Morgan Golf-French
@zenothankyou.bsky.social
History postdoc in Turin, works on race, politics, and education in the German Enlightenment. Has strong feelings about the periodization of the 18thC. Enjoys hiking, hummus, horror films, and heavy metal. Jewish.
Every now and then I wake up several hours earlier than I would like for no good reason, every time I have like one moment of "wait, what if I actually liked this?" and then very quickly realize how much I absolutely do not like it
Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 6h agoI've been up since 4. Jet lag! I've exercised, had coffee and breakfast, made lunch, did dishes, read a book, built a syllabus, showered, dressed, came to the office. Morning people, having lived your life? I hate it. 😅
Delighted to put together this curated collection for French Historical Studies, enhancing our recent INCARCERATION special issue with these fantastic articles from the archive – all deal with issues of race and the carceral in French history @sfhs.bsky.social 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social
Incarceration and Race | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
This curated collection presents an opportunity to showcase French Historical Studies articles that treat questions of race and incarceration in French his
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The left will turn one much-cherished natural fact into a social construct every day until our demands are met. Day 4: chanterelles are now a social construct, but other mushrooms are not (yet).
Morgan Golf-French@zenothankyou.bsky.social · 2d agoThe left will turn one much-cherished natural fact into a social construct every day until our demands are met. Day 3: hair is a social construct
The left will turn one much-cherished natural fact into a social construct every day until our demands are met. Day 3: hair is a social construct
Morgan Golf-French@zenothankyou.bsky.social · 3d agoThe left will turn one much-cherished natural fact into a social construct every day until our demands are met. Day 2: Richard Dawkins is a social construct
The left will turn one much-cherished natural fact into a social construct every day until our demands are met. Day 2: Richard Dawkins is a social construct
Morgan Golf-French@zenothankyou.bsky.social · 4d agoThe left will turn one much-cherished natural fact into a social construct every day until our demands are met. Day 1: Trees are a social construct.
David Foster Wallace gets a lot of hate, much of it totally legit. But some of the passages from Infinite Jest have stuck with me and helped me navigate grief and trauma more than anything else I've read. Maybe I just read it at the right age, IDK, but right now I'm grieving, and yea it helps.
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
I need to cheer someone up. Does anyone have screenshots or a PDF or otherwise un-paywalled version of that article where Richard Dawkins publicly humiliates himself about AI so I can read it to her in a funny voice?
The left will turn one much-cherished natural fact into a social construct every day until our demands are met. Day 1: Trees are a social construct.
Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 5d agomy problems are a social constructs to be torn down while yours are simply god’s law
Do I know any vets who might be able to offer some sort of informal advice (via message or email or phone or whatever)? My partner's cat is very sick, but it's not clear whether taking her in could help or just cause stress and pain. German vets will not answer the phone on weekends.
"BRITZ" I hear over the train tanoy and nearly say "yes?" before realizing it's a small town on the way to Berlin.
I did the postdoc version of this and frankly it was one of the best years of my life. Truly an outstanding community.
Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG)@ieg-mainz.bsky.social · 4d ago📢 Only a few weeks left to apply! The application deadline for the IEG Doctoral Fellowships is 15 August 2026. Doctoral researchers from Germany and abroad are invited to apply for a 6–12 month research stay at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. 👉 More information:
Social construct means "fake concept the libs are using to trick us" right?
my problems are a social constructs to be torn down while yours are simply god’s law
Emily Wilson should write an epic posm in which Christopher Nolan narrowly survives the war around his Odyssey film, faces a string of challenges bon his journey home, and then upon arrival he massacres a series of potential screenplays.
Modern colonial systems, by their nature, almost always facilitate migration, no matter how much it may be resisted in the metropole. You can have migration without colonies (imo the better solution) but it is much harder to have colonies without migration.
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Allegedly Nolan had comrades tie him to a ship's mast before being read Wilson's review
Classics profs famously in it for the easy bucks
Daniel Kuehn@dkuehn.bsky.social · last wk.Maybe she’s a classicist because she cares about Homer and not just to make money? I’m actually of the school of thought that movies don’t have to be historically accurate. It’s its own art form with its own goals. But you can’t scold scholars for caring about scholarship. Thats what we do.
I have been in Gdańsk for four weeks. I've been in the main archives and libraries every day trying to find information about Daniel Wilhelm Weickhmann, a merchant and city official who lived for almost 90 years (1775–1864). Besides the student notes I knew about before I came, I have found nothing
"The new water treatment technology captures plastic particle down to 30 nanometres while also pulling out toxic heavy heavy metals, drug residues, and industrial dyes. The findings were published in the Chemical Engineering Journal..."
Scientists built a reusable magnetic material that removed more than 95% of microplastics and nanoplastics from water within one hour and showed early promise in removing some PFAS
Scientists at RMIT University in Australia have built a reusable magnetic material that removed more than 95% of micro- and nanoplastics from water within one hour and showed early promise against som...
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Can't believe this was already nine years ago.
I didn't want to be that guy but I haven't seen anyone else say it yet so here goes nothing: I've only seen men taking a swipe at Emily Wilson for her piece on the Odyssey.
The Polska Akademia Nauk (Polish Academy of Sciences) is, as far as I know, the only learned academy to have a sexuality named after it
Say what you want about Christopher Nolan, but he sure knows how to make a film that 50% of my timeline loves and the other 50% think is trash. (I thought Oppenheimer sucked so I'm probably with Column B.)
The band Voivod playing the song Voivod (not from the album Voivod) in the Pomeranian Voivodship.
A footnote to this is how this protracted, abusive deception itself encouraged much darker forms of radicalism. It's no secret that Helen Steel's subsequent career as an extreme anti-trans figure—including claiming trans people are CIA plants—is connected to the psychological fallout from all this.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w agodon't think non-Brits have been following the Spycops scandal, but it's nuts; not only was the government spying on entirely peaceful and legal activism , cops were regularly forming relationships with activists including in some cases fathering children. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
If anyone is considering editing something from our collections, we will happily supply a digital copy at no cost. Please contact Kate (archives at ucd dot ie).
Irish Manuscripts Commission@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social · 2w agoClosing date: Wed 29 July The IMC student prize of €1,000 is awarded to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document, which will also be considered for publication in Analecta Hibernica. Learn more at: irishmanuscripts.ie/imc-student-prize-2026/
At a gig and just watched the rhythm guitarist of an anti-socialist thrash band spend 10 minutes trying – and failing – to put their banner up while the lead guitarist stood and watched. I feel like there's a lesson for them in here.
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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