Clare Griffin

There’s a reason they call them email chains

I call him *mister* squirrel

Being overheard by a student when having an extended conversation with a squirrel #MondayGoals

Tempted to pitch Putin’s Monsters: Russian Propaganda and the Creation of Ukrainian Villains but instead I will look forward to what will certainly be a fascinating collection of monsters by contingent academics

The monster is a friend, or so we @contingent-mag.bsky.social suggest in our CFP... a fiend to historians especially, though not exclusively.

Pitch us an essay about your historical monster, whatever form that monster takes, by October 20!

Serhii Plokhii: Profiles: Lecturers: The William T. Patten Foundation: Indiana University Bloomington -

IU Bloomington is very happy to welcome Prof. Serhii Plokhii this Fall as this semester’s Patten Lecturer patten.indiana.edu/lecturers/pr...

Don’t illegally cross into a country that has a substantial track record of detaining foreign citizens for extended periods even if you really feel like cycling there

Look at a certain point people just need to make better choices

Europe 'no longer at peace' with Russia, Germany's Merz says "Let me put it in a sentence that may be a little shocking at first glance ... we are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sept. 29.

⚡️Europe 'no longer at peace' with Russia, Germany's Merz says.

"Let me put it in a sentence that may be a little shocking at first glance ... we are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sept. 29.

Conference Funding The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine.  Applicants should note that grants are not retrospectively awar…

Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October.
sshm.org/conference-f...

Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows the glass façade of the institute at dawn (setform 2017). The third shows people reading in the institute's library (setform 2017).

🦸 New #StudentJob!
Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" seeks a #StudentAssistant with classical #Chinese language skills.
The role focuses on #YuanDynasty textile archeology and involves research and #DigitalHumanities support.

🗓 Deadline: Oct 30, 2025
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#HistSci #Archeology #DH

Multiple unhoused people were assaulted in Bloomington IN over the weekend. One of them died

bloomingtonian.com

Sitting outside a CVS answering emails on my phone because I need my prescriptions and getting them ready when they were supposed to be was apparently too much trouble

I have an attendance policy that allows for absences and carries only a small percentage of their grade but then means I can keep track of them both for academic and young-people-in-our-care reasons

As if Astana winters weren’t long and dark enough already

Also I would say as a historian of medicine doctors definitely do not give a fuck what you say or how you feel we all just animate meat sacks to them

Listening you say? To women? Why I have never

Screenshot of an article with the title “advances in women’s healthcare will be swifter if we heed their experiences”

Recent lead article from New Scientist and honestly this just makes me really tired

A blush rose on a table

IU T+P Rose ceremony

Small blue narwhal plushie

Taking my emotional support narwhal with me to my meeting

Trying to end meetings by saying “and everything?” as if that makes any fucking sense in English

@spannersready.bsky.social Is there a scenario where McLaren cocks this up so badly Verstappen jumps one or both of their drivers and takes the championship after all?

Cue dozens of weepy op-eds by Americans who will necessarily never be affected by these visa rules

Glad for Azerbaijan quallies providing some low-stakes chaos to distract me from various high-stakes chaos

Timely given the recent closures of airports and airspaces because of incursions by Russian drones: Russia appeals the ruling it is responsible for the downing of a civilian aircraft over Eastern Ukraine in 2014 which killed more than 300 people

Oh no not research and knowledge.

A rare slow morning where I get to class prep lying on a lounger in my yard

Are you actually hungry or do you think a handful of cashews will magically make you less tired

Spending a hour or so catching up on the emails people decided to send me on a Saturday that I was definitely not going to read on a Saturday

I have a friend who was once mugged in London and the guy gave him back his phone in disgust because he decided it wasn’t worth stealing. Absolutely brutal