Kyna Bullard (she/her)
@kynabullard.bsky.social
History PhD Student at CU Boulder || Currently focusing on Early Modern Medicine, Midwifery, and Trial Testimony in the Iberian Peninsula || I’m just here because I miss Academic Twitter
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TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
Hamilton_Book award - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
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"The two listed here are the clearest examples of women reporting such crimes, but they are by no means the only ones..."
theconversation.com/written-acco...
theconversation.com/written-acco...
Written accounts reveal how sexual assault claims were dealt with in the middle ages
Written medieval records clearly show that women publicly and successfully reported men to the local authorities for sexual assault.
theconversation.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"The two listed here are the clearest examples of women reporting such crimes, but they are by no means the only ones..."
theconversation.com/written-acco...
theconversation.com/written-acco...
I, for one, look forward to 2 am shredded cheese fistful in the all revealing light of day.
We should keep daylight savings time but it goes back an hour every time
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I, for one, look forward to 2 am shredded cheese fistful in the all revealing light of day.
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Marie Antoinette [who was born #otd, Nov 2] in a Muslin Dress, 1783, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842). Held by Schloss Wolfsgarten; image found at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... #womenartists #artherstory
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Marie Antoinette [who was born #otd, Nov 2] in a Muslin Dress, 1783, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842). Held by Schloss Wolfsgarten; image found at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... #womenartists #artherstory
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A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt
October 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt
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🕵️♀️🦬 Mystery solved! Our missing 650-pound Museum bison has returned after 50 years. Learn about its journey back to the Museum in #Catalyst. https://dmns.mobi/47bCc43
October 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
🕵️♀️🦬 Mystery solved! Our missing 650-pound Museum bison has returned after 50 years. Learn about its journey back to the Museum in #Catalyst. https://dmns.mobi/47bCc43
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People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
Fundamentally, the headbanging Right doesn't believe Autism (or ADHD) exists. Or in so far as it does exist, a human conspiracy has created it.
We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'
'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.
We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'
'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
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"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people."
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
www.motherjones.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people."
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Bird place-name of the day 90: HARLOW HILL (Northumbs). OE higera + hlaw. ‘Magpie or jay hill’. www.birdsandplace.co.uk/jay-1 #birdandplace #naturewriting
September 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Bird place-name of the day 90: HARLOW HILL (Northumbs). OE higera + hlaw. ‘Magpie or jay hill’. www.birdsandplace.co.uk/jay-1 #birdandplace #naturewriting
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Took out the clarinet after a 3-month break and boy, does it hate me now! I'm being mercilessly shamed by a 2-lb piece of grenadilla.
August 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Took out the clarinet after a 3-month break and boy, does it hate me now! I'm being mercilessly shamed by a 2-lb piece of grenadilla.
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This week @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social argues that in a post Roe vs Wade world “Women who lose pregnancies, even before viability, are targeted in ways that strongly resemble early modern infanticide investigations.” nursingclio.org/2025/08/20/m...
Miscarriage is a Crime Again
In 1650, a young, single English servant named Anne Greene miscarried into the privy and did not tell anyone. We know her story because she was arrested for infanticide, convicted despite exonerati…
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August 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This week @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social argues that in a post Roe vs Wade world “Women who lose pregnancies, even before viability, are targeted in ways that strongly resemble early modern infanticide investigations.” nursingclio.org/2025/08/20/m...
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Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain
August 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain
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Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland: Arthur’s Seat Coffins
#history
www.discoverbritain.com/heritage/myt...
#history
www.discoverbritain.com/heritage/myt...
August 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland: Arthur’s Seat Coffins
#history
www.discoverbritain.com/heritage/myt...
#history
www.discoverbritain.com/heritage/myt...
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'The 3 Graces' on the River Adur' stained glass and driftwood sculptures by UK artist Louise V Durham #WomensArt
August 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
'The 3 Graces' on the River Adur' stained glass and driftwood sculptures by UK artist Louise V Durham #WomensArt
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Today for NC, Katherine McKenna explores how Jill Burke’s monograph HOW TO BE A RENAISSANCE WOMAN reveals centuries of cosmetic labour, resistance, and knowledge-sharing among women—from Venetian piazzas to 2025 mirrors. #beautyculture #historyofscience nursingclio.org/2025/08/13/b...
Beauty, Knowledge, Patriarchy, Power
Somewhere in Missouri, Spring 2025: It’s morning, and I’m rushing to pack a stack of books, notes, and binders into my stylishly tiny and oh-so-impractical backpack and get to class. Before braving…
nursingclio.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Today for NC, Katherine McKenna explores how Jill Burke’s monograph HOW TO BE A RENAISSANCE WOMAN reveals centuries of cosmetic labour, resistance, and knowledge-sharing among women—from Venetian piazzas to 2025 mirrors. #beautyculture #historyofscience nursingclio.org/2025/08/13/b...
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AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel appeared on @wbur.org's Here & Now today to speak about the sweeping review of the Smithsonian ordered by President Trump. 🗃️
What one historian says White House vetting of Smithsonian means for U.S. cultural institutions
The White House said it wants to ensure the museums show the "unity, progress and enduring values that define the American story."
www.wbur.org
August 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel appeared on @wbur.org's Here & Now today to speak about the sweeping review of the Smithsonian ordered by President Trump. 🗃️
I watched a preteen girl at the book shop pick up The Hunger Games and Watership Down. I wish that girl a very lifechanging week of reading.
August 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I watched a preteen girl at the book shop pick up The Hunger Games and Watership Down. I wish that girl a very lifechanging week of reading.
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Today on @nursingclio.bsky.social, I share an account of falling ill and dying before germ theory and modern medicine. This #histmed is a peek into my current project, and an experience that I want everything thinking about health to know.
nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...
nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...
Dying Before Germ Theory
As RFK questions germ theory, and measles ravages unvaccinated children, Americans need to know what is at risk. Americans died at higher rates and younger ages before the introduction of germ theo…
nursingclio.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Today on @nursingclio.bsky.social, I share an account of falling ill and dying before germ theory and modern medicine. This #histmed is a peek into my current project, and an experience that I want everything thinking about health to know.
nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...
nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...
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Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas, 1938 by photographer Dorothea Lange #womensart
July 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas, 1938 by photographer Dorothea Lange #womensart
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Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans
Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise
Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise
It looks like Indiana Jones might actually be headed for the reboot treatment. According to a recent report from DisInsider , Disney and Lucasfilm are considering a full relaunch of the iconic adventure...
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July 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans
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Italian health pass enabling bearer to pass despite quarantines due to plague, 1722. The word quarantine was derived from the Italian words quaranta giorni, meaning 40 days - the number of days a ship coming from an infected port had to sit at anchor before entering Venice.
July 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Italian health pass enabling bearer to pass despite quarantines due to plague, 1722. The word quarantine was derived from the Italian words quaranta giorni, meaning 40 days - the number of days a ship coming from an infected port had to sit at anchor before entering Venice.
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Llangelynnin Old Church has watched over Cardigan Bay from the coastal cliffs of Gwynedd since the 13th century — quiet, weathered and somehow timeless.
June 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Llangelynnin Old Church has watched over Cardigan Bay from the coastal cliffs of Gwynedd since the 13th century — quiet, weathered and somehow timeless.