That’s a wrap for my first AusSTS conference @aussts.bsky.social! Talked about COVID conspiracy theories in the Philippines—always fun!—and moving beyond thinking about them as mere ‘unscientific noise’. Naarm has been swell, but this weather is something else.

#AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises

Had a swell time at HOMSEA ‘25. Might just be my favorite conference yet—so much fascinating work from the historians of medicine. Of course, a trip to Yogyakarta would be incomplete without side quests to Borobudur (a bucket-list site for me since grade school) and Prambanan.

#histmed #histstm

Crossed ~the~ bridge. (during the afternoon of the massive police operation no less.)

Ok this was all sorts of brilliant.

My MA thesis won a thing! Thanks to the Association of Southeast Asian Studies (ASEAS), the UK-based group, though it appears they’re not on bluesky yet?

Climbed a mountain!

Category is a Filipino writer you’d recommend to someone looking to read Filipino writers.

Hands down my best read of 2024.

Tokyo two weeks ago. JRR Tolkien could never.

Finished a book! (that has almost nothing to do with my phd topic, but i digress)

Finally gave in; hello, blue app. Chartres was a dream last summer.