I actually think if I never had to think or see the word content in a social media sense I would be free

Can anyone out there recommend a good article for students on how to annotate readings?

Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?

I can feel number 3 on the horizon i fear

Devyn Gwynne@devyngwynne.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nothing like a 2/2 rejection streak to put you in the mindset for drafting grants

We are delighted to share our call for papers for Michaelmas 2026. Please get in touch if you would like the plain text version!

trying to write something for a public near general audience and let me tell you, I'm as comfortable writing this as I am a gun to my head. Popular audiences like the general tone of some nerd going "well, actually" to some fun relevant thing trending in pop culture right?

Excited to see my forthcoming book (PhD dissertation) on @routledgebooks.bsky.social: Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade. The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700). It will be published in December 2026. www.routledge.com/Silver-Spice...

Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade: The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700)

Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade: The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700) explains how Amsterdam entrepreneurs, specifically the Coymans family, built prof...

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If you want to earn a PhD with a study of the medieval readers of the earliest MSS of Aristotle's De anima in Latin, only two days left to apply!

Pieter Beullens@pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 4w ago

We are hiring a PhD-student! #Philosophysky #Medievalsky #philjob www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

New science fiction franchise that's just a school of Arts & Sciences that is fully staffed

Seems kinda irresponsible to start another week like right after that last one. Borderline reckless.

Nothing like a 2/2 rejection streak to put you in the mindset for drafting grants

Most of us wouldn’t make it through the 3 martini lunch

Devyn Gwynne@devyngwynne.bsky.social · 3d ago

Kind of love how martinis are just like 3oz of 18 and 40% liquor

Kind of love how martinis are just like 3oz of 18 and 40% liquor

This is unfortunately unsurprising

Shelley Lynn Tremain she/her/they@shelleytremain.bsky.social · 3d ago

biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/08/02/c... BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY post about an investigation by The Breach into a secret network set up by Canadian universities to crack down on prop-Palestine encampments and demonstrations

there is a skill to asking tough questions in a friendly way and we'd all be better off if it were more widely distributed

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think academic philosophy has gotten a lot less overtly mean over the last couple decades, and that’s overall good. But it is sorta *weird* that as a result a lot of people sorta linger in the hallway after talks to whisper ‘that was shit, right?’ to one another

A cheese croissant post yoga is a beautiful thing

This is my biggest fear of ai: the makings of a complete underclass wholly controlled by whatever the upper class wants ai to tell them

elliott junkyard 🌱@transarchivist.bsky.social · 3w ago

Joe's article also features in selection of recent 'Transactions' articles which consider 'The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research' bit.ly/4bPGJvW All 15 articles are published Open Access and free to read #Skystorians 2/2

The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research - RHS

The Society's academic journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, publishes a wide range of content from historians of all disciplinary backgrounds and career stages, worldwide. This inclu...

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Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: Metadata Preferences

A brief survey about what metadata formats people prefer to go along with their digitized medieval manuscripts. The results of this survey will be used to consider what metadata we make available thro...

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incredible discovery here: the 1762 original of the ha ha ha yes sicko cartoon courtesy of thomas waters new book “Magic”

It happened to me: A new notebook saved my life.

But look sunflowers and bumble bees

Devyn Gwynne@devyngwynne.bsky.social · 5d ago

Incredible how much of the smells of summer are urine sewage and decomposition

Incredible how much of the smells of summer are urine sewage and decomposition

I think I’ll be passing on this year’s TD Presents Pride Festival in partnership with Loto Quebec

I don’t need to stress about my place in the historiography, I just need to enjoy tomato season

So happy to finally share the news that my book, “A History of Uncertainty: Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” will be out in Spring 2027 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. I still can't believe it's now beyond my hands and on its way to meeting its readers.

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

Having the sudden urge to walk around like mopey charlie brown

This is one of the most absurd decisions by higher ed administrators that I can recall in recent (or even longer) memory. This is an absolute, irrefutable signal that the leaders of Harvard puts no value in the student experience of LEARNING. It's a joke and should be seen as hugely discrediting.

Mary Lewis@profmarylewis.bsky.social · last wk.

It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.