Prussian-Stepping Goose

🎉 The latest publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social is this annotated diary, ed. & translated by Sara Ayres! 📚

Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-gra...

oooooh coooool

Please share the news: the first week is given in English, the second in French (but it's possible to follow both, of course)

#earlymodern #skystorians

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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 🗃️

sixteenthcentury.org/call-for-pro...

Writing companion for the afternoon. #catsofbluesky #academiccats

Trads: I love the Church so much I'll actually fight a holy war Mr Pope just tell me when
US CB: American constitutional rights are a fundamental part of the fabric of American justice, it would be a sin to unravel them
Trads:

‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Enkedronning Sofie’s post-prandial nap. #catsofbluesky #academiccats #caturday

Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550-1700 - Hispanic Society Museum and Library

I highly recommend this wonderful exhibit on Spanish fashion at the Hispanic Society in NYC: hispanicsociety.org/exhibition/s...

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Stumbled upon this in my photo archive. Wow. My brother looked a lot younger eight years ago.

An exciting release from the IMEMS Press with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social! Many congratulation to its author, Dr Sara Ayres.

Want to learn more about the spectacular find on the Danish cargo ship Anne-Marie? Sign up for an exciting roundtable with researchers from the Faroe Islands here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#skystorians #19thcentury #earlymodern #maritimehistory

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Indiana Bill Would Use Federal Earnings Test to End Programs Congress’s new earnings test will stop students from receiving federal aid for some programs. A Hoosier State bill goes further, putting those degrees on the chopping block.

At least once a week I have a reason to mutter under my breath, "f**king Indiana." Not that Ohio is a whole lot better, but still...

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Btw I'm putting together a CFP and eventually some panels for #scsc26 on "the colonial reformations" if anyone is interested/has ideas. #reformazing

I thought I’d start posting with a little story about a colleague and his research. (Warning: a long thread ensues) (1/14)

It looks like it will... and some other projects, too.

Instead of RSA, I did this... a gathering of (most of) the folks in N Am working with early mod Scandinavia. Glad I did. What a group of people to work with. New projects, new collaborations, new directions. More to come, and soon... #earlymodern #skystorians #nordichistory

#militaryhistory

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A Convoy, North Sea, 1918, by Sir John Lavery,
painted from the perspective of a North Sea class airship

Job in my department, one year renewable for three, early modern Iberian Atlantic world. I’m on the committee, happy to have a conversation/answer questions as far as is appropriate. March 15 deadline. apply.interfolio.com/181565?utm_s...

I just ripped a stupid pompom off of your stupid throw blanket and I’ve also composed a song about it. Allow me to demonstrate.
#academiccats #catsofbluesky

But I didn’t submit!

Ominous message from my university.

I wish I were. Will be at a Scandinavianist thing in LA instead.

all's well that ends well here @profmurdoch.bsky.social #earlymodern 🙃

Trump 'still serious' about taking over Greenland, warns Danish Prime Minister | LBC It comes a month after Trump ruled out using military force to take the island

“We don’t think it’s over…”

Me neither.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...