Dr. Sarah Joan Moran

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
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Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

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The three children of Christian II of Denmark: Dorothea, John, & Christina. So much excellence in this picture, painted 1526 by Jan Gossaert.

Maria Sibylla Merian This captivating study of the life and career of Maria Sibylla Merian focuses on her artistic output and accomplishments.

There is a wonderful new book about this artist -

Maria Sibylla Merian
By Catherine Powell-Warren

Available to UK/ROW consumers from
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Available to US/North American consumers from Getty Publications:
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‘We were obedient our entire lives’: the nuns who broke back into their convent Three nuns fled a care home to return to the convent, defying church orders and gaining global support – but their future remains unknown

An update on the nuns on the run.

A scroll: a large piece of paper attached to two wooden beams used as rollers. On the paper, two colums of handwritten text.

Exciting #NewAcq: a manuscript occasional Dutch poem, written and recited for the jubilee of Maria Anna Barbara Van der Meer, in the Tongeren beguinage in 1775 #Nuntastic.

We have plenty of these in print, but few in #manuscript and none as a 📜 with wooden shafts!

📚💙 #BookHistory (EHC 912571)

One of the most interesting books I’ve read in a while.

Conceptions of property in Soviet economics, from micro and macro lenses, but fun!

Like this lil glass hedgehog, for example.

Lunchtime Lectures: The Extraordinary Art Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber - V&A Academy Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A This talk is part of the free lunchtime lecture series. No booking is required.

Delighted to be giving a lecture on my new book at the V&A Museum on 23rd October- it’s free and open to all www.vam.ac.uk/event/E7WLeV...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Life-size, hyperrealistic bust of Emperor Leopold I

Wax head of life-size, head of Emperor Leopold I, detached from bust with wig removed

Close up of eye of life-size, hyperrealistic bust of Emperor Leopold I, with visible eyelashes

Detail of life-size, hyperrealistic bust of Emperor Leopold I showing face

Wax sculptor Daniel Neuberger (1621-1680) made this "Kaiserautomat" a life-size automaton of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, constructed out of wax, human hair, silk, and wood, that could apparently move via a series of internal clockworks (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

Sofonisba's Impact Howard Burton discusses the life and art of Renaissance Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola, focusing on her impact on other women artists.

New post on the #ArtHerstory blog!

Sofonisba’s Impact
by Howard Burton, @ideasroadshow.bsky.social
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Howard discusses Renaissance Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola's influence on other Italian #womenartists, including her own sisters.

Lavinia’s wondrous portraits

#Newbookannouncement!

Lavinia's Wondrous Portraits
by Emanuele Lugli, Chiara Palillo
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Lavinia’s wondrous portraits brings children closer to the work of Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), a professional artist from Bologna who was famous above all as a portrait painter.

🌷 "Little flower — but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is."
(Lord Tennyson)

🌸 The Dutch National Library & De Gruyter Brill @dgb-mem.bsky.social warmly invite you to the festive book presentation of...

This is gorgeous!

This one incident may not seem important (and ok, it's not really), but I think it could get really bad, really fast.

And I had to go searching through the site to find that panel (can't see "mentions" w/o paying). So the point is to get people to recognize their own title and just click "yes that's me". Which then generates false associations, and the AI bots are going to use those to make more nonsense.

I deleted all my pdf's from the site yesterday, but left up my CV. Best I can figure is that the AI bots pulled the paper from my CV, and matched the SCSC 2024 conference part with this other user's post about her panel.

Not even a week after academia.edu's new TOS claiming the right to use all content to create AI slop (negating the former opt-out), they "cite" me on an SCSC panel w/ which I had nothing to do. My paper existed. The panel existed. The panel organizer did not mention me.

Account deleted.

lemme find my compass...

Nah, northwest. Delftish

I saw a small rat in the park today. Or a very large mouse. Probably a rat.

Screenshot of account deletion process on academia.edu

Just deleted my academia.edu account after 17 (!) years -- the company's exploitative new terms of use are outrageous, and it's a shame such a blatant commercial sell-out is able to operate under the .edu top-level domain. If you are still on academia.edu, please consider deleting your account too.

Thought you were exaggerating but just looked at new TOS (Sept. 16). Holy crap.

"you hereby grant to Academia.edu a worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable license to exercise any and all rights under copyright, in any medium.. and the use of AI to generate adaptations .

I hope it's a rabbit!

Might be rats though.

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 1 Of all published articles, the following were the most read.

Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

Perhaps someone should tell them their banner is in English.

Femininity IS an antifeminist idea. It's an invention of the patriarchy, for the purpose of subjugating women and girls.

I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style.

So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️