Laurence Totelin

'It is notable that in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise the Department of American Studies at Nottingham was ranked third in the Area Studies unit of assessment and was one of the top-performing units across the whole of the University of Nottingham.' 1/2

Iconic Stahl House, a Midcentury Modern stunner, up for sale The Stahl House is selling for $25 million. The current owners say its tour program will continue for now.

A little outside of my budget, but what a stunning house.
www.latimes.com/travel/story...

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

Seriously, UK establishment, try to show your humane side in this.

International students are reading these headlines, and they are seeing how they’re turned into a political football, not the learners in a very precarious position that they are.

And the death spiral spins faster and faster now. Just so sad.

I don't think (successive) governments who ignore the financial crisis in universities really realise what it will look like in cities, including northern cities like mine, if the higher education sector collapses. Newcastle's economy is *really fucking really* propped up by students

A woodcut of three women in a thatched hut grinding maize, forming and cooking tortillas text reads: "Modo di fare il pane Le donne Molandaie che lo macinano pigliano una quantità di questo grano, & la sera inanzi lo bagnano con acqua fredda; la mattina con due pie[tre]..." ["Method of making bread The miller women who grind it take a quantity of this grain, and in the evening they soak it in cold water; in the morning, with two stones..."] https://archive.org/details/la-historia-del-mondo-nuovo/page/n123/mode/1up?q=pane

How to make tortillas, from Girolamo Benzoni, La Historia del Mondo Nuovo (Venice, 1565)

A very difficult, but important, read.

Meme: Straight ahead: Pausing to consider the meaning of Cohen's lyrics Everyone, for some reason, takes the exit towards Singing "Hallelujah" again in religious contexts

hey guys i made a seasonal meme

Frontispiece of a book with a portrait of James I of England and opposit, a sleepy looking cat

Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)

Cows have rough tongues like a cat's but way longer and more prehensile. They can open locks/pens with them and steal stuff out of your pockets. A curious cow can get into a LOT of things with their tongue which is why cow-proofing things is important in science ^^ But it's also adorable 🥰

A picture of a twig. On one end (left) a natural sponge has been tied.

Serious question (yes, it can happen):

We all know that a sponge on a stick was used by the Romans for wiping their bums, right? Well, what's the evidence? Seems very impractical to us.

Does anyone know?

As UK HE'S crisis deepens, I really hope that not too many will develop a survivor's bias, whereby they think they/their discipline survived because they are 'better'. I'm starting to witness it. It is not pleasant.

Manuscript image showing part of a paragraph that reads: 'wheather Mr John Monson hayre to Sir Th shall live long & prosp[er] & attayne to honour & good & a happy mariage', then, added later in a darker ink (but not shown in the image): 'he shall'. (NOTE6839 in the online edition.)

1620: seeking predictions from an angel, Richard Napier asks whether one of his clients will 'live long & prosp[er]' #earlymodern 🖖

Does anybody know who is the author of this Lexicon Thucydidaeum, published in 1824?

archive.org/details/lexi...

Want to join the www.codicum.eu project?

3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.

#Medieval #Manuscript

'Ask' missing here!

People sometimes what I miss from home, and without a shadow of a doubt, it is the comics.

European Comics Are the Next Big-Screen Gold Mine While Hollywood’s superheroes show signs of fatigue, the Franco-Belgian comic scene is thriving — brimming with lush, literate stories that beg to be adapted for film and streaming.

The Hollywood Reporter stelt enkele strips voor die het rijp acht voor een film- of tv-versie.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Tailed leek orchid (Prasophyllum appendiculatum) near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC.

Tailed leek orchid (Prasophyllum appendiculatum) near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC. Only found the two plants out here this year which may have been a result of a dry spring - or me only having a quick look a week or so earlier than I usually drop by ;) #orchids #inthefield #ozplants

It is, especially when one considers that most Brutalist buildings are extremely functional and, I would argues, aesthetically rather pleasing. We will forget the crumbling concrete.

I'm very glad some have the patience to carry out such research, but the conclusions are so obvious. LLMs can't think, they can only mimic language. Plato would have had so much to say on all this (in some ways, he already said it in the Phaedrus in relation to writing).

A typically rainy view on a British campus. A plaza, with in the distance an inter-war red-brick building (right) and a Brutalist tower (left).

Had the pleasure to see this stunning case of Brutalist university architecture yesterday in Birmingham. I think that Cardiff will end up regretting hiding its fantastic Brutalist Student Union.

The BSHS Pickstone Prize The BSHS Pickstone Prize is awarded every two years to the best scholarly book in the history of science (broadly construed) in English. The Prize aims to recognize pioneering works that advance the s...

heads up #histSTM people - nominations are open for the @bshsnews.bsky.social Pickstone Prize - best scholarly book (in English) published in the last 2 years. Don't assume your publisher will nominate you, be proactive about your book or books you love!
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A book cover for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a cultural history of female beauty by Katherine Aske published by Bloomsbury. The cover is teal blue and depicts an eighteenth century portrait of a white woman in a large, white silk dress with puff sleeves, brown curled hair with blue ribbons, looking towards the sky. There is a large brown curtain hanging behind the sitting figure. The painting is by Joshua Reynolds of Mrs Stanhope as Contemplation.

This week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

'The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new scholarship on her life, work and mental health.' 1/2

After many delays (nothing to do with the publisher, Routledge, which has been fantastic), my book Selling Pharmaka, Buying Health in Greek and Roman Antiquity: Retail Therapy, is going into production. It is dedicated to my students in gratitude for all that they have taught me.

Want a younger brain? Learn another language A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.

'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.'

Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2

We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!

This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:

www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...

A crumpled crepe paper remembrance poppy on a khaki tunic.

A few years ago I bought the tunic of a First World War soldier of the US 89th Infantry Division. The veteran clearly wore his uniform after the war at services of remembrance, for in his breast pocket was this - a very old and crumpled crepe paper poppy.
#RemembranceDay