pin for a readymade archive feed 📜📲
Welcome to Oxfordshire History Centre @oxhistcentre.bsky.social !
Catch up with more UK and Irish archive accounts at bsky.app/profile/did:... - check the 'People' tab to see who's listed or pin for a readymade archive feed 📜📲
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📢📢📢New book forthcoming in the 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
November 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
📢📢📢New book forthcoming in the 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
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‘All hands on deck: securing the maritime future through diversity’ 👇
A new #report, published by Lloyd's Register Foundation, examines the role of women in #maritime, and the challenges and opportunities they face working in the industry today.
Download 🔗 www.lrfoundation.org.uk/publications...
A new #report, published by Lloyd's Register Foundation, examines the role of women in #maritime, and the challenges and opportunities they face working in the industry today.
Download 🔗 www.lrfoundation.org.uk/publications...
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
‘All hands on deck: securing the maritime future through diversity’ 👇
A new #report, published by Lloyd's Register Foundation, examines the role of women in #maritime, and the challenges and opportunities they face working in the industry today.
Download 🔗 www.lrfoundation.org.uk/publications...
A new #report, published by Lloyd's Register Foundation, examines the role of women in #maritime, and the challenges and opportunities they face working in the industry today.
Download 🔗 www.lrfoundation.org.uk/publications...
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Historian pals: looking for some reading recommendations on post-1945 sex work in England and, particularly, London — both in terms of its actual conduct as well as campaigns against it, including by police. Particularly late 1950s-early 1960s!
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Historian pals: looking for some reading recommendations on post-1945 sex work in England and, particularly, London — both in terms of its actual conduct as well as campaigns against it, including by police. Particularly late 1950s-early 1960s!
I say I stopped watching the news for my mental health but I also stopped watching the news AND reading major newspapers because this is what the news is to them.
Just a bullhorn in the hands of the world's biggest idiots
Just a bullhorn in the hands of the world's biggest idiots
Wait, seriously? Someone who I've never heard of said something stupid on a website I don't use anymore because it's full of people who I've never heard of saying stupid shit?
Wow, thanks for telling me! What an important contribution to the Discourse you've made here.
Wow, thanks for telling me! What an important contribution to the Discourse you've made here.
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I say I stopped watching the news for my mental health but I also stopped watching the news AND reading major newspapers because this is what the news is to them.
Just a bullhorn in the hands of the world's biggest idiots
Just a bullhorn in the hands of the world's biggest idiots
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indeed, for every academic abuser and enabler: i promise there’s an amazing grad student out there who is doing work that’s as good or better.
we’ve let the myth of the lone genius guy carry on too long. it’s caused so much harm, in so many ways.
we’ve let the myth of the lone genius guy carry on too long. it’s caused so much harm, in so many ways.
I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
indeed, for every academic abuser and enabler: i promise there’s an amazing grad student out there who is doing work that’s as good or better.
we’ve let the myth of the lone genius guy carry on too long. it’s caused so much harm, in so many ways.
we’ve let the myth of the lone genius guy carry on too long. it’s caused so much harm, in so many ways.
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We’re up to 38% of last year. Wanna help me get a little closer to last year?
SquidFacts.net
Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight!
Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!
SquidFacts.net
Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight!
Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We’re up to 38% of last year. Wanna help me get a little closer to last year?
SquidFacts.net
Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight!
Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!
SquidFacts.net
Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight!
Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!
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«no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.»
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.»
When it comes to illegal migration, everyone should read this poem that features in 'Good Economics for Hard Times' in which Duflo & Banerjee debunk some of the myths about migration. It's an incredibly powerful poem: www.amnesty.ie/wp-content/u... #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
November 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
«no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.»
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.»
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"... inviting artists, organisations & creative agencies to submit proposals that breathe life into the wood saved from the felled tree. This extraordinary opportunity will see up to 5 artists receive funding to develop their ideas, with 1 final concept selected in early 2026." tinyurl.com/3pamneuv
Creative commission Sycamore Gap
We're inviting artists to submit proposals that will breathe life into the wood saved from the felled Sycamore Gap tree.
tinyurl.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"... inviting artists, organisations & creative agencies to submit proposals that breathe life into the wood saved from the felled tree. This extraordinary opportunity will see up to 5 artists receive funding to develop their ideas, with 1 final concept selected in early 2026." tinyurl.com/3pamneuv
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further awareness of this sort fo resource will (🤞) contribute to the demise of the 'triangle trade' conception #earlymodern #maritimehistory
Dank! So much lighter weight than I thought? I wonder if at least some of this cloth was purposely produced for the Guinea trade (would love to have some sense of the manufacturers) Permit me to observe that this is the most wonderful resource (and works perfectly for the English trade as well)
Check out the entry on perpetuanen - wool cloth traded to Guinea Coast (dutchtextiletrade.org/textiles/per...). Silesian linen. The others I’m not sure about…
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
further awareness of this sort fo resource will (🤞) contribute to the demise of the 'triangle trade' conception #earlymodern #maritimehistory
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Dank! So much lighter weight than I thought? I wonder if at least some of this cloth was purposely produced for the Guinea trade (would love to have some sense of the manufacturers) Permit me to observe that this is the most wonderful resource (and works perfectly for the English trade as well)
Check out the entry on perpetuanen - wool cloth traded to Guinea Coast (dutchtextiletrade.org/textiles/per...). Silesian linen. The others I’m not sure about…
Perpetuanen - Dutch Textile Trade
A serge (twill-woven wool), hot-pressed and durable fabric made in England, Flanders and Holland. Typically dyed in a single color: blue, green, red (scarlet), sometimes purple, yellow, brown. Traded ...
dutchtextiletrade.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Dank! So much lighter weight than I thought? I wonder if at least some of this cloth was purposely produced for the Guinea trade (would love to have some sense of the manufacturers) Permit me to observe that this is the most wonderful resource (and works perfectly for the English trade as well)
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“The Vatican said Saturday the items were given back during the Holy Year, exactly 100 years after the 1925 exhibition where they were first exhibited in Rome as a highlight of that Jubilee.”
Pope Leo returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada
The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture.
www.npr.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“The Vatican said Saturday the items were given back during the Holy Year, exactly 100 years after the 1925 exhibition where they were first exhibited in Rome as a highlight of that Jubilee.”
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Well, this is a first. I was notified by Spotify that Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs is #50 overall on the charts in the USA. Given the vast sea (😉) of podcasts out there, I'll take it! Thank you to all my listeners. I am sincerely grateful.
#podcast #history #maritimehistory
#podcast #history #maritimehistory
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Well, this is a first. I was notified by Spotify that Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs is #50 overall on the charts in the USA. Given the vast sea (😉) of podcasts out there, I'll take it! Thank you to all my listeners. I am sincerely grateful.
#podcast #history #maritimehistory
#podcast #history #maritimehistory
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Resources — including detailed PDF — by Christians for Christians on Christian Nationalism
ONLINE Full page 👉 williamsburgchristianchurch-preview.cloversites.com/on-christian...
PDF Theological & Pastoral statement 👉 indd.adobe.com/view/97ea96f...
ONLINE Full page 👉 williamsburgchristianchurch-preview.cloversites.com/on-christian...
PDF Theological & Pastoral statement 👉 indd.adobe.com/view/97ea96f...
Williamsburg Christian Church | On Christian Nationalism
On Christian Nationalism - On August 17, 2025, The Leadership Of Wcc Presented A Statement To The Congregation On The Heresy Of Christian Nationalism In A Do...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Resources — including detailed PDF — by Christians for Christians on Christian Nationalism
ONLINE Full page 👉 williamsburgchristianchurch-preview.cloversites.com/on-christian...
PDF Theological & Pastoral statement 👉 indd.adobe.com/view/97ea96f...
ONLINE Full page 👉 williamsburgchristianchurch-preview.cloversites.com/on-christian...
PDF Theological & Pastoral statement 👉 indd.adobe.com/view/97ea96f...
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“The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich. If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it.” The climate crisis has collided with an epistemic crisis - a crisis in the production and delivery of knowledge.
-George Monbiot
-George Monbiot
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 12:57 PM
“The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich. If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it.” The climate crisis has collided with an epistemic crisis - a crisis in the production and delivery of knowledge.
-George Monbiot
-George Monbiot
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Read our Maritime Matters newsletter! Featuring @lrfheritage.bsky.social funded scholar Carlos Ausejo,Royal Museums Greenwich, @bradbeaven.bsky.social on the myth of the Chinese opium den, & more. Email pcmc@port.ac.uk to sign up centreforportcitiesandmaritimecultures.createsend1.com/t/y-e-qdijil...
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Read our Maritime Matters newsletter! Featuring @lrfheritage.bsky.social funded scholar Carlos Ausejo,Royal Museums Greenwich, @bradbeaven.bsky.social on the myth of the Chinese opium den, & more. Email pcmc@port.ac.uk to sign up centreforportcitiesandmaritimecultures.createsend1.com/t/y-e-qdijil...
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The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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I am bewildered that this labour of Sisyphus is being carried out by volunteers, while Southern Water, which has admitted responsibility for the catastrophe, is doing nothing to remediate it.
‘We feel we’re fighting a losing battle’: the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands
A huge cleanup effort has seen volunteers working to remove beads by hand and machine. They can only wait and see the extent of damage to wildlife and dune habitat
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I am bewildered that this labour of Sisyphus is being carried out by volunteers, while Southern Water, which has admitted responsibility for the catastrophe, is doing nothing to remediate it.
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UNESCO has launched an impressive Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects - an immersive digital space that brings together over 240 stolen and missing cultural objects in 2D and 3D from 50+ countries — and the voices of the communities they were taken from.
www.linkedin.com/posts/unesco...
www.linkedin.com/posts/unesco...
November 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
UNESCO has launched an impressive Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects - an immersive digital space that brings together over 240 stolen and missing cultural objects in 2D and 3D from 50+ countries — and the voices of the communities they were taken from.
www.linkedin.com/posts/unesco...
www.linkedin.com/posts/unesco...
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Happy Birthday, Robert Fulton! He was born #OnThisDay in 1765. Fulton was an American inventor, engineer, and artist. He brought steamboating from experimentation to commercial success.
Image: Robert Fulton, portrait by Elizabeth Emmet, 1815.
Image: Robert Fulton, portrait by Elizabeth Emmet, 1815.
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Happy Birthday, Robert Fulton! He was born #OnThisDay in 1765. Fulton was an American inventor, engineer, and artist. He brought steamboating from experimentation to commercial success.
Image: Robert Fulton, portrait by Elizabeth Emmet, 1815.
Image: Robert Fulton, portrait by Elizabeth Emmet, 1815.
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