Anne Goldgar

Except few British people can do a convincing American accent.

Still life minimalism: one single striped tulip in a glass vase, 1625, by Balthasar van der Ast of Middleburg. It's his day today.

“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'

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Webinar: Pursuing a research degree in the history of STM A webinar to orient prospective students on pursuing an MA and PhD in the history of STM, and how to apply to the Hans Rausing Scholarship.

📣Interested in pursuing a postgraduate degree in the history of STM? Wishing to apply to our Hans Rausing Scholarship? Then this webinar is for you!

Pursuing a research degree in the history of STM
Thursday 12 March
17.00-18.00 (GMT)

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#histsci #histtech #histmed #histstm

Call for Proposals | Sixteenth Century Society Call for Proposals Chicago, Illinois, October 29—October 31, 2026 The Sixteenth Century Society (SCS) is pleased to invite proposals for individual presentations, panels, and roundtables for its annua...

CFP for the SCS conference in Chicago in October. Come join the most collegial gathering of early modernists that I know.
#earlymodern 🗃️

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No genocide. No apartheid. Not a rogue state. Otherwise your statement is correct.

BREAKING: Trump has nominated Bradford P. Wilson, of the conservative, anti-LGBTQ+ and Opus Dei-tied Witherspoon Institute and the charter school organization Great Hearts Institute (and formerly Exec Director of Princeton's James Madison Program) to be Archivist of the United States.

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It is reported that this was a failed Iranian missile.

I think you fail to see that there is a distinctive pattern on what people like this condemn and don’t condemn. Ignoring that pattern leads to a failure to understand wider forces.

This atrocity was by this specific regime only a couple of weeks ago. So not irrelevant, I think.

I think a lot are. Like her, they said nothing about the horrors of that regime and acted as if nothing was happening in a week when tens of thousands were slaughtered. Like her, they think if Jews aren’t involved, there is nothing to protest. That is shameful.

What did she have to say about 40,000 murders in two days by the Iranian regime a few weeks back?

I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting.

Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

Men studying a dragon

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840)

Friday Feb 27 5:30 pm London time: Feike Dietz will speak on “Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840)” to the IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Book in the Renaissance This course offers a comprehensive overview of the printed book in the Renaissance.

For all the @warburginstitute.bsky.social fans out there, this summer the Renaissance Book returns to London Rare Books School #LRBS 📚📖👇
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Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840)

Friday Feb 27 5:30 pm London time: Feike Dietz will speak on “Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840)” to the IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

On my way now!

You are at RSA!

Erg blij met dit mooie interview door @nrc.nl over mijn onderzoek naar Galileo.

En voor wie na afloop meer wil lezen over roddels, roem, en reputatie(schade): Galileo's Fame is verkrijgbaar bij de betere boekhandel en natuurlijk via @upittpress.bsky.social

Did it for O-level.

Excited to see Maurits den Hollander’s Court, Credit, and Capital in print with Studies in Legal History at CUP. Court, Credit, and Capital uncovers how Amsterdam’s 17th-century insolvency court transformed insolvency law—from punishment to rehabilitation 1/3

Was he an expert on Europe? He let Rome burn.

Experts on Europe do not have neck beards.

As promised to his is my list of my favorite restaurants/bars in downtown SF (including Chinatown and North Beach) that won't break the bank for #rensa26. #earlymodern

Yes. Not icky.

Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries

FRIDAY FEB 13: Jeroen Puttevils on “Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries.” 5:30 pm London time, IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries

FRIDAY FEB 13: Jeroen Puttevils on “Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries.” 5:30 pm London time, IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Devonshire Collections Research Fellow at Chatsworth House Trust Searching for an academic job? Explore this Devonshire Collections Research Fellow opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians
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