Emma Thiébaut

There is a FULL SCALE curated exhibit of dog- themed New Yorker covers at THE MUSEUM OF THE DOG on Park Ave in NYC, which by the way who even knew there was such a museum!!! There are 44 covers ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Image of hedgehog from above and behind

Image of hedgehog lying on its back like an upturned beetle

18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)

Deadline extended until Dec 1st!: Are you interested in joining an awesome research network on Funny Women*: Transatlantic Perspective? Check out the link for details: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Please share with your friends and colleagues!

19th-Century Americanists of North America! Will any of you be in Europe in Dec? I've been asked to draw your attention to the BrANCA conference in Paris on Dec 12-13. They would love to see some of you there! https://branca-2025.weebly.com/

19th-Century Americanists of North America! Will any of you be in Europe in Dec?

I've been asked to draw your attention to the BrANCA conference in Paris on Dec 12-13

They would love to see some of you there! @c19americanists.bsky.social

branca-2025.weebly.com

Photographic portrait of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman + illustration of Judy, one of Freeman's cats. Both Freeman and the cat wear purple witch hats.

Hi Bluesky! The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society is very happy to finally join you all here on this very spooky day! (It also happens to be Freeman's birthday... no wonder she wrote such great ghost stories!)

Stay tuned for updates about all things Freeman--ongoing projects, new publications...!

Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2!
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...

Got it, loved it, congrats!! 🤓

Lotte Laserstein, Selbstporträt mit Katze [self-portrait with cats' (1928). Leicester Museum and Art Gallery. The picture shows Laserstein wearing a white painter's smock seated in front of an easel, head turned towards the viewer; Laserstein holds a paintbrush in the left hand. On Laserstein's lap lies a beautiful tabby cat, ears alert and gaze directed slightly sideways. In the background we can see a a mixture of houses and green spaces through large picture windows.

Today! Hear me talk about some of the cats & dogs who roam around modern queer history at the Queer Kinship Network, a collaboration btw the universities of Siena, Oxford & Toronto.
Thurs 26 June 2025, 5pm (Italy); 4pm (UK); 11am (Toronto/East Coast).
Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcS2...

Looks fabulous ✨ can’t wait to attend!

English is my second langage and it likewise feels like I’m a queen proudly and dramatically storming off every time I sign off “best” (don’t know you but I’m sure you’re the best Noreen!)

Image of old merperson with Bristol logo and details of event (in post)

Delighted to be giving the Gender & History lecture at Uni of Bristol on 15th May (and on Zoom). Join us for a discussion of trans history, colonial history, & non-human animal history. There will, of course, be merfolk.

Link here: ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

Mouton le cat. (C.1859)
Image: Wellcome.
#Caturday #cats

Call for submissions for the Posthuman Press' anthology "Neurodiversity and the More-Than-Human". Deadline is Aug 31, 2025. "We want to foster neurodivergent situated knowledge that is not limited to the traditional academic essay..." posthumanpress.com/pages/neuroq...

A PicFrame of Plas Newydd at the top then a carving of a caryatid (figure without legs), a portrait of Tatters, a calico cat, with kittens on a red bed, then a view of the entrance with various Gothic carvings

Visited the Ladies of Llangollen and met their cat Tatters

We’re more than 10% of the way there! Thank you so much every single person who has shared or donated - it means the world www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-a-gra...

There’s been some alarming news about honeybees so here’s some important context. If you want to help bees, help native bees - bumbles in particular.

Instead of honey bee hives, plant native plants. Contact your local native plant society or garden shop and every where you can, plant native.

The absolute unit sheep; an Exmoor Horn ram

look at this absolute unit

Crab Memes Amplify Mistaken Ideas about Evolution Memes about repeated evolution of crabs have been co-opted to joke about technology and “ultimate forms.” They’re hilarious, but they oversimplify natural variation, giving bad arguments a scientific ...

New writing! For @sciam.bsky.social, I talk about misleading memes.

If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME.

🦀🧪🦑⚒️

Colorful abstract cover for The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies edited by Russ Castronovo and Robert S Levine Against a botanical print cushion and bright yellow background

First page of Xine Yao’s essay. Happy to share a copy! “‘Unfeeling Stone’: Rethinking Sentimentality at the Heart of Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies.” The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. Eds. Russ Castronovo and Robert S. Levine. Cambridge University Press, 2025. 297-308.

Chuffed to share my essay for The New C19 American Literary Studies @cambridgeup.bsky.social!

Overview of the field & reckoning 30+ years on from The Culture of Sentiment

I turn to Zitkála-Šá’s figuration of the desire to become “unfeeling stone”

Happy to share! #litpoc #poc19 #c19amlit

*On Wonder*!

Free to download, free to read for a few more days until 27 Feb 2025!

Thank you for sharing a&nd thank you for welcoming my little wonder book!

#C18L
#18thcentury

@cambridgeup.bsky.social

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Silly leg-up cat

Same cat with an even sillier position that I can’t begin to describe

Let me raise you this Moulin Rouge star

The picture shows a terracotta figure of a standing cat playing a harp-like instrument with its front legs. The lower part of the figurine is broken off.

A charming little piece for Sunday: a terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp.

From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD.

On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.

Have a lovely Sunday!

📷 by me

🏺 AncientBlueSky #archaeology

Very chonky ceramic seal sculpture with sea plants, starfish and 22 karat gold details.

I made the chonkiest seal and he needs your approval.

Studying for, or already have, a BA and interested in nonhuman animals?

Applications are now open for this year's summer university at AU, including my popular course "Animals Matter: Transforming Perspectives Through Human-Animal Studies".

Please SHARE!

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Maybe you’ve already had a look at it, but Jansson also published Notes from an Island (nonfiction), which was illustrated by her partner, and it’s a quite nice reading/contemplating experience :-)